Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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CHAPTER XLIII.
u He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself; he
that beliereth not God, hath made him a liar, because he beKeveth not the
record that God gare of his 800."— 1 John, v, 10.
WE have been furnished by the grand chapter with a
specimen of Free Masonry's reasoning in support of a doctrine
possessing some part of the mighty influence it ought
to possess over those who cordially receive it, viz. the mode
of divine existence expressed by the term Trinity; the
reader may find instruction in observing how she can
also attack that doctrine, and in assisting, punish her
folly.
She is giving a store of traditional knowledge, alias true
as Free Masonry, with respect to the foreign trade of the
Jews in India and Persia, Greece and Arabia, where they
carried their mysteries and their dogmas, receiving in turn
many opinions before unknown in Judea, " whence sprung"
she says, " the sects of the Sadducees, the Herodians, the
learned Pharisees, and the virtuous Essenes"
" Under these circumstances, the worship of the great
Jehovah, with its mysteries and allegories, was nigh being
destroyed, and even forgotten, by the introduction of new
systems, and in particular by that of the Trinitarians, which
was introduced from Persia. In that country the sages
adopt the belief of one God, with two elements, light and
darkness."
" To strengthen these false principles brought by the
Jews from Persia, there came from Greece the allegories
and reveries of Plato, by the aid of which that philosopher
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