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On Freemasonry.
one hand , and leans the other on a spear , as a mark of divinity . So her husband often had the apple in his hand , taken from the garden of Hesperides—a word seemingly corrupted from Paradise , guarded by a watchful dragon and four nymphs , which are the four rivers recited by Moses . Cain was the Ganymede of the ancients ;
cupbearer at the feasts of the gods . Lamech , the first bigamist , was the Jupiter of mount Casius ; Tubal Cain , Vulcan ; Jubal the inventor of music was Pales the shepherd ; Apollo is ori g inally taken from him in the quality of a harper . Noah was consecrated after his death , and called Deucalion , which means the god the preacherwhom
, mythologists make to be the first builder of cities and temples . The name of his wife was Beroe , called Pyrrha by the Greeks , in honour of whom was founded the city Berytus , esteemed the most ancient city in the world , built b y her son Ham , who is the Saturn of profane history ;
and Shem is celebrated under the p icture of Mithras . " * Nothing , therefore , can be more clear , than that a series of traditions of the fundamental truths of reli gion were embodied in the Mysteries at Babel , in accordance with the same usage of Freemasonry , which Nimrod had doubtless learned from his grandfather Ham , who was one of the
initiated Noachidas ; scattered abroad at the dispersion of mankind ; and adapted by each people to the peculiar character of their own superstitions ; other remarkable circumstances , which bore a supernatural character , and appeared to indicate a divine interference , being added , as they occurred , by the people under whose peculiar observation
they were transacted . Thus the Egyptians would embod y the history of Moses in their Mysteries , because he produced a striking effect on their civil and reli g ious institutions ; and his miracles proclaimed a present Divinity , who , as they conceived , was at his command . Their system being copied by the Greeks , that imaginative people elevated Moses into a god , under the name of Bacchus .
These coincidences , which might be almost infinitel y extended , were so remarkable that , as the heathen proclaimed the facts to be borrowed from their Mysteries , so their opponents , the earl y Christian writers , affirmed that the ori g inal authors of these traditions amongst the Gentiles were acquainted with the Jewish scriptures , and received from that source all the knowledge they possessed .
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On Freemasonry.
one hand , and leans the other on a spear , as a mark of divinity . So her husband often had the apple in his hand , taken from the garden of Hesperides—a word seemingly corrupted from Paradise , guarded by a watchful dragon and four nymphs , which are the four rivers recited by Moses . Cain was the Ganymede of the ancients ;
cupbearer at the feasts of the gods . Lamech , the first bigamist , was the Jupiter of mount Casius ; Tubal Cain , Vulcan ; Jubal the inventor of music was Pales the shepherd ; Apollo is ori g inally taken from him in the quality of a harper . Noah was consecrated after his death , and called Deucalion , which means the god the preacherwhom
, mythologists make to be the first builder of cities and temples . The name of his wife was Beroe , called Pyrrha by the Greeks , in honour of whom was founded the city Berytus , esteemed the most ancient city in the world , built b y her son Ham , who is the Saturn of profane history ;
and Shem is celebrated under the p icture of Mithras . " * Nothing , therefore , can be more clear , than that a series of traditions of the fundamental truths of reli gion were embodied in the Mysteries at Babel , in accordance with the same usage of Freemasonry , which Nimrod had doubtless learned from his grandfather Ham , who was one of the
initiated Noachidas ; scattered abroad at the dispersion of mankind ; and adapted by each people to the peculiar character of their own superstitions ; other remarkable circumstances , which bore a supernatural character , and appeared to indicate a divine interference , being added , as they occurred , by the people under whose peculiar observation
they were transacted . Thus the Egyptians would embod y the history of Moses in their Mysteries , because he produced a striking effect on their civil and reli g ious institutions ; and his miracles proclaimed a present Divinity , who , as they conceived , was at his command . Their system being copied by the Greeks , that imaginative people elevated Moses into a god , under the name of Bacchus .
These coincidences , which might be almost infinitel y extended , were so remarkable that , as the heathen proclaimed the facts to be borrowed from their Mysteries , so their opponents , the earl y Christian writers , affirmed that the ori g inal authors of these traditions amongst the Gentiles were acquainted with the Jewish scriptures , and received from that source all the knowledge they possessed .