Freemasonry: Two Great Doctrines, The Existence of God and a Future State
Freemasonry: Two Great Doctrines, The Existence of God and a Future State, written by Brother Chalmers I. Paton, Past Master, No. 393 England, and is also the author of: "Freemasonry And Its Jurisprudence," "Origin Of Freemasonry," and ''Freemasonry: The Three Masonic Graces — Faith, Hope, Charity." This work was published in London in 1878. ( 190 pages)
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Preface:
...The religious character of Freemasonry has always appeared in the requirement of a belief in the doctrines of the Existence of God and of a Future State, as indispensable in every member of the Brotherhood and in every candidate for admission into it. It is manifested also by the place assigned to the Book of Divine Revelation as the Great Light, and in many other particulars to which it is unnecessary here to advert.
...The two great doctrines just mentioned are the fundamental doctrines of all religion. Religion can have no existence without them. Without a belief in the existence of God the very idea of religion cannot be entertained; and practically, as every one must perceive who thinks at all of the subject, there can be no real religion where there is not, along with this belief, that also in a future state, which, however, so necessarily springs out of it, that the one is hardly ever to be found unaccompanied with the other. Belief in these doctrines is necessary to animate a man to those noble pursuits which it is the aim of Freemasonry to promote and encourage, — to supply to him the motives and produce in him the feelings that alone can make him earnest in seeking his own highest intellectual and moral improvement, and in exerting himself to promote the welfare of his fellow-men; — it is necessary to make him even trustworthy, to entitle him to be regarded with confidence as a safe companion and associate. For these reasons a belief in these two great doctrines has by one of the ancient Landmarks been declared indispensably requisite on the part of everyone and to express my conviction that a firm persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, as a truth of Natural Theology, being once reached, the natural course for an honestly inquiring mind is to proceed on to inquiry concerning the Bible, if it is in reality the book of Divine Revelation, and thus concerting Christianity, if it is the true and only true religion, of which inquiries, fairly prosecuted, I firmly believe there can be but one result.
...I have been the more induced to prepare the present work for publication, because it is a notable fact that at the present time many of the most dangerous assaults against Christianity are directed against the first truths of the existence of God and of a future state. But on this point I deem it unnecessary to enlarge. The truth of the statement made is sufficiently well known to all intelligent and educated men. A melancholy fact it is that men boastful of their attainments in science and philosophy should seek to degrade themselves and all mankind to a mere highest place among brutes. What the moral effects would be if their teaching should prevail amongst the masses of mankind, history affords abundant evidence in its darkest and most terrible passages. But I have sought to oppose their error, not so much by discussing and refuting their sophistries as by direct evidence of the truth.
CHALMERS I. PATON.
Contents:
PART I. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. — PART II. A FUTURE STATE. — PART III. THE TWO GREAT DOCTRINES OF FREEMASONRY, IN THEIR RELATION TO ITS PRINCIPLES AND LAWS.
...Freemasonry aims at uniting together as much as possible, in the bonds of Brotherhood, for mutual helpfulness and the improvement and happiness of all, men of different religious opinions. Yet it founds upon the principle that religion is essential to the well-being of man; it requires every Brother to be faithful to his religious convictions, and it will have nothing to do with a man of no religion. To carry out this principle, and yet to make the Masonic Order as comprehensive as is consistent with it, every candidate for admission is required to profess his belief in two great doctrines., and only two, the Doctrine of the Existence of God, and the Doctrine of a Future State. These may be deemed, in one sense, the most essential doctrines of religion: they evidently lie at the very foundation of all religious belief, and without them there can be no religious hope, and no religious feeling......
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The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Preface:
...The religious character of Freemasonry has always appeared in the requirement of a belief in the doctrines of the Existence of God and of a Future State, as indispensable in every member of the Brotherhood and in every candidate for admission into it. It is manifested also by the place assigned to the Book of Divine Revelation as the Great Light, and in many other particulars to which it is unnecessary here to advert.
