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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
parts of that universe physically considered , and that they were worshi pped in Samothracia with rites which were among the most mysterious and profound in all antiquity . One curious circumstance , however , concerning them it is in my power to relate ; for as Hecate , from her threefold nature or office , was honoured in Greece with an
anniversary festival , celebrated in a p lace where three ways met , so were the Anakes , or gods Cabiri , honoured with another , called from them , Anakea . The sacrifices offered at this solemnity , says Potter , in his account of the Grecian festivals , were called Zenismoi , because those deities were strangers , and they consisted of three offerings , which were denominated -rpmxu . *
The hieroglyphical device , says a modern writer , styled Vesica Piscis , f appertained to the Platonic system . Plato and Proclus refer repeatedly to this figure , which they had seen and heard interpreted in Egypt . It often appears on the temples , and especially on the throne of Osiris . It referred to the doctrine of the Egyptian priests on the
subject of their trinity , and representee ! geometrically the birth of Horus ( the sun , or monad of the world , ) from the wedding of Osiris and Isis . It constitutes the chief element of the figure seen on the thrones of the Pharaohs , especially Memnon , the colossus of the Theban p lain , which appears there to represent materiallya knot of lovebut
scientifi-, , cally , the birth of Harmony out ofthe contending elements of Discord . The Vesica Piscis entered into the design of the structure of the central room in the great pyramid , and was connected with the entire train of Egyptian Masonry which that pyramid , internall y and externally , embodied and comprised . *) :
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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
parts of that universe physically considered , and that they were worshi pped in Samothracia with rites which were among the most mysterious and profound in all antiquity . One curious circumstance , however , concerning them it is in my power to relate ; for as Hecate , from her threefold nature or office , was honoured in Greece with an
anniversary festival , celebrated in a p lace where three ways met , so were the Anakes , or gods Cabiri , honoured with another , called from them , Anakea . The sacrifices offered at this solemnity , says Potter , in his account of the Grecian festivals , were called Zenismoi , because those deities were strangers , and they consisted of three offerings , which were denominated -rpmxu . *
The hieroglyphical device , says a modern writer , styled Vesica Piscis , f appertained to the Platonic system . Plato and Proclus refer repeatedly to this figure , which they had seen and heard interpreted in Egypt . It often appears on the temples , and especially on the throne of Osiris . It referred to the doctrine of the Egyptian priests on the
subject of their trinity , and representee ! geometrically the birth of Horus ( the sun , or monad of the world , ) from the wedding of Osiris and Isis . It constitutes the chief element of the figure seen on the thrones of the Pharaohs , especially Memnon , the colossus of the Theban p lain , which appears there to represent materiallya knot of lovebut
scientifi-, , cally , the birth of Harmony out ofthe contending elements of Discord . The Vesica Piscis entered into the design of the structure of the central room in the great pyramid , and was connected with the entire train of Egyptian Masonry which that pyramid , internall y and externally , embodied and comprised . *) :