The Rationale and Ethics of Freemasonry: Or, The Masonic Institution Considered as a Means of Social and Individual ProgressR. Macoy, 1858 - 298 pages |
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... fact to which we desire to direct the reader's attention is , that Grecian civilization commences with Orpheus and his Mysteries . He stood , as it were , at the portals of Grecian life , and directed the genius of that wonderful people ...
... fact to which we desire to direct the reader's attention is , that Grecian civilization commences with Orpheus and his Mysteries . He stood , as it were , at the portals of Grecian life , and directed the genius of that wonderful people ...
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... facts of either profane or sacred science . The rites of ini- tiation were sacred or philosophical dramas , ex- tremely fascinating to the imaginative mind , and intended to shadow forth the profoundest mysteries of the Universe , of ...
... facts of either profane or sacred science . The rites of ini- tiation were sacred or philosophical dramas , ex- tremely fascinating to the imaginative mind , and intended to shadow forth the profoundest mysteries of the Universe , of ...
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... fact , which we have sufficiently demonstrated , that nearly , if not quite all of the normal institutions of anti- quity , were secret or Masonic societies . The moral life and civilization of the nations were born in their secret ...
... fact , which we have sufficiently demonstrated , that nearly , if not quite all of the normal institutions of anti- quity , were secret or Masonic societies . The moral life and civilization of the nations were born in their secret ...
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... fact . Lucian of Samosata speaks of Christ as a magician who established new Mysteries . We learn also from Pliny that the Christians were persecuted in the reign of the Emperor Trajan , as a secret society , under a general law which ...
... fact . Lucian of Samosata speaks of Christ as a magician who established new Mysteries . We learn also from Pliny that the Christians were persecuted in the reign of the Emperor Trajan , as a secret society , under a general law which ...
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... fact early excited the suspicions of the heathen , that Christianity was a secret society ; but unable to appreciate the lofty and divine sentiments of the gospel , they saw in this mystical friendship and those secret tokens only the ...
... fact early excited the suspicions of the heathen , that Christianity was a secret society ; but unable to appreciate the lofty and divine sentiments of the gospel , they saw in this mystical friendship and those secret tokens only the ...
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Page 142 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Page 114 - And as for their piety towards God, it is very extraordinary; for before sun-rising they speak not a word about profane matters, but put up certain prayers, which they have received from their forefathers, as if they made a supplication for its rising.
Page 234 - How often we forget all time, when lone, Admiring nature's universal throne, Her woods, her wilds, her waters, the intense Reply of hers to our intelligence ! Live not the stars and mountains ? Are the waves Without a spirit? Are the dropping caves Without a feeling in their silent tears? No, no : — they woo and clasp us to their spheres, Dissolve this clog and clod of clay before Its hour, and merge our soul in the great shore.
Page 226 - If thou ask to what height man has carried it in this manner, look on our divinest Symbol : on Jesus of Nazareth, and his Life, and his Biography, and what followed therefrom. Higher has the human Thought not yet reached : this is Christianity and Christendom ; a Symbol of quite perennial, infinite character ; whose significance will ever demand to be anew inquired into, and anew made manifest.
Page 117 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Page 111 - Essens reject pleasures as an evil, but esteem continence, and the conquest over our passions, to be virtue. They neglect wedlock, but choose out other persons...
Page 274 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 270 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him, half dead.
Page 272 - ... and came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine ; and he set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, I, when I come back again, will repay thee.
Page 106 - They contemn 5* the miseries of life, and are above pain, by the generosity of their mind. And as for death, if it will be for their glory, they esteem it better than living always ; and indeed our war with the Romans gave abundant evidence what great souls they had in their trials, wherein, although they were tortured and distorted, burnt and torn to pieces, and went through all kinds of instruments of torment, that they might be forced...