Ernst and Falk: Dialogues for Freemasons, Continuation

For example.

For example! Take this very relationship between the *** These asterisks in the original text refer to the Knights Templar. In the 18th century, many "Strict Observance" Masonic lodges claimed a direct historical descent from the medieval Templar order. and Freemasons. It may well be that it was once necessary and good to let nothing be known of it—but now—now, on the contrary, it could become highly ruinous if one continues to make a secret Geheimniß of this relationship. Rather, one should openly acknowledge it, and only determine the proper point The specific historical juncture or conceptual intersection at which the *** were the Freemasons of their time.

May I know it, this point?

Read the history of the *** with care!