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Remarks On Henry O'Brien's Essay On The Round Towers Of Ireland.
though he had dominion , over all things , yet he was not their Lord , but himself a servant of the Most High ( Bishop Patrick ' s Commentary ) ; and that it was admirably suited to the state of man in Paradise , where it would have been needless to have forbidden adultery , murder , theft , or coveting , when there were only Adam and his wife , and they gifted with dominion over all . On the other hand , the mystical interpretation given by Mr . O'Brien , unless I mistake his meaning , would amount to a
virtual revocation of the blessing , " be fruitful and multiply ; " and in pursuit of his theory on this subject , in saying ( p . 231 ) that " the Scriptures do not tell us that Adam and Eve , as individuals , had any daughters" he has overlooked a passage , Gen . v . 4 , which tells us expressly that they had ; while the very name of Eve , " the mother of all living , " is opposed to his assumptions , that " the consorts of the two brothers must have sprung from other parents" and that " in the paridisaical
, state , before sin entered into the world , the earth was crowded with population . " I can see no reason why , because the framers of the monstrous mythology of the Hindus , in the desire of hiding the truth from the people under mysterious guises , have allegorized this and other truths of revelation into obscenity , by the introduction of the Lingam and Yoni , & c . into their representationswe should reject the plain meaning of the
, Word of God in favour of such interpretations . Into the mazes of that monstrous mythology I myself wandered many years ago , until my brain was bewildered with its contradictions , and my heart was disgusted with its absurdities and impurities ; and I rejoiced to return to the contemplation of a system which the mind can understand and the soul
appreciate , as displayed in the Word of God ; nor can I see any reason for seeking the interpretation of that word in the darkness of allegory and the uncertainties of " verbal phantasmagoria !' This fondness for allegorizing the sense of Scripture leads Mr . O'Brien afterwards , p . 267 , & c , into a more serious error , and one in which our Order is more deeply concerned , relating to the deluge . Let any unprejudiced person read the plain , straight-forward , and circumstantial account of that event in the sixth and . three following chapters
of Genesis , in which God is represented expressly as " bringing a , flood of waters upon the earth , " and then for a moment admit the idea of this account being only a mystical way of relating the devastation produced by a sea of blood poured out in the contest between the worshippers of Lmgam and Yoni ! Far from me , and from the Freemasonry which I cherish , be such a Neological interpretation of this momentous event . ' In support of the literal interpretation of the history , we may appeal
to the traditions of the deluge which have existed in every age and country , which receive further confirmation from the wonderful discoveries of the science of geology . But , as a Freemason , I appeal to the fact , that in every nation in which religious mysteries were observed ( these mysteries being all only spurious and idolatrous off-sets from true and pure Lux ) , the ark of Noah , and the entombment of the Great Father in itwere the subjects of the deepest veneration . This fact has
, heen distinctly proved by Bryant , who . if not actually a Freemason , has left in his Analysis ( among much fanciful theory ) a great store of valuable information to the inquisitive Mason ; and by Dr . Oliver , whose profound knowledge of our science will be disputed by none . The name of Thebe or Thebte , alluded to by Mr . O'Brien , p . 278 , was derived from the circumstance , that in the cities so distinguished , the mysteries
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Remarks On Henry O'Brien's Essay On The Round Towers Of Ireland.
though he had dominion , over all things , yet he was not their Lord , but himself a servant of the Most High ( Bishop Patrick ' s Commentary ) ; and that it was admirably suited to the state of man in Paradise , where it would have been needless to have forbidden adultery , murder , theft , or coveting , when there were only Adam and his wife , and they gifted with dominion over all . On the other hand , the mystical interpretation given by Mr . O'Brien , unless I mistake his meaning , would amount to a
virtual revocation of the blessing , " be fruitful and multiply ; " and in pursuit of his theory on this subject , in saying ( p . 231 ) that " the Scriptures do not tell us that Adam and Eve , as individuals , had any daughters" he has overlooked a passage , Gen . v . 4 , which tells us expressly that they had ; while the very name of Eve , " the mother of all living , " is opposed to his assumptions , that " the consorts of the two brothers must have sprung from other parents" and that " in the paridisaical
, state , before sin entered into the world , the earth was crowded with population . " I can see no reason why , because the framers of the monstrous mythology of the Hindus , in the desire of hiding the truth from the people under mysterious guises , have allegorized this and other truths of revelation into obscenity , by the introduction of the Lingam and Yoni , & c . into their representationswe should reject the plain meaning of the
, Word of God in favour of such interpretations . Into the mazes of that monstrous mythology I myself wandered many years ago , until my brain was bewildered with its contradictions , and my heart was disgusted with its absurdities and impurities ; and I rejoiced to return to the contemplation of a system which the mind can understand and the soul
appreciate , as displayed in the Word of God ; nor can I see any reason for seeking the interpretation of that word in the darkness of allegory and the uncertainties of " verbal phantasmagoria !' This fondness for allegorizing the sense of Scripture leads Mr . O'Brien afterwards , p . 267 , & c , into a more serious error , and one in which our Order is more deeply concerned , relating to the deluge . Let any unprejudiced person read the plain , straight-forward , and circumstantial account of that event in the sixth and . three following chapters
of Genesis , in which God is represented expressly as " bringing a , flood of waters upon the earth , " and then for a moment admit the idea of this account being only a mystical way of relating the devastation produced by a sea of blood poured out in the contest between the worshippers of Lmgam and Yoni ! Far from me , and from the Freemasonry which I cherish , be such a Neological interpretation of this momentous event . ' In support of the literal interpretation of the history , we may appeal
to the traditions of the deluge which have existed in every age and country , which receive further confirmation from the wonderful discoveries of the science of geology . But , as a Freemason , I appeal to the fact , that in every nation in which religious mysteries were observed ( these mysteries being all only spurious and idolatrous off-sets from true and pure Lux ) , the ark of Noah , and the entombment of the Great Father in itwere the subjects of the deepest veneration . This fact has
, heen distinctly proved by Bryant , who . if not actually a Freemason , has left in his Analysis ( among much fanciful theory ) a great store of valuable information to the inquisitive Mason ; and by Dr . Oliver , whose profound knowledge of our science will be disputed by none . The name of Thebe or Thebte , alluded to by Mr . O'Brien , p . 278 , was derived from the circumstance , that in the cities so distinguished , the mysteries