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Article ORIGINAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY FREEMASONRY. ← Page 2 of 9 →
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Original And Supplementary Freemasonry.
amongst his many names are those of Triplex and Tricephalos , and he was said to have been produced from an egg , which floated on the surface of the primaeval abyss . Sometimes he is represented seated on a cray fish , and sometimes with his foot upon a tortoise . Occasionally he represents the God Priapus , the Mendes ofthe Egyptian , the Siva of the Hindoo Pantheon ; and , under the form of Anubis , vvas considered to be hermaphrodite . He is reported to have been the first who planted the olive
, and cultivated the vine , the first who brought to light the arts and sciences , who invented the letters of the alphabet , built temples to the worship of the gods , and framed just laws for the government of mankind . All these circumstances , and many more might be adduced , plainly identify Taauth , or Hermes , with that celebrated personage , who , under a multitude of names , as Osiris , Bacchus , Hu , & c , represented the second father , and regenerator of the world , the ark inhabitant , twiceborn
- patriarch , Noah ; and as the Cabiri have all the characters of arkite deities , and are in the confused mythology of the ancients always intimately connected with Taaut , they must be considered either as forms of the patriarch himself , or as his immediate descendants , whom , from the Hebrew histories , we recognise as Shem , Ham , and Japhet . The Cabiri , then , or as they have been promiscuously called , Dioscuri , Corybantes & creceived from the mouth of their great father himself
, ., , those lessons of wisdom and traditionary lore , which they afterwards dispersed over the world , by means of the rites which were called after their name , the Cabiric Mysteries ; the origin and source of all other Mysteries of the ancient world , and amongst them , of Freemasonry . This view of the Cabiri and their Mysteries , gives quite a different colour to their
proceedings , and rationally accounts for those peculiar doctrines which they are known to have taught , and are equally known to have derived from the patriarch Noah ; and relieves us from the necessity of accepting the invention of the marriage of Shem with one of the daughters of the children of Ham ; a story for which , as I have before observed , there is no historical foundation . It is upon the circumstance men - tioned by Sanchoniatho , that the eighth Cabirus , or Esculapius , was the son of Sdthe Justbone of the Titanidsethat the learnedbut
yyc , y , , extravagant . Bishop Cumberland , ( conceiving Sydyc to represent Shem ) , built his opinion . But when we learn that the good Bishop discovered in the mythological personages mentioned in this same history , not only Noah , Shem , Ham , and Japhet , but Cain , Abraham , Esau , and Gideon , we shall know what amount of credit is due to his conjectures . The Mysteries , therefore , instead of having been " instituted on the lan of Alasonrywith the desiof making our science
subp , express gn servient to the very worst and most degrading practices of idolatry , " * and for the purpose of procuring the deification of Thoth and the Cabiri , appear to have been in the first instance , a direct emanation from the patriarch Noah , and to have comprised all those religious doctrines , forms of divine worship , rules for the regulation of society , and of individual conduct , and the elements of the arts and sciences , handed down from the antediluvian patriarchs to the just man NoahThat the
. purity of these doctrines should have quickly become sullied , and the Mysteries themselves , originally designed to exercise the most beneficial influence over the mind of man , should have early degenerated from their pristine excellence , and become loaded with superstitious notions and idolatrous ceremonies , the product of unbridled imagination , of mis-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Original And Supplementary Freemasonry.
amongst his many names are those of Triplex and Tricephalos , and he was said to have been produced from an egg , which floated on the surface of the primaeval abyss . Sometimes he is represented seated on a cray fish , and sometimes with his foot upon a tortoise . Occasionally he represents the God Priapus , the Mendes ofthe Egyptian , the Siva of the Hindoo Pantheon ; and , under the form of Anubis , vvas considered to be hermaphrodite . He is reported to have been the first who planted the olive
, and cultivated the vine , the first who brought to light the arts and sciences , who invented the letters of the alphabet , built temples to the worship of the gods , and framed just laws for the government of mankind . All these circumstances , and many more might be adduced , plainly identify Taauth , or Hermes , with that celebrated personage , who , under a multitude of names , as Osiris , Bacchus , Hu , & c , represented the second father , and regenerator of the world , the ark inhabitant , twiceborn
- patriarch , Noah ; and as the Cabiri have all the characters of arkite deities , and are in the confused mythology of the ancients always intimately connected with Taaut , they must be considered either as forms of the patriarch himself , or as his immediate descendants , whom , from the Hebrew histories , we recognise as Shem , Ham , and Japhet . The Cabiri , then , or as they have been promiscuously called , Dioscuri , Corybantes & creceived from the mouth of their great father himself
, ., , those lessons of wisdom and traditionary lore , which they afterwards dispersed over the world , by means of the rites which were called after their name , the Cabiric Mysteries ; the origin and source of all other Mysteries of the ancient world , and amongst them , of Freemasonry . This view of the Cabiri and their Mysteries , gives quite a different colour to their
proceedings , and rationally accounts for those peculiar doctrines which they are known to have taught , and are equally known to have derived from the patriarch Noah ; and relieves us from the necessity of accepting the invention of the marriage of Shem with one of the daughters of the children of Ham ; a story for which , as I have before observed , there is no historical foundation . It is upon the circumstance men - tioned by Sanchoniatho , that the eighth Cabirus , or Esculapius , was the son of Sdthe Justbone of the Titanidsethat the learnedbut
yyc , y , , extravagant . Bishop Cumberland , ( conceiving Sydyc to represent Shem ) , built his opinion . But when we learn that the good Bishop discovered in the mythological personages mentioned in this same history , not only Noah , Shem , Ham , and Japhet , but Cain , Abraham , Esau , and Gideon , we shall know what amount of credit is due to his conjectures . The Mysteries , therefore , instead of having been " instituted on the lan of Alasonrywith the desiof making our science
subp , express gn servient to the very worst and most degrading practices of idolatry , " * and for the purpose of procuring the deification of Thoth and the Cabiri , appear to have been in the first instance , a direct emanation from the patriarch Noah , and to have comprised all those religious doctrines , forms of divine worship , rules for the regulation of society , and of individual conduct , and the elements of the arts and sciences , handed down from the antediluvian patriarchs to the just man NoahThat the
. purity of these doctrines should have quickly become sullied , and the Mysteries themselves , originally designed to exercise the most beneficial influence over the mind of man , should have early degenerated from their pristine excellence , and become loaded with superstitious notions and idolatrous ceremonies , the product of unbridled imagination , of mis-