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 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 …
The British Isles as the real Atlantis stepping ever eastward to civilise the earth only to suffer catastrophe. Bring back Arthur the bear, or Ursa Major was the cry for old Albion. Be that as it may, we of the twentieth century, proud of our civilisation and enlightenment even we have not solved the picture writing on the ancient stones. Little we know of primitive ideas and vast empires that had fallen in decay long ere Solomon builded his temple unto the Lord, or David sang to soothe the troubled king we know in part and little by little, a fragment here and a fragment there, we are evolving the history of time.