Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

352 WEISHAUPT'S VIEWS OF
CHAPTER LIII.
WeishaupVs Views of the Unknown Origin of Free Masonry.
" Though some may pretend we'ye no secrete to know,
" Such idle opinions their ignorance show;
" While others with raptures, cry out * they're revealedf
" In Free Masons 1 bosoms they still lie concealed."
CHORUS. " We always are free,
" And forever agree;
" Supporting each other,
" Brother helps brother,
u No mortals on earth are so friendly as we."
Book of Cons, of Mass. A. D. 1792. p. 241.
A FEW extracts from the correspondence of the chiefs,
throwing light upon Free Masonry, will prove interesting to
the reader.
And let no man think in his heart, that there is base art
in connecting this notice of Uluminism with an examination
of Free Masonry. Fidelity to the truth, and an honest
desire to lay the true value of Free Masonry before the
public, compel me to show, in their own language, the use
made of it by these champions of a new morality independent
on religion.
(R. p. 90.) " I declare," says Weishaupt, a and I challenge
all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no
man can give any account of the order of Free Masonry,
of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation
of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the
mind in total uncertainty on all these points. Every man is
entitled, therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols,