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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
lustre ofthe sun beamed forth in the opposite portion ofthe heavens . " And this is not a solitary opinion , for old Godwyn , who wrote two centuries ago , g ives an astronomical version of the ceremony of initiation , or the opiumism and euresis , as used in the Mysteries of all ancient nations . " The month which we call June" says he" was called by the
, , Hebrews Tamuz , and the entrance of the sun into the sign Cancer was , in the Jews' astronomy , called tccupha Tamuz , the revolution of Tamuz . Concerning Adonis , whom sometimes ancient authors call Osiris , there are two things remarkable ; apaviapos , the death or loss of Adonis ; and cvpcoKthe finding of him again . As there was great
, lamentations at his loss , * ' especially amongst the women , so _ there was great joy at his finding . By the death or loss of Adonis we are to understand the departure of the sun ; by his finding again , we are to understand his return . _ Now he seems to depart twice in a year ; first , when he is in the tropic of Cancer , in the farthest degree northward ; secondly ,
when he is in the tropic of Capricorn , in the farthest degree southward . Answerable under these two departures , which may be termed « r / . « vKr , «< .., disparitions , or losses of the sun , there are two returns immediately succeeding , which may be termed Su $ o . < n ? , the finding , or new appearance of the sun . Hence we may note that , though the Egyptians celebrated when the
their Adonia in the month of November , sun began to be farthest southward ; and the house of Judah , theirs in the month of June , when the sun was farthest northward ; yet both were for the same reasons , and in substance they agreed . And of this the prop het Ezekiel ( viii . 14 . ) is thought to have spoken ; there sat women weeping
for lamuz . In like manner , when the sun , advancing towards the vernal equinox , entered the sign Pisces , or in the language ofthe Mysteries , when Osiris or Adonis ivas about to be raised from his ' tomb , Typ hon was represented as being so overcome
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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
lustre ofthe sun beamed forth in the opposite portion ofthe heavens . " And this is not a solitary opinion , for old Godwyn , who wrote two centuries ago , g ives an astronomical version of the ceremony of initiation , or the opiumism and euresis , as used in the Mysteries of all ancient nations . " The month which we call June" says he" was called by the
, , Hebrews Tamuz , and the entrance of the sun into the sign Cancer was , in the Jews' astronomy , called tccupha Tamuz , the revolution of Tamuz . Concerning Adonis , whom sometimes ancient authors call Osiris , there are two things remarkable ; apaviapos , the death or loss of Adonis ; and cvpcoKthe finding of him again . As there was great
, lamentations at his loss , * ' especially amongst the women , so _ there was great joy at his finding . By the death or loss of Adonis we are to understand the departure of the sun ; by his finding again , we are to understand his return . _ Now he seems to depart twice in a year ; first , when he is in the tropic of Cancer , in the farthest degree northward ; secondly ,
when he is in the tropic of Capricorn , in the farthest degree southward . Answerable under these two departures , which may be termed « r / . « vKr , «< .., disparitions , or losses of the sun , there are two returns immediately succeeding , which may be termed Su $ o . < n ? , the finding , or new appearance of the sun . Hence we may note that , though the Egyptians celebrated when the
their Adonia in the month of November , sun began to be farthest southward ; and the house of Judah , theirs in the month of June , when the sun was farthest northward ; yet both were for the same reasons , and in substance they agreed . And of this the prop het Ezekiel ( viii . 14 . ) is thought to have spoken ; there sat women weeping
for lamuz . In like manner , when the sun , advancing towards the vernal equinox , entered the sign Pisces , or in the language ofthe Mysteries , when Osiris or Adonis ivas about to be raised from his ' tomb , Typ hon was represented as being so overcome