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The celebrated Eckhof, the father of the German stage, who at first travelled about with a company of actors and finally settled at Gotha, was the first who followed this innovation. He was succeeded by Schroeder in Hamburg, who was equally industrious as a poet, an actor, and a Freemason.
The thinker may perhaps have been a Freemason, and his knowledge of the symbolism employed by that body may have had its share in the shaping of the star.
And furthermore, as girls naterally have a wish that the very things they need some one to direct 'em the most in sha'n't be known except by them they tell the secret to, I promise you, my dear, that I'll be as close as a freemason concernin' any privacy that you may trust me with, about any offer or courtin' matter of any kind."
He will prize it the more because of its antiquity.... No man can in perfection be 'made a Brother, no man can truly 'learn our mysteries, and practice them, or 'do the work of a Freemason, if he is not a man with body free from maim, defect and deformity." Report of a Special Committee of the Grand Lodge of New York, in 1848.
For in the masonic ritual the speculative Mason is reminded that, as the operative artist erects his temporal building, in accordance with the rules and designs laid down on the trestle-board of the master-workman, so should he erect that spiritual building, of which the material is a type, in obedience to the rules and designs, the precepts and commands, laid down by the grand Architect of the universe, in those great books of nature and revelation, which constitute the spiritual trestle-board of every Freemason.
The cunning mother thoroughly understood the freemason glance of his eye, and exclaimed, "Well, I see I am abandoned by all my children; but I will endeavor to bear it. I now leave you to yourselves to meditate and put in practice whatever plot you please against my happiness. Indeed, I know what a consolation my death would be to you all."
It was a revelation." I pretended to sneeze, so as not to burst out laughing; I felt inclined to roll on the ground with amusement. In about a minute I managed to say, indignantly: "And you received him, uncle, you? You, a Freethinker, a Freemason? You did not have him thrown out-of-doors?" He seemed confused, and stammered: "Listen a moment, it is so astonishing so astonishing and providential!
A journalist named Morgan, who had been a Freemason, announced his intention of publishing the inviolable secrets of the Society.
By means of a lightning-like discharge of symbols intelligible only to the Elect he retorted that a physician, who depended for his livelihood upon a legitimate practice among BONA FIDE patients, was not fit to be a freemason. Then the doctor urged the humanitarian aspects of the case.
Sometimes he essays a stately and graduated step, an erect and martial bearing, and seems full of the vast national importance of what he is about to communicate. But when at last he gains his destination, you are amazed to perceive that all he has to say is imparted by a Freemason touch of his cap, and a bow.
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