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The Influence Of Freemasonry On Society
raj sense , as if the institutors had been really workers in stone and in imarble . They were not only able architects , but many princes , both warlike and religious , dedicated their talents and fortunes , under this banner , to the Most High . And this leads me naturally to present an abridged histpry pf the oriin and of the Order of Freemasonry .
g progress In the times of the holy wars in Palestine , a great number of princes , noblemen , and citizens , entered into a scheme to establish christian temples in the Holy Land , and engaged themselves , by oath , to employ their talents and fortunes to give them all the primitive ad ^ vantages of architecture . They agreed among themselves to use certain signs and sy mbolical words , to distinguish themselves . These those who
mysteries were never communicated but to solemnly promised , at the foot of the altar , never to reveal them . But this sacred promise , so far from being the impious and unmeaning oath which gome people imagine , was that respectable guarantee , in order to unite men of all nations in the same confraternity . Freemasonry , therefore , - ought not to be looked upon as a revival of Bacchanalian dissipation , ' or scandalous intemperance , but as a moral order , instituted by pur virtuous ancestors in the Holy Land , with a view to recall the remembrance of the most sublime truths , in the midst of the most ,
innocent , social pleasures . ' The kings , princes , and noblemen , on ' their return from the Tlol y Land , established a number of Lodges ; and in the time or the last Crusade , we , find several of these were erected in Germany , Italy , France , and Spain . -James I . of Scotland was Grand Master of a lodge established , at Kilwinning ' a little while after the death of Robert III . king of
, very Scotland . This Scotchman received , as Freemasons in his lodge , Ihe-Earls of Gloucester and Ulster . After the deplorable demolition of the Crusades , the discomfiture of the Christian armies , and the triumph of Bendoedar , sultan of Egypt , Henrv . III . king of England , seeing that there was no long- r anyse curity for the Masons in the Holy Lmd , led them from Palestine , and
established his colony of brothers in England . As Prince Edward was . endowed with all those qualities of the heart and understanding , which form the hero , he publicly declared himself Protector of the Order , . and gave it the name of the Freemason Society . From England the institution passed into France , and it is at ' this time flourishing in all . ' thecivilized states of Europe . Its universality is an instance of its value of this short
and worthy tendency ; and if by means Essay any one acquires a clearer idea of its orig in or intent than he had before , the bain ' s and the purpose of writing it will be amply answered . T .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Influence Of Freemasonry On Society
raj sense , as if the institutors had been really workers in stone and in imarble . They were not only able architects , but many princes , both warlike and religious , dedicated their talents and fortunes , under this banner , to the Most High . And this leads me naturally to present an abridged histpry pf the oriin and of the Order of Freemasonry .
g progress In the times of the holy wars in Palestine , a great number of princes , noblemen , and citizens , entered into a scheme to establish christian temples in the Holy Land , and engaged themselves , by oath , to employ their talents and fortunes to give them all the primitive ad ^ vantages of architecture . They agreed among themselves to use certain signs and sy mbolical words , to distinguish themselves . These those who
mysteries were never communicated but to solemnly promised , at the foot of the altar , never to reveal them . But this sacred promise , so far from being the impious and unmeaning oath which gome people imagine , was that respectable guarantee , in order to unite men of all nations in the same confraternity . Freemasonry , therefore , - ought not to be looked upon as a revival of Bacchanalian dissipation , ' or scandalous intemperance , but as a moral order , instituted by pur virtuous ancestors in the Holy Land , with a view to recall the remembrance of the most sublime truths , in the midst of the most ,
innocent , social pleasures . ' The kings , princes , and noblemen , on ' their return from the Tlol y Land , established a number of Lodges ; and in the time or the last Crusade , we , find several of these were erected in Germany , Italy , France , and Spain . -James I . of Scotland was Grand Master of a lodge established , at Kilwinning ' a little while after the death of Robert III . king of
, very Scotland . This Scotchman received , as Freemasons in his lodge , Ihe-Earls of Gloucester and Ulster . After the deplorable demolition of the Crusades , the discomfiture of the Christian armies , and the triumph of Bendoedar , sultan of Egypt , Henrv . III . king of England , seeing that there was no long- r anyse curity for the Masons in the Holy Lmd , led them from Palestine , and
established his colony of brothers in England . As Prince Edward was . endowed with all those qualities of the heart and understanding , which form the hero , he publicly declared himself Protector of the Order , . and gave it the name of the Freemason Society . From England the institution passed into France , and it is at ' this time flourishing in all . ' thecivilized states of Europe . Its universality is an instance of its value of this short
and worthy tendency ; and if by means Essay any one acquires a clearer idea of its orig in or intent than he had before , the bain ' s and the purpose of writing it will be amply answered . T .