FRANKLIN ON
FREEMASONRY
Freemasonry
has tenets peculiar to itself.
They serve as testimonials
of character and qualifications, which are only conferred after due course of
instruction and examination. These are of no small value; they speak a
universal language, and act as a passport to the attentions and support of the
initiated in all parts of the world. They cannot be lost as long as memory
retains its power. Let the possessor of them be expatriated, shipwrecked or
imprisoned, let him be stripped of everything he has got in the world, still
those credentials remain, and are available for use as circumstances require.
The good effects they have produced are established by the most incontestable
facts of history. They have stayed the uplifted hand of the destroyer; they
have softened the asperities of the tyrant; they have mitigated the horrors of
captivity; they have subdued the rancour of
malevolence; and broken down the barriers of political animosity and sectarian
alienation. On the field of battle, in the solitudes of the uncultivated
forest, or in the busy haunts of the crowded city, they have made men of the
most hostile feelings, the most distant regions, and diversified conditions,
rush to the aid of each other, and feel a special joy and satisfaction that
they have been able to afford relief to a Brother Mason.
Benjamin Franklin
Initiated:
February 1730-1
Secretary: 1735-38
St. John's Lodge, Philadelphia
Junior Grand Warden: June 24, 1732
Grand Master: June 24, 1734
Provincial Grand Master, Boston: June 10, 1749
Provincial Grand Master, Philadelphia: June 1760
Deputy Grand Master: March 13, 1750
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
Benjamin FRANKLIN
(1706-1790): affiliι le 7 avril
1778 sera Vιnιrable de La Loge des Neuf Soeurs aprθs
Lalande en 1779
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