Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

254 ANCIENT FEEE MASONRY IS DEISM.
t mate,* as the more favoured inhabitants of central and
southern Europe, the very least progress in the science
which follows, is greatly to be deprecated.
" It is said that Moses wrote different books of the Bible :
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. Thtse books
have a great resemblance to the lessons of the Egyptian
priests:—nevertheless, it appears, that besides the' Egyptian
books, Moses had the Phenician history of the creation,
by Sanchoniathon, who lived before Moses, 937 years,"
ad annum. (Esprit du Dogme, p. 27.)
This is another specimen of Masonic tradition. She
knows Sanchoniathon 1 ^ history, and where Moses found
the materials for the PENTAteuch: ay, she knows rjiuch
more than her diffidence permits her to discover: yet she
would seem not to know, that Moses wrote Deuteronomy;
and that, my reader, was no oversight iri her,—enumerating
four books, to leave the fifth: no; she understands
very well that Penta means five, and that she has
enumerated but four ; and she did it of mere wantonness,
to insinuate a falsehood, preparatory to the positive untruth
following it; that Moses gathered his writings from
Egyptian priests.
Our American Free Masonry is not by many degrees so
far advanced as this; but perseverance will accomplish
wonders.
" Moses, having learned the institutes of the Egyptian
priests, gave to the Jews, for the foundation of their religion
and creed, the worship of the one only God, of the
great Jehovah." (Idem. p. 30.) -
Now Free Masonry cares not for the name she affects to
be fearful of sacrilege in pronouncing. She does pronounce
it, with falsehood on her lips. She has ever denied
divine revelation, by setting at nought the name of Jesus;
and here she is emboldened, aiming at Atheism. She
adores the God of the holy scriptures, and still denies those
scriptures; she is a fast friend of the Unity, and still puts
* VideBuffon.