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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
mig ht have been concealed there , which it was his duty to preserve as the father of a new race of men . In this search he was successful ; and finding many depositions in the perpendicular tier of caverns , which he did not understand , or was at a loss how to use , he merel y removed the inscribed Stone of Foundation , and p laced it in the Ark , as a
convenient altar for sacrifice . At length the threatened destruction came upon the earth —the windows of heaven were opened—the fountains of the great deep were broken up ;—and , after a fearful elemental strife , which continued without intermission for forty days and forty nihtsthe earth was completelsubmerged ; the
g , y tops of the hig hest mountains were covered with water , and all flesh died that moved upon the earth . Meanwhile , Noah and his family floated in safety over the ruins of the antediluvian world , the Stone of Foundation forming his anchor
of hope . It is conjectured that Noah possessed another stone on this occasion , the virtues inherent in which were of a more evident nature . I mean the loadstone , by the use of which the vessel was guided in safety ; * and when at length the Ark vested on Mount Ararat , and himself and family finally quitted it—reborn , as it were , into a new and purified world ,
Noah offered his first sacrifice on the Stone of Foundation , surmounted by an altar of earth , when "the Lord smelled a sweet savour ; and the Lord said in his heart , I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again any more smite every thing living as I have done . VVhile the earth remaineth , seed-time ancl harvest , and cold and heat , and summer and winter , and day and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
mig ht have been concealed there , which it was his duty to preserve as the father of a new race of men . In this search he was successful ; and finding many depositions in the perpendicular tier of caverns , which he did not understand , or was at a loss how to use , he merel y removed the inscribed Stone of Foundation , and p laced it in the Ark , as a
convenient altar for sacrifice . At length the threatened destruction came upon the earth —the windows of heaven were opened—the fountains of the great deep were broken up ;—and , after a fearful elemental strife , which continued without intermission for forty days and forty nihtsthe earth was completelsubmerged ; the
g , y tops of the hig hest mountains were covered with water , and all flesh died that moved upon the earth . Meanwhile , Noah and his family floated in safety over the ruins of the antediluvian world , the Stone of Foundation forming his anchor
of hope . It is conjectured that Noah possessed another stone on this occasion , the virtues inherent in which were of a more evident nature . I mean the loadstone , by the use of which the vessel was guided in safety ; * and when at length the Ark vested on Mount Ararat , and himself and family finally quitted it—reborn , as it were , into a new and purified world ,
Noah offered his first sacrifice on the Stone of Foundation , surmounted by an altar of earth , when "the Lord smelled a sweet savour ; and the Lord said in his heart , I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again any more smite every thing living as I have done . VVhile the earth remaineth , seed-time ancl harvest , and cold and heat , and summer and winter , and day and