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Freemasonry & Israelitism.
blossom and bud , and fill thc face of the world with fruit" ( Isaiah xxvit . 6 ) . Nothing could more beautifully , or more expressively , depict the gradual mingling of Israel with the people , in all the regions of
the earth , just as the Saxon race has been , and are being mingled . And it is through them that "the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations , " as we see He is doint ? .
Wonderful , indeed , must the course of the Divine government appear to the diligent and reflecting student , as he traces it from the mission of Abraham , through the chequered history of Israel , if he even goes
no further than the captivity of the Tribes by the Assyrians and Babylonians . To speak of nothing beyond the subject of which these papers purport to treat—the captivity of the chosen people , and their future , with
the relation which oneportion of them was to bear to the rest of mankind , and the blessings they were to be the means of conferring upon them—it may be unhesitatingly affirmed , that the captivity of the Tribes was , in itself , the instrument of incalculable benefit to the
rest of the world . It brought them into contact with the Western races . Ia place of the Shemitic Assyrians , with whom Israel had to do at the close of the seventh century
before Christ , and of the Hamitic Chaldeans , under whose power a portion of them were , during the first two generations of the sixth century , the Indo-Germanic ( Japhetic ) race of Persia now conies to the front . At thc
same time Grecian influence was beginning to make itself felt in Egypt , and Daniel made known the true God and exercised those wonderful powers which compelled an acknowledgment of Ills omniscience and
omnipotence . 1 hat the Persians "bring about a purer conception of God , and introduce a purer code of morality , " says Hanebcrg , "is not to be regarded as an isolated fact . There was felt among all civilised
nations , about a generation before the appearing of Cyrus , a great intellectual awakening . That period was characterised , in Greece , by the first movements of the comprehensive philosophy of Pythagoras ;
in Bactria , by thc rise of Buddha ; in China , by that of Kong-fu-tse ( Confucius ) and Laotse . But nowhere was this movement carried out more systematically and successfully
than among the Persians . " Daniel was not a prophet of Israel , but of the nations ; and , for becoming so , the position he occupied in the Babylonian and Medo-Persian courts
peculiarly fitted him . It is impossible lo estimate the amount of true light and Divine knowledge which , through the prophet Daniel and his captive companions , who occupied so high a position
in these courts of Babylon and Medo-Pcrsia , was diffused , or how far they were tlie means of influencing the religion and morals of thc nations around . But we know , as already said , that the outburst of light which thus
occurred , and which , spreading , as it were , from that region in which the captive tribes originally had their place , was not a solitary
instance of such an outburst from the midst of these chosen , wonderfully preserved , and wonderful !) '' employed people . But this must form the subject of another paper .
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Israelitish Origin Of The Anglo-Saxon Race.
ISRAELITISH ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO - SAXON RACE .
Dr . Moore , in his " Lost Tribes and Saxons of the East and the West , " says : " If we could but clearly demonstrate our unbroken descent as Englishmen from the
house of Israel , and believe the Prophets , with what interest we should look upon the promises made to Israel , and try to read our destiny in the Bible !"
I read , weekly , with very great interest , Bro . Carpenter ' s papers , in " THE FREEMASON , " on this subject . The fate of the lost ten tribes of Israel , after their deportation from Palestine by the Assyrians , is a
subject which has puzzled the learned for many generations , but at no time has it excited so general and wide-spread an interest as within the last twenty or thirty years . In considering and discussing this
highly-interesting subject , writers have been mainly anxious to force into prominence their own peculiar views and theories , and , in so doing , have been apt to overlook or ignore some very importantpoints connected with the subject .
The fate of the lost ten tribes is a question to which I have given a good deal of attention , and I have ransacked libraries and have examined works ancient and modern , English , Irish , and foreign , to
obtain crumbs of information on the subject . In the main , I agree pretty generally with Bro . Carpenter ' s conclusions , because , after a great deal of thought , I am unable to form a more reasonable theory than his .
I , like he , take my stand on the Bible , and say such and such things are set forth by inspired penmen , such and such blessings have been promised . Where do we find in the history of the world a fulfilment , or
partial fulfilment , of these prophecies and blessings pronounced by the prophets and patriarchs under Divine inspiration ? I
cannot help feeling that the Anglo-Saxon race , to a very great extent at least , answer to the description of the peoples that are to come from the Israelitisii stock . Bro .
