Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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84 ' FREE MASONRY A PIOUS FRAUD.
justice."* And what is Free Masonry, that teaches men
to promote the good of mankind in ways contrary to
veracity ?
I will not fear to show her catches* to expose her treacherous
memory, to point out her discrepancies, to
set her prevarications in the light, to burden her with her
own tales, and to overwhelm her with the multitude of
her own splendid decorations and ludicrous pretensions*
What is she, that she should be feared ? Her followers
are men, and she herself is less; them I will love, but not
Free Masonry. Masonry is to the truth, what Mahomet is
to the Messiah; and though it may be dangerous to say it
in a mosque, and surrounded by turbaned Turks, it is nevertheless
true, that the Arabian prophet was an impostor.
Observe him a moment
" His system was accommodated to the condition of a
mingled population, composed of Pagans, Jews, and nominal
Christians. By complimenting Abraham and Moses,
he beguiled the Jew; by conceding to the Saviour the rank
of a prophet, he seduced the degenerate Christian," and by
a sensual paradise, he secured the Pagan.
" So the first love" of a Mason is here, " the handmaid
and assistant" of the Christian religion, the infallible witness
of the fall of man, the deluge, the resurrection and
the Trinity; in Asia she gives her heart and her hand alike
to Mahomet, and to Fo, and to Vishnu; she courts the
Mandarin, the Cadi, and the Brahmin, with the same flattery
of the Koran and the Shaster, which she lavishes upon
the Bible in Christendom: she claims Moses and the Israelites,
the Evangelist John and Christians, Zoroaster and
the worshippers of fire, Plato and the worshippers of the
Saturnian dynasty, Zopholet and the worshippers of cats,
calves, and crocodiles, the Druids of Britain and Gaul,
the Turks and the Savages; and. promises them e*ch and
* Bishop Butler.