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To The Editor.
resolute determination to uphold the true principles of the Order against all and every opposition . Such are the qualifications , svhich Alasons , if they be svise , svill look for in every candidate for the office of Master ; qualifications svhich must have a tendency to raise the Order to its proper position in the scale of human society , as their absence has in too many instances the opposite effect . CATO .
Poetry.
POETRY .
CREATION—THE FALL—RESTORATION . A MASONIC ODE . BY S . SVOODSVORTH , ESQ . When the great Architect of heaven and earth Spake this magnific system into birth ,
And bade its numerous orbs in order roll , To perfect svide creation ' s svondrous plan , He breathed his osvn pure spirit into man ; And man became a living soul—Lord of the fair Etysian fields he trod—An image and a likeness of his God ;
Designed by svisdom infinite to be A living temple of the Deity—An earthly palace , where svould deign to dwell A guest divine , of name ineffable .
But love of self—a svily serpent—stole Into the sacred precincts of the soul , And tempted man to taste and eat The specious , fair , forbidden fruit of pride , Which heavenly love in mercy had denied ; By svhich offence
He lost the Eden of his innocence , And fled , an exile , from the blissful seat . The hallosved mental temple thus became A mass of shapeless ruins , svhere Eternal Truth no more inscribed his name—A den of thieves , and not a house of prayer .
'Tsvas to rebuild this miniature of heaven , This temple of Jehovah in the mind , That the eternal threefold WORD svas given , And our symbolic mystic ART designed ;
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Editor.
resolute determination to uphold the true principles of the Order against all and every opposition . Such are the qualifications , svhich Alasons , if they be svise , svill look for in every candidate for the office of Master ; qualifications svhich must have a tendency to raise the Order to its proper position in the scale of human society , as their absence has in too many instances the opposite effect . CATO .
Poetry.
POETRY .
CREATION—THE FALL—RESTORATION . A MASONIC ODE . BY S . SVOODSVORTH , ESQ . When the great Architect of heaven and earth Spake this magnific system into birth ,
And bade its numerous orbs in order roll , To perfect svide creation ' s svondrous plan , He breathed his osvn pure spirit into man ; And man became a living soul—Lord of the fair Etysian fields he trod—An image and a likeness of his God ;
Designed by svisdom infinite to be A living temple of the Deity—An earthly palace , where svould deign to dwell A guest divine , of name ineffable .
But love of self—a svily serpent—stole Into the sacred precincts of the soul , And tempted man to taste and eat The specious , fair , forbidden fruit of pride , Which heavenly love in mercy had denied ; By svhich offence
He lost the Eden of his innocence , And fled , an exile , from the blissful seat . The hallosved mental temple thus became A mass of shapeless ruins , svhere Eternal Truth no more inscribed his name—A den of thieves , and not a house of prayer .
'Tsvas to rebuild this miniature of heaven , This temple of Jehovah in the mind , That the eternal threefold WORD svas given , And our symbolic mystic ART designed ;