Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

CLOSING CEREMONIES
KNIGHT OF THE ROYAL AXE OR PUNcE or LIDANU&.
Chief Prince—(Knocks one.) Brother Senior Grand
Warden, what is the hour?
Senior Warden—Thrice Puissant, the sun has set.
Chief Prince—It is time then to call the workmen
from their labors that they may rest; announ~ to the
Princes that this College is about to be closed.
Senior Warden—Brother Junior Grand Warden, the
Thrice Puissant is about to close this College of Princes
of Libanus. You will communicate the same to the
brethren.
Junior Warden—Br~thren, the Thrice Puissant is
about to close this~ College of Princes of Libanus.
Chief Prince—Brother Junior Grand Warden, you
will call the workmen from their labors by the usual
alarm.
Junior Warden—(Sounds the bell twice.)
Senior lVarden—GSounds the bell t~viee.)
Chief Prince— (Sounds the bell twice.) Together
brethren.
AII—(Give the sign and answer.)
Chief Prince—The cedars of Mount Lebanon are
felled and this College is closed.
HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
TWENTIETH, TWENTY-FIRST AND TWENTY-SECOND
DEGREES.
Freemasonry a Uni~craai Religion—Satan the Masonic God
Puerilities of the Mass, the Pagoda and Lodge—Hum Drum
Platitudes on Labor
THE TwENi’IETii l)EUREE; GRAND MASTER OF ALL
SYMBOLIC LODGES; OR ASSOCIATE MASTER
AD \‘IYAM
Is another of the Philosophical (legrees.
“Philosophy and Ma~onry being one and ‘lie same
principle, have the same object and ilii--ion to attain-the
worship of the Great Archite t of the Univer~e, and
the disenthrallment of mankind.” Mackey. (See Note
2l9.’~
Dr. Mackey has no superior, if equal, in the tbousands
of Ma~~onic writers, And no one can read bin’
without believing him sincere, in Ins article “Pucrility
of Freemasonry” (Encyc. p. 618,) lie e~inees candor,
strength and learning, lie sass :—“ls it possible that
scholars of un(luestioned ~trcngth of intellect and depth
of science, who have de~ Ote(l thicinsel’ es to the study of
Masonry and given the result of their learning in
thousands of volunws, ha~e been altogether iiii~t~iken
(Encyc. p. 618.)
Let every reader who wishes to know aceuratelv ~
Masonry is memorize and ponder Dr. .lbo keys wor(ls
above given. Its object and mi--ion are “‘the a
of the Grcat Architei t of the U,iirersc.” Maaoiiiv i~,
and claims to be recci’ed as a Uniuer~o1 J?iligwrt, iiiiil in
this all Masonic writers ~~ortli quoting. agree. .\nd
Mackey, and the rest, scout “Oliver’s theory” that
“Christ is that Great Architect.” as “the Uarf6W(.St
Sectarian. new,” (Encyc. p. 5-fl’.)
The proofs afforded by thk degree that it belongs to
the Satanic and not to the Chri~tian religion are:
tat. It is throughout, like a Shaker”. dance. ~.lormOn
Enclo~sment or Pophh Ma~-; a ‘mple human invention
or contrivance.
2nd. The long catalogue of rumal u toe’ are simple
sham pretences. Bcncduct A,’nold and Aaron Burr were