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Masonic Didactics ; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
AVar has been emphatically and truly styled the scourge of the human race History acquaints us that all nations , more or less , have been addicted to this devastating passion . It is an animal propensity , which will not suffer one cur to pass his fellow on the road , without snarling at "" ' tTman and So it is with nation and nation They
soS wi man . delight in war and quarrels , because it g ives vent to their secret malice iUid hidden envy ; whilst every age attests the cruelty and calamity which are its constant effects . „ , , . Men are " prone to evil as the sparks fly upward . I hey feed then malignant passions by hostile encounters : and thus nation rises against nation , and even brother against brother , for the purpose of gratifying a
wicked lust of revenge , or popular aggranuisemuH . , " The history of mankind , " says a noted author , is little more than a history of battles and sieges . In sacred history we read of the violence which filled the earth before the flood , and which was the great cause of that universal inundation : and in profane history , the first great tact which can be depended on , is the siege of Troy . AVar may be compared to gambling , which , after one successful throw , is lostIn similar manner is a prince
tempts us to risk another till all . a led to stake his crown , his sceptre , and the liberty of his people , upon ^ Ste ^ mpoSble , while war prevails , that society can flourish And it therefore imperatively behoves all " Christian kings , princes , and governors , " to teach their subjects this rule : — " Ingcnuas didicissc fldeliter artes , Emsillit mores nee sinit esse lcros . The social arts reward the student's toil—His morals make—his ruder nature toil . —Author .
Knights Templars.
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS QUARTERLY REVIEW . Dear Sir and Brother ,-I met , some weeks ago , in " Llorente ' s History of the Inquisition in Spain , " chap , xli with the following remarks on the Order of Knig hts Templars , at the end of a passage 1 elating the persecution of Masons by the Inquisition , and containing some observations on that fraternity— i , ur ,-, n , ntafi- ( if Mark Larmeniowho secretl succeeded the Giand Alastu ot
"John , y the Tenp ia s , the unfortunate James de Molai , who-requested him ^ to accept ! e dignity , invented , in concert with some Knights who had a ] d the P roscription , difil ™ to recognise and receive Knig hts into the Order sec et y and ^ by nun s ofa novitiate , during which they were to be kept in igno nee of UIL which to the 0 to le ^ tst bl £ i
object of the Association , was preserve « fr , it n its former glory , and to revenge the deaths ot the Gia 1 Mastu and the Knights ° who perished with hun ; and when the quahties of tlie new member were perfectly well known , the grand secret was to be con filled to him , after a most formidable oath . odmitthi " "The secret signs were intended as a precaution aganibt ailmittin into tie Order those Templars who had formed a schism during the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Didactics ; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
AVar has been emphatically and truly styled the scourge of the human race History acquaints us that all nations , more or less , have been addicted to this devastating passion . It is an animal propensity , which will not suffer one cur to pass his fellow on the road , without snarling at "" ' tTman and So it is with nation and nation They
soS wi man . delight in war and quarrels , because it g ives vent to their secret malice iUid hidden envy ; whilst every age attests the cruelty and calamity which are its constant effects . „ , , . Men are " prone to evil as the sparks fly upward . I hey feed then malignant passions by hostile encounters : and thus nation rises against nation , and even brother against brother , for the purpose of gratifying a
wicked lust of revenge , or popular aggranuisemuH . , " The history of mankind , " says a noted author , is little more than a history of battles and sieges . In sacred history we read of the violence which filled the earth before the flood , and which was the great cause of that universal inundation : and in profane history , the first great tact which can be depended on , is the siege of Troy . AVar may be compared to gambling , which , after one successful throw , is lostIn similar manner is a prince
tempts us to risk another till all . a led to stake his crown , his sceptre , and the liberty of his people , upon ^ Ste ^ mpoSble , while war prevails , that society can flourish And it therefore imperatively behoves all " Christian kings , princes , and governors , " to teach their subjects this rule : — " Ingcnuas didicissc fldeliter artes , Emsillit mores nee sinit esse lcros . The social arts reward the student's toil—His morals make—his ruder nature toil . —Author .
Knights Templars.
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS QUARTERLY REVIEW . Dear Sir and Brother ,-I met , some weeks ago , in " Llorente ' s History of the Inquisition in Spain , " chap , xli with the following remarks on the Order of Knig hts Templars , at the end of a passage 1 elating the persecution of Masons by the Inquisition , and containing some observations on that fraternity— i , ur ,-, n , ntafi- ( if Mark Larmeniowho secretl succeeded the Giand Alastu ot
"John , y the Tenp ia s , the unfortunate James de Molai , who-requested him ^ to accept ! e dignity , invented , in concert with some Knights who had a ] d the P roscription , difil ™ to recognise and receive Knig hts into the Order sec et y and ^ by nun s ofa novitiate , during which they were to be kept in igno nee of UIL which to the 0 to le ^ tst bl £ i
object of the Association , was preserve « fr , it n its former glory , and to revenge the deaths ot the Gia 1 Mastu and the Knights ° who perished with hun ; and when the quahties of tlie new member were perfectly well known , the grand secret was to be con filled to him , after a most formidable oath . odmitthi " "The secret signs were intended as a precaution aganibt ailmittin into tie Order those Templars who had formed a schism during the