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The Freemasons' Lexicon.*
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON . *
( Translated express ! , / for the F . Q . Ii . Contimwd from Page 32 . ) Einschleiclien . Slinking , Slipping or Stealing into —It is not only possible , but it has often happened , that men have stole into the Lodge who were never worthy of being admitted members of the Order , but who have managed to get initiated by hypocrisy , ancl because the members have not had sufficient opportunities to prove them , ancl to watch
their previous conduct . But it is quite impossible for any one who has not been initiated to find his way into a Lodge to indulge his curiosity . Every cultivated and moral man knows that initiation will riot be denied unto him if he applies in a proper manner for it , and we are assured that they will never attempt , neither by force or fraud , to gain admittance into a society where they have no right to be . Should any one destitute of moral feeling attempt to do so , thinking that from printed works
he has made himself acquainted with our customs , and can pass himself off for a Mason , he never can get beyond the ante-chamber , for he has no certificate , or if he has , it is not his , and this is soon proved ; his name is not . upon any list , nor does he know anything of how he should answer the questions which will be put to him . An uneducated man has still less chance of stealing into a Lodge , for his answer to the first question put to him would discover him at once . If we were as well secured from the first manner of improperly gaining admittance into a lodge as we are from the last , the Order woulcl be in a more
flourishing condition than it now is . Fleusis , Eleusinied oder Eleusinische Mysterien . Eleusis Eleusinian , or Eleusinisch Mysteries . Eleusis , a hamlet twelve miles from Athens , in Greece , had very celebrated mysteries dedicated unto Ceres and Proserpine . They were the greatest , ancl as far as we can judge the most wise , of all ages . The most enlightened , and the most virtuous of men , who hacl been initiated into those mysteries , never allowed
themselves to speak of them hut with the greatest caution ancl respect . If those mysteries are not the mother of Masonry , they are at least her eldest sister , and consequently more nearly related to her than any other Order of ancient or modern ages . Those mysteries were celebrated in the Temple of Ceres , which was capable of holding from twenty to thirty thousand men . They consisted of the great and the little mysteries , and the last as a preparatory course for the first . Men prepared themselves
for the lesser mysteries by many religious ceremonies , sacred customs , ancl symbolical actions ; the object of which was to withdraw the person who was about to be initiated , for a time at least , from the world , its business and its joys , ancl to awaken in him a power of altering his opinion , a more pure devotion , and a sincere longing for that knowledge he hoped was about to be revealed unto him . The time of purification or preparation lasted a year , and no man , under punishment of death , durst participate in the mysteries unpurified . Neither was every one allowed to purify himself ; for , at the commencement , this privilege was confined to the Athenian : it was afterwards extended to the other
inhabitants of Greece , and even to foreigners , who had never been guilty of murder , of impiety towards the Gocls , or other heavy crimes . The officers of the mysteries were , first the hierophant , or Mystagog , who , at the mysteries , represented the Creator of the universe , and was allowed
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.*
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON . *
( Translated express ! , / for the F . Q . Ii . Contimwd from Page 32 . ) Einschleiclien . Slinking , Slipping or Stealing into —It is not only possible , but it has often happened , that men have stole into the Lodge who were never worthy of being admitted members of the Order , but who have managed to get initiated by hypocrisy , ancl because the members have not had sufficient opportunities to prove them , ancl to watch
their previous conduct . But it is quite impossible for any one who has not been initiated to find his way into a Lodge to indulge his curiosity . Every cultivated and moral man knows that initiation will riot be denied unto him if he applies in a proper manner for it , and we are assured that they will never attempt , neither by force or fraud , to gain admittance into a society where they have no right to be . Should any one destitute of moral feeling attempt to do so , thinking that from printed works
he has made himself acquainted with our customs , and can pass himself off for a Mason , he never can get beyond the ante-chamber , for he has no certificate , or if he has , it is not his , and this is soon proved ; his name is not . upon any list , nor does he know anything of how he should answer the questions which will be put to him . An uneducated man has still less chance of stealing into a Lodge , for his answer to the first question put to him would discover him at once . If we were as well secured from the first manner of improperly gaining admittance into a lodge as we are from the last , the Order woulcl be in a more
flourishing condition than it now is . Fleusis , Eleusinied oder Eleusinische Mysterien . Eleusis Eleusinian , or Eleusinisch Mysteries . Eleusis , a hamlet twelve miles from Athens , in Greece , had very celebrated mysteries dedicated unto Ceres and Proserpine . They were the greatest , ancl as far as we can judge the most wise , of all ages . The most enlightened , and the most virtuous of men , who hacl been initiated into those mysteries , never allowed
themselves to speak of them hut with the greatest caution ancl respect . If those mysteries are not the mother of Masonry , they are at least her eldest sister , and consequently more nearly related to her than any other Order of ancient or modern ages . Those mysteries were celebrated in the Temple of Ceres , which was capable of holding from twenty to thirty thousand men . They consisted of the great and the little mysteries , and the last as a preparatory course for the first . Men prepared themselves
for the lesser mysteries by many religious ceremonies , sacred customs , ancl symbolical actions ; the object of which was to withdraw the person who was about to be initiated , for a time at least , from the world , its business and its joys , ancl to awaken in him a power of altering his opinion , a more pure devotion , and a sincere longing for that knowledge he hoped was about to be revealed unto him . The time of purification or preparation lasted a year , and no man , under punishment of death , durst participate in the mysteries unpurified . Neither was every one allowed to purify himself ; for , at the commencement , this privilege was confined to the Athenian : it was afterwards extended to the other
inhabitants of Greece , and even to foreigners , who had never been guilty of murder , of impiety towards the Gocls , or other heavy crimes . The officers of the mysteries were , first the hierophant , or Mystagog , who , at the mysteries , represented the Creator of the universe , and was allowed