Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

20 PRETENSIONS OF FREE MASONRt.
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tradition by any means sufficient to satisfy us that God gave
toJMoses a strict injunction, u that n6 one should pronounce
his sacred name." The Jews, in reading the scriptures,
avoid the pronunciation of JEUE, always calling it Adonai
Revelation does not authorize this perversion, nor can
Jewish or masonic tradition. It seems impossible that a
sober man can persuade himself of a fact so absurd and
extravagant, as that Masonry, through Enoch and Moses,
is by the divine favour alone made acquainted with the true
name of the Deity; yet foolish Masons, pillars of the
lodges, have challenged professing Christians to give the
true name of God, and on failure to give the Shibboleth of
Masonry, have replied with evident self-complaisance—
" you do not know the true name of God:" the God of the
holy scriptures!
Masons, seeing this pretension set out by itself, will, I
hope, be universally shocked at it; but the admirers of the
institution, reading it as it is set forth in the Monitor, do
naturally pass it without consideration; and flatter themselves
that such particular tokens of divine favour are sure
proof of the antiquity, grandeur, and divinity of this selfprivileged
system.
A- few circumstances in this pretension, remain to be
pointed out.
Sec. No. 11. "From the corruption of the said name,
sprung the Juba of the Moors, the Jupiter of the Romans,
and many others of a like nature." Reader, what think
you, is one of the many other corruptions of. this sacred
name of Free Masonry X What name of the supreme divinity
of any people sounds somewhat like Juba and Jupiter ? It
is not Woden |ior Thor; it is not Brahm nor Vishnu. Is it
possible it can be the God of Christians ?—can it indeed be
so ? According to the masonic traditions, the Juba of the
Moors, the Jupiter of the Romans, and the Jehovah 6f
Christians, must alike be corruptions of the same true name of
the Most High, committed with awful solemnity to Enoch
and Moses, for the benefit of the fraternity; and still pre-