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The Revelations Of A Square.
THE REVELATIONS OF A SQUARE .
BY THE REV . GEORGE OLIVER , D . D .
CHAPTER THE THIRD . MARTIN CLARE , A . M . FROM 1740 to 1747 . " Regard not who it is that speaketh , but weigh only what is spoken . " - —¦
HOOKEB . " All such things as are either secret or manifest , them I know . "—SOIOMON . " You shall understand , my dear friends , that amongst the excellent acts of that King , one above all hath the pre-eminence . It was the erection and institution of an Order , or Society , which we call SOLOMON ' HOUSE , the noblest foundation ( as we think ) that ever was upon earth , and the lantern of this kingdom . It is dedicated to the study of die works and creatures of God . " — LORD BACON .
" THE Brother , whose property I had now become , " continued the Square , " was Master of the Lodge No . 2 , at the Florn Tavern , New Palace Yard , Westminster , the old Lodge which formerly met at the Rummer and Grapes , and he was an expert ruler . He " ( Here the Square communicated several particulars about the method of
conducting a Lodge in those times , which , though very curious and important , I am bound to hold sacred , as I cannot make them public without incurring the penalty of the unfortunate Prichard . It appears that the Master was a strict disciplinarian , and , under his instructions , the Brethren made a rapid progress in the knowledge of
Masonry , although he entertained some absurdities which he communicated only to a few select Brothers in private ; one of which , not being of any great importance to Masonry , I may mention without violating a sacred pledge . For instance , he taught them that Adam , our first parent , constructed a stone in the form of an oblong squareor
, double cube , and placed it over the grave of his beloved son Abel , who had been slain by his brother , inscribed with the history of the transaction in bieroglyphical characters ; and this , he told them , was the origin of the same custom
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The Revelations Of A Square.
THE REVELATIONS OF A SQUARE .
BY THE REV . GEORGE OLIVER , D . D .
CHAPTER THE THIRD . MARTIN CLARE , A . M . FROM 1740 to 1747 . " Regard not who it is that speaketh , but weigh only what is spoken . " - —¦
HOOKEB . " All such things as are either secret or manifest , them I know . "—SOIOMON . " You shall understand , my dear friends , that amongst the excellent acts of that King , one above all hath the pre-eminence . It was the erection and institution of an Order , or Society , which we call SOLOMON ' HOUSE , the noblest foundation ( as we think ) that ever was upon earth , and the lantern of this kingdom . It is dedicated to the study of die works and creatures of God . " — LORD BACON .
" THE Brother , whose property I had now become , " continued the Square , " was Master of the Lodge No . 2 , at the Florn Tavern , New Palace Yard , Westminster , the old Lodge which formerly met at the Rummer and Grapes , and he was an expert ruler . He " ( Here the Square communicated several particulars about the method of
conducting a Lodge in those times , which , though very curious and important , I am bound to hold sacred , as I cannot make them public without incurring the penalty of the unfortunate Prichard . It appears that the Master was a strict disciplinarian , and , under his instructions , the Brethren made a rapid progress in the knowledge of
Masonry , although he entertained some absurdities which he communicated only to a few select Brothers in private ; one of which , not being of any great importance to Masonry , I may mention without violating a sacred pledge . For instance , he taught them that Adam , our first parent , constructed a stone in the form of an oblong squareor
, double cube , and placed it over the grave of his beloved son Abel , who had been slain by his brother , inscribed with the history of the transaction in bieroglyphical characters ; and this , he told them , was the origin of the same custom