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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
ments that are round it , is a figure which may possibly represent the four seasons . A wing extends along one side of it , from a sort of globe , marked out in lines , which probably had another wing , extending in the same manner , it may be , over such another sculpture . " The Arabiansdescended from Abrahamand practising
, , the primitive patriarchal manners , boast ofthe possession of a sacred stone , " that received the footsteps of Abraham ; for the depth and form of the impression are such , that it is impossible for any human artist to express the like , with all the power of the chisel . So that the stone itself must of
necessity have grown soft , by the will of God , beneath the feet ofthe patriarch ; and , like an elaborate paste , took that exquisite impression , which has preserved the minutest traces and most imperceptible lineaments . They add to this miracle the conservation of so frail a monument , which might have been broken to pieces , at pleasure , by the enemies of the divine worshi
p established in that place , had not the supreme povver and providence of God diverted them to other objects , which , however , did by no means lessen their guilt . For though this stone has now all its first natural hardness , yet it is plain that it was less difficult to reduce this to powder , than it was for those impious wretches to carry away , as they didthe black stone
, , to a distance of five days' journey ; or than it was for them to heap up the well with infected carcases . This preservation ofthe stone is ( they say ) the more miraculous , considering its duration , which extends to five thousand years , without the least damage or diminution happening to the sacred representation it exhibits . " Anaxagoras of Clazimene , is said to have predicted that a holy stone would fall from the sun , and at iEgospotomos they pretended to show this stone .
Symbols of a similar nature occur in India , and many other nations . In Egypt , however , the NA . WG of the Deity was usually inscribed on a stone , over the portal of their temples , as a _ talisman of protection ; sometimes by several emblems , as in the globe , serpent and wings , which appear at the entrance of the Temple of Luxore , in Upper Egypt , in words
or mystical , as at Sais , in Lower Egypt : — I am all that hath been , is , and will be , And my veil no mortal hath yet uncovered . Sometimes the name E I , tu es , was simply used , as Plutarch informs us was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo . In all
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
ments that are round it , is a figure which may possibly represent the four seasons . A wing extends along one side of it , from a sort of globe , marked out in lines , which probably had another wing , extending in the same manner , it may be , over such another sculpture . " The Arabiansdescended from Abrahamand practising
, , the primitive patriarchal manners , boast ofthe possession of a sacred stone , " that received the footsteps of Abraham ; for the depth and form of the impression are such , that it is impossible for any human artist to express the like , with all the power of the chisel . So that the stone itself must of
necessity have grown soft , by the will of God , beneath the feet ofthe patriarch ; and , like an elaborate paste , took that exquisite impression , which has preserved the minutest traces and most imperceptible lineaments . They add to this miracle the conservation of so frail a monument , which might have been broken to pieces , at pleasure , by the enemies of the divine worshi
p established in that place , had not the supreme povver and providence of God diverted them to other objects , which , however , did by no means lessen their guilt . For though this stone has now all its first natural hardness , yet it is plain that it was less difficult to reduce this to powder , than it was for those impious wretches to carry away , as they didthe black stone
, , to a distance of five days' journey ; or than it was for them to heap up the well with infected carcases . This preservation ofthe stone is ( they say ) the more miraculous , considering its duration , which extends to five thousand years , without the least damage or diminution happening to the sacred representation it exhibits . " Anaxagoras of Clazimene , is said to have predicted that a holy stone would fall from the sun , and at iEgospotomos they pretended to show this stone .
Symbols of a similar nature occur in India , and many other nations . In Egypt , however , the NA . WG of the Deity was usually inscribed on a stone , over the portal of their temples , as a _ talisman of protection ; sometimes by several emblems , as in the globe , serpent and wings , which appear at the entrance of the Temple of Luxore , in Upper Egypt , in words
or mystical , as at Sais , in Lower Egypt : — I am all that hath been , is , and will be , And my veil no mortal hath yet uncovered . Sometimes the name E I , tu es , was simply used , as Plutarch informs us was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo . In all