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Masonic Precepts, Translated From The German, For The Freemasons' Magazine.
uleep into thy heart , open to the impressions of virtue ; shouldst thou make those excellent principles thy own , which distinguish each step of thy Masonic career , and render them the plumb-line of all thy actions—O BROTHER ! how great would be our joy ! Then wouldst thou answer thy exalted destination : thou wouldst resume that resemblance with God , which was the share of man in his state of innocencewhich is the object of Religion , and the principal end
, of Masonic initiation : thou wouldst be once more the favourite of Heaven ; the abundance of its blessings would be poured over thee , and , acquiring the title of a wise , free , happy and firm man , thou wouldst run thy terrestrial career as—The BENEFACTOR of Mankind , and the PATTERN of thy Brethren .
Extract From The Preceding Rules.
EXTRACT FROM THE PRECEDING RULES .
I . ADORE the Most Hi gh , by whose order every thing that exists had its origin , by whose unremitting operations every thing is preserved . Bend thy knees before the incarnate Word , and praise Providence , which caused thee to be born in the bosom of Christianity .
Confess this divine reli gion every where , and let none of its duties go unfulfilled . Let everyone of thy actions be distinguished by enlightened piety , without bigotry and fanaticism .
II . REMEMBEJI always , that Man is the Master-piece of the Creation , because God himself animated him with his breath . Be sensible of the immortality of thy soul , and separate from this heavenly , imperishable being all that is foreign to it .
III . THY first homage thou owest to the Deity ; the second to the authority of civil society . Honour the fathers of the state ; love thy country ; be religiously scrupulous in the fulfilling of all the duties of a good citizen : consider that they are become sacred by the voluntary Masonic vow ,
aud that the violation of them , which in a profane man would be weakness , in thee would be hypocrisy and criminality . IV . LOVE affectionately all those who , as offsprings of the same progenitor , have like thee the same form , the same wants , and an imnioital soul . The mother country of a Mason is the world ; all that concerns mankind is contained within the circle of his compass .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Precepts, Translated From The German, For The Freemasons' Magazine.
uleep into thy heart , open to the impressions of virtue ; shouldst thou make those excellent principles thy own , which distinguish each step of thy Masonic career , and render them the plumb-line of all thy actions—O BROTHER ! how great would be our joy ! Then wouldst thou answer thy exalted destination : thou wouldst resume that resemblance with God , which was the share of man in his state of innocencewhich is the object of Religion , and the principal end
, of Masonic initiation : thou wouldst be once more the favourite of Heaven ; the abundance of its blessings would be poured over thee , and , acquiring the title of a wise , free , happy and firm man , thou wouldst run thy terrestrial career as—The BENEFACTOR of Mankind , and the PATTERN of thy Brethren .
Extract From The Preceding Rules.
EXTRACT FROM THE PRECEDING RULES .
I . ADORE the Most Hi gh , by whose order every thing that exists had its origin , by whose unremitting operations every thing is preserved . Bend thy knees before the incarnate Word , and praise Providence , which caused thee to be born in the bosom of Christianity .
Confess this divine reli gion every where , and let none of its duties go unfulfilled . Let everyone of thy actions be distinguished by enlightened piety , without bigotry and fanaticism .
II . REMEMBEJI always , that Man is the Master-piece of the Creation , because God himself animated him with his breath . Be sensible of the immortality of thy soul , and separate from this heavenly , imperishable being all that is foreign to it .
III . THY first homage thou owest to the Deity ; the second to the authority of civil society . Honour the fathers of the state ; love thy country ; be religiously scrupulous in the fulfilling of all the duties of a good citizen : consider that they are become sacred by the voluntary Masonic vow ,
aud that the violation of them , which in a profane man would be weakness , in thee would be hypocrisy and criminality . IV . LOVE affectionately all those who , as offsprings of the same progenitor , have like thee the same form , the same wants , and an imnioital soul . The mother country of a Mason is the world ; all that concerns mankind is contained within the circle of his compass .