Carpenters papers on " Israentism and hreemasonry , " are by far the most logical that have come under my observation ; but even
he ( as it appears to mc ) has missed one or two important points , to which I would wish to direct attention . . Let us consider , in the first place , the co . nditon of the Israelites at the time of their
deportation by Shalmanezer , and the difficulty , if not utter impossibility , of carrying away captive the whole ita lion ( according to the generally-viewed opinion ) , and placing them in the cities of the Medes .
We have no account of thc actual number of tlie people of Israel at the time of their destruction as an independent nation , but , inasmuch as a very (^ w years before their captivity ( namely , in the time of Aha ? .,
King of Judah ) , they were powerful enough to bring a large army of fighting men into the field , and to inflict a loss of 120 , 000 men killed in battle on Judah , besides taking 200 , 000 women and children prisoners , it will be obvious that the numbers of the ten
tribes under Hoshen , at the time of their captivity , could not reasonably be placed at less than a million men , women , and children . I do not lose sight of the fact that two tribes and a half had ( twenty-five years
before ) been removed ; but , after making ample allowance tor losses by wars , disease , faminj , and other causes , tiiey must have numbered at least one million . Mow , to transport such an iramen . se body of people ,
Israelitish Origin Of The Anglo-Saxon Race.
with all their impedimenta , a distance of from 800 to 1000 miles is a task , which would have been totally beyond the power of the Assyrians . There is no necessity , however , for us to assume that a migration
on so gigantic a scale took place , although we must undoubtedly believe that the flower of the nation was carried away captive , and placed in the localities mentioned in Scripture . If , however , only z . portion of the
people were carried away and placed in the " cities of the Medes , " it may be asked , what became of the rest ? In the first place , it is clear from the Scripture narrative of events , long subsequent to the deportation
of the ten tribes by Shalmanezer , that a considerable number remained behind , as was the case in the Babylonish captivity of the Jews . It has generally been taken for granted that , when the Israelites were taken
away , the land was left a howling wilderness , until the Assyrian monarch again populated it with people drawn from other parts of the empire . An attentive perusal of Scripture will , however , prove that this
was not the fact , as we find that in the time of Josiah , 100 years after the Israelitisii captivity , this King of Judah was having dealings with the inhabitants ofthe land of Israel , who , from the context , it is clear must have been of Hebrew extraction .
The Israelites who were left behind no doubt became mixed up with the heathen immigrants who were sent by the Assyrian king to people the country , and for that
reason in later times they were not considered by thc Jews as true Israelites , and therefore the Jews would have no dealings with these Samaritans .
It must , moreover , be borne 111 mind that the Assyrian wars in Judea and Palestine generally , were not only sanguinary , but very long and tedious , lasting for years , and keeping the whole country in a chronic state
of alarm and constant ferment . It must also be recollected that the Assyrians attacked thc neighbouring countries of Tyre and Sidon , and , after many years of battles and sieges , ultimately conquered them .
Now , these Phenicians being a maritime people , naturally made great use of their ships , both to obtain supplies of food , clothing , and other articles , and also to escape from their enemies . One cause of strife
between the Assyrians and Phenicians was , that the latter helped the Israelites in their disputes and contests with Assyria . A similiar cause of complaint arose from the Israelites helping the Phenicians against the
common enemy . Nothing is more natural , therefore , than that both Israelites and Assyrians should be involved in one common ruin , and , therefore , that numbers of the former should escape in the ships ofthe
latter . I here is a tradition in Ireland that the aboriginal inhabitants of that country were descended from the Canaanitcs , or Phenicians , and if so , a communication between tiie two countries would be
established and kept up , and no doubt migrations would take place from time to time . Thc probability , therefore , is great that , when Tyre was conquered by the Assyrians , many of the inhabitants , including many
Israelites , would escape in ships and reach Ireland , for , although the distance appears to be great , the dangers , difficulties , and labour would be far less than going 1000 or 1200 miles to Media . Although the stories
handed down by tradition must not always be taken as historically true , it is generally admitted that they usually have some
foundation in fact , and therefore must not be unceremoniously rejected as idle fables , especially when the probabilities arc strongly in favour of their truth , as is the case in the
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Freemasonry & Israelitism.
blossom and bud , and fill thc face of the world with fruit" ( Isaiah xxvit . 6 ) . Nothing could more beautifully , or more expressively , depict the gradual mingling of Israel with the people , in all the regions of
the earth , just as the Saxon race has been , and are being mingled . And it is through them that "the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations , " as we see He is doint ? .
