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God made these very things , to which they paid divine honours , the instruments of their punishment . They therefore adored flies and wasps . " * " There are said to be medals and old seals on which flies and beetles are represented . Some authors are of opinion that the name e Achor / which occurs in a passage from TUny , is derived from Ekron , the city where Baalzebub was worshipped . "f
In this passage from Calrnet ' s Dictionary , under the word " apis , " reference is made to Herodotus , b . iii . c . 38 ; to Pliny , b . viii . c . 46 ; and to Strabo , b . xvii . In the work of Zoega , " On the Origin and TJse of Obelisks , " p . 450 , it is mentioned that the worship of the scaraboeus has been found amongst the barbarous nations in South Africa .
It therefore appears that winged insects , such as the fly , the wasp , or the beetle , were held to haye been objects of adoration amongst the Egyptians and the adjoining nations ; and it may be further observed that one of the distinguishing marks on the calf , which was supposed to be the personification of the god Apis , J was the form of _
a beetle under his tongue . Both Isis and Osiris , themselves the symbols of the moon and the sun , were likewise connected with the worship rendered to the ox , cow , or bull , into which figure Osiris was said to have passed , according to the doctrine of metempsychosis . As , therefore , the scaraboeus became thus identified with the mythology of Egypt , it may be supposed that it had some mystical allusion to the religious veneration so universally paid to the ox , an animal with whose , authenticity as a divine being it was evidently connected .
Further information on this subject may probably be obtained from the work of Pignorius , from Bochart " De Sacris Animalibus , " and from the more recent discoveries in the drawings and hieroglyphics of Egypt . It may likewise be a matter of interesting inquiry to ascertain whether the scaraboeus has been found connected with the researches recently made at Nineveh .
N . T . S . P . M . 725 . * Passages of Scripture referring to these circumstances—Exod . xxiii .. v . 28 ; Deut . vii . v . 20 ; Josh . xxiv . v . 12 ; Wisdom xi . v . 15 , xii . v . 8 , 23 , 24 ; Romans i . v . 23 . + Plin . Nat . Hist . lx . c . 26 . The people of Cyrene , a city and province of
Libya , between the great Syrtes and Mareotes , invoked the god Achor on a pestilence being produced by the multitude of flies , which were said to perish immediately that a sacrifice was offered to that deity . Vide Kenrick ' s Ancient Egypt , vol . i . p . 110 . J Yide Calmet under that word .
TheeE is no violation of truth in affirming that , in London especially , propositions for initiation into Masonry are often too easily * if not easily received , on the bare general recommendation of the proposer , and payment of the customary fees . But if character and circumstances were cautiously weighed in the qualification of candidates , though the society might not be quite so numerous , the members of it would , in proportion , be more respectable , both as men and as Masons . "—Noouthouck . —From Oliver on Masonry , p . 308 . VOL . i , 4 , K
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God made these very things , to which they paid divine honours , the instruments of their punishment . They therefore adored flies and wasps . " * " There are said to be medals and old seals on which flies and beetles are represented . Some authors are of opinion that the name e Achor / which occurs in a passage from TUny , is derived from Ekron , the city where Baalzebub was worshipped . "f
In this passage from Calrnet ' s Dictionary , under the word " apis , " reference is made to Herodotus , b . iii . c . 38 ; to Pliny , b . viii . c . 46 ; and to Strabo , b . xvii . In the work of Zoega , " On the Origin and TJse of Obelisks , " p . 450 , it is mentioned that the worship of the scaraboeus has been found amongst the barbarous nations in South Africa .
It therefore appears that winged insects , such as the fly , the wasp , or the beetle , were held to haye been objects of adoration amongst the Egyptians and the adjoining nations ; and it may be further observed that one of the distinguishing marks on the calf , which was supposed to be the personification of the god Apis , J was the form of _
a beetle under his tongue . Both Isis and Osiris , themselves the symbols of the moon and the sun , were likewise connected with the worship rendered to the ox , cow , or bull , into which figure Osiris was said to have passed , according to the doctrine of metempsychosis . As , therefore , the scaraboeus became thus identified with the mythology of Egypt , it may be supposed that it had some mystical allusion to the religious veneration so universally paid to the ox , an animal with whose , authenticity as a divine being it was evidently connected .
Further information on this subject may probably be obtained from the work of Pignorius , from Bochart " De Sacris Animalibus , " and from the more recent discoveries in the drawings and hieroglyphics of Egypt . It may likewise be a matter of interesting inquiry to ascertain whether the scaraboeus has been found connected with the researches recently made at Nineveh .
N . T . S . P . M . 725 . * Passages of Scripture referring to these circumstances—Exod . xxiii .. v . 28 ; Deut . vii . v . 20 ; Josh . xxiv . v . 12 ; Wisdom xi . v . 15 , xii . v . 8 , 23 , 24 ; Romans i . v . 23 . + Plin . Nat . Hist . lx . c . 26 . The people of Cyrene , a city and province of
Libya , between the great Syrtes and Mareotes , invoked the god Achor on a pestilence being produced by the multitude of flies , which were said to perish immediately that a sacrifice was offered to that deity . Vide Kenrick ' s Ancient Egypt , vol . i . p . 110 . J Yide Calmet under that word .
TheeE is no violation of truth in affirming that , in London especially , propositions for initiation into Masonry are often too easily * if not easily received , on the bare general recommendation of the proposer , and payment of the customary fees . But if character and circumstances were cautiously weighed in the qualification of candidates , though the society might not be quite so numerous , the members of it would , in proportion , be more respectable , both as men and as Masons . "—Noouthouck . —From Oliver on Masonry , p . 308 . VOL . i , 4 , K