An Introduction to Freemasonry, by a Brother (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ...others again that it might be a vast mermaid, and some thought it might be a thunderbolt--all however concluded it somewhat the storm had brought; but conceive, if possible, what was their amazement and surprise, when (to solve their wonder) they saw something in the form of man, too contemptible for pity and too mean for ridicule: But the danger once past, this creature played the part of his proselyte: --When the 1)--I was sick, the D--1 a monk would be: When the D--1 was well, the D--1 a monk was Be.. To my young readers, untainted and even unacquainted with these doctrines, so revolting against the common sense of mankind, they may appear visionary, or as a fable. Heavens they will cry, in those enlightened days, some centuries elapsed, since the dark ages. of barbarism and ignorance, to hear such doctrine broached Can it be possible .."z -ir, A Frenzy indeed may complain of groping its way in a meridian sun; but never till the axe lifteth itself against; the hewer, or. the clay condemns the potter for forming it, shall we cease to wonder that man thus debases his dignity;--that he thus dares--Alas what does he not dare --Even heaven itself disowns and spurns his coodness-.defies his thunderbolts--But language fails. A general clue through all this mystery, seems to be a plan no less than that of striking at the root of all moral principle: the lights of nature and revelation are too dazzling for these grovelling sons of darkness; and it is therefore their grand drift to extinguish them at all events, as far as in their power. The prowling thief of the night, that breaks the lamp to hide his foul deeds, and those extinguishers (if I may so call them) act exactly on the same principle: --they condemn the bible that denounces against their ev...