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Show [ *3 ] lj ttonage, many great Things were done, to the immortal j Honour of the Craft. The M A G I , and Learned M A S O N S of the Eaft, who jj were converfant in the Cab alia of the Jews, and Mythologies of the Chaldeans and Egyptians, are efteem'd j among Mafons to be the firft w ho couch'd the M . or G. j Mafonry under the O, and certainly no Spmbols, (if > thoroughly considered,) can be more expreflive of the j. Things aim'd at, than the Mafons Symbols are, Thefe, with all other Articles in Free Mafonry, have been handed down to us by a very lingular and faithful • Method, which (as heretofore) will continue on through all fucceeding Ages, 'till that high Time, when all faithful Brethren, who have been obedient to the Rules and Charges given them by their Lord and Supreme Mafter, fhall receive the Reward of their Labours from his Dili vine Hand, and be tranflated into his Reft 5 whilft thofe '^wicked Mafons, who rejected the Lapis Augularis* which (now to their great Confufion) they fee is become the Cape Stone; fhall receive Puniihmcnt inftead of Re-ward, for fpoiltng the Work of the grand Architect, by 1 introducing Confufion inftead of Order, and blending the two Oppofites of Light and Darknefs together. Thefe ]l erect vain Fabricks, according to their own depraved I-maginations, fupporting them by Ignorance, Debility and t; Deformity, which, when the Tempefts blow, come down • with mighty Ruin on the Builders Heads, Let the Names : of thofe be eras'd out of the Book M , and their Devices Tcatter'd as Duft before the Winds, M O S E S , who was faithful in GOD's Houfe, was < order'd to take the.Shoes from off his Feet; and why? becaufe the Place whereon he flood was Holy Ground. May not all Mafons, who approve thcmielves faithful in the faid Houfe, be laid in fome Senfe to do fo too ? ^ By Mofes G O D gave fSanction to the Religion of Nature, and a Summary of its Laws to the World, aa alfo |