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Article ON FREEMASONRY. THE NUMBER THREE. ← Page 7 of 16 →
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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
of Belus Venus-Thammuz ; the Grecian and Roman , of Jupiter —Neptune—Pluto ; the Elcusiuian , of Bacchus-Proserpine—Cores ; the Cyclopean , of Brontes— Steropes—Arges : the Thracian , of Uranus —Urania—Love ; the Platonic , of Tagathon — Nous- Psyche ;* the Tartar , of Artugon—Sehugoteugon —Tangara : the Celtic , of
HuCeridwen—Creirwy ; the Teutonic , of Fenris —Midgard—Hela : the Gothic , of Wo oden—Friga—Thor ; the Scandinavian , of Odin —Vile—Ve ; the Peruvian , of Tangatanga ; f the Mexican , of Vitzliputzli—Tlaloc—Tescalipuca . Each triad wits generally explained to consist of a creator , a preserver , and a destroyer ; or , according to Maurice ,
a renovator ;; and this doctrine was embodied in another feature of the Spurious Freemasonry , viz ., the belief in an endless succession of similar grand periods , called worlds ; each of which was supposed to be in constant progress towards destruction ; after which a new- creation invariably takes place . And thus the operations of one or other
member of the triad are always in active exercise , in the successive works of renovation , preservation , or destruction . But if the triad , as an illustration of the number three , was thus the foundation of reli gion , it was also disseminated in detail through every branch of the system . In some nations this tri ple form of the divinity was convertible under a change of circumstances . Thus , in universal nature , it was denominated b y the Greeks , Phoebus— Phoebe—Pan ; in the
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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
of Belus Venus-Thammuz ; the Grecian and Roman , of Jupiter —Neptune—Pluto ; the Elcusiuian , of Bacchus-Proserpine—Cores ; the Cyclopean , of Brontes— Steropes—Arges : the Thracian , of Uranus —Urania—Love ; the Platonic , of Tagathon — Nous- Psyche ;* the Tartar , of Artugon—Sehugoteugon —Tangara : the Celtic , of
HuCeridwen—Creirwy ; the Teutonic , of Fenris —Midgard—Hela : the Gothic , of Wo oden—Friga—Thor ; the Scandinavian , of Odin —Vile—Ve ; the Peruvian , of Tangatanga ; f the Mexican , of Vitzliputzli—Tlaloc—Tescalipuca . Each triad wits generally explained to consist of a creator , a preserver , and a destroyer ; or , according to Maurice ,
a renovator ;; and this doctrine was embodied in another feature of the Spurious Freemasonry , viz ., the belief in an endless succession of similar grand periods , called worlds ; each of which was supposed to be in constant progress towards destruction ; after which a new- creation invariably takes place . And thus the operations of one or other
member of the triad are always in active exercise , in the successive works of renovation , preservation , or destruction . But if the triad , as an illustration of the number three , was thus the foundation of reli gion , it was also disseminated in detail through every branch of the system . In some nations this tri ple form of the divinity was convertible under a change of circumstances . Thus , in universal nature , it was denominated b y the Greeks , Phoebus— Phoebe—Pan ; in the