Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

HIGHER DEGREES OF FREE MASONRY. 383
u So did the Hebrew prophet raise
" The brazen serpent high;
u The wounded felt immediate ease,
* The camp forebore to die,."
All know this; and common men neither know any other
brazen serpent, nor what proper or honest connexion
this can have with Free Masonry. This emblem Christ has
appropriated to himself, the true Prince of Mercy\ in a way
that it cannot be common to a nocturnal fraternity.
" As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even
so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whosoever believed)
in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 11 —
(John, iii. 14 and 15.)
" 27°. Commander of the Temple."
Not good; Masons may build the temple.
" 28°. Knight of the Sun."
This is the degree called by Barruel and Robison Chevalier
du Soliel It is down very deep in the arcana of Free
Masonry; and, by their account, it is properly placed.
Weishaupt prepared his pupils by long trials, and passed
them through many degrees before he fully unveiled his
design against every form of civilized society, as well as
against revealed religion.
" 29 0 . K. H."
The Free Mason's Library, p. 317, unlocks this mystery.
What do you think it can be, reader ?—Knight of that
Holy Name, which, to blaspheme, is unpardonable by infinite
mercy; " it shall not be forgiven; neither in this world,
nor in the world to come." Surely this ought to be the
last of the black catalogue of masonic degrees. But now
comes the royal secret, and Prince of Masons.
" 30, 31, 32. Prince of the Royal Secret, Prince of Masons."
44 33. Sovereign Grand Inspectors General."
Grand Circular of the Sublime Sovereigns, Dalcho's
Orations, p. 78.
I hardly know what to make of these things. They do
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