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On Freemasonry.
East to open his Lodge as the Sun opens the day , to diffuse light , knowledge , and instruction to the Brethren ; to enlighten with true wisdom his Masonic companions , and to guide all his fellow-craftsmen to work out their salvation with fear and trembling . It speaks of the Sun as seen in its meridian splendourwhen its vertical rays are most
, powerful , and the cool south most pleasant , represented by the Junior Warden , who , at the hour of high twelve invites the Brethren to rest from their labours , to repose in the cooling shade , and to regale ; and provides for their return to labour in due time , that profit and pleasure may be the mutual result . Freemasonry further regards the Sun
setting in the West , and lulling , as it were , all nature to repose , in the person of Senior Warden , who stands in that quarter to close the Lodge by the Master ' s command , to confer on every Brother the due reward of his merit , to see that none go away dissatisfied , or unimproved in moral virtue and pious resolutions . Here then we have an evidence , taken from our own peculiar disquisitions of the use we make of the Sun , as a Masonic symbol . It calls our attention to holy things . It
is esteemed as an agent—a most stupendous one , 1 admitof the power and goodness of God . How can we , as Free and Accepted Masons , after the lessons we hear in the Lodge , look up to the heavens , and behold the sublime order and the vast dimensions of those glorious orbs of light which glitter in the firmament of heaven , with the regularity
in which they perform their various revolutions , without humbly and devoutly confessing them to declare the glory of God ? How can we meditate on the vast and boundless space in which they move , without acknowledging his handywork is there i They convey a noble idea of Him whom the Sun , the moon , and the stars obey ; and elevate our
thoughts and aspirations far beyond all created matter , to the Throne of the Great Creator ; that ever present Deity whose All-seeing Eye beholds our actions in the dark as well as in the light—in the absence of the Sun as well as in its presence—in the depths of the most obscure cavern in the bowels of the earthequally as on the most exposed
, mountains in the blaze of day— and alike at the bottom of jt . be fathomless ocean at midnight , and under the beams of ^ idie meridian Sun . This is the Holy Being whom Masons adore ; who " by his excellent wisdom made the heavens ;
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On Freemasonry.
East to open his Lodge as the Sun opens the day , to diffuse light , knowledge , and instruction to the Brethren ; to enlighten with true wisdom his Masonic companions , and to guide all his fellow-craftsmen to work out their salvation with fear and trembling . It speaks of the Sun as seen in its meridian splendourwhen its vertical rays are most
, powerful , and the cool south most pleasant , represented by the Junior Warden , who , at the hour of high twelve invites the Brethren to rest from their labours , to repose in the cooling shade , and to regale ; and provides for their return to labour in due time , that profit and pleasure may be the mutual result . Freemasonry further regards the Sun
setting in the West , and lulling , as it were , all nature to repose , in the person of Senior Warden , who stands in that quarter to close the Lodge by the Master ' s command , to confer on every Brother the due reward of his merit , to see that none go away dissatisfied , or unimproved in moral virtue and pious resolutions . Here then we have an evidence , taken from our own peculiar disquisitions of the use we make of the Sun , as a Masonic symbol . It calls our attention to holy things . It
is esteemed as an agent—a most stupendous one , 1 admitof the power and goodness of God . How can we , as Free and Accepted Masons , after the lessons we hear in the Lodge , look up to the heavens , and behold the sublime order and the vast dimensions of those glorious orbs of light which glitter in the firmament of heaven , with the regularity
in which they perform their various revolutions , without humbly and devoutly confessing them to declare the glory of God ? How can we meditate on the vast and boundless space in which they move , without acknowledging his handywork is there i They convey a noble idea of Him whom the Sun , the moon , and the stars obey ; and elevate our
thoughts and aspirations far beyond all created matter , to the Throne of the Great Creator ; that ever present Deity whose All-seeing Eye beholds our actions in the dark as well as in the light—in the absence of the Sun as well as in its presence—in the depths of the most obscure cavern in the bowels of the earthequally as on the most exposed
, mountains in the blaze of day— and alike at the bottom of jt . be fathomless ocean at midnight , and under the beams of ^ idie meridian Sun . This is the Holy Being whom Masons adore ; who " by his excellent wisdom made the heavens ;