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Mmonic Impostijees
They then become the prey of the charlatans outside the Order . Those who are hopeless of admission , readily unite themselves to societies professing to offer them a substitute for Masonry ; within the Order they greedily swallow mystic treatises , founded on scholastic premises they cannot understand , and leading to conclusions
him ; or that he lacks the power to work the enchantments the spells for which are uttered before him , a son of flesh in a world of spirits . The Oabhala gave this it is thought to the rabbinical Jew ; the Eleusinian mysteries to the . . © reek-philosopher ; , initiation to the Illuminate or the Jesuifc- ^ -the power and the honours of whom are coveted , without the labour by which they have been wrought . To work through various degrees significant in high moral , philosophical , and historical significance , is a
long labour , which , for their due comprehension and true possession , exacts years of study—not the got-up knowledge of a lecture , but that fulness of information which is the result of steady and continued industry . This is a heavy price to pay for advtocernent- ~ j ar beyond the fees aiad subscriptions , but which fees and subscriptions are new thai Mvaricement can be obtained by subscriptions , and its possession be recognizable by diplomas or insignia , The right road to be travelled is a long on ^ , the temptation to leap sudd
a sore one , and many is the m bis way to find the material expressions of a sublime secret , which still remains so to him—and which , could his Brethren give , he cannot receive . Still such is the frame of mind of too many Masons and too many non-Masons ; in such a frame of mind many men enter the Order , and the discipline of the Craft works little efficacy in them .
they can trace wandering afar , but cannot follow . Then comes Cagliostro or JSTicholai , the mesmerist , the ghost seer , or the table turner ; and if he do but hold up what he avers to be the key to the sanctum of the Temple , he has dupes to pay him for their delusion and to give him homage in their thankfulness . Of such impostors there have been too many . Cagliostro is a byword for such ; but the tribe are not too" well known , and a few words regarding some of them may be of interest and of use , for men of such stamp are ever starting up to tempt the unwary to bitter disappointment . Germany , of course , has supplied many of these false lights , and , indeed there the perversions of Masonry have been nursed , as the perversions of the whole circle of the sciences . There is something
in the G-erman mind which makes the man the willing and ready dupe of delusion ; there is a craving after what is unsubstantial , an immense industry of ill-directed labour , a constitutional tendency to perverted conclusions , which affect tho German everywhere . Politicians find him the most unpractical of men , whether as governor or subject ; and a very slight acquaintance discovers that great pretensions are only empty parade . To Germany we owo craniology , phrenology , mesmerism , hydropathy , homoeopathy , the grape cure , and many like systems ; the metaphysics of fomt , Hegel , and
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Mmonic Impostijees
They then become the prey of the charlatans outside the Order . Those who are hopeless of admission , readily unite themselves to societies professing to offer them a substitute for Masonry ; within the Order they greedily swallow mystic treatises , founded on scholastic premises they cannot understand , and leading to conclusions
him ; or that he lacks the power to work the enchantments the spells for which are uttered before him , a son of flesh in a world of spirits . The Oabhala gave this it is thought to the rabbinical Jew ; the Eleusinian mysteries to the . . © reek-philosopher ; , initiation to the Illuminate or the Jesuifc- ^ -the power and the honours of whom are coveted , without the labour by which they have been wrought . To work through various degrees significant in high moral , philosophical , and historical significance , is a
long labour , which , for their due comprehension and true possession , exacts years of study—not the got-up knowledge of a lecture , but that fulness of information which is the result of steady and continued industry . This is a heavy price to pay for advtocernent- ~ j ar beyond the fees aiad subscriptions , but which fees and subscriptions are new thai Mvaricement can be obtained by subscriptions , and its possession be recognizable by diplomas or insignia , The right road to be travelled is a long on ^ , the temptation to leap sudd
a sore one , and many is the m bis way to find the material expressions of a sublime secret , which still remains so to him—and which , could his Brethren give , he cannot receive . Still such is the frame of mind of too many Masons and too many non-Masons ; in such a frame of mind many men enter the Order , and the discipline of the Craft works little efficacy in them .
they can trace wandering afar , but cannot follow . Then comes Cagliostro or JSTicholai , the mesmerist , the ghost seer , or the table turner ; and if he do but hold up what he avers to be the key to the sanctum of the Temple , he has dupes to pay him for their delusion and to give him homage in their thankfulness . Of such impostors there have been too many . Cagliostro is a byword for such ; but the tribe are not too" well known , and a few words regarding some of them may be of interest and of use , for men of such stamp are ever starting up to tempt the unwary to bitter disappointment . Germany , of course , has supplied many of these false lights , and , indeed there the perversions of Masonry have been nursed , as the perversions of the whole circle of the sciences . There is something
in the G-erman mind which makes the man the willing and ready dupe of delusion ; there is a craving after what is unsubstantial , an immense industry of ill-directed labour , a constitutional tendency to perverted conclusions , which affect tho German everywhere . Politicians find him the most unpractical of men , whether as governor or subject ; and a very slight acquaintance discovers that great pretensions are only empty parade . To Germany we owo craniology , phrenology , mesmerism , hydropathy , homoeopathy , the grape cure , and many like systems ; the metaphysics of fomt , Hegel , and