Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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MASON**.
saymg things, foresee the peril of its situation; let the art
of finding out new arts, find out a way of escape from the
overwhelming weight of its own pretensions; let the art
winch was given to the first Masons by some God, prepare
to return to its God; its mortal career must be drawing toa
close. No institution in tins age can sustain claims so
monstrous, though made in Mack letter.
The Book of Constitutions does not say this story was
published to impose on the weak; does not say that the
men who copied and published it in that solemn and official
manner, did not believe one word of its wonders; does not
say that it is an abomination to the truth, a scandal upon
common sense, a foul Mot attempted to be fixed on the
escutcheon of Free Masonry; no such thing; but the Book
of Constitutions relates it with perfect gravity, with a recommendatory
preface, and with explanatory notes!
The same is published in the F. M. Library, with the
sanction of the Grand Lodge of Maryland.—F. M. L.
p. 10.
Then the common Mason may, the multitude of Masons
must, believe that Free Masons do, indeed, have possession
of the keys of knowledge, of the art of arts, an