The Masonic Manual; Or Lectures on Freemasonry: Containing the Instructions, Documents, and Discipline of the Masonic Economy

Excerpt from The Masonic Manual; Or Lectures on Freemasonry: Containing the Instructions, Documents, and Discipline of the Masonic Economy

Masons already look up to your Royal Highness as their Mecænas. Your presidency is hailed as the day-spring from on high to dissipate the darkness which obscures Masonry, and to develope its learning and benevolence. Masonry, we know, is calculated to ameliorate man in the world - to make him imitate the Divine Architect's attributes, and so to superinduce the Maker's image in the human mind. Its progress and encouragement, if so, is very good. From the common condition of man in the multitude, and its own peculiar Constitution, Masonry must be confined and limited at all times. However, if it be judiciously managed, it will tend to humanize and bless mankind. So the occult operation of elementary fire insinuates its powers, and feeds all nature, - its fostering heat is every where, and its fervent force is found in each material substance. May the warmth and light of Masonry be regulated and directed by means of your Royal Highness, diffusing solid comfort and satisfactory entertainment in the community, assisting the advancement of the Arts and Sciences, and inspiring your own illustrious breast with the consolations arising from a consciousness of doing good In the faithful spirit of this sacred sentiment, I beg to subscribe myself,

May it please your Royal Highness,

Your very obedient Servant,

And truly devoted Fellow-Member of The Fraternity of Freemasons,

Jonathan- Ashe, D.D., M.M.

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