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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... whole Egyptian mind ; gave to it a distinct character , in- dividuality , and complexion ; and thus the Secret Institution came to be a fountain of civilization , a school of virtue , politics , philosophy , and religion . After the ...
... whole Egyptian mind ; gave to it a distinct character , in- dividuality , and complexion ; and thus the Secret Institution came to be a fountain of civilization , a school of virtue , politics , philosophy , and religion . After the ...
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... whole sex . At all events , he ever after was invulnerable to all the charms and attractions of female beauty . Prompted , uncon- sciously perhaps , by this feeling , he introduced the rule of celibacy into his Brotherhood , which so ex ...
... whole sex . At all events , he ever after was invulnerable to all the charms and attractions of female beauty . Prompted , uncon- sciously perhaps , by this feeling , he introduced the rule of celibacy into his Brotherhood , which so ex ...
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... and wearing crowns of gold ; while around him burned with a dazzling radiance seven huge flambeaux , whose light , reflected by a thousand burnished mir- rors , seemed to bathe the whole in floods of 38 HELLENIC FREEMASONRY .
... and wearing crowns of gold ; while around him burned with a dazzling radiance seven huge flambeaux , whose light , reflected by a thousand burnished mir- rors , seemed to bathe the whole in floods of 38 HELLENIC FREEMASONRY .
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... whole in floods of golden splendor . His office was to instruct the neophytes , after they had passed their various trials , in the secrets of divine science . The Torch - Bearer represented the sun . His duty was to lead the procession ...
... whole in floods of golden splendor . His office was to instruct the neophytes , after they had passed their various trials , in the secrets of divine science . The Torch - Bearer represented the sun . His duty was to lead the procession ...
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... whole moral history of man - his natural ignor- ance , helplessness , and blindness — the gradual dawn- ing of Truth on his mind , and the high and glorious perfection to which he may attain . CHAPTER V. The Freemasonry of Pythagoras ...
... whole moral history of man - his natural ignor- ance , helplessness , and blindness — the gradual dawn- ing of Truth on his mind , and the high and glorious perfection to which he may attain . CHAPTER V. The Freemasonry of Pythagoras ...
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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...