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On Masonic Number.
of Zerubbabel wanted . The five noble orders of architecture , as well as the five external senses , are also shadowed under this number . It ancientl y symbolised vyeia , " health , in the form of a tri ple triangle conjoined within itself , thus -= Hk &_ .
SEVEN . It is a most remarkable fact , that we find in every system of antiquity a frequent reference to this number , which , from its nature , can scarcel y be ascribed to any event except it be the institution of the Sabbath . Thus the seven score Ogyrvens , or mystical personages , which , according to
Taliesin , pertain to the British muse ; the seven score knobs in the collar of the ox * , the seven persons who returned from Caer Sidi f , the seven Pleiades ! , the seven Hyades § , the seven Titans and Titanides , the seven Heliades of the Greeks || , the seven Cabiri of the Phenicians , the seven Amschaspands of the Parsees , and the seven p ieces into
which the body of Bacchus was torn b y the Titans ^ , show equally the predilection of all antiquity for this number ; and the Hindoo mythology had its seven Menus , seven Pitris or Reshes , and seven Brahmadicas . Amongst the Cabalists the septenary number denoted universality , and was termed by the Pythagoreans ouXo ^ eKeia . They also gave
it the name of o-e € __ e-p . av a | io $ , worth y of veneration . To the above cause may be ascribed the ori g in of the seven vases in the temple of the sun near the ruins of Babian in Upper Egypt **; the seven altars which burned continually before the god Mithras in many ofhis temples ff ; the seven holy fanes of the ancient Ai - abians X J ; the seven bobuns of
perfection exhibited in the Hindoo code §§; with the defective geographical knowledge of the same people which circumscribed the whole earth within the compass of seven peninsulas or durpas jj ||; the seven p lanets of antiquity ; the Jewish Sephiroth , consisting of seven splendours ; the seven
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Masonic Number.
of Zerubbabel wanted . The five noble orders of architecture , as well as the five external senses , are also shadowed under this number . It ancientl y symbolised vyeia , " health , in the form of a tri ple triangle conjoined within itself , thus -= Hk &_ .
SEVEN . It is a most remarkable fact , that we find in every system of antiquity a frequent reference to this number , which , from its nature , can scarcel y be ascribed to any event except it be the institution of the Sabbath . Thus the seven score Ogyrvens , or mystical personages , which , according to
Taliesin , pertain to the British muse ; the seven score knobs in the collar of the ox * , the seven persons who returned from Caer Sidi f , the seven Pleiades ! , the seven Hyades § , the seven Titans and Titanides , the seven Heliades of the Greeks || , the seven Cabiri of the Phenicians , the seven Amschaspands of the Parsees , and the seven p ieces into
which the body of Bacchus was torn b y the Titans ^ , show equally the predilection of all antiquity for this number ; and the Hindoo mythology had its seven Menus , seven Pitris or Reshes , and seven Brahmadicas . Amongst the Cabalists the septenary number denoted universality , and was termed by the Pythagoreans ouXo ^ eKeia . They also gave
it the name of o-e € __ e-p . av a | io $ , worth y of veneration . To the above cause may be ascribed the ori g in of the seven vases in the temple of the sun near the ruins of Babian in Upper Egypt **; the seven altars which burned continually before the god Mithras in many ofhis temples ff ; the seven holy fanes of the ancient Ai - abians X J ; the seven bobuns of
perfection exhibited in the Hindoo code §§; with the defective geographical knowledge of the same people which circumscribed the whole earth within the compass of seven peninsulas or durpas jj ||; the seven p lanets of antiquity ; the Jewish Sephiroth , consisting of seven splendours ; the seven