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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
framed a grate lodge at Groton , and maked manye Maconnes , some whereoffe dydejourneye yn France , and maked manye Maconnes ; wherefromme , yn processe of tyme , the arte passed in Engelonde . " In this extract the Spurious Freemasonry is evidently referred to ; for though Pthagoras approached very nearl
y y to the tabernacle , his system wanted the vivifying principle of Speculative Masonry , the hnoioledcje and achimuledgmenf . of a true and only God . He had indeed acquired , from his intercourse with the Essenian Jews at Babylon , some knowledge of Speculative Masonry , for there is little doubt but he had received initiation from them ; but he conceived
Jehovah to be merely the God of their nation , and in no respect superior to the Egyptian Osiris , the Indian Brahma , or the Greek and Roman Zeus or Jupiter ; and therefore the revelation of the true God produced no salutary impression . Not so the rites and manners of the Essenes . Our acute hilosopher was so struck with them allas to
p , introduce them into his own system of Spurious Freemasonry ; which was compounded from what he conceived to be the best points in all the mysteries of those various nations which he visited in his search after knowledge . And it was this leaven of truth which invested his
institution with the superiority which it asserted and maintained over every establishment of Spurious Freemasonry that existed in the world . Ammianus Marcellinus appears to have been the authority on which the assertion contained in the above manuscript is made ; for he says , ( 1 . 15 , c . 9 ) , that " the Druids formed into fraternities
were , or secret societies , at the recommendation of Pythagoras , and after the manner of his schools . " This is extremely probable ; for though it is not pretended that the philosopher ever visited Britain , yet the particulars of his system might be introduced into Cornwall , where the Druids flourished abundantly , by the Phenicians ,
along with their own improvements in the Spurious Freemasonry , which , according to Sanchoniatho , their most ancient historian , was practised amongst them from the very earliest times . He tells us that " Agruerus was highly venerated by the Phenicians , and his shrine was drawn about from place to place by a yoke of oxen ; while among the Byblians he was esteemed , in an especial manner , even the greatest of Gods . The persons of whom this generation was composed were known by the general name of Aletaj or Titans . "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
framed a grate lodge at Groton , and maked manye Maconnes , some whereoffe dydejourneye yn France , and maked manye Maconnes ; wherefromme , yn processe of tyme , the arte passed in Engelonde . " In this extract the Spurious Freemasonry is evidently referred to ; for though Pthagoras approached very nearl
y y to the tabernacle , his system wanted the vivifying principle of Speculative Masonry , the hnoioledcje and achimuledgmenf . of a true and only God . He had indeed acquired , from his intercourse with the Essenian Jews at Babylon , some knowledge of Speculative Masonry , for there is little doubt but he had received initiation from them ; but he conceived
Jehovah to be merely the God of their nation , and in no respect superior to the Egyptian Osiris , the Indian Brahma , or the Greek and Roman Zeus or Jupiter ; and therefore the revelation of the true God produced no salutary impression . Not so the rites and manners of the Essenes . Our acute hilosopher was so struck with them allas to
p , introduce them into his own system of Spurious Freemasonry ; which was compounded from what he conceived to be the best points in all the mysteries of those various nations which he visited in his search after knowledge . And it was this leaven of truth which invested his
institution with the superiority which it asserted and maintained over every establishment of Spurious Freemasonry that existed in the world . Ammianus Marcellinus appears to have been the authority on which the assertion contained in the above manuscript is made ; for he says , ( 1 . 15 , c . 9 ) , that " the Druids formed into fraternities
were , or secret societies , at the recommendation of Pythagoras , and after the manner of his schools . " This is extremely probable ; for though it is not pretended that the philosopher ever visited Britain , yet the particulars of his system might be introduced into Cornwall , where the Druids flourished abundantly , by the Phenicians ,
along with their own improvements in the Spurious Freemasonry , which , according to Sanchoniatho , their most ancient historian , was practised amongst them from the very earliest times . He tells us that " Agruerus was highly venerated by the Phenicians , and his shrine was drawn about from place to place by a yoke of oxen ; while among the Byblians he was esteemed , in an especial manner , even the greatest of Gods . The persons of whom this generation was composed were known by the general name of Aletaj or Titans . "