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On Freemasonry.
abstracted airs of better times , which , b y tradition from more ancient nations , fell into the trumpets and flutes of the Grecians . " The process was exceedingly simple , though absolutely certain ; for before the Dispersion there could scarcel y be any variation or error in the transmission of events and
predictions which took place in the first ages of the world . The length of life with which it pleased God to endow the antediluvian patriarchs , for the completion of his purposes , rendered the communication easy and natural ; for Adam certainly lived with Lamech , if not with Noah , according to the Samaritan Pentateuch ; and his sons were still in
existence at the building of Babel ; and consequently the facts could not have received much corruption at that time , however accident or policy might contribute to their deterioration at a subsequent period . If this reasoning have any force , we may fairl y conclude that the knowledge of these factswhich wereand still
, , remain , a constituent part of the Science of Freemasonry , proceeded from tradition , communicated b y the primitive pair , and transmitted through their posterity ; being recorded for the first time b y Moses , in the Pentateuch ; but certainly known to the heathen before the Exodus of the children of
Israel from Egypt . For it is presumed that the simple incidents had become so distorted by fable previously to that period , that the Almi ghty , when he established the theocracy amongst his selected people , thought it necessary to command Moses to make out a permanent register of them , which was preserved in the tabernacle , and afterwards in
the temple at Jerusalem , as a record of truth from which there should be no appeal . The above facts and arguments will shew the great anxiety which actuated the ori ginal framers of the Spurious Freemasonry of ancient times , that the landmarks of their system should bear an unequivocal resemblance to the pure
institution which constituted the great ori g inal of our noble science , and the model from which their specious scheme was copied . In a future paper it will be shewn how these traditions of truth degenerated from their primitive design , ancl became types of the most wild and improbable mythological fables . And whilst the genuine Freemasonry
advanced slowl y ancl majestically towards perfection , the imitative system sank rapidl y through the grades of superstition ancl false worshi p , till it attained that extreme point of vice and obscenity which preceded its final ancl irrevocable extinction , vox ,, v . „
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
abstracted airs of better times , which , b y tradition from more ancient nations , fell into the trumpets and flutes of the Grecians . " The process was exceedingly simple , though absolutely certain ; for before the Dispersion there could scarcel y be any variation or error in the transmission of events and
predictions which took place in the first ages of the world . The length of life with which it pleased God to endow the antediluvian patriarchs , for the completion of his purposes , rendered the communication easy and natural ; for Adam certainly lived with Lamech , if not with Noah , according to the Samaritan Pentateuch ; and his sons were still in
existence at the building of Babel ; and consequently the facts could not have received much corruption at that time , however accident or policy might contribute to their deterioration at a subsequent period . If this reasoning have any force , we may fairl y conclude that the knowledge of these factswhich wereand still
, , remain , a constituent part of the Science of Freemasonry , proceeded from tradition , communicated b y the primitive pair , and transmitted through their posterity ; being recorded for the first time b y Moses , in the Pentateuch ; but certainly known to the heathen before the Exodus of the children of
Israel from Egypt . For it is presumed that the simple incidents had become so distorted by fable previously to that period , that the Almi ghty , when he established the theocracy amongst his selected people , thought it necessary to command Moses to make out a permanent register of them , which was preserved in the tabernacle , and afterwards in
the temple at Jerusalem , as a record of truth from which there should be no appeal . The above facts and arguments will shew the great anxiety which actuated the ori ginal framers of the Spurious Freemasonry of ancient times , that the landmarks of their system should bear an unequivocal resemblance to the pure
institution which constituted the great ori g inal of our noble science , and the model from which their specious scheme was copied . In a future paper it will be shewn how these traditions of truth degenerated from their primitive design , ancl became types of the most wild and improbable mythological fables . And whilst the genuine Freemasonry
advanced slowl y ancl majestically towards perfection , the imitative system sank rapidl y through the grades of superstition ancl false worshi p , till it attained that extreme point of vice and obscenity which preceded its final ancl irrevocable extinction , vox ,, v . „