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Masonic Didactics; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
overbearing spirit . Charles the First lost his head through too great a . stretch of kingly prerogative . Lous XVI . and Charles X . of France were victims of royal caprice and temerity ; and the rash violence even of the French revolution was the destruction of its primary object . The golden and sacred rule , " to do as we would be done by , " is the only truly liberal principal of action ; and when carried out , whatever may be the case in question , must always operate equally beneficial to him who seeks redress as to him who yields it . If power be abused to the detriment of order , let it either be restrained or destroyed .
On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
ON THE CAUSES OF THE ORIGINAL DISPERSION OF PRIMITIVE NATIONS ,
IN TIMES OF REMOTE ANTIQUITY ; AND ON PRESUMPTIVE PROOFS 01 ? ORIGINAL CONNECTION BETWEEN VARIOUS NATIONS , NOW WIDELY SCATTERED : — DEDUCIBLE FROM A CRITICAL EXAMINATION INTO TIIE INTRINSIC SIGNIFICATION AND CHARACTER OF ANCIENT SACRED EDIFICES , ETC ., OF WHICH . THE RUINS AND IMPERISHABLE REMAINS EXIST IN NUMEROUS COUNTRIES . * ( PART I . ) IN proceeding with this Dissertation I shall discuss the subject
generally , under the four following heads , viz .: —First , in examining what was in reality intended , mystically figured , and represented , under the colossal and other national monuments , and sacred edifices of antiquity : — Secondly , in showing that it was in consequence of a disturbance which took place in the unity of the faith of the early inhabitants of the earth , at the renewed period of its existence ( that is to say , soon after the flood ) , that these same symbolical edifices came to be erected in commemoration
of the grand schismatic division : —Thirdly , in setting forth that the ancient emigrations with which we are acquainted , are to be distinctly attributed , in the first instance , solely to this division of faith , and separate religious opinions : —and , Fourthly , and chiefly , in pointing out the value of a system of interpretation which seems to contain the only key for expounding the religious mysteries of all nations , or which may prevail to open the sealed historic volume that contains the records of
long by-gone antiquity , and by applying it to the problematical dispersion of nations , ( whicli has so often' occupied the attention of the learned ) , and tracing the original motives of their separation ( by a series of almost irrefutable inferences ) , show that it may thus be determined on a surer basis than can otherwise be established , what nations were in reality , of an original stock , by proving them to have held common religious opinions , when , as yet , but two grand sectarian divisions
disputed for ascendancy in the minds of men . And , first , as to what was in reality intended , mystically figured , and represented under the colossal and other monuments and sacred edifices of antiquity , we will proceed to designate respectively , as the head and type of all succeeding edifices of like character , the Tower of Ohaldea , and the Great Pyramids of Egypt . The first of these was erected not long after the foundation of the Chaldean monarchy , by Nimrod , the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Didactics; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
overbearing spirit . Charles the First lost his head through too great a . stretch of kingly prerogative . Lous XVI . and Charles X . of France were victims of royal caprice and temerity ; and the rash violence even of the French revolution was the destruction of its primary object . The golden and sacred rule , " to do as we would be done by , " is the only truly liberal principal of action ; and when carried out , whatever may be the case in question , must always operate equally beneficial to him who seeks redress as to him who yields it . If power be abused to the detriment of order , let it either be restrained or destroyed .
On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
ON THE CAUSES OF THE ORIGINAL DISPERSION OF PRIMITIVE NATIONS ,
IN TIMES OF REMOTE ANTIQUITY ; AND ON PRESUMPTIVE PROOFS 01 ? ORIGINAL CONNECTION BETWEEN VARIOUS NATIONS , NOW WIDELY SCATTERED : — DEDUCIBLE FROM A CRITICAL EXAMINATION INTO TIIE INTRINSIC SIGNIFICATION AND CHARACTER OF ANCIENT SACRED EDIFICES , ETC ., OF WHICH . THE RUINS AND IMPERISHABLE REMAINS EXIST IN NUMEROUS COUNTRIES . * ( PART I . ) IN proceeding with this Dissertation I shall discuss the subject
generally , under the four following heads , viz .: —First , in examining what was in reality intended , mystically figured , and represented , under the colossal and other national monuments , and sacred edifices of antiquity : — Secondly , in showing that it was in consequence of a disturbance which took place in the unity of the faith of the early inhabitants of the earth , at the renewed period of its existence ( that is to say , soon after the flood ) , that these same symbolical edifices came to be erected in commemoration
of the grand schismatic division : —Thirdly , in setting forth that the ancient emigrations with which we are acquainted , are to be distinctly attributed , in the first instance , solely to this division of faith , and separate religious opinions : —and , Fourthly , and chiefly , in pointing out the value of a system of interpretation which seems to contain the only key for expounding the religious mysteries of all nations , or which may prevail to open the sealed historic volume that contains the records of
long by-gone antiquity , and by applying it to the problematical dispersion of nations , ( whicli has so often' occupied the attention of the learned ) , and tracing the original motives of their separation ( by a series of almost irrefutable inferences ) , show that it may thus be determined on a surer basis than can otherwise be established , what nations were in reality , of an original stock , by proving them to have held common religious opinions , when , as yet , but two grand sectarian divisions
disputed for ascendancy in the minds of men . And , first , as to what was in reality intended , mystically figured , and represented under the colossal and other monuments and sacred edifices of antiquity , we will proceed to designate respectively , as the head and type of all succeeding edifices of like character , the Tower of Ohaldea , and the Great Pyramids of Egypt . The first of these was erected not long after the foundation of the Chaldean monarchy , by Nimrod , the