The mysteries of freemasonryReeves & Turner, 1860 |
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... course , it becomes necessary to take a transient view of the dogmas and customs of Egypt in the remotest periods of its history ; for it appears evident , that this country was the salient point from which the religious observances of ...
... course , it becomes necessary to take a transient view of the dogmas and customs of Egypt in the remotest periods of its history ; for it appears evident , that this country was the salient point from which the religious observances of ...
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... course of justice . The only means , therefore , of avoiding this evil , and of wiping away the stain at present attached to the society , is a total abandonment of the oaths . * " At the very threshold of our mysteries , an oath of ...
... course of justice . The only means , therefore , of avoiding this evil , and of wiping away the stain at present attached to the society , is a total abandonment of the oaths . * " At the very threshold of our mysteries , an oath of ...
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... course vindictive , is evident from his having made a pilgrimage to Rome , through excessive religi- ous zeal , in 1030 ; and therefore would , no doubt , have punished the Druids for an infraction of his edict with merciless cruelty ...
... course vindictive , is evident from his having made a pilgrimage to Rome , through excessive religi- ous zeal , in 1030 ; and therefore would , no doubt , have punished the Druids for an infraction of his edict with merciless cruelty ...
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... course how little fit they were to serve them as models , and finding , moreover , from a multitude of evident proofs , that the sacrifices , the ceremonial , and the very objects themselves , of idolatry , were prior to Moses and the ...
... course how little fit they were to serve them as models , and finding , moreover , from a multitude of evident proofs , that the sacrifices , the ceremonial , and the very objects themselves , of idolatry , were prior to Moses and the ...
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... course of the year VOLNEY'S TRAVELS . - EDIT . In the time of Herodotus , sixteen cubits were necessary , or at least fifteen , to overflow the Delta . The same number was sufficient in the time of the Romans . Before the time of ...
... course of the year VOLNEY'S TRAVELS . - EDIT . In the time of Herodotus , sixteen cubits were necessary , or at least fifteen , to overflow the Delta . The same number was sufficient in the time of the Romans . Before the time of ...
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Page 313 - And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them : And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them : and they perished from among the congregation.
Page 136 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Page 287 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory: The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in.
Page 113 - Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God. Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Page 287 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Page 289 - NOW when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
Page 301 - LORD : my spirit faileth : hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Page 287 - THE earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein : For He hath founded it upon the seas, aud established it upon the floods.
Page 312 - Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Page 305 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD : And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.