...The two great doctrines just mentioned are the fundamental doctrines of all religion. Religion can have no existence without them. Without a belief in the existence of God the very idea of religion cannot be entertained; and practically, as every one must perceive who thinks at all of the subject, there can be no real religion where there is not, along with this belief, that also in a future state, which, however, so necessarily springs out of it, that the one is hardly ever to be found unaccompanied with the other. Belief in these doctrines is necessary to animate a man to those noble pursuits which it is the aim of Freemasonry to promote and encourage, — to supply to him the motives and produce in him the feelings that alone can make him earnest in seeking his own highest intellectual and moral improvement, and in exerting himself to promote the welfare of his fellow-men; — it is necessary to make him even trustworthy, to entitle him to be regarded with confidence as a safe companion and associate. For these reasons a belief in these two great doctrines has by one of the ancient Landmarks been declared indispensably requisite on the part of everyone and to express my conviction that a firm persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, as a truth of Natural Theology, being once reached, the natural course for an honestly inquiring mind is to proceed on to inquiry concerning the Bible, if it is in reality the book of Divine Revelation, and thus concerting Christianity, if it is the true and only true religion, of which inquiries, fairly prosecuted, I firmly believe there can be but one result.
...I have been the more induced to prepare the present work for publication, because it is a notable fact that at the present time many of the most dangerous assaults against Christianity are directed against the first truths of the existence of God and of a future state. But on this point I deem it unnecessary to enlarge. The truth of the statement made is sufficiently well known to all intelligent and educated men. A melancholy fact it is that men boastful of their attainments in science and philosophy should seek to degrade themselves and all mankind to a mere highest place among brutes. What the moral effects would be if their teaching should prevail amongst the masses of mankind, history affords abundant evidence in its darkest and most terrible passages. But I have sought to oppose their error, not so much by discussing and refuting their sophistries as by direct evidence of the truth.
CHALMERS I. PATON.
Contents:
PART I. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. — PART II. A FUTURE STATE. — PART III. THE TWO GREAT DOCTRINES OF FREEMASONRY, IN THEIR RELATION TO ITS PRINCIPLES AND LAWS.
...Freemasonry aims at uniting together as much as possible, in the bonds of Brotherhood, for mutual helpfulness and the improvement and happiness of all, men of different religious opinions. Yet it founds upon the principle that religion is essential to the well-being of man; it requires every Brother to be faithful to his religious convictions, and it will have nothing to do with a man of no religion. To carry out this principle, and yet to make the Masonic Order as comprehensive as is consistent with it, every candidate for admission is required to profess his belief in two great doctrines., and only two, the Doctrine of the Existence of God, and the Doctrine of a Future State. These may be deemed, in one sense, the most essential doctrines of religion: they evidently lie at the very foundation of all religious belief, and without them there can be no religious hope, and no religious feeling......
Freemasonry: Two Great Doctrines, The Existence of God and a Future State
Freemasonry: Two Great Doctrines, The Existence of God and a Future State, written by Brother Chalmers I. Paton, Past Master, No. 393 England, and is also the author of: "Freemasonry And Its Jurisprudence," "Origin Of Freemasonry," and ''Freemasonry: The Three Masonic Graces — Faith, Hope, Charity." This work was published in London in 1878. ( 190 pages)
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Preface:
...The religious character of Freemasonry has always appeared in the requirement of a belief in the doctrines of the Existence of God and of a Future State, as indispensable in every member of the Brotherhood and in every candidate for admission into it. It is manifested also by the place assigned to the Book of Divine Revelation as the Great Light, and in many other particulars to which it is unnecessary here to advert.
...The two great doctrines just mentioned are the fundamental doctrines of all religion. Religion can have no existence without them. Without a belief in the existence of God the very idea of religion cannot be entertained; and practically, as every one must perceive who thinks at all of the subject, there can be no real religion where there is not, along with this belief, that also in a future state, which, however, so necessarily springs out of it, that the one is hardly ever to be found unaccompanied with the other. Belief in these doctrines is necessary to animate a man to those noble pursuits which it is the aim of Freemasonry to promote and encourage, — to supply to him the motives and produce in him the feelings that alone can make him earnest in seeking his own highest intellectual and moral improvement, and in exerting himself to promote the welfare of his fellow-men; — it is necessary to make him even trustworthy, to entitle him to be regarded with confidence as a safe companion and associate. For these reasons a belief in these two great doctrines has by one of the ancient Landmarks been declared indispensably requisite on the part of everyone and to express my conviction that a firm persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, as a truth of Natural Theology, being once reached, the natural course for an honestly inquiring mind is to proceed on to inquiry concerning the Bible, if it is in reality the book of Divine Revelation, and thus concerting Christianity, if it is the true and only true religion, of which inquiries, fairly prosecuted, I firmly believe there can be but one result.
