An exposition of the mysteries or religious dogmas and customs of the ancient Egyptians, Pythagoreans, and Druids. Also an inquiry into the origin, history, and purport of freemasonryauthor, 1835 - 403 pages |
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... learned languages , which the general reader could not correct , will alone be taken notice of . For Et foror and conjux , Page 22 , Line 13 , read , Et soror et conjux . - p . 28 , 1. 10 , repofitum and Ofiridis ; repositum , Osiridis ...
... learned languages , which the general reader could not correct , will alone be taken notice of . For Et foror and conjux , Page 22 , Line 13 , read , Et soror et conjux . - p . 28 , 1. 10 , repofitum and Ofiridis ; repositum , Osiridis ...
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... learned writers on Freemasonry , who are in full communion with the order - CHAPTER VI . An Inquiry into the Origin and History of Freemasonry CHAPTER VII . · 225-257 258-274 Analysis of Freemasonry ; in which the symbols , and original ...
... learned writers on Freemasonry , who are in full communion with the order - CHAPTER VI . An Inquiry into the Origin and History of Freemasonry CHAPTER VII . · 225-257 258-274 Analysis of Freemasonry ; in which the symbols , and original ...
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... learned and zealous mason , dedicated Demen die es Verstehen , or To those who can understand . He leaves no stone unturned throughout antiquity to prove the identity of the ancient mysteries of Eleusis , of the Jews , of the Druids ...
... learned and zealous mason , dedicated Demen die es Verstehen , or To those who can understand . He leaves no stone unturned throughout antiquity to prove the identity of the ancient mysteries of Eleusis , of the Jews , of the Druids ...
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... learned from my teachers , that the apostle St. Peter received from the Lord the great power of binding and loosing , with the keys of the kingdom of heaven . On this account I thought it highly useful to solicit his patronage with God ...
... learned from my teachers , that the apostle St. Peter received from the Lord the great power of binding and loosing , with the keys of the kingdom of heaven . On this account I thought it highly useful to solicit his patronage with God ...
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... learned researches upon the origin of the poetical heavens . This is nearly a complete mythology , founded upon new and ingenious ideas . The second is the history of the opin- ions of philosophers on the formation of the world . The ...
... learned researches upon the origin of the poetical heavens . This is nearly a complete mythology , founded upon new and ingenious ideas . The second is the history of the opin- ions of philosophers on the formation of the world . The ...
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Page 125 - 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 323 - 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 99 - 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 294 - 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 313 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Page 314 - 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.
Page 296 - 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 294 - 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...
Page 309 - Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Page 294 - 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, and established it upon the floods.