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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
tain of Calvary to that of Ararat , he considered his duty to have extended no further , but left it in the neighbourhood of those countries where the true religion was destined to flourish , when the rest of the world should have apostatized from the faith , and given themselves up to the fascinations of a spurious system of worship ; and it accordingly remained
on Mount Ararat unmolested till the time of Abraham . The reason why Noah , who , it may be presumed , was acquainted with its virtues , left it in this unprotected situation , in the neighbourhood of the Ark , which it is reasonable to suppose would be the object of repeated visits with his posterityis not stated . He certainly did not remain on the
, plains of Shinar till his death ; but having made the division of the earth , and settled it on his posterity , he travelled eastward , probably into China ; and we hear no more of him after this event . And hence the Jews , in the formation of their traditions , suffered him to depart without the Stone of Foundation , lest , in the uncertainty of their knowledge
respecting Noah ' s location , there should have been any improbability in the account of its transmission through the patriarchs to Moses and David . If Noah had taken it with him they knew not whither , the account of its restoration would have been attended with insuperable difficulties , which they would scarcely have been able to surmount .
Here , then , it is supposed to have remained during those eventful transactions on the plains of Shinar which disgusted Noah , and drove him from their society to found the empires of China and India , —which confounded the universal language of mankind , and split it into dialects , —and which expelled the multitudes who crowded these extensive plains , in
separate companies , according to the several tongues which were now imparted to them , to people the distant regions of the globe . Each leader of a tribe , being settled in a chosen spot , founded his system of religion , laws , and jurisprudence , on a plan similar to that in general use before mankind were separated ; and hence the similarity of religious worship , its mysteries , and all the usages thereto attached , which are found to exist in every part of the habitable globe .
When the Father of the Faithful renounced the idolatrous superstitions in which he had been educated by the Zabii , or Chaldeans of Mesopotamia—for his father Terah was a statuary , and manufacturer of idols , not merely of wood and stone , but also household gods of small size in copper and brass , by casting in a mould , and called Teraphhn , and consequently had a personal interest in upholding the prevailing
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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
tain of Calvary to that of Ararat , he considered his duty to have extended no further , but left it in the neighbourhood of those countries where the true religion was destined to flourish , when the rest of the world should have apostatized from the faith , and given themselves up to the fascinations of a spurious system of worship ; and it accordingly remained
on Mount Ararat unmolested till the time of Abraham . The reason why Noah , who , it may be presumed , was acquainted with its virtues , left it in this unprotected situation , in the neighbourhood of the Ark , which it is reasonable to suppose would be the object of repeated visits with his posterityis not stated . He certainly did not remain on the
, plains of Shinar till his death ; but having made the division of the earth , and settled it on his posterity , he travelled eastward , probably into China ; and we hear no more of him after this event . And hence the Jews , in the formation of their traditions , suffered him to depart without the Stone of Foundation , lest , in the uncertainty of their knowledge
respecting Noah ' s location , there should have been any improbability in the account of its transmission through the patriarchs to Moses and David . If Noah had taken it with him they knew not whither , the account of its restoration would have been attended with insuperable difficulties , which they would scarcely have been able to surmount .
Here , then , it is supposed to have remained during those eventful transactions on the plains of Shinar which disgusted Noah , and drove him from their society to found the empires of China and India , —which confounded the universal language of mankind , and split it into dialects , —and which expelled the multitudes who crowded these extensive plains , in
separate companies , according to the several tongues which were now imparted to them , to people the distant regions of the globe . Each leader of a tribe , being settled in a chosen spot , founded his system of religion , laws , and jurisprudence , on a plan similar to that in general use before mankind were separated ; and hence the similarity of religious worship , its mysteries , and all the usages thereto attached , which are found to exist in every part of the habitable globe .
When the Father of the Faithful renounced the idolatrous superstitions in which he had been educated by the Zabii , or Chaldeans of Mesopotamia—for his father Terah was a statuary , and manufacturer of idols , not merely of wood and stone , but also household gods of small size in copper and brass , by casting in a mould , and called Teraphhn , and consequently had a personal interest in upholding the prevailing