...I have been the more induced to prepare the present work for publication, because it is a notable fact that at the present time many of the most dangerous assaults against Christianity are directed against the first truths of the existence of God and of a future state. But on this point I deem it unnecessary to enlarge. The truth of the statement made is sufficiently well known to all intelligent and educated men. A melancholy fact it is that men boastful of their attainments in science and philosophy should seek to degrade themselves and all mankind to a mere highest place among brutes. What the moral effects would be if their teaching should prevail amongst the masses of mankind, history affords abundant evidence in its darkest and most terrible passages. But I have sought to oppose their error, not so much by discussing and refuting their sophistries as by direct evidence of the truth.
CHALMERS I. PATON.
Contents:
PART I. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. — PART II. A FUTURE STATE. — PART III. THE TWO GREAT DOCTRINES OF FREEMASONRY, IN THEIR RELATION TO ITS PRINCIPLES AND LAWS.
...Freemasonry aims at uniting together as much as possible, in the bonds of Brotherhood, for mutual helpfulness and the improvement and happiness of all, men of different religious opinions. Yet it founds upon the principle that religion is essential to the well-being of man; it requires every Brother to be faithful to his religious convictions, and it will have nothing to do with a man of no religion. To carry out this principle, and yet to make the Masonic Order as comprehensive as is consistent with it, every candidate for admission is required to profess his belief in two great doctrines., and only two, the Doctrine of the Existence of God, and the Doctrine of a Future State. These may be deemed, in one sense, the most essential doctrines of religion: they evidently lie at the very foundation of all religious belief, and without them there can be no religious hope, and no religious feeling......
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Preface:
...The religious character of Freemasonry has always appeared in the requirement of a belief in the doctrines of the Existence of God and of a Future State, as indispensable in every member of the Brotherhood and in every candidate for admission into it. It is manifested also by the place assigned to the Book of Divine Revelation as the Great Light, and in many other particulars to which it is unnecessary here to advert.
...The two great doctrines just mentioned are the fundamental doctrines of all religion. Religion can have no existence without them. Without a belief in the existence of God the very idea of religion cannot be entertained; and practically, as every one must perceive who thinks at all of the subject, there can be no real religion where there is not, along with this belief, that also in a future state, which, however, so necessarily springs out of it, that the one is hardly ever to be found unaccompanied with the other. Belief in these doctrines is necessary to animate a man to those noble pursuits which it is the aim of Freemasonry to promote and encourage, — to supply to him the motives and produce in him the feelings that alone can make him earnest in seeking his own highest intellectual and moral improvement, and in exerting himself to promote the welfare of his fellow-men; — it is necessary to make him even trustworthy, to entitle him to be regarded with confidence as a safe companion and associate. For these reasons a belief in these two great doctrines has by one of the ancient Landmarks been declared indispensably requisite on the part of everyone and to express my conviction that a firm persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, as a truth of Natural Theology, being once reached, the natural course for an honestly inquiring mind is to proceed on to inquiry concerning the Bible, if it is in reality the book of Divine Revelation, and thus concerting Christianity, if it is the true and only true religion, of which inquiries, fairly prosecuted, I firmly believe there can be but one result.
...I have been the more induced to prepare the present work for publication, because it is a notable fact that at the present time many of the most dangerous assaults against Christianity are directed against the first truths of the existence of God and of a future state. But on this point I deem it unnecessary to enlarge. The truth of the statement made is sufficiently well known to all intelligent and educated men. A melancholy fact it is that men boastful of their attainments in science and philosophy should seek to degrade themselves and all mankind to a mere highest place among brutes. What the moral effects would be if their teaching should prevail amongst the masses of mankind, history affords abundant evidence in its darkest and most terrible passages. But I have sought to oppose their error, not so much by discussing and refuting their sophistries as by direct evidence of the truth.
CHALMERS I. PATON.
Contents:
PART I. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. — PART II. A FUTURE STATE. — PART III. THE TWO GREAT DOCTRINES OF FREEMASONRY, IN THEIR RELATION TO ITS PRINCIPLES AND LAWS.
...Freemasonry aims at uniting together as much as possible, in the bonds of Brotherhood, for mutual helpfulness and the improvement and happiness of all, men of different religious opinions. Yet it founds upon the principle that religion is essential to the well-being of man; it requires every Brother to be faithful to his religious convictions, and it will have nothing to do with a man of no religion. To carry out this principle, and yet to make the Masonic Order as comprehensive as is consistent with it, every candidate for admission is required to profess his belief in two great doctrines., and only two, the Doctrine of the Existence of God, and the Doctrine of a Future State. These may be deemed, in one sense, the most essential doctrines of religion: they evidently lie at the very foundation of all religious belief, and without them there can be no religious hope, and no religious feeling......
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