The Masonic Manual; Or, Lectures on Freemasonry ...1843 - 311 pages |
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Page xii
... morality which had been interwoven into the Lectures of Masonry , as they existed at the time when it was written ; and many ceremonial details have also been incor- porated into its pages . And although considerable alterations have ...
... morality which had been interwoven into the Lectures of Masonry , as they existed at the time when it was written ; and many ceremonial details have also been incor- porated into its pages . And although considerable alterations have ...
Page xiii
... moral rectitude . Had it not been for the influence of recent publications on Masonry , delineating its moral tendency , its science , and its philosophy , I am persuaded the Order would not now have been in existence . Half a century ...
... moral rectitude . Had it not been for the influence of recent publications on Masonry , delineating its moral tendency , its science , and its philosophy , I am persuaded the Order would not now have been in existence . Half a century ...
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... morals , and the diffusion of a genial system of science and philosophy , which would essentially conduce to the best interests of religion and virtue . Scopwick Vicarage , Aug. 14th , 1843 . PROGRAMME OF THE MASONIC MANUAL . THE author ...
... morals , and the diffusion of a genial system of science and philosophy , which would essentially conduce to the best interests of religion and virtue . Scopwick Vicarage , Aug. 14th , 1843 . PROGRAMME OF THE MASONIC MANUAL . THE author ...
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... morality , Masonic polity , in fine , every thing important and interesting has been carefully selected , to add to the illumination of the " Masonic Manual . " But while the affairs of Masonry have been its prominent trait , no pains ...
... morality , Masonic polity , in fine , every thing important and interesting has been carefully selected , to add to the illumination of the " Masonic Manual . " But while the affairs of Masonry have been its prominent trait , no pains ...
Page xxv
... moral point of view 137 ARGUMENT XV . On the Secrecy of Masons , and on the Evidences to prove that their Morality was originally deduced from the School of Pythagoras , the Basilidean System , and the Druidical Law 145 ARGUMENT XVI ...
... moral point of view 137 ARGUMENT XV . On the Secrecy of Masons , and on the Evidences to prove that their Morality was originally deduced from the School of Pythagoras , the Basilidean System , and the Druidical Law 145 ARGUMENT XVI ...
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Page 44 - I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Page 266 - religion ' means the love and wor"ship of God and the love and service of man. We believe the "Scripture that of a truth God is no respecter of persons, but that "in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is "accepted of Him.
Page 254 - What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?
Page 306 - He that backbiteth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his neighbour, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Page 44 - If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Page 101 - This is the law of the house ; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
Page 221 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
Page 155 - And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites : and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over ; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite ? If he said, Nay ; then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth : and he said Sibboleth : for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan : and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Page 194 - In the state you are to be a quiet and peaceful subject, true to your government and just to your country ; you are not to countenance disloyalty or rebellion"' but patiently submit to legal authority, and conform with cheerfulness to the government of the country in which you live.
Page 158 - ... submitted to by the contending brethren; and if that submission is impracticable, they must, however, carry on their process, or lawsuit, without wrath and rancor, (not in the common way,) saying or doing nothing which may hinder Brotherly Love, and good offices to be...