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On Freemasonry. The History And Antiquities Of Freemasonry.
St . Paul to the Thessalonians * . We certainl y find in the Old Testament repeated accounts of those AVIIO dealt Avith familiar spirits . The huv of Moses forbad their use under heavy penalties f , terming them an abomination to the Lord f . Saul expelled the wizards out of the land of
Israel , and afterAvards defiled himself by consulting a Avitch or Pythia at Endor , A \ hich elicited divine vengeance to destroy him and his famil y § . Isaiah denounced judgments on the inhabitants of Judea if they made use of them || ; but that impious monarch Manasseh , disregarding these threatenings , again introduced them to lend a sanction to his idolatrous practices % ; but they AA'ere finall y laid aside b y Josiah ** .
The famous oracle at Del phi is said to have been discovered b y goats about the time of Gideon . The goatherd observing his flock unusually affected Avith dancing and strange grimaces whenever they approached the mouth of a certain cavern in the vicinity of their pasture , attempted to penetrate the mystery by approaching the cave himself ;
but when he came near it , he was seized with the same irresistible propensity . He capered freely , and to his infinite astonishment , imbibed the spirit of prophecy . When this Avas knoAA'n it became the resort of a multitude of peop le , who were all affected in the same manner , until a royal edict AA-as issued prohibiting every person from approaching
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. The History And Antiquities Of Freemasonry.
St . Paul to the Thessalonians * . We certainl y find in the Old Testament repeated accounts of those AVIIO dealt Avith familiar spirits . The huv of Moses forbad their use under heavy penalties f , terming them an abomination to the Lord f . Saul expelled the wizards out of the land of
Israel , and afterAvards defiled himself by consulting a Avitch or Pythia at Endor , A \ hich elicited divine vengeance to destroy him and his famil y § . Isaiah denounced judgments on the inhabitants of Judea if they made use of them || ; but that impious monarch Manasseh , disregarding these threatenings , again introduced them to lend a sanction to his idolatrous practices % ; but they AA'ere finall y laid aside b y Josiah ** .
The famous oracle at Del phi is said to have been discovered b y goats about the time of Gideon . The goatherd observing his flock unusually affected Avith dancing and strange grimaces whenever they approached the mouth of a certain cavern in the vicinity of their pasture , attempted to penetrate the mystery by approaching the cave himself ;
but when he came near it , he was seized with the same irresistible propensity . He capered freely , and to his infinite astonishment , imbibed the spirit of prophecy . When this Avas knoAA'n it became the resort of a multitude of peop le , who were all affected in the same manner , until a royal edict AA-as issued prohibiting every person from approaching