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Materials For Masonic Thinking.
• 5 . The builders of houses of worship to God , who were formerly what the present race are only symbolically and speculativel y , Freemasons entered , passed , and duly raised , had their chief altars of incense or sacrifice placed in the east—Christian chur ches to this day are , unless there be some great opposing obstacle , similarl y built . 6 . The Druids had the slope of their cromlechs or stone altars erected in the great temple which stretches from Earth to Heaventurned
, towards the east , where they might catch along the full extent of its inclined surface , the first glimpse of their Deity . 7 . The Persians to this day hail in prayer and worship , the rising and setting of the majestic day-star . 8 . The beautiful imagination which made the statue of Memnon sound when its stony materials felt the first touch of the sun ' s rising beams , had a hidden and religious signification akin to some of the points of faith
among the more intelligent of the Craft . 9 . In the twelve labours of Hercules , whom some assert to be another name for the day-god , we have an analogical reference to the progress of the latter through the signs which compose the Zodiac—for instance , the Nemean Lion . 10 . If the rational Pagan esteemed next to Zeus or Jupiter the king of gods and menthat deity described as " too frail for worshitoo
, p , divine for love , " Apollo , the Hindoo of our day , has his corresponding Krishna the object of like adoration . 11 . Nor among an uninformed people should we wonder that sunworship was one of the earliest and most readily credited , when we remember that he is the visible—with us the symbolical—source of the greatest blessings INTELLIGENCE has bestowed upon man viz . light warmth , and productiveness .
12 . The Hindoos , almost as multifacient of shades of deity as the Egyptians or their copyists , the Greeks and Romans , in addition to their Krishna , represent the god Indra one of the most adored , as Lord of the skies in the heavens , and the gardens of the East . 13 . Masonry and sun-worslup were identical with tbe Egyptians , who erected the most splendid work of Masonic Art ever contemplated—those pyramids whose shadows still measure the course of time with gigantic graduations—to watch the days of this earth in periods of great comparative remoteness , hoping thereby , to approach towards a better knowledge of the work of the Great Architect .
The Architecture Of The Heavens.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HEAVENS .
( THIRD PAPER . ) BY BROTHER E . R . MOItAN , W . M ., LODGE OF CONCORD , NO . 49 , AND OF THE GRAND MASTER ' S LODOE , NO . 1 . WE now come to the most remarkable , as well as interesting , portion of the discoveries effected through the agency of the Herschel telescope Alter attaining a tolerabl y correct knowledge of the "Architecture of the Heavens , as far as the tremendousl y increased power of the instrument enabled him to reach , the next object of the discoverer was to ascertain of what materials the compressed portions of the universe are
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Materials For Masonic Thinking.
• 5 . The builders of houses of worship to God , who were formerly what the present race are only symbolically and speculativel y , Freemasons entered , passed , and duly raised , had their chief altars of incense or sacrifice placed in the east—Christian chur ches to this day are , unless there be some great opposing obstacle , similarl y built . 6 . The Druids had the slope of their cromlechs or stone altars erected in the great temple which stretches from Earth to Heaventurned
, towards the east , where they might catch along the full extent of its inclined surface , the first glimpse of their Deity . 7 . The Persians to this day hail in prayer and worship , the rising and setting of the majestic day-star . 8 . The beautiful imagination which made the statue of Memnon sound when its stony materials felt the first touch of the sun ' s rising beams , had a hidden and religious signification akin to some of the points of faith
among the more intelligent of the Craft . 9 . In the twelve labours of Hercules , whom some assert to be another name for the day-god , we have an analogical reference to the progress of the latter through the signs which compose the Zodiac—for instance , the Nemean Lion . 10 . If the rational Pagan esteemed next to Zeus or Jupiter the king of gods and menthat deity described as " too frail for worshitoo
, p , divine for love , " Apollo , the Hindoo of our day , has his corresponding Krishna the object of like adoration . 11 . Nor among an uninformed people should we wonder that sunworship was one of the earliest and most readily credited , when we remember that he is the visible—with us the symbolical—source of the greatest blessings INTELLIGENCE has bestowed upon man viz . light warmth , and productiveness .
12 . The Hindoos , almost as multifacient of shades of deity as the Egyptians or their copyists , the Greeks and Romans , in addition to their Krishna , represent the god Indra one of the most adored , as Lord of the skies in the heavens , and the gardens of the East . 13 . Masonry and sun-worslup were identical with tbe Egyptians , who erected the most splendid work of Masonic Art ever contemplated—those pyramids whose shadows still measure the course of time with gigantic graduations—to watch the days of this earth in periods of great comparative remoteness , hoping thereby , to approach towards a better knowledge of the work of the Great Architect .
The Architecture Of The Heavens.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HEAVENS .
( THIRD PAPER . ) BY BROTHER E . R . MOItAN , W . M ., LODGE OF CONCORD , NO . 49 , AND OF THE GRAND MASTER ' S LODOE , NO . 1 . WE now come to the most remarkable , as well as interesting , portion of the discoveries effected through the agency of the Herschel telescope Alter attaining a tolerabl y correct knowledge of the "Architecture of the Heavens , as far as the tremendousl y increased power of the instrument enabled him to reach , the next object of the discoverer was to ascertain of what materials the compressed portions of the universe are