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Article TO THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND.—No. III. ← Page 2 of 2 Article INSTINCTIVE AVERSION. Page 1 of 2 →
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To The Grand Lodge Of Ireland.—No. Iii.
as was said of an unhappy royal family , could neither learn nor forget any thing ; he could neither learn what was useful nor forget what was useless . To him Irish "Masonry owes no debt of gratitude . I have shown that Royal Arch Masonry was not known in 1813 , but soon after , somehow or the other , it never directly appears in what way , some system , yclept the Royal Arch , was discovered by your Grand Secretary , and when so discovered was by him declared to benot onl
, y the only gootl system , but the very best that ever was ; I have seen it under his handwriting ( which will , I suppose , be considered pretty good authority ) that , by his version of this essential point of Masonry , the repairing of the temple in the reign of Josias is commemorated ; and that the rebuilding of the temple is illustrated by the English mode ; but which latter subject , in his opinion , belongs to another branch of the Orderdistinct from and subsequent to Royal Arch MasonryHe
-, . pro ceeds , most erudite old gentleman , to admit his knowledge of the fact , that the Grand Chapter of England has amalgamated the two periods , but that in Ire / and , alterations on such subjects are avoided , and that the English ceremonial is not to be recognized in Ireland ! Pretty well this for a body who , in 1813 , were by their own Grand Master ' s admission altogether innocent or ignorant of any system of Royal Arch Masonry whatever !
I am pretty clear that " Christian Masonry" was in 1813 little practised ; that encampments , consistories , colleges of philosophy , & c , were things " ¦ done of them in secret , " if at all . How they came amalgamated with the Grand Lodge of Ireland may be the subject of some future letter ; meanwhile it is proper to observe , may it please you , that you would do well to state when you thought fit , and why , to disturb that beautiful and comprehensive system of Masonry universalwhich was
, admitted in the halcyon days of your youth , when you followed the example of your elder sister , England ; whose system , admitting , and profiting by age and experience , preserves the veritable land-marks by the best illustrations of " wisdom , strength , and beauty ; " whereas , owing to the obstinacy of a very few , who put the drag on the wheel when the ascent is in view , goaded by one that enacts the part of the old man on the shoulders of Sinbad the sailor , the good and the faithful of
your society are compelled to await their deliverance at the hands of Providence . Excuse my brevity , but it is Christmas , and the cakes ancl ale are a more inviting subject . Fines .
Instinctive Aversion.
INSTINCTIVE AVERSION .
AVE sometimes ( rarely , it is true ) meet with persons who not onl y express a dislike for an individual , but who by their conduct do every thing in their power to injure him ; not by slighting him , for that is an unimportant matter , but by slandering in private and sneering in public . In such a case , one is led to enquire into the cause and effect . The cause arises , probably , from a mind ill-regulated , and whose conceptions have been thwarted by a suppositious prejudice of its views . The effect produced on the other party is , too probably , the exercise of a principle of repulsion ; and hence the persons implicated become odious to each other . Antipathy succeeds , and -swelters in the pestilence that spreads
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Grand Lodge Of Ireland.—No. Iii.
as was said of an unhappy royal family , could neither learn nor forget any thing ; he could neither learn what was useful nor forget what was useless . To him Irish "Masonry owes no debt of gratitude . I have shown that Royal Arch Masonry was not known in 1813 , but soon after , somehow or the other , it never directly appears in what way , some system , yclept the Royal Arch , was discovered by your Grand Secretary , and when so discovered was by him declared to benot onl
, y the only gootl system , but the very best that ever was ; I have seen it under his handwriting ( which will , I suppose , be considered pretty good authority ) that , by his version of this essential point of Masonry , the repairing of the temple in the reign of Josias is commemorated ; and that the rebuilding of the temple is illustrated by the English mode ; but which latter subject , in his opinion , belongs to another branch of the Orderdistinct from and subsequent to Royal Arch MasonryHe
-, . pro ceeds , most erudite old gentleman , to admit his knowledge of the fact , that the Grand Chapter of England has amalgamated the two periods , but that in Ire / and , alterations on such subjects are avoided , and that the English ceremonial is not to be recognized in Ireland ! Pretty well this for a body who , in 1813 , were by their own Grand Master ' s admission altogether innocent or ignorant of any system of Royal Arch Masonry whatever !
I am pretty clear that " Christian Masonry" was in 1813 little practised ; that encampments , consistories , colleges of philosophy , & c , were things " ¦ done of them in secret , " if at all . How they came amalgamated with the Grand Lodge of Ireland may be the subject of some future letter ; meanwhile it is proper to observe , may it please you , that you would do well to state when you thought fit , and why , to disturb that beautiful and comprehensive system of Masonry universalwhich was
, admitted in the halcyon days of your youth , when you followed the example of your elder sister , England ; whose system , admitting , and profiting by age and experience , preserves the veritable land-marks by the best illustrations of " wisdom , strength , and beauty ; " whereas , owing to the obstinacy of a very few , who put the drag on the wheel when the ascent is in view , goaded by one that enacts the part of the old man on the shoulders of Sinbad the sailor , the good and the faithful of
your society are compelled to await their deliverance at the hands of Providence . Excuse my brevity , but it is Christmas , and the cakes ancl ale are a more inviting subject . Fines .
Instinctive Aversion.
INSTINCTIVE AVERSION .
AVE sometimes ( rarely , it is true ) meet with persons who not onl y express a dislike for an individual , but who by their conduct do every thing in their power to injure him ; not by slighting him , for that is an unimportant matter , but by slandering in private and sneering in public . In such a case , one is led to enquire into the cause and effect . The cause arises , probably , from a mind ill-regulated , and whose conceptions have been thwarted by a suppositious prejudice of its views . The effect produced on the other party is , too probably , the exercise of a principle of repulsion ; and hence the persons implicated become odious to each other . Antipathy succeeds , and -swelters in the pestilence that spreads