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Cliassioal Eebemasonry,
see the sole Grovernor of the World . He is cxo , and of himself alone ; and to thdtOne all things owe their being . He operates through all , was never seep , by mortal eyes , hut does himself see everything . " * The novices moved on , while a deep sound arose from beneath , as if the earth itself were complaining ; the thunder pealed , the lightning flashed , and spectres glided through the vast obscurity , moaning , sighing , and groaning .
Of various forms , unnunxber'd spectres more—Centaurs and double shapes—besiege the door . Before the passage horrid Hydra stands , And Briareus with his hundred hands ; Gorgons , Geryon with his triple frame , And vain Chimaera vomits empty flame / 5
DrydetfsjEnei dyi . Q . Mysterious shades , the messengers of the infernal deities—Anguish , Madness , Famine , Disease , and Death- —flitted around and the explanations of the hierophant , delivered in a solemn voice , added to the horrors of the scene . This was intended as a representation of
the infernal regions , where Misery had its seat . As they advanced , amidst the groans which issued from the darkness were distinguished those of the suicides—thus punished for cowardly deserting the post which the gods had assigned them in this world . But the scenes which the novices had hitherto beheld seemed to be a sort of
purgatory , J where penal fires and dire anguish , and the unutterable horrors of darkness were believed , after countless ages of suffering , to purify from the guilt acquired in this mortal life . Suddenly the bursting open of two vast gates , with a terrific sound , dimly displayed to their sight , and faintly bore to their ears , the torments of those whose fates were everlasting—who had passed the bounds beyond which there is no hope .
" Obscure they went through dreary shades that led Along the waste dominions of the dead . Thus wander travellers in woods by night , By the moon ' s doubtful and malignant light . " Dryderis JEneid , vi . On the horrors of this abode of anguish and despair a curtain may
* Div . Leg . vol . i . p . 154 . + Revengeful cares and sullen sorrows dwell , And pale diseases and repining age , Want , fear , and famine's unresisted rage ; Here toils and death , and death's half brother , sleep . " JDrydm ' s JEneid , vi . 385
J : The few , so cleansed , to these abodes repair , And breathe , in ample fields , the soft Elysian air . Then are they happy , when by length of time The scurf is worn away of each committed crime ; No speck is left of their ha"bitual stains ; But the pure aether of the eoul remains , " Dryden ' s jEneid , vi
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Cliassioal Eebemasonry,
see the sole Grovernor of the World . He is cxo , and of himself alone ; and to thdtOne all things owe their being . He operates through all , was never seep , by mortal eyes , hut does himself see everything . " * The novices moved on , while a deep sound arose from beneath , as if the earth itself were complaining ; the thunder pealed , the lightning flashed , and spectres glided through the vast obscurity , moaning , sighing , and groaning .
Of various forms , unnunxber'd spectres more—Centaurs and double shapes—besiege the door . Before the passage horrid Hydra stands , And Briareus with his hundred hands ; Gorgons , Geryon with his triple frame , And vain Chimaera vomits empty flame / 5
DrydetfsjEnei dyi . Q . Mysterious shades , the messengers of the infernal deities—Anguish , Madness , Famine , Disease , and Death- —flitted around and the explanations of the hierophant , delivered in a solemn voice , added to the horrors of the scene . This was intended as a representation of
the infernal regions , where Misery had its seat . As they advanced , amidst the groans which issued from the darkness were distinguished those of the suicides—thus punished for cowardly deserting the post which the gods had assigned them in this world . But the scenes which the novices had hitherto beheld seemed to be a sort of
purgatory , J where penal fires and dire anguish , and the unutterable horrors of darkness were believed , after countless ages of suffering , to purify from the guilt acquired in this mortal life . Suddenly the bursting open of two vast gates , with a terrific sound , dimly displayed to their sight , and faintly bore to their ears , the torments of those whose fates were everlasting—who had passed the bounds beyond which there is no hope .
" Obscure they went through dreary shades that led Along the waste dominions of the dead . Thus wander travellers in woods by night , By the moon ' s doubtful and malignant light . " Dryderis JEneid , vi . On the horrors of this abode of anguish and despair a curtain may
* Div . Leg . vol . i . p . 154 . + Revengeful cares and sullen sorrows dwell , And pale diseases and repining age , Want , fear , and famine's unresisted rage ; Here toils and death , and death's half brother , sleep . " JDrydm ' s JEneid , vi . 385
J : The few , so cleansed , to these abodes repair , And breathe , in ample fields , the soft Elysian air . Then are they happy , when by length of time The scurf is worn away of each committed crime ; No speck is left of their ha"bitual stains ; But the pure aether of the eoul remains , " Dryden ' s jEneid , vi