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The Influence Of Freemasonry On Society

raj sense , as if the institutors had been really workers in stone and in imarble . They were not only able architects , but many princes , both warlike and religious , dedicated their talents and fortunes , under this banner , to the Most High . And this leads me naturally to present an abridged histpry pf the oriin and of the Order of Freemasonry .

g progress In the times of the holy wars in Palestine , a great number of princes , noblemen , and citizens , entered into a scheme to establish christian temples in the Holy Land , and engaged themselves , by oath , to employ their talents and fortunes to give them all the primitive ad ^ vantages of architecture . They agreed among themselves to use certain signs and sy mbolical words , to distinguish themselves . These those who

mysteries were never communicated but to solemnly promised , at the foot of the altar , never to reveal them . But this sacred promise , so far from being the impious and unmeaning oath which gome people imagine , was that respectable guarantee , in order to unite men of all nations in the same confraternity . Freemasonry , therefore , - ought not to be looked upon as a revival of Bacchanalian dissipation , ' or scandalous intemperance , but as a moral order , instituted by pur virtuous ancestors in the Holy Land , with a view to recall the remembrance of the most sublime truths , in the midst of the most ,

innocent , social pleasures . ' The kings , princes , and noblemen , on ' their return from the Tlol y Land , established a number of Lodges ; and in the time or the last Crusade , we , find several of these were erected in Germany , Italy , France , and Spain . -James I . of Scotland was Grand Master of a lodge established , at Kilwinning ' a little while after the death of Robert III . king of

, very Scotland . This Scotchman received , as Freemasons in his lodge , Ihe-Earls of Gloucester and Ulster . After the deplorable demolition of the Crusades , the discomfiture of the Christian armies , and the triumph of Bendoedar , sultan of Egypt , Henrv . III . king of England , seeing that there was no long- r anyse curity for the Masons in the Holy Lmd , led them from Palestine , and

established his colony of brothers in England . As Prince Edward was . endowed with all those qualities of the heart and understanding , which form the hero , he publicly declared himself Protector of the Order , . and gave it the name of the Freemason Society . From England the institution passed into France , and it is at ' this time flourishing in all . ' thecivilized states of Europe . Its universality is an instance of its value of this short

and worthy tendency ; and if by means Essay any one acquires a clearer idea of its orig in or intent than he had before , the bain ' s and the purpose of writing it will be amply answered . T .

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LONDON: Article 3
PREFACE TO VOLUME THE NINTH. Article 5
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 7
TEMPERATE REFLECTIONS SUITED TO THE PRESENT TIME. Article 8
AN APOLOGY FOR THE CHARACTER AND CONDUCT OF SHYLOCK. Article 10
MEMOIRS OF CHARLES MACKLIN, Article 15
ACCOUNT OF CADIZ. Article 18
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. Article 22
MEMOIR OF WILLIAM MASON, A.M. Article 23
VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. Article 25
HISTORY OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES FOR 1797. Article 26
ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE GYPSIES. Article 29
ORIGIN OF DRINKING HEALTHS. Article 29
CEREMONIAL OF THE EXECUTION OFRICHARD PARKER, FOR MUTINY. Article 30
A BRIEF SYSTEM OF CONCHOLOGY. Article 34
ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS OF LORD CHESTERFIELD. Article 38
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FISHERIES OF THE RIVER BAN, IN IRELAND. Article 41
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 42
THE INFLUENCE OF FREEMASONRY ON SOCIETY Article 44
NOTICE OF A MASONIC DESIDERATUM. Article 47
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 48
NOTICE. Article 49
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 50
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 56
POETRY. Article 58
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 62
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 63
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 68
DOMESTIC NEWS. Article 71
OBITUARY. Article 78
LIST OF BANKRUPTS. Article 81
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The Influence Of Freemasonry On Society

raj sense , as if the institutors had been really workers in stone and in imarble . They were not only able architects , but many princes , both warlike and religious , dedicated their talents and fortunes , under this banner , to the Most High . And this leads me naturally to present an abridged histpry pf the oriin and of the Order of Freemasonry .

g progress In the times of the holy wars in Palestine , a great number of princes , noblemen , and citizens , entered into a scheme to establish christian temples in the Holy Land , and engaged themselves , by oath , to employ their talents and fortunes to give them all the primitive ad ^ vantages of architecture . They agreed among themselves to use certain signs and sy mbolical words , to distinguish themselves . These those who

mysteries were never communicated but to solemnly promised , at the foot of the altar , never to reveal them . But this sacred promise , so far from being the impious and unmeaning oath which gome people imagine , was that respectable guarantee , in order to unite men of all nations in the same confraternity . Freemasonry , therefore , - ought not to be looked upon as a revival of Bacchanalian dissipation , ' or scandalous intemperance , but as a moral order , instituted by pur virtuous ancestors in the Holy Land , with a view to recall the remembrance of the most sublime truths , in the midst of the most ,

innocent , social pleasures . ' The kings , princes , and noblemen , on ' their return from the Tlol y Land , established a number of Lodges ; and in the time or the last Crusade , we , find several of these were erected in Germany , Italy , France , and Spain . -James I . of Scotland was Grand Master of a lodge established , at Kilwinning ' a little while after the death of Robert III . king of

, very Scotland . This Scotchman received , as Freemasons in his lodge , Ihe-Earls of Gloucester and Ulster . After the deplorable demolition of the Crusades , the discomfiture of the Christian armies , and the triumph of Bendoedar , sultan of Egypt , Henrv . III . king of England , seeing that there was no long- r anyse curity for the Masons in the Holy Lmd , led them from Palestine , and

established his colony of brothers in England . As Prince Edward was . endowed with all those qualities of the heart and understanding , which form the hero , he publicly declared himself Protector of the Order , . and gave it the name of the Freemason Society . From England the institution passed into France , and it is at ' this time flourishing in all . ' thecivilized states of Europe . Its universality is an instance of its value of this short

and worthy tendency ; and if by means Essay any one acquires a clearer idea of its orig in or intent than he had before , the bain ' s and the purpose of writing it will be amply answered . T .

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