Borrowing the technical language of archaeology, I should say that the history of Masonry may be divided into two periods – prehistoric and the historic. The former is traditional, the latter documentary. Each of these divisions must, in any historical inquiry, be clearly defined. There is also another division, into esoteric and exoteric history.
The books of Adam and Eve belong to a third class of Apocrypha and are believed to be of Hebrew origin. During the Christian age these legends and prophecies of Adam were gathered into one book, a latin. During the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries the book was translated into almost all European tongue, and was very popular.
25 January 2025 What a wonderful book is the Bible ! But what connection has the Bible with American Antiquities? Because of all Antiquities, it is the most valuable and marvellous specimen; because with all antiquities it is associated in the most important and interesting relations ; because the most valuable discoveries in antiquity must Read More …
25 January 2024 Golden Rule of Zoroastrianism :“Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself.” Hillel the Babylonian when asked to define the Torah, said :“Do unto others as you would have done to yourself, the rest is a commentary. Zoroastrianism, is also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin. Mithraism, as the ultimate foundation Read More …
2 January 2024 A good laugh is sometimes of vital importance, and often exerts a wonderful and salutary influence on the human economy ; and it is a conceded physiological fact, that a hearty laugh, not un frequently by its vitalising power, quickens a sluggish circulation of the blood, and also by its stimulus gives Read More …
30 December 2023 Quotes : Christopher Columbus was born about the year 1435, in the city of Genoa, Italy, and followed the life of a mariner. Hearing of the discoveries made by Marco Polo, a Venetian, during his journey eastward, overland, in the twelfth century, in eastern and central Asia, and his navigation on the Read More …