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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
crystal in the British Museum , which is shaped like an egg ¦ —
The head is supposed to represent the Creator . The sun and moon on the reverse are conjectured to be Osiris and Isis , the benevolent deities ofthe Egyptians , and figured hieroglyphically the omnipotence and omnipresence of Gocl , or the Abrax , which created and governs the world , and directs the starry intelligences to point out the designs of Providence with to The
regard man . scorpion was Typhon , the evil principle of the same people ; the serpent symbolized the eternity of God ; and the star was the third emanation of the Divine person , and an emblem of Prudence . The inscription is interpreted by Hutchinson to mean , " The earth shall praise thee 1305 " or otherwiseomitting the
, ; , numerals—terra declarat laudem maguificentiam tuam . Some of them had the names of 2 a / 3 ao 0 , Adovat , mdpas , KvovPto-, 2 < r _ oa ™ , & c ., and the figures also differ : but all were reputed to be equally efficacious in conveying the Divine protection . Baronius mentions one of these gems in his custody , on which the Tetragrammaton is inscribed .
According to some authorities the whole mystery may be thus explained : Abraxas was a mysterious amulet with that word , or some other supposed to be invested with the same virtues , engraven round the border , which was worn , suspended from the neck , with great veneration , to secure the protection of the being to whom it was consecrated ; ancl
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
crystal in the British Museum , which is shaped like an egg ¦ —
The head is supposed to represent the Creator . The sun and moon on the reverse are conjectured to be Osiris and Isis , the benevolent deities ofthe Egyptians , and figured hieroglyphically the omnipotence and omnipresence of Gocl , or the Abrax , which created and governs the world , and directs the starry intelligences to point out the designs of Providence with to The
regard man . scorpion was Typhon , the evil principle of the same people ; the serpent symbolized the eternity of God ; and the star was the third emanation of the Divine person , and an emblem of Prudence . The inscription is interpreted by Hutchinson to mean , " The earth shall praise thee 1305 " or otherwiseomitting the
, ; , numerals—terra declarat laudem maguificentiam tuam . Some of them had the names of 2 a / 3 ao 0 , Adovat , mdpas , KvovPto-, 2 < r _ oa ™ , & c ., and the figures also differ : but all were reputed to be equally efficacious in conveying the Divine protection . Baronius mentions one of these gems in his custody , on which the Tetragrammaton is inscribed .
According to some authorities the whole mystery may be thus explained : Abraxas was a mysterious amulet with that word , or some other supposed to be invested with the same virtues , engraven round the border , which was worn , suspended from the neck , with great veneration , to secure the protection of the being to whom it was consecrated ; ancl