Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

484 SOUTHERN LODGES WORKED UP THE REBELLION.
bodies in New York and Boston was raging, the slave.
holders sprung this 33rd degree upon them. Its motto:
“Deus ci Meumque Jus,” was Albert Pike’s, on hia
sign at Washington, D. C., on hia Southern Jurisdiction
building, near the Avenue; and as Note £93 atiys: “It
claims jurisdiction over all the ineffable and sublime
degrees.” And though made within the memory of
men now living, we read, in the same Note by Macoy:
“It is not certainly known, when or there this degree
originated ;“ that is to say, ita origin is concealed.
This is the most infamous Masonic act, next to burning
their records of fifty-nine years before the war, to hide
treason. But slavery then ruled the country, and this
33rd Charleston degree ruled the lodge. And the Southern
lodge-rooms worked up the most unjustifiable and
infamous war on record. The Southern people were
dragooned into it, by leaders secretly sworn to obey
Masonic leaders, or have their throats cut.
But that red sea of blood is crossed. And if the
Amcriean ministry and churches can be rescued from
the lodge-worships of Satan, the god of war; we shall
take a long stride towards the~ Milleninm of “Peace on
earth, and good wiII~ to men.”
CONCLUSION.
AMERICANS! We have spoken in faithfulness. Let
us part in peace. No candid person can look, though
slightly, over these pages, and not see:
1. That the notes, all taken from the highest Masonic
authorities, prove the truth of the ritual.
2. That “the Ancient, Accepted Scottish Rite” ~sa
tissue of fearful falsehood; that it is French, not Scotch:
modern, not ancient; that it insults Christ. as Byron
CONCLUSION. 485
did his wife, by seating a harlot by her side; that its
[uglier degrees were invented by Jesuits and Jews;
thi.it. its oaths arc sinking our Court-houses into popular
coilteinhit and that by holdlV avowing
respect for, and
citing with equal reverence, the gods of idolatry, and
the (lod of the Bible, it denies all that Christ and His
apo’tles taught coneerning heathenisiii : and pours a
~.h’~nlystream of vilhifleation on Christianity, and on
Chiri~.t, its author as “bigoted,” and “sectarian,” because
they teach that men must “be born again,” or
they cannot see the kingilom of heaven; that, while it
lauds liberty, it establishes absolute subjugation of man
to man; treading on crowns and tiaras, of kings and
priests, it seats its rulers on “thrones,” elothes them
with “royal purple,” and puts candidates on their knees
before them; and makes swarms of priests, who arc
ootinterfeit, contemners, and rivals of Christ. And
by teaching salvation hy its priests; and superseding,
and setting aside the l,uws of God, and the laws of the
land, in favor of its own, it shields all vice : destroys all
virtue; and by honoring the gods of heathienisni, and
estnhli’liiug their secret worsliip~. they are putting in
operation enu~es in the Pu ted ~tatee. and in Europe,
which have ruined the 01(1 uatioiis of .\sia,
—and their do. :.v
Has dried up rc.,in.s to deserts.
But we know that ,lesuis Christ will ~ct reign on this
earth ; and that to 11 im c~ er~’ knee sli~ll bow, and every
tongue confess to the glory of God, the Father. AMEN.