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originally from hands that held the gavel , and first divided the 24-inch gauge ; and all parts of this handicraft had a sign and symbol , raising the mind to the Heavens , and giving better emotions to the heart . Arithmetic was to lead man to calculate months and hours , conducting us to the point when months , and hours , and time should be no longer .
Geometry was to intimate the fact , that all man ' s rest and bearing , and dependence , were to be placed on the mercy of the Divine Being , given him through a Messiah . Masonry , or constructive science , was to instil the truth that , whilst man builds a temple for the day , the Grand Architect one , which age and time would neither crumble nor destroy .
Surveying and levelling , severally , teach man that he must look for a fit field for his exertions , before the time should come when he would be on the level with all who had passed through this mortal state ; whilst hydrostatics recalled the day when the windows of Heaven were opened , because our brothers' wickedness was great on the earth .
Mechanics were to direct the Mason ' s inward eye to notice , that what man does by complicated , the Grand Architect does by simple means ; as arabesques and sculpture lead the Mason ' s spirit from Nature up to Nature ' s God . The screw , the lever , the plumb rule , and the saw , represent trials and afflictions , the wise dispensations of the Great Creator , and his upright and unerring justice .
Brethren , in an address intended to be inaugural , and which , I trust , will be the beginning of a new Masonic era , I have trespassed beyond the bounds of brevity , and yet have more to say . I can but add , I am led on by the best of all good wishes for the prosperity of the Craft ; and that I shall be most grateful to the Brother who will follow in my steps t and to my mind help to restore the grandest ruins of antiquity .
" Speculative Masonry" ( to quote the words of Preston ) " is so far interwoven with religion , as to lay us under the strongest obligations to pay that rational homage to the Deity , which at once constitutes our duty and our happiness . " " It leads the contemplative to view with reverence and admiration , the glorious works of Creation , and inspires them with the most exalted ideas of the perfections of the Divine Creator . "
It destroys all party spirit , and conciliates private and opposed opinions , rendering those originally of one blood , by their supreme origin , immortal , of one heart , one mind , bound together by their homage to the Grand Architect , and love of all mankind . The structure of the Lodge , the moveable and immoveable jewels ,
the emblems , the symbols , the working tools , the dress , the habits of the Order , the system of government , all point one way ; and the perpendicular line is one , when they stand upon the margin of that black sea , " the waves of which are years . "
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originally from hands that held the gavel , and first divided the 24-inch gauge ; and all parts of this handicraft had a sign and symbol , raising the mind to the Heavens , and giving better emotions to the heart . Arithmetic was to lead man to calculate months and hours , conducting us to the point when months , and hours , and time should be no longer .
Geometry was to intimate the fact , that all man ' s rest and bearing , and dependence , were to be placed on the mercy of the Divine Being , given him through a Messiah . Masonry , or constructive science , was to instil the truth that , whilst man builds a temple for the day , the Grand Architect one , which age and time would neither crumble nor destroy .
Surveying and levelling , severally , teach man that he must look for a fit field for his exertions , before the time should come when he would be on the level with all who had passed through this mortal state ; whilst hydrostatics recalled the day when the windows of Heaven were opened , because our brothers' wickedness was great on the earth .
Mechanics were to direct the Mason ' s inward eye to notice , that what man does by complicated , the Grand Architect does by simple means ; as arabesques and sculpture lead the Mason ' s spirit from Nature up to Nature ' s God . The screw , the lever , the plumb rule , and the saw , represent trials and afflictions , the wise dispensations of the Great Creator , and his upright and unerring justice .
Brethren , in an address intended to be inaugural , and which , I trust , will be the beginning of a new Masonic era , I have trespassed beyond the bounds of brevity , and yet have more to say . I can but add , I am led on by the best of all good wishes for the prosperity of the Craft ; and that I shall be most grateful to the Brother who will follow in my steps t and to my mind help to restore the grandest ruins of antiquity .
" Speculative Masonry" ( to quote the words of Preston ) " is so far interwoven with religion , as to lay us under the strongest obligations to pay that rational homage to the Deity , which at once constitutes our duty and our happiness . " " It leads the contemplative to view with reverence and admiration , the glorious works of Creation , and inspires them with the most exalted ideas of the perfections of the Divine Creator . "
It destroys all party spirit , and conciliates private and opposed opinions , rendering those originally of one blood , by their supreme origin , immortal , of one heart , one mind , bound together by their homage to the Grand Architect , and love of all mankind . The structure of the Lodge , the moveable and immoveable jewels ,
the emblems , the symbols , the working tools , the dress , the habits of the Order , the system of government , all point one way ; and the perpendicular line is one , when they stand upon the margin of that black sea , " the waves of which are years . "