Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

258 " SPIRIT Or THE DOCTRINE OF FREE MASONRY."'
resolutely conceals itself; rpocking the patient Master Mason
with a substitute, and lying still beyond the ninth
arch, before it is unveiled to perfection; and, as if afraid
to trust itself even there, at perfection, mounting away
from the pursuer to the height of unknown degrees, is, my
reader, no ordinary secret; but this is Free Masonry.
" And wjiat does it pretend to be?"—Even the true name
of the only true God. Such conduct, and such a claim!
Now, brother Jew, lend me attention; for you are interested
in this part of the argument; and so, al?o,.are Mahometans
and Deists, without being invited.
Let Free Masonry's claim be allowed; to teach tJte right
pronunciation of the true name of the only true God.
Her masters are put off with a substitute for it; her most
excellent masters (sixth degree) have it not yet; her perfect
masters (fifteenth degree) have it not perfect yet; her
grand pontiffs (twenty-ninth degree) must still make tlieir sacrifices
without knowing precisely to whom; the ** prince of
the royal secret, prince of Masons," covering degrees
forty, forty-one, forty-two, has a sovereign inspector general
above, and cannot yet sec, eye to eye, the great secret of
Free Masonry.
Is it not to be inferred, that the God of Free Masonry
has no name; and that, in setting her pupil on a chace in
pursuit of it to perfection, and far beyond, she is practically
teaching him so ? Professing to make manifest the true God,
does she not, by a devious path, and an endless renewal of
disappointment, effectually impress upon the panting bosom
of her deluded pupil, there is no God ? Say, brother Jew, (for
I waive here all Free Masonry's contempt of the Messiah,)
when, with a blinder over his eyes, and a cable tow about his
neck, she leads her pupil into the realms of darkness, ra
pursuit of light, and into the regions of night in pursuit of
the true name of God, leading him about and about, until
he is giddy, dpwn deep arches, and up high degrees; if the
humbled, degraded, and confounded soul should stumble