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Monthly Masonic Summary.
wards ) , now declines to make belief hi T . G . A . O . T . U . a needful prc-requisite for admission 1 Most fatal blunder ! But here we stop to-day , hoping that our anticipations of troubles may not ho realized , and that our vaticinations of evil may not be fulfilled .
The Origin And Reference Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCE OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY .
BY REV . GEO . OlIVER , D . D . ( Continued from page 195 . )
AT tins point we cannot help remarking now very nearly all this resembles a passage in the book of Job , * " 0 that thou wonkiest guard me hi Hades , " ev A 8 JJS ^ £ < £ -i ) Aa £ as . A similar expression occurs in the New Testament , Tots iv < £ U / W T } Trvevpaci , ] - which is rendered in our version " the spirits in prison , " evidently alluding to Hades , and probably to the torments of that place . J Again , in the parable of Dives and Lazarus , the expression viro . pymv ev / Wayois conveys a very strong idea of these torments . With the same reference / Sacravi ^ tocruciovexotorqueois used . §
Tar-, , , , , tarus , amongst the Greeks , was the lowest place in Hades . The word raprapow , as used in the Epistles , || means in Tartarum detraho . Simpson says that the Greeks called Hell Tartarus , unto which the Apostle hero hath reference . And as the Scripture borrows the term of Tartarus from the heathen , so it is thought by Tertuflian and Gregory that the heathen took the idea of their Elysian fields from the Scripture Paradise .
After the appearance of the expected Deliverer , it was thus that the hierophant , trembling lest his influence should be superseded by a new religion , exhibited before the initiated asjnrants the apostles and martyrs of Christianity tormented and howling in these dismal abodes , anel many grievous persecutions were excited by the disjilay But at that period the mysteries were declining in public estimation , and their influence had sustained a sensible diminution . Lucian and others of their own poets had weakened their hold on the public mind , and after many ineffectual attempts to extinguish the relig ion of Christ , they themselves fell before the irresistible power of the Cross .
CHAPTER XVI . THE REFERENCE TO A DIVINE MEDIATOR . Jam redit et virgo , redeuirt Saturnia regna , Jam nova progenies cajlo derriittitur alto . Te duce , si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri , Irrita perpetua solvent formidine terras
, Pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem . VIKQIL . That the primary forces , or antitype of the entire mythology of the Egyptians , is » triad of divinities , and that through all the immense extent of the system the same
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Monthly Masonic Summary.
wards ) , now declines to make belief hi T . G . A . O . T . U . a needful prc-requisite for admission 1 Most fatal blunder ! But here we stop to-day , hoping that our anticipations of troubles may not ho realized , and that our vaticinations of evil may not be fulfilled .
The Origin And Reference Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCE OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY .
BY REV . GEO . OlIVER , D . D . ( Continued from page 195 . )
AT tins point we cannot help remarking now very nearly all this resembles a passage in the book of Job , * " 0 that thou wonkiest guard me hi Hades , " ev A 8 JJS ^ £ < £ -i ) Aa £ as . A similar expression occurs in the New Testament , Tots iv < £ U / W T } Trvevpaci , ] - which is rendered in our version " the spirits in prison , " evidently alluding to Hades , and probably to the torments of that place . J Again , in the parable of Dives and Lazarus , the expression viro . pymv ev / Wayois conveys a very strong idea of these torments . With the same reference / Sacravi ^ tocruciovexotorqueois used . §
Tar-, , , , , tarus , amongst the Greeks , was the lowest place in Hades . The word raprapow , as used in the Epistles , || means in Tartarum detraho . Simpson says that the Greeks called Hell Tartarus , unto which the Apostle hero hath reference . And as the Scripture borrows the term of Tartarus from the heathen , so it is thought by Tertuflian and Gregory that the heathen took the idea of their Elysian fields from the Scripture Paradise .
After the appearance of the expected Deliverer , it was thus that the hierophant , trembling lest his influence should be superseded by a new religion , exhibited before the initiated asjnrants the apostles and martyrs of Christianity tormented and howling in these dismal abodes , anel many grievous persecutions were excited by the disjilay But at that period the mysteries were declining in public estimation , and their influence had sustained a sensible diminution . Lucian and others of their own poets had weakened their hold on the public mind , and after many ineffectual attempts to extinguish the relig ion of Christ , they themselves fell before the irresistible power of the Cross .
CHAPTER XVI . THE REFERENCE TO A DIVINE MEDIATOR . Jam redit et virgo , redeuirt Saturnia regna , Jam nova progenies cajlo derriittitur alto . Te duce , si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri , Irrita perpetua solvent formidine terras
, Pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem . VIKQIL . That the primary forces , or antitype of the entire mythology of the Egyptians , is » triad of divinities , and that through all the immense extent of the system the same