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History Of Masonry.
HISTORY OF MASONRY .
[ Continued from Page 166 . 3
AI * I ER the erection of Solomon ' s , or , as some think , the second temple , the royal art was brought into GHEECE , where the Craft was encouraged to the utmost , and geometry every where cultivated with uncommon industry ; many noble structures were erected , which to this day shew their former magnificence and ° randeur though many of those early performances of the Greeks in architecture havbeen lost
e in the ruins of time . Indeed , we read of Dedalus , and his sons , as imitators of the Egyptians and Phoenicians ; of the little labyrinth in Crete , and the larger at Lemnos ; of the arts and sciences early at Athens and Sicyon , Candia , and Sicil y , before the Trojan war ; of the temples of Jupiter Olympius , Esculapius , & c . of the Trojan horse , and other things : but we are all in darkness * fableand
, uncertainty , till the Olympiads ; which began in the -54 th 3 * ear of Uzziah king of Judah , when some of their bri ght men began to travel . [ A . M . 3228 , before the foundation of Rome 28 yews before Christ 776 . ] So that their most antient famous buildings , as fhe citadel of Athens , the court of Areopagus , the ¦ Partlienioii " , or temple of Minerva , the temples of Theseus and Apollo , their porticos and forumstheatreand
, s gymnasiums , stately public halls , curious bridges , regular fortifications , ships of war , and magnificent palaces with thekbest statues and sculpture ; were all of them either at " first erected , or else rebuilt , after the temple of Zerubbabel . £ Before Christ 547-I 1 For Thales Milesius , their first philosopher , who orio-inalfy brought geometrywith great improvementsout of into
, , Egypt Greece , died eleven years only before the decree of C yrus ° and the same year , Pythagoras , his scholar , travelled into E gypt ; while Pisistratus , the tyrant of Athens , began to collect the first library in Greece .
{ . A . M . 34 80 . ] Pythagoras lived twenty-two years among the Egyptian priests , till sent by Cambyses to Babylon and Persia , where he acquired great knowledge among the Chaldean Magi . aris , and Babylonish Jews ; and returned to Greece in the year that Zerubbabefs temple was finished . [ A . M . 34 8 9 . ] He . became not only the founder of a new reli gion , but likewise of an . academy , or lodge of good to whom he communicated
geometricians ; as a secret * that invaluable proposition which is the foundation of all Masonry , of whatever materials or ' dimensions , called b y masons his . Heur ' ekabecause they think it was his own invention . ' ' After Pythagoras , geometry became the darling study of the Greeks ' - and their learned men applied its principles to mechanical purposes in general , as well as to operations in stone or brick . An j , as Masonry kept pace with geometry , so many lodges appeared , especially in the Grecian republics , where liberty , trade , and learning flourished
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History Of Masonry.
HISTORY OF MASONRY .
[ Continued from Page 166 . 3
AI * I ER the erection of Solomon ' s , or , as some think , the second temple , the royal art was brought into GHEECE , where the Craft was encouraged to the utmost , and geometry every where cultivated with uncommon industry ; many noble structures were erected , which to this day shew their former magnificence and ° randeur though many of those early performances of the Greeks in architecture havbeen lost
e in the ruins of time . Indeed , we read of Dedalus , and his sons , as imitators of the Egyptians and Phoenicians ; of the little labyrinth in Crete , and the larger at Lemnos ; of the arts and sciences early at Athens and Sicyon , Candia , and Sicil y , before the Trojan war ; of the temples of Jupiter Olympius , Esculapius , & c . of the Trojan horse , and other things : but we are all in darkness * fableand
, uncertainty , till the Olympiads ; which began in the -54 th 3 * ear of Uzziah king of Judah , when some of their bri ght men began to travel . [ A . M . 3228 , before the foundation of Rome 28 yews before Christ 776 . ] So that their most antient famous buildings , as fhe citadel of Athens , the court of Areopagus , the ¦ Partlienioii " , or temple of Minerva , the temples of Theseus and Apollo , their porticos and forumstheatreand
, s gymnasiums , stately public halls , curious bridges , regular fortifications , ships of war , and magnificent palaces with thekbest statues and sculpture ; were all of them either at " first erected , or else rebuilt , after the temple of Zerubbabel . £ Before Christ 547-I 1 For Thales Milesius , their first philosopher , who orio-inalfy brought geometrywith great improvementsout of into
, , Egypt Greece , died eleven years only before the decree of C yrus ° and the same year , Pythagoras , his scholar , travelled into E gypt ; while Pisistratus , the tyrant of Athens , began to collect the first library in Greece .
{ . A . M . 34 80 . ] Pythagoras lived twenty-two years among the Egyptian priests , till sent by Cambyses to Babylon and Persia , where he acquired great knowledge among the Chaldean Magi . aris , and Babylonish Jews ; and returned to Greece in the year that Zerubbabefs temple was finished . [ A . M . 34 8 9 . ] He . became not only the founder of a new reli gion , but likewise of an . academy , or lodge of good to whom he communicated
geometricians ; as a secret * that invaluable proposition which is the foundation of all Masonry , of whatever materials or ' dimensions , called b y masons his . Heur ' ekabecause they think it was his own invention . ' ' After Pythagoras , geometry became the darling study of the Greeks ' - and their learned men applied its principles to mechanical purposes in general , as well as to operations in stone or brick . An j , as Masonry kept pace with geometry , so many lodges appeared , especially in the Grecian republics , where liberty , trade , and learning flourished