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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
for the- number three in particular , T'liev divided their deities into three classes—the celestial , ( lie terrestrial , and the infernal . Triptolemus left behind him three primary laws—honour to parents , against blood y offerings , against cruelty to animals . Democritus wrote a book to prove that all human things sprang from the number threeand called
, it Trilogenia . The same people used this number as a charm for the dead . Thus Zachary Bogan , in the Archceologhe Atticae says , '' next to the happiness of being buried , was that of being buried in their own country . Insomuch , that if a man died so far from home , that they could not come to the bod y , they were wont , with solemn and frequent
invocations , naming him thrice at every time , to give a shout for the soul : which they thought was still quick enough to come to them . Pindar says that Phrixus , when he was d ying at Colchis , desired Pelias to see this office performed for him . And so Ulysses , after he had lost three score and twelve of his company among the Ciconesmade it his
busi-, ness , as Homer tells us , to give a whoop for every one , three times . Theocritus says the same thing of Hylas ; and one in the Ranis of Aristophanes says concerning the dead , they are gone so far that jou cannot reach them at thrice callin" -. "
The ancient mystics carried their veneration for this number so far as to reject the earth as an clement for the purpose of introducing it ; thereby making three elements only , viz ., fire , air , water ; which were termed the mothers of nature . Thus it was asserted that heaven was created from fire , and earth from water ; the air being the medium
of correspondence between them . * Again , they taught the doctrine of three primitive qualities - heat , cold , moisture ; and that extreme heat proceeding from fire , and extreme cold from water , it was onl y by the interposition of air that a proper temperature can be produced in the earth , to render it fit for the habitation of man . And in the human
frame the same principles were enunciated . The head was fire , as being the region of thought ; the body , water , because it is material and corruptible ; and the mind , air or spirit , ( irvevpa . )
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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
for the- number three in particular , T'liev divided their deities into three classes—the celestial , ( lie terrestrial , and the infernal . Triptolemus left behind him three primary laws—honour to parents , against blood y offerings , against cruelty to animals . Democritus wrote a book to prove that all human things sprang from the number threeand called
, it Trilogenia . The same people used this number as a charm for the dead . Thus Zachary Bogan , in the Archceologhe Atticae says , '' next to the happiness of being buried , was that of being buried in their own country . Insomuch , that if a man died so far from home , that they could not come to the bod y , they were wont , with solemn and frequent
invocations , naming him thrice at every time , to give a shout for the soul : which they thought was still quick enough to come to them . Pindar says that Phrixus , when he was d ying at Colchis , desired Pelias to see this office performed for him . And so Ulysses , after he had lost three score and twelve of his company among the Ciconesmade it his
busi-, ness , as Homer tells us , to give a whoop for every one , three times . Theocritus says the same thing of Hylas ; and one in the Ranis of Aristophanes says concerning the dead , they are gone so far that jou cannot reach them at thrice callin" -. "
The ancient mystics carried their veneration for this number so far as to reject the earth as an clement for the purpose of introducing it ; thereby making three elements only , viz ., fire , air , water ; which were termed the mothers of nature . Thus it was asserted that heaven was created from fire , and earth from water ; the air being the medium
of correspondence between them . * Again , they taught the doctrine of three primitive qualities - heat , cold , moisture ; and that extreme heat proceeding from fire , and extreme cold from water , it was onl y by the interposition of air that a proper temperature can be produced in the earth , to render it fit for the habitation of man . And in the human
frame the same principles were enunciated . The head was fire , as being the region of thought ; the body , water , because it is material and corruptible ; and the mind , air or spirit , ( irvevpa . )