The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

FREEMASON KY VND KNIGHTS TEMPLARThe Crescent.Mohammedanism Was Conceived in Abraham andGiven Birth through Mohammed.Abraham had only one son, Isaac, hy his wife,Sarah, who was born in the year 1896 B. C. Fouryears after Isaac's birth, Ishmael, who was theson of Abraham by Sarah's Egyptian handmaid,Hagar, as is related in Genesis xxi., was driveninto the wilderness with his mother. "And he willbe a wild man his hand will;be against every man,and every man's hand against him; and he shalldwell in the presence of all his brethren" (Gen.xvi.). "Ishmael was blessed," and had twelvesons that became "princes according to their nations.And they dwelt from Havelah to Shur, thatis before Egypt as thou goest towards Assyria"(Gen. xxv.). "They had golden earrings, becausethey were Ishmaelites"* (Judg. viii. "24).Ishmael died in the year 1773 B. C, "in the presenceof all his brethren, at the age of 137 years."The Arabs regard him as their immediate ancestor.The legend of the peopleis as follows: Whenour first parents were driven out of Paradise, theywandered until they finally settled on the borderof the great Arabian desert. Here they built atemple, the Kaaba, in exact imitation of that inwhich they had worshiped in the Garden of Eden.Ten generations later a flood swept that regionand destroyed the frail building, so that no vestigeremained. Ten generations later, in a fit of crueljealousy, Sarah, the wife of the patriarch Abraham,caused him to drive out his handmaid, Hagar,121