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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
In Greece the same custom prevailed . Sophocles says " Every mountain was consecrated to Jupiter , or called by his name ; because , as the divinity chooses to reside in a high place , so we ought to sacrifice to him in a similar situation . The idea of the superior sanctity of hills and valleys was carried to an extravagant length among this
people . The celestial deities were feigned to inhabit Mount Olympus , or at least to hold all their sacred councils there ;* while the infernal gods were located in the valley of Tartarus . Mount Citheron was the abode of the muses , who were worshipped as divinities ; and they were connected also with the mountains Helicon and Parnassus . The latter
was dedicated to Apollo ; and it was the sacred hill on which the ark of Deucalion was said to have rested after the deluge . The people were taught to believe , that whoever slept on one of its highest peaks would be inspired by the
deity with the genius of poetry . At Athens were hills consecrated to most of the Grecian deities , and honoured with their statues . Thus Amnion or Jupiter , Poseidon or Neptune , Chronos or Saturn , Hermes or Mercury , had each a holy hill ; and the Areopagus was dedicated to Mars . The latter hill was remarkable , not
merely for being the seat of Athenian judicature , but also as the scene of a transaction which revealed to the Athenians the power and goodness of the true God , and produced the erection of altars Ayvoa-ra e «» . The account is thus given by Diogenes Laertius , in his Life of Epimenides : " At this time the fame of Eimenides was so hih that he was
p g believed to be in especial favour with the celestial deities . The Athenians , being visited with a grievous pestilence , were directed by the oracle at Delphi to purify the city by the rites of expiation : they therefore sent Nicias in a vessel to Crete , for the purpose of inviting Epimenides to super-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
In Greece the same custom prevailed . Sophocles says " Every mountain was consecrated to Jupiter , or called by his name ; because , as the divinity chooses to reside in a high place , so we ought to sacrifice to him in a similar situation . The idea of the superior sanctity of hills and valleys was carried to an extravagant length among this
people . The celestial deities were feigned to inhabit Mount Olympus , or at least to hold all their sacred councils there ;* while the infernal gods were located in the valley of Tartarus . Mount Citheron was the abode of the muses , who were worshipped as divinities ; and they were connected also with the mountains Helicon and Parnassus . The latter
was dedicated to Apollo ; and it was the sacred hill on which the ark of Deucalion was said to have rested after the deluge . The people were taught to believe , that whoever slept on one of its highest peaks would be inspired by the
deity with the genius of poetry . At Athens were hills consecrated to most of the Grecian deities , and honoured with their statues . Thus Amnion or Jupiter , Poseidon or Neptune , Chronos or Saturn , Hermes or Mercury , had each a holy hill ; and the Areopagus was dedicated to Mars . The latter hill was remarkable , not
merely for being the seat of Athenian judicature , but also as the scene of a transaction which revealed to the Athenians the power and goodness of the true God , and produced the erection of altars Ayvoa-ra e «» . The account is thus given by Diogenes Laertius , in his Life of Epimenides : " At this time the fame of Eimenides was so hih that he was
p g believed to be in especial favour with the celestial deities . The Athenians , being visited with a grievous pestilence , were directed by the oracle at Delphi to purify the city by the rites of expiation : they therefore sent Nicias in a vessel to Crete , for the purpose of inviting Epimenides to super-