The Antiquities of Freemasonry: Comprising Illustrations of the Five Grand Periods of Masonry, from the Creation of the World to the Dedication of King Solomon's TempleRichard Spencer, 1843 - 344 pages |
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... Hiram , King of Tyre , and was beyond all competition the best designer and artificer upon earth . This temple was acknowledged by all nations to be the utmost effort of human genius ; and that the united excellencies of all the ...
... Hiram , King of Tyre , and was beyond all competition the best designer and artificer upon earth . This temple was acknowledged by all nations to be the utmost effort of human genius ; and that the united excellencies of all the ...
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... Hiram Abiff , by the in- 25 Salomon Jarchi , in Jer . vii . 31. The Carthaginians and Phoenicians knowingly and wittingly themselves devoted their own children ; and they that had none of their own , bought some of poor people , and ...
... Hiram Abiff , by the in- 25 Salomon Jarchi , in Jer . vii . 31. The Carthaginians and Phoenicians knowingly and wittingly themselves devoted their own children ; and they that had none of their own , bought some of poor people , and ...
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... Hiram Abiff , and to perpetuate the love and affection of his wife ( daughter to the noble Prince Adoniram ) , who , from excess of grief at the untimely end of her husband , terminated her own existence by casting herself from the ...
... Hiram Abiff , and to perpetuate the love and affection of his wife ( daughter to the noble Prince Adoniram ) , who , from excess of grief at the untimely end of her husband , terminated her own existence by casting herself from the ...
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... Hiram , the king , hearing of this circumstance , deputed Hiram Abiff with certain vessels to examine the place , for the purpose of making further discoveries . After some experiments , he succeeded in finding the topaz in great ...
... Hiram , the king , hearing of this circumstance , deputed Hiram Abiff with certain vessels to examine the place , for the purpose of making further discoveries . After some experiments , he succeeded in finding the topaz in great ...
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... Hiram , the king , hearing of this circumstance , deputed Hiram Abiff with certain vessels to examine the place , for the purpose of making further discoveries . After some experiments , he succeeded in finding the topaz in great ...
... Hiram , the king , hearing of this circumstance , deputed Hiram Abiff with certain vessels to examine the place , for the purpose of making further discoveries . After some experiments , he succeeded in finding the topaz in great ...
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Aaron Abraham ages Aholiab Almighty altar amidst amongst ancient appeared blessing brethren brother building Cabiri CALIFORNIA Canaan celebrated charity Christ Christianity colour command darkness David death Deity descendants divine earth edifice Egypt Egyptians Enoch erected eternal Exod faith father Freemasonry God's gods grand master heaven hence Hiram Abiff holy honour human idolatry inculcated Isaac Israel Israelites Jacob Japheth Jephtha Jewish Joseph Judah King knowledge land Lecture light Lodge Lord mankind Masonic Masonry ment Mizraim moral Moses mysteries nations nature Noah Osiris patriarch perfect pillar possession posterity practice Præp preserved priests principles Pythagoras religion rites sacred sacrifice says secret serpent Shem shew solemn Solomon Solomon's Temple stone symbol tabernacle temple thee things Thoth thou tion tribe tribe of Dan tribe of Judah tribe of Naphtali true truth UNIVE UNIVERSITY unto virtue worship Zebulun
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Page 176 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 233 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 229 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 89 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 186 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 189 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 313 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Page 76 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 37 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone...
Page 285 - Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.