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The Revelations of a Square; Exhibiting a Graphic Display of the Sayings and Doings of Eminent Free and Accepted Masons
The Revelations of a Square Exhibiting a Graphic Display of the Sayings and Doings of Eminent Free and Accepted Masons Author:George Oliver General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Subjects: Freemasonry Social Science / Freemasonry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books... more ».com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. THE SCHISM. -- DR. MANNINGHAM. 1747 -- 1760. " She teacheth Temperance and Prudence, Justice and Fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in their life." -- Solomon. " Thys booke is not for every rude and unconnynge man to see, but to clerkys and very gentylmen that understands gen- tylnes and scyence." -- Caxton. " Conscia mens recti famae mendacia ridet." -- Ovid. " I Have been thinking, sir," the Square continued, " how very extraordinary it is that the French Masons, as intelligence was brought over to this country from time to time, should have been so blind to the truth, or so ignorant of the legitimate principles of our divine Order, as to have instituted infidel societies in many of their chief cities, and invested them with the name of Masonry ; for such were the various Elus or Elected Masons, as they styled themselves, which about this time were springing up, like noxious weeds, all over the continent of Europe. But it is still more strange that any of the English Fraternity should have been so indiscreet as to have admitted their claims to brotherhood. In the year 1747, one of our members produced in the Lodge a pamphlet which had just made its appearance in London, as a translation from the French, professing to reveal the veritable secrets of the Order,1 hy describing the revised lectures and ceremonies ; and was, in fact, a catchpenny publication, written to pander to the morbid appetites of the curious, who are ever in search of the means of procuring illegitimate and doubtful intellige...« less