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Address
all
Communications
to
Contracts, special.
The Freemason,
Toronto.
J W.
COWAN.
Editor.
Hetard,
oldest Masonic
Magazine
CanaMan Crattdman
or $1.00
in
Canada.
if
paid
in
advance.
Published by the
TORONTO.
P'
N.
THERE
are
two forms
OR.
of
the speculative
speak to-night
Sin<\
will
inent.
How came
they to he separated
came
to
will
they
they
And
Pyramid,
to the great
connected with
on our Masonic
years.
The average
of the
life
years.
Now,
if
lost
believe
that
it
was arranged
Shem
in the
embody
all
tlie scientific,
geometrical, sociological, and every other kind of knowledge that would be profitable to the
God
ordered
Pvramid
ITO.
for
Shem
this
new
Great
Great Pyramid.
purpose
that
is
the
There are
five
its
You
are
to understand that
that
whvh we
ever
will
very
difficult
to mterpret
we know but little concernnow, and what we do know has come to us by the
scholars who had instruments to test and geometrical
ing
it
ripest
to
measure and
scientific
to south,
interior, or sectional
view
is
Pyramid cut
When
The
complete
tlic
feet in breadth
25 feet altogether, which is the sacred
cubit of the Scriptures. When complete, it rose like a sort
was
a stone
at
an}
swivel.
The secret entrance was
found until a few years ago, when John Taylor, a
London (Eng.) merchant, gave special study to the great
and came
it was measured
His studies enlisted the interest of
astronomers like Prof. Herschel and Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth.
These studied certain stars and conjunctions of stars,
and discovered tliat when their inclination would strike
the earth, they would strike Egypt
another minute calculation brought them to the Pyramid, and still another
to its north side, 300 inches east of the centre and fortynine feet from the ground.
Thus was discovered the
door and thereby produced positive proof that the builders of the Pyramid understood what the}' were doing
and were regulatmg things on earth according to the law
which regulates things in the heavens. There could be no
chance in a thing like that. The 300 inches east of the
centre, or the axis of the Pyramid, is just that which the
earth's axis is askew 'from the plane of its orbit, so they
symbolized the very rotation of our earth in that structure.
The door being placed forty-nine feet from the ground
corresponds with the inclination. Looking out at the stars,
once a year when the north star is at its lowest culmination,
30ir will see that star in line with one of the passageways
building,
off astronomically.
Temple.
Ill
tliat
tradition
The
comicclion was
between the operalivtthe speculative in Masonry, antl since tlien it has been
chiefly on tlie hne of the speculative.
I
believe we can
time
diuiiij,' tliis
lost
and
Masonry to the
Babel when there was ron-
construction of the
'
fusion of languages
Tower
of
iim
ay
Noah
peopl
>ng
them the
nd
when
Lve
to be understood in the
lid
signs
of
the
first
three degrees of
Masonry
enough
ial
an
lie
hit
this
Masonic language
b}'
of the
individual
collectively.
principles
as
well as
As an organization
principles
that
are
it
Christian in
make bold
their
very
(Applause)
to
or that,
is
The
a Christian.
troul)lc
is
conijMjsecl in
is
its
lar<(est
The Church of
all who
sense of
heaven.
tant,
now
livnif^s
Another nieaninf^
composed
is
who
of those
or
are
now
living
others
a|L(ain
Christians
(if
we
we
are Congregation-
Bond
Street Church.
makes
a Christian
that.
Masonry
It
is
whether he
is
in this organization or
What
Church therefore
is
before
it
Will you
tell
me
of
one
and charitable.
If
we
is
we
practise
Masonic body
if
yor. say
can say ^hat the
not a Congregational, a Methodist, or an
we
and
ties,
It
has
made
a chief point of
it
its
chari-
was found
who
and the
l)est need help
and a discrimination between these two classes
is essential.
We soon learn to know whether a member is
worth}' or not, as we become so intimately connected with
him and his habits and business, and if he demoralizes and
wastes himself and his means, he loses that strong Masonic
grip upon the charities of a Masonic Lodge.
We can dispense our charities equally as fairly and equitably as any
institution in the world if we choose to exercise our intelligence, thus bringing the really worthy cases to the front.
But if a member becomes unworthy of help we are under
no further obligation to him than to seek his reformation.
A good Mason aims to keep a firm Masonic hold on the
fraternity by being worthy, and then, should legitimate
misfortune overtake him, Masonic benevolence will surely
alter
wilful poor,
meagre and
found
in
limited.
Our
real
in
only
charities
its
in
is
to be
our benevolent
had
to be qualified in
;
when
itself
more
in other
in its non-charities,
stay disease
is
as
good as to cure
it
To
to prevent crime
is
Al
as wise as to punish
A man cannot
it.
own
welfare.
oij
l)e
a j^ood
Mason
Applause.)
do not
like to liear
make
demand
for lielp
upon
ni}-
brotlier-Masons,
will
now
to
writer of which
Toronto, December
15, 1888.
