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On Freemasonry. Evidences , Doctrines, And Traditions.
theology , derived from the venerable patriarchs , there were certain grand and mysterious truths , the object of their fixed belief , which all the depravations brought into it by succeeding superstition were never able entirel y to efface from the human mind . These truths , together with many of the symbols of that pure theology , were propagated and diffused
by them in their various peregrinations through the higher Asia , where they have immemoriall y flourished ; affording a most sublime and honourable testimony of such a refined and patriarchal reli gion having actuall y existed in the earliest ages of the world . " The opinion thus promulgated b y Volney was not new . It
had been alread y embodied in a heresy which sprang up in the Apostolic age , under the denomination of the Egyptian Philosophy ; and was heavil y denounced in our sacred writings . It is there described as " vain , deceitful , traditionary ; formed upon the rudiments of the world , and not after Christ . These are the profane and old wives fables ; the
endless genealogies , vain babblings , and oppositions of science , falsel y so called , which we are to reject and not give heed to . " * Professor Robison , and the Abbe Baruel , have both publicly avowed the same belief . But their professed object was to denounce Freemasonry as something dangerous to
the interests of civil society ; and therefore they have advanced charges and assertions so wild and improbable as to defeat themselves . The most formidable of these hostile opinions is from the pen of the learned and judicious Faber ; from whose laborious writings , I , in common with all his readers , have
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On Freemasonry. Evidences , Doctrines, And Traditions.
theology , derived from the venerable patriarchs , there were certain grand and mysterious truths , the object of their fixed belief , which all the depravations brought into it by succeeding superstition were never able entirel y to efface from the human mind . These truths , together with many of the symbols of that pure theology , were propagated and diffused
by them in their various peregrinations through the higher Asia , where they have immemoriall y flourished ; affording a most sublime and honourable testimony of such a refined and patriarchal reli gion having actuall y existed in the earliest ages of the world . " The opinion thus promulgated b y Volney was not new . It
had been alread y embodied in a heresy which sprang up in the Apostolic age , under the denomination of the Egyptian Philosophy ; and was heavil y denounced in our sacred writings . It is there described as " vain , deceitful , traditionary ; formed upon the rudiments of the world , and not after Christ . These are the profane and old wives fables ; the
endless genealogies , vain babblings , and oppositions of science , falsel y so called , which we are to reject and not give heed to . " * Professor Robison , and the Abbe Baruel , have both publicly avowed the same belief . But their professed object was to denounce Freemasonry as something dangerous to
the interests of civil society ; and therefore they have advanced charges and assertions so wild and improbable as to defeat themselves . The most formidable of these hostile opinions is from the pen of the learned and judicious Faber ; from whose laborious writings , I , in common with all his readers , have