Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-21
gEHPHIS APPEAL
mAsoNIC INTELLIGENCE.



The Eightesnth Degree, or knight OF
Rose CrOix, teaches the Initiate that God
is good and merciful, and loves and sym
pathizes with the creatures be has made; +;
that His fiBger Is visible 10 all the move
ments Of the moral, intellectual and ma
terisl universe; that we are His children,
the Objeets-of His pRterDal care and re-
gard that ah men are our bfothers,
whose wants we are TO supply, their
errors TO pardon. their opinions to tole-
rate, theiF injuries to forgive that man
has an Immortal soul, free will, right
10 freedom Of thought and action; that
all men are equal ia Gods sight; that
We best serve God by humility, meek
ness, gentleness, kindness and the other
virtues which the lowly can prsetiee as
well as the lofty; this is the new Law,
the Word, for which the world had
waited and pined so long; and every
true knight Of the Rose CrOix will re-
we're the memory Of Him who taught it,
and look indulgently even on those who
assign 10 him o character far above bis
own conceptions or belief, even to the
extent of deeming him divine.
Hear Philo, the Greek Jew: "The
soul, unequally guided,
sometimes towards abundance and some
times towards barrenness, though ever
advancing, is Illuminated by the primi
tive ideas, the rays that emanate from
the Divine Intelligence, whenever il as- /
cends towards the Sublime Treasures. /
When, on the contrary, it desoends, and /
is barren, il falls within the domain of
those Inelligenees that are termed An
gels, for, when the soul is deprived /
of the ligh OF God, which leads it to the
e
more than afseble and secondary light, /
which gives +, not the understanding OF /
things, but that of words only, as in this /
baseT world.
-. Let the uarrow-souled Withdraw,
having their esH sealed up! We com
municste the divine mysteries 70 these
only who have received the sacred initi-
alton, to those wh' practice true piety,
and who are not eHlayed by the empty
pOmp of words, or tie doctrines of the
pagans.
-. o, ye 1nidates,Ye whose ears are
receive this il your souls, as a.
mystery never TO be los! Reveal it to
no Profane! Keep and 'ontain it within
as an incOTruptible treasure,
NOT like gold or silver, bus more precious
than everything beside for ii is the
knowledge of the Great tause, of Ma
ture, and Of that which is corn OF both.
And if YOU meet an Initiate ,besiege him
with your prayers, that he cnceal from
you no new mysteries that he uay know,
aud rest not until you have obtained
them For me, although ! wasinitiated
in the Great Mysteries by Anses. the
Friend of Cod, yet, having seH Jere.
miah, l recognized him not onF as an
Initiate but as q HierOphant; AMI fol-
low bis school"
We. ike him, recognise all Utilities as
our Brothers. We belong TO no OneGeed
or school. In all religions theTs is
basis Of Truth in all there is pure
Morality. All that teach the cadinal I
tenets Of Masonry we respect; all zach
ers and reformeTs of mankind we amire
and revere. ".a
Masonry has too her mission to per
form. With her traditions reschiRg %
the earliest times, and her symbols dal- !
ing further back than even the monu
mental history Of Egypt extends, she in
vites all mel Of all religions to enlist un-l
der her banners and to war against evil,
ignorance aId wrong.