Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

ANCIENT FREE MASONRY IS DEISM. 245
alike rejects the joys of Paradise, and the pains of hell;
which excludes the hope of eternal life, and of the immortality
of the soul; and, also, the fear of the fire that never
shall be quenched.
This is too much,, too much for silly Masonry. She is but
a puppet made to play antic tricks, while a master spirit
moves the wires, and filches the pockets of the gaping
crowd. The whole object of the divine economy, as revealed
in the holy scriptures, is to make men " good and
perfect; 19 and the method taken by heaven's Truth, is, to
invite by hopes of joy unspeakable, and to persuade by the
fear of terrors inconceivable.' The Enemy's method, or
Free Masonry's, if you please, is exactly the reverse of this.
He began his instructions neat* the time of the masonic
era* teaching Eve, without the help of fear, to eat, and be
like God, knowing good and evil. And man being ruined,
the enemy has only to keep him perfect without the help of
hope, or fear, and his work is done.
Thus we arrive at the spirit of the doctrines of Free
Masonry, by collecting them from the standard treatises x)f
the fraternity, and showing their relation to the Father of
Lies, and to eternal night and death. I know the relationship
will disgust many, and will offend soiqe; offend them
with the discoverer nearly as much as with the connexion
discovered; But if masonic charity will justify an attack
both secret and open upon revealed religion, seeing it
is made honestly, and in conformity to the assassin's mode
of worshipping the Dew, she will undoubtedly be able to receive
kindly a rap upon her own head, seeing it is honestly
laid on, and, also, in conformity to the assailant's mode of
worship.