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96 DR. DALCHO'S OPINIO* OF THE MASTER'S DEGREE,
Warded. As well might we believe that the sun ItiMtoels
round the earth, instead cf the earth round the sun, as to
believe in all the incongruities^ which have been taught to
Masons in the Symbolic Degrees (the Lodges.)"
u ( Nil fait unquam
" * Tarn dwpar fttri.'—HOT."*
Dakho's Orations^ 44.
I disclaim all sympathy with Mr. Dalcho in his veneration
for Masonry. What correct information the sublime degrees
may afford to satisfy for " the gross errors and incongruities"
of Masonry within the lodges, I leave it for the
exalted to say; but that we might as well believe the sun
travels round the earth, as to believe the incongruities
taught in the blue degrees, is perfectly within the sphere of
my acquaintance, and is entitled to full credit, t
rt In Jodges I have been,
u And all their signs have seen;
* Bat what they are I now wont tell,
" They safely in my breast shall dwell."—vfliiwwm Hewn.
* The Dr.'s Horace reads, Tarn dispar; that in my hands, Sic impar.
The incongruity is not equal to mat of the bine degrees.
t It is fair to hear both sides. u The third degree afforded a rich treasure
of theoretical and practical morality, enabling the candidate to regain
the image of the divine • Afcm? surmount every difficulty, and scale the
mount of God." The Grand Lodge of Maryland, by the Free Mason's
library, Fraface, p. 6.