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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
been his friend , his companion , and guide in the delightful glades of Paradise . In what manner our great progenitor became possessed of this stone tradition does not explain ; nor is it possible to form the slightest conjecture , unless we adopt the Mahometan legend of the creation , which speaks of a crystal stone as the envelope of God ' s covenant with
man ; and is thus related in Rabadan . The Creator , designing to make known to the angels his scheme concerning the creation , summoned the archangel Gabriel , and delivering to him a pen and paper , commanded him to draw out an instrument of fealty ancl homage , in which , at the divine dictation , were specified the pleasures and delights which he
had provided for his creatures upon earth ; the term of years which they were allowed to live ; and the exercises in which their life was to be employed . This being finished , Gabriel said—Lord , what more must I write ? the pen resisteth and refuseth to be guided forwards . The Almighty then took the deed , and before he folded it , affixed his sacred signature and seal , as an evidence of the irrevocable nature of the covenant . He then commanded—Close up the writing in this CRYSTAL STONE , for this is the inviolable covenant
between myself and man . Sanchoniatho , in his Phenician Cosmogony , speaks of a stone of power and animation , which was invented by Uranus , the son of Eliun , or , in other words , was sent clown from heaven by the Most High for the use of man . And with reference to the mysterious word or name found on the stone of Adam , Psellus informs us that the heathen were in
possession of names of sacred import , revealed from heaven , and preserved in the mysteries of every nation ; and these names , which referred to the highest deities , being engraven on stones , became talismans of great potency . Stillingfleet says that these talismans are called by the Jews , David's Bucklers , and are much of the same nature with the ancient
Teraphim , both being accurately made according to the positions of the heavens ; onl y the one were to foretel future things , and the other to avert calamities . However these legends may or may not be connected with the subject before us , our Masonic traditions say that on this stone Adam made his offerings to God on his
reconciliation , when the divine promise of a mediator to expiate sin by bruising the serpent ' s head , which had tempted him to his downfal , was formally revealed , that he might not entirely sink under the oppression and misery in which a sense of meriting the divine displeasure had involved him .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
been his friend , his companion , and guide in the delightful glades of Paradise . In what manner our great progenitor became possessed of this stone tradition does not explain ; nor is it possible to form the slightest conjecture , unless we adopt the Mahometan legend of the creation , which speaks of a crystal stone as the envelope of God ' s covenant with
man ; and is thus related in Rabadan . The Creator , designing to make known to the angels his scheme concerning the creation , summoned the archangel Gabriel , and delivering to him a pen and paper , commanded him to draw out an instrument of fealty ancl homage , in which , at the divine dictation , were specified the pleasures and delights which he
had provided for his creatures upon earth ; the term of years which they were allowed to live ; and the exercises in which their life was to be employed . This being finished , Gabriel said—Lord , what more must I write ? the pen resisteth and refuseth to be guided forwards . The Almighty then took the deed , and before he folded it , affixed his sacred signature and seal , as an evidence of the irrevocable nature of the covenant . He then commanded—Close up the writing in this CRYSTAL STONE , for this is the inviolable covenant
between myself and man . Sanchoniatho , in his Phenician Cosmogony , speaks of a stone of power and animation , which was invented by Uranus , the son of Eliun , or , in other words , was sent clown from heaven by the Most High for the use of man . And with reference to the mysterious word or name found on the stone of Adam , Psellus informs us that the heathen were in
possession of names of sacred import , revealed from heaven , and preserved in the mysteries of every nation ; and these names , which referred to the highest deities , being engraven on stones , became talismans of great potency . Stillingfleet says that these talismans are called by the Jews , David's Bucklers , and are much of the same nature with the ancient
Teraphim , both being accurately made according to the positions of the heavens ; onl y the one were to foretel future things , and the other to avert calamities . However these legends may or may not be connected with the subject before us , our Masonic traditions say that on this stone Adam made his offerings to God on his
reconciliation , when the divine promise of a mediator to expiate sin by bruising the serpent ' s head , which had tempted him to his downfal , was formally revealed , that he might not entirely sink under the oppression and misery in which a sense of meriting the divine displeasure had involved him .