Vulgar words in Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (Page 1)
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The buffoon and the zany are useful in their places.
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For the same reason, a mysterious book of Apuleius, in which an ass figures largely, was called "The Golden Ass."
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The Pagans accused the Christians of worshipping an ass, and they did not invent this reproach, but it came from the Samaritan Jews, who, figuring the data of the Kabalah in regard to the Divinity by Egyptian symbols, also represented the Intelligence by the figure of the Magical Star adored under the name of _Remphan_, Science under the emblem of Anubis, whose name they changed to _Nibbas_, and the vulgar faith or credulity under the figure of _Thartac_, a god represented with a book, a cloak, and the head of an ass.
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And still the years came and passed away again, and William, the Norman Bastard, parcelled England out among his Barons, and still the sapling grew, and the dews fed its leaves, and the birds builded their nests among its small limbs for many generations.
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Apuleius represents Lucius, while still in the form of an ass, as addressing his prayers to Isis, whom he speaks of as the same as Ceres, Venus, Diana, and Proserpine, and as illuminating the walls of many cities simultaneously with her feminine lustre, and substituting her quivering light for the bright rays of the Sun.
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Under the Archonship of Euclid, bastards and slaves were excluded from initiation; and the same exclusion obtained against the Materialists or Epicureans who denied Providence and consequently the utility of initiation.
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In Egypt the Scorpion first ruled, the sign next the Balance, and long the chief of the Winter signs; and then the Polar Bear or Ass, called Typhon, that is, _deluge_, on account of the rains which inundated the earth while that constellation domineered.
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Cancer, in which are the stars termed _Aselli_, or little assess, is the device of the flag of _Issachar_, whom Jacob compares to an ass.
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He then completed his triumph, mounted on an ass, in the constellation Cancer, which then occupied the Solstitial point of Summer.
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The twenty-four good and twenty-four evil Deities, enclosed in the Egg, are the forty-eight constellations of the ancient sphere, equally divided between the realms of Light and Darkness, on the concavity of the celestial sphere which was apportioned among them; and which, enclosing the world and planets, was the mystic and sacred egg of the Magi, the Indians, and the Egyptians,--the egg that issued from the mouth of the God Kneph, that figured as the Orphic Egg in the Mysteries of Greece, that issued from the God Chumong of the Coresians, and from the Egyptian Osiris and the God Phanes of the Modern Orphics, Principle of Light,--the egg crushed by the Sacred Bull of the Japanese, and from which the world emerged; that placed by the Greeks at the feet of Bacchus the bull-horned God, and from which Aristophanes makes Love emerge, who with Night organizes Chaos.
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The Hyperborean Olen, one of the oldest symbols of the religious antiquity of Greece, made Love the First-born of Nature.
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Ashlar, perfect, connected with the double cube of Perfection, 503-m. Ashlar, perfect, typifies the State, 5-m. Ashlar, rough, changed in form from triangular to cubic, 787-m. Ashlar, rough, to be prepared for the work, is a shapeless stone, 787-m. Ashlar, rough, typifies People rude and unorganized, 5-m. Asp, dedicated to Isis, worn on her head and on others', 501-m. Ass, Christians accused of worshipping an; origin of, 103-u.
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Golden calf of Aaron was one of the oxen under the bronze laver, 818-l. Golden Fleece of Aries guarded by a serpent, 498-m. "Golden Numbers," "golden verse," "golden Ass", 103-u.
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Issachar, compared to an ass, has for a device Cancer, 461-l. Ivy over East window of old churches is the Hedera Helix of Bakchos, 483-m. Izeds, created by Ormuzd, offices of the twenty-eight, 257-u.
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Mysteries forbidden to bastards, slaves, materialists and--, 390-m.
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Salt represented by the Hermetics under the form of a cubical stone, 775-l. Salt represents to Hermeticists Absolute Matter, regenerated by Azoth, 778-m. Salt, with the Hermetics, corresponds with the Earth, 773-l. Salutary number is six, contains the source of our happiness, 628-m. Samaneans, a Society of Buddhist Prophets, belief of, 277-l. Samaritan invented the accusation of Christians worshipping an ass, 103-u.
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Thartae, a god with the head of an ass, Christianity said to be the reign of, 103-u.