Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

308 “NOTHING BUT VENGEANCE IS SPOKEN OF.”
285.) And it is. For it is simple, absolute devilworship.
(See 1. Cor. 10, 20.)
6. This degree quotes Christ’s law of equal “love to
our neighbor,” and yet tells the candidate, after he is
received: “They slightest indiscretion will cost you
your life ;“ that is, they will kill him, if he lets out
their secrets; tells the truth, by error, “indiscretion,” or
mistake. If this is not Masonic scoundrelism, what is
scoundrelism? (See this on page 275.)
7. Yet the candidate is told: “In almost all the
rituals of this degree, (and there were seven Kadosll
rituals, see note 348.) nothing but vengeance is spoken
of.” But this degree is nothing but philosophy, and
philosophy discou ntena.nces vengeance. (Page 276.)
Now return to page 260, of this degree, and sce the
candidate and his Master, stabbing the dead enemies of
the lodge! Is not this the meanest kind of vengeance,
such as was practiced on Cromwell, by his enemies?
Why, this degree swears this same candidate, to
“punish crime,” “which I promise to do under penalty
of death.” And this, forsooth, is no vengeance, but
“philosophy.” Is it wonderful, that the Bible throughout,
calls these false worships, “whoredom ?“ There
never was a drab, at East Cheap, in the days of Falstaff,
or in the Five Points, New York, before Jerry McCauley,
who could hold up her brazen front, and lie with
such impudent coolness, as is practiced in this “Apex
of Masonic knowledge.”
8. Why, the very basis of the whole Scottish Rite,
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CHRISTIAN5 FEROCIOUSLY CONDEMNED A5 BiGOTS. 309
that is, the pretended constitutions of Frederick, 1786,
are pronounced, by one Masonic historian, “the Grand
Lie of the order ;“ which is endorsed by Folger, and as
good as endorsed by Mackey himself; (See note 353.)
who says: “the question is not yet settled, whether
there were any such constitutions signed by Frederick,
or whether Morin forged them,
9. The Grand Pontiff (page 263.) tells the candidate
that Scotch Masonry *** admits to her bosom, on
terms of the strictest equality, the members of all
religions, of all creeds, and of all countries, without
any distinction whatever. This is bad enough. To put
beast-worship, child-murder, at the Ganges, and religious
cannibalism, on a level, is to deny and exclude the
religion which condemns false worships. The prophet
Daniel would have been excluded, as a “sectarian
bigot,,” for violating the broad charity of image-worship.
But even this pretence is false. This degree
was made and practiced in France, and now in the
United States. None of the Asiatic, and other heathenisms,
so praised by this degree, on page 298, prevailed
in France, or now exist here. Hence the bigots so
lerociously condemned are Christians; those who corrupt
and enslave the minds of their little children by
teaching them the Lord’s prayer, and “Now I lay me
down to sleep.” This degree, framed in 1748, was in
its full glory when the street cry in Paris was: ‘Tout
L’Eveque a la lanterne!” (Every bishop to the lamp-