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Article THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION AGAINST FREEMASONRY. ← Page 2 of 16 →
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
bold and extreme and , in some instances , more than usually hostile and arrogant , and these pretensions may be dated as taking their rise from the Encyclical of eighteen hundred and sixty-four , and culminating in the Allocution of eighteen hundred and sixty-five . The text of both these documents is , we presume , so well
known to the majority of our subscribers that there is no necessity to reproduce them here , more especially as it is our intention to consider the remarks made upon the Allocution by some of our imblic journals , rather than discuss the document itself , and this course is adopted because the treatment the
subject met with in those periodicals was , — though not antagonistic to Freemasonry—as might have been expected mostly beside the mark , being written from an exoteric point
of view , whereas , it appears to us , the production should have been looked at from those esoteric principles which have been the rule of cosmopolitan Freemasonry in all ages . The Times , of Saturday , October the 7 th . 1865 , gave the text of the Allocution and , in the same clay's issue , a leader upon
it . This article , like all that appears in that journal , was most ably Avritten , and we , as Freemasons , have no cause to be dissatisfied with it because it did not treat the subject from our stand point . With this allowance , and in no hostile spirit to " the leading journal , "—for a dwarf cannot expect to combat
on equal terms with an intellectual giant , —we are tempted to offer some few comments , on the leader in question , regarding the matter from an esoteric knowledge of the order and the bearings of the case .
¦ We pass over the happy idea by which The Times succeeded in turning the Allocution into an engine of condemnation of the Fenians , and so giving it a political bias that few could resist , and at once proceed to quote the main portion of the article which more nearly concerns ourselves .
After divesting itself of its incidentally implied Papal censure of , those boobies , the Fenians , it proceeds : — " But in thus expressing our acknowledgments to the POPE for his " well-intentioned services , we must at the same time indulge our surprise
" at the main purport of the document before us . The denunciation of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
bold and extreme and , in some instances , more than usually hostile and arrogant , and these pretensions may be dated as taking their rise from the Encyclical of eighteen hundred and sixty-four , and culminating in the Allocution of eighteen hundred and sixty-five . The text of both these documents is , we presume , so well
known to the majority of our subscribers that there is no necessity to reproduce them here , more especially as it is our intention to consider the remarks made upon the Allocution by some of our imblic journals , rather than discuss the document itself , and this course is adopted because the treatment the
subject met with in those periodicals was , — though not antagonistic to Freemasonry—as might have been expected mostly beside the mark , being written from an exoteric point
of view , whereas , it appears to us , the production should have been looked at from those esoteric principles which have been the rule of cosmopolitan Freemasonry in all ages . The Times , of Saturday , October the 7 th . 1865 , gave the text of the Allocution and , in the same clay's issue , a leader upon
it . This article , like all that appears in that journal , was most ably Avritten , and we , as Freemasons , have no cause to be dissatisfied with it because it did not treat the subject from our stand point . With this allowance , and in no hostile spirit to " the leading journal , "—for a dwarf cannot expect to combat
on equal terms with an intellectual giant , —we are tempted to offer some few comments , on the leader in question , regarding the matter from an esoteric knowledge of the order and the bearings of the case .
¦ We pass over the happy idea by which The Times succeeded in turning the Allocution into an engine of condemnation of the Fenians , and so giving it a political bias that few could resist , and at once proceed to quote the main portion of the article which more nearly concerns ourselves .
After divesting itself of its incidentally implied Papal censure of , those boobies , the Fenians , it proceeds : — " But in thus expressing our acknowledgments to the POPE for his " well-intentioned services , we must at the same time indulge our surprise
" at the main purport of the document before us . The denunciation of