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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
Lord's hand ; which made all the earth drunken ; the nations have drunken of her wine : therefore the nations are mad . " The same golden Cup is mentioned by St . John in contradistinction to the true Freemasonry , of which he was a venerable patron , in these remarkable words . " And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour : and decked
with gold and precious stones and pearls ; having a golden Cup in her hand , full of abomination and filthiness of her fornication ; and upon her forehead was a name written—MYSTERY—Babylon the Great , the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth . " Speaking of the daughter of EdomJeremiah says ; " Rejoice and be glad , O daughter
, of Edom that dwellest in the land of Uz ; the Cup also shall pass through unto thee ; thou shalt be drunken , and shall make thyself naked . " The drunkenness referred to in these passages , was the vehement passion which all nations entertained for the spurious Freemasonry , as well as the physical inebriety which always accompanied its practice . The writings
of the Jewish prophets abound in pointed allusions to the mysterious orgies of idolatry , celebrated in those dens of which the Cup was a symbol .
THE SHIP . The constellation Argo is called by Plutarch a representation of the Ship of Osiris , and he adds—it was placed in the heavens out of reverence . Hales conjectures , with much ingenuity , that the southern position of this asterism indicates the quarter from which the waters of the deluge
proceeded when the fountains of the great deep were broken up ; viz ., from the vicinity of the south pole ; and believes that it was an undoubted symbol of that event ; of which the attendant constellations are a still further evidence . Hence during the process of initiation , a boat was carried in procession , which sometimes contained an image , and at
others a disgraceful emblem ; either of which represented Noah in his character of the Great Father of the human race preserved in the ark . Other references are equally clear , and point out with unerring certainty , that a tradition of the deluge , with all its attendant events , was preserved in the spurious , as well as the true Freemasonry , and was thus transmitted throughout the whole world .
THE RAVEN . It is clear from the highest authority that the Raven was a symbol of the same event , for that bird was first com-
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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
Lord's hand ; which made all the earth drunken ; the nations have drunken of her wine : therefore the nations are mad . " The same golden Cup is mentioned by St . John in contradistinction to the true Freemasonry , of which he was a venerable patron , in these remarkable words . " And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour : and decked
with gold and precious stones and pearls ; having a golden Cup in her hand , full of abomination and filthiness of her fornication ; and upon her forehead was a name written—MYSTERY—Babylon the Great , the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth . " Speaking of the daughter of EdomJeremiah says ; " Rejoice and be glad , O daughter
, of Edom that dwellest in the land of Uz ; the Cup also shall pass through unto thee ; thou shalt be drunken , and shall make thyself naked . " The drunkenness referred to in these passages , was the vehement passion which all nations entertained for the spurious Freemasonry , as well as the physical inebriety which always accompanied its practice . The writings
of the Jewish prophets abound in pointed allusions to the mysterious orgies of idolatry , celebrated in those dens of which the Cup was a symbol .
THE SHIP . The constellation Argo is called by Plutarch a representation of the Ship of Osiris , and he adds—it was placed in the heavens out of reverence . Hales conjectures , with much ingenuity , that the southern position of this asterism indicates the quarter from which the waters of the deluge
proceeded when the fountains of the great deep were broken up ; viz ., from the vicinity of the south pole ; and believes that it was an undoubted symbol of that event ; of which the attendant constellations are a still further evidence . Hence during the process of initiation , a boat was carried in procession , which sometimes contained an image , and at
others a disgraceful emblem ; either of which represented Noah in his character of the Great Father of the human race preserved in the ark . Other references are equally clear , and point out with unerring certainty , that a tradition of the deluge , with all its attendant events , was preserved in the spurious , as well as the true Freemasonry , and was thus transmitted throughout the whole world .
THE RAVEN . It is clear from the highest authority that the Raven was a symbol of the same event , for that bird was first com-