The Origin And Reference Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.

forces of triad is maintained , has led some eminent men to suppose that those who founded the Egyptian religion must have had some knowledge of the doctrine of the Trinity . Without giving a positive opinion on this subject , we may venture to say that it is , more jirobably , a direct reference to the promise of a Redeemer . Two uniform features of the system appear to raise this conjecture into certainty . The Son or Word of the Egyptian mythology is always the third person in the triad . And again , the

second person is always a female . So in the primary triad we have Amoco the father , Mout the mother , and Chous , the infant son ; the allusive character of the temple sculp ture . The first person of the triad is very frequently represented with a countenance and figure of the Pharaoh who had erected !! . , and the second person with those of his queen ; so also the birth of the young god is , in the same curious manner , identified with the birth of the founder , or his first-born son . The great hope and end

therefore which the Egyptian religion held forth , was the birth of a god ; this their expectation being evidently not metaphorical , but real , because they always identified it with actual occurrences . * These prineijiles appear to have been embodied in the anaglyph before us , which was called by the Hormesians the SECRET OP SECRETS . NOW the greatest secret of every system of Spurious Freemasonry that the world ever knewwas the divine unity

, , accompanied by the expectation of a Mediator who should commute for the sins of men by some bloody sacrifice . And it is pretty clear that the Scarabeus was a symbol of that mediator . But we find that almost every emblem which the anaglyph contains , whether the circle , crescent , scpiare , angle , or cross , referred to the heavenly bodies ; and in the language of ancient jirophesy , preserved also in the Hermesian Freemasonry , a Star was

the emblem of that Mediator , although it was sometimes mistakenly applied to the sun or moon ; and therefore in the hierophantio symbols , the sun , moon , and star were generally combined , that in any ease the application might be correctly enunciated . It will be interesting , therefore , to the Christian Mason co inquire what types or tokens of the Mediator through whom human redemption was to be effected , are embodied in the figure before us .

Considerable light may be thrown upon this inquiry by considering the astronomical character of the Spurious Freemasonry t arising probably from a tradition that the advent of the Deliverer was to be announced by a remarkable appearance in the skies in the form of a Blazing Star , or celestial fire . Thus Chalcidius the Platonist , in his commentary on Tinncus , says , Est quoque alia sanctior , & c .: " There is another more holy and more venerable history , which relates the appearance of a new star , not to foretel diseases and deathbut the sublime descent of an incarnate Godto show favours

, , to the inhabitants of the earth . This star the wise men . of Chaldea observing as they travelled in the night , they are said to have sought for the place where this god was horn , and having found him in the shape of a newborn infant , they paid him such rites of worship , and such vows , as might be agreeable to such an august being . " According to Suetonius , such a tradition had always prevailed throughout the whole eastern part of the world ; £ and the heathen nations possessed no certain vehicle for its

preservation but their religious mysteries . The everlasting covenant , 'H AtaOrjKn attavws , corresponding with Zwn aiwvtos , eternal life , made by our merciful Creator with the Great Father of the human race , was accompanied by the presence of God ' s Shekinah in the form of a permanent fire ° i' Blazing Star , and there are reasons for believing that an ojihiion was prevalent amongst the true worshippers before the flood that in like maimer a Blazing Star would