Wonderful , indeed , must the course of the Divine government appear to the diligent and reflecting student , as he traces it from the mission of Abraham , through the chequered history of Israel , if he even goes
no further than the captivity of the Tribes by the Assyrians and Babylonians . To speak of nothing beyond the subject of which these papers purport to treat—the captivity of the chosen people , and their future , with
the relation which oneportion of them was to bear to the rest of mankind , and the blessings they were to be the means of conferring upon them—it may be unhesitatingly affirmed , that the captivity of the Tribes was , in itself , the instrument of incalculable benefit to the
rest of the world . It brought them into contact with the Western races . Ia place of the Shemitic Assyrians , with whom Israel had to do at the close of the seventh century
before Christ , and of the Hamitic Chaldeans , under whose power a portion of them were , during the first two generations of the sixth century , the Indo-Germanic ( Japhetic ) race of Persia now conies to the front . At thc
same time Grecian influence was beginning to make itself felt in Egypt , and Daniel made known the true God and exercised those wonderful powers which compelled an acknowledgment of Ills omniscience and
omnipotence . 1 hat the Persians "bring about a purer conception of God , and introduce a purer code of morality , " says Hanebcrg , "is not to be regarded as an isolated fact . There was felt among all civilised
nations , about a generation before the appearing of Cyrus , a great intellectual awakening . That period was characterised , in Greece , by the first movements of the comprehensive philosophy of Pythagoras ;
in Bactria , by thc rise of Buddha ; in China , by that of Kong-fu-tse ( Confucius ) and Laotse . But nowhere was this movement carried out more systematically and successfully
than among the Persians . " Daniel was not a prophet of Israel , but of the nations ; and , for becoming so , the position he occupied in the Babylonian and Medo-Persian courts
peculiarly fitted him . It is impossible lo estimate the amount of true light and Divine knowledge which , through the prophet Daniel and his captive companions , who occupied so high a position
in these courts of Babylon and Medo-Pcrsia , was diffused , or how far they were tlie means of influencing the religion and morals of thc nations around . But we know , as already said , that the outburst of light which thus
occurred , and which , spreading , as it were , from that region in which the captive tribes originally had their place , was not a solitary
instance of such an outburst from the midst of these chosen , wonderfully preserved , and wonderful !) '' employed people . But this must form the subject of another paper .
1 $ RK * K 1-AST . — IiPPS ' s COCOA . —GUATIJI- UL AND C .. MI-. IKTIN . ; .- •- " liy a thorough Knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition , and hy \ cartful applicatian of the line properties of \ vcll-seie >; ti :. l cocoa , Mr . Kpps hns provided our
breakfast tallies with a dclic . Uely-tl . ivinuv . l hevt-ragc which miy -. avc us nnny heavy duel .. is' liills . "— Civil S ,- / -eiee l 7 aw . Se . Made simply with Uuilin-. ; Wau-r or Millt . Eieh packet is labelled— "J AMES L ' & Co ., Hoinreopatliic Chemists , London . " Also , makers of Kpns ' j . Milky Cwcoa ( Co : oa and Condetisctl Milk ) . — l-Mvi , }
Israelitish Origin Of The Anglo-Saxon Race.
ISRAELITISH ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO - SAXON RACE .
Dr . Moore , in his " Lost Tribes and Saxons of the East and the West , " says : " If we could but clearly demonstrate our unbroken descent as Englishmen from the
house of Israel , and believe the Prophets , with what interest we should look upon the promises made to Israel , and try to read our destiny in the Bible !"
I read , weekly , with very great interest , Bro . Carpenter ' s papers , in " THE FREEMASON , " on this subject . The fate of the lost ten tribes of Israel , after their deportation from Palestine by the Assyrians , is a
subject which has puzzled the learned for many generations , but at no time has it excited so general and wide-spread an interest as within the last twenty or thirty years . In considering and discussing this
highly-interesting subject , writers have been mainly anxious to force into prominence their own peculiar views and theories , and , in so doing , have been apt to overlook or ignore some very importantpoints connected with the subject .
The fate of the lost ten tribes is a question to which I have given a good deal of attention , and I have ransacked libraries and have examined works ancient and modern , English , Irish , and foreign , to
obtain crumbs of information on the subject . In the main , I agree pretty generally with Bro . Carpenter ' s conclusions , because , after a great deal of thought , I am unable to form a more reasonable theory than his .
