The Master's Carpet, Or, Masonry And Baal-Worship Identical ; Reviewing the ...
The Master's Carpet, Or, Masonry And Baal-Worship Identical ; Reviewing the ...
Edmond Ronayne
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The "Lexicon of Freem2lonry," by Mackey, p. 195, speaking of the M^&onic legend, says: — '^"There are characters impressed upon it which cannot be mistaken. It is thoroughly Egyptian, and is closely allied to the supreme rite of the Isijnic mysteries." J Also in the "Traditions of Freemasonry," by Pierson, p. 240: — "The Masonic legend stands by itself, unsup^ ported by history or other than its own traditions; yet we readily recognize in Hiram Abiff the Osiris of the Egyptians, the Mithras of ...the Persians, the Bacchus of the Greeks, the Dionysius of the frater- nity of the Artificers, and the Atys of the Phry- gians, whose passion, death and resurrection were celebrated by these people repectively," "For many ages, and everywhere. Masons have celebrated the death of Hiram Abiff, Every- where among the ancient nations there existed a similar allegory." 236 THE And, referring directly to the legend of Hiram in the third degree, Mackey, in his "Manual of rhe Lodge," p. 99, uses the following language: — "The idea of the legend was undoubtedly bor- rowed from the ancient mysteries, where the les- son was the same as that conveyed now in the third degree of Masonry." So also the "Freemasons' Guide," by Sickles, in expl^ning the Egyptian or Osirian legend and referring it directly to that of the Master Mason's degree, affirms in the following emphatic manner, p.
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