November
If so,
not honest enough to tell what else it taught ? That you were to reject
the Saviour, and dishonour Him by not even being allowed to mention
His name in your prayers. That it taught that you were bound by
oath to defend a Brother whether he was right or wrong. That the
oaths which they are compelled to take are unlawful, profane, barbarous, blasphemous and murderous.
If you were honest and a faithful watchman you would have told
them these things. A gentleman asked the late S. J. Hunter, a few
days before he preached for the Masons in Elm Street Church, how he
could consistently preach for them, knowing ;':^ e did that their oaths
were profane and murderous. He said that ;i'cir oaths were profane.
Yet after making such a confession he preached for them, and lauded
them up by saying that they pointed towards heaven, when he knew in
his heart that they pointed towards hell, that it is of the devil from top
If you take out the 15 or 20 per cent, of the money which
to bottom.
they receive by misrepresentation which they give to the poor, there is
not another streak of good in it. " But he loved the praise of men and
popularity more than the approbation of God," and I fear the same
might be said of you. () Watchman of Zicm, what an account you
will have to give
How you can unite in a religion in which all men can agree. Infidel,
Pagan, Mormon and Unitarian, and kneel before a pagan altar and say
Christless prayers, leaving Christ outside of the lodge as you leave your
over-shoes and coat, and then putting Him on when you come out, is
something I can't understand. You know that the Masons of France
i
lO
("hrist and God from their ritual, and you
know that all the mysteries of Masonry are borrowed from paganAnd you know that your Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, is a pagan
god. Then you must of necessity be a servant or slave, or both, of a
pagan god. You know you have in your lodge a column which represents
Baal-peor of the Moabites, called Thallas. You also know that the
Masons of New York two years ago last June passed a number of their
Shame
it.
Yours
There
is
R.
truly,
in
this letter.
(Applause)
letter,
who
present to-night,
is
may
be defective as Masons
imposed upon
in
that
we
Masonry
is
us, for
we
in
are imperfect.
not atheistical,
Masonry
men and
is not
Mason
atheistically inclined
unchristian
fraternize with
dists,
not opposed
on the contrary
That
is
where we receive the greatest amount of critiCongregationalists or Baptists or Methobut we are Masons.
It is because we are not
the point
cism.
them
it is
we
organizations
and a man
We are not
II
sectarian that
many
we
think
My correspondent
objects
tiiat
Why do we
Because these three
degrees were organ i;?ed thousands of years before our Lord
appeared on earth when neither men nor the prophets
prayed through Christ but directly to the great God. You
might as well destroy the Old Testament because it has
we
name
leave
it
not the
out in the
name
in
our prayer.
three decrees
first
of Christ in
as to sav that
it
Masons are
Christless
degrees.
(Applause)
taking in
all
in
races of
men who
name
in
come
my
But,
God and
friend,
of our Saviour
in
comes
the
as
in
most
ot
them) after
our Saviour sojourned on the earth. Masonry* soon recognized His divine presence, and soon pleaded with Hnn
when He became
set
you
right
the
Way,
the Truth
on that point
What
and the
does a
Can
Mason see
Life.
when he goes
into
his
12
'
altars of the
placed.
(Applause).
Masonry
seem
peculiar.
The All-Seeing Eye is to indicate, as I have
said, that the Divine Providence encloses us and the
that ma}-
Divine Eye seeth all our conduct. The letter " G " is also
very significant, and teaches great and wholesome truths.
This letter begins the word " Geometry," which is said to
be one of the most perfect of sciences
it is the seventh
;
letter,
and
illustrates the
geometrical figure in
As God
perfect
itself,
number
it is
a perfect
most
by the geometrical letter
*'
G."
in its form is geometrical.
*'A" quantity and quality; "B" that quantity and
" C "
<juality divided
that enclosed quantity opened up.
You need never go any further than " A," " B " and " C,"
because they contain all the curves and lines of the other
perfect
IS
the
great
twenty-three
" A,
"
letters.
and
is
As
contain
all
is
^3
Voii find
had very
down
to us
my
brother.
He
it.
The words
chesed) Keepers
"
;
in
means
other words,
"
" Secret
(Hebrew,
Masons," hence the
The word
set
means,
in
In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the
land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord, and it
shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of Hosts in the land
ol
Egypt.
H
Where
It is in
is
that pillar,
and
sign,
and
altar
and vitness
reat
iii.
9-17
01
th
How
mind
like that
And how
without
could yoU
dt
dt
th
^5
O Thou
whose laws
and cause,
Through whom the seasons go and conu-.
()
try our actions by the Plniiih.
Clreat Architect
Supremely move
effect
Admonish us upright
To
to walk,
by night
to lead
life,
so be our end,
May
sa}', in
apprentice time
degree,
it
is
Life
is
first
and
Vf
God.
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