The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-11-14

Dear SIR
Thinking and bordering over the
cause for the remarkable outburst of
fanatical hatred and persecution
against the Khan, had almost de-
cided to sum up the entire matter
and call it quits, by remarking to my
self, GALL THESE FREE SCHOOLS
AND so MUCH IGNORANCE"
Then I recalled that there is a large
element of our society that purposely
excludes its young from our free
schools, therefore > it must be some
thing BESIDES FREE SCHOOLS
THAT CREATES the bigotry and ig-
norance, that becomes criminally open
in assaults upon the thing that their
fellow citizens, have with all pro-
priety and right chosen as desirable
to them. ...
| Mysticism
Almost since the beginning of time
men have been holding meetings of
all sorts; going through certain, Ito
outsiders,) mystic ceremonies. They
have in all ages chosen freakish non
mencleature to denominate the diff
ferent department, ceremonies and
passwords to their secret realms.
Men in all times have chosen, when
they have seen fit, to apparel them
selves in outlandish, and sometimes
heathenish costumes, to appear in
ceremonials that were intended to be
in honor of Supreme Being.
The great secret orders of the
world have added to themselves all
sorts of form and ceremony, until
some of them have become to resem-
BILE certain religious society, which
has always made a great ado about
comets and jewels, ring and regalia,
millinery and frumpery.
Such organizations and secret So
cieties have almost made themselves
deadening and disgusting; almost as
deadening as has that religious So
ciety, which permits whatever of the
Bible that is used by them, to be read
only in a dead language, so that the
GOSPEL WHICH HAS BEEN COM
MANDED TO BE PREACHED TO
EVERRY CREATURE FAILS,
THROUGH THEM, TO REACH
FURTHER THAN THE CHANGED
RAIL.
Those KOPYKAT organizations, in
their temples, or halls, or whatever
they call their meeting places, even
initiate and ape the parades of the
head of that religious society, when
he marches midst drawn swords of
the soldiery, and practices at being
the head of the church, the head Of
the State-and usurper of every
place IN heaven and earth. How they
do try to initiate that CHIEF HIGH
COCKALORUM, AS HE RULES
AMID POMP, SPLENDOR AND
MAGNIFICANCE. (PAID FOR BY
THE WORK OF POOR IGNORANT
BENIGHTED SOULS,) ON A
GRANDER SCALE THAN WAS
EVER THOUGHT OF BY THE
RICHEST KINGS WHO EVER
REIGNED.
Men Love Mystery
Men love mystery. They will go
far to choose their AIR CASTLE
TERMS. It is their desire to make
other men curious about them. They
go to such end that they sometimes
cause themselves to be held up to
ridicule. 1t is not infrequent that
we find Catholic editors holding up
the Shriners and their uniforms to
/ the ridicule of their readers, along
L. with their rites, ceremonies and names
of their different presiding officers.
, If one wants to know how great
| denunciation of Masons is demanded
! Of Catholic by the Pope, he needs but
to read the Encyclical Letters of Leo
XIII. There he will find, to incite
Catholics to hatred and bigotry, the
} FALSEST OF CALUMNIES UPON
MASONRY, it's rites and ceremonies.
Read the Catholic press and note
how it refers, to our Masonic breth-
rem as "pot bellied" "nit WITS" etc.
Man The Mystic
Mysticism knows no bounds, for it
takes long training for man to lose
his habit to desire to peep into the
beyond. Instead of taking his peep
in logical spiritual ways, man is like
ly to search every other way first.
Man permits his inauguration full
play. There are then but few human
beings who do not love mystery. To
mystify others seems to be the con-
Stunning desire of most human beings.
That is to large extent harmless,
and there is no reason why men
should not invent terms to suit what
they think they would like to be
spiritually.
Invisible Empire
1t was not wrong for man to in
vent an INVISIBLE REALM, nor an
INVISIBLE EMPIRE, but in those
two terms. 1 believe 1 have come to
find the greatest thunder that the
!, wilfully criminal foes of the Khan, use
to attempt its undoing. have won
dered if it were ignorance that pre-
vented them seeing the harmlessness
of the Khan INVISIBLE EMPIRE,
or if it were pure down right wilfull-