Swedish-Zinnendorf Ritual

II. Specifically = German System.

Actions of the Masonic Order.

see XIV and seq. 111

3. Would it be possible for this Order to contend against religion?
Before you enter the Order, you are assured that nothing happens within it that contends against God and religion; thus, the fear must fall away, and one is concerned in every way not to accept anyone of whom one does not know, or only suspects, that he is an atheist or deist, or neglects the duties and exercises that religion requires. How does one accept someone into a genuine and good lodge who is not a good Christian?

see XIV and seq. 111 and 112

4. But since there are different churches and different opinions in the Christian religion, might one have the intention in this Order to build upon the decay of one and the growth of another?
Also a Unitarian?

In an Order in which every Christian, to whichever church he may profess, can obtain entry and thus receive the secrets of the Order, it is impossible to harbor the secret intention of founding one assembly upon the decay of another, for the difference in the way of thinking would certainly cause a separation among the brothers in such an undertaking and overturn the entire Order.

see XIV and seq. 112.

5. Perhaps the Order seeks to overturn all religion?
This can be impossible for a reasonable person to assume, since it is known that the most zealous followers and defenders of Christianity have been and still are members of the Order, and both before and after their admission have unanimously remained in it and have confessed and defended the very dogmas they had defended and expressed before. This truth requires no proof, because daily experience confirms it, and consequently such a society can as little have the purpose of overturning religion as the admission of a righteous owner can be built upon the decay of another.

see essay Litt. entirely.

36. What intentions does the Order have and what advantages is one to expect if one participates?
I must inform myself about this beforehand, because no reasonable person enters a society before he knows why he is entering. -- It is impossible to enumerate all the intentions and all the advantages that Freemasonry grants, for they are countless. However, I want to indicate some of them to you:
a. The Order unites such people who were otherwise perhaps through something or other in a close bond of friendship and promotes association among people.

b. In this society, one supports the advantages of the nobler part, of all and of the state of equality, in that the high and low, the rich and the poor are brothers among each other, without their property being diminished thereby. The higher serves the lower brother in everything that concerns him. The lesser now learns to spread the duties of friendship that are shown to him, and the obligations of the brothers do not consist in mere gestures of politeness, but come from the heart itself for the great part of the brothers.

So that would almost be one!

c. A member of this Order has access to all lodges that are found on the surface of the earth. He gains thereby the advantage that in any misfortune befalling him, such as looting, fire, shipwreck, etc., he always has an easy means in his hands to make himself known to sincere and ready brothers, and to receive help from them until he is in a position to help himself again, or to receive assistance in a foreign land until he can make arrangements with which it is possible to make provisions for himself in his fatherland.

If a Jew has the recognition sign, then it is almost the same as recognizing him by his nose or his name that is.

d. He has the pleasure, even in a foreign land in a place whose language is completely unknown to him, of recognizing his brothers whom he has never seen before, and that by means of the language and recognition signs customary and common in the Order, which at the same time serve him to distinguish a brother from any other human being who might otherwise perhaps never dare to claim this name for himself.

e. s. p. 44 44

NB

g. It is the Order's principal intention that all brothers fulfill their obligations first toward God, according to the principles of the religion in which they were instructed in childhood; secondly toward the authorities, according to the laws and regulations of the country in which they reside; thirdly toward their neighbor, under which all people are understood, enemies and persecutors not even excluded, according to the laws of religion, of nature, and of equity.

also the Jews? !

Laws of the Masonic Assembly.

and

see XIV. p. 51

5. A seeker who has been publicly accused before a court because of special opinions in the new apostolic teaching, or one who is notorious because of gross and dishonorable crimes or because of unnatural or inhuman vices, is excluded from the Order by a single black ball.
(This third article has been changed later as follows:
No one can be accepted into the Order if he does not harbor an irrevocable devotion to his religion, to his authorities, to his fatherland, and to good morals.