The Masonic Manual; Or, Lectures on Freemasonry ...1843 - 311 pages |
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... necessary to address you in editing a new work on Masonry . Many among you are aware that a MASONIC MANUAL was wanted , both for lodges and individuals , in order to supply a summary of the principles and duties of the Brother- hood ...
... necessary to address you in editing a new work on Masonry . Many among you are aware that a MASONIC MANUAL was wanted , both for lodges and individuals , in order to supply a summary of the principles and duties of the Brother- hood ...
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... necessary obligations which guard Masonry , as if by " a flaming sword , " ) constituted merely a secret club of Jacobins , as sanguinary as the original conspirators who met in the Rue de St. Jacques . His charges thus fall to the ...
... necessary obligations which guard Masonry , as if by " a flaming sword , " ) constituted merely a secret club of Jacobins , as sanguinary as the original conspirators who met in the Rue de St. Jacques . His charges thus fall to the ...
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... necessary state of dependence on , and at the same time bring us into the world with inclinations of enmity and cruelty towards each other , is a contradiction so palpable , as no man can assert , consistently with a reverential notion ...
... necessary state of dependence on , and at the same time bring us into the world with inclinations of enmity and cruelty towards each other , is a contradiction so palpable , as no man can assert , consistently with a reverential notion ...
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... necessary to the well - being of society , are fundamental laws of nature , and bear the stamp of divine authority . This will more evidently appear from the follow- ing consideration . When the Grand Architect of the universe had with ...
... necessary to the well - being of society , are fundamental laws of nature , and bear the stamp of divine authority . This will more evidently appear from the follow- ing consideration . When the Grand Architect of the universe had with ...
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... necessary occupations and injure their families , who imagine they have a just cause to pour out all their invectives against the whole body of Freemasons , without considering or knowing that our constitutions and principles are quite ...
... necessary occupations and injure their families , who imagine they have a just cause to pour out all their invectives against the whole body of Freemasons , without considering or knowing that our constitutions and principles are quite ...
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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...