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On Freemasonry.
. As the number of the human race increased , their bad passions were called into action ; and Cain , influenced by envy , apostatised from the principles of Masonry , and took the life of his brother . The judgment and sentence of a justly incensed Deity followed , the fratricide and his family
were driven forth , Cain being protected from personal violence by a peculiar mark which distinguished him from the rest of mankind . Of the nature of this mark or brand many have been the conjectures of the ancients ; some have imagined it to have been the word Abel imprinted
On his forehead ; others the four characters forming the word ( n . JT ) Jehovah ; others that he trembled so as scarcely to be able to devour his food—an absurd notion drawn from the LXX . who translate fugitive and vagabond areyav - / . ai -rpepuy . With his decendants Cain peoples the
land of Nod , where they gradually forsook every good and laudable pursuit , as well as speculative Masonry , devoting themselves only to the practical science , which they retained and exerted for their benefit . Thus Jabal , the sixth in descent from Cain , first invented tents ; Jubal ,
his brother , music ; Tubal-Cain , his half-brother , the art of working metals . With their assistance Cain constructed the first city—rude and imperfect , no doubt—and named it after his eldest son Henoch . The recollection of his guilty deed perpetually haunted him , he lived in continual fear
lest the race of Adam should revenge the death of Abel ; and the better to defend himself , fortified the new built city and trained its inhabitants to arms for its protection . Rough and inhospitable in their nature , the descendants of Cain soon became remarkable for their licentiousness . Lamech , according , to Eusebius , first introduced bigamy , and even more hideous vices ; pure Masonry was entirely abandoned
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
. As the number of the human race increased , their bad passions were called into action ; and Cain , influenced by envy , apostatised from the principles of Masonry , and took the life of his brother . The judgment and sentence of a justly incensed Deity followed , the fratricide and his family
were driven forth , Cain being protected from personal violence by a peculiar mark which distinguished him from the rest of mankind . Of the nature of this mark or brand many have been the conjectures of the ancients ; some have imagined it to have been the word Abel imprinted
On his forehead ; others the four characters forming the word ( n . JT ) Jehovah ; others that he trembled so as scarcely to be able to devour his food—an absurd notion drawn from the LXX . who translate fugitive and vagabond areyav - / . ai -rpepuy . With his decendants Cain peoples the
land of Nod , where they gradually forsook every good and laudable pursuit , as well as speculative Masonry , devoting themselves only to the practical science , which they retained and exerted for their benefit . Thus Jabal , the sixth in descent from Cain , first invented tents ; Jubal ,
his brother , music ; Tubal-Cain , his half-brother , the art of working metals . With their assistance Cain constructed the first city—rude and imperfect , no doubt—and named it after his eldest son Henoch . The recollection of his guilty deed perpetually haunted him , he lived in continual fear
lest the race of Adam should revenge the death of Abel ; and the better to defend himself , fortified the new built city and trained its inhabitants to arms for its protection . Rough and inhospitable in their nature , the descendants of Cain soon became remarkable for their licentiousness . Lamech , according , to Eusebius , first introduced bigamy , and even more hideous vices ; pure Masonry was entirely abandoned