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On Freemasonry.
peculiar instance of the divine favour was manifested . That stupendous mystery concealed before the flood hy the icisdom and piety of Enoch , preserved amid the strife of waters , the tvreck of a drowned world , and the revolution of ayes , ivas revealed to the builders of the second Temple , once more the ineffablecharacters icere unveiledand the lost secret found
_ , . As this important event will come more seriously und ' er our observation when treating of lloyal Arch Masonry , we shall for the present dismiss it from our pages . In siftin" - the ashes of the past in search of the lost gems of truth , it is singular to find so many evidences not only of the high antiquity of Orderbut of its
our , universality . Freemasonry is the clue by which the mystic labyrinth of time can alone be traced ; for reasons evident to the Mason , it will be particularly proper here , to notice one of the most ancient traditions of the Arabians called the Ism Ablah , or science of the name of God ; whichalthough disfigured btheir
, y peculiar allegory and superstition , bears internal evidence of its Masonic ori gin . To enable our readers more readily to comprehend our views on the subject of this tradition , we subjoin it m the words of our authority . " Thev nretend that Gnd
is the lock of this science , and Mahomet the key , that consequently none but Mahometans can attain it , that it discovers what passes in distant countries . A merchant of Mecca who had learnt it in all its forms from Mahomet El Dsjanadsjeni , at present so famous in that city , told me that he had been saved in shipwreck by it ; he showed me at book
Bombay , a containing all sorts of figures and arithmetical tables , with instructions how to arrange them , and the appropriate prayers for every circumstance , but he would neither suffer me to touch the book or copy its title . " { Neibuhr ) . No Brother versed in the antiquities of the Craft , and the mysteries of the Ark Mariner and Royal Arch fail to
degrees , can recognize beneath the veil which Oriental superstition has wove , the generic characters of his Order . In pursuing this question of the universality of Freemasonry , similar traces may be found in the ancient mythology of the Hindoos , of Brama , the supreme deity . They have no idolthe reason assigned for it in their Veeda sacred book
; or , is as follows : — « Of him whose glory is so great , there is no image . He is the incomprehensible being who illumines all , delights all , and from whence all proceeds ; that by which they live when born , and that to which all must return . " Their description of his heaven is even more remarkable ,
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On Freemasonry.
peculiar instance of the divine favour was manifested . That stupendous mystery concealed before the flood hy the icisdom and piety of Enoch , preserved amid the strife of waters , the tvreck of a drowned world , and the revolution of ayes , ivas revealed to the builders of the second Temple , once more the ineffablecharacters icere unveiledand the lost secret found
_ , . As this important event will come more seriously und ' er our observation when treating of lloyal Arch Masonry , we shall for the present dismiss it from our pages . In siftin" - the ashes of the past in search of the lost gems of truth , it is singular to find so many evidences not only of the high antiquity of Orderbut of its
our , universality . Freemasonry is the clue by which the mystic labyrinth of time can alone be traced ; for reasons evident to the Mason , it will be particularly proper here , to notice one of the most ancient traditions of the Arabians called the Ism Ablah , or science of the name of God ; whichalthough disfigured btheir
, y peculiar allegory and superstition , bears internal evidence of its Masonic ori gin . To enable our readers more readily to comprehend our views on the subject of this tradition , we subjoin it m the words of our authority . " Thev nretend that Gnd
is the lock of this science , and Mahomet the key , that consequently none but Mahometans can attain it , that it discovers what passes in distant countries . A merchant of Mecca who had learnt it in all its forms from Mahomet El Dsjanadsjeni , at present so famous in that city , told me that he had been saved in shipwreck by it ; he showed me at book
Bombay , a containing all sorts of figures and arithmetical tables , with instructions how to arrange them , and the appropriate prayers for every circumstance , but he would neither suffer me to touch the book or copy its title . " { Neibuhr ) . No Brother versed in the antiquities of the Craft , and the mysteries of the Ark Mariner and Royal Arch fail to
degrees , can recognize beneath the veil which Oriental superstition has wove , the generic characters of his Order . In pursuing this question of the universality of Freemasonry , similar traces may be found in the ancient mythology of the Hindoos , of Brama , the supreme deity . They have no idolthe reason assigned for it in their Veeda sacred book
; or , is as follows : — « Of him whose glory is so great , there is no image . He is the incomprehensible being who illumines all , delights all , and from whence all proceeds ; that by which they live when born , and that to which all must return . " Their description of his heaven is even more remarkable ,