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A Pcean.
'lis a safe promise in this and the world to come , Jfor he who spoke it was the great "Truth " speaker And the very eesence of loyalty . With these elements in thy nature planted 'Tis nothing wondrous that thy receptions
Were one grand glorious greeting and welcome . Thy witn esses were the eyes of the whole world , They were turned towards thee , on thee . The verification was completed in
amplification When thou didst set thy foot again In England !! T . BURDETT YEOMAN ,
Zoroastrianism And Free Masonry.
ZOROASTRIANISM AND FREE MASONRY .
{ Continued from page 121 . ) PART IV . THE covering of a Freemasons' Lodge is a celestial canopy of divers colours , even as the heavens . The way bwhich we
y hope to arrive at it is by the assistance of a ladder in Avesta called the Chinvat peretu , the Chinvat pool , It is composed of many staves or rounds , which point out as many virtues . It rests on the volume of the sacred law on Mount Hara
Berezaiti the Alborz , because , by the doctrines contained in that holy book , we are taught to believe in the potency of Maneshne , which enables us to ascend the first step . This strictly followed and cherished , leads to its developement in
Gaveshne , which enables us to ascend the second step ; and both these fructify into Kooneshne , which enables us to ascend the third and the final step . On the morning of the third day after one ' s- death , his soul departs from this world ; and , if he has
satisfied Meher , Serosh , and Rashnu , he arrives at the Chinvat pool , from whence , according as he has thought well , spoken well , and done well , he is enabled to take his steps iuto the first , second , or third heaven . These , then , are the staves of the ladder by which he reaches Garothman , or the abode of songs , where Ahura
Mazda resides , and where Yazads and Amshaspends sing his praises around his throne . The ornaments of a Lodge are the checquered pavement , the blazing star , and the indented or tesselated border . The checquered pavement is the beautiful flooring of a Freeemasons' Lodgethe
, blazing star the glory in the centre , and the indented or tesselated border the skirtwork round the same . The checquered pavement points to the diversity of objects which decorate and adorn the creation , the animate as well as the inanimate part
thereof . This pavement , moreover , refers to the duality prevalent in nature and morals . The white square denotes tho creative , the light and heat-imparting agency in nature , called in the Avesta ' spentomainyns' in colloquial language
, ' sapenadmino . ' The black denotes the destroying , the darkness and cold-imparting agency , called Angra Mainyus ghano mino or Ahriman . In the beginning of things , in the Zarvane Akarane , i . e ., time without bounds , Ahura Mazda has by his
fiat , Yatha Aim Vairyo , created the raw materials , and has chalked out the design of this universe , and has set in action , subordinate to his will and law , and subject to his designs on the Tracing Board , two working agencies . The one moulds and fashions the raw rude matter
into the wondrous and beautiful productions of nature which embellish the creation . But since the raw material is created once for all at the outset , and in a definite quantity , the moulding agency would have its work finished after a certain age ; but Ahura Mazda has designed differentlyso
, that both the agencies can be kept at work perpetually . With this object , the destroying agency comes into action and dismembers the existing productions into the orig inal raw crude matter , and places it before the creative agency to prevent
its standing still . Thus Spena Mino embodies , and Ghano Mino disembodies , all existence . The one , then , is quite indispensable to the other . To keep existence going on destruction must take place . Both help equally to keep on the
world constantly changing and renovating . So the black and the white squares represent these two incessantly working agencies . The white following the black , and the black following the white in its turn ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Pcean.
'lis a safe promise in this and the world to come , Jfor he who spoke it was the great "Truth " speaker And the very eesence of loyalty . With these elements in thy nature planted 'Tis nothing wondrous that thy receptions
Were one grand glorious greeting and welcome . Thy witn esses were the eyes of the whole world , They were turned towards thee , on thee . The verification was completed in
amplification When thou didst set thy foot again In England !! T . BURDETT YEOMAN ,
Zoroastrianism And Free Masonry.
ZOROASTRIANISM AND FREE MASONRY .
{ Continued from page 121 . ) PART IV . THE covering of a Freemasons' Lodge is a celestial canopy of divers colours , even as the heavens . The way bwhich we
y hope to arrive at it is by the assistance of a ladder in Avesta called the Chinvat peretu , the Chinvat pool , It is composed of many staves or rounds , which point out as many virtues . It rests on the volume of the sacred law on Mount Hara
Berezaiti the Alborz , because , by the doctrines contained in that holy book , we are taught to believe in the potency of Maneshne , which enables us to ascend the first step . This strictly followed and cherished , leads to its developement in
Gaveshne , which enables us to ascend the second step ; and both these fructify into Kooneshne , which enables us to ascend the third and the final step . On the morning of the third day after one ' s- death , his soul departs from this world ; and , if he has
satisfied Meher , Serosh , and Rashnu , he arrives at the Chinvat pool , from whence , according as he has thought well , spoken well , and done well , he is enabled to take his steps iuto the first , second , or third heaven . These , then , are the staves of the ladder by which he reaches Garothman , or the abode of songs , where Ahura
Mazda resides , and where Yazads and Amshaspends sing his praises around his throne . The ornaments of a Lodge are the checquered pavement , the blazing star , and the indented or tesselated border . The checquered pavement is the beautiful flooring of a Freeemasons' Lodgethe
, blazing star the glory in the centre , and the indented or tesselated border the skirtwork round the same . The checquered pavement points to the diversity of objects which decorate and adorn the creation , the animate as well as the inanimate part
thereof . This pavement , moreover , refers to the duality prevalent in nature and morals . The white square denotes tho creative , the light and heat-imparting agency in nature , called in the Avesta ' spentomainyns' in colloquial language
, ' sapenadmino . ' The black denotes the destroying , the darkness and cold-imparting agency , called Angra Mainyus ghano mino or Ahriman . In the beginning of things , in the Zarvane Akarane , i . e ., time without bounds , Ahura Mazda has by his
fiat , Yatha Aim Vairyo , created the raw materials , and has chalked out the design of this universe , and has set in action , subordinate to his will and law , and subject to his designs on the Tracing Board , two working agencies . The one moulds and fashions the raw rude matter
into the wondrous and beautiful productions of nature which embellish the creation . But since the raw material is created once for all at the outset , and in a definite quantity , the moulding agency would have its work finished after a certain age ; but Ahura Mazda has designed differentlyso
, that both the agencies can be kept at work perpetually . With this object , the destroying agency comes into action and dismembers the existing productions into the orig inal raw crude matter , and places it before the creative agency to prevent
its standing still . Thus Spena Mino embodies , and Ghano Mino disembodies , all existence . The one , then , is quite indispensable to the other . To keep existence going on destruction must take place . Both help equally to keep on the
world constantly changing and renovating . So the black and the white squares represent these two incessantly working agencies . The white following the black , and the black following the white in its turn ,