The traditions, origin and early history of Freemasonry (1882) (14582450527)

Identifier: traditionsorigin00pier (find matches)
Title: The traditions, origin and early history of Freemasonry
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Pierson, Azariah T. C., 1815-1889 Steinbrenner, Godfrey W., 1863-
Subjects: Freemasons
Publisher: New York : Masonic Pur.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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racter, so did he leave children behind him who imi-tated his virtues. All these proved to be of good dis-positions. They also inhabited the same country with-out dissensions and in a happy condition, without anymisfortunes falling upon them till they died. They alsowere the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom whichis concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order.And that their inventions might not be lost before theywere sufficiently known, upon Adams prediction thatthe world was to be destroyed at one time by force offire and at another by the violence and quantity ofwater, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the otherof stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both,that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by ll2 TRADITIONS OF FREEMASONRY. the flood the pillar of stone might remain and eiihibitthose discoveries to mankind, and also inform them thatthere was another pillar of brick erected by them. Nowthis remains in the land of Siriad to this day.
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M Q O n < c a: < E- o CHAPTEE Vi. FELLOW CRAFT— CONTINUED. PoECii of the Temple — Tradition of the Ascent to the Middle Chfimber —Ternary Illustrations — The Number Three venerated by all Antiquity — An Explication of the Triangle — Veneration for the Number Threeoriginated from a Tradition of the Trinity — The Number Five — TheNumber Seven — Illustrations from the Scriptures — Eastern Tradition — Veneration for the Number Seven—Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences — Knowledge among the Ancients — Originally Taught by God — Tra-ditions— Opinions of Ancient Writers— Traditions of Writing beforethe Flood — All concurring that Adam possessed the Art — Astronomyknown to the Ancients — Astronomical Tables conrstructed within aCentury after the Deluge — Egyptian Traditions that the Science of As-tronomy was cultivated by Vulcan (Tubal Cain) — Hebrew Traditionascribing its Invention to Seth — Traditions of Abraham — Origin ofAstrology and Saba