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Title: The traditions, origin and early history of Freemasonry
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Pierson, Azariah T. C., 1815-1889 Steinbrenner, Godfrey W., 1863-
Subjects: Freemasons
Publisher: New York : Masonic Pur.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ves from the presenceof that Being who had been hitherto their solace and de-light ; but, hearing his awful voice in the garden and un-able to bear the splendor of his appearance, in an humbleand lowly posture they approached him with fear andtrembling, their left hand elevated as a shield againstthe radiant glory of that Presence which sin had madethem incapable of enduring. The Jerusalem Targum records that, during a battlebetween the Jews and the Amalekites, Moses ascended amount, and in view of the army elevated his hands, andwhile in that position the Israelites prevailed, but whenfrom weariness his hands fell the Amalekites prevailed.The Book of Exodus mentions the same miracle, andadds that Aaron and Hurr supported the arms of thegreat lawgiver until the going down of the sun, and theAmalekites were overthrown. Masons trace in thismiracle authority for some of those mysteries peculiar tothe Fellow Crafts degree, and an additional confirmationof the Divine origin of their order.
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CHAPTER VII. MASTER MASON. Introductort — Jebus, Jebusi, Jerusalem the Ancient Salem—Traditionof Abraham and the Jebusites — Traditions of the Thrashing-floor ofAraunah —Moses Prophecy of and Command to Build a Place of Wor-ship— David conceived the Idea of Building a Temple from the Proph«ecy of Moses — Tradition of the Vision of David — Tradition accountingfor the Selection of the Site — David made the Selection—Solomonascended the Throne — Erection of the Temple Commenced — Times,how Named by the Ancients — Hebrew Years and Months — Hebrewsnot a Mechanical People — Phoenicians — Sidon — Tyre — A Commer-cial People — Friendly Intercourse with the Jews — Tradition of theCorrespondence between Hiram, King of Tyre, and Solomon — Diony-sian Artificers or Dionysiac Masons—Their Legend — Hiram Abiftheir Chief— He unites the Systems of Operative and Speculative Ma-sonry— Traditions of Hiram Abif — Solomon Indebted to him for Pre-cious Ston

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