Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

M52 -ANCIENT t'REE MASONRY IS DEISM.
CHAPTER XLI.
d When frowning death appears,
" And points his fatal dart,
u What dark foreboding fears
u Distract the sinner's heart!
u The dreadful blow
u No arm can stay,
" Bat torn away
« He sinks to wo. 1 '-Let.
ESPRIT du Dogme de Id'Franche Maponnerie teaches,
that Free Masonry, in many of her rites and degrees, calls
to remembrance what she cannot name without great impiety,
and that, in the legend of Hiram, she dares to present
the allegory of man's salvation. We have seen that
her character does not enable Free Masons to contradict
their own brother, and to say, " Esprit has published' a
scandal upon the sacred order•, more hideous than is set
forth in the calumniating pages of a Barruel or a Robison."
We have seen, that her fabled origin, whether heavenly
or Bacchanalian, that her morality and her manners,
alike contribute to confirm the truth of EspriVs avowal
There are some other circumstances which go to the same
point.
We have seen, in the notice of the royal arch emblems,
that our lady makes bold with the tabernacle, and its consecrated
utensils, with the burning bush, the heavenly
manna, the tables jof the covenant, &c.; that she sets them
out in dumb show as a part of her paraphernalia. We
said, without presuming to know how she used them, that
they were not honestly in her keeping; and, use them as