Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-11-15
All There is of Masonry is There

VOICE Oh MdSOnry.
All There is of Masonry is There
AS tho years glide by, bealirg us
Oh their wings To the bourne where
time shall lie no longer, we are the
ibofo deeply impressed by the fact
that in the Blue Lodge is found all
the substantials that attach TO Free
ninsonry. In 80 saying we have no
disposition to dispalnge what are
termed the Higher Degrees" We
have taken much comfort, instruction
and iinpressiveness in Chapter, Coun
Gil, Com,nandery and Scottish Rite.
but as tho child to its mother, the
wanderer to his early home, the flow.
er to the sun, so turn We to the first
three degrees in ancient craft Mason
ry with the fully realized knowledge,
that nothing can be added to them
them which contributes Il fresh know
ledge, fresh wisdom, fresh view
OF the ethical philosophy of Frccma-
sorry, that III not found embodied in
the system Of speculative Masonry
The Blue lodge is the root and trunk
of massive tree, of which all else in
Freemasonry are the branches, buds,
leaves, blossoms; and humanity bless
ed and benefited, the fruit.
With the degrees of tho Gov .;i''
I, g. I, .ss,s..1.rs n, UnQ r"i 'u'tncli,
: <. s. e. NJ, ancient craft Masonry
concludes. Christian knighthocd is
but a graft on The parent tree, the
Council tells The story Of an episode
in the history of King Solomon and
it's annex Of tic snpercxcollent, that
of the last King Of }utea; TIL Chap
ter elnbcrates the restoration of a
cnptiTe people, n ruined city aud tenn
pie ond the restoration Of q long lost
law and obsolete government to the
elnancipated Hebrews. The Templar
Is brought out OF tho old into The
new or Christian dispensation. and
while but the adopted child of an
eient craft Masonry, serves to unite
the past with the present, the old
with the new, the typical with the
actual OF spiritual in the Christian
dispensation, and all are united to
the trunk OF tse tree IA branches,and
derive subsistence erom the original
uoots.
But the philosophy OF the first
second and third degrees, in speech
-ativc Freemasonry gees, deeper THAI
history in the old, or the stimulation
of the soldier monk in the crasades
It. presents mali in state Of nesure
under n condition OF symbolic relig
ion, and snally- when both the form
or have failed TO satisfy the yearnings
aof the soul after knowledge of g. ia
ture, it shows him the death of the
mortal and the resurrection of The
immortal through the Lion of the
tribe OF JUDAH who has brought tc
light life and immortality from the
Rutrefaction and ceremoDts of the
tomb. On these fundamental ashlnr:
all else i'll Freemasonry has bee,
built. There may oe more .elabora
zion and consequently fresh i'm
pressiveness, but it is tho sam,
thought, the same facts, the same re
suits more fully and possibly NOR
shri!binsly developed through situn
Moh, but no Few truth has been add
ed, no grander sublimity has been at
taohed, nor has the acton in the orea
oifa'na received anything more RS h
ascends the Masonic ladder, than
relteration of what he has already re
oei.ed. NAKED came | into th
world, said the man in tue land q
Uz. Back to. the conditions of in
poyerished' life goes the Masonic &c
phite down to the level Of tho con
ing from, and returning back 10 ID
bosom of Mother Earth. Over In
peninsula OF time he travels. Tie
taught to work wl,ilet is called tc
day. His employment lie deliueate
by symbolic Illustration aud hi
wages are paid in tho necessaries {
life, AS he approaches nearer to til