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On Freemasonry.
ON FREEMASONRY .
ON THE EMBLEMATICAL REFERENCES OF THE SUN IN A MASONIC LODGE . BY THE REV . G . OLIVER , D . D . IN some of our ancient Tracing-boards we find the letter G inscribed within a Blazing Star or Sun , which has induced
the opinion that Freemasonry is but a continuation of the solar superstition , as it was practised in the mysteries of heathen nations . Thus a writer of our own country says , — " Masonry is the remains of the reli gion of the ancient Druids , who , like the magi of Persia , and the priests of Heliopolis in Egypt , were priests of the Sun . They paid worshi
p to this luminary as the visible agent of a great invisible first cause , whom they styled Time loitliout limits . In Masonry many of the ceremonies of the Druids are preserved in their original state , at least without any parody . With them the Sun is the great emblematical ornament of Masonic Lodges and Masonic dresses ; it is the central figure on their aprons ;
and they wear it also pendant on the breast in their Lodges and in their processions . It has the face of a man . As the study and contemplation of the Creator in the works of the creation , of which the Sun , as the great visible agent of that Being , was the object of the Druid ' s adoration , all their reli gious rites and ceremonies had reference to the apparent
progress of the Sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac , and his influence upon the earth . The Masons adopt the same practices . The roof of their Temples or Lodges , " he continues , " is ornamented with a sun , and the floor is a representation of the variegated face of the . earth , either b y carpeting or Mosaic work . " * And therefore he concludes that Freemasonry , like the reli g ion of the Druids , is a system of Sun worship .-j-
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On Freemasonry.
ON FREEMASONRY .
ON THE EMBLEMATICAL REFERENCES OF THE SUN IN A MASONIC LODGE . BY THE REV . G . OLIVER , D . D . IN some of our ancient Tracing-boards we find the letter G inscribed within a Blazing Star or Sun , which has induced
the opinion that Freemasonry is but a continuation of the solar superstition , as it was practised in the mysteries of heathen nations . Thus a writer of our own country says , — " Masonry is the remains of the reli gion of the ancient Druids , who , like the magi of Persia , and the priests of Heliopolis in Egypt , were priests of the Sun . They paid worshi
p to this luminary as the visible agent of a great invisible first cause , whom they styled Time loitliout limits . In Masonry many of the ceremonies of the Druids are preserved in their original state , at least without any parody . With them the Sun is the great emblematical ornament of Masonic Lodges and Masonic dresses ; it is the central figure on their aprons ;
and they wear it also pendant on the breast in their Lodges and in their processions . It has the face of a man . As the study and contemplation of the Creator in the works of the creation , of which the Sun , as the great visible agent of that Being , was the object of the Druid ' s adoration , all their reli gious rites and ceremonies had reference to the apparent
progress of the Sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac , and his influence upon the earth . The Masons adopt the same practices . The roof of their Temples or Lodges , " he continues , " is ornamented with a sun , and the floor is a representation of the variegated face of the . earth , either b y carpeting or Mosaic work . " * And therefore he concludes that Freemasonry , like the reli g ion of the Druids , is a system of Sun worship .-j-