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On Freemasonry.
quarrel they had respecting it ; to the second , Haired , for the same reason ; and to the third , Extension , because the Lord extended to them the hope of peopling the land ; an appropriate symbol of the three temples ; Avells of living waters of the law , and the abundance of divine influence ; where against the first Nebuchadnezzar made war ; Titus
against the second ; but in the third all will be prosperous ; as Isaiah says , Extend the place of thy tent more than ever , for the Lord will ever inhabit it . And the name of the city from that day shall be—the Lord is there . " And even in things apparently indifferent , the same machinery was carefully maintained . AdamNoahand
, , Saul , had each three sons . There were three patriarchs , particularly distinguished by the divine favour before the birth of the twelve tribes of Israel . Job had three friends . The just men , quoted by Ezekiel , were three in number ; three holy men were cast by Nebuchadnezzar into the furnace at Babylon ; Jonah was three days and three nights
m the whale's belly ; and at the transfiguration of Christ , the same number of holy men appeared in conversation with him . On one occasion , our Saviour refers to the Tetragrammaton by a triple allusion . * And the Jewish symbols of the same name were all tripartite , f The Redeemer remained three days in the tomb ; and Paul
was blind for the same period after the revelation of his mission . The same apostle mentions three heavens , and three states of the soul . And to close these coincidences , the heavenl y Jerusalem of the Apocalypse has three gates in each of its quarters . So universal was the use and application of the number three in the three dispensations of
truth—the Patriarchal , the Jewish , and the Christian . The Rabbins say there are three lights in God ; the ancient , pure , and purified lights ; and that the world was created b y a three-fold union of Wisdom , Goodness , and Power . The author of the Book of Zohar applies the word holy , which is there repeated in the vision of Isaiah , to the three persons in the Deity , whom he elsewhere calls three suns , or lig hts ; three sovereigns , without beginning
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On Freemasonry.
quarrel they had respecting it ; to the second , Haired , for the same reason ; and to the third , Extension , because the Lord extended to them the hope of peopling the land ; an appropriate symbol of the three temples ; Avells of living waters of the law , and the abundance of divine influence ; where against the first Nebuchadnezzar made war ; Titus
against the second ; but in the third all will be prosperous ; as Isaiah says , Extend the place of thy tent more than ever , for the Lord will ever inhabit it . And the name of the city from that day shall be—the Lord is there . " And even in things apparently indifferent , the same machinery was carefully maintained . AdamNoahand
, , Saul , had each three sons . There were three patriarchs , particularly distinguished by the divine favour before the birth of the twelve tribes of Israel . Job had three friends . The just men , quoted by Ezekiel , were three in number ; three holy men were cast by Nebuchadnezzar into the furnace at Babylon ; Jonah was three days and three nights
m the whale's belly ; and at the transfiguration of Christ , the same number of holy men appeared in conversation with him . On one occasion , our Saviour refers to the Tetragrammaton by a triple allusion . * And the Jewish symbols of the same name were all tripartite , f The Redeemer remained three days in the tomb ; and Paul
was blind for the same period after the revelation of his mission . The same apostle mentions three heavens , and three states of the soul . And to close these coincidences , the heavenl y Jerusalem of the Apocalypse has three gates in each of its quarters . So universal was the use and application of the number three in the three dispensations of
truth—the Patriarchal , the Jewish , and the Christian . The Rabbins say there are three lights in God ; the ancient , pure , and purified lights ; and that the world was created b y a three-fold union of Wisdom , Goodness , and Power . The author of the Book of Zohar applies the word holy , which is there repeated in the vision of Isaiah , to the three persons in the Deity , whom he elsewhere calls three suns , or lig hts ; three sovereigns , without beginning