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The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
drank the wine of their daink offerings 1 Let them rise up and help you and be your protection . " * Borlase sayst : " We have in Cornwall rooks of that grandeur , remarkable shape , and surprising position , as can leave us in
no doubt , but they must have been the deities of people addicted so much to the superstition of worshiping rocks . " These are the gods referred to by Moses in the above cited passage . Some are of opinion that the appearance of God ' s
Shekinah in the pillar of fire and of a cloud , suggested to the heathen the propriety of using pillars of stone as representatives of the deity , in the exact form which he himself had chosen to appear . J The type was abundantly verified in
Jesus Christ . St . Paul compared him to a stone , § and a rock ||; and St . Peter testifies to the same truth , ** calling him " a living stone , " to denote his firmness and stability ; not such a stone as we see upon earth which is without life ; but one which
hath not only life in itself , but gives life to all that come unto him . The Psalmist , in a celebrated prophecy of the Messiah , says , " The stone which the builders refused , is become the head of the corner . "t + On which Bishop Home thus remarks , " The sum and substance of the New
Testament applieations and expositions is that J esus Christ is the stone here mentioned , that He was rejected and set at nought by the chief priests aud pharisees , the then builders of the church ; but that , being chosen of God , and precious to Him , this most valuable stonethus despised ancl
re-, jected of men , was at length exalted to be the chief corner-stone in the building , ancl a centre of union for the Jew and Gentile , the two parts of which it consisted ; that this was the work of God , and the admiration of man . "
The square was , amongst the Egyptians , the symbol of building , because Osiris 01 Phtha was esteemed to be the builder , or G . A . O . T . U . Thus Chalcidius to Timceus . " Exornatorem mundi deum , mandasse provinciani , soli easterns quo que stellas
disposuisse , tanquam temporium limites , annorumque signa , indicia quoquefuturorum proventuum"' * And in Ohampollion ' s phonetic alphabet , constructed from the Egyptian hieroglyphics , this character stands for the letter A . Thus corresponding in form and power to the same character
in the Lukunican , which was one of the most celebrated alphabets of ancient times . It was also the hieroglyphic of a just and upright man , or in other words , of one who had been regenerated by initiation , whence the dogma of Aristotle ; " he who
bears the shocks of fortune valiantl y , and demeans himself with uprightness and integrity , may be pronounced a truly good man , of a square posture , without reproof . " In the quadrilateral figure of the tablet , we find an emblem of the five elements ,
referring to certain ceremonies of initiation , for as a preparatory process , the neophyte underwent four separate purifications , by water , earth , air , and fire , indicated by the colours green , black , azure , and red . The earth represented the darkness and ignorance of the initiated ; water , or baptism ,
was the emblem of exterior regeneration , shown by his triumphing over temptations ; air , designated divine truth , enlightening the understanding of the candidate ; aud fire , or the Supreme Being , opened his heart for the reception of divine love . The symbolic proofs were purely exterior they
; figured the four material spheres through which the candidate must pass before attaining the three heavens represented on earth by the three degrees of initiation , or spiritual regeneration . !* Again , the form of the Tracing Board
was the symbol of secresy ; and recommended to the aspirant when he had attained to the autopsia or divine lights in the upper apartment of the phce of initiation , a sedulous application to the study of the liberal sciences , which in Egypt were
arithmetic , geometry , astronomy , architecture , metallurgy , music , and above all , the complicated system of hieroglyphics , to which the priests were indebted for all their power , because it was a depository of their religious and moral secrets , which could never be penetrated by profane persons . TheTracing Board may ha ve been orig inally
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
drank the wine of their daink offerings 1 Let them rise up and help you and be your protection . " * Borlase sayst : " We have in Cornwall rooks of that grandeur , remarkable shape , and surprising position , as can leave us in
no doubt , but they must have been the deities of people addicted so much to the superstition of worshiping rocks . " These are the gods referred to by Moses in the above cited passage . Some are of opinion that the appearance of God ' s
Shekinah in the pillar of fire and of a cloud , suggested to the heathen the propriety of using pillars of stone as representatives of the deity , in the exact form which he himself had chosen to appear . J The type was abundantly verified in
Jesus Christ . St . Paul compared him to a stone , § and a rock ||; and St . Peter testifies to the same truth , ** calling him " a living stone , " to denote his firmness and stability ; not such a stone as we see upon earth which is without life ; but one which
hath not only life in itself , but gives life to all that come unto him . The Psalmist , in a celebrated prophecy of the Messiah , says , " The stone which the builders refused , is become the head of the corner . "t + On which Bishop Home thus remarks , " The sum and substance of the New
Testament applieations and expositions is that J esus Christ is the stone here mentioned , that He was rejected and set at nought by the chief priests aud pharisees , the then builders of the church ; but that , being chosen of God , and precious to Him , this most valuable stonethus despised ancl
re-, jected of men , was at length exalted to be the chief corner-stone in the building , ancl a centre of union for the Jew and Gentile , the two parts of which it consisted ; that this was the work of God , and the admiration of man . "
The square was , amongst the Egyptians , the symbol of building , because Osiris 01 Phtha was esteemed to be the builder , or G . A . O . T . U . Thus Chalcidius to Timceus . " Exornatorem mundi deum , mandasse provinciani , soli easterns quo que stellas
disposuisse , tanquam temporium limites , annorumque signa , indicia quoquefuturorum proventuum"' * And in Ohampollion ' s phonetic alphabet , constructed from the Egyptian hieroglyphics , this character stands for the letter A . Thus corresponding in form and power to the same character
in the Lukunican , which was one of the most celebrated alphabets of ancient times . It was also the hieroglyphic of a just and upright man , or in other words , of one who had been regenerated by initiation , whence the dogma of Aristotle ; " he who
bears the shocks of fortune valiantl y , and demeans himself with uprightness and integrity , may be pronounced a truly good man , of a square posture , without reproof . " In the quadrilateral figure of the tablet , we find an emblem of the five elements ,
referring to certain ceremonies of initiation , for as a preparatory process , the neophyte underwent four separate purifications , by water , earth , air , and fire , indicated by the colours green , black , azure , and red . The earth represented the darkness and ignorance of the initiated ; water , or baptism ,
was the emblem of exterior regeneration , shown by his triumphing over temptations ; air , designated divine truth , enlightening the understanding of the candidate ; aud fire , or the Supreme Being , opened his heart for the reception of divine love . The symbolic proofs were purely exterior they
; figured the four material spheres through which the candidate must pass before attaining the three heavens represented on earth by the three degrees of initiation , or spiritual regeneration . !* Again , the form of the Tracing Board
was the symbol of secresy ; and recommended to the aspirant when he had attained to the autopsia or divine lights in the upper apartment of the phce of initiation , a sedulous application to the study of the liberal sciences , which in Egypt were
arithmetic , geometry , astronomy , architecture , metallurgy , music , and above all , the complicated system of hieroglyphics , to which the priests were indebted for all their power , because it was a depository of their religious and moral secrets , which could never be penetrated by profane persons . TheTracing Board may ha ve been orig inally