-
Articles/Ads
Article ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 13 of 13
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
Thus the number ten was produced , which was esteemed the greatest number , and comprehended all arithmetical and harrnonical proportions . It was called World , because , as the decad comprehends all numbers , so the world comprehends all forms ; Heaven , because it is perfect ; and HavreXeia , because it includes all the nature of even and
odd , good and evil . The emblematical triangle represented the Deity residing in heaven , which , being the most perfect place , is here designated b y the most perfect number . * Pythagoras thus demonstrated how the number ten proceeded from the number three . The triad is the first perfect number , and produces the three other perfect
numbers . Thus , 3 + 1 g ives the tetrad , or tetractys ; 3 + 4 produces the heptad , which was denominated o-epao-pov agios , or worth y of veneration ; 3 + 7 g ives the decad , or sacred number Ten . This is the end of all numbers , and , as the Rabbi Judah a Levi , very justl y observes in various p laces , contains a wonderful secret , f
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
Thus the number ten was produced , which was esteemed the greatest number , and comprehended all arithmetical and harrnonical proportions . It was called World , because , as the decad comprehends all numbers , so the world comprehends all forms ; Heaven , because it is perfect ; and HavreXeia , because it includes all the nature of even and
odd , good and evil . The emblematical triangle represented the Deity residing in heaven , which , being the most perfect place , is here designated b y the most perfect number . * Pythagoras thus demonstrated how the number ten proceeded from the number three . The triad is the first perfect number , and produces the three other perfect
numbers . Thus , 3 + 1 g ives the tetrad , or tetractys ; 3 + 4 produces the heptad , which was denominated o-epao-pov agios , or worth y of veneration ; 3 + 7 g ives the decad , or sacred number Ten . This is the end of all numbers , and , as the Rabbi Judah a Levi , very justl y observes in various p laces , contains a wonderful secret , f