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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
buildings , composed of whatever materials , and calculated for whatever purposes , it cannot be construed into an unwarrantable liberty , to consider naval architecture as closely allied to the Masonic ait ; and in this particular and most extraordinary instance the Great Architect of Nature is represented as condescending to dictate the plan , and to assign the proportion of its parts . On board of this stupendous vessel Noahwith his three sonstheir four wivesancl the proper '
, , , number of animals necessary for continuing the several species , were preserved from the irresistible torrents that overwhelmed alL the rest of anhvatec ) nature ; the murine tribes excepted , which , during the flood , remained in their proper element . From these Masons , or four Grand Officers , thus miraculously preserved , the whole present race of mankind are descended .
This chosen family brought with them over the flood , and afterward communicated to their children , all the knowledge possessed by the old world . The first thing Noah did upon his landing , was to build an altar * , and offer a burnt sacrifice of every clean beast and fowl . God having accepted the sacrifice , blessed Noah , and gave him power over all living creatures , with a permission to eat them as freely as of the produce of the ground : he forbade him , however , fo eat the blood of animals , or to shed the blood of man ; commanding him- to punish manslaughter with death , and to replenish the earth
¦ With inhabitants . Being all of one language and speech , it came to pass , as they journeyed from the east toward the it > est f , the } ' found a plain in the land of Shinar , and dwelt there together as Noachidas , or sons of Noah , the first name of Masons . And when Noah ordered his sons and grandsons , in the year ioi , in which Peleg was born to Heber , to disperse and take possession of the several parts of the earthaccording
, to the partition he had made ; they , through fear of the bad consequence of separation , aud resolving to keep together , assembled in great numbers on the plains of Shinar I , to build a city and a tower whose summit might reach up'to heaven ! This extravagant idea was conceived in an age by far too remote and obscure for us to possess any authentic particulars concerning it ; but , beside the account we
have of this tower from Moses , the enormous pyramids of Egypt , which are probably not far short of it in antiquity , are to this day standing monuments of the grand designs mankind were then capable , of forming . Tlie incontrovertible evidence of these pyramid . , encourages us to repeat the loose notices which h ;;\ -e been handed down to us relating to the tower of Babel . —The foundation is reported to have been a square of huif a mile in compass , and the building to have consisted of eight square towers , rising in stages above each other , with an ascending passage on'the outside , all the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
buildings , composed of whatever materials , and calculated for whatever purposes , it cannot be construed into an unwarrantable liberty , to consider naval architecture as closely allied to the Masonic ait ; and in this particular and most extraordinary instance the Great Architect of Nature is represented as condescending to dictate the plan , and to assign the proportion of its parts . On board of this stupendous vessel Noahwith his three sonstheir four wivesancl the proper '
, , , number of animals necessary for continuing the several species , were preserved from the irresistible torrents that overwhelmed alL the rest of anhvatec ) nature ; the murine tribes excepted , which , during the flood , remained in their proper element . From these Masons , or four Grand Officers , thus miraculously preserved , the whole present race of mankind are descended .
This chosen family brought with them over the flood , and afterward communicated to their children , all the knowledge possessed by the old world . The first thing Noah did upon his landing , was to build an altar * , and offer a burnt sacrifice of every clean beast and fowl . God having accepted the sacrifice , blessed Noah , and gave him power over all living creatures , with a permission to eat them as freely as of the produce of the ground : he forbade him , however , fo eat the blood of animals , or to shed the blood of man ; commanding him- to punish manslaughter with death , and to replenish the earth
¦ With inhabitants . Being all of one language and speech , it came to pass , as they journeyed from the east toward the it > est f , the } ' found a plain in the land of Shinar , and dwelt there together as Noachidas , or sons of Noah , the first name of Masons . And when Noah ordered his sons and grandsons , in the year ioi , in which Peleg was born to Heber , to disperse and take possession of the several parts of the earthaccording
, to the partition he had made ; they , through fear of the bad consequence of separation , aud resolving to keep together , assembled in great numbers on the plains of Shinar I , to build a city and a tower whose summit might reach up'to heaven ! This extravagant idea was conceived in an age by far too remote and obscure for us to possess any authentic particulars concerning it ; but , beside the account we
have of this tower from Moses , the enormous pyramids of Egypt , which are probably not far short of it in antiquity , are to this day standing monuments of the grand designs mankind were then capable , of forming . Tlie incontrovertible evidence of these pyramid . , encourages us to repeat the loose notices which h ;;\ -e been handed down to us relating to the tower of Babel . —The foundation is reported to have been a square of huif a mile in compass , and the building to have consisted of eight square towers , rising in stages above each other , with an ascending passage on'the outside , all the