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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
ON THE CAUSES OF THE ORIGINAL DISPERSION OF PRIMITIVE NATIONS ,
IN TIMES OP REMOTE ANTIQUITY ; AND ON PRESUMPTIVE PROOFS OF ORIGINAL CONNECTION BETWEEN VARIOUS NATIONS NOW WIDELY SCATTERED : — DEDUCIISLE FROM A CRITICAL EXAMINATION INTO THE INTRINSIC SIGNIFICATION AND CHARACTER OF ANCIENT SACRED EDIFICES , ETC ., OF WHICH THE RUINS AND IMPERISHABLE REMAINS EXIST IN NUMEROUS COUNTRIES .
( Part II . ) HAVING now indulged in as many observations on the real nature of the pyramid , triangle , ancl cone , as is consistent with the length of this notice , I proceed to show , Secondly—That it was in consequence of a disturbance which took place in the Unity of thc Faith of the early inhabitants of the earth , ( that is to say , soon after the Flood ) , that these same symbolical edifices came to be erectedin commemoration of the
, grand schismatic division . At thetime of the building of Babel , we have the highest authority for knowing that the sentiments of the men then and there engaged , were in complete unison , for Moses records that " the Lord said , Behold , the people is One . " Had this unity of feeling been manifested in persevering in the worship of the true and only God , upon whose almihty NAME men alreadbegan to calleven while Adam was yet
g y , alive , doubtless it would have been , instead of a subject of reproach , an occasion of approval , to Him " whose name is ONE . " ( See also Ephes . iv . 5 , 6 . ) But when this unanimity was manifested only in the departure of men from the principles of Religion ancl true Masonry , and consequentl y from Truth itself , the Lord God "Scattered them abroad , " as we read , " upon the face of all the earth . " As has been already observed , traditions are still extended almost
throughout the length and breadth of the earth , of this miraculous and notable transaction ; it is impossible in the space here assigned , even casually to designate the various and modified forms in which this history has been handed down , from the remarkable legend preserved by the Mexican priests , as related by Humboldt , down to the wild fables believed by the savages of the South Seas , and strangely analogous to the prim __ val account . The most striking among these examples isaccording to
jud-, my g ment , that extraordinary story related in the Purannas , in which Vishnu , in the form of a lion , is described as bursting from a column of marble , to destroy a blaspheming monarch , ( vol . i . 235 . ) The same story is again mentioned at p . 155 , and also in vol . ii . p . 132 , where the fourth Avatar is described as having been undertaken for the punishment of an impious monarch , by the Deity Himself , bursting from a marble columnin the shape of a lion . ( See vol . iii . p . 486 for Sir W . Jones '
, , remarks on the subject . ) That the physiologico-religious question at issue had already began to be agitated before the building of the Birs Nimrod , may be fairly inferred ; and I look upon its having been so , ancl moreover its having been fiercel y disputed , as one of the prime motives which induced the architectural partizans of the tower to construct a mighty fabric , which
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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
ON THE CAUSES OF THE ORIGINAL DISPERSION OF PRIMITIVE NATIONS ,
IN TIMES OP REMOTE ANTIQUITY ; AND ON PRESUMPTIVE PROOFS OF ORIGINAL CONNECTION BETWEEN VARIOUS NATIONS NOW WIDELY SCATTERED : — DEDUCIISLE FROM A CRITICAL EXAMINATION INTO THE INTRINSIC SIGNIFICATION AND CHARACTER OF ANCIENT SACRED EDIFICES , ETC ., OF WHICH THE RUINS AND IMPERISHABLE REMAINS EXIST IN NUMEROUS COUNTRIES .
( Part II . ) HAVING now indulged in as many observations on the real nature of the pyramid , triangle , ancl cone , as is consistent with the length of this notice , I proceed to show , Secondly—That it was in consequence of a disturbance which took place in the Unity of thc Faith of the early inhabitants of the earth , ( that is to say , soon after the Flood ) , that these same symbolical edifices came to be erectedin commemoration of the
, grand schismatic division . At thetime of the building of Babel , we have the highest authority for knowing that the sentiments of the men then and there engaged , were in complete unison , for Moses records that " the Lord said , Behold , the people is One . " Had this unity of feeling been manifested in persevering in the worship of the true and only God , upon whose almihty NAME men alreadbegan to calleven while Adam was yet
g y , alive , doubtless it would have been , instead of a subject of reproach , an occasion of approval , to Him " whose name is ONE . " ( See also Ephes . iv . 5 , 6 . ) But when this unanimity was manifested only in the departure of men from the principles of Religion ancl true Masonry , and consequentl y from Truth itself , the Lord God "Scattered them abroad , " as we read , " upon the face of all the earth . " As has been already observed , traditions are still extended almost
throughout the length and breadth of the earth , of this miraculous and notable transaction ; it is impossible in the space here assigned , even casually to designate the various and modified forms in which this history has been handed down , from the remarkable legend preserved by the Mexican priests , as related by Humboldt , down to the wild fables believed by the savages of the South Seas , and strangely analogous to the prim __ val account . The most striking among these examples isaccording to
jud-, my g ment , that extraordinary story related in the Purannas , in which Vishnu , in the form of a lion , is described as bursting from a column of marble , to destroy a blaspheming monarch , ( vol . i . 235 . ) The same story is again mentioned at p . 155 , and also in vol . ii . p . 132 , where the fourth Avatar is described as having been undertaken for the punishment of an impious monarch , by the Deity Himself , bursting from a marble columnin the shape of a lion . ( See vol . iii . p . 486 for Sir W . Jones '
, , remarks on the subject . ) That the physiologico-religious question at issue had already began to be agitated before the building of the Birs Nimrod , may be fairly inferred ; and I look upon its having been so , ancl moreover its having been fiercel y disputed , as one of the prime motives which induced the architectural partizans of the tower to construct a mighty fabric , which