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Article HINTS ON THE SECRET LITERATURE OF FREEMASONRY. ← Page 8 of 10 →
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Hints On The Secret Literature Of Freemasonry.
Eeturnurg to the more immediate subject of our inquiry , let us take an example from La Vita Nuova of Dante . He says : — " Ego tanquam centrum circuli , cui simili modo se habent circumferentioe " partes : tu autem non sic . " One of his latest translators renders the passage thus : —
" Love s & ys , I am the centre of a circle to which all parts of the , cir" cumfercnce bear an equal relation : but with thee it is not thus . " This , surely , is so plain that any master mason , eA ^ en of the present day , can see its application and who is meant for the point AA-ithin tire circle .
In a Sestina he also uses this peculiar figure , AA'hen speaking of the lady of his mind , —the mental lady or his secret love , — ' ¦ ' I wooed her in a field that was all grass " Girdled about with very lofty hills . " And AA hy did he AVOO her thus ? Because it was a place so
high , so deep , and so A ery secret . Lapo Gianni , in a Madrigal of his composition , expresses the folloAving desire : — " Let me seem Solomon for love of words ,
" Samson for strength , for beauty Absolom . " " Knights as my serfs be given ; " And as I will , let music go and come ;
" Till at the last thou bring me into heaven . Here are the three pillars upholding the etherial canopy and the Templars , through Avhom Freemasonry comes to us , the willing servants of the craft , Avhilst he desires that music , the soft and gentle speech of lovers , should carry him forward to
that master who * should take him into heaven , or the lodge . Our own Chaucer wrote largely in this disguise . His Court of Love ; Assembly of Foiols ; The Cuckoo and the Nightingale ; The Flower and the Leaf ; Troylus and Cressid ; The Booh of the Duchess ; The Souse of Fame ; The Bomaunt of the Rose ;
and in all his other AAwks the veiled language is continually resorted to , but in those more especially mentioned above are clear indications of " The shadow cloaked from head to foot , " That keeps the kej r s of all the ci-eeds . " In Mem or i am .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Hints On The Secret Literature Of Freemasonry.
Eeturnurg to the more immediate subject of our inquiry , let us take an example from La Vita Nuova of Dante . He says : — " Ego tanquam centrum circuli , cui simili modo se habent circumferentioe " partes : tu autem non sic . " One of his latest translators renders the passage thus : —
" Love s & ys , I am the centre of a circle to which all parts of the , cir" cumfercnce bear an equal relation : but with thee it is not thus . " This , surely , is so plain that any master mason , eA ^ en of the present day , can see its application and who is meant for the point AA-ithin tire circle .
In a Sestina he also uses this peculiar figure , AA'hen speaking of the lady of his mind , —the mental lady or his secret love , — ' ¦ ' I wooed her in a field that was all grass " Girdled about with very lofty hills . " And AA hy did he AVOO her thus ? Because it was a place so
high , so deep , and so A ery secret . Lapo Gianni , in a Madrigal of his composition , expresses the folloAving desire : — " Let me seem Solomon for love of words ,
" Samson for strength , for beauty Absolom . " " Knights as my serfs be given ; " And as I will , let music go and come ;
" Till at the last thou bring me into heaven . Here are the three pillars upholding the etherial canopy and the Templars , through Avhom Freemasonry comes to us , the willing servants of the craft , Avhilst he desires that music , the soft and gentle speech of lovers , should carry him forward to
that master who * should take him into heaven , or the lodge . Our own Chaucer wrote largely in this disguise . His Court of Love ; Assembly of Foiols ; The Cuckoo and the Nightingale ; The Flower and the Leaf ; Troylus and Cressid ; The Booh of the Duchess ; The Souse of Fame ; The Bomaunt of the Rose ;
and in all his other AAwks the veiled language is continually resorted to , but in those more especially mentioned above are clear indications of " The shadow cloaked from head to foot , " That keeps the kej r s of all the ci-eeds . " In Mem or i am .