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Masonic Antiquities
As a help to the understanding of these observations , and other Jesuitical figures so often explained already , every reader who may not have even the slightest idea of Pree-Masonry ought now to be able , if he know ever so little of English , to read the Preface of the Ritual as I have interpreted it . V The Brothers and Fellows of the Pree-Masons are the " Scholastici
and Coadjufores Spirituales" of the Jesuits ; for the temporal or secular Jesuits are not yet members of the Order . They are not to do their own proper will , for the Order of Jesuits requires absolute obedience , and the secular Jesuits do not yet know that Pree-Masonry is under the direction of the Order . The secrets and
seeresy of Masons allude to the secrets of the "Nostri , " or "Uotres . " The Valley of Jehosaphat even , by its initial J , represents the Jesuits , and symbolizes the whole surface of the globe , where the Masons are not to know that they are the slaves of the Jesuits , ( By the way , they certainly do not know it . ) The three Pillars represent the
three tows . The word "Mosaic" ( relating to pavement ) , we are told is written in italics to syilrbolize the artifice of Moses , w ho knew how to blind the people of Israel to make them his partizans . The Blazing Star is-the sun —the emblem of the Order—the symbol
or omnipotence . The Master Mason represents the Chief of the " jNJotres , " or " ZSTostri , " and refers to the " General . " The four principles , the four vows of the initiated Jesuits . Preedom , Fervency , and Zeal , or P . P . Z ., give 6 , 6 , and 24 , which produce 36 ; 3 and 6 make 9 , or the letter J , which signifies that
Pree-Masons ought only to exist as the slaves of the Jesuits . Under seven , or as he styles it , the age of an Apprentice , signifies that the Apprentices are not yet Priests , not having gone through the seven
forms of ecclesiastical ordination . In other Masonic systems the expression " three and more " represents the four vows . Day represents the sun , the light of the Avorld , or the Order of Jesuits ; night , the moon , or the Order of Pree-Masons . Poor letter G is again brought into requisition here to express the blind obedience of
the Pree-Masons to the General of the Jesuits . Geometry , or the fifth science , is the art and science of this same (} or General , viz ., that of subjugating Popes [ Plow many were there of them ?] , Kings , and Empires . In the words " Middle Chamber , " M , 12 , and C , 8 , give 15 , or P . Patres ( Fathers ) . The Priests in former times used to eat the meat of the sacrifices " in media camera" in the Middle Chamber . These Fathers ( Peres ) , or P , are also the Portico by which Masons are at present initiated into
their Society ; and they , having established actual Masonry , are called allegorically the " Portico " of Masonry . A . " Pair of Stairs , " in Masonry , means P , S , Patres Societatis , or Fathers of the Society . "Science Five , ' ( in the repeating the letter G ) . In English , says our author , we do not speak of " Science five " any more than of " Science cinq " in French—an expression which is as much a barbarism in one language as in the other . It is only the Science , or Knowledge , or Practice , of the five Virtues recommended by Saint
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Antiquities
As a help to the understanding of these observations , and other Jesuitical figures so often explained already , every reader who may not have even the slightest idea of Pree-Masonry ought now to be able , if he know ever so little of English , to read the Preface of the Ritual as I have interpreted it . V The Brothers and Fellows of the Pree-Masons are the " Scholastici
and Coadjufores Spirituales" of the Jesuits ; for the temporal or secular Jesuits are not yet members of the Order . They are not to do their own proper will , for the Order of Jesuits requires absolute obedience , and the secular Jesuits do not yet know that Pree-Masonry is under the direction of the Order . The secrets and
seeresy of Masons allude to the secrets of the "Nostri , " or "Uotres . " The Valley of Jehosaphat even , by its initial J , represents the Jesuits , and symbolizes the whole surface of the globe , where the Masons are not to know that they are the slaves of the Jesuits , ( By the way , they certainly do not know it . ) The three Pillars represent the
three tows . The word "Mosaic" ( relating to pavement ) , we are told is written in italics to syilrbolize the artifice of Moses , w ho knew how to blind the people of Israel to make them his partizans . The Blazing Star is-the sun —the emblem of the Order—the symbol
or omnipotence . The Master Mason represents the Chief of the " jNJotres , " or " ZSTostri , " and refers to the " General . " The four principles , the four vows of the initiated Jesuits . Preedom , Fervency , and Zeal , or P . P . Z ., give 6 , 6 , and 24 , which produce 36 ; 3 and 6 make 9 , or the letter J , which signifies that
Pree-Masons ought only to exist as the slaves of the Jesuits . Under seven , or as he styles it , the age of an Apprentice , signifies that the Apprentices are not yet Priests , not having gone through the seven
forms of ecclesiastical ordination . In other Masonic systems the expression " three and more " represents the four vows . Day represents the sun , the light of the Avorld , or the Order of Jesuits ; night , the moon , or the Order of Pree-Masons . Poor letter G is again brought into requisition here to express the blind obedience of
the Pree-Masons to the General of the Jesuits . Geometry , or the fifth science , is the art and science of this same (} or General , viz ., that of subjugating Popes [ Plow many were there of them ?] , Kings , and Empires . In the words " Middle Chamber , " M , 12 , and C , 8 , give 15 , or P . Patres ( Fathers ) . The Priests in former times used to eat the meat of the sacrifices " in media camera" in the Middle Chamber . These Fathers ( Peres ) , or P , are also the Portico by which Masons are at present initiated into
their Society ; and they , having established actual Masonry , are called allegorically the " Portico " of Masonry . A . " Pair of Stairs , " in Masonry , means P , S , Patres Societatis , or Fathers of the Society . "Science Five , ' ( in the repeating the letter G ) . In English , says our author , we do not speak of " Science five " any more than of " Science cinq " in French—an expression which is as much a barbarism in one language as in the other . It is only the Science , or Knowledge , or Practice , of the five Virtues recommended by Saint