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Lectures On Freemasonry ,
LECTURES ON FREEMASONRY ,
( EY MOTHER P . C . IIUSENBETII , P . 1 ) . PROV . GRAND MASTER POR BRISTOL )
WHY ARE WE CALLED FREEMASONS ? tQintimie & from p . 277 , 1035 A AMONGST the endless charges preferred against Freemasons by the uninitiated , is the ridiculous , malicious , and unfounded accusation of disaffection to the state , and disrespect for all religion . Daringly as those calumniators have sullied the pages of clean paper with their falsehoodand have
, impiousl y profaned the Chair of Truth with their own invented untruth , they nevertheless succeeded , in former times , to inflict upon our fraternity and their families the most cruel persecutions when , at the same time , their more rational fellow-citizens , free from bigotry , could onl y lament the unchristian persecution suffered bv those innocent victims to fanatical fury , but could not arrest the sword ot that arbitrary power b y which thousands were cut down , and therebleave eternal stain the
y an on history of those states where such crimes have been committed . The epithet of free annexed to Masonry has given a handle to desi gning men against our fraternity : it has been explained in a manner calculated to serve their wicked ends , and to lessen if not to destroy , the very name of a society which has ever studied to cultivate good order and charitable feeling amongst their fellow-creatures without being allowed by their tenets to act contrary to the interest of government . 3
Ihe ver y imperfect histories of our Order which have hitherto appeared , give no satisfactory account wh y we should be called Freemason .,: and tradition being equally silent upon this subject , we are left to conjecture . Having , therefore , presumed to give my own coninn ^ T T ? * " * ^ the monosyllable / reebeinl annexed to Masonry , I trust my Brethren will read it with every indulgent feeling , and ldr m & Myselfas onlfounded U Probability
A * ° r fH > y P ™ . At the Gilding of the Temple of Solomon , it is supposed , by our best-mformed Brethren , that amongst so great a number of workmen there employed , certain ranks were necessary , whereby to distinguish them from ^ < h The members rf £ ^^ J « g £ artists , who were hired by King Solomon to erect that sacred « trnrt ,, « .
LiS it g , em & 0 m the Jews > wh ° Performed the more ™™ * ITi * ' Were honourecl with the epithet of free annexed to the HMv f i f 11 maS ° D , - and bein S talented feigners , were most likely freed from the usual imposts paid to the state by the * subjects of Solomon This conjecture , probable as it appears to me , may , however , not prove so satisfactory to my Brethren as it does to me , I will therefore endeavour to prove that the word free annexed to Masonry , Slh 7 de that
3 ft ? ?« r f *? metaphysical freedom , which , being the ™ ° !^ ie fundamental principles of our free-will , and is so closely connected with our human nature , that we cannot consider it as thi consrrnPd ^ f ° , -C ' i eilde ^ 0 UrS- This ' ^ refore , cannot possibly be » ZnZ ™ b P ° UlCal freedom ' so as t 0 c ] ass Freemasons with political bfnkb , n „ "' . V nder a most earnest and conscientious engagement , we banish all pohtical and religious discussions from our Lodges , and are
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Lectures On Freemasonry ,
LECTURES ON FREEMASONRY ,
( EY MOTHER P . C . IIUSENBETII , P . 1 ) . PROV . GRAND MASTER POR BRISTOL )
WHY ARE WE CALLED FREEMASONS ? tQintimie & from p . 277 , 1035 A AMONGST the endless charges preferred against Freemasons by the uninitiated , is the ridiculous , malicious , and unfounded accusation of disaffection to the state , and disrespect for all religion . Daringly as those calumniators have sullied the pages of clean paper with their falsehoodand have
, impiousl y profaned the Chair of Truth with their own invented untruth , they nevertheless succeeded , in former times , to inflict upon our fraternity and their families the most cruel persecutions when , at the same time , their more rational fellow-citizens , free from bigotry , could onl y lament the unchristian persecution suffered bv those innocent victims to fanatical fury , but could not arrest the sword ot that arbitrary power b y which thousands were cut down , and therebleave eternal stain the
y an on history of those states where such crimes have been committed . The epithet of free annexed to Masonry has given a handle to desi gning men against our fraternity : it has been explained in a manner calculated to serve their wicked ends , and to lessen if not to destroy , the very name of a society which has ever studied to cultivate good order and charitable feeling amongst their fellow-creatures without being allowed by their tenets to act contrary to the interest of government . 3
Ihe ver y imperfect histories of our Order which have hitherto appeared , give no satisfactory account wh y we should be called Freemason .,: and tradition being equally silent upon this subject , we are left to conjecture . Having , therefore , presumed to give my own coninn ^ T T ? * " * ^ the monosyllable / reebeinl annexed to Masonry , I trust my Brethren will read it with every indulgent feeling , and ldr m & Myselfas onlfounded U Probability
A * ° r fH > y P ™ . At the Gilding of the Temple of Solomon , it is supposed , by our best-mformed Brethren , that amongst so great a number of workmen there employed , certain ranks were necessary , whereby to distinguish them from ^ < h The members rf £ ^^ J « g £ artists , who were hired by King Solomon to erect that sacred « trnrt ,, « .
LiS it g , em & 0 m the Jews > wh ° Performed the more ™™ * ITi * ' Were honourecl with the epithet of free annexed to the HMv f i f 11 maS ° D , - and bein S talented feigners , were most likely freed from the usual imposts paid to the state by the * subjects of Solomon This conjecture , probable as it appears to me , may , however , not prove so satisfactory to my Brethren as it does to me , I will therefore endeavour to prove that the word free annexed to Masonry , Slh 7 de that
3 ft ? ?« r f *? metaphysical freedom , which , being the ™ ° !^ ie fundamental principles of our free-will , and is so closely connected with our human nature , that we cannot consider it as thi consrrnPd ^ f ° , -C ' i eilde ^ 0 UrS- This ' ^ refore , cannot possibly be » ZnZ ™ b P ° UlCal freedom ' so as t 0 c ] ass Freemasons with political bfnkb , n „ "' . V nder a most earnest and conscientious engagement , we banish all pohtical and religious discussions from our Lodges , and are