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Peeemasonet Illtjsteated.
united in their own persons two of the noblest missions with , which , men could be invested— -the worship of the Deity , and the cultivation of science . " The intent and purpose of those stupendous fabrics , the pyramids , was a great mystery , and a mystery they still remain . hav
All authorities \^ bo e investigated the subject concur in fixing the age of these piles at 4 , 000 yearvS . Many ^ of the works of this ancient nation now in the British Museum , are of equal , if not greater , age , and their execution is marvellous . Moses was initiated into the secrets and -mysteries , of the priestly order when in Egypt , and some have imagined that the Hebrews assisted in the construction of the pyramids ; butin all probability these wondrous efiferts of Masonic skill were hoary with age when the children of Israel settled in the land of Cf-oshen , and were emblems of sublime truths to a civilised nation when Abraham was a wanderer in the wilderness .
By Egyptian colonists , according to our biblical chronology , the arts were carried to Greece two or three centuries before the age of Moses . By the Israelites the arts of building were conveyed to the promised land ; and when they became a settled people , the remembrance of the beautiful fabrics they had seen iii Egypt led them
to attempt constructions suited to their future home . But it is evident that by the death of their great master , Moses , the Israelites were not in full possession of the knowledge requisite to complete the glorious fabric which the G-. A . O . T . U . had in a vision directed David to erect ; as we find by holy writ , that " the wisest man needed the assistance of the king of Tyre . The Tyrians were an
industrious people , and their city was the emporium of commercecommercial communities having ever been the best promoters of the arts and sciences . They have the reputation of being the inventors of scarlet and purple dyes ; and the buildings of Tyre were very magnificent , the walls being 150 feet high . From this city , with materials to assist King Solomon in erecting his temple , came , by order of his sovereign master , Hiram Abif . King Hiram calls
him Huram Ahi which is an evidence of his high standing at Tyre ; for the title of ctb or father was , among the Hebrews , bestowed as a title of honour or dignity : thus Huram Abif means in Hebrew Hiram my father . The Israelites also formed among the Chaldeans , in after intercourse , a more extensive acquaintance with one science—astronomy—than they themselves were possessed of ; and this science we all know can onl y be approached by a long study of mathematical formulas .
Among the eminent Greek philosophers who were impressed with the advanced state of knowledge to which the Egyptians and Chaldeans had arrived , we may more especially notice Pythagoras , who flourished some 500 years B . C . ; it appearing that he visited those countries , gained the confidence of the priests , and learned from jbhem the artful policy and symbolic language by which they governed the princes as well as the people . On his way to
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Peeemasonet Illtjsteated.
united in their own persons two of the noblest missions with , which , men could be invested— -the worship of the Deity , and the cultivation of science . " The intent and purpose of those stupendous fabrics , the pyramids , was a great mystery , and a mystery they still remain . hav
All authorities \^ bo e investigated the subject concur in fixing the age of these piles at 4 , 000 yearvS . Many ^ of the works of this ancient nation now in the British Museum , are of equal , if not greater , age , and their execution is marvellous . Moses was initiated into the secrets and -mysteries , of the priestly order when in Egypt , and some have imagined that the Hebrews assisted in the construction of the pyramids ; butin all probability these wondrous efiferts of Masonic skill were hoary with age when the children of Israel settled in the land of Cf-oshen , and were emblems of sublime truths to a civilised nation when Abraham was a wanderer in the wilderness .
By Egyptian colonists , according to our biblical chronology , the arts were carried to Greece two or three centuries before the age of Moses . By the Israelites the arts of building were conveyed to the promised land ; and when they became a settled people , the remembrance of the beautiful fabrics they had seen iii Egypt led them
to attempt constructions suited to their future home . But it is evident that by the death of their great master , Moses , the Israelites were not in full possession of the knowledge requisite to complete the glorious fabric which the G-. A . O . T . U . had in a vision directed David to erect ; as we find by holy writ , that " the wisest man needed the assistance of the king of Tyre . The Tyrians were an
industrious people , and their city was the emporium of commercecommercial communities having ever been the best promoters of the arts and sciences . They have the reputation of being the inventors of scarlet and purple dyes ; and the buildings of Tyre were very magnificent , the walls being 150 feet high . From this city , with materials to assist King Solomon in erecting his temple , came , by order of his sovereign master , Hiram Abif . King Hiram calls
him Huram Ahi which is an evidence of his high standing at Tyre ; for the title of ctb or father was , among the Hebrews , bestowed as a title of honour or dignity : thus Huram Abif means in Hebrew Hiram my father . The Israelites also formed among the Chaldeans , in after intercourse , a more extensive acquaintance with one science—astronomy—than they themselves were possessed of ; and this science we all know can onl y be approached by a long study of mathematical formulas .
Among the eminent Greek philosophers who were impressed with the advanced state of knowledge to which the Egyptians and Chaldeans had arrived , we may more especially notice Pythagoras , who flourished some 500 years B . C . ; it appearing that he visited those countries , gained the confidence of the priests , and learned from jbhem the artful policy and symbolic language by which they governed the princes as well as the people . On his way to