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The Sanctuary Of Memphis, Or Hermes:
THE SANCTUARY OF MEMPHIS , OR HERMES :
AN ABRIDGED HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY AND THE ORIGIN OF ALL ITS KNOWN RITES . Translated from the French of E . J . Maremvis de Negre , BY N . E . KENNY . THE recent publicationby Mr . John Murrayof Dr . Henry Brngsch-Bey ' s '
, , great work , " Egypt -under the Pharaohs , entirel y derived from the Monuments , " has led to new inquiries as to the origin of Freemasonry . The aim of the work of Dr . Brugsch is to interpret the stone records of a remote age by the light of recent investigations . NOAV , there is no doubt that the Egyptians ( whose Asiatic , not Ethiopio , descent , is indubitable ) were great artificersand that architecture held high place of honour—often a position
, nearest the throne—in the land of the Pharaohs . " The office of architect , " says Dr . Brugsch , " was the occupation of the noblest , men at the king ' s court . Pharaoh ' s architects ( the Mur-ket ) , who were often of the number of the king ' s sons and grandsons , were held in high honour , ancl the favour of their lord gave them his own daughters out of the women ' s house as wives . " And the feats of those mighty builders of old were worthy of all the honours paid
to the designers . Witness the erections of Khufu , of Khafra , and of Mengara ; the buildings of Heliopolis , the monuments at Karnak , the tombs at Beni Hassan , the unequalled ruins around Lake Mceris , the Grand Hall of Pillars , and those mystic miracles of stone—the Pyramids—on which M . Rouge , another famous Egyptologist , says : — " Architecture has here shown inconceivable perfection in the cutting- ancl placing of blocks of -vast
dimensions . The passages of the Great Pyramid remain a model of exactness in building which has never been surpassed . " On his stone monuments Dr . Brugsch finds recorded the name and apotheosis of the . monarch of E gyptian artificers , Martiser , who flourished forty-four centuries before the Christian era , and was the father of Usurtasen , and progenitor of a race of marvellous architects , only ajiproached by great artists like Mer , Rois , Amenemant , Amenhotep , etc .
I make this reference to the latest book on the storied region of Egypt , because it confirms the opinion of most learned writers , that the borne of architecture—the site of the greatest works ever erected by the hand of man ( and most- probabl y the wondrous ruins of Baalbec and Palmyra owed N
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Sanctuary Of Memphis, Or Hermes:
THE SANCTUARY OF MEMPHIS , OR HERMES :
AN ABRIDGED HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY AND THE ORIGIN OF ALL ITS KNOWN RITES . Translated from the French of E . J . Maremvis de Negre , BY N . E . KENNY . THE recent publicationby Mr . John Murrayof Dr . Henry Brngsch-Bey ' s '
, , great work , " Egypt -under the Pharaohs , entirel y derived from the Monuments , " has led to new inquiries as to the origin of Freemasonry . The aim of the work of Dr . Brugsch is to interpret the stone records of a remote age by the light of recent investigations . NOAV , there is no doubt that the Egyptians ( whose Asiatic , not Ethiopio , descent , is indubitable ) were great artificersand that architecture held high place of honour—often a position
, nearest the throne—in the land of the Pharaohs . " The office of architect , " says Dr . Brugsch , " was the occupation of the noblest , men at the king ' s court . Pharaoh ' s architects ( the Mur-ket ) , who were often of the number of the king ' s sons and grandsons , were held in high honour , ancl the favour of their lord gave them his own daughters out of the women ' s house as wives . " And the feats of those mighty builders of old were worthy of all the honours paid
to the designers . Witness the erections of Khufu , of Khafra , and of Mengara ; the buildings of Heliopolis , the monuments at Karnak , the tombs at Beni Hassan , the unequalled ruins around Lake Mceris , the Grand Hall of Pillars , and those mystic miracles of stone—the Pyramids—on which M . Rouge , another famous Egyptologist , says : — " Architecture has here shown inconceivable perfection in the cutting- ancl placing of blocks of -vast
dimensions . The passages of the Great Pyramid remain a model of exactness in building which has never been surpassed . " On his stone monuments Dr . Brugsch finds recorded the name and apotheosis of the . monarch of E gyptian artificers , Martiser , who flourished forty-four centuries before the Christian era , and was the father of Usurtasen , and progenitor of a race of marvellous architects , only ajiproached by great artists like Mer , Rois , Amenemant , Amenhotep , etc .
I make this reference to the latest book on the storied region of Egypt , because it confirms the opinion of most learned writers , that the borne of architecture—the site of the greatest works ever erected by the hand of man ( and most- probabl y the wondrous ruins of Baalbec and Palmyra owed N