Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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" If we lay aside the hermetical part of the science, or
the transmutation of metals, such will be, in substance, the
whole doctrine which is revealed to the adept initiated in
the grand mysteries of the Scotch degrees.
" In a sort of catechism, to which he answers, to show
that he has remembered every thing that he has seen, and
all that has been explained to him in the lodge, or, as it is
then called, in Solomon's temple, the following question is
asked: h that all you have seen ? To which he answers, I
have seen many other things, but, like the other Scptch masters,
I keep them secret in my heart. This secret henceforth
cannot be difficult to understand. It is only to view
the Scotch master in his new character of High Priest of
Jehovah, or of that worship, that pretended Deism, which
we have been told was successively the religion of Adam,
Noah, Nimrod, Solomon, Hugo de Paganis, of the Grand
Master Molay, and of the Knights Templars, and which,
at this day, is to constitute the religion of the complete
Master Mason.
" These mysteries might have sufficed for the adepts. All
who had obtained the Scotch degrees were declared free
in future, and all were equally priests of Jehovah. This
priesthood ridded them of all the mysteries of the Gospel,
and of all revealed religion. That liberty and happiness,
which the sect declares to consist in the revival of Deism,
sufficiently instils into the mind of the adept what he is to
think of Christianity, and of its divine Author. Nevertheless,
th6 grand mysteries are not exhausted. The adepts
still have to discover who was the person that wrested the
Word, the famous name of Jehovah, from their predeces-,
sors; that is to say, who it was that destroyed their favourite
worship of Deism. It was but too evident, that the whole
fable of Hiram, or Adomram, and of his assassins, was no
more than an allegory, the explanation of which must naturally
answer the question, who is the real assassin of
Adoniram ? By whom was the Deistical form of worship
destroyed ? Who was it that wrested the famous word
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