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On Freemasonry.
heat , * that , under the influence of reason only , they pronounced it to be the seat of the everliving God . As it appeared to be the fountain of life , and source of all their pleasure , they assigned it as the residence of the Supreme Being , f and the inferior deities were placed in the p lanets and fixed stars . According to Macrobius" quod Sol auctor
, spiritus caloris ac luminis humanse vitro genitor et custos e ^ t ; et ideo nascentis daemon ; id est , Deus creditur . " Hence the Sun became the chief object of worship in all nations where the spurious Freemasonry was practised . Tacitus says , " proprius honor Soli , cui est vetus cades apud circuin . " Tertuliian describes the mode of adoration .
" Plerique aft ' ectione adovandi , aliquando etiam celestia , ad Solis initium labra vibratis . " There appears to have been an universal disposition , in the structure of the spurious Freemasonry , to assimilate the principal deity with the Sun ; whose figure , as an immense blazing star , always occupied a prominent situation in their
caverns of initiation . Macrobius asks , " Saturnus ipse , qui auctor est temporum , et ideo a Graecis immutal . a litera spovos , quasi , xP oms > vocatur , quid aliud nisi Sol intelligendus est ? " And he occupies seven chapters of the first book of his Saturnalia in proving that Saturn , Jupiter , Pan , Nemesis , Osiris and Orus , Adonis and Isis , Atys and SerapisSalus
, , Hercules , Mercury , Esculapius , Mars , and Apollo , were all of them the Sun .+ Plato denominates Jupiter the Sun ;§ Mars , according to Faber , was M'Ars , the Great Sun ; Mercury , on the same authority , was M'Erech—Ur , the great burning divinity of tlie ark ; Bacchus is celebrated b y Sophocles as tlie leader of the host of heaven ; || Apollo is well
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On Freemasonry.
heat , * that , under the influence of reason only , they pronounced it to be the seat of the everliving God . As it appeared to be the fountain of life , and source of all their pleasure , they assigned it as the residence of the Supreme Being , f and the inferior deities were placed in the p lanets and fixed stars . According to Macrobius" quod Sol auctor
, spiritus caloris ac luminis humanse vitro genitor et custos e ^ t ; et ideo nascentis daemon ; id est , Deus creditur . " Hence the Sun became the chief object of worship in all nations where the spurious Freemasonry was practised . Tacitus says , " proprius honor Soli , cui est vetus cades apud circuin . " Tertuliian describes the mode of adoration .
" Plerique aft ' ectione adovandi , aliquando etiam celestia , ad Solis initium labra vibratis . " There appears to have been an universal disposition , in the structure of the spurious Freemasonry , to assimilate the principal deity with the Sun ; whose figure , as an immense blazing star , always occupied a prominent situation in their
caverns of initiation . Macrobius asks , " Saturnus ipse , qui auctor est temporum , et ideo a Graecis immutal . a litera spovos , quasi , xP oms > vocatur , quid aliud nisi Sol intelligendus est ? " And he occupies seven chapters of the first book of his Saturnalia in proving that Saturn , Jupiter , Pan , Nemesis , Osiris and Orus , Adonis and Isis , Atys and SerapisSalus
, , Hercules , Mercury , Esculapius , Mars , and Apollo , were all of them the Sun .+ Plato denominates Jupiter the Sun ;§ Mars , according to Faber , was M'Ars , the Great Sun ; Mercury , on the same authority , was M'Erech—Ur , the great burning divinity of tlie ark ; Bacchus is celebrated b y Sophocles as tlie leader of the host of heaven ; || Apollo is well