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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times,
replete with unaffected sublimity . " These beings then were not , the Eternal One willed , and they were . " In Japan , the Egg was represented as floating on the waters of Chaos , and being broken by the tauric deity , the heavens and the earth were created . In like manner the Chinese speak of the creation of the first man ; who derived
his being from an Egg , the shell whereof was snatched up to heaven ; the white expanded through the air ; and the yolk remained upon the earth . The Egyptian deity Cneph embodied a reference to the Creation and the Fall in a
single emblem . He was represented as a hawk-headed serpent in the act of ejecting from his mouth the primeval Egg ; and Bishop Cumberland derives his name from an Arabian word which signifies to preserve ; and intimates that it is peculiarly applicable to the true Preserver or Saviour of mankind . Another significant symbol of these two events
was combined in the Egg enveloped within the folds of a monstrous serpent or agathodemon , which was suspended in the temple of Hercules at Tyre . In Persia , the symbol used to express the mysterious contention of Ormisda and Ahriman for the newly created world , was , two serpents struggling for the possession of an Egg . In the Dionysiaca celebrated in Greece , the creation was symbolized by the
same emblem . The Grecian poets and philosophers , who affected to doubt of every thing which appeared destitute of proof , did not attempt to form any other system , but contentedly followed the received traditions of mythological antiquity . Thales , the great father of philosophic reason , asserted , as the result water acted
of all his researches and speculations , that " on by mind { vovs ) or the spirit of the world , was the origin and first principle of all things ; " which approximates to the proposition of Moses—the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters . His immediate successor , or perhaps contemporary , Anaximander , deduced matter from Chaos ; and his
Archelaus , the pupil of Anaxagoras , maintained in Lodges , that Chaos was resolved into order ancl regularity by the joint operation of fire and water . The Chaos of Hesiod was substantially the same ; and that of the Romans is described in the first book of the Metamorphoses ; where it is stated that the seeds of every thing were promiscuously blended , and in perpetual discord , till they were arranged into order by the divine mind .
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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times,
replete with unaffected sublimity . " These beings then were not , the Eternal One willed , and they were . " In Japan , the Egg was represented as floating on the waters of Chaos , and being broken by the tauric deity , the heavens and the earth were created . In like manner the Chinese speak of the creation of the first man ; who derived
his being from an Egg , the shell whereof was snatched up to heaven ; the white expanded through the air ; and the yolk remained upon the earth . The Egyptian deity Cneph embodied a reference to the Creation and the Fall in a
single emblem . He was represented as a hawk-headed serpent in the act of ejecting from his mouth the primeval Egg ; and Bishop Cumberland derives his name from an Arabian word which signifies to preserve ; and intimates that it is peculiarly applicable to the true Preserver or Saviour of mankind . Another significant symbol of these two events
was combined in the Egg enveloped within the folds of a monstrous serpent or agathodemon , which was suspended in the temple of Hercules at Tyre . In Persia , the symbol used to express the mysterious contention of Ormisda and Ahriman for the newly created world , was , two serpents struggling for the possession of an Egg . In the Dionysiaca celebrated in Greece , the creation was symbolized by the
same emblem . The Grecian poets and philosophers , who affected to doubt of every thing which appeared destitute of proof , did not attempt to form any other system , but contentedly followed the received traditions of mythological antiquity . Thales , the great father of philosophic reason , asserted , as the result water acted
of all his researches and speculations , that " on by mind { vovs ) or the spirit of the world , was the origin and first principle of all things ; " which approximates to the proposition of Moses—the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters . His immediate successor , or perhaps contemporary , Anaximander , deduced matter from Chaos ; and his
Archelaus , the pupil of Anaxagoras , maintained in Lodges , that Chaos was resolved into order ancl regularity by the joint operation of fire and water . The Chaos of Hesiod was substantially the same ; and that of the Romans is described in the first book of the Metamorphoses ; where it is stated that the seeds of every thing were promiscuously blended , and in perpetual discord , till they were arranged into order by the divine mind .