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On Freemasonry.
which he was reputed to have performed with this instrument . On one occasion he cast his rod upon the ground and it became a serpent ; and afterwards he smote the rivers Orontes ancl Hydaspes with it , and the waters immediately receded , and he passed over dryshod . The orgies were celebrated by a mixed assembly of all ranksamongst
, whom , during the continuance of the festival , distinction was unknown . Thus Israel departed out of Egypt under the conduct of Moses , accompanied by a mixed multitude from all the neighbouring nations . During the initiations the purifying element was sometimes obtained by striking a rock with the rod of Bacchus . The votaries of this
convivial deity crowned their heads with serpents , and carried serpents in vases and baskets , in allusion , doubdess , to the plague of fiery serpents inflicted on the Israelites in the wilderness . *
Moses at the Burning Bush was directed to prepare himself for his interview with the Deity , by taking his shoes from off his feet , because the ground was sanctified by the Divine presence . In imitation of this characteristic ceremony , the heathen introduced a similar custom into the Mysteries , which was always used by the candidate , for
initiation . And hence arose the practice of testifying a veneration for the gods by performing religious ceremonies with bare feet . The Cretans who were otherwise very lax in the discipline of their Mysteries , made it penal for any person to enter the temple of Diana with their feet covered . Pythagoras enjoined on his disciles the necessity of a
p strict adherence to this practice ; nudis pedibus rem sacram facito ; and even the Roman ladies of the highest rank were not excused when they entered the temple of Vesta . The principal divinities of the Greeks in the opinion of many learned authorities , were invested with the attributes which tradition had assigned to the early patriarchs .
Thus , according to our intelligent brother Anderson , who published the History of Freemasonry under the sanction of the Grand Lodge in the eighteenth century , " the idea of the most ancient Hercules is formed from that of Adam ; bearded , rough , with the skin of a beast to cover his nakedness , and a club in his hand to fray wild animals from him .
Eve was consecrated under the name of Hebe , the goddess of youth and beauty ; the Juventa of the Latins . She has the adequate figure of Eve , holding the fatal apple in
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On Freemasonry.
which he was reputed to have performed with this instrument . On one occasion he cast his rod upon the ground and it became a serpent ; and afterwards he smote the rivers Orontes ancl Hydaspes with it , and the waters immediately receded , and he passed over dryshod . The orgies were celebrated by a mixed assembly of all ranksamongst
, whom , during the continuance of the festival , distinction was unknown . Thus Israel departed out of Egypt under the conduct of Moses , accompanied by a mixed multitude from all the neighbouring nations . During the initiations the purifying element was sometimes obtained by striking a rock with the rod of Bacchus . The votaries of this
convivial deity crowned their heads with serpents , and carried serpents in vases and baskets , in allusion , doubdess , to the plague of fiery serpents inflicted on the Israelites in the wilderness . *
Moses at the Burning Bush was directed to prepare himself for his interview with the Deity , by taking his shoes from off his feet , because the ground was sanctified by the Divine presence . In imitation of this characteristic ceremony , the heathen introduced a similar custom into the Mysteries , which was always used by the candidate , for
initiation . And hence arose the practice of testifying a veneration for the gods by performing religious ceremonies with bare feet . The Cretans who were otherwise very lax in the discipline of their Mysteries , made it penal for any person to enter the temple of Diana with their feet covered . Pythagoras enjoined on his disciles the necessity of a
p strict adherence to this practice ; nudis pedibus rem sacram facito ; and even the Roman ladies of the highest rank were not excused when they entered the temple of Vesta . The principal divinities of the Greeks in the opinion of many learned authorities , were invested with the attributes which tradition had assigned to the early patriarchs .
Thus , according to our intelligent brother Anderson , who published the History of Freemasonry under the sanction of the Grand Lodge in the eighteenth century , " the idea of the most ancient Hercules is formed from that of Adam ; bearded , rough , with the skin of a beast to cover his nakedness , and a club in his hand to fray wild animals from him .
Eve was consecrated under the name of Hebe , the goddess of youth and beauty ; the Juventa of the Latins . She has the adequate figure of Eve , holding the fatal apple in