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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Masonic career , ancl of which we hear so little at the present day . Before , however , I proceed to take a survey of the legends connected with this Stone , it will he necessary to premise that the authorities on which the evidences rest , are exceedingly doubtful ; whence the increasing intelligence of the times in which we have the happiness to live , has condiscredit the
tributed to throw a portion of on authenticity of the facts , which it would indeed be a work of supererogation to defend . The traditions respecting it , along with many others , were collected by the Rabbi Judah , a grave and learned man , who was President of the Sanhedrim about the second century of Christianity — say 150 years after
Christ—and by him embodied in the Mishna ; whence they have been extracted by Buxtorf and others , at different periods , and put into an accessible form . These legends are stated to have been originally delivered to Moses by the Almighty , on Mount Sinai ; and handed from father to son by a succession of Rabbis in the way of oral communication to the time when the Rabbi Judah collected and committed them to writing . This is reputed to have been the order of transmission . After the death of
Moses , " Joshua delivered the said oral law to the elders who succeeded him ; and they delivered it to the prophets , and the prophets transmitted it down from each other till it came to Jeremiah , who delivered it to Baruch , and Baruch to Ezra ; by whom it was delivered to the men of the Great Synogogue , the last of whom was Simon the Just ; that by
him it was delivered to Antigonus of Socho , whence it came to Jose the son of Jochanan , who delivered it to Jose the son of Joezer ; by whom it was communicated to Nathan the Arbelite and Joshua the son of Perachiah ; by them to Judah the son of Tabbai and Simeon the son of Shatah ; by them to Shemaiah and Abtalion ; by them to Hillel and Shammai
( who were Grand Wardens to Herod at the building of his Temple ); and by them to Simeon the son of Hillel , who is supposed to have been the same that took our Saviour into his arms when he was brought to the Temple to be there presented to the Lord at the time of his mother ' s purification ; bSimeon it was delivered to Gamaliel his sonat
y , whose feet St . Paul was brought up ; by him to Simeon his son ; whence it passed through Gamaliel and another Simeon , his son and grandson , to the Rabbi Judah Hakkadosh , who wrote it into the book which they call the Mishna . " *
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Masonic career , ancl of which we hear so little at the present day . Before , however , I proceed to take a survey of the legends connected with this Stone , it will he necessary to premise that the authorities on which the evidences rest , are exceedingly doubtful ; whence the increasing intelligence of the times in which we have the happiness to live , has condiscredit the
tributed to throw a portion of on authenticity of the facts , which it would indeed be a work of supererogation to defend . The traditions respecting it , along with many others , were collected by the Rabbi Judah , a grave and learned man , who was President of the Sanhedrim about the second century of Christianity — say 150 years after
Christ—and by him embodied in the Mishna ; whence they have been extracted by Buxtorf and others , at different periods , and put into an accessible form . These legends are stated to have been originally delivered to Moses by the Almighty , on Mount Sinai ; and handed from father to son by a succession of Rabbis in the way of oral communication to the time when the Rabbi Judah collected and committed them to writing . This is reputed to have been the order of transmission . After the death of
Moses , " Joshua delivered the said oral law to the elders who succeeded him ; and they delivered it to the prophets , and the prophets transmitted it down from each other till it came to Jeremiah , who delivered it to Baruch , and Baruch to Ezra ; by whom it was delivered to the men of the Great Synogogue , the last of whom was Simon the Just ; that by
him it was delivered to Antigonus of Socho , whence it came to Jose the son of Jochanan , who delivered it to Jose the son of Joezer ; by whom it was communicated to Nathan the Arbelite and Joshua the son of Perachiah ; by them to Judah the son of Tabbai and Simeon the son of Shatah ; by them to Shemaiah and Abtalion ; by them to Hillel and Shammai
( who were Grand Wardens to Herod at the building of his Temple ); and by them to Simeon the son of Hillel , who is supposed to have been the same that took our Saviour into his arms when he was brought to the Temple to be there presented to the Lord at the time of his mother ' s purification ; bSimeon it was delivered to Gamaliel his sonat
y , whose feet St . Paul was brought up ; by him to Simeon his son ; whence it passed through Gamaliel and another Simeon , his son and grandson , to the Rabbi Judah Hakkadosh , who wrote it into the book which they call the Mishna . " *