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A Defence Of Masonry,
beautiful passage in the 6 th Book of Virgil's iEneids . Anchises had been dead for some time ; and . Eneas , his son , professed so much duty to his departed father , that he consulted with' theThimasan Sybil / whether it were possible for him to descend into the shades below , in order to speak with him . The prophetess encouraged him to go ; but told him he could not succeed , unless he went into a certain placeand lucked a golden bough or shrubwhich he should
, p , carry in his hand , and by that means obtain directions where he should find his father . The words are well translated by Dryden , viz . . in the neighbouring grove There stands a tree ; the Queen of Stygian Jove Claims it her own : thick woods and gloomy night
Conceal the happy plant from mortal sight ! One bough it bears , but , wondrous to behold , The ductile rincl and leaves of radiant gold ; This from the vulgar branches must be torn , And to fair Proserpine the present born , Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies ; The first thus rent , a second will arise , And the same metal the same room supplies .
The willing metal will obey thy hand , Following with ease . Anchises , the great preserver of the Trojan name , could not have been discovered but by the help of a bough , which was plucked with great ease from the tree ; nor , it seems , cotikh Hiram , the Grand Master of MASONRY , have been found , but by the direction of a
shrub , which ( says the Dissector ) c . wie easily up . The principal cause of iEneas ' s descent into the shades was to enquire of his father the secrets of the Fates , which should sometime be fulfilled among his posterity . The occasion of the Brethren ' s searching so diligently for their Master , was , it seems , to receive from him the secret word of Masonry , which should be delivered down to their Fraternity in jifter ages . This remarkable verse follows :
Prreterea ] acet exanimum tibi corpus amici ; Heu , nescis ! The body of your friend lies near you dead ' , Alas , you knb-. o not ho-. v I This was Miscnus , that was murdered , and buried monte sub aerio , under an high hill ; as ( says the Dissector ) Master Hiram was .
But there is another story in Virgil , that stands in a nearer relation to the case of Hiram , and the accident by which he is said to have been discovered ; which is this : Priarnus , king of Troy , in the beginning of the Trojan war , committed his son Polydorus to the care of Polymnestor , King of Thrace , and sent with him a great sum of money : but , after Troy was taken , the Thracian , for the sake of the money , killed the young prince , and privately buried him : . / Eneas coining into that country , and accidentally plucking up a shrub that
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A Defence Of Masonry,
beautiful passage in the 6 th Book of Virgil's iEneids . Anchises had been dead for some time ; and . Eneas , his son , professed so much duty to his departed father , that he consulted with' theThimasan Sybil / whether it were possible for him to descend into the shades below , in order to speak with him . The prophetess encouraged him to go ; but told him he could not succeed , unless he went into a certain placeand lucked a golden bough or shrubwhich he should
, p , carry in his hand , and by that means obtain directions where he should find his father . The words are well translated by Dryden , viz . . in the neighbouring grove There stands a tree ; the Queen of Stygian Jove Claims it her own : thick woods and gloomy night
Conceal the happy plant from mortal sight ! One bough it bears , but , wondrous to behold , The ductile rincl and leaves of radiant gold ; This from the vulgar branches must be torn , And to fair Proserpine the present born , Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies ; The first thus rent , a second will arise , And the same metal the same room supplies .
The willing metal will obey thy hand , Following with ease . Anchises , the great preserver of the Trojan name , could not have been discovered but by the help of a bough , which was plucked with great ease from the tree ; nor , it seems , cotikh Hiram , the Grand Master of MASONRY , have been found , but by the direction of a
shrub , which ( says the Dissector ) c . wie easily up . The principal cause of iEneas ' s descent into the shades was to enquire of his father the secrets of the Fates , which should sometime be fulfilled among his posterity . The occasion of the Brethren ' s searching so diligently for their Master , was , it seems , to receive from him the secret word of Masonry , which should be delivered down to their Fraternity in jifter ages . This remarkable verse follows :
Prreterea ] acet exanimum tibi corpus amici ; Heu , nescis ! The body of your friend lies near you dead ' , Alas , you knb-. o not ho-. v I This was Miscnus , that was murdered , and buried monte sub aerio , under an high hill ; as ( says the Dissector ) Master Hiram was .
But there is another story in Virgil , that stands in a nearer relation to the case of Hiram , and the accident by which he is said to have been discovered ; which is this : Priarnus , king of Troy , in the beginning of the Trojan war , committed his son Polydorus to the care of Polymnestor , King of Thrace , and sent with him a great sum of money : but , after Troy was taken , the Thracian , for the sake of the money , killed the young prince , and privately buried him : . / Eneas coining into that country , and accidentally plucking up a shrub that