Daily Republican., 1880-03-22
MASONIC.
Rev. Il. PaysOn walton Considers
IL from b SwedoHbOrRfan stand
mint.

Rev. z. PsysOn walton Considers
it from b SwedoHbOrRfan stand
point.
"When Michael Angelo" said Rev.
Z. Payson Walton, in opening his leo
tare on "Freemasonry, FROM Sweden
borgian standpoint" to small audi
ence at the City Hall, last night, "was
asked how it was that he brought forth
such wonderful things from the mar
BILE, he replied that the statue was in
the marble and could be found for the
seeking. 80 it is In Free Masonry,
and the great truths 1t contains can
not be understood until trouble has
been taken to find them out"
The speaker then applied the key
or science Of correspondence to the un-
folding of the religious truths, which,
he said, were hiddsa in masonry, and
affirmed that there were three stereo-
typed symbols of religion as old as the
Bible; one in art, one in society and
one in the church: viz: the great pyra-
mid, masonry and the T..bie. Eaeh Of
these is an allegory, yelling the sacred
mysteries of mans regeneration. The
only key TO these allsgories was the
science of correspondences. revealed by
God through Swedenborg. Inexplain-
ing this science It was claimed that all
things In nature were Gods thoughts
or truths clothed in a msterial dress;
and that is what the material thing
did, for the material world was the kew
or clue by which we might find out
what the corresponding truth Is doing
for mans regeneration. and Al
masons generally were not aware
of the higher truths, thus un-
yelled by Swedenborg, in their rites
and ceremonies, so the churches would
remain in darkness as TO the Divine
significance Of allegory, parable and
dark sayings of old, until the "Book
sealed with seven seals" was opened
by this "Key" of all sacred mysteries,
the science of oorrespondences. The
lecturer Eaye brief but detailed explan-
ations as TO the way in which MASONRY
represented each Creative day in the
new or spiritual creation of man.
In closing he gave a brief resume Of
his theories as follows: "We have
affirmed that masonry as interpreted
by the science of oorrespondences is
spiritual life symbolized; that while 1t
teaches the doctrines of religion tits not
nor never can be a substitute or rival Of
the church, that the science of corres-
pondence, though it is now little un-
derstood and was for long time for
gotten, vet when masonry was ipstitu-
ed this science furnished our Order
with an exact and accurate system of
symbols. whose hidden significance
like the long hidden ores and oils en-
bowled in the earth-will one dav proya
A mine of great richness and vajna to
mankind. that every part of Solomon's
Temple. every ornament and article Of
furniture have their couaterpart or like
ness in that spiritual tepaple. which Ia
being built up in every christian char
acter: that the initiation. passing ana
raising of the candidates in masonry.
accurately represent the three stages.
repentanoe. reformation and sancti-
fication. through which all must
pass in the regeneration of our natures:
that as work must he performed in each
of the degrees. before the candidate can
be raised 10 a higher degree. SO each
dav of our spiritual creation Of repen-
Grafton must be filed mn with tempta-
tiou-work in which some new evil In
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