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The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
Oo the seventeenth day of the month Athyr , the very day on which Noah is said to have e nibarked . In a similar manner a ship was the peculiar symbol of Isis ; while the symbolical bull was alike dedicated both to this o-oddess and to her mythological
consort , the history of her wanderings presents to us the image of the erratic state of the ark upon the surface of the waters ; yet there is no doubt that the sun was worshipped by the Egyptians under the title of Osirisand the moon under that of Isis
, or Ceres . "* The soul of Osiris was feigned to have been transferred to the bull Apis , whence the veneration which was paid to him ; and there was a statue of Isis inscribed Isidi Myrionymcethe thousand-named Isis .
, And even in Scandinavia the same figure was used to express the multifarious properties of their chief deity , Odin or
Woden" When in the nations I am seen , Mortals who to my fanes convene , Shall hail me with a thousand names , Great as celestial virtue claims . "t But all the male divinities , however they might be namedwere the same ; and the
, female ones were sometimes represented as of two sexes , so that some have been in doubt whether they should address them as gods or goddesses . Thus it was said of Venus , " pollentemque deurn Venerem . " This construction is approved by
Bfacrohious , and therefore Virgil says , — "Discedo , et ducente deo flammam inter et hostes Expedior , " and not dea . Aristophanes speaks of the same goddess iu the masculine gender as Ac / yuSiTov . And thus all the deities may
be'aonsidered as one , although it is uncertain whether that one was deemed a male or an hermophradite , and we have already seen that the crescent or half circle was the androgene emblem . " The deity was feigned to be both male
ai | d female—that which generates aud that ¦ which produces ; and this was a figment common to the mythologies both of the Greeks and of the Egyptians . More frequentl y and more naturally , however , the active and generating power was symbolized
The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
by a male , while the passive and producing power was presented by a female deity . The sun , or the material heaven , was generally adored as the type of the former , and the moon , or more commonly the earth , was venerated as the proper image of the
latter . Hence were feigned the marriages of Osiris and Isis , of Ouranos and Ge ; hence was Ether , or Heaven , considered as the all-generating god , and the earth was worshirjped as the great mother . Neither are we to ascribe to any other source the
institution of those Phallic rites which ancient superstition performed with devotion , but which modern decency hesitates to mention and refuses to describe . It is clear that the priests who celebrated these impure mysteries , confounded the spiritual
power that creates with the material power that generates . " * The fact is , it was the union of the two divine principles of wisdom and love , light and heat , which are male and female , that produced this absurd doctrine . Cneph was supposed to be Androgynous , and , as we have just seen , was painted of a deep blue colour to represent wisdom ; aud to signify
love he was depicted as in the act of ejecting an egg . The union of the above properties caused Jupiter to be described as of both sexes , being at once the cause of generation and production . The same princi ple may be applied to all other
androgynal fictions . With respect to the purple colour of Cneph , it may be observed that this colour was highly esteemed in the Spurious Freemasonry . The priests and priestesses of Kleusis wore purple robesand sacrifices to
, the Eumenides could not be performed except in robes of that particular hue . Garments of purple wool were used in all sacrifices preceding the celebration of the mysteries ; and the couches of the initiated were bound round by fillets of the same
colour . The fields of Elysium were represented as being covered over with roses of purple ; and these flowers were strewed on the tombs or' the dead . All this was symbolical of a future life , because the candidate was supposed to have gone through the
valley of the shadow of death during his initiation , and having been regenerated in the process , was passed on to the Autopsia , as an emblem of the life to come .
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The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
Oo the seventeenth day of the month Athyr , the very day on which Noah is said to have e nibarked . In a similar manner a ship was the peculiar symbol of Isis ; while the symbolical bull was alike dedicated both to this o-oddess and to her mythological
consort , the history of her wanderings presents to us the image of the erratic state of the ark upon the surface of the waters ; yet there is no doubt that the sun was worshipped by the Egyptians under the title of Osirisand the moon under that of Isis
, or Ceres . "* The soul of Osiris was feigned to have been transferred to the bull Apis , whence the veneration which was paid to him ; and there was a statue of Isis inscribed Isidi Myrionymcethe thousand-named Isis .
, And even in Scandinavia the same figure was used to express the multifarious properties of their chief deity , Odin or
Woden" When in the nations I am seen , Mortals who to my fanes convene , Shall hail me with a thousand names , Great as celestial virtue claims . "t But all the male divinities , however they might be namedwere the same ; and the
, female ones were sometimes represented as of two sexes , so that some have been in doubt whether they should address them as gods or goddesses . Thus it was said of Venus , " pollentemque deurn Venerem . " This construction is approved by
Bfacrohious , and therefore Virgil says , — "Discedo , et ducente deo flammam inter et hostes Expedior , " and not dea . Aristophanes speaks of the same goddess iu the masculine gender as Ac / yuSiTov . And thus all the deities may
be'aonsidered as one , although it is uncertain whether that one was deemed a male or an hermophradite , and we have already seen that the crescent or half circle was the androgene emblem . " The deity was feigned to be both male
ai | d female—that which generates aud that ¦ which produces ; and this was a figment common to the mythologies both of the Greeks and of the Egyptians . More frequentl y and more naturally , however , the active and generating power was symbolized
The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
by a male , while the passive and producing power was presented by a female deity . The sun , or the material heaven , was generally adored as the type of the former , and the moon , or more commonly the earth , was venerated as the proper image of the
latter . Hence were feigned the marriages of Osiris and Isis , of Ouranos and Ge ; hence was Ether , or Heaven , considered as the all-generating god , and the earth was worshirjped as the great mother . Neither are we to ascribe to any other source the
institution of those Phallic rites which ancient superstition performed with devotion , but which modern decency hesitates to mention and refuses to describe . It is clear that the priests who celebrated these impure mysteries , confounded the spiritual
power that creates with the material power that generates . " * The fact is , it was the union of the two divine principles of wisdom and love , light and heat , which are male and female , that produced this absurd doctrine . Cneph was supposed to be Androgynous , and , as we have just seen , was painted of a deep blue colour to represent wisdom ; aud to signify
love he was depicted as in the act of ejecting an egg . The union of the above properties caused Jupiter to be described as of both sexes , being at once the cause of generation and production . The same princi ple may be applied to all other
androgynal fictions . With respect to the purple colour of Cneph , it may be observed that this colour was highly esteemed in the Spurious Freemasonry . The priests and priestesses of Kleusis wore purple robesand sacrifices to
, the Eumenides could not be performed except in robes of that particular hue . Garments of purple wool were used in all sacrifices preceding the celebration of the mysteries ; and the couches of the initiated were bound round by fillets of the same
colour . The fields of Elysium were represented as being covered over with roses of purple ; and these flowers were strewed on the tombs or' the dead . All this was symbolical of a future life , because the candidate was supposed to have gone through the
valley of the shadow of death during his initiation , and having been regenerated in the process , was passed on to the Autopsia , as an emblem of the life to come .