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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
victim after his illumination , with the point of a speai - , by an incision in the left breast , and approaches the altar , the flame and smoke of which ascends towards a triangle , which is a symbol of the divine triad , as the altar referred to the sacrifice of Noah on Mount Ararat ; and here the Cosmogony was delivered , and the initiation was pronounced complete . *
The symbols thus displayed are Orion ; the Stream of Water ; the Bull ; the Dog ; the Hare ; the Serpent ; the Cup ; the Ship , the Raven ; the Dove ; and the Hind ; and as they were all hierogl yphics of great importance in the spurious Freemasonry of ancient times , I shall consider them separately . And first of
ORION . Orion was Nimrod ; and he is accordingly represented b y Homer as a might y hunter of wild beasts in the infernal regions . There huge Orion , of portentous size , Swift through the loom a iant hunter flies
g g ; A ponderous mace of brass with direful sway Aloft he whirls , to crush the savage prey ; Stern beasts in trains that by his truncheon fell , Now grisly forms shoot o ' er the lawns of hell . POPE . And this splendid constellation was a source of much disquiet
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
victim after his illumination , with the point of a speai - , by an incision in the left breast , and approaches the altar , the flame and smoke of which ascends towards a triangle , which is a symbol of the divine triad , as the altar referred to the sacrifice of Noah on Mount Ararat ; and here the Cosmogony was delivered , and the initiation was pronounced complete . *
The symbols thus displayed are Orion ; the Stream of Water ; the Bull ; the Dog ; the Hare ; the Serpent ; the Cup ; the Ship , the Raven ; the Dove ; and the Hind ; and as they were all hierogl yphics of great importance in the spurious Freemasonry of ancient times , I shall consider them separately . And first of
ORION . Orion was Nimrod ; and he is accordingly represented b y Homer as a might y hunter of wild beasts in the infernal regions . There huge Orion , of portentous size , Swift through the loom a iant hunter flies
g g ; A ponderous mace of brass with direful sway Aloft he whirls , to crush the savage prey ; Stern beasts in trains that by his truncheon fell , Now grisly forms shoot o ' er the lawns of hell . POPE . And this splendid constellation was a source of much disquiet