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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
night , shall not cease . And God said , this is the token ol the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations . I do set my bow in the cloud , and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth . " * There must have been in existence amongst mankind
, before the great dispersion , a strong predilection for the holiness of particular stones ; otherwise , it would be difficult to account for the adoration of the Ambrosia ; Petrre , which distinguished the worshi p of all the northern nations of Europe , and the Celtic religion generally . Indeed , the custom was common to every quarter of the globe . Its oriin has been
g traced to the pillar of Jacob ; but it was in existence long before that stone was erected , and therefore could not take its rise from that remarkable event . In Britain , the worship of stones is traced back by Stukely to the time of Abraham ; aud he thinks the dracontine temple of Abury was erected at that early period , when the first Phenician colony was planted in Britain by Hercules of Tyre .
Should there be any truth in the legend of our double cubical stone , and its miraculous properties , it might be presumed that the origin of stone worship was derived from them , as being familiarly known to the three sons of Noah , and consequently to their posterity , who would propagate the notion that a divine virtue was inherent in stones ritually consecrated and invested with
the name of the Deity . Thus many of the stone idols of Britain were called Drake Stones , and reputed to possess a peculiar sanctity from the efficacy of the name ; for Drake , or more properly Draig , in the Celtic language , meant the generative principle , and was no other than the Dragon , or the Supreme Deity of these nations , whose dracontine form
was preserved at Abury , and in many other sacred temples of Britain and Gaul , and had the same import as the name of Bel , or Baal , or Belenus . On these stones the Bealtine fires blazed in honour of the deity to whom they were consecrated , as the altar of earth for patriarchal sacrifice is said to have been erected on our Foundation Stone . +
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
night , shall not cease . And God said , this is the token ol the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations . I do set my bow in the cloud , and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth . " * There must have been in existence amongst mankind
, before the great dispersion , a strong predilection for the holiness of particular stones ; otherwise , it would be difficult to account for the adoration of the Ambrosia ; Petrre , which distinguished the worshi p of all the northern nations of Europe , and the Celtic religion generally . Indeed , the custom was common to every quarter of the globe . Its oriin has been
g traced to the pillar of Jacob ; but it was in existence long before that stone was erected , and therefore could not take its rise from that remarkable event . In Britain , the worship of stones is traced back by Stukely to the time of Abraham ; aud he thinks the dracontine temple of Abury was erected at that early period , when the first Phenician colony was planted in Britain by Hercules of Tyre .
Should there be any truth in the legend of our double cubical stone , and its miraculous properties , it might be presumed that the origin of stone worship was derived from them , as being familiarly known to the three sons of Noah , and consequently to their posterity , who would propagate the notion that a divine virtue was inherent in stones ritually consecrated and invested with
the name of the Deity . Thus many of the stone idols of Britain were called Drake Stones , and reputed to possess a peculiar sanctity from the efficacy of the name ; for Drake , or more properly Draig , in the Celtic language , meant the generative principle , and was no other than the Dragon , or the Supreme Deity of these nations , whose dracontine form
was preserved at Abury , and in many other sacred temples of Britain and Gaul , and had the same import as the name of Bel , or Baal , or Belenus . On these stones the Bealtine fires blazed in honour of the deity to whom they were consecrated , as the altar of earth for patriarchal sacrifice is said to have been erected on our Foundation Stone . +