Armageddon... a Lamb stood on it and with him 144,000! (Rev. 14:1)

Text: none Quote:     Blazing Star.  [...] [...] Such persons will rather accept the expression of Dr. Oliver, who, though much disposed to give a Christian character to our Institution, says, "the great Architect of the Universe is therefore symbolized in Freemasonry by the Blazing Star, as the herald of our salvation." ( Symb. Glory , p. 292.) Mackey, Albert Gallatin, An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences: comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution , Philadelphia: Moss & Company, 1874, pp. 116 , 118 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/encyclopaediaoff00mackrich Book Images: Related YouTube Videos:

Text: none Quote:     Blazing Star.  [...] "It is," says Hutchinson, " the first and most exalted object that demands our attention in the Lodge."  [...] Mackey, Albert Gallatin, An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences: comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution , Philadelphia: Moss & Company, 1874,  p. 116 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/encyclopaediaoff00mackrich Book Images: Related YouTube Videos:

Text: none Quote:     Blazing Star.  [...]    Fellows, in his Exposition of the Mysteries , says that this dog-star, the Anubis of the Egyptians, is the Blazing Star of Masonry,  [...] Mackey, Albert Gallatin, An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences: comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution , Philadelphia: Moss & Company, 1874, pp. 116 , 118 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/encyclopaediaoff00mackrich Book Images: Related YouTube Videos:

Text: none Quote:     Temple.  The symbolism of Speculative Masonry is so intimately connected with temple building and temple worship, that some notice of these edifices seems necessary.  [...]    Masonry has derived its temple symbolism, as it has almost all its symbolic ideas, from the Hebrew type, and thus makes the temple the symbol of a Lodge. [...] Mackey, Albert Gallatin, An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences: comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution , Philadelphia: Moss & Company, 1874, p. 795 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/encyclopaediaoff00mackrich Book Images: Related YouTube Videos:

Text: none Quote:     Orientation.  The orientation of a Lodge is its situation due east and west. [...] Although Masonic Lodges are still, when circumstances will permit, built in an east and west direction, the explanation of the usage, contained in the old lectures of the last century, that it was "because all chapels and churches are, or ought to be so," has become obsolete, and other symbolic reasons are assigned.  [...] Mackey, Albert Gallatin, An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences: comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution , Philadelphia: Moss & Company, 1874, p. 555 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/encyclopaediaoff00mackrich Book Images: Related YouTube Videos:

Text: " Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women ..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;  Forbidding to marry ..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Quote:    So saith Panormitane: Credo, pro bono et salute animarum, quod esset salubre statutum, ut . . . non valentes . . . continere possint contrahere; quia, experientia docente, contrarius prorsus effectus sequitur ex illa lege continentiæ; cum hodie non vivant spiritualiter, nec sint mundi; sed maculentur illicito coitu, cum ipsorum gravissimo peccato; ubi cum propria uxore esset castitas. . . . Unde deberet ecclesia facere sicut bonus medicus; ut si medicina, experientia docente, potius officiat quam prosit, eam tollat. Et utinam idem esse...

Text: " Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women ..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;  Forbidding to marry ..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Quote:    The Roman Catholics of Albany had, during about two years previous to my arrival among them, three Irish priests alternately with them, occasionally preaching, but always hearing confessions. I know the names of these men; one of them is dead, the other two living, and now in full communion in the Roman church, still saying mass and hearing confessions. As soon as I got settled in Albany, I had of course to attend to the duty of auricular confession , and in less than two months found that those three priests, during the time they were there, were the f...