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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
but the house of God , and the gate of heaven . " And when daylight appeared , he arose , and set up the Stone for a pillar , and poured oil upon it , and changed the name of the place to Bethel , or the House of God . Should the difficulty of bearing about the Stone of Foundationand of finding oil in this solitary lacebe offered
, p , as an objection to the above account , it may be observed , that it was a custom in the time of Jacob , for such travellers as were piously inclined , to provide themselves , before they set out upon a journey , with those things which might enable thern ^ to worship Jehovah in a proper manner . And the sacrifice of libation being the most easilperformedthey
y , always carried about with them a certain quantity of oil , in order to pour it out before the Lord , ancl to offer it to him , either as an acknowled gment of his protection , or to propitiate his favour , that he mi ght confer a blessing on their journey .
This stone , then , being considered as a talisman of protection from danger , was invaluable in such a long journey , through countries infested with wild beasts , and half civilized inhabitants . The people of those early ages were superstitiously addicted to the use of talismans . They were laid in the foundations of such edifices as were under the of the
protection being to whom they were consecrated . Sometimes they were placed at the summit of towers and pyramids , or lodged in a secret place within temples or private residences . They were frequentl y carried about the person ; and in all cases a superstitious reliance was placed upon them . The Scriptures relate that the offered
Jews incense to the brazen serpent of Moses , until the reign of Hezekiah , who caused it to be destroyed . The palladium of the Trojans was a talisman of this kind ; and there were few cities but had anciently some such peculiarity on which their fate was supposed to depend .
_ 1 « rom the pillar erected by Jacob on the above occasion , it is supposed that the eastern nations , and particularly Egypt , took the hint for their divinities , composed of the same material ; arguing , very naturally , that if the place where this pillar was erected had been pronounced by the patriarch to be the house of Godthe illar itself must
, p necessarily be the deity . This shows how eagerly those who hael renounced the true faith , seized upon , and perverted to then- own purposes , the religious observances of the holy patriarchs .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
but the house of God , and the gate of heaven . " And when daylight appeared , he arose , and set up the Stone for a pillar , and poured oil upon it , and changed the name of the place to Bethel , or the House of God . Should the difficulty of bearing about the Stone of Foundationand of finding oil in this solitary lacebe offered
, p , as an objection to the above account , it may be observed , that it was a custom in the time of Jacob , for such travellers as were piously inclined , to provide themselves , before they set out upon a journey , with those things which might enable thern ^ to worship Jehovah in a proper manner . And the sacrifice of libation being the most easilperformedthey
y , always carried about with them a certain quantity of oil , in order to pour it out before the Lord , ancl to offer it to him , either as an acknowled gment of his protection , or to propitiate his favour , that he mi ght confer a blessing on their journey .
This stone , then , being considered as a talisman of protection from danger , was invaluable in such a long journey , through countries infested with wild beasts , and half civilized inhabitants . The people of those early ages were superstitiously addicted to the use of talismans . They were laid in the foundations of such edifices as were under the of the
protection being to whom they were consecrated . Sometimes they were placed at the summit of towers and pyramids , or lodged in a secret place within temples or private residences . They were frequentl y carried about the person ; and in all cases a superstitious reliance was placed upon them . The Scriptures relate that the offered
Jews incense to the brazen serpent of Moses , until the reign of Hezekiah , who caused it to be destroyed . The palladium of the Trojans was a talisman of this kind ; and there were few cities but had anciently some such peculiarity on which their fate was supposed to depend .
_ 1 « rom the pillar erected by Jacob on the above occasion , it is supposed that the eastern nations , and particularly Egypt , took the hint for their divinities , composed of the same material ; arguing , very naturally , that if the place where this pillar was erected had been pronounced by the patriarch to be the house of Godthe illar itself must
, p necessarily be the deity . This shows how eagerly those who hael renounced the true faith , seized upon , and perverted to then- own purposes , the religious observances of the holy patriarchs .