The Rationale and Ethics of Freemasonry: Or, The Masonic Institution Considered as a Means of Social and Individual ProgressR. Macoy, 1859 - 298 pages |
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... darkness , savagery , and barbarism filled the earth . They appeared , organized society , laid the foundations of social order , established religion and law , and founded the sacred mysteries . * This assertion is probable enough ...
... darkness , savagery , and barbarism filled the earth . They appeared , organized society , laid the foundations of social order , established religion and law , and founded the sacred mysteries . * This assertion is probable enough ...
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... darkness ! Arrived at the opening scene of initiation , he saw everything under aspects the most terrible and awful ; but soon these spectacles of terror disappeared , with the trembling and fear consequent thereon , and a miraculous ...
... darkness ! Arrived at the opening scene of initiation , he saw everything under aspects the most terrible and awful ; but soon these spectacles of terror disappeared , with the trembling and fear consequent thereon , and a miraculous ...
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... Darkness , Life with Death , and the final and certain triumph of the former , and destruction of the latter . The influence of these mysteries on Egyptian thought and life was immense . There , in those secret retreats , were laid the ...
... Darkness , Life with Death , and the final and certain triumph of the former , and destruction of the latter . The influence of these mysteries on Egyptian thought and life was immense . There , in those secret retreats , were laid the ...
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... darkness , and detached from the mythological shadows which environ it , lead us to believe him to have been a man of no ordinary character . He was a poet of most exalted genius , of ardent imagination , and profound feeling . In all ...
... darkness , and detached from the mythological shadows which environ it , lead us to believe him to have been a man of no ordinary character . He was a poet of most exalted genius , of ardent imagination , and profound feeling . In all ...
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... dark and circuit- ous passages . Sometimes it seemed to him as if he were ascending steep hills - walking over uneven and flinty surfaces , which tore his feet at every step ; and then again he felt that , he was walking down into low ...
... dark and circuit- ous passages . Sometimes it seemed to him as if he were ascending steep hills - walking over uneven and flinty surfaces , which tore his feet at every step ; and then again he felt that , he was walking down into low ...
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The Rationale and Ethics of Freemasonry: Or, the Masonic Institution ... Augustus C L Arnold No preview available - 2015 |
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