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On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
Scoliast on Lycophron says , " B y xwas the poet means the ministers of Apollo . " This word was imported from Egypt ; and originated probabl y in Can-uph or Cneph , their serpent deity ; who was sometimes called Anuphis , whence Anubis , the Dog-headed god latrator . Ausa Jovi nostro latrantem opponere Anubim . And the inscription attached to the
figure of the Saitic Isis was , — " It is I that rise in the constellation of the Dog . " Nor is it unworth y of remark that the Dog of the spheve is termed b y Homer KVV ' apuovos . In the Argonautics these animals are represented as the protectors of the goddess Brimo or Hecate .
When up she rises from the land of shades ; Snakes , wreath'd in oaken boughs , curl round her hair , And gleaming torches cast a dismal glare , To guard their queen , the hideous dogs of hell Rend the dark welkin with incessant yell . F AWKES
Hence perhaps it was that Dogs were forbidden in the Jewish law from approaching the sanctuary . But more to my present purpose is the remark of Horns Apollo , cited by Bryant , who not onl y mentions the great veneration paid b y the Egyptians to Dogs , as connected with the ineffable mysteries ; but adds , that in many temples they
kept Cunocephali , which are represented as a kind of baboons , or animals with the heads of Dogs , who assailed the candidate at his initiation . These were in realit y the members of a sacred college of learned priests , who presided over the secret celebrations of spurious Freemasonry ; and it was by their assistance that the Egyptians discovered the astronomical
periods of the Sun and Moon . The same writer says in another place , that a priest or prophet was symbolized b y the image of a Dog , because the rising of the Dog-star ( Anubis ) denoted the increase of their fertilizing river .
THE HARE Was also a sacred animal ; and amongst our forefathers in this island , was forbidden to be converted into food . * THE SERPENT . The Serpent or Dragon was an object of peculiar veneration in Egypt , where it was first introduced into the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. The Spurious Freemasonry Of Ancient Times.
Scoliast on Lycophron says , " B y xwas the poet means the ministers of Apollo . " This word was imported from Egypt ; and originated probabl y in Can-uph or Cneph , their serpent deity ; who was sometimes called Anuphis , whence Anubis , the Dog-headed god latrator . Ausa Jovi nostro latrantem opponere Anubim . And the inscription attached to the
figure of the Saitic Isis was , — " It is I that rise in the constellation of the Dog . " Nor is it unworth y of remark that the Dog of the spheve is termed b y Homer KVV ' apuovos . In the Argonautics these animals are represented as the protectors of the goddess Brimo or Hecate .
When up she rises from the land of shades ; Snakes , wreath'd in oaken boughs , curl round her hair , And gleaming torches cast a dismal glare , To guard their queen , the hideous dogs of hell Rend the dark welkin with incessant yell . F AWKES
Hence perhaps it was that Dogs were forbidden in the Jewish law from approaching the sanctuary . But more to my present purpose is the remark of Horns Apollo , cited by Bryant , who not onl y mentions the great veneration paid b y the Egyptians to Dogs , as connected with the ineffable mysteries ; but adds , that in many temples they
kept Cunocephali , which are represented as a kind of baboons , or animals with the heads of Dogs , who assailed the candidate at his initiation . These were in realit y the members of a sacred college of learned priests , who presided over the secret celebrations of spurious Freemasonry ; and it was by their assistance that the Egyptians discovered the astronomical
periods of the Sun and Moon . The same writer says in another place , that a priest or prophet was symbolized b y the image of a Dog , because the rising of the Dog-star ( Anubis ) denoted the increase of their fertilizing river .
THE HARE Was also a sacred animal ; and amongst our forefathers in this island , was forbidden to be converted into food . * THE SERPENT . The Serpent or Dragon was an object of peculiar veneration in Egypt , where it was first introduced into the