Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

" SPIRIT OF THE DOCTRINE OF FREE MASONRY." 261
filming pan, with a perforated lid, whence came the smoke
of the incense. The Greeks called it thymiaterion, and
the ancient and modern Romans, thuribulum." He exhibits
learning to grace his masonic zeal.
""THE CRUISE OF GOLD, OR POT OF MANNA. (p. 41.)
" Moses placed this in the tabernacle to instruct the
priests, that in the proper exercise of their ministry, they
ought to feed on the spiritual manna shut up in the sciences,
which they were explicitly charged to study. 19
Our expositor quotes neither the priests of the god onion,
nor masonic tradition, in support of this assertion ; it must
rest entirely on his better authority, called by. the( Greeks
anaisquintia,* by the ancient Romans impudentia, and, (by
the help of a dictionary,) impudence, in the vernacular.
" THE MITRE WITH THE INDENTED TOP. (p. 41.)
" The ornament of the priests of Isis and Osiris, was also
adopted by the magi, or priests of Mytra in Persia, and by
the priests of Jupiter at Athens, and at Rome. It afterwards
served for the head dress of the Roman females,
who sold their favours at the foot of the temple of Fortune,
to the parties of Cicero and Cataline. This same mitre,
in time, was adopted by the Christian pontiffs at Rome,
and by those 6f Mahomet, and by the ancient and modem
templars. This mitre had a plate of gold covering the
front, with these words: ' Holiness to the Lord.'"
This is more than a match. To meet the crocodiles of
Egypt, the Persian magi, the priests of Jupiter, Cataline,
Mahomet, and the knights templars, arrayed in support of
Masonry's claim to the mitre, is an overmatch for common
learning. But one thing "the art of demonstrating divine
and moral truth by geometrical solutions 19 enables ihe to
do; which the reader shall see.
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