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Pretended Masonic Revelations.
PRETENDED MASONIC REVELATIONS .
IT may be generally taken for granted , that when a person begins " affirming with an oath " what merely requires a simple assertion , there is strong ground for doubting his affirmation from beginning to end ; and when a gentleman who professes a wish to enter into a sober argument with any individual , commences by calling him in
one breath a rogue , thief , and scoundrel , besides bespattering him with all the mud , of which Billingsgate is the traditional fountain-head , we can hardly be thought to have transgressed the bounds imposed on us by Charity , when we take the liberty of suspecting that the said mud is meant to divert attention from the palpable deficiency
of reason and argument which is behind . We were therefore rather amused than surprised , to find the first sixteen pages of the work before us , filled with copious effusions from various dissenting publications , in which the writers ( who are not Masons , ) are pleased to express an opinion that " Freemasonry is a compound of folly and profaneness
, a reproach to human kind , and proves that purity of character is no qualification for membership in a society into which they are admitted . " —So says the " Christian Advocate . "
The " Christian Record " is of opinion that " the initiation ceremonies of the various orders are a miserable compound of stupidity and blasphemy , and it is to us , " it says , " a mystery that any individual possessed of common sense could possibly submit to such a wretched travesty of all that we have been accustomed to regard as sacred and divine . "
( What the creed , or the selections from the creed , of that interesting and candid print may be , we are not informed . ) We might quote page after page of the same sort of what is called in Norman , " matter , " and in Saxon , " stuff . " Every page twinkles with Italicised " hardihood , blasphemy , and impiety— terrific exposure—horrible oaths—mummery
—infidelity—folly and profaneness , " & c . & c . & c , and all these delightful expressions emanate from the unctuous lips of " Christian Witnesses , " " Christian Examiners , " " Chris-
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Pretended Masonic Revelations.
PRETENDED MASONIC REVELATIONS .
IT may be generally taken for granted , that when a person begins " affirming with an oath " what merely requires a simple assertion , there is strong ground for doubting his affirmation from beginning to end ; and when a gentleman who professes a wish to enter into a sober argument with any individual , commences by calling him in
one breath a rogue , thief , and scoundrel , besides bespattering him with all the mud , of which Billingsgate is the traditional fountain-head , we can hardly be thought to have transgressed the bounds imposed on us by Charity , when we take the liberty of suspecting that the said mud is meant to divert attention from the palpable deficiency
of reason and argument which is behind . We were therefore rather amused than surprised , to find the first sixteen pages of the work before us , filled with copious effusions from various dissenting publications , in which the writers ( who are not Masons , ) are pleased to express an opinion that " Freemasonry is a compound of folly and profaneness
, a reproach to human kind , and proves that purity of character is no qualification for membership in a society into which they are admitted . " —So says the " Christian Advocate . "
The " Christian Record " is of opinion that " the initiation ceremonies of the various orders are a miserable compound of stupidity and blasphemy , and it is to us , " it says , " a mystery that any individual possessed of common sense could possibly submit to such a wretched travesty of all that we have been accustomed to regard as sacred and divine . "
( What the creed , or the selections from the creed , of that interesting and candid print may be , we are not informed . ) We might quote page after page of the same sort of what is called in Norman , " matter , " and in Saxon , " stuff . " Every page twinkles with Italicised " hardihood , blasphemy , and impiety— terrific exposure—horrible oaths—mummery
—infidelity—folly and profaneness , " & c . & c . & c , and all these delightful expressions emanate from the unctuous lips of " Christian Witnesses , " " Christian Examiners , " " Chris-