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ARGUMENT
When Domitian was emperor of Rome, in the night of perse-
cution, when danger and death hung on their footsteps, the Chris
tian Masons met in the Catacombs,—an assemblage of whom \s
represented in this Degree of Princes of Mercy, who were repre-
sentatives of the faithful by means of the Triple Covenant, the
points of which were—that made with Noah when God set his
bow in the heavens ; that made with Abraham, for him and his
descendants; and that made with all the earth, that the day
should come when light, truth, and happiness should be victo-
rious over darkness, error, and misery.
The assemblages generally met to celebrate the Mysteries in
the great Temple of Elephanta ; then in the secret chambers of
that of Bouddha at Salsette ; in the roofless fanes of Persia, in the
forest temples of the Druids, in the pyramids of Memphis, in the
vaults of Crete and Saniothrace, in the great temple of Eleusis,
under the Holy of Holies at Jeruiialem, and in the Catacomb*
under Rome.