Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

ANCIENT FREE MASONRY IS DEISM. 255
contempt upon the doctrine, drawing it from the polluted
idolators of Egypt; she magnifies Jehovah, and yet reviles
his servant Moses, and the Prophets, and the only begotten
Son of God.
These are fearful things, being true. All the evidence of
their truth it is not possible to lay before the reader, as it
lies before me; but enough is here, perhaps too much, and
it goes to prove what has been little suspected; viz. that
the grand secret of Free Masonry is Atheism.
Now we will have her explanation of the tabernacle with its
contents, as used in her workshop; by no means the maximum
of her impiety, and chiefly interesting to show what
she can have to do with the golden candlestick, and Aaron's
rod that budded.
Esprit du Dogme, i. e. Spirit of the Doctrine, de la
Frtmche Map.: of Free Masonry, p. 39, says: "Moses, in
his mysteries, and Solomon after him, adopted a great part
of the Egyptian emblems, which from them we have preserved
in our mysteries. Let us see what they teach us. ,
" The brazen sea, among the Egyptians, was used for the
purification of candidates with water; it was an emblem
of the year, supported by twelve bullocks, which represented
the twelve months, of which three looked east, three
south, three west, and three north; making allusion to the
four seasons.
41 Moses adopted this emblem; and in Exodus, 38. 8.
we see that the women of the tribe of Levi, who passed
the night watching at the door of the tabernacle, presented
to Moses their mirrors, which were of brass or silver, to
make the brazen sea. Hence the lodges of Adoption."
It is instructive to see how certainly the doctrines of devils
lead to infernal practices. Lodges of Adoption are
the only remaining form of Free Masonry yet to be introduced
into this country: they are well known on the continent
of Europe, Female Lodges; not own children of Ma-