 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1912 - 508 pages
...Maconnerie d'Adoption." (Thory, Ada Lot.. i., 320.) Libertine. The Charges of 1722 commence by saying that "a Mason is obliged by his tenure to obey the...be a stupid Atheist, nor an irreligious libertine." (Constitutions, 1723, p. 50.) The word "libertine" there used conveyed a meaning different from that... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1912 - 508 pages
...Maçonnerie d'Adoption." (Thory, Acta Lot., i., 320.) Libertine. The Charges of 1722 commence by saying that "a Mason is obliged by his tenure to obey the...be a stupid Atheist, nor an irreligious libertine." (Constitutions, 1723, p. 50.) The word "libertine" there used conveyed a meaning different from that... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Ontario - 1913 - 204 pages
...GOD AND RELIGION A Mason is obliged by Ms tenure to obey the moral law, and if he rightly understand the art he will never be a stupid atheist nor an irreligious libertine. He, of all men, should best understand that God seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh at the outward... | |
 | 1914 - 470 pages
...songs." It then deals in two paragraphs with the history, followed by one as to the charges, quoting " A Mason is obliged by his tenure to obey the moral law: and that his relation to the lodge remains indefeasable, tho" he should prove a rebel against the state,... | |
 | Andrew Edward Breen - Catholics - 1916 - 356 pages
...Constitutions,' as first published, Article I. contains the Freemason's rule concerning God and Religion: 'A Mason is obliged by his tenure to obey the moral...be a stupid Atheist nor an irreligious Libertine. But though in ancient times Masons were charged in every country to be of the religion of that country... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - Freemasonry - 1916 - 504 pages
...what the Institution demands of a Mason in reference to his religious belief in the following words: "A Mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law; and if he rightly understands the artj he will never be a stupid atheist nor an irreligious libertine. But though in ancient times Masons... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1917 - 552 pages
...which, in its first general statement of belief, purpose and command, expressed itself as follows : "A Mason is obliged by his Tenure to obey the moral...be a stupid Atheist nor an irreligious Libertine. But though in ancient times Masons were charged in every country to be of the religion of that country... | |
 | 1917 - 1434 pages
...a Mason. "THE OLD CHARGES OP THE FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS." I. — Concerning God and Religion. — A Mason is obliged by his tenure to obey the moral...be a stupid atheist nor an irreligious libertine. But though in ancient times Masons were charged in every country to be of the religion of that Py P... | |
 | African American freemasons - 1919 - 960 pages
...as convincing or logical. For example, he says : The very fact that Anderson's Constitution declared that "a Mason Is obliged by his tenure to obey the moral law," implied at once the necessity for a belief in the existence of a Supreme Being, for whence comes the... | |
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A mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law; and if he rightly understands the art, he will never be a stupid atheist, nor an irreligious libertine. 
