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The Revelations Of A Square.
laws ; the business of the Grand Lodge will be smoothly and effectually carried on : your Grand Officers will communicate their sentiments , and receive your opinions and advice with pleasure ancl satisfaction ; particular societies will become still more regular , from what their representatives shall observe here . In a wordtrue and ancient
, Masonry will flourish ; and those that are without , will soon come to know that there are more substantial pleasures to be found , as well as greater advantages to be reaped , in onr Society , orderl y conducted , than can possibly be met with in any other bodies of men , how -magnificent soever their pretensions may be ; for none can be so amiable as
that which promotes Brotherly love , and fixes that as the grand cement of all our actions ; to the performance of which we are bound by an obligation , both solemn and awful , and that entered into by our free ancl deliberate choice : and as it is to direct our lives and actions , it can never be too often repeated , nor too frequently inculcated . ' " At this time rumours were whispered in the
Metropolitan Lodges , that the Order was subjected to great persecutions in Switzerland , Germany , Italy , France , and Holland ; and that edicts and decrees were thundered out against it in all those countries ; and although it was admitted that nothing hacl been discovered in the behaviour or practices of the Fraternity contrary to the public
peace , or to the duty of good subjects , yet the several governments were nevertheless determined that the Lodges of Freemasons should be entirely abolished . " These unprecedented measures excited in the English Fraternity such a feeling of disgust , that a few influential Brethren united themselves together for the purpose of
taking some necessary steps to show the utter absurdity and impolicy of such a line of conduct ; and in 17-3 !/ a pamphlet , written in French , was published in Dublin , ' under the title of' An Apology for the Society of Freemasons . ' It appeared in the same year in an English form , translated , as was generally supposed , by Martin Clare . It created a great sensation , and promoted the translator to the office of D . G . M . He had been already officially authorized to
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The Revelations Of A Square.
laws ; the business of the Grand Lodge will be smoothly and effectually carried on : your Grand Officers will communicate their sentiments , and receive your opinions and advice with pleasure ancl satisfaction ; particular societies will become still more regular , from what their representatives shall observe here . In a wordtrue and ancient
, Masonry will flourish ; and those that are without , will soon come to know that there are more substantial pleasures to be found , as well as greater advantages to be reaped , in onr Society , orderl y conducted , than can possibly be met with in any other bodies of men , how -magnificent soever their pretensions may be ; for none can be so amiable as
that which promotes Brotherly love , and fixes that as the grand cement of all our actions ; to the performance of which we are bound by an obligation , both solemn and awful , and that entered into by our free ancl deliberate choice : and as it is to direct our lives and actions , it can never be too often repeated , nor too frequently inculcated . ' " At this time rumours were whispered in the
Metropolitan Lodges , that the Order was subjected to great persecutions in Switzerland , Germany , Italy , France , and Holland ; and that edicts and decrees were thundered out against it in all those countries ; and although it was admitted that nothing hacl been discovered in the behaviour or practices of the Fraternity contrary to the public
peace , or to the duty of good subjects , yet the several governments were nevertheless determined that the Lodges of Freemasons should be entirely abolished . " These unprecedented measures excited in the English Fraternity such a feeling of disgust , that a few influential Brethren united themselves together for the purpose of
taking some necessary steps to show the utter absurdity and impolicy of such a line of conduct ; and in 17-3 !/ a pamphlet , written in French , was published in Dublin , ' under the title of' An Apology for the Society of Freemasons . ' It appeared in the same year in an English form , translated , as was generally supposed , by Martin Clare . It created a great sensation , and promoted the translator to the office of D . G . M . He had been already officially authorized to