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the king caused it to be overlaid on the inside with gold , and adorned with an innumerable quantity of diamonds and other precious stones . The whole number of people who were employed in the building of this temple was 183 , 600 . We are compelled to wonder at the short time in which this temple was built , but when we take into consideration the fact that nearly 200 , 000 men were engaged in the work , we cease to be surprised at the idity of execution . It was completed in seven years

rap and six months , viz ., in the year 3000 from the creation . Solomon dedicated it with many costly offerings and with fervent prayers ; after which , upon the happy conclusion of the work , the whole of the workpeople had a festival . The Sacred Writings inform us of the destruction of this magnificent building . Samothratische Geheimnisse . Samothratical Mysteries . —This is the principal name which antiquity gave to the mysteries of Bacchus ;

they were likewise called Kabarical Orgies , Dionysian , and , according to their ramifications and branches , also Taurobolian Bacchanalian , and all this in only a limited sense , for in its more comprehensive meaning it included the whole of the mysteries of classical antiquity . They originated in Creta aud Phyrgia , and came into the island of Samothratia , from whence they extended themselves over the whole of Greece . They stood in the closest connection with those of Ceresand in many of their

, ceremonies they were quite alike . Ceres was the mother of Bacchus , and Plutarch assures us that Ceres was the Egyptian Isis . Bacchus , Osiris , and the Grecian Dionysians , were only other names for the Egyptian Paraites . In the degenerated age of the Grecians , these Dionysians were more celebrated for their gluttony and debauchery than

for their promotion of virtue and the sciences ; and Bacchus , who was first worshipped as the god of science , afterwards became the god of wine and nocturnal revels . Two hundred years before the birth of Christ , the Dionysians came to Tuscany , and from thence to Rome , where they were afterwards prohibited by a decree of the senate . The mysteries of Ceres and of Bacchus were founded about 400 years before tbe reign of Solomon ; and Josephus maintains that the societies of the Dionysian and Ionian architects existed before the building of Solomon ' s

temple , and that both Dionysian and Ionian architects assisted at that great work , which places the architectural skill of the Dionysian artists of that period beyond doubt . The opinion expressed by some masonic writers , who date the origin of the Order from the building of Solomon ' s temple , may iu some measure be thus proved , for if the identity of the two societies can be proved by the similarity of their outward forms , we are justified in concluding the brotherhood of the Ionian and Dionysian

architects and Freemasonry to be one and the same society . Sarsena . —This name caused a great sensation among young Masons and those who had not been initiated , about the year 1816-17 . It is the name of a book whose full title is , "Sarsena , or the perfect architect ; containing the history of the origin of the Order of Freemasonry , antl the various opinions upon what it should be in our days , & c . & c . Trul y and faithfully described by a true and perfect Brother Mason . Extracted

from the papers he left behind him , and given to the press without alteration . " This was advertised in all the public papers by the anonymous publisher , ( Kuntze in Baumberg ) as the genuine secrets ' of Freemasonry , and every advertisement was followed by the fire triangle , A . Through this mystical announcement he obtained the desired object , namely purchasers of the work . Who the great Sarsena was the book does not

