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Article FREEMASONRY VINDICATED, ← Page 8 of 8 Article THE REDEEMED. Page 1 of 11 →
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Freemasonry Vindicated,
more conducive to procure to them that happiness which they strive in vain to find among the turbulence of the piofane world . It is at a moment when Freemasonry is , in several countries of Europe , calumniated and persecuted , that I have deemed it a duty incumbent upon me , who have seen it in all its stages throughout the European Continent , to exhibit to the woi'ld the real part which
it acts therein ; and shall not allow the earliest opportunity to elapse without showing the high esteem and veneration in which this noble institution is now held by all virtuous and enlightened men over both hemispheres ; and in so doing I feel confident that I could not proffer to my Brethren a more agreeable picture of
the Order , and more adapted to vindicate it from the malignant aspersions which ignorance and prejudice have at all times , and in all ages , endeavoured to stigmatise its principles . In the interim , if I did not succeed in confuting all the sophistry of the ignorant and prejudiced world , I think at least I have shown what our institution has been , and what other institutions have
been . Vice and Fanaticism are our only enemies : they agitate and torment themselves incessantly to disturb our peace . But VIRTUE is too formidable for them : God himself ingrafted her in our hearts—God , who gave us Truth and Reason for Guides , that order and justice should reign over the earth—HE will jirotect us as HE has done hitherto , and thus accomplish his work .
The Redeemed.
THE REDEEMED .
PART I . NATUHB in all her gorgeous imagery presents few objects of greater beauty than the setting of the sun . In our northern latitude this sublime spectacle is frequently obscured by the mists and dense vapours his genial warmth has exhaled ; but in the east , the land of his birth , he
sinks to rest in undiminished beauty , his last ray , clear and brilliant as his meridian splendour , skirts the horizon with a ring of gold , which , gradually becoming fainter and fainter , blends with the less dazzling light of the pale moon . The sun , from its universal beneficence , has ever been considered as an appropriate emblem of the Deity , and worshipped as such by the Egyptians , under the name of Osiris : it was the
chief object of veneration in the Mithraic lites and those invented by the magi of Persia . Without , however , entering into the mysteries of the ancients , the most uninformed mind may draw a moral beauty from his
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Freemasonry Vindicated,
more conducive to procure to them that happiness which they strive in vain to find among the turbulence of the piofane world . It is at a moment when Freemasonry is , in several countries of Europe , calumniated and persecuted , that I have deemed it a duty incumbent upon me , who have seen it in all its stages throughout the European Continent , to exhibit to the woi'ld the real part which
it acts therein ; and shall not allow the earliest opportunity to elapse without showing the high esteem and veneration in which this noble institution is now held by all virtuous and enlightened men over both hemispheres ; and in so doing I feel confident that I could not proffer to my Brethren a more agreeable picture of
the Order , and more adapted to vindicate it from the malignant aspersions which ignorance and prejudice have at all times , and in all ages , endeavoured to stigmatise its principles . In the interim , if I did not succeed in confuting all the sophistry of the ignorant and prejudiced world , I think at least I have shown what our institution has been , and what other institutions have
been . Vice and Fanaticism are our only enemies : they agitate and torment themselves incessantly to disturb our peace . But VIRTUE is too formidable for them : God himself ingrafted her in our hearts—God , who gave us Truth and Reason for Guides , that order and justice should reign over the earth—HE will jirotect us as HE has done hitherto , and thus accomplish his work .
The Redeemed.
THE REDEEMED .
PART I . NATUHB in all her gorgeous imagery presents few objects of greater beauty than the setting of the sun . In our northern latitude this sublime spectacle is frequently obscured by the mists and dense vapours his genial warmth has exhaled ; but in the east , the land of his birth , he
sinks to rest in undiminished beauty , his last ray , clear and brilliant as his meridian splendour , skirts the horizon with a ring of gold , which , gradually becoming fainter and fainter , blends with the less dazzling light of the pale moon . The sun , from its universal beneficence , has ever been considered as an appropriate emblem of the Deity , and worshipped as such by the Egyptians , under the name of Osiris : it was the
chief object of veneration in the Mithraic lites and those invented by the magi of Persia . Without , however , entering into the mysteries of the ancients , the most uninformed mind may draw a moral beauty from his