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On Freemasonry.
In all the early , as well as the more recent Masonic structures of antiquity , symbols of the spurious Freemasonry were conspicuously sculptured . In Egypt these were the globe and winged serpent ; a sitting figure of their sacred stream , the lotus , the scarabaeus ; the hawk ; the dog ; the cross or sacred tau ; Isis with her sistrum , butterfly , serpent ,
vase , patera , cornucopia , & c ; numerous hieroglyphical characters of various and significant meaning ; while figures of the Sphynx were placed in long extended avenues leading to the most sacred temples , as symbols of prudence and secrecy . Belzoni says , "that on all the walls , columns , ceilingsand architravesthere is no where a space of two
, , feet that is not covered with some figures of human beings , animals , plants , emblems of agriculture , or of religious ceremony . Wherever the eyes turn , wherever the attention is fixed , every thing inspires respect and veneration ; hei ghtened by the solitary situation of many of the temples , which
adds to the attraction of these splendid recesses . " The ancient temples of Mexico were covered over with hieroglyphics sculptured in relief . Thus to express the rapid progress of time they introduced a serpent ; for suffering innocence a rabbit was the symbol . Drawings of feet denoted a public road . A living man was represented by
a human figure with small tongues painted near his mouth ; a dead man had none of those appendages . To live is to speak , say they ; and hence , a volcano was symbolised by a cone with tongues over its summit , to denote the mountain which speaks , & c . They had , says Humboldt , " real simple hieroglyphics for water , earth , air , wind , day , night , the middle of the ni
ght , speech , motion ; they had also for numbers , for the days and the months of the solar year . These signs , added to the painting of an event , marked , in a very ingenious manner , whether the action past during the day and ni ght ; the age of the persons they wished to represent , whether they had been conversing , and who amongst them had spoken most . "
The gate of the Lions , erected by the Cyclopean Masons at Mycenae , before the time of Abraham , had its capital ornamented with three annulets , emblematical of the divine Triad eternally existing . " The abacus supports four balls , or circles , which are again surmounted by a second abacus , similar to the first . They are supposed to have been derived from the worshi p of Mithras , the lion being the symbol . It is not a little curious that balls , and these spirals , which
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
In all the early , as well as the more recent Masonic structures of antiquity , symbols of the spurious Freemasonry were conspicuously sculptured . In Egypt these were the globe and winged serpent ; a sitting figure of their sacred stream , the lotus , the scarabaeus ; the hawk ; the dog ; the cross or sacred tau ; Isis with her sistrum , butterfly , serpent ,
vase , patera , cornucopia , & c ; numerous hieroglyphical characters of various and significant meaning ; while figures of the Sphynx were placed in long extended avenues leading to the most sacred temples , as symbols of prudence and secrecy . Belzoni says , "that on all the walls , columns , ceilingsand architravesthere is no where a space of two
, , feet that is not covered with some figures of human beings , animals , plants , emblems of agriculture , or of religious ceremony . Wherever the eyes turn , wherever the attention is fixed , every thing inspires respect and veneration ; hei ghtened by the solitary situation of many of the temples , which
adds to the attraction of these splendid recesses . " The ancient temples of Mexico were covered over with hieroglyphics sculptured in relief . Thus to express the rapid progress of time they introduced a serpent ; for suffering innocence a rabbit was the symbol . Drawings of feet denoted a public road . A living man was represented by
a human figure with small tongues painted near his mouth ; a dead man had none of those appendages . To live is to speak , say they ; and hence , a volcano was symbolised by a cone with tongues over its summit , to denote the mountain which speaks , & c . They had , says Humboldt , " real simple hieroglyphics for water , earth , air , wind , day , night , the middle of the ni
ght , speech , motion ; they had also for numbers , for the days and the months of the solar year . These signs , added to the painting of an event , marked , in a very ingenious manner , whether the action past during the day and ni ght ; the age of the persons they wished to represent , whether they had been conversing , and who amongst them had spoken most . "
The gate of the Lions , erected by the Cyclopean Masons at Mycenae , before the time of Abraham , had its capital ornamented with three annulets , emblematical of the divine Triad eternally existing . " The abacus supports four balls , or circles , which are again surmounted by a second abacus , similar to the first . They are supposed to have been derived from the worshi p of Mithras , the lion being the symbol . It is not a little curious that balls , and these spirals , which