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On The Study Of Masonic Antiquities.
stores of Egyptian wisdom , and was revealed alone to the initiated , and then by slow and gradual steps ; for it was considered that truths so stupendous could not be comprehended without due preparation , laborious study , and indefatigable perseverance , and should not be revealed until , by previous knowledge , judgment , and reflection , the mind was fully fitted for their reception . The other ivas physical and exoteric
, less abstruse , rendered palpable to the senses , and therefore adapted to the capacity of the unlearned and unreflecting ; but being thus rendered palpably evident by means of physical representations , it was open to abuse and misconstruction , and eventually concealed beneath a cloud of darkness the spiritual nature of the original references . Speaking allegorically , the primeval theology peculiar to ancient Egypt in the earliest ages , and approaching the purity of the patriarchal reli gion , may be
deemed the spiritual—the less refined system prevalent in later times , and from which most of the writers on Egypt , both ancient and modern , have drawn their inferences , may be termed the physical .
I have deemed it right thus to draw particular attention to the preceding results , because , being understood , they will save much difficulty in the subsequent part of our inquiries ; and that more particularly as the same leading and elementary principles will be found existing in the early literature and mythology of almost every nation of antiquity . When , therefore , the Masonic investigator has made himself acquainted with Egyptian antiquities , he will find his subsequent labours materially lihtened
g , most of the difficulties in his way will vanish as he approaches them , and the true meaning of many things , which would otherwise remain obscure , will be immediately apparent . This must plead my excuse for having dwelt so long upon the subject , previously to making some observations on the origin ofthe Egyptian mysteries , which I purpose reserving for the next chapter . END OP CHAPTER IV .
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON .
( Continued from page 3 D . ) Milnzen und Medaillen . Coins and Medals . —In honour of the society , and to commemorate particular events , many coins and medals have been struck ; they are easily known by the Masonic tools there are upon them . We even have a Masonic ducat , one of the oldest medals which was struck in Florence in honour of a Lodge founded there in ] 733 . There is also a Hamburg one , struck by the Lodge Absalon in 1740 ;
another Hamburger , in answer to the accusation that the Brethren assembled at night ; a third Hamburger , by the Lodge St . George , 1743 . Three struck in Brunswick in 1744 , one of which is the Freemasons ' ducat ; on one side is Hercules , adorned with Masonic tools , on the other side a hand in the clouds , from which a triangle is suspended . A medal of the Lodge in Halle , in 1771- ; a new Hamburg one , in honour of Duke Frederick of Brunswick-Oels , and of Prince Charles , Landgraf of Hesse , 18 th Ma } ' , 1766 . There are more of the same description of medals in Hamburg , Darmstadt , & c .
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On The Study Of Masonic Antiquities.
stores of Egyptian wisdom , and was revealed alone to the initiated , and then by slow and gradual steps ; for it was considered that truths so stupendous could not be comprehended without due preparation , laborious study , and indefatigable perseverance , and should not be revealed until , by previous knowledge , judgment , and reflection , the mind was fully fitted for their reception . The other ivas physical and exoteric
, less abstruse , rendered palpable to the senses , and therefore adapted to the capacity of the unlearned and unreflecting ; but being thus rendered palpably evident by means of physical representations , it was open to abuse and misconstruction , and eventually concealed beneath a cloud of darkness the spiritual nature of the original references . Speaking allegorically , the primeval theology peculiar to ancient Egypt in the earliest ages , and approaching the purity of the patriarchal reli gion , may be
deemed the spiritual—the less refined system prevalent in later times , and from which most of the writers on Egypt , both ancient and modern , have drawn their inferences , may be termed the physical .
I have deemed it right thus to draw particular attention to the preceding results , because , being understood , they will save much difficulty in the subsequent part of our inquiries ; and that more particularly as the same leading and elementary principles will be found existing in the early literature and mythology of almost every nation of antiquity . When , therefore , the Masonic investigator has made himself acquainted with Egyptian antiquities , he will find his subsequent labours materially lihtened
g , most of the difficulties in his way will vanish as he approaches them , and the true meaning of many things , which would otherwise remain obscure , will be immediately apparent . This must plead my excuse for having dwelt so long upon the subject , previously to making some observations on the origin ofthe Egyptian mysteries , which I purpose reserving for the next chapter . END OP CHAPTER IV .
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON .
( Continued from page 3 D . ) Milnzen und Medaillen . Coins and Medals . —In honour of the society , and to commemorate particular events , many coins and medals have been struck ; they are easily known by the Masonic tools there are upon them . We even have a Masonic ducat , one of the oldest medals which was struck in Florence in honour of a Lodge founded there in ] 733 . There is also a Hamburg one , struck by the Lodge Absalon in 1740 ;
another Hamburger , in answer to the accusation that the Brethren assembled at night ; a third Hamburger , by the Lodge St . George , 1743 . Three struck in Brunswick in 1744 , one of which is the Freemasons ' ducat ; on one side is Hercules , adorned with Masonic tools , on the other side a hand in the clouds , from which a triangle is suspended . A medal of the Lodge in Halle , in 1771- ; a new Hamburg one , in honour of Duke Frederick of Brunswick-Oels , and of Prince Charles , Landgraf of Hesse , 18 th Ma } ' , 1766 . There are more of the same description of medals in Hamburg , Darmstadt , & c .