Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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ter to the arts of secretly gratifying their passions, dwrch
begnttgungihrer liedenschqften imverbcrgenen"
A preliminary discourse prefixed to this plan points out
the object and future services of these illuannized sisters.
•The advantages which the real order would reap from
this female order, would be, first, the money which the sisterhood
would pay at their initiation; and, secondly, a
hefivy tax upon their curiosity, under the supposition of
secrets that are to be learned. And this association might,
moreover, serve to gratify those brethren who had a turn
for sensual pleasure. 19
I will not insult the reader with a comment upon this
specimen of the morality of the worshippers of reason;
but Paul charges the licentious, that " this is the will of God,
even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication
: that every one of you should know how to possesshis
vessel in sanctification and honour; not in the lust of
concupiscence. 51 {Thess. ch.4.)
Minos to Sebastian, 1782.
[It does not appear to whom these names belonged:
they were no mean Illuminees.]
(R. p. 137.) " The proposal of Hercules to establish a
Minerval school for girls, is excellent, but requires much
circumspection. Philo and I have long conversed on this
subject We cannot improve the world without improving
women. But how shall we get hold of them ? How will
their relations, particularly their mothers, immersed in prejudices,
consent that others shall influence their education?
We must begin with grown girls. Hercules proposes the
wife of Ptolemy Magnus. I have no objection, and I have
four step-daughters, fine girls. The eldest, in particular,
is excellent She is twenty-four, has read much, is above
all prejudice, and in religion she thinks as I do. They
have much acquaintance among the young ladies their relations.
It may immediately be a very pretty society, under
the management of Ptolemy's wife, but really under hie
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