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On Freemasonry.
ill the 60 th degree of Fustier the subject is again renewed , by an explanation of the mystery of the three sons of Noah ; of the three stories of the ark ; of the three men that appeared to Abraham ; of the seven pair of clean beasts ; of the dove which was sent forth at the end of seven days ; ofthe forty days' rain , & c . & c . The deluge is also referred to in the lectures of the first symbolical degree . After the destruction of the worldGocl renewed his covenant with
, Noah , and confirmed it to Abraham and Moses , and it was fulfilled in Christ . The ceremonial law , which was abolished when the veil of the temple was rent in twain , and the holy of holies , with its ark , mercy seat ancl cherubim exposed to public view , formed no part of this compact , but " was added because of transgressions , till the seed should come to whom the promise was made ; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator ;" ancl was typical of the divine lan to render the
comp pact perfect . And the sublime degree of Knight of the Eagle , or Sovereign Prince of the Eagle ancl Pelican , as some term it , or Rose Croix de Heredon or Haroclim , as it is named by others , —for the appellation is by no means uniform—offers a glorious description of that portentous period when the veil of the temple was rent , the lamp of day was obscured , the stars disappeared , and darkness and consternation covered the earth ; for in the midst of this unnatural darkness the
greatest calamities befel our noble Order . As time moved on , from the deluge to the advent of Christ , the system of light progressed and acquired an accession of truths commensurate with the increasing intelligence of mankind ; it taught that all
who died before Christ came personally into the world , were justified by faith in the prospect of his coming to offer himself a sacrifice for the sins of men . This faith would include a firm belief in the veracity and immutability of God , ancl a full persuasion that he would perform the covenant into which he had entered for the security of human salvation . Hence Freemasonry became the sacred depository of numerous types of this remarkable fact , —ihe pillar of a cloud of fire , the Shekinah in the
tabernacle and the temple , the blazing star , ancl many others . Indeed , if we look curiously into the system of Freemasonry , even as it is practised at the present day , we shall find it to consist of a regular series of types of the Redeemer or his dispensation . Adam was a type of Christ ; for " as in Adam all die , even so in Christ shall all be made alive . " Abel was the same , and so was Noah ; and the whole history of his salvation in the ark is typical of our purification bChristian baptism .
y Again , the sacrifice of Isaac was a figure of the death of Christ . All the Masonic worthies whose names are so celebrated amongst us , were , in like manner , types of the Messiah . Joseph , Moses ancl Aaron ; Joshua , David , Solomon and Zerubbabel . Even the Iraelites , whose redemption from bondage forms an unalterable Landmark of Freemasonry , prefigured the same event . And what are Jacob ' s vision of the ladderthe burning bushthe manna which fell in the wilderness
, , , & c . & c , all illustrated in our disquisitions , but typical events which bear a direct reference to the establishment of our most holy religion . Itis certain that there is not , nor ever was , any NAME under heaven whereby salvation can be obtained but onl y the name of the Lord Jesus Christ , which is styled in Masonry the Tetragrammaton . Now the great truth having been communicated to the first man , and frequently
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
ill the 60 th degree of Fustier the subject is again renewed , by an explanation of the mystery of the three sons of Noah ; of the three stories of the ark ; of the three men that appeared to Abraham ; of the seven pair of clean beasts ; of the dove which was sent forth at the end of seven days ; ofthe forty days' rain , & c . & c . The deluge is also referred to in the lectures of the first symbolical degree . After the destruction of the worldGocl renewed his covenant with
, Noah , and confirmed it to Abraham and Moses , and it was fulfilled in Christ . The ceremonial law , which was abolished when the veil of the temple was rent in twain , and the holy of holies , with its ark , mercy seat ancl cherubim exposed to public view , formed no part of this compact , but " was added because of transgressions , till the seed should come to whom the promise was made ; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator ;" ancl was typical of the divine lan to render the
comp pact perfect . And the sublime degree of Knight of the Eagle , or Sovereign Prince of the Eagle ancl Pelican , as some term it , or Rose Croix de Heredon or Haroclim , as it is named by others , —for the appellation is by no means uniform—offers a glorious description of that portentous period when the veil of the temple was rent , the lamp of day was obscured , the stars disappeared , and darkness and consternation covered the earth ; for in the midst of this unnatural darkness the
greatest calamities befel our noble Order . As time moved on , from the deluge to the advent of Christ , the system of light progressed and acquired an accession of truths commensurate with the increasing intelligence of mankind ; it taught that all
who died before Christ came personally into the world , were justified by faith in the prospect of his coming to offer himself a sacrifice for the sins of men . This faith would include a firm belief in the veracity and immutability of God , ancl a full persuasion that he would perform the covenant into which he had entered for the security of human salvation . Hence Freemasonry became the sacred depository of numerous types of this remarkable fact , —ihe pillar of a cloud of fire , the Shekinah in the
tabernacle and the temple , the blazing star , ancl many others . Indeed , if we look curiously into the system of Freemasonry , even as it is practised at the present day , we shall find it to consist of a regular series of types of the Redeemer or his dispensation . Adam was a type of Christ ; for " as in Adam all die , even so in Christ shall all be made alive . " Abel was the same , and so was Noah ; and the whole history of his salvation in the ark is typical of our purification bChristian baptism .
y Again , the sacrifice of Isaac was a figure of the death of Christ . All the Masonic worthies whose names are so celebrated amongst us , were , in like manner , types of the Messiah . Joseph , Moses ancl Aaron ; Joshua , David , Solomon and Zerubbabel . Even the Iraelites , whose redemption from bondage forms an unalterable Landmark of Freemasonry , prefigured the same event . And what are Jacob ' s vision of the ladderthe burning bushthe manna which fell in the wilderness
, , , & c . & c , all illustrated in our disquisitions , but typical events which bear a direct reference to the establishment of our most holy religion . Itis certain that there is not , nor ever was , any NAME under heaven whereby salvation can be obtained but onl y the name of the Lord Jesus Christ , which is styled in Masonry the Tetragrammaton . Now the great truth having been communicated to the first man , and frequently