The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 73
to many who wear them. Others only
Charity. So far, that is right and good,
think of
but that
is not Freemasonry ; nor will ever Freemasonry
be advanced further in the evolution or the
coalescing of the Brotherhood into one great
fraternal and universal whole by it.
The men of the various Governments all the
world over think nothing of the true benefit of
the human race ; with them it is party politics, a
repetition of self, position, and aggrandisement,
to be obtained at any cost. Possibly, if they
have ever studied the rise and fall of nations,
they may be conceited enough to try and abase
their thoughts and obliterate their better-thinking
powers, and so, deceiving themselves, make them-
selves believe that they cannot, or will not, fall
into the same evils which have followed every
nation that has entered on a similar course. Vain,
ignorant, and foolish thoughts and actions, opposed
to the divine laws of nature, can only have one
result and termination.
In the past history of the world there are two
causes only, or primary factors, which paved the
way for the downfall and destruction of every
empire.
The first is the dissension of the Priests amongst
themselves, and, as a result which must naturally
follow such dissensions, the introduction of
Socialism. No people have ever risen to be a