Signs and Symbols Illustrated and Explained: In a Course of Twelve Lectures on Free-masonrySherwood, Golbert and Piper, hor, by Bro. Skelton, 1837 - 272 من الصفحات |
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adoration amongst ancient animal antiquity appearance Apron Beauty Brahma brethren Cabiric called candidate celebrated celestial centre ceremonies Ceridwen Cherubim Christ Christians circle creation Creator dæmons darkness death Deity deluge denominated derived divine doctrine Druids earth east Egypt Egyptian emblem emblematical esteemed eternity eyes Ezekiel Father figure fire Freemasonry garden of Eden glory gods heathen heaven hence hieroglyphics holy honour human Idol idolatry India inhabitants initiation institution Jehovah king Ladder Lectures Light Lodge mankind Masonic Masonry Mercy Seat Mithras Moon moral Moses mysteries nations nature Noah origin Osiris Pastos patriarch perfect Persian Pillars placed possess practice præp preserved priests primitive principle purity Pythagoras reference religion represented rites sacred says seated secret Serpent Shekinah sons of Noah stone superstition symbol temple Tetractys Tetragrammaton things throne tion Triad triliteral true truth universal virtue Vishnu waters Wisdom word worship
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الصفحة 106 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
الصفحة 224 - Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea with her own incorporated, by power Capacious and serene. Like power abides In Man's celestial Spirit ; Virtue thus Sets forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the incumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay from guilt ; And sometimes, so relenting Justice wills, From palpable oppressions of Despair.
الصفحة 248 - Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
الصفحة 171 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
الصفحة 134 - And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
الصفحة 110 - Masonry is a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
الصفحة 7 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have been esteemed useful engines of government.
الصفحة 186 - So I went in and saw ; and, behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
الصفحة 186 - And He brought me to the door of the court ; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
الصفحة 61 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...