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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Saviour had stolen the sacred name which it contained , and by its virtues worked all his miracles . * The Jews had already accumulated so many traditions respecting the miraculous properties of this stone , some of which are now unknown , that the divine appearances which are said to have usually attended the use of it , were attributed solel
y to the efficacy of the WOIID engraven on its upper surface , which was reputed to possess the power of controlling the ordinary course of nature of commanding the obt dience of unclean spirits ; of healing the sick , and of raking the dead : and as these constituted the principal objects of the supernatural exercised bJesus Christ
powers y , it was no wonder if those who refused to receive his credentials , or to believe him to be the Messiah , of whose identity and truth such miracles were to be the test , should attribute his success to a cause which appeared to afford an easy solution of the mystery . Some learned writers are of opinion ,- } - that the Shekinah ,
or appearance of the Lord , over the mercy seat in the sanctum sanctorum , was the Holy Name of God . Landseer says— " I should imagine that the Asherim of the Hebrews were surmounted by the name JEHOVAH , expressed in Hebrew characters , which contained a literal mystery . Let the reader refer to those passages in the Lamentations of the Hebrew
poets , where the phrase ' the name of the Lord ' occurs , and let him observe the mingled sentiment of woe and detestation that is felt by the author of some of the Psalms , when the Babylonian invaders had violated the sanctuary , and cast the Name of the Lord to the ground . " But the stone was in the possession of Enoch , of Moses , and of who all
Elijah , were translated to Heaven ; and hence it was believed that the correct pronunciation of the mystical word which it contained , would enable any one to transport himself through the skies , even to the throne of God ; which accounted also for the ascension of Christ , and found a reason for that extraordinary event , which appeared perfectly satisfactory . $ This may serve to explain the Jewish
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Saviour had stolen the sacred name which it contained , and by its virtues worked all his miracles . * The Jews had already accumulated so many traditions respecting the miraculous properties of this stone , some of which are now unknown , that the divine appearances which are said to have usually attended the use of it , were attributed solel
y to the efficacy of the WOIID engraven on its upper surface , which was reputed to possess the power of controlling the ordinary course of nature of commanding the obt dience of unclean spirits ; of healing the sick , and of raking the dead : and as these constituted the principal objects of the supernatural exercised bJesus Christ
powers y , it was no wonder if those who refused to receive his credentials , or to believe him to be the Messiah , of whose identity and truth such miracles were to be the test , should attribute his success to a cause which appeared to afford an easy solution of the mystery . Some learned writers are of opinion ,- } - that the Shekinah ,
or appearance of the Lord , over the mercy seat in the sanctum sanctorum , was the Holy Name of God . Landseer says— " I should imagine that the Asherim of the Hebrews were surmounted by the name JEHOVAH , expressed in Hebrew characters , which contained a literal mystery . Let the reader refer to those passages in the Lamentations of the Hebrew
poets , where the phrase ' the name of the Lord ' occurs , and let him observe the mingled sentiment of woe and detestation that is felt by the author of some of the Psalms , when the Babylonian invaders had violated the sanctuary , and cast the Name of the Lord to the ground . " But the stone was in the possession of Enoch , of Moses , and of who all
Elijah , were translated to Heaven ; and hence it was believed that the correct pronunciation of the mystical word which it contained , would enable any one to transport himself through the skies , even to the throne of God ; which accounted also for the ascension of Christ , and found a reason for that extraordinary event , which appeared perfectly satisfactory . $ This may serve to explain the Jewish