The New Free-Mason's Monitor; Or, Masonic Guide. for the Direction of Members of That Ancient and Honourable Fraternity, as Well as for the Information of Those, Who May Be Desirous of Becoming Acquainted with Its Principles (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XF. Masonic Precepts. '- (Extracted from the German.) Adore the Most High, by whose orderefeiy thing which exists had its origin, and by whose unremitting operations, every thing is preserved. Be thankful that thou wert born in a country, which is blessed with the glorious light of the gospel. Confess this divine religion every where, and let none of its duties be neglected. Let all thy actions be distinguished by enlightened piety without bigotry or fanaticism; J. 1 Always remember that man is the master piece of the creation; because God created him after his own image, and animated him with his breath. Genesis i. 27, and ii. 7. III. Thou owest thy first homage to the Deity, and the second to the authority of civil society. These precepts appeared at length in the Free-Mason's Magazine for November and December, 1794. The whole would be too tedious in a work of this kind. It i believed, however, that the following abridgement will be satisfactory to masonic readers, and may prore useful to them as well as others. Honour the fathers of the state; love thy country; be religiously scrupulous in fulfilling all the duties of a good citizen; consider that they are become peculiarly sacred by thy voluntary masonic vow; and that the violation of them, which, in one, not under such obligations, would be weakness, would in thee be hypocrisy and criminality. IV. Love affectionately all those who, as offsprings of the same progenitor, have like thee r the same form, the same wants, and an immortal soul. The mother country of a mason is the world; all that concerns mankind is contained within the circle of his compass Honour the order of Free-masons, and come to our lodges to do homage to the sacred rights of humanity. God suffers men to...