I , like he , take my stand on the Bible , and say such and such things are set forth by inspired penmen , such and such blessings have been promised . Where do we find in the history of the world a fulfilment , or
partial fulfilment , of these prophecies and blessings pronounced by the prophets and patriarchs under Divine inspiration ? I
cannot help feeling that the Anglo-Saxon race , to a very great extent at least , answer to the description of the peoples that are to come from the Israelitisii stock . Bro .
Carpenters papers on " Israentism and hreemasonry , " are by far the most logical that have come under my observation ; but even
he ( as it appears to mc ) has missed one or two important points , to which I would wish to direct attention . . Let us consider , in the first place , the co . nditon of the Israelites at the time of their
deportation by Shalmanezer , and the difficulty , if not utter impossibility , of carrying away captive the whole ita lion ( according to the generally-viewed opinion ) , and placing them in the cities of the Medes .
We have no account of thc actual number of tlie people of Israel at the time of their destruction as an independent nation , but , inasmuch as a very (^ w years before their captivity ( namely , in the time of Aha ? .,
King of Judah ) , they were powerful enough to bring a large army of fighting men into the field , and to inflict a loss of 120 , 000 men killed in battle on Judah , besides taking 200 , 000 women and children prisoners , it will be obvious that the numbers of the ten
tribes under Hoshen , at the time of their captivity , could not reasonably be placed at less than a million men , women , and children . I do not lose sight of the fact that two tribes and a half had ( twenty-five years
before ) been removed ; but , after making ample allowance tor losses by wars , disease , faminj , and other causes , tiiey must have numbered at least one million . Mow , to transport such an iramen . se body of people ,
Israelitish Origin Of The Anglo-Saxon Race.
with all their impedimenta , a distance of from 800 to 1000 miles is a task , which would have been totally beyond the power of the Assyrians . There is no necessity , however , for us to assume that a migration
on so gigantic a scale took place , although we must undoubtedly believe that the flower of the nation was carried away captive , and placed in the localities mentioned in Scripture . If , however , only z . portion of the
people were carried away and placed in the " cities of the Medes , " it may be asked , what became of the rest ? In the first place , it is clear from the Scripture narrative of events , long subsequent to the deportation
of the ten tribes by Shalmanezer , that a considerable number remained behind , as was the case in the Babylonish captivity of the Jews . It has generally been taken for granted that , when the Israelites were taken
away , the land was left a howling wilderness , until the Assyrian monarch again populated it with people drawn from other parts of the empire . An attentive perusal of Scripture will , however , prove that this
was not the fact , as we find that in the time of Josiah , 100 years after the Israelitisii captivity , this King of Judah was having dealings with the inhabitants ofthe land of Israel , who , from the context , it is clear must have been of Hebrew extraction .
The Israelites who were left behind no doubt became mixed up with the heathen immigrants who were sent by the Assyrian king to people the country , and for that
reason in later times they were not considered by thc Jews as true Israelites , and therefore the Jews would have no dealings with these Samaritans .
It must , moreover , be borne 111 mind that the Assyrian wars in Judea and Palestine generally , were not only sanguinary , but very long and tedious , lasting for years , and keeping the whole country in a chronic state
of alarm and constant ferment . It must also be recollected that the Assyrians attacked thc neighbouring countries of Tyre and Sidon , and , after many years of battles and sieges , ultimately conquered them .
Now , these Phenicians being a maritime people , naturally made great use of their ships , both to obtain supplies of food , clothing , and other articles , and also to escape from their enemies . One cause of strife
between the Assyrians and Phenicians was , that the latter helped the Israelites in their disputes and contests with Assyria . A similiar cause of complaint arose from the Israelites helping the Phenicians against the
common enemy . Nothing is more natural , therefore , than that both Israelites and Assyrians should be involved in one common ruin , and , therefore , that numbers of the former should escape in the ships ofthe
latter . I here is a tradition in Ireland that the aboriginal inhabitants of that country were descended from the Canaanitcs , or Phenicians , and if so , a communication between tiie two countries would be
established and kept up , and no doubt migrations would take place from time to time . Thc probability , therefore , is great that , when Tyre was conquered by the Assyrians , many of the inhabitants , including many
Israelites , would escape in ships and reach Ireland , for , although the distance appears to be great , the dangers , difficulties , and labour would be far less than going 1000 or 1200 miles to Media . Although the stories
handed down by tradition must not always be taken as historically true , it is generally admitted that they usually have some
foundation in fact , and therefore must not be unceremoniously rejected as idle fables , especially when the probabilities arc strongly in favour of their truth , as is the case in the