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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
They held that the universe contains three worlds , which are termed Knowledge , Wisdom , Perfection ; corresponding with the earth , the firmament or sideral world , and heaven , or the dweliing place of the Deity . In another sense , these worlds are called angelic , celestial , corruptible , and deemed correlative with the three principal functions of
the human body , which are seated respectively in the brain , heart , liver . In the Hebrew language the Sun had three different names , referring to its orb , light , flame . The universe was divided into three zones— the earth , air , rest . The first was the earth , or zone of trial ; the second was the zone of the air , perpetually agitated by winds and storms , and was considered as the zone of temporal punishment : and the third was the zone of rest and tranquillity , which was above the other two . Thus was the number three modified
in the mystical cabala of antiquity . The seat of the celestial deities , called Olympus , from the Greek oXoAa / x-n-os , icholly lucid , was erected on the number three , and its summit was unity : although the mountain with three peaks was usuall y esteemed most holy . And hence the solar sacrifices w ere p laced on three contiguous
piles of wood . The Druids of Britain and Gaul , like all other people , held this number sacred , and many of their peculiar customs , founded on this belief , still remain . Borlase says , "in the isle of Skie , after drinking the water of a famous well there , they make three Sun-turns round the well , as if some deity resided in itto whom they were
, to pay proper respect before they left it . Weak and simple as these turns may seem , they have been used by the most ancient , and the most polite nations , and in the same number as now practised by these uncultivated higiilanders . — They turn three times round their karns ; round the persons they intend to bless three times ; three turns they make
round St . Barr ' s church , and three turns round the w ell ; so that the number three was a necessary part of the ceremony . " The British bards mention three fountains which ought to be venerated—that of the sea or salt water , rain , and fresh springs flowing from the rock . Thus we find the number three exemplified in p hysics throughout the whole ancient world : and particularl y in the Patriarchal and Jewish * systems of religion , which were
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
They held that the universe contains three worlds , which are termed Knowledge , Wisdom , Perfection ; corresponding with the earth , the firmament or sideral world , and heaven , or the dweliing place of the Deity . In another sense , these worlds are called angelic , celestial , corruptible , and deemed correlative with the three principal functions of
the human body , which are seated respectively in the brain , heart , liver . In the Hebrew language the Sun had three different names , referring to its orb , light , flame . The universe was divided into three zones— the earth , air , rest . The first was the earth , or zone of trial ; the second was the zone of the air , perpetually agitated by winds and storms , and was considered as the zone of temporal punishment : and the third was the zone of rest and tranquillity , which was above the other two . Thus was the number three modified
in the mystical cabala of antiquity . The seat of the celestial deities , called Olympus , from the Greek oXoAa / x-n-os , icholly lucid , was erected on the number three , and its summit was unity : although the mountain with three peaks was usuall y esteemed most holy . And hence the solar sacrifices w ere p laced on three contiguous
piles of wood . The Druids of Britain and Gaul , like all other people , held this number sacred , and many of their peculiar customs , founded on this belief , still remain . Borlase says , "in the isle of Skie , after drinking the water of a famous well there , they make three Sun-turns round the well , as if some deity resided in itto whom they were
, to pay proper respect before they left it . Weak and simple as these turns may seem , they have been used by the most ancient , and the most polite nations , and in the same number as now practised by these uncultivated higiilanders . — They turn three times round their karns ; round the persons they intend to bless three times ; three turns they make
round St . Barr ' s church , and three turns round the w ell ; so that the number three was a necessary part of the ceremony . " The British bards mention three fountains which ought to be venerated—that of the sea or salt water , rain , and fresh springs flowing from the rock . Thus we find the number three exemplified in p hysics throughout the whole ancient world : and particularl y in the Patriarchal and Jewish * systems of religion , which were