The Freemasons' Magazine.

THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .

LONDON , SATURDAY , JTJNF 13 , 1863 .

A meeting of the friends of the EKEEMASOWS ' MAGAZINE , will be held on Tuesday next , at the Freemasons' Tavern , when the Directors of the ER . EEACASOXS' MAGAZINE COMPANY ( LIMITED ) , will lay a statement before them , with the view of making

arrangements to commence publishing the MAGAZINE on behalf of the Company , from the commencement of nest month ; and those brethren Avho have promised to take shares are earnestly requested to pay in their deposits , to the London and Middlesex Bank ,

Einch Lane , Cornhill , on or before that day . All brethren , Avhether Shareholders in the Company or not , are invited to attend the meeting . The chair will be taken at five o ' clock p . m ., precisely .

Classical Theology, Lxviii.

CLASSICAL THEOLOGY , LXVIII .

XII . —JUSO AJTD JANXIAET . The belief of tlie Indians in Asia and the Greeks in Europe—tivo early civilized nations of those great divisions of the earth—was in many respects identical , and especially that over every movement and occurrence of the natural order of the worldand over every

, motive and function of mental and animal life some influential deity presided . The conditions aud offices of these superintending powers may be similarly arranged , ancl , alloAving for the difference of language , for instance , almost every nation had its Agnee , Ignis , or Jupiter , the Deus Natures , or governing principal ,

or * . ( tlieos ) deity , and eiSo ? iox , ( eidolon ) idol of fire ; Varoon , or Neptune , the Deus Natures , or God of the Ocean ; Vayoo , or iEolus , the Deus Natures , or God of the Wind ; Camdeo , or Cupid , the Deus Natures , or God of Love . NOAV , although the Hebrews , as an ancient nation , had many names for the Almighty , as Jehovah and Elohim , & c , and as Jehovah-Jireh , and Jehovah-Shalom , & c , they did

not signify that there were two Gods Almi ghty , as the God Eros , of love , and the Lord Sabaoth , of armies , or a god of this or that jilace , thing , or purpose , but 'that of one sole Godhead , in spiritual union , holiness , and power , or God in Himself Almighty , the Creator of all things , and

the Disposer and Ruler of all events , according to the administration of the Majesty of Heaven , or theocracy in Lordshi p or Angelship , as recounted by Moses , who , having spoken face to face with the Almi ghty or Lord in the Godhead , most clearly relates the knowledge of that supernally spiritual mystery as none

other could have done for him , and so , thereby , sempiternally identifies himself with the authorship of his works and the primordiality of the Holy Scriptures . There cannot be a greater benefit to mankind than that conferred by true religion Avhich , by setting before men ' s eyes a standard of perfect excellence , to endeavour faithfully and surely to resemble , may literally be said to have brought doAvn to earth AA'isdom and virtue from heaven , to form the human mind and

mould the human heart after a , divine model commemorative of a celestial advent . Without reli g ion men would be savages , lower in order than " the poor Indian , whose untutored mind sees God in clouds , or hears Him in the wind . " But such a human race has never been . Eor , although in extracting ,

abstracting , aud fabricating systems of false reli gion from the true , that is to say , the scriptures , have led men to deify the beings they admired for greatness of soul , heroism , or skilfulness , and ascribed to their deities a debasing order of human qualities and passionsand even the raising of brute creatures and other

, things connected vrith superstition and evil pur-] 30 ses , into idols and gods , yet , nevertheless , their worship has formed a conscience sensitively amenable to religion , and a prevalent all-pervading religion , more or less inductively disseminated , ensured the expectancy of salvation through the mediation of a Saviour .

We would not have the significaxicy of our words confounded solus ( a salvus ) , in some old translations of the Vulgate , is rendered "helthe" ( health ) , but as salvo ( to save ) , as the same root in the Greek , salvation , therefore , is its right bearing ; the text jEvange lium salvotorium , literally as it ought to be , "the

gospel of salvation , " could never have read correctly as the " gospelle of helthe . " A man may be in excellent health , but that Avould not save him from committing crimes , or from their penalties if he were condemned , nor from a shot , a fall , nor death . It might be said the exact relative words of the Vulgate may be rendered "the Evangel , glad tiding , or gospel of safety , or of healing ; " still , ho * A * ever , an

imperfection of the Vulgate would be seen in this instance , and , at any rate , must certainly account for many of the errors in its Anglo-Saxon , and folloAving early ( A . D . 1500 or 1600 ) translations . Moses also erected an altar , and consecrated it to Jehovah N"issi , because the 'Lord , that is , Jehovah ,

or the Lord Jehovah , had commanded him to note doAA n , "for a memorial , in a book . " The Exodus is in fact implied , " I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven , " or , as explained , " the Lord hath sworn that the Lord Avill have Avar with Amelek from generation to generation . "

Striking similarity , or imitation , of scriptural events is met Avith amongst the Greeks ancl Eomans . By such supplications to Jupiter , the Greeks , having been delivered from the Medes , dedicated a temple to him under the name of tantf , ( Soter ) , the Saviour . Quiriusor Romulusthe

, , oracularly proclaimed son of a virgin , the reputed founder and first King of Rome , * about the time of Isaiah , * 750 years before Christ , A . TJ . C , 3 , having raised a fierce and long Avar with the Sabines by his seizure of their daughters who had come to the Ludi JPopulari , or to behold the solemn games of the

public at Rome , as like and for the same purpose as did the Benjaminites , who took to themselves wives of tlie daughters of Shilch that came to dance at the " Eeast of the Lord . " The Romans Avere in Avant of Avomen , and Avhen his army despondently engaged with tlie Sabines , Romulus vowed unto heaven that , should he conquer , he would , build a temple to Jupiter Stator , Templum Statori Jbvi , ( a sistoet Jeliovali ) , that is , God the Supporter . Another name of Jehovah ,