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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
On the same holy altar he offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise at the birth of his children . And by some arrangement , for wliich our traditions do not account , it was transferred to Abel , when he arrived at man ' s estate , in preference to his brother Cain . Whether the hatred which Cain bore to his brother was
the cause of this preference , or whether this unequivocal expression of his parent ' s favour occasioned the envy and jealousy by which he was actuated , is not on record . The legend simply remarks , that on this stone Abel offered the sacrifice which received a visible token of the divine acceptanceThe Shekinah of God descended from on highand
. , the sacrifice was favourably received ; while the unbloody offering of Cain , not including any type of the covenant , was scattered to the four winds of heaven . Respecting this event , Archbishop Tenison thus expresses his opinion . " In process of time , when Cain and Abel offered to God their Eucharistical sacrificesthe Son of God appeared as the
, Shekinah , and testified his gracious acceptance of the sacrifice of Abel by some ray of flame streaming from the glorious visible presence , and reacting to it ; whilst he showed himself not pleased with the offering of Gain , by forbearing to shine on his sheaves , or to cause them to ascend , so much as in smoke towards heaven . This seemeth to be the ancient
way of answering by fire . This divine manifestation cost Abel his life , and polluted the earth with the blood of the first martyr . Cain fled from the presence of his Maker , and took refuge in the land of Nod , where he laid the foundation of Operative Architecture and Spurious Freemasonry , including symbolical knowledge
and idolatry . Remembering the glory of that Shekinah , which probably was familiar to the first inhabitants of the world , even in their fallen state , and from which , as Mr . Maurice observes , after the murder of his brother , he was driven with the fiercest denunciations of wrath , he might imagine its representative in the solar orb , the brightest and
most refulgent object in nature ; and falling prostrate before it in adoration , his imitative pencil would trace the first outline of that wonderful and multiform system of hieroglyphics , which afterwards represented the objects of Egyptian idolatry . These he would teach to his antediluvian posterity , and they would be transmitted to the inhabitants of the postdiluvian world by Ham and his descendants . Seth , the next son of Adam , was equally favoured by the VOL . VIII . J >
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
On the same holy altar he offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise at the birth of his children . And by some arrangement , for wliich our traditions do not account , it was transferred to Abel , when he arrived at man ' s estate , in preference to his brother Cain . Whether the hatred which Cain bore to his brother was
the cause of this preference , or whether this unequivocal expression of his parent ' s favour occasioned the envy and jealousy by which he was actuated , is not on record . The legend simply remarks , that on this stone Abel offered the sacrifice which received a visible token of the divine acceptanceThe Shekinah of God descended from on highand
. , the sacrifice was favourably received ; while the unbloody offering of Cain , not including any type of the covenant , was scattered to the four winds of heaven . Respecting this event , Archbishop Tenison thus expresses his opinion . " In process of time , when Cain and Abel offered to God their Eucharistical sacrificesthe Son of God appeared as the
, Shekinah , and testified his gracious acceptance of the sacrifice of Abel by some ray of flame streaming from the glorious visible presence , and reacting to it ; whilst he showed himself not pleased with the offering of Gain , by forbearing to shine on his sheaves , or to cause them to ascend , so much as in smoke towards heaven . This seemeth to be the ancient
way of answering by fire . This divine manifestation cost Abel his life , and polluted the earth with the blood of the first martyr . Cain fled from the presence of his Maker , and took refuge in the land of Nod , where he laid the foundation of Operative Architecture and Spurious Freemasonry , including symbolical knowledge
and idolatry . Remembering the glory of that Shekinah , which probably was familiar to the first inhabitants of the world , even in their fallen state , and from which , as Mr . Maurice observes , after the murder of his brother , he was driven with the fiercest denunciations of wrath , he might imagine its representative in the solar orb , the brightest and
most refulgent object in nature ; and falling prostrate before it in adoration , his imitative pencil would trace the first outline of that wonderful and multiform system of hieroglyphics , which afterwards represented the objects of Egyptian idolatry . These he would teach to his antediluvian posterity , and they would be transmitted to the inhabitants of the postdiluvian world by Ham and his descendants . Seth , the next son of Adam , was equally favoured by the VOL . VIII . J >