The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 19

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on every guidepost

all-important fact

thriving of such a cross-purpose antithesis cannot stop

the

as

And such an

end.

ist

till

diverging result within the holy precincts.

and

to opposite conclusions

our moral and

by the simple

both

issues,

A

scientific views.

fact

our social and

for

its

must lead necessarily

It

political,

which becomes self-evident

that Revelation reveals not only holy

observation

mysteries, but also proclaims irrevocable principles and immutable

ordinances demanding obedience; and that, on the contrary, under

sway of Symbolism

the

and

The

doubt,

jurist

therefore, this all

is

by the promulgated to-day becomes injustice

stated

is

what was right

that, therefore,

to-morrow, as soon as that law

No

contrivances,

not hesitate publicly to declare that

no right except that which

is

and

law,

camp does

symbolical

the

in

there

own

principles are man's

all

moral ordinances self-made and conventional.

all

repealed.

important and dominating antithesis

should clearly have been caught by every student, and Symbolism

once antagonized by every Christian man,

at it

had made

its

appearance in

nowhere the case

was

Freemasonry borrowed behind

circle,

its

care

unfold

to

exoterically

new

hide

to

real

its

as

poetry

by attaching

its

prefers

blossom

full

the

life

once

I

as felt

and

to

only

in its

this

accommodation

to the

it

achieved at once as the highest

confesses

holy history the alluring character of

mere symbolical

utterances.

I

still

its

actions of

remember how

shocked by the church performances of a distinguished

secret whatsoever to faith,

meaning

existing religion has always been

what the church

who

adherent of the new system,

tian

Even

of the parasite,

the legend and the myth, and finally by interpreting

worship

tide.

radicles into the delicate rind of the Chris-

its

thought,

leading

by taking reality.,

took

Accommodation

stem.

tian

likes

and

entering

stealthily

a

mysterious curtain of successively higher degrees. So

the

Symbolism always esoteric

of such

life

This, however,

absolute form.

rise

our actual

in

symbols from the then existing church

its

and

corporations,

building

its

the

at

if

and

whom

me

in private

three days later

solemnly reading what

conversation

made no

of his absolute apostacy of the old Chris-

in the

Book

I

saw mounting the

of the Kings

is

pulpit,

written about

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