Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

SPARTACUS (WEISHAUPT) TO CATO (ZWACK.) 361
to engage in a task so vast, so incessant, so difficult, and so
laborious ? This association must be gradual. There are
some such persons to be found in every society. Such noble
minds will be engaged by the heart-warming object The
first task of the association must therefore be, to form the
young members. As these multiply and advance, they become
the apostles of beneficence, and the work is now on
foot, and advances with a speed increasing every day. The
slightest observation shows that nothing will so much con'
tribute to increase the zeal of the members qs secret union.
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business
of Free Masonry is conducted, by persons knit together by
the secrecy of their union. It is needless to inquire into the
causes of this zeal which secrecy produces. It is a universal
fact, confirmed by the history ef every age. Let this
disposition of our nature, therefore, be directed to this noble
purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by
jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition, will vanish.
The order will thus work silently and securely; and though
the generous benefactors of the human race are thus deprived
of the applause of the world, they have the noble
pleasure of seeing their work prosper in their hands."
In his remarks upon the keenness and zeal with which
men conduct the frivolous business of Free Masonry, Weishaupt
speaks like a man of sense.
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