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Article THE REVELATIONS OF A SQUARE. ← Page 8 of 16 →
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The Revelations Of A Square.
shall hear some ofthe legends , however , if it will afford you any satisfaction . Our continental brethren identified Hiram Abiff with Jesus Christ , and endeavoured to prove that his history was an allegory of the Crucifixion . They contended that the word Oyn meant , He that existed from all eternity—T . G . A . 0 . T . U . —Christand asserted that in ancient times seven days was
; the legitimate interval between the ceremony of raising a candidate , and communicating to him the secrets of a Master Mason , in allusion to the period of mourning for his death , which amongst the Jews was seven days , as in the recorded instance of the lamentations of Joseph for his father Jacob ; and the same period intervened between the resurrection of
Christ and his public appearance to his disciples to remove the unbelief of Thomas . Ancl in recounting the history of Masonry , they feigned that the art and mystery of the Order was first introduced at the building of the tower of Babel ; and from thence handed down by Euclid , a worthy and excellent mathematician of Egypt ; that he communicated it to Hiram
Abiff , under whom , at the building of the Temple of Solomon , was an expert architect called Mannon Greens , who , travelling westward after the Temple was completed , taught the art of Masonry to Carolus Marcel , King of France ; from whence it was transplanted into England in the time of Athelstan , who commanded the Brethren to assemble annually in the city of
York ! " ' They further stated , that the Stylus with which Hiram Abiff drew his plans and designs , and engraved that mysterious diagram on the foundation-stone of the Temple , which is now known as the 47 th Proposition of Euclid , was found on his person at his raising , ancl was ordered by Solomon to
be placed in his monument . I omit the fable of his marriage with the sister of prince Adoniram , his death , burial , monument , obelisk , with its circles , squares , and columns , and Solomon's bitter mourning ; together with the distraction and suicide of his widow ; because I dare say you are heartily sick of this absurd jumble of truth and fiction , where Euclid is and
made contemporary with the dispersion from Shinar , Hiram Abiff brother to the Carthaginian Hanno . " ' 'Our brethren , however , amidst all their fondness for continental innovations and Jewish legends , were not so nngallant to the softer sex as to introduce that graceless illustration of the Valley of Jehoshaphat , or the holy ground on which the Lodge is placed , that was used by the French Masons , viz ., as " a place of peace , harmony , and concord ;
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The Revelations Of A Square.
shall hear some ofthe legends , however , if it will afford you any satisfaction . Our continental brethren identified Hiram Abiff with Jesus Christ , and endeavoured to prove that his history was an allegory of the Crucifixion . They contended that the word Oyn meant , He that existed from all eternity—T . G . A . 0 . T . U . —Christand asserted that in ancient times seven days was
; the legitimate interval between the ceremony of raising a candidate , and communicating to him the secrets of a Master Mason , in allusion to the period of mourning for his death , which amongst the Jews was seven days , as in the recorded instance of the lamentations of Joseph for his father Jacob ; and the same period intervened between the resurrection of
Christ and his public appearance to his disciples to remove the unbelief of Thomas . Ancl in recounting the history of Masonry , they feigned that the art and mystery of the Order was first introduced at the building of the tower of Babel ; and from thence handed down by Euclid , a worthy and excellent mathematician of Egypt ; that he communicated it to Hiram
Abiff , under whom , at the building of the Temple of Solomon , was an expert architect called Mannon Greens , who , travelling westward after the Temple was completed , taught the art of Masonry to Carolus Marcel , King of France ; from whence it was transplanted into England in the time of Athelstan , who commanded the Brethren to assemble annually in the city of
York ! " ' They further stated , that the Stylus with which Hiram Abiff drew his plans and designs , and engraved that mysterious diagram on the foundation-stone of the Temple , which is now known as the 47 th Proposition of Euclid , was found on his person at his raising , ancl was ordered by Solomon to
be placed in his monument . I omit the fable of his marriage with the sister of prince Adoniram , his death , burial , monument , obelisk , with its circles , squares , and columns , and Solomon's bitter mourning ; together with the distraction and suicide of his widow ; because I dare say you are heartily sick of this absurd jumble of truth and fiction , where Euclid is and
made contemporary with the dispersion from Shinar , Hiram Abiff brother to the Carthaginian Hanno . " ' 'Our brethren , however , amidst all their fondness for continental innovations and Jewish legends , were not so nngallant to the softer sex as to introduce that graceless illustration of the Valley of Jehoshaphat , or the holy ground on which the Lodge is placed , that was used by the French Masons , viz ., as " a place of peace , harmony , and concord ;