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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
with rage , bellowing furiously , and emitting flames of fire from his eyes ancl mouth , as to frig hten the celestials out of their senses ; and to escape the effects of his resentment they found it necessary to transform themselves into various shapes ; and amongst the rest , Venus and Cupid became fishes ; and were ' hence p laced in the zodiac by their
worshippers . From the above reasoning it appears clear that while , in one sense , the aphanism ancl euresis of Osiris referred to the departure ancl reappearance of the sun ; in another , they typified the inclosure of Noah in the ark , and his subsequent liberation ; thus uniting , in these extraordinary celebrations , the Arkite and the Sabian idolatry ; or death in Adam and life in Christ . The fiction that Adonis spent one half of the vear in the embraces of Venus , ancl the other in those
of Proserpine , was explained in the Mysteries to allude to the sun ' s continuing six months in the northern signs of the zodiac , and six months in the southern . I must not omit to notice , at the conclusion of this article , that the legend of initiation was subsequently interwoven into Christianity by a sect of heretics which flourished soon The
after the time of the apostles , called the Basilideans . founder of this sect , in imitation of Pythagoras , enjoined on the candidates for admission into his school , a five years ' silence ; and adopting some of the astronomical absurdities which he had learned in Egypt , engrafted them into his religious system ; which caused his followers to be anathematized by the church . Assuming Osiris to be the sun ,
Isis the moon , and Typhon , Scorpio ; he taught his discip les to frame crystals bearing these emblems , which were used as amulets or talismans to protect them from danger . Mr . Hutchinson , in an early edition of his " Spirit of Masonry , " has given an engraving of one of these gems , in which the above symbols bear a conspicuous figure ; and they are
accompanied by a brilliant star , and the serpent . The moon is depicted in its increase as a crescent , because Isis is represented with horns like a new moon . These were a transcript of the talismans of Persia and Arabia ; which were delivered to every candidate at his initiation into the Mysteries . By the former they were termed Azhuet ; by the latter , Alakahir ; and subsequently , Abrac , Abracas , or Abracadabra .
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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
with rage , bellowing furiously , and emitting flames of fire from his eyes ancl mouth , as to frig hten the celestials out of their senses ; and to escape the effects of his resentment they found it necessary to transform themselves into various shapes ; and amongst the rest , Venus and Cupid became fishes ; and were ' hence p laced in the zodiac by their
worshippers . From the above reasoning it appears clear that while , in one sense , the aphanism ancl euresis of Osiris referred to the departure ancl reappearance of the sun ; in another , they typified the inclosure of Noah in the ark , and his subsequent liberation ; thus uniting , in these extraordinary celebrations , the Arkite and the Sabian idolatry ; or death in Adam and life in Christ . The fiction that Adonis spent one half of the vear in the embraces of Venus , ancl the other in those
of Proserpine , was explained in the Mysteries to allude to the sun ' s continuing six months in the northern signs of the zodiac , and six months in the southern . I must not omit to notice , at the conclusion of this article , that the legend of initiation was subsequently interwoven into Christianity by a sect of heretics which flourished soon The
after the time of the apostles , called the Basilideans . founder of this sect , in imitation of Pythagoras , enjoined on the candidates for admission into his school , a five years ' silence ; and adopting some of the astronomical absurdities which he had learned in Egypt , engrafted them into his religious system ; which caused his followers to be anathematized by the church . Assuming Osiris to be the sun ,
Isis the moon , and Typhon , Scorpio ; he taught his discip les to frame crystals bearing these emblems , which were used as amulets or talismans to protect them from danger . Mr . Hutchinson , in an early edition of his " Spirit of Masonry , " has given an engraving of one of these gems , in which the above symbols bear a conspicuous figure ; and they are
accompanied by a brilliant star , and the serpent . The moon is depicted in its increase as a crescent , because Isis is represented with horns like a new moon . These were a transcript of the talismans of Persia and Arabia ; which were delivered to every candidate at his initiation into the Mysteries . By the former they were termed Azhuet ; by the latter , Alakahir ; and subsequently , Abrac , Abracas , or Abracadabra .