Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

844 ANCIENT FREE MASONRY IS DEISM.
what its object is, by levelling every thing sacred to the
Standard of the Egyptian mysteries; in the third period,
she first reminds the brother of the extent of masonic charity,
and, thus justified for the preceding impiety, concludes
with the plea of necessity, in order to explain Free Masonry.
This is her obscure cunning, to make the profane admire
her mystery, to give Revelation a stab in its glorified
Author, and then, next to plead the illimitable extent of
masonic charity, not as if for the wound just given, but
seemingly for treating of various mysteries 1
This is Free Masonry, both in doctrine and in example.
She pleads her law of charity in a most edifying manner:
" Do I couple the doctrines of Egypt and Judea? it is not
to give an opinion upon them," she says. " Do I present
Zoroaster and the Lord in the same point of view ? Every
brother knows it is his duty to take dans son sem, to his bosom
the honest man, of whatever religion he may be."
This is liberality not to to be questioned. This is charity
sufficient to pacify the most impious. The Arch Enemy
can ask no more: to revile the Lord Jesus, sincerely and honestly,
in conformity to the tempters religion. To put the mysteries
of the Persian Zoroaster and of the Holy Gospel upon
the same level, for the edification of Free Masons; and
in the same breath remind the pupil, that in modes of faith
and forms of worship, honest men may be allowed to differ
without stint of love or charity.
The Father of Lies is a deceiver still, whether he come in
the form of an angel of light, or of the daughter of night;
he is the tempter still, whether he come in the form
of a serpent, or of Free Masonry. He is the teacher,
who, under the sanction of the two most valued Books of
Constitutions of these States, learns men to be good and
perfect without the help of fear or hope ;* a doctrine which
* Vide Book of Constitutions of Massachusetts, which is received in all
New England, p. 19. F. M. Library, which is received from New-York to
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