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On Freemasonry.
a word implicitly synonimous with the Sanscrit Vahan . " Now whence could these primitive people be supposed to derive their notion of the Masonic cherubim , but from the Noachidas , in whose system it formed an awful subject of discussion , as connected with the unhappy fall of man , and the promise of a Saviour .
The tradition of Cain and Abel is thus preserved in the Mysteries of the same people : — " Cardameswara is the destructive power united to a form of clay . Iswara attempted to kill his brother Brahma , who being immortal was onl y maimed ; but Iswara finding him afterwards in a mortal shape in the character of Dacsha , killed him as he
ivas peiforming a sacrifice . Cardameswara is then obviously the Cain of Scripture . " * Again , "itis related in the Padma Pooraun , that Satyavrata , whose miraculous preservation is told at large in the Matsya , had three sons , the eldest of whom was named Jyapeti , or Lord of the Earth ; the others were Charma and Sharmawhich last
, words are in the vulgar dialects usuall y pronounced Cham and Sham . The royal patriarch , for such is his character in the Pooraun , was particularly fond of Jyapeti , to whom he gave all the regions to the north of the Himalaya or the snowy mountains , which extend from sea to sea , ancl of which Caucasus is a part ; to Sharma he allotted the
countries to the south of those mountains ; but he cursed Charma , because , when the old monarch was accidentally inebriated with a strong liquor made offermen ted rice , Charma laughed ; and it was in consequence of his father ' s execration that he became a slave to the slaves of his brothers . " f
That a knowled ge of many transactions in the life of Moses had been placed in the Mysteries very soon after the events had happened , is noticed b y Vossius , and after him by Lord Herbert of Cherbury , Archbishop Tennison , and others . According to these authorities , the identity of Bacchus and the Jewish law-giver is plainly avouched .
Thus Moses and Bacchus were equally taken from the waves : the one in an ark of wood , the other of bulrushes . Bacchus was reported to be the son of two mothers ; and the second mother of Moses was Pharaoh ' s daughter . The deliverance of the Israelites from their bondage in Egypt constitutes another of these coincidences . In the Dyonisiaca , the Thyrsis or Rod of Bacchus was elevated to perpetuate the remembrance of two remarkable miracles
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On Freemasonry.
a word implicitly synonimous with the Sanscrit Vahan . " Now whence could these primitive people be supposed to derive their notion of the Masonic cherubim , but from the Noachidas , in whose system it formed an awful subject of discussion , as connected with the unhappy fall of man , and the promise of a Saviour .
The tradition of Cain and Abel is thus preserved in the Mysteries of the same people : — " Cardameswara is the destructive power united to a form of clay . Iswara attempted to kill his brother Brahma , who being immortal was onl y maimed ; but Iswara finding him afterwards in a mortal shape in the character of Dacsha , killed him as he
ivas peiforming a sacrifice . Cardameswara is then obviously the Cain of Scripture . " * Again , "itis related in the Padma Pooraun , that Satyavrata , whose miraculous preservation is told at large in the Matsya , had three sons , the eldest of whom was named Jyapeti , or Lord of the Earth ; the others were Charma and Sharmawhich last
, words are in the vulgar dialects usuall y pronounced Cham and Sham . The royal patriarch , for such is his character in the Pooraun , was particularly fond of Jyapeti , to whom he gave all the regions to the north of the Himalaya or the snowy mountains , which extend from sea to sea , ancl of which Caucasus is a part ; to Sharma he allotted the
countries to the south of those mountains ; but he cursed Charma , because , when the old monarch was accidentally inebriated with a strong liquor made offermen ted rice , Charma laughed ; and it was in consequence of his father ' s execration that he became a slave to the slaves of his brothers . " f
That a knowled ge of many transactions in the life of Moses had been placed in the Mysteries very soon after the events had happened , is noticed b y Vossius , and after him by Lord Herbert of Cherbury , Archbishop Tennison , and others . According to these authorities , the identity of Bacchus and the Jewish law-giver is plainly avouched .
Thus Moses and Bacchus were equally taken from the waves : the one in an ark of wood , the other of bulrushes . Bacchus was reported to be the son of two mothers ; and the second mother of Moses was Pharaoh ' s daughter . The deliverance of the Israelites from their bondage in Egypt constitutes another of these coincidences . In the Dyonisiaca , the Thyrsis or Rod of Bacchus was elevated to perpetuate the remembrance of two remarkable miracles