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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 4 of 9 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
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
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
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