Masonically Inspired Essays

Death be not proud though you ultimately will succeed in separating the soul from its body, But let it not be on piecemeal basis, Like the throat being torn out of its roots and buried in the rough sands of the seas. Or the heart given as prey to the beasts of the fields or the vultures of the air, Or more especially its bowels taken thence and burned to ashes and the ashes cast to the four winds of heavens that no more remembrance may be had among men or Masons forever. So let the soul soar up to the heavens, there to receive judgment for its deeds while in the body. But let the decomposed particles merge the earth from whence it came, pulverized like dust to dust, earth to earth, or ashes to ashes, there to serve another soul and repeated into innumerable cycles till time shall be no more. So in what manner shall decomposition be? Will it follow that of Hiram Abif whose body was laid to rest three times, first in the rubbish of the Temple by the ruffians, next at the brow of a hill