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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Accordingly we find , that in almost all the idolatrous nations , the first visible objects of worship were rough stones erect . " Several of the idols of the old Arabs , " says Sale , in his Preliminary Discourse to the Koran , " were no more than large rude stones , the worship of which the posterity of
Islunap ] first introduced . These stones they at first only compassed out of devotion ; but at last it ended in rank idolatry ; the Ishmaelites , forgetting the religion left them by their father , so far as to pay divine worship to any stone they met with . " The symbol of Mahadeva was a conical stone ; and Captain Hamilton describes one of the idols in the Indian
temple of Jagan-nath as being " a huge black stone , of a pyramidal form ; " or , in other words , a stone pillar . These pyramidal stones had always a reference to the sun , or fire , which ascends in a pyramidal shape ;* and hence we find the conical pillar in so many parts of the ancient world . This was the oriinal of the pyramids of Egypt and
g Mexico , and the pagodas of the east . The Greeks fabled , that when Saturn was about to devour his son , Rhea gave him instead thereof a stone , called Betylus . BairvXos , ovras ( KaXeiTo 6 Sodas \ 180 s TCO Kpova avn Aws . In the Ayeen Akbery mention is made of an ancient temple , with the deity placed at its principal front , being an
octagonal pillar , fifty feet high , and pointed at the top like the pyramidal flame . In Britain the same custom prevailed , as is evident from the temples of Abury , Stonehenge , and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Accordingly we find , that in almost all the idolatrous nations , the first visible objects of worship were rough stones erect . " Several of the idols of the old Arabs , " says Sale , in his Preliminary Discourse to the Koran , " were no more than large rude stones , the worship of which the posterity of
Islunap ] first introduced . These stones they at first only compassed out of devotion ; but at last it ended in rank idolatry ; the Ishmaelites , forgetting the religion left them by their father , so far as to pay divine worship to any stone they met with . " The symbol of Mahadeva was a conical stone ; and Captain Hamilton describes one of the idols in the Indian
temple of Jagan-nath as being " a huge black stone , of a pyramidal form ; " or , in other words , a stone pillar . These pyramidal stones had always a reference to the sun , or fire , which ascends in a pyramidal shape ;* and hence we find the conical pillar in so many parts of the ancient world . This was the oriinal of the pyramids of Egypt and
g Mexico , and the pagodas of the east . The Greeks fabled , that when Saturn was about to devour his son , Rhea gave him instead thereof a stone , called Betylus . BairvXos , ovras ( KaXeiTo 6 Sodas \ 180 s TCO Kpova avn Aws . In the Ayeen Akbery mention is made of an ancient temple , with the deity placed at its principal front , being an
octagonal pillar , fifty feet high , and pointed at the top like the pyramidal flame . In Britain the same custom prevailed , as is evident from the temples of Abury , Stonehenge , and