Fwd: H.F.

[Ric Ben-Safed]

This was found in the Brotherhood of the Union constitution and bylaws: Thus Lippard is linking the Brotherhood of the Union with the spirit and philosophy of the Illuminati and the Rosicrucians.

-Ric 

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From: Ric <rdb...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:10 AM
Subject: H.F.
To: Ric at Gmail <rdb...@gmail.com>

The secret orders of the present day are but the broken details of a Great Order of Brotherhood, which at one time extended its mysterious Circle over the entire Globe.  In far distant ages,when man was enslaved by the Oppressor he asserted a diviner freedom, in the ceremonies of the secret Brotherhood.  Trampled upon by Kings and Priests, in the outer world, he retreated to the shadows of the cavern and forest, where the rites of the pure Brotherhood--established by the Seers and Priests of the people, in ages far removed into the daybreak of time --were taught in all their solemn beauty, and treasured by banded hearts with love and awe.
    Of this great Order, many wrecks survive, even at the present day.  They are but the chaotic fragments of a former world--the shattered but glittering remains of that great Mirror, which thousands of years ago, reduced the divine images of Truth, Hope, Love, --the Brotherhood of Man and the Majesty of God, in the human soul.
    Our order, alone, has preserved its purity through the long night of ages.  Forty centuries ago the H.F. shone into the hearts of men, on this continent and in the old world.  Now, when the Old World has become a wilderness of crimes, and the memorials of the great people, who dwelt in the new , have been blotted out, in the darkness of the centuries, the H.F. still lives, and glows over the American Continent.
    Its mysterious symbols are written alike in the pyramids of Egypt, and in the monuments of Mexico.  The Druids who, beneath the shadows of the oak, reverenced the H.F., were Brothers of our Order.  The Rosicrucians, who in the middle ages revealed the knowledge of God, the destiny of man, in their shrouded councils, derived their knowledge and their symbols from the H.F.
    The Illuminati, who gave the first impulse to the purer principles of the French Revolution--in which Lafayette and Washington firmly believed--only called into action the Mysteries of the H.F.
    Our own Revolution was created, directed, achieved, by this Brotherhood, who, encompassing Camp and Council, Altar and Home, with their Magic Circle, kept their name, their very existence, a solemn secret from the world without the Order.  When the Order was known at all, by any name, it was simply called the Brotherhood of the Continental Union.
    Under a name somewhat similarm, we now reveal the Order to the World, reserving for the silence of our Circle the holier name, which we can only pronounce to those without the letters H.F.    
    We  have done more.  We have shrouded the honorable and venernable degrees of the Order, under names, titles, rites, and ceremonies, altogether peculiar to this continent , and thoroughly American. We have invested our mysteries with a two fold glory--one shines into the far distant past, and reveals the ancient grandeur of the H.F.--the other glows upon the deeds, the men of the revolution, and perpetuates them by impressive rites, forever.  We have added to the original vow of the H.F. --that tender and awful invocation of Brotherhood--another vow, which obliges every Brother to maintain, at all hazards, the sanctity of the American Union.
    As it stands now, our Order not only enforces Brotherhood, protects the widow, cherishes the Orphan, follows every Brother to the grave, with its Love, Truth, Hope, but it also dignifies Labor in all its ceremonies, appeals to the Men who toil with its impressive rites,seizes the intellect of the land with its sympathy for suffering genius, but taking the stand upon the graves of our fathers, it utters this solemn affirmation:  The American Union--reared in the blood and tears of the martyrs--is the last altar of human freedom on the globe; a holy shrine, sacred forever to the Brotherhood of Man.  We will maintain and defend that Union, even to the latest breath.
    Can an Order like this do harm?  Can it help fail to do good?  Its rites are disfigured by no ridiculous mummery, it's obligations need no blasphemous oaths to bind the Brothers into one.  The most conscientious, in regard to secret societies , will find nothing in the H.F. to alarm their religious or political principles.
    Come with us, then,, ye who love Man--our Brother, that country which is our home, that God who is our father!
    Lay your hand upon our Altar, affirm your belief in God, resolve to maintain the American Union, and with rites more beautiful from their mystery, you will become a Brother of the Union of the H.F.