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designated ; viz ., three jods with the point kauretz placed underneath them , to express the equality of the Three Persons of which they believed the Godhead to be composed . This holy name they held in the utmost veneration . Cal . net says they believed the name of God to include all things . " He who pronounces it" say they" shakes heaven and
, , earth , and insp ires the very angels with astonishment and terror . There is a sovereign authority in this name ; it governs the world by its power . The other names and surnames of the Deity are ranged about it like officers and soldiers about their sovereigns and generals : from this KING-NAME they receive their orders , and obey . "
Another celebrated symbol of this august name was the disposal ofthe three points in a radiated form , to represent an imperial diadem . The letter schin , too , was adopted as a mysterious emblem by which the Tetragrammaton was designated , and hence this letter was said to possess many valuable qualities . It was therefore deeply engraven ou
their phy lacteries , both before and behind , to induce the protection of the Deity it represented . Another symbol was an equilateral triangle , illuminated by a single jod . The initial letter jod :: denotes the thought , the idea of God . It is a RAY OF LIGHT , " say the enraptured cabbalists , " which darts a lustre too transcendent to be contemplated by mortal
eye ; it is a point at which thought pauses , and imagination itself grows g iddy and confounded . " " Man , '' says Mr . Basnage , citing the rabbis , " may lawfull y roll his thoughts from one end of heaven to the other , but they cannot approach that inaccessible li g ht , that primitive existence contained in the letter Jod . "
The g lorious symbol of the Messiah , or incarnate God , was a splendid RAINBOW encircling the throne of God . This emblem referred to that majestic description of Ezekiel , of the sublime vision of the g lory of God . " Above the firmament that was over their * heads was the likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the
likeness of the throne , was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it . And I saw as the colour of amber , as the appearance of fire round about within it , from the appearance of his loins even upward , and from the appearance of his loins even downward , I saw as it were the appearance of fire , and it had bri g htness round about . As the
appearance ofthe BOW that is in the cloud in the day of rain , so was the appearance of the bri g htness round about . This teas the appearance ofthe likeness nf the g lorg ofthe Lord . "
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On Freemasonry. The History And Antiquities Of Freemasonry.
designated ; viz ., three jods with the point kauretz placed underneath them , to express the equality of the Three Persons of which they believed the Godhead to be composed . This holy name they held in the utmost veneration . Cal . net says they believed the name of God to include all things . " He who pronounces it" say they" shakes heaven and
, , earth , and insp ires the very angels with astonishment and terror . There is a sovereign authority in this name ; it governs the world by its power . The other names and surnames of the Deity are ranged about it like officers and soldiers about their sovereigns and generals : from this KING-NAME they receive their orders , and obey . "
Another celebrated symbol of this august name was the disposal ofthe three points in a radiated form , to represent an imperial diadem . The letter schin , too , was adopted as a mysterious emblem by which the Tetragrammaton was designated , and hence this letter was said to possess many valuable qualities . It was therefore deeply engraven ou
their phy lacteries , both before and behind , to induce the protection of the Deity it represented . Another symbol was an equilateral triangle , illuminated by a single jod . The initial letter jod :: denotes the thought , the idea of God . It is a RAY OF LIGHT , " say the enraptured cabbalists , " which darts a lustre too transcendent to be contemplated by mortal
eye ; it is a point at which thought pauses , and imagination itself grows g iddy and confounded . " " Man , '' says Mr . Basnage , citing the rabbis , " may lawfull y roll his thoughts from one end of heaven to the other , but they cannot approach that inaccessible li g ht , that primitive existence contained in the letter Jod . "
The g lorious symbol of the Messiah , or incarnate God , was a splendid RAINBOW encircling the throne of God . This emblem referred to that majestic description of Ezekiel , of the sublime vision of the g lory of God . " Above the firmament that was over their * heads was the likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the
likeness of the throne , was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it . And I saw as the colour of amber , as the appearance of fire round about within it , from the appearance of his loins even upward , and from the appearance of his loins even downward , I saw as it were the appearance of fire , and it had bri g htness round about . As the
appearance ofthe BOW that is in the cloud in the day of rain , so was the appearance of the bri g htness round about . This teas the appearance ofthe likeness nf the g lorg ofthe Lord . "