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On Freemasonry.
by the remains of gigantic pyramids in Mexico and elsewheie ; that some of our ancient Brethren , the descendants of Magog , on their departure from Shinar , led their colonies in a noith-easterl y d . recnon , and progressing slowly through the snowy regions of Siberia , in process of time souo-hr ^
more genial climate on another continent ; carrying with them a competent knowled ge of Operative Masonry ; ° and a system of rel . g . ous mysteries or Spurious Freemasonry ; of which sufficient vestiges of ancient customs remained amongst the native population , when Las Casas visited , and Purcfas wrote of these benighted regions , to sanction the hypothesis . Here these two dvisions
. of Freemasonry flourished , alike unknown to fame , and unrecorded by the historians who Have transmitted to posterity those invaluable data on which we round our knowled ge of causes and effects in the nomadic history of the eastern hemisphere . And while % ve feel as sured that Freemasonry , in one or other of its forms , was making slow though certain
a progress to perfection amongst the people whose habits and propensities have been tlfus familiarized to our ideas ; we enjoy the further satisfaction of knowing , that , m a quarter of the globe whose existence was not even suspected by this busy and active population , the inhabitan ts were pursuing the same courses , and practising the same descri ption of reli gion and science , under the sanction of a similar disci pline , which operated to produce a series of uniform results .
tWf * Vhl \ o ? P } c * yQ of the deliberative Freemason , these facts , and the deductions to which they insensibly lead cannot fail to possess the charm of an intense arid pervadino-^ e will P ? V hem throu §' h their v ™ and instructive details ; and , discovering their value and usefulness , will reap from their stud that mental confidence which
y springs from an implicit faith in the Great Disposer of events ; assured that under the direction of His ' superintending I rovidence , human reason and human science have Sn 7 Jn ? 1 ! T [ l u P lomotill S U «* e beneficent de-Selte of m n eVemUUll y ? nd W » *» ^ ° ° * ° *
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
by the remains of gigantic pyramids in Mexico and elsewheie ; that some of our ancient Brethren , the descendants of Magog , on their departure from Shinar , led their colonies in a noith-easterl y d . recnon , and progressing slowly through the snowy regions of Siberia , in process of time souo-hr ^
more genial climate on another continent ; carrying with them a competent knowled ge of Operative Masonry ; ° and a system of rel . g . ous mysteries or Spurious Freemasonry ; of which sufficient vestiges of ancient customs remained amongst the native population , when Las Casas visited , and Purcfas wrote of these benighted regions , to sanction the hypothesis . Here these two dvisions
. of Freemasonry flourished , alike unknown to fame , and unrecorded by the historians who Have transmitted to posterity those invaluable data on which we round our knowled ge of causes and effects in the nomadic history of the eastern hemisphere . And while % ve feel as sured that Freemasonry , in one or other of its forms , was making slow though certain
a progress to perfection amongst the people whose habits and propensities have been tlfus familiarized to our ideas ; we enjoy the further satisfaction of knowing , that , m a quarter of the globe whose existence was not even suspected by this busy and active population , the inhabitan ts were pursuing the same courses , and practising the same descri ption of reli gion and science , under the sanction of a similar disci pline , which operated to produce a series of uniform results .
tWf * Vhl \ o ? P } c * yQ of the deliberative Freemason , these facts , and the deductions to which they insensibly lead cannot fail to possess the charm of an intense arid pervadino-^ e will P ? V hem throu §' h their v ™ and instructive details ; and , discovering their value and usefulness , will reap from their stud that mental confidence which
y springs from an implicit faith in the Great Disposer of events ; assured that under the direction of His ' superintending I rovidence , human reason and human science have Sn 7 Jn ? 1 ! T [ l u P lomotill S U «* e beneficent de-Selte of m n eVemUUll y ? nd W » *» ^ ° ° * ° *