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Article HINTS ON THE SECRET LITERATURE OF FREEMASONRY. ← Page 2 of 10 →
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Hints On The Secret Literature Of Freemasonry.
sesses them , some theory , or hypothesis , which irrterests their hopes , and stimulates their researches in arriving at the loveliness of truth . All Freemasons are , or ought to be , seekers after truth . The Craftsman will tell you it is one of the great principles on
which the Order is founded . The Companion will advocate his theory that sets him to discover it , and when lie has succeeded shouts his glad Eureka . The Knightly brother finds it in the symbol of his faith , and is reminded of the value of the attribute by the fate of the Syracusian . The Rose Croix
forcibly realizes that truth which is founded on the mystic rose , the emblem of HIM who is "the WAY , the TRUTH , and the LIFE . " All have sought truth , and each have found it , according' to the light they have been admitted to share , but the minor search for truth , —the historical data upon ¦ which
the order stands , —is a subject which has , hitherto , fourrd but few who are equal to eo ] oe with the intricacies by which it is surrounded or the necessary learning to discover it .
Bright gleams have occasionally appeared from some of our best brethren , but the information is diffused so imrtially , and to such limited numbers , that it is no wonder that the productions of Anderson , Preston , Smith , Hutchinson , Dr . Oliver , and a few other writers , are considered to be the text books
of the Masonic student . Thousands of years before 1717 Freemasonry had its history written in hieroglyphics . On the Avails of the temples of Egypt , Thebes , and Elephanta , it exists to this hour . In the literature of Arabia , Persia , Hindostan , —in the Holy Bible ,
both ISTBAV and Old Testaments , —it is running 0 A er . In the works of the Fathers of the Church , the great authors of antiquity , the poets of the middle ages and doAvn to the present hour Freemasonry , its principles , practice , and history ,
is put before the Avorld in priirted books not to be enumerated by scores , but , in all the sober seriousness of truth , by thousands . One or two have trodden the path shoAving how the enigma lnay be solved . One , if his years Avere feAver , by his vast
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Hints On The Secret Literature Of Freemasonry.
sesses them , some theory , or hypothesis , which irrterests their hopes , and stimulates their researches in arriving at the loveliness of truth . All Freemasons are , or ought to be , seekers after truth . The Craftsman will tell you it is one of the great principles on
which the Order is founded . The Companion will advocate his theory that sets him to discover it , and when lie has succeeded shouts his glad Eureka . The Knightly brother finds it in the symbol of his faith , and is reminded of the value of the attribute by the fate of the Syracusian . The Rose Croix
forcibly realizes that truth which is founded on the mystic rose , the emblem of HIM who is "the WAY , the TRUTH , and the LIFE . " All have sought truth , and each have found it , according' to the light they have been admitted to share , but the minor search for truth , —the historical data upon ¦ which
the order stands , —is a subject which has , hitherto , fourrd but few who are equal to eo ] oe with the intricacies by which it is surrounded or the necessary learning to discover it .
Bright gleams have occasionally appeared from some of our best brethren , but the information is diffused so imrtially , and to such limited numbers , that it is no wonder that the productions of Anderson , Preston , Smith , Hutchinson , Dr . Oliver , and a few other writers , are considered to be the text books
of the Masonic student . Thousands of years before 1717 Freemasonry had its history written in hieroglyphics . On the Avails of the temples of Egypt , Thebes , and Elephanta , it exists to this hour . In the literature of Arabia , Persia , Hindostan , —in the Holy Bible ,
both ISTBAV and Old Testaments , —it is running 0 A er . In the works of the Fathers of the Church , the great authors of antiquity , the poets of the middle ages and doAvn to the present hour Freemasonry , its principles , practice , and history ,
is put before the Avorld in priirted books not to be enumerated by scores , but , in all the sober seriousness of truth , by thousands . One or two have trodden the path shoAving how the enigma lnay be solved . One , if his years Avere feAver , by his vast