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Article HINTS ON THE SECRET LITERATURE OF FREEMASONRY. ← Page 7 of 10 →
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Hints On The Secret Literature Of Freemasonry.
Emanuel SAvedenborg . He never contemplated the erection of a dissenting sect , but , in an allegory , explained his system of reformed Freemasonry . It has been the fashion of late to call SAvedenborg a raving fanatic Avho saAv A'isions , by his OAvn imagination , and a diseased sentimentality . NOAA ' , let us
turn to facts , with respect to this Avonderful man . All his biographers agree that Avherr he had arrived at the mature age of fifty-eight years he assumed a HOAV character , and they quote his OAVH Avords , thus : — " I haA r e been called to a holy office by the Lord , who most graciously
" manifested himself , in person , to mo his servant , in the year 1745 , and " opened my sight into the spiritual world , endowing mo with the gift of " conversing with spirits and angels . " This event happened to him in the middle of April , 1745 , at an inn in London .
In Mr . J . J . Gardner Wilkinson ' s Life of Swechiiboni , page 48 , he states that : — " The process of resurrection from the dead , which Swedenborg experienced in order to make it known ; happened to him March 1 , 1748 . See his Diary . "
Strange as it may appear our vocabulary of the secret language teaches us to read those passages thus : —I have been summoned to a neAV duty by the master AVIIO I saAv , for the first time , in person , and to Avhom I became obedient , in the year 1745 , and my eyes were opened , —in a manner
too Avell knoAvn to our readers to need any comment , —and I Avas endoAved with the privilege of social intercourse Avith those of tAvo superior grades above me . This event took place at an inn in London . Such is the Avay in which Ave read the extracts referred to .
The inn , it has been suggested , was the Pewter Platter , a once noted lodge house . Unfortunately grand lodge certificates were not issued and no register of members has found its Avay into our Grand Lodge books previous to 1768 , but , for all that , we are of opinion that , it is probable , in some private lodge books
there is a record of the initiation of Emanuel SAvedenborg , a mair , eA en then , of such mark that every lodge would have gladly Avelcomed such a neophyte .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Hints On The Secret Literature Of Freemasonry.
Emanuel SAvedenborg . He never contemplated the erection of a dissenting sect , but , in an allegory , explained his system of reformed Freemasonry . It has been the fashion of late to call SAvedenborg a raving fanatic Avho saAv A'isions , by his OAvn imagination , and a diseased sentimentality . NOAA ' , let us
turn to facts , with respect to this Avonderful man . All his biographers agree that Avherr he had arrived at the mature age of fifty-eight years he assumed a HOAV character , and they quote his OAVH Avords , thus : — " I haA r e been called to a holy office by the Lord , who most graciously
" manifested himself , in person , to mo his servant , in the year 1745 , and " opened my sight into the spiritual world , endowing mo with the gift of " conversing with spirits and angels . " This event happened to him in the middle of April , 1745 , at an inn in London .
In Mr . J . J . Gardner Wilkinson ' s Life of Swechiiboni , page 48 , he states that : — " The process of resurrection from the dead , which Swedenborg experienced in order to make it known ; happened to him March 1 , 1748 . See his Diary . "
Strange as it may appear our vocabulary of the secret language teaches us to read those passages thus : —I have been summoned to a neAV duty by the master AVIIO I saAv , for the first time , in person , and to Avhom I became obedient , in the year 1745 , and my eyes were opened , —in a manner
too Avell knoAvn to our readers to need any comment , —and I Avas endoAved with the privilege of social intercourse Avith those of tAvo superior grades above me . This event took place at an inn in London . Such is the Avay in which Ave read the extracts referred to .
The inn , it has been suggested , was the Pewter Platter , a once noted lodge house . Unfortunately grand lodge certificates were not issued and no register of members has found its Avay into our Grand Lodge books previous to 1768 , but , for all that , we are of opinion that , it is probable , in some private lodge books
there is a record of the initiation of Emanuel SAvedenborg , a mair , eA en then , of such mark that every lodge would have gladly Avelcomed such a neophyte .