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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
a superior Deity , and paid their devotions to the inventors of those arts which contributed to their comforts , and pampered their lusts and passions . And when , in consequence of thenphysical and scientific superiority , " the sons of God , " or the posterity of holy Seth , became first admirers of their performances , and afterwards fascinated with the beauty of their this luxurious
women , dynasty of warriors and artizans soon succeeded in withdrawing them from their allegiance to the God of their pious forefathers . Forsaking their simple mode of life and purity of religion—about the time when the patriarchal restraints of virtue were withdrawn by the death of Adamwhom they held in great respect as a kingpriest
, , a , and a prophet , for the more attractive inducements of riotous hying , and the pompous worship of idols—they formed matrimonial alliances , and united their interests , temporal and spiritual , with " the daughters of men , " many of whom , if we may believe the Phcenician Cosmogony of Sanchoniatho , lived in a state of prostitutionandtherefore do
open ; , , we not wonder at the precaution of Enoch to secure the sacred talisman of his famil y , that it might not be perverted to profane or superstitious uses ; for he had been taught to regard it with reverence as the sole remaining vestige of a happier state , which Adam was permitted to retain on his expulsion from the garden of Eden ,
I he next point of time at which this stone appears before us , was a short period anterior to that universal deluge of water that destroyed the sons of God along with the daughters of men in one fearful judgment . The Ark was nearly completed—the admonitions of the patriarch were disregarded—he was held in derision , and made a proverb of his desi
reproach— gn was accounted madness or imbecility —when ( so runs the legend ) it pleased God to put him in possession of the Stone of Foundation , which had been many years hidden in the bowels of the earth . Enoch is said to have built two pillars on Mount Moriah containing inscriptions to the effect that a treasure of oreat value concealed them
was near , which wisdom alone would be able to discover . These pillars had frequently attracted the attention of Noah ; and , as might naturally be expected , he had pondered over the inscriptions with much care , until at length , being directed by a divine impulse , he determined to explore the adjacent eminence of Calvary , because the shadows of Enoch ' s pillars , at the rising of the sun , pointed to that mountain , in the hope that something of importance
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
a superior Deity , and paid their devotions to the inventors of those arts which contributed to their comforts , and pampered their lusts and passions . And when , in consequence of thenphysical and scientific superiority , " the sons of God , " or the posterity of holy Seth , became first admirers of their performances , and afterwards fascinated with the beauty of their this luxurious
women , dynasty of warriors and artizans soon succeeded in withdrawing them from their allegiance to the God of their pious forefathers . Forsaking their simple mode of life and purity of religion—about the time when the patriarchal restraints of virtue were withdrawn by the death of Adamwhom they held in great respect as a kingpriest
, , a , and a prophet , for the more attractive inducements of riotous hying , and the pompous worship of idols—they formed matrimonial alliances , and united their interests , temporal and spiritual , with " the daughters of men , " many of whom , if we may believe the Phcenician Cosmogony of Sanchoniatho , lived in a state of prostitutionandtherefore do
open ; , , we not wonder at the precaution of Enoch to secure the sacred talisman of his famil y , that it might not be perverted to profane or superstitious uses ; for he had been taught to regard it with reverence as the sole remaining vestige of a happier state , which Adam was permitted to retain on his expulsion from the garden of Eden ,
I he next point of time at which this stone appears before us , was a short period anterior to that universal deluge of water that destroyed the sons of God along with the daughters of men in one fearful judgment . The Ark was nearly completed—the admonitions of the patriarch were disregarded—he was held in derision , and made a proverb of his desi
reproach— gn was accounted madness or imbecility —when ( so runs the legend ) it pleased God to put him in possession of the Stone of Foundation , which had been many years hidden in the bowels of the earth . Enoch is said to have built two pillars on Mount Moriah containing inscriptions to the effect that a treasure of oreat value concealed them
was near , which wisdom alone would be able to discover . These pillars had frequently attracted the attention of Noah ; and , as might naturally be expected , he had pondered over the inscriptions with much care , until at length , being directed by a divine impulse , he determined to explore the adjacent eminence of Calvary , because the shadows of Enoch ' s pillars , at the rising of the sun , pointed to that mountain , in the hope that something of importance