Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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exist doctrines solely transmitted by secret traditions, because
they are above the comprehension of common minds.
In proof of his assertions, he will cite the Gymnosophists in
the Indies, the priests of Isis in Egypt, and those of Eleusis,
and the Pythagorean school in Greece."
(P. 32.) " Let your first care be to gain the affection,
the confidence, and the esteem of those persons whom you
are to entice into the order; let your whole conduct be
such, that they, shall surmise something more in you than
you wish to show—hint that you belong to some secret and
powerful society—excite little by little, and not at once, a
wish in your candidate to belong to a similar society—certain
arguments, and certain books, which the insinuator
must have, will greatly contribute to raise; such a wish;
such are, for example, those which treat of the union and
strength of associations. 19
(P. 33.) " To sound the very bottom of his mind, the
insinuator will pretend to consult him, as if he had been intrusted
with certain secrets; he will make objections on
the secrecy of these societies; but should they make too
much impression, he will resolve them himself. At other
times, to stimulate the curiosity of his pupil, he will hold a
letter in his hand written in a cipher, or he will leave it
half open on his table, giving his candidate sufficient time
to observe the cipher, and then shut it up with all the air of
a man who has important correspondences to keep secret"
This claim of the Brother Insinuator to the sciences, and
lo the lights while the rest of mankind are in profane darkness;
tins claim to valuable doctrines transmitted by secret
traditions, and this attempt to excite curiosity, and magnify
self-importance, by evident attempts to conceal a mystery,
are all in the very image of Free. Masonry. Few will.admire
them in the professed insinuator.