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On The Universality Of The Grand Masonic...
the emblematic scales of Justice , inclining neither to the right hand nor to the left .
Hence it is that "Wisdom , Strength , and the Beauty of Holinessrelated severally to the three fundamental characters or aspects , under which the Deity is contemplated by His intelligent creaturesare always regarded by Masons as having respectivel y ^ framed , established , and adorned the Temple of Eing Solomon .
The Kadiri Order Of El Tasawuf In Arabia.
THE KADIRI OEDEE OF EL TASAWTTF IN AEABIA .
We claim for the institution of Preemasonry a ^ high antiquity , but of its origin and progress we have but tradition to guide our researches into its annals ; yet as a culminating point all authorities
direct us to the East as the source of the mighty stream that continues , by fresh branches , to spread itself over the entire surface of the globe . Hence it is with many a matter of wonder that we have had but few , and those very vague , accounts of the actual practice
of Preemasonry among the peoples of the East . We have heard Brethren who hare travelled in distant climes relate narratives of extraordinary services received by the talismanie sign of a Mason ; but upon a close investigation the whole affair resolved itself into what the party " had been told . " It was consequently with considerable pleasure that we found in Lieutenant
Burton s " Pilgrimage to El Medmah and Mecca , * a statement which mates it perfectly clear that there exists in that land—rendered sacred to all time by the journeyings of the Israelites , when led by our Grand Master Moses in search of the promised Canaan —an institution which , from what the Lieutenant tells us , appears to make the nearest approach to Preemasonry of any of the secret societies that are or have been in existence among the semi-barbarous tribes .
Lieut . Burton does not tell us by what means he was enabled to be admitted to the outer portal of the order . All we know is that his physiognomy being favourable to the deceit , and being proficient in many of the eastern dialects , he assumed the character of a learned * Persian , but was induced afterwards to change it for another .
" After a month ' s hard work at Alexandria , I prepared to assume the character of a wandering Dervish , after reforming my title from Mirza to ' Shaykh . ' Abdullah . A reverend man , whose name I do not care to quote , some time after initiated me into his order , the Kadiriyah , under the high-sounding name
of Bismallah-Shah ; and after a due period of probation , he graciously elevated me to the proud position of a Murshid in the mystic Craft . I was , therefore , well acquainted with the tenets and practices of these Oriental Freemasons . A Murshid is one allowed to admit Murids or Apprentices into the order . "
Lient , Bnrton gives us in extenso a specimen of what he terms ; * Two Vols ., 8 vo ., Longman and Co . TOL . III . 5 XT
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On The Universality Of The Grand Masonic...
the emblematic scales of Justice , inclining neither to the right hand nor to the left .
Hence it is that "Wisdom , Strength , and the Beauty of Holinessrelated severally to the three fundamental characters or aspects , under which the Deity is contemplated by His intelligent creaturesare always regarded by Masons as having respectivel y ^ framed , established , and adorned the Temple of Eing Solomon .
The Kadiri Order Of El Tasawuf In Arabia.
THE KADIRI OEDEE OF EL TASAWTTF IN AEABIA .
We claim for the institution of Preemasonry a ^ high antiquity , but of its origin and progress we have but tradition to guide our researches into its annals ; yet as a culminating point all authorities
direct us to the East as the source of the mighty stream that continues , by fresh branches , to spread itself over the entire surface of the globe . Hence it is with many a matter of wonder that we have had but few , and those very vague , accounts of the actual practice
of Preemasonry among the peoples of the East . We have heard Brethren who hare travelled in distant climes relate narratives of extraordinary services received by the talismanie sign of a Mason ; but upon a close investigation the whole affair resolved itself into what the party " had been told . " It was consequently with considerable pleasure that we found in Lieutenant
Burton s " Pilgrimage to El Medmah and Mecca , * a statement which mates it perfectly clear that there exists in that land—rendered sacred to all time by the journeyings of the Israelites , when led by our Grand Master Moses in search of the promised Canaan —an institution which , from what the Lieutenant tells us , appears to make the nearest approach to Preemasonry of any of the secret societies that are or have been in existence among the semi-barbarous tribes .
Lieut . Burton does not tell us by what means he was enabled to be admitted to the outer portal of the order . All we know is that his physiognomy being favourable to the deceit , and being proficient in many of the eastern dialects , he assumed the character of a learned * Persian , but was induced afterwards to change it for another .
" After a month ' s hard work at Alexandria , I prepared to assume the character of a wandering Dervish , after reforming my title from Mirza to ' Shaykh . ' Abdullah . A reverend man , whose name I do not care to quote , some time after initiated me into his order , the Kadiriyah , under the high-sounding name
of Bismallah-Shah ; and after a due period of probation , he graciously elevated me to the proud position of a Murshid in the mystic Craft . I was , therefore , well acquainted with the tenets and practices of these Oriental Freemasons . A Murshid is one allowed to admit Murids or Apprentices into the order . "
Lient , Bnrton gives us in extenso a specimen of what he terms ; * Two Vols ., 8 vo ., Longman and Co . TOL . III . 5 XT