THE

STAR IN THE EAST.

THE

STAR IN THE EAST,

SHEWING

THE ANALOGY WHICH EXISTS

BETWEEN THE

LECTURES OF FREEMASONRY,

THE

MECHANISM OF INITIATION INTO ITS MYSTERIES,

AND THE

Christian Religion.

BY

GEORGE OLIVER, VICAR of clee,
Domestic Chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Kensington;
Author of "The Antiquities of Freemasonry.”

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GEO. B. WHITTAKER,

AVE-MARIA LANE.

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LONDON:

PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS, GREAT QUEEN-STREET.

PREF A СЕ.

WHEN a publication on a novel subject has issued from the press, the motives of the Author, and the question of expediency, are usually investigated with some degree of eagerness. I know not how far it may be considered necessary to state the numerous and complicated motives which have unitedly contributed to originate the following essay; but I may perhaps be permitted to enumerate three reasons, each amply sufficient to decide the