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On Freemasonry.
of the gentile world , who are often described as being of the male sex . Thus Venus was a personification of the moon . By some she was called Juno ; by others Isis , Vesper , aud Lucifer ; but she was sometimes represented with a beard , & c . as a man . Est etiam , says Servius , in his commentary on the . ZEneid ( ii . 612 ) in Cypro simulacrum barbatce
Veneris corpore et veste muliebri , cum sceptro et natura virili , quod A < j > podirov vocant . Minerva is thus addressed in the hymns called Orphic , Apo-rjv pev KM difXvs srf > vs . In like manner the Gothic female deity , Friga or Frea , was of both sexes ; sometimes she was worshipped as a female , and at others as a goddepicted in male attireand armed with a
, , bow and arrows . The moon is spoken of as a male in the Orphic fragments , and was so worshipped at Cabira , among the Albani ; and in Greece she was occasionally adored in conjunction with Esculapius . AtAntiochea , in Pisidia , and various other places , temples were dedicated to the rites of Meen Arkaeus , or deus Lunus . So likewise in India , the
moon was considered a male deity called Chandra ; represented as seated in a chariot drawn by antelopes , with a lunette at his head and another at his feet . The explanation of the fable , I believe is , that when the moon . was in conjunction with the Sun it was female , and when in opposition , male .
A . ud equally extraordinary are the absurd fables of the spurious Freemasonry , which represent Jupiter at one time as the father of men ; at another , as the mother of the gods ; and sometimes as an hermaphrodite .
Jupiter omnipotens Regum Rex ipse Deumque Progenitor , Genetrixque deutn . Deus unus et idem . Val . Soran ap . Aug . de civ . dei , 1 . 4 . On this curious subject the learned Cudworth thus expresses himself . * " Proclus , in the Timseus says , Jove is both a man and an immortal maid . But this is nothing but a
poetic description of appevoBfkve , male and female together ; they signifying thereby emphatically the divine fecundity , or the generative and creative power of the deity ; that God was able from himself alone to produce all things . Hence Damascius , the philosopher , writing of the Orphic theology , expounds it thus , ' The Orphic theology calls the first prin-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
of the gentile world , who are often described as being of the male sex . Thus Venus was a personification of the moon . By some she was called Juno ; by others Isis , Vesper , aud Lucifer ; but she was sometimes represented with a beard , & c . as a man . Est etiam , says Servius , in his commentary on the . ZEneid ( ii . 612 ) in Cypro simulacrum barbatce
Veneris corpore et veste muliebri , cum sceptro et natura virili , quod A < j > podirov vocant . Minerva is thus addressed in the hymns called Orphic , Apo-rjv pev KM difXvs srf > vs . In like manner the Gothic female deity , Friga or Frea , was of both sexes ; sometimes she was worshipped as a female , and at others as a goddepicted in male attireand armed with a
, , bow and arrows . The moon is spoken of as a male in the Orphic fragments , and was so worshipped at Cabira , among the Albani ; and in Greece she was occasionally adored in conjunction with Esculapius . AtAntiochea , in Pisidia , and various other places , temples were dedicated to the rites of Meen Arkaeus , or deus Lunus . So likewise in India , the
moon was considered a male deity called Chandra ; represented as seated in a chariot drawn by antelopes , with a lunette at his head and another at his feet . The explanation of the fable , I believe is , that when the moon . was in conjunction with the Sun it was female , and when in opposition , male .
A . ud equally extraordinary are the absurd fables of the spurious Freemasonry , which represent Jupiter at one time as the father of men ; at another , as the mother of the gods ; and sometimes as an hermaphrodite .
Jupiter omnipotens Regum Rex ipse Deumque Progenitor , Genetrixque deutn . Deus unus et idem . Val . Soran ap . Aug . de civ . dei , 1 . 4 . On this curious subject the learned Cudworth thus expresses himself . * " Proclus , in the Timseus says , Jove is both a man and an immortal maid . But this is nothing but a
poetic description of appevoBfkve , male and female together ; they signifying thereby emphatically the divine fecundity , or the generative and creative power of the deity ; that God was able from himself alone to produce all things . Hence Damascius , the philosopher , writing of the Orphic theology , expounds it thus , ' The Orphic theology calls the first prin-