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Hassan And Zoolma;
HASSAN AND ZOOLMA ;
OH , THE FEMALE FREEMASON . BY ROBERT NEAVE , ESQ ., THE dissemination of the principles of the science and mysteries of Freemasonry over the greater part-of the habitable globe , is a fact which does not admit of doubt ; and it is as little dubious , that traces of it may be found in the remains of the remotest ages in the remotest
countries . Some there are who dispute these positions ; but these are principally , if not universally , persons not conversant with our mysteries , to whose opinion therefore we cannot bow , and to which , it is to be apprehended , much weight will not be attached by the generality of philosophical readers , who deem a knowledge of the subject matter treated of , a primary and essential necessary to its discussion . Among those countries in which very early traces of Freemasonry are to be
found , the first is Hindostan . To those few who are practically acquainted with the tenets , precepts , and mysteries of the Brahminical faith , and with the real principles inculcated under a mass of apparent inconsistency , it would be needless to explain the many for proofs of this fact . It were less useful , were it ( which it is not ) the purpose of this paper , to look further back to the religion of the followers of Boodha , on whose ruin was erected the foundation of the Brahminical dynasty ,
and whose faith still holds its-ground to the east , south , and north of Hindostan . To those who have not studied these things , it may be right casually to call to mind , how light originating in the east , as its apparent natural source , spread gradually westward ; that Egypt , the
early mother of invention , and whose hitherto concealed stores are now daily proving to the wise and learned the truth which the wisest of their body declared , that nothing was new under the sun , received much if not all her knowledge from India . This is a curious subject , and capable of demonstration . It would be a singular point for enquiry , and one which perhaps is not now capable of a full and perfect elucidation , to discover , why the Egyptians should have left to posterity such
ample and elaborate delineations of their manners and customs , even from the habits of their highest monarch , to those of the meanest artificer ; while their prototypes and examples , the Hindoos , have left us comparatively few . Of the former , the researches of Dr . Young , Belzoni , Champollion , Rosellini , Lane , and most especially Wilkinson , have enabled the moderns to form a judgment almost as accurate , as if they had lived in days of old . Now the illustrations in the works on Egypt ,
which display the progress of manufactures and domestic industry among the Egyptians , lead to the inevitable conclusion of the close connexion which must at one time have existed between this country and India . The processes therein exhibited , are precisely those which are at this very moment used in Hindostan ; and were it not that there is a manifest and obvious difference in the face and figure of the persons tedtheir attitudes and actions miht well be taken for those of
represen , g the people of India , that is to say , of the Hindoos . Thus much of the aborig ines of Hindostan , whether of the Bhudist or original race , or of their conquerors the Brahmans , whose wisdom has been celebrated of old , and who have most indubitably preserved amongst their lore , the traces of the true God , even if they have not gone further
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Hassan And Zoolma;
HASSAN AND ZOOLMA ;
OH , THE FEMALE FREEMASON . BY ROBERT NEAVE , ESQ ., THE dissemination of the principles of the science and mysteries of Freemasonry over the greater part-of the habitable globe , is a fact which does not admit of doubt ; and it is as little dubious , that traces of it may be found in the remains of the remotest ages in the remotest
countries . Some there are who dispute these positions ; but these are principally , if not universally , persons not conversant with our mysteries , to whose opinion therefore we cannot bow , and to which , it is to be apprehended , much weight will not be attached by the generality of philosophical readers , who deem a knowledge of the subject matter treated of , a primary and essential necessary to its discussion . Among those countries in which very early traces of Freemasonry are to be
found , the first is Hindostan . To those few who are practically acquainted with the tenets , precepts , and mysteries of the Brahminical faith , and with the real principles inculcated under a mass of apparent inconsistency , it would be needless to explain the many for proofs of this fact . It were less useful , were it ( which it is not ) the purpose of this paper , to look further back to the religion of the followers of Boodha , on whose ruin was erected the foundation of the Brahminical dynasty ,
and whose faith still holds its-ground to the east , south , and north of Hindostan . To those who have not studied these things , it may be right casually to call to mind , how light originating in the east , as its apparent natural source , spread gradually westward ; that Egypt , the
early mother of invention , and whose hitherto concealed stores are now daily proving to the wise and learned the truth which the wisest of their body declared , that nothing was new under the sun , received much if not all her knowledge from India . This is a curious subject , and capable of demonstration . It would be a singular point for enquiry , and one which perhaps is not now capable of a full and perfect elucidation , to discover , why the Egyptians should have left to posterity such
ample and elaborate delineations of their manners and customs , even from the habits of their highest monarch , to those of the meanest artificer ; while their prototypes and examples , the Hindoos , have left us comparatively few . Of the former , the researches of Dr . Young , Belzoni , Champollion , Rosellini , Lane , and most especially Wilkinson , have enabled the moderns to form a judgment almost as accurate , as if they had lived in days of old . Now the illustrations in the works on Egypt ,
which display the progress of manufactures and domestic industry among the Egyptians , lead to the inevitable conclusion of the close connexion which must at one time have existed between this country and India . The processes therein exhibited , are precisely those which are at this very moment used in Hindostan ; and were it not that there is a manifest and obvious difference in the face and figure of the persons tedtheir attitudes and actions miht well be taken for those of
represen , g the people of India , that is to say , of the Hindoos . Thus much of the aborig ines of Hindostan , whether of the Bhudist or original race , or of their conquerors the Brahmans , whose wisdom has been celebrated of old , and who have most indubitably preserved amongst their lore , the traces of the true God , even if they have not gone further