Ernst and Falk: Dialogues for Freemasons, Continuation

How seriously you can say such things! —

By all that is holy! No more seriously than they actually are.

If only that were the case! — But what about the new *** original: "<em></em>*" — In the context of Lessing’s work, these asterisks refer to the "Templars" or the "Strict Observance," a branch of Freemasonry that claimed direct descent from the medieval Knights Templar., God willing?

Especially those!

You see! You have nothing to say about them. For the *** Knights Templar did at least once exist, whereas gold-makers alchemists and spirit-summoners perhaps never existed at all. And it is certainly easier to explain how Freemasons relate to such creatures of the imagination than how they relate to real ones.