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The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
the reply Avas , " Sacrifice a pure virgin of the blood of the Epyticlao to the infernal demons . " * In some places , as Ave have just seen , the most extensive sacrifices Avere used to appease the vindictive fury of an offended deity , in times of great public calamity . Thus Acosta , Avhose opportunities of investigating the manners ancl customs of the aborig inal inhabitants of the New World give a very high authority to his assertions ,
says that on one occasion the Mexicans offered 5 , 000 prisoners of war to Tescalipuca . It ' is clear , from recent researches , that the inhabitants of these countries AA'ere addicted to the custom of sacrificing men during the celebration of their Spurious Freemasonry . The victim , AVIIO AA'as called guesa , or houseless , Avas led in procession by the Suna toAvards the sacred column , Avhich appears to have served as a sun-dial . The priests wore masks , the chief of whom represented Bochica , AA'ho is the same as the Egyptian
Osiris ; others represented Chia , Avho Avas the same as Isis ; and others the monster Fomagota , the Typ hon of Bogota , AA'I IO Avas figured AA'ith four ears , one eye , ancl a long tail . " When the procession , AA'hicli reminds us of the astrological procession of the Chinese and that of Isis in Egypt , had reached the extremity of the Suna , the victim Avas tied to the column , a cloud of arroAvs pierced his body , his blood Avas received into sacred vessels , and his heart was immediately torn out and offered to the king—Sun Bochica . " t To shoAV the universality of this custom I quote a passage from the Oration of Rusebius to Constantino : " The Phoenicians sacrificed their most beloved children
annually to Saturn , and in the island of Ehodes they offered human sacrifices to the same deity . Also at Salamis , in the temple of Minerva , it Avas a custom that a man , pursued by others , ran thrice round the altar ; he Avas then stabbed by the priest , and his body laid upon the burning pile till it Avas consumed . In the island of Chios they sacrificed a man to Bacchus , and in Lacedeinon to Mars . At Laodicea a virgin AA'as every year sacrificed to Minerva , ancl in like manner the Libians and Carthaginians appeased their gods AA'ith human sacrifices . The Dumateni of Arabia offered a boy
yearly , aud buried him underneath the altar . The Greeks , the Thracians , ancl the Scythians , before they marched out to Avar , usually iin'oked success by the sacrifice of men . The Athenians mention the virgin daughters of Lens and Ereetheus , as offered in sacrifice amongst them . In the city of Eome , at the feast of Jupiter , Latiaris , a man , is sacrificed : andDionysius relates that Jupiter and Apollo required human sacrifices , ancl says further that when they offered fruits and floAvers only they fell into all sorts of
calamities , from which they could not be relieved till they had decimated the u'hole population . " The ancient inhabitants of the A'ast continent of India Avere addicted to this abhorrent practice—abhorrent on any other principle than that of being an acknoAvledged type of redemption by blood . The Narumedba , or human sacrifice of India , AA'as offered to appease the anger of a sanguinary female deity , AVIIO is represented as delihting in
g human blood . Mr . Maurice has displayed this fiend at full length in all her disgusting ugliness , as a black mass of deformity , bearing a resemblance to the human figure ; with four arms , goggle eyes , swollen tongue , and covered Avith decorations , the most horrible and imposing of Avhich is a necklace reaching almost to her knees , strung AA'ith human skulls . J Instances of the universality of this belief might be produced from every quarter of
the globe . EA ' the northern nations of Europe offered human sacrifices at their public festivals , and in times of famine , or other great national calamit y , they would offer up the monarch as an expiatory sacrifice for the redemption of the people . In this manner the king of Vernilaud , in Sweden , Avas burned in honour of Odin , to put an end to a great dearth . In their turn the kings did not spare tlie blood of their subjects , nor
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The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
the reply Avas , " Sacrifice a pure virgin of the blood of the Epyticlao to the infernal demons . " * In some places , as Ave have just seen , the most extensive sacrifices Avere used to appease the vindictive fury of an offended deity , in times of great public calamity . Thus Acosta , Avhose opportunities of investigating the manners ancl customs of the aborig inal inhabitants of the New World give a very high authority to his assertions ,
says that on one occasion the Mexicans offered 5 , 000 prisoners of war to Tescalipuca . It ' is clear , from recent researches , that the inhabitants of these countries AA'ere addicted to the custom of sacrificing men during the celebration of their Spurious Freemasonry . The victim , AVIIO AA'as called guesa , or houseless , Avas led in procession by the Suna toAvards the sacred column , Avhich appears to have served as a sun-dial . The priests wore masks , the chief of whom represented Bochica , AA'ho is the same as the Egyptian
Osiris ; others represented Chia , Avho Avas the same as Isis ; and others the monster Fomagota , the Typ hon of Bogota , AA'I IO Avas figured AA'ith four ears , one eye , ancl a long tail . " When the procession , AA'hicli reminds us of the astrological procession of the Chinese and that of Isis in Egypt , had reached the extremity of the Suna , the victim Avas tied to the column , a cloud of arroAvs pierced his body , his blood Avas received into sacred vessels , and his heart was immediately torn out and offered to the king—Sun Bochica . " t To shoAV the universality of this custom I quote a passage from the Oration of Rusebius to Constantino : " The Phoenicians sacrificed their most beloved children
annually to Saturn , and in the island of Ehodes they offered human sacrifices to the same deity . Also at Salamis , in the temple of Minerva , it Avas a custom that a man , pursued by others , ran thrice round the altar ; he Avas then stabbed by the priest , and his body laid upon the burning pile till it Avas consumed . In the island of Chios they sacrificed a man to Bacchus , and in Lacedeinon to Mars . At Laodicea a virgin AA'as every year sacrificed to Minerva , ancl in like manner the Libians and Carthaginians appeased their gods AA'ith human sacrifices . The Dumateni of Arabia offered a boy
yearly , aud buried him underneath the altar . The Greeks , the Thracians , ancl the Scythians , before they marched out to Avar , usually iin'oked success by the sacrifice of men . The Athenians mention the virgin daughters of Lens and Ereetheus , as offered in sacrifice amongst them . In the city of Eome , at the feast of Jupiter , Latiaris , a man , is sacrificed : andDionysius relates that Jupiter and Apollo required human sacrifices , ancl says further that when they offered fruits and floAvers only they fell into all sorts of
calamities , from which they could not be relieved till they had decimated the u'hole population . " The ancient inhabitants of the A'ast continent of India Avere addicted to this abhorrent practice—abhorrent on any other principle than that of being an acknoAvledged type of redemption by blood . The Narumedba , or human sacrifice of India , AA'as offered to appease the anger of a sanguinary female deity , AVIIO is represented as delihting in
g human blood . Mr . Maurice has displayed this fiend at full length in all her disgusting ugliness , as a black mass of deformity , bearing a resemblance to the human figure ; with four arms , goggle eyes , swollen tongue , and covered Avith decorations , the most horrible and imposing of Avhich is a necklace reaching almost to her knees , strung AA'ith human skulls . J Instances of the universality of this belief might be produced from every quarter of
the globe . EA ' the northern nations of Europe offered human sacrifices at their public festivals , and in times of famine , or other great national calamit y , they would offer up the monarch as an expiatory sacrifice for the redemption of the people . In this manner the king of Vernilaud , in Sweden , Avas burned in honour of Odin , to put an end to a great dearth . In their turn the kings did not spare tlie blood of their subjects , nor