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From Ideality To Nature.

FROM IDEALITY TO NATURE .

. BY SAVAKICUS . READER , —hast thou ever felt what it is to have an exquisite imagination , ancl a seeming acquaintance with chimerical people , who are the mere mental creatures of thine own creating , mystical , ideal , beautiful ? This uncontrollable , ephemeral , and ethereal imagination , often presents ideal gardens

full of floAvers ancl fountains , ancl peopled by beautiful beings . Then Ave may seem to have ideal ships sailing on ideal seas to ideal countries , or even to ideal worlds . This ideality appears as a mental luxury , or brain food , giving both Avarmth and force to the imagination ; but , as often as not , leading to nothing but vanishing visions . Yet with all its fallaciousness ancl flimsy flattery , and its Avell-known nothingness , Ideality has a great charm . For all ideal things are pure . Hence they have a soul-enthralling effect . The features and form , the grace and goodness , of an ideal Beauty are perfect . Who

can gamsay them 1 The Houris of a Mahometan ' s paradise are true types of ideal beauty . The songs sung to Loveliness , the lines penned , the sonnets Avritten , the poems printed , the love fancies of youth , the imagined husband , or wife , the glorious ancl happy future , often , very often , prove to be the outcomings of ideality— the offspring of the fertile brain . When men and women arrive at maturity the ideal in a great measure vanishes ; sometimes leaving a large amount of self-made disappointment ,

if not of despair , behind . But what careth the mass of mankind , as far as outward appearances are concerned "—Nothing ! The day cometh ancl Avaneth ; "to-morrow " is as far off as ever it Avas ; ancl thus weeks , months , aud years pass by . So much for the surface . But Avho knows all the amount of misery , heart-burning and yearning that is contained beneath the ever-rippling Avaves of human life . Notable ambition , secret longingsindividual envyjust and unjust reproachespromises not fulfilled

, , , , sudden failures , riches elboAving poverty into the gutter , virtue standing in the cold , vice basking in Avarmth , honour shielding reprobates , and the sacred name of Religion invoked to cover all . Charity having to endure all things . Hope , anchor abandoned . Faith , wandering about , having no resting-place ; and the Love of God ignored , if not despised !

Let us step aside from the busy world of humanity and ideality , ancl just take a glance at Nature , where Ave can ahvays behold something fresh aud sweet and beautiful , and where the prospect of the earth is always lovely and peaceful . Whether it be by mountain , rill , or rivulet , or larger river pleasantly Avinding out of sight , through wood ancl forest glade , clown to the ever-moving sea—grand in its rest , mighty in its depth , terrific in its tempestuous raging , and Avithal sublime ; made glorious by the vast expanse

of cloud and sky . Even now , although the year is young , Avild floAvers are blooming , and birds Avith their tiny throats and shrill voices are joyously heralding the fast approaching spring . How Avelcome to the earth is the vivifying rain and sunshine , and hoAV invigorating is the Aviud 1 The rain softens all dormant seeds , and the SAvelling germs gain Avarmth ancl active life . The sunshine gives fresh Efe to all latent existence ; and the Avind , Avith its shrill voice , aAvakeus plant and shrub , and tree , —breathing

gentle zephyrs t

“The Masonic Magazine: 1878-04-01, Page 24” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 23 March 2023, masonicperiodicals.org/periodicals/mmg/issues/mmg_01041878/page/24/.
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IMPORTANT CIRCULAR. Article 1
Untitled Article 2
SONNET. Article 3
AN HERMETIC WORK. Article 4
EARLY FREEMASONRY IN IRELAND. Article 7
THE CHAMBER OF IMAGERY. Article 10
THE ADVENTURES OF DON PASQUALE. Article 11
PAPERS ON THE GREAT PYRAMID. Article 13
In Memoriam. Article 17
THE WORK OF NATURE IN THE MONTHS. Article 18
FROM IDEALITY TO NATURE. Article 24
THE TRUE MASON. Article 25
AMABEL VAUGHAN. Article 26
"VALE PONTIFEX MAXIME!" Article 30
JILTED. Article 34
ON THE TESTING AND STRENGTH OF RAILWAY MATERIALS, &c. Article 35
MORITZ GRAF VON STRACHWITZ. Article 40
STANZAS. Article 41
LEBENSANSICHT. Article 42
A SONNET. Article 43
DU GEHEST DAHIN. Article 43
A PRAHLEREI. Article 43
I WOULD I WERE A POET. Article 44
GERMANIA. Article 44
THE TRUE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND. Article 45
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 47
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From Ideality To Nature.

FROM IDEALITY TO NATURE .

. BY SAVAKICUS . READER , —hast thou ever felt what it is to have an exquisite imagination , ancl a seeming acquaintance with chimerical people , who are the mere mental creatures of thine own creating , mystical , ideal , beautiful ? This uncontrollable , ephemeral , and ethereal imagination , often presents ideal gardens

full of floAvers ancl fountains , ancl peopled by beautiful beings . Then Ave may seem to have ideal ships sailing on ideal seas to ideal countries , or even to ideal worlds . This ideality appears as a mental luxury , or brain food , giving both Avarmth and force to the imagination ; but , as often as not , leading to nothing but vanishing visions . Yet with all its fallaciousness ancl flimsy flattery , and its Avell-known nothingness , Ideality has a great charm . For all ideal things are pure . Hence they have a soul-enthralling effect . The features and form , the grace and goodness , of an ideal Beauty are perfect . Who

can gamsay them 1 The Houris of a Mahometan ' s paradise are true types of ideal beauty . The songs sung to Loveliness , the lines penned , the sonnets Avritten , the poems printed , the love fancies of youth , the imagined husband , or wife , the glorious ancl happy future , often , very often , prove to be the outcomings of ideality— the offspring of the fertile brain . When men and women arrive at maturity the ideal in a great measure vanishes ; sometimes leaving a large amount of self-made disappointment ,

if not of despair , behind . But what careth the mass of mankind , as far as outward appearances are concerned "—Nothing ! The day cometh ancl Avaneth ; "to-morrow " is as far off as ever it Avas ; ancl thus weeks , months , aud years pass by . So much for the surface . But Avho knows all the amount of misery , heart-burning and yearning that is contained beneath the ever-rippling Avaves of human life . Notable ambition , secret longingsindividual envyjust and unjust reproachespromises not fulfilled

, , , , sudden failures , riches elboAving poverty into the gutter , virtue standing in the cold , vice basking in Avarmth , honour shielding reprobates , and the sacred name of Religion invoked to cover all . Charity having to endure all things . Hope , anchor abandoned . Faith , wandering about , having no resting-place ; and the Love of God ignored , if not despised !

Let us step aside from the busy world of humanity and ideality , ancl just take a glance at Nature , where Ave can ahvays behold something fresh aud sweet and beautiful , and where the prospect of the earth is always lovely and peaceful . Whether it be by mountain , rill , or rivulet , or larger river pleasantly Avinding out of sight , through wood ancl forest glade , clown to the ever-moving sea—grand in its rest , mighty in its depth , terrific in its tempestuous raging , and Avithal sublime ; made glorious by the vast expanse

of cloud and sky . Even now , although the year is young , Avild floAvers are blooming , and birds Avith their tiny throats and shrill voices are joyously heralding the fast approaching spring . How Avelcome to the earth is the vivifying rain and sunshine , and hoAV invigorating is the Aviud 1 The rain softens all dormant seeds , and the SAvelling germs gain Avarmth ancl active life . The sunshine gives fresh Efe to all latent existence ; and the Avind , Avith its shrill voice , aAvakeus plant and shrub , and tree , —breathing

gentle zephyrs t

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