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On Freemasonry. Evidences , Doctrines, And Traditions.
reaped much valuable information . But Faber , like the two former , has not been initiated into Freemasonry , and therefore his opinions are necessarily vague and inconclusive . He has fallen into the common error of supposing that we are a society of operative masons ; and his analogies are consequently limited to that point alone . His
views of Freemasonry have been taken from the Abbe Baruel's " Memoirs of Jacobinism , '' without considering , or perhaps knowing , that the statements contained in that work have been often refuted , and its author convicted of the most deplorable ignorance of the system which he professed to explain . The whole of Baruel ' s theory , so far as
Freemasonry is concerned , is incorrect in its facts , and absurd in its arguments ; and was promulgated with the ungracious design of bringing down regal vengeance on an institution , which , in the extreme agonies of his red hot zeal , he seems to have determined to annihilate and destroy . In Mr . Faber ' s erudite work on Pagan Idolatry , he says ,
that " the astronomical representations which are reported to decorate Masonic Lodges , bear a close analogy to parallel decorations of the ancient cell or grotto , where the idolatrous orgies were celebrated . The very title which they bear affords no obscure intimation of their origin . As professed masons or artizans , they connect themselves with the
old Cabiric Telchines as described by Diodorus ; with the metallurgical Pheryllt of the Druidical mysteries ; with the architectural Cabiri of Phenicia ; with the demiurgic Phtha of Egypt ; and with the great artizan Twashta of Hindostan . All the most remarkable ancient buildings of Greece , Egypt , and Asia Minor , were ascribed to the Cabirean or
Cyclopean masons ; and in the present day , the Freemasons , with all their formalities , are wont to assist at the commencement of every public edifice . Finally , their affectation of mysterious concealment closely resembles the system of the Epoptas in all ages and countries , particularly that of the bards , when their religion no longer reigned paramount . These last are probably the real founders of English Freemasonry . "
I have already noticed the above passage in the preface to a Sermon , preached before the Provincial Graud Lodge of Lincolnshire in the year 1833 ; and as very few copies were published , and the Sermon out of print , 1 shall repeat the substance of my remarks here .
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On Freemasonry. Evidences , Doctrines, And Traditions.
reaped much valuable information . But Faber , like the two former , has not been initiated into Freemasonry , and therefore his opinions are necessarily vague and inconclusive . He has fallen into the common error of supposing that we are a society of operative masons ; and his analogies are consequently limited to that point alone . His
views of Freemasonry have been taken from the Abbe Baruel's " Memoirs of Jacobinism , '' without considering , or perhaps knowing , that the statements contained in that work have been often refuted , and its author convicted of the most deplorable ignorance of the system which he professed to explain . The whole of Baruel ' s theory , so far as
Freemasonry is concerned , is incorrect in its facts , and absurd in its arguments ; and was promulgated with the ungracious design of bringing down regal vengeance on an institution , which , in the extreme agonies of his red hot zeal , he seems to have determined to annihilate and destroy . In Mr . Faber ' s erudite work on Pagan Idolatry , he says ,
that " the astronomical representations which are reported to decorate Masonic Lodges , bear a close analogy to parallel decorations of the ancient cell or grotto , where the idolatrous orgies were celebrated . The very title which they bear affords no obscure intimation of their origin . As professed masons or artizans , they connect themselves with the
old Cabiric Telchines as described by Diodorus ; with the metallurgical Pheryllt of the Druidical mysteries ; with the architectural Cabiri of Phenicia ; with the demiurgic Phtha of Egypt ; and with the great artizan Twashta of Hindostan . All the most remarkable ancient buildings of Greece , Egypt , and Asia Minor , were ascribed to the Cabirean or
Cyclopean masons ; and in the present day , the Freemasons , with all their formalities , are wont to assist at the commencement of every public edifice . Finally , their affectation of mysterious concealment closely resembles the system of the Epoptas in all ages and countries , particularly that of the bards , when their religion no longer reigned paramount . These last are probably the real founders of English Freemasonry . "
I have already noticed the above passage in the preface to a Sermon , preached before the Provincial Graud Lodge of Lincolnshire in the year 1833 ; and as very few copies were published , and the Sermon out of print , 1 shall repeat the substance of my remarks here .