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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times,
masonry , that the Deity from the creation of the world , has never left himself loithout a witness amongst men . The records of this event are legibly displayed in every scheme whieh the vanity of man ' s heart induced hinTto substitute for the simple rites of devotion enjoined by his Creator . It was a tradition of too much importance to be cl therefore cherished
abandoned on slight grounds ; anwas by the Heirophant as an invaluable secret , and conveyed duly in the esoteric doctrines which accompanied initiation into the superior Degrees . ' The Cosmogonies thus preserved in the Mysteries of ail nations in substance the samewith the exception of
, were ; a wild notion propagated by a few addle-headed philosophers , who would persuade us that the world is eternal . Each people traced " their orig in through a series of Patriarchs to a federal head . But as Stillingfleet justy observes , all those hilosophers who were most inquisitive after the
" p ancient and genuine tradition of the world , concerning the first beginning of things , did not only concur with Moses in the main thing , that its beginning was from God , but in the particular circumstances of it , as to the fluid matter and
the motion thereof . " This coincidence would be inexplicable were we to reject the belief , that it emanated from a common tradition of the beginning of all things as recorded by Moses . It is there plainly stated that at the creation , " the Sp irit of God moved upon the face of the waters ; " which sublime truth , we may of the secrets of primitive
be assured , had formed one Freemasonry , and had been handed down to posterity by oral communication . Now the original word which conveyed this secret was Merachepheth ; which may be also truly interpreted by the image of a dove brooding over its eo-o-s . Hence we find , in all the illustrations used in the to timesreference
Mysteries , which have descended our , a to a primeval egg ( wo irporoyovov ) when describing the process of creation . The Hierophant first commenced his esoteric lecture with a description of Choas or Darkness , the nidis indigestaque moles of Ovid ; or a confusion of matter , which described bthe Jewish lawgiver as Tohu Vabohu
is truly y , « without form and void . " And he adds , « darkness was upon the face of the deep ; " which the Latin poet imitated in his lucis egens . Accordingly , the Hierophant proceeded to exemplify how that before the creation , all things were involved in darkness ; how an egg was supernaturally pro-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times,
masonry , that the Deity from the creation of the world , has never left himself loithout a witness amongst men . The records of this event are legibly displayed in every scheme whieh the vanity of man ' s heart induced hinTto substitute for the simple rites of devotion enjoined by his Creator . It was a tradition of too much importance to be cl therefore cherished
abandoned on slight grounds ; anwas by the Heirophant as an invaluable secret , and conveyed duly in the esoteric doctrines which accompanied initiation into the superior Degrees . ' The Cosmogonies thus preserved in the Mysteries of ail nations in substance the samewith the exception of
, were ; a wild notion propagated by a few addle-headed philosophers , who would persuade us that the world is eternal . Each people traced " their orig in through a series of Patriarchs to a federal head . But as Stillingfleet justy observes , all those hilosophers who were most inquisitive after the
" p ancient and genuine tradition of the world , concerning the first beginning of things , did not only concur with Moses in the main thing , that its beginning was from God , but in the particular circumstances of it , as to the fluid matter and
the motion thereof . " This coincidence would be inexplicable were we to reject the belief , that it emanated from a common tradition of the beginning of all things as recorded by Moses . It is there plainly stated that at the creation , " the Sp irit of God moved upon the face of the waters ; " which sublime truth , we may of the secrets of primitive
be assured , had formed one Freemasonry , and had been handed down to posterity by oral communication . Now the original word which conveyed this secret was Merachepheth ; which may be also truly interpreted by the image of a dove brooding over its eo-o-s . Hence we find , in all the illustrations used in the to timesreference
Mysteries , which have descended our , a to a primeval egg ( wo irporoyovov ) when describing the process of creation . The Hierophant first commenced his esoteric lecture with a description of Choas or Darkness , the nidis indigestaque moles of Ovid ; or a confusion of matter , which described bthe Jewish lawgiver as Tohu Vabohu
is truly y , « without form and void . " And he adds , « darkness was upon the face of the deep ; " which the Latin poet imitated in his lucis egens . Accordingly , the Hierophant proceeded to exemplify how that before the creation , all things were involved in darkness ; how an egg was supernaturally pro-