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Article ANCIENT MASONS' MARKS. ← Page 3 of 9 →
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Ancient Masons' Marks.
true God , " ere blinded man the All-seeing eye degraded to idolatry . " Again , in a far distant part of the world , in that century labouring with the throes of ages , as the crust of our earth with the centrifugal power of subterranean fire— -when the feudal power had fallen in England and Francein both '
, by the increased power of the monarch , and in the former with the advance of the middle classes—when the printingpress was fast rising into power—when the propositions of a German monk were arming princes and nations against each other—when the science of war itself was undergoing a great revolution—and the star of Spain , now on the
horizon , was fast rising to the zenith—then , in a newlydiscovered continent , a people was found , believing in the " existence of the soul hereafter , " and in the resurrection of the body ; who " acknowledged a Supreme Being , the Creator and Ruler of the Universe , " and to whom at the same time the sun was an especial object of worship , " along with the moon and stars ; " among whom the ancient astronomical characters , or rather the metals to which they
refer , were found as in the East . " In the great Temple of the Sun , at Cuzco , he was represented as with us , and on the western wall , the great portal being in the east . The figure of the sun was engraved on a plate of gold , that of the moon on one of silver . " * When we , then , take into account this great heresy from
the primitive faith , its existence in widely separated parts of the world , and the early origin and cultivation of astronomy , it becomes , if not a very probable opinion , at least a very plausible speculation , to say that the beautiful and well-defined constellation of the southern cross might have been the origin of the use of that figure in giving symbols
to the different planets , corresponding as it does so closely to the Tau ( an example of which is among the marks at the commencement of this paper ) , which there is reason to believe has been handed to us at least from the times of the Patriarchs . And Baron Humboldt , in the " Cosmos , " v . ii ., p . 291 saysthat" the Christian anchoritesin the Thebais
, , , , may still have seen the cross at an altitude of 10 ° in the fourth century . " He adds , at page 293 , " The southern cross began to be invisible in 52 | ° north latitude , 2900 years before the Christian era . " The spirit of the language impels us to make use of another passage from that eloquent
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ancient Masons' Marks.
true God , " ere blinded man the All-seeing eye degraded to idolatry . " Again , in a far distant part of the world , in that century labouring with the throes of ages , as the crust of our earth with the centrifugal power of subterranean fire— -when the feudal power had fallen in England and Francein both '
, by the increased power of the monarch , and in the former with the advance of the middle classes—when the printingpress was fast rising into power—when the propositions of a German monk were arming princes and nations against each other—when the science of war itself was undergoing a great revolution—and the star of Spain , now on the
horizon , was fast rising to the zenith—then , in a newlydiscovered continent , a people was found , believing in the " existence of the soul hereafter , " and in the resurrection of the body ; who " acknowledged a Supreme Being , the Creator and Ruler of the Universe , " and to whom at the same time the sun was an especial object of worship , " along with the moon and stars ; " among whom the ancient astronomical characters , or rather the metals to which they
refer , were found as in the East . " In the great Temple of the Sun , at Cuzco , he was represented as with us , and on the western wall , the great portal being in the east . The figure of the sun was engraved on a plate of gold , that of the moon on one of silver . " * When we , then , take into account this great heresy from
the primitive faith , its existence in widely separated parts of the world , and the early origin and cultivation of astronomy , it becomes , if not a very probable opinion , at least a very plausible speculation , to say that the beautiful and well-defined constellation of the southern cross might have been the origin of the use of that figure in giving symbols
to the different planets , corresponding as it does so closely to the Tau ( an example of which is among the marks at the commencement of this paper ) , which there is reason to believe has been handed to us at least from the times of the Patriarchs . And Baron Humboldt , in the " Cosmos , " v . ii ., p . 291 saysthat" the Christian anchoritesin the Thebais
, , , , may still have seen the cross at an altitude of 10 ° in the fourth century . " He adds , at page 293 , " The southern cross began to be invisible in 52 | ° north latitude , 2900 years before the Christian era . " The spirit of the language impels us to make use of another passage from that eloquent