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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
such a high authority , that it is not more profane to believe that a tradition of the Trinity was incorporated into the Spurious Freemasonry of ancient times , than that the same institution was a depository of the Unity , and I agree with Bishops Horsley and Tomline , the indefatigable Cudworth , who terms the Trilasian Mithras " a trinity in the Persian
p theology , or three hypostases in one and the same deity , " Sonnerat , Acosta , Le Compte , Forster , Maurice , Hutchinson , and many other wise and learned men , in believing that the origin of all the various triads which existed in the Gentile world , may be consistently traced to the primitive belief in a trinity of hypostases which constitute the
Godhead ; and the heathen triad is even denominated by the erudite Purchas , " an apish imitation of the trinity , brought in by the devil . " Mr . Faber contests the point . He observes— " if Brahma—Vishnu- —Siva relate to the trinity , it will not be easy to assign a reason why they should be represented as springing
from a fourth or superior god . " I am persuaded , however , that this is only a perverted representation of the primitive doctrine of a trinity in unity ; or , as it was more philosophically expressed , according to the oracle in Damascius , " the triad resolved into a monad : " which the British
Druids carried out dramatically in their initiations . The hierophant who personated the deity , represented the monad ; and he was attended by three priests to represent the triad ; and three hymns were sung in the hol y sanctuary when the rites were completed . Being known to Noah and his family , this doctrine would
spread with every migration of their posterity : and as it certainly formed a part of that original system of Light which is now termed Freemasonry , so it was introduced into every perversion of that system , until the doctrine of a divine triad resolving itself into a monad—or as Lucian truly expresses it , although in jest , EJ / « rpmv , KUI eg
evos rpia , was universally disseminated in every nation , and admitted by every people in the world . Its invention was ascribed to Cronus , another name for Noah , or perhaps Ham , for the identity is uncertain . And in the oracles of the first Zoroaster , which are of an unknown antiquity , we find the principle enunciated . XLavTi tv KOo-pa > \ apirfl . rpias ' He povas "PX '
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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
such a high authority , that it is not more profane to believe that a tradition of the Trinity was incorporated into the Spurious Freemasonry of ancient times , than that the same institution was a depository of the Unity , and I agree with Bishops Horsley and Tomline , the indefatigable Cudworth , who terms the Trilasian Mithras " a trinity in the Persian
p theology , or three hypostases in one and the same deity , " Sonnerat , Acosta , Le Compte , Forster , Maurice , Hutchinson , and many other wise and learned men , in believing that the origin of all the various triads which existed in the Gentile world , may be consistently traced to the primitive belief in a trinity of hypostases which constitute the
Godhead ; and the heathen triad is even denominated by the erudite Purchas , " an apish imitation of the trinity , brought in by the devil . " Mr . Faber contests the point . He observes— " if Brahma—Vishnu- —Siva relate to the trinity , it will not be easy to assign a reason why they should be represented as springing
from a fourth or superior god . " I am persuaded , however , that this is only a perverted representation of the primitive doctrine of a trinity in unity ; or , as it was more philosophically expressed , according to the oracle in Damascius , " the triad resolved into a monad : " which the British
Druids carried out dramatically in their initiations . The hierophant who personated the deity , represented the monad ; and he was attended by three priests to represent the triad ; and three hymns were sung in the hol y sanctuary when the rites were completed . Being known to Noah and his family , this doctrine would
spread with every migration of their posterity : and as it certainly formed a part of that original system of Light which is now termed Freemasonry , so it was introduced into every perversion of that system , until the doctrine of a divine triad resolving itself into a monad—or as Lucian truly expresses it , although in jest , EJ / « rpmv , KUI eg
evos rpia , was universally disseminated in every nation , and admitted by every people in the world . Its invention was ascribed to Cronus , another name for Noah , or perhaps Ham , for the identity is uncertain . And in the oracles of the first Zoroaster , which are of an unknown antiquity , we find the principle enunciated . XLavTi tv KOo-pa > \ apirfl . rpias ' He povas "PX '