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Article HINTS ON THE SECRET LITERATURE OF FREEMASONRY. ← Page 10 of 10
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Hints On The Secret Literature Of Freemasonry.
This is a lament that life is so short , and that the craft , he sings of , takes so long to learn . The attempt is so difficult , and to conquer it so sharp , or painful . The timorous joy , AA hen it is found , flits aAvay so soon . And he applies all this to Love . So he admits that the new science—Avhich could not be the love
of Avoman because that Avas only IICAV to Adam—came -out of old books just as neAV corn comes out of old fields . In The Flower and the Leaf , we read these lines : — " Sith your desire is good and debonaire ;
" The nine crowned be very exemplaire " Of all honor belonging to chivalry ; " And those certain bo called the Nine "Worthy . " We knoAV of nine Avorthies , but Dryden Avill give us a better clue , and SIIOAV their cosmopolitanism , AA hen he tells us —•
" These laurelled chiefs were men of mighty fame ; " Nine worthies were they called of different rites , " Three Jews , three Pagans , and three Christian knights . " If Ave Avould knoAV IIOAV Love meant Charity , and Charity Freemasonry , Ave have only to turn to The Romaunt of the Rose
for the definition as giA r en by Eeason . It is much too long for quotation here , and also contains allusions Avhich Ave cannot undertake to expound in print .
In Spencer ' s Faerie Queen , and Tasso ' s Jeruscdem , the student Avho folloAVs out the clue above given , Avill read those productions with an entirely new sense of enjoyment , and make himself acquainted Avith much A'aluable information which concerns the order .
For the present , our space Avarns us , Ave must conclude . Should these feAv examples serve to encourage a disposition to knoAV more , and our readers express a Avish to that effect , Ave may probably recur to the subject at a future opportunity .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Hints On The Secret Literature Of Freemasonry.
This is a lament that life is so short , and that the craft , he sings of , takes so long to learn . The attempt is so difficult , and to conquer it so sharp , or painful . The timorous joy , AA hen it is found , flits aAvay so soon . And he applies all this to Love . So he admits that the new science—Avhich could not be the love
of Avoman because that Avas only IICAV to Adam—came -out of old books just as neAV corn comes out of old fields . In The Flower and the Leaf , we read these lines : — " Sith your desire is good and debonaire ;
" The nine crowned be very exemplaire " Of all honor belonging to chivalry ; " And those certain bo called the Nine "Worthy . " We knoAV of nine Avorthies , but Dryden Avill give us a better clue , and SIIOAV their cosmopolitanism , AA hen he tells us —•
" These laurelled chiefs were men of mighty fame ; " Nine worthies were they called of different rites , " Three Jews , three Pagans , and three Christian knights . " If Ave Avould knoAV IIOAV Love meant Charity , and Charity Freemasonry , Ave have only to turn to The Romaunt of the Rose
for the definition as giA r en by Eeason . It is much too long for quotation here , and also contains allusions Avhich Ave cannot undertake to expound in print .
In Spencer ' s Faerie Queen , and Tasso ' s Jeruscdem , the student Avho folloAVs out the clue above given , Avill read those productions with an entirely new sense of enjoyment , and make himself acquainted Avith much A'aluable information which concerns the order .
For the present , our space Avarns us , Ave must conclude . Should these feAv examples serve to encourage a disposition to knoAV more , and our readers express a Avish to that effect , Ave may probably recur to the subject at a future opportunity .