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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
festations for ages amongst his favourite people , even after a great majority of the human race had fallen away from him . Can it then be believed that so much valuable information would be communicated , and the most important fact—a knowledge of his holy name , be withheld—a species of knowledge without which all other privileges would be valueless ,
and every act of worship unacceptable ? This is altogether improbable ; and it woulcl not be difficult to prove that his holy name was actually revealed in the first ages of the world , and that it was never lost , even amongst those unfortunate people who had renounced their allegiance to him , and forsaken his worship ; for the scripture distinctly states , in so many words , that men called on the name of Jehovah . *
And the idolatrous world afterwards retained the NAME of Jehovah or Jove , Jaho , Jaoth , Jave , & c , after all knowledge of the Divine Being himself had become obscured . And it has been conjectured that the Io Pean of the Greeks was , although they were blind to its true signification , an invocation to Jehovah to have a favourable regard to the petitioners .
I pass over numerous other evidences to the same effect , as being unconnected with the main subject of this paper ; but it may be useful to add a few words respecting Abraham , because he became possessed of the Stone of Foundation , as we have seen , and it would have been entirely useless if he had been ignorant of the mystical word by which it was consecrated .
At the first mention of Abraham in the Jewish scriptures , we find him selected by Jehovah from the rest of mankind as the individual through whom the promise of the Messiah was to pass , f in consequence of which calling and election , he built an altar of earth to God , and called it by the name of JEHOVAH . % Nay , further , when he came up out of Egypt , and called
he pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai , on the name of Jehovah . § And the Deity himself said , 1 AM JEHOVAH that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees . || And Abraham replied with the very name—EHOVA , whereby shall I know this ? ^ f . Nay , even his servant could say—Blessed be Jehovahthe God of my master Abraham . **
, The same forms of expression are frequently used in the histories of Isaac and Jacob . The point being thus summarily disposed of , we may return to our account of the Stone of Foundation .
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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
festations for ages amongst his favourite people , even after a great majority of the human race had fallen away from him . Can it then be believed that so much valuable information would be communicated , and the most important fact—a knowledge of his holy name , be withheld—a species of knowledge without which all other privileges would be valueless ,
and every act of worship unacceptable ? This is altogether improbable ; and it woulcl not be difficult to prove that his holy name was actually revealed in the first ages of the world , and that it was never lost , even amongst those unfortunate people who had renounced their allegiance to him , and forsaken his worship ; for the scripture distinctly states , in so many words , that men called on the name of Jehovah . *
And the idolatrous world afterwards retained the NAME of Jehovah or Jove , Jaho , Jaoth , Jave , & c , after all knowledge of the Divine Being himself had become obscured . And it has been conjectured that the Io Pean of the Greeks was , although they were blind to its true signification , an invocation to Jehovah to have a favourable regard to the petitioners .
I pass over numerous other evidences to the same effect , as being unconnected with the main subject of this paper ; but it may be useful to add a few words respecting Abraham , because he became possessed of the Stone of Foundation , as we have seen , and it would have been entirely useless if he had been ignorant of the mystical word by which it was consecrated .
At the first mention of Abraham in the Jewish scriptures , we find him selected by Jehovah from the rest of mankind as the individual through whom the promise of the Messiah was to pass , f in consequence of which calling and election , he built an altar of earth to God , and called it by the name of JEHOVAH . % Nay , further , when he came up out of Egypt , and called
he pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai , on the name of Jehovah . § And the Deity himself said , 1 AM JEHOVAH that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees . || And Abraham replied with the very name—EHOVA , whereby shall I know this ? ^ f . Nay , even his servant could say—Blessed be Jehovahthe God of my master Abraham . **
, The same forms of expression are frequently used in the histories of Isaac and Jacob . The point being thus summarily disposed of , we may return to our account of the Stone of Foundation .