Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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you to co-operate with us in the annihilation of all magistracy,
all governments, all laws, and all civil society; of
every republic, and even of democracy, as well as aristocracy
and monarchy. If you ask how it is possible for men
assembled in towns to live in future without laws or magistrates,
the answer is clear—desert your towns and villages,
and fire your houses. Did men build houses in the days of
the patriarchs ? They were all equal and free: the earth
belonged to them all: each had an equal right," &c.
Weishaupt is mistaken.
Now, a society which was an excellent cloak for such
as these, ought to form no part of the habit of an honest
man* Weishaupt like the devil,
u With inspection deep
" Considered every creature, which of ail
" Most opportune might serve his wiles, and found'"
In Masonry, what Satan in serpent,
" Fit vessel, fittest imp if fraud, in whom
" To enter, and hit dark suggestions hide
" From sharpest sight. 9 *
Milton, 9th book.
The sin of Masonry was, that it basely received and
faithfully served the destroyer; for that alone it deserves to
perish, with the reprobation of every honest man.
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