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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
the 17 th day of the second month after the autumnal equinox ; that is in fact , upon the very day in which the true Osiris , or Noah , entered the ark ; which in Scripture is said to have taken place in the 600 th year of Noah's life , on the second month , ancl on the 17 th day of that month . Some understand by his being inclosed in the coffin ,
nothing further than an eclipse of the Sun . He was said to have reigned twenty-eight years , alluding to the different degrees of light which appear in the moon , and to the number of days in which she performs her course round the earth . Plutarch observes on the above ; how greatly the Egyptian priests in their astronomical p hraseology resemble the Indian Brahmins , for a year , in thenmythological phrase , is here put for a day ; and to Jive
twenty-ei ght days is synonymous with reigning twentyeight years . Again , the Scorpion was at first the emblem of Typhon ; for the Scorpion , a dreary autumnal sign , led on the cold , unfruitful months , when the powers of vegetation seem to be suspended , and nature to lie in a state of temporary death ; afterwards , when the fatal
influences shed by the Polar Dragon in some particular aspects of that constellation upon men , animals , and vegetables , were imagined to be discovered , the name of the destroyer Typhon was conferred upon it ; and almost every nation of Asia , in conformity with the widely diffused principles ofthe prevailing physical theology , hacl its benevolent and malignant star ; its Osiris and Typhon ; its Mithra and Ahriman . Even Lucifer himself is spoken of in Scripture as the Star ofthe Mominc / , but fallen from his
dory-Plutarch informs us that by the dismembering of Osiris into fourteen parts , was typified the several phases of the moon during her increase and decrease . Diodorus Siculus further affirms that while the days of lamentation for the aphanism at his tomb continued , it was customary for the priests to pour libations of milk from three hundred ancl
sixty vessels , in evident allusion to the number of days in the primitive year , before the intercalation took place . Ancl it is recorded by the same author , that within the pyramid of Ismandes was a circle of gold three hundred and sixty-five cubits in thickness , on which the days of the improved year were inscribed on equal compartmentswith
, a description of the rising and setting of the stars , by the learned astrologers of Egypt . The mythological Temple of Tentyris , in like manner , was furnished with three hundred and sixty-five windows ,
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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
the 17 th day of the second month after the autumnal equinox ; that is in fact , upon the very day in which the true Osiris , or Noah , entered the ark ; which in Scripture is said to have taken place in the 600 th year of Noah's life , on the second month , ancl on the 17 th day of that month . Some understand by his being inclosed in the coffin ,
nothing further than an eclipse of the Sun . He was said to have reigned twenty-eight years , alluding to the different degrees of light which appear in the moon , and to the number of days in which she performs her course round the earth . Plutarch observes on the above ; how greatly the Egyptian priests in their astronomical p hraseology resemble the Indian Brahmins , for a year , in thenmythological phrase , is here put for a day ; and to Jive
twenty-ei ght days is synonymous with reigning twentyeight years . Again , the Scorpion was at first the emblem of Typhon ; for the Scorpion , a dreary autumnal sign , led on the cold , unfruitful months , when the powers of vegetation seem to be suspended , and nature to lie in a state of temporary death ; afterwards , when the fatal
influences shed by the Polar Dragon in some particular aspects of that constellation upon men , animals , and vegetables , were imagined to be discovered , the name of the destroyer Typhon was conferred upon it ; and almost every nation of Asia , in conformity with the widely diffused principles ofthe prevailing physical theology , hacl its benevolent and malignant star ; its Osiris and Typhon ; its Mithra and Ahriman . Even Lucifer himself is spoken of in Scripture as the Star ofthe Mominc / , but fallen from his
dory-Plutarch informs us that by the dismembering of Osiris into fourteen parts , was typified the several phases of the moon during her increase and decrease . Diodorus Siculus further affirms that while the days of lamentation for the aphanism at his tomb continued , it was customary for the priests to pour libations of milk from three hundred ancl
sixty vessels , in evident allusion to the number of days in the primitive year , before the intercalation took place . Ancl it is recorded by the same author , that within the pyramid of Ismandes was a circle of gold three hundred and sixty-five cubits in thickness , on which the days of the improved year were inscribed on equal compartmentswith
, a description of the rising and setting of the stars , by the learned astrologers of Egypt . The mythological Temple of Tentyris , in like manner , was furnished with three hundred and sixty-five windows ,