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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Their property is moveable , and when they are removed , they will not go away empty . It will be a great deliverance , like that of Egypt . No impediment will be able to obstruct their progress , for they will be under the especial guidance of the shekinah of God , whose name was engraven on the Foundation Stone of their templeThe prophecy describing their
, present state is amply verified . " The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king , and without a priest , and without a sacrifice , and without an altar , and without divine manifestations . Afterwards shall they return , and fear the Lord their God , and David their king , and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days . "
But how is this deliverance to be effected ? Why , most assuredly , by the anti-type of our Foundation Stone—the Jewish Messiah , the founder of the Christian faith . Mr . Davies , off Shrewsbury ( I regret that he is not a Mason ) , has a curious passage on this stone , in an unpublished manuscript which he has submitted to my perusal , entitled , " A
Treatise upon the Principal Analogies contained in the Temple of Jerusalem , as built by Solomon , " which he has kindly permitted me to insert in this place . After expending more than twenty years on the continent , in the collection of facts from learned Jews , he thus refers to our Foundation Stone . " The Temple of Solomon had three foundations ,
the first of which contained seventy stones , five rows from north to south , and fourteen in each row from east to west . The centre row corresponds to the upright of a cross , whose transverse was formed by two stones on each side of the eleventh stone , from the east end of the centre row of which the upright is formed , and the fourth stone from the west
end of it . This stone , which hence occupied the place of the crossing of the beams , was under the centre ofthe Holy of Holies , where was deposited the Ark of the Covenant , and the Tables of the Law . " And this , the author goes on to prove , contained an evident reference to the Cross of Christ , and that the cross was so placed , that the part where the heart of Christ would be at the time of his crucifixion , was under the centre of the Holy of Holies , and under the place of the law .
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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Their property is moveable , and when they are removed , they will not go away empty . It will be a great deliverance , like that of Egypt . No impediment will be able to obstruct their progress , for they will be under the especial guidance of the shekinah of God , whose name was engraven on the Foundation Stone of their templeThe prophecy describing their
, present state is amply verified . " The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king , and without a priest , and without a sacrifice , and without an altar , and without divine manifestations . Afterwards shall they return , and fear the Lord their God , and David their king , and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days . "
But how is this deliverance to be effected ? Why , most assuredly , by the anti-type of our Foundation Stone—the Jewish Messiah , the founder of the Christian faith . Mr . Davies , off Shrewsbury ( I regret that he is not a Mason ) , has a curious passage on this stone , in an unpublished manuscript which he has submitted to my perusal , entitled , " A
Treatise upon the Principal Analogies contained in the Temple of Jerusalem , as built by Solomon , " which he has kindly permitted me to insert in this place . After expending more than twenty years on the continent , in the collection of facts from learned Jews , he thus refers to our Foundation Stone . " The Temple of Solomon had three foundations ,
the first of which contained seventy stones , five rows from north to south , and fourteen in each row from east to west . The centre row corresponds to the upright of a cross , whose transverse was formed by two stones on each side of the eleventh stone , from the east end of the centre row of which the upright is formed , and the fourth stone from the west
end of it . This stone , which hence occupied the place of the crossing of the beams , was under the centre ofthe Holy of Holies , where was deposited the Ark of the Covenant , and the Tables of the Law . " And this , the author goes on to prove , contained an evident reference to the Cross of Christ , and that the cross was so placed , that the part where the heart of Christ would be at the time of his crucifixion , was under the centre of the Holy of Holies , and under the place of the law .