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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
fathers . * Cicero mentions three Anactes , whom he calls Tritopateus—Eubuleus—Dionysus . The three steps b y which Neptune is represented b y Homer to have crossed the horizon , and the three steps of Vishnu , in his fifth avater , mi ght have a similar reference ; as also the teeth of Scylla , the Bacchic trieterica , the tripos of Apollo , the German
tri gla , the Celtic cromlech , or trilithic edifices of Britain and Gaul , and the tri ple division of the universe into heaven , earth , and hell ; where the moon , in the former , was termed Diana ; in the next , Luna ; and in the latter , Hecate . Pausanias relates that the statue of Jupiter , which was removed from the palace of Priam , when Troy was sacked , had
three eyes , in allusion to his tri p le government of heaven , hell , and the waters . And Lycophron calls Hercules Triesper . The mysterious veneration which the ancients entertained for the number three , was manifested in every part of their mystical theology . Thus the statue of Diana , in common with those of SerapisGeryonChimaarathe Shynxthe
, , , p , Indian dog of Yama , Trisiras , the American deity Bochica , and the trici pitii of all nations , was sometimes represented with three heads , viz ., of a horse , a dog , and a man ; or a bull , a dog , and a Hon ; - ) - and the following lines expressed her properties under this threefold character :
'ferret , lustrat , agit , —Proserpina , Luna , Diana , Ima , suprema , feros , —sceptro , fulgore , sagitta . And again in the iEneid : Tergeminamque Hecatem , tria virginis ora Diante . Each head was surmounted by the Tau Cross , and the bod y terminated in the folds of a double serpent . With a similar allusion Milton said , The Moon—her countenance triform , Hence fills and empties , to enlighten th' earth .
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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
fathers . * Cicero mentions three Anactes , whom he calls Tritopateus—Eubuleus—Dionysus . The three steps b y which Neptune is represented b y Homer to have crossed the horizon , and the three steps of Vishnu , in his fifth avater , mi ght have a similar reference ; as also the teeth of Scylla , the Bacchic trieterica , the tripos of Apollo , the German
tri gla , the Celtic cromlech , or trilithic edifices of Britain and Gaul , and the tri ple division of the universe into heaven , earth , and hell ; where the moon , in the former , was termed Diana ; in the next , Luna ; and in the latter , Hecate . Pausanias relates that the statue of Jupiter , which was removed from the palace of Priam , when Troy was sacked , had
three eyes , in allusion to his tri p le government of heaven , hell , and the waters . And Lycophron calls Hercules Triesper . The mysterious veneration which the ancients entertained for the number three , was manifested in every part of their mystical theology . Thus the statue of Diana , in common with those of SerapisGeryonChimaarathe Shynxthe
, , , p , Indian dog of Yama , Trisiras , the American deity Bochica , and the trici pitii of all nations , was sometimes represented with three heads , viz ., of a horse , a dog , and a man ; or a bull , a dog , and a Hon ; - ) - and the following lines expressed her properties under this threefold character :
'ferret , lustrat , agit , —Proserpina , Luna , Diana , Ima , suprema , feros , —sceptro , fulgore , sagitta . And again in the iEneid : Tergeminamque Hecatem , tria virginis ora Diante . Each head was surmounted by the Tau Cross , and the bod y terminated in the folds of a double serpent . With a similar allusion Milton said , The Moon—her countenance triform , Hence fills and empties , to enlighten th' earth .