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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
honoured by the Almighty with especial manifestations of his will and pleasure . The question then arises , how are we to account for the universal use and application of this remarkable number ? Having been venerated in the earliest ages of the world , it must have proceeded from the Creator himself . And accordinglythe equilateral triangle has always
, been considered by every people , nation , and language , as an indication of the Great Architect of the Universe . It is , indeed , a symbol of perfection ; and is hence made by the continental Masons to represent our mortal career , as consisting of birth , life , and death . And there appears much propriety in the arrangementso far as it alludes to
Free-, masonry , which includes every thing that is valuable to man in his progress from this world to the next . Now the universal predilection for the number three being thus applied to the Deity by the earliest inhabitants
of the world , could not fail to bear a reference to the doctrine of a plurality of persons in the Godhead ; known probably at the Creation , and transmitted to posterity by oral tradition , confirmed and strengthened by the ordinances of the Most High , which were usually , in their form and spirit , of a ternary nature . This doctrine was too profound
for the apprehension of those persons whose ideas wandered amongst sensible objects , in their search after the essence of the Deity . And hence it will be seen , from an accurate examination of the principles which constituted the triads of all nations , that how imperceptible soever the shades of error might bein its downward progressbthe innovations
, , y of successive hierophants and mystagogues , the original purport of the doctrine became perverted in the Spurious Freemasonry , until the true meaning was misunderstood , and applied to purposes altogether foreign to its primitive import .
Sir W . Jones thought it little short of blasphemy to refer the heathen triads to the Trinity of the Patriarchal , Jewish , and Christian churches ; but I think , with due deference to '
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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
honoured by the Almighty with especial manifestations of his will and pleasure . The question then arises , how are we to account for the universal use and application of this remarkable number ? Having been venerated in the earliest ages of the world , it must have proceeded from the Creator himself . And accordinglythe equilateral triangle has always
, been considered by every people , nation , and language , as an indication of the Great Architect of the Universe . It is , indeed , a symbol of perfection ; and is hence made by the continental Masons to represent our mortal career , as consisting of birth , life , and death . And there appears much propriety in the arrangementso far as it alludes to
Free-, masonry , which includes every thing that is valuable to man in his progress from this world to the next . Now the universal predilection for the number three being thus applied to the Deity by the earliest inhabitants
of the world , could not fail to bear a reference to the doctrine of a plurality of persons in the Godhead ; known probably at the Creation , and transmitted to posterity by oral tradition , confirmed and strengthened by the ordinances of the Most High , which were usually , in their form and spirit , of a ternary nature . This doctrine was too profound
for the apprehension of those persons whose ideas wandered amongst sensible objects , in their search after the essence of the Deity . And hence it will be seen , from an accurate examination of the principles which constituted the triads of all nations , that how imperceptible soever the shades of error might bein its downward progressbthe innovations
, , y of successive hierophants and mystagogues , the original purport of the doctrine became perverted in the Spurious Freemasonry , until the true meaning was misunderstood , and applied to purposes altogether foreign to its primitive import .
Sir W . Jones thought it little short of blasphemy to refer the heathen triads to the Trinity of the Patriarchal , Jewish , and Christian churches ; but I think , with due deference to '