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QUARTERLY REVIEW, SBCOHD SERIES, Article 1
TO BROTHER JOHN BIGG, WHOSE PUBLIC AND P... Article 2
CONTENTS. Article 3
THE GRAND ORIENT AND THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE. Article 4
THE MASTERS', PAST MASTERS', AND WARDENS' CLUB. Article 4
THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. Article 5
ON FREEMASONRY, Article 13
CHAPTER I. Article 17
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. Article 22
THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND, AND THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM. Article 30
AN ACCOUNT OF THE VICISSITUDES OF THE NEAPOLITAN MASONRY; Article 32
TO THE PROVINCIAL MEMBERS OF GRAND LODGE. Article 40
MISSILES FROM THE MOON. Article 42
GREAT SOLAR SPOT. Article 43
TO THE EDITOR. Article 45
TO THE EDITOR. Article 45
TO THE EDITOR. Article 46
TO THE EDITOR. Article 46
TO THE EDITOR. Article 47
TO THE EDITOR. Article 47
TO THE EDITOR. Article 47
TO THE EDITOR. Article 47
TO THE EDITOR. Article 48
TO THE EDITOR. Article 49
POETRY. Article 49
A MASON'S WISH. Article 50
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 51
QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION. Article 52
GRAND CONCLAVE OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Article 64
SUPREME GRAND COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES. Article 64
THE CHARITIES. Article 65
THE REPORTER. Article 66
CHIT CHAT. Article 72
Obituary. Article 75
PROVINCIAL. Article 80
SCOTLAND. Article 93
IRELAND. Article 95
FOREIGN. Article 99
AMERICA.—UNITED STATES. Article 106
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LITERARY NOTICES. Article 113
POSTCRIPT. Article 118
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 119
CONTENTS. Article 121
THE GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE, AND FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. Article 122
INDEX. Article 123
THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEWS. SECOND SERIES. Article 125
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the king caused it to be overlaid on the inside with gold , and adorned with an innumerable quantity of diamonds and other precious stones . The whole number of people who were employed in the building of this temple was 183 , 600 . We are compelled to wonder at the short time in which this temple was built , but when we take into consideration the fact that nearly 200 , 000 men were engaged in the work , we cease to be surprised at the idity of execution . It was completed in seven years

rap and six months , viz ., in the year 3000 from the creation . Solomon dedicated it with many costly offerings and with fervent prayers ; after which , upon the happy conclusion of the work , the whole of the workpeople had a festival . The Sacred Writings inform us of the destruction of this magnificent building . Samothratische Geheimnisse . Samothratical Mysteries . —This is the principal name which antiquity gave to the mysteries of Bacchus ;

they were likewise called Kabarical Orgies , Dionysian , and , according to their ramifications and branches , also Taurobolian Bacchanalian , and all this in only a limited sense , for in its more comprehensive meaning it included the whole of the mysteries of classical antiquity . They originated in Creta aud Phyrgia , and came into the island of Samothratia , from whence they extended themselves over the whole of Greece . They stood in the closest connection with those of Ceresand in many of their

, ceremonies they were quite alike . Ceres was the mother of Bacchus , and Plutarch assures us that Ceres was the Egyptian Isis . Bacchus , Osiris , and the Grecian Dionysians , were only other names for the Egyptian Paraites . In the degenerated age of the Grecians , these Dionysians were more celebrated for their gluttony and debauchery than

for their promotion of virtue and the sciences ; and Bacchus , who was first worshipped as the god of science , afterwards became the god of wine and nocturnal revels . Two hundred years before the birth of Christ , the Dionysians came to Tuscany , and from thence to Rome , where they were afterwards prohibited by a decree of the senate . The mysteries of Ceres and of Bacchus were founded about 400 years before tbe reign of Solomon ; and Josephus maintains that the societies of the Dionysian and Ionian architects existed before the building of Solomon ' s

temple , and that both Dionysian and Ionian architects assisted at that great work , which places the architectural skill of the Dionysian artists of that period beyond doubt . The opinion expressed by some masonic writers , who date the origin of the Order from the building of Solomon ' s temple , may iu some measure be thus proved , for if the identity of the two societies can be proved by the similarity of their outward forms , we are justified in concluding the brotherhood of the Ionian and Dionysian

architects and Freemasonry to be one and the same society . Sarsena . —This name caused a great sensation among young Masons and those who had not been initiated , about the year 1816-17 . It is the name of a book whose full title is , "Sarsena , or the perfect architect ; containing the history of the origin of the Order of Freemasonry , antl the various opinions upon what it should be in our days , & c . & c . Trul y and faithfully described by a true and perfect Brother Mason . Extracted

from the papers he left behind him , and given to the press without alteration . " This was advertised in all the public papers by the anonymous publisher , ( Kuntze in Baumberg ) as the genuine secrets ' of Freemasonry , and every advertisement was followed by the fire triangle , A . Through this mystical announcement he obtained the desired object , namely purchasers of the work . Who the great Sarsena was the book does not

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