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A Curious Extract.
to escape him , we may be certain that nothing real has become known ; for how can any one communicate that which he does not know ? ami who would , if he were acquainted with a secret , divulge its ceremonials ? ihe same impressions which this exclusiveness of Masonry now makes upon a stranger , in former times originated the greatest mysteries th ose kept at Eleusis in honor of Ceres were of importance to the whole of Greeceand her most celebrated endeavoured to be
, men admitted to their knowledge . These mysteries were far more important and of more serious consequences than the present Freemasonry , which does not exclude either the foolish or unworth y of the human species whatever was undertaken at the mysteries of Eleusis was buried in the most inviolable secresy ; the mysteries also excited to devotion . Anion" - other things which it forbade , was the mention of the three words with which the hierophant opened and closed them . But what was the
consequence thereof?—that onl y dishonor overtook him who made them known ; for those words belonged to a barbarous , and to all the world unknown tongue . I have somewhere read that the meaning of these powerful words was , ' Watch over yourselves , and beware of evil . ' Nine days -were devoted to the preparations with the hi ghest company , and holy days were on these occasions celebrated , with certain ceremonies to make lasting impressions . Plutarch tells us Alcibiades was condemned to deathand his estates
, were confiscated , because he profaned the great mysteries in his own house , in the presence of Politian and Theodoras , contrary to the laws of Eumolpus . For this crime he was to be cursed by all the priests and priestesses , but it was not so carried outa priestess remarking , that her office was to bless , and not to curse—a beautiful lesson , the spirit of which has , perhaps , entered too little into our church , which seems to care nothing for what is holy . Things however , are now strangely altered , for Botarelli , in his works , makes all the secrets of Freemasonry public . People call him a scoundrel , and there the matter rests . "
Old Moseley Hall;
OLD MOSELEY HALL ;
OR , THE THREE P . P . P . ' s . Now , here ' s a conundrum for the penetration of our mystic Brethren not at home with the whereabouts of that wholesale tinker-shop Wolverhampton , deriving its local name , if not habitation , from some illustrious princess of the ninth century , whose patronymic sounds very wolfishbut whether her nature such
; was , I leave to the lucid researches of some profound F . A . . S . OLD MOSELEY HALL ! . Faith ! every body knows—at least ouo-ht to know—that Old Moseley Hall was one of the hiding-places of that choice specimen of royal virtues , Carolus Secundus , Dei gratia & -c & c after his flight from the lost battle of Worcester . The writer of this vaudeville did , once upon a time , in a former number of our Masonic Eclectic , say something about Boscobel , another of Charles ' s holes of concealment , about seven miles from the one under description and a favorable opportunity presenting itself for visiting this , he ventures to
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A Curious Extract.
to escape him , we may be certain that nothing real has become known ; for how can any one communicate that which he does not know ? ami who would , if he were acquainted with a secret , divulge its ceremonials ? ihe same impressions which this exclusiveness of Masonry now makes upon a stranger , in former times originated the greatest mysteries th ose kept at Eleusis in honor of Ceres were of importance to the whole of Greeceand her most celebrated endeavoured to be
, men admitted to their knowledge . These mysteries were far more important and of more serious consequences than the present Freemasonry , which does not exclude either the foolish or unworth y of the human species whatever was undertaken at the mysteries of Eleusis was buried in the most inviolable secresy ; the mysteries also excited to devotion . Anion" - other things which it forbade , was the mention of the three words with which the hierophant opened and closed them . But what was the
consequence thereof?—that onl y dishonor overtook him who made them known ; for those words belonged to a barbarous , and to all the world unknown tongue . I have somewhere read that the meaning of these powerful words was , ' Watch over yourselves , and beware of evil . ' Nine days -were devoted to the preparations with the hi ghest company , and holy days were on these occasions celebrated , with certain ceremonies to make lasting impressions . Plutarch tells us Alcibiades was condemned to deathand his estates
, were confiscated , because he profaned the great mysteries in his own house , in the presence of Politian and Theodoras , contrary to the laws of Eumolpus . For this crime he was to be cursed by all the priests and priestesses , but it was not so carried outa priestess remarking , that her office was to bless , and not to curse—a beautiful lesson , the spirit of which has , perhaps , entered too little into our church , which seems to care nothing for what is holy . Things however , are now strangely altered , for Botarelli , in his works , makes all the secrets of Freemasonry public . People call him a scoundrel , and there the matter rests . "
Old Moseley Hall;
OLD MOSELEY HALL ;
OR , THE THREE P . P . P . ' s . Now , here ' s a conundrum for the penetration of our mystic Brethren not at home with the whereabouts of that wholesale tinker-shop Wolverhampton , deriving its local name , if not habitation , from some illustrious princess of the ninth century , whose patronymic sounds very wolfishbut whether her nature such
; was , I leave to the lucid researches of some profound F . A . . S . OLD MOSELEY HALL ! . Faith ! every body knows—at least ouo-ht to know—that Old Moseley Hall was one of the hiding-places of that choice specimen of royal virtues , Carolus Secundus , Dei gratia & -c & c after his flight from the lost battle of Worcester . The writer of this vaudeville did , once upon a time , in a former number of our Masonic Eclectic , say something about Boscobel , another of Charles ' s holes of concealment , about seven miles from the one under description and a favorable opportunity presenting itself for visiting this , he ventures to