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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
( heir parents , or that submission and homage which loyal subjects pay to those whom heaven has set over them . These tutelary divinities were lodged in different parts of the house , but were generally set in little niches near the hearth , that being the p lace where the whole family most frequently met together .
We must , however , proceed with our tradition . Being liberated by the effect of this supernatural event , Abraham fled from his country and his father ' s house , ancl after wandering for a considerable time in Armenia , he finally settled in Mesopotamia , by the divine command . On his journey he made a pilgrimage to Mount Ararat ; for his pious
feelings , as well as his curiosity , led him to visit the remains of the Ark of Noah , which still existed on the summit of the mountain . After inspecting the ruins of that remarkable vessel , Abraham was particularly struck with the appearance of our Stone of Foundation , and the mysterious characters engraven thereon . He at once resolved to take it with him to Haran , where he intended to set up his tent ; and he is said to have used it as the basis of several altars for sacrifice .
On these occasions it pleased the Lorcl to make sundry revelations to this holy patriarch , not only at Haran , but at Sichem , in the plain of Moreh , and between Bethel and Hai . It appears probable that he left the stone in the latter place , underneath an altar of earth , when he went down into Egypt on account of the famine ; because , when he returned into
the land of Canaan , his first object was to seek out this altar , ancl having found it , he sojourned there . Afterwards , Abraham removed to the plain of Mamre , in Hebron , with this stone in his possession , where it again constituted the foundation of an altar for sacrifice ; and here it was that the Lord covenanted with Abraham to give his posterity the land of
Canaan , and make them a great and mighty nation , while as yet he had no child . It is possible that an objection may here be urged against the presumed fact that Abraham and his predecessors , the proprietors of this mysterious stone , were acquainted with the NAME which tradition assures us was inscribed upon it
, arising from a certain passage in scripture which asserts that God was not known to Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , by the name of JEHOVAH ; * and it may bo considered to follow as a necessary consequence , that if Moses himself was not previously acquainted with it , neither could the patriarchs of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
( heir parents , or that submission and homage which loyal subjects pay to those whom heaven has set over them . These tutelary divinities were lodged in different parts of the house , but were generally set in little niches near the hearth , that being the p lace where the whole family most frequently met together .
We must , however , proceed with our tradition . Being liberated by the effect of this supernatural event , Abraham fled from his country and his father ' s house , ancl after wandering for a considerable time in Armenia , he finally settled in Mesopotamia , by the divine command . On his journey he made a pilgrimage to Mount Ararat ; for his pious
feelings , as well as his curiosity , led him to visit the remains of the Ark of Noah , which still existed on the summit of the mountain . After inspecting the ruins of that remarkable vessel , Abraham was particularly struck with the appearance of our Stone of Foundation , and the mysterious characters engraven thereon . He at once resolved to take it with him to Haran , where he intended to set up his tent ; and he is said to have used it as the basis of several altars for sacrifice .
On these occasions it pleased the Lorcl to make sundry revelations to this holy patriarch , not only at Haran , but at Sichem , in the plain of Moreh , and between Bethel and Hai . It appears probable that he left the stone in the latter place , underneath an altar of earth , when he went down into Egypt on account of the famine ; because , when he returned into
the land of Canaan , his first object was to seek out this altar , ancl having found it , he sojourned there . Afterwards , Abraham removed to the plain of Mamre , in Hebron , with this stone in his possession , where it again constituted the foundation of an altar for sacrifice ; and here it was that the Lord covenanted with Abraham to give his posterity the land of
Canaan , and make them a great and mighty nation , while as yet he had no child . It is possible that an objection may here be urged against the presumed fact that Abraham and his predecessors , the proprietors of this mysterious stone , were acquainted with the NAME which tradition assures us was inscribed upon it
, arising from a certain passage in scripture which asserts that God was not known to Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , by the name of JEHOVAH ; * and it may bo considered to follow as a necessary consequence , that if Moses himself was not previously acquainted with it , neither could the patriarchs of the