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

FREEMASONRY AND KNIGHTS TEMPLARand their son, Ishmael, and while wandering in thedesert an angel revealed this site to Hagar, andshe gave her thirsty son to drink of the refreshingwaters of its well Zem-Zem. It was here, on accountof itsgoodly supply of water, the chief attractionin locating an Oriental city, that a tribe ofAmalekites came and founded the city of Mecca.They aided Ishmael in rebuilding the Kaaba, and totheir assistance came the angel Gabriel, with a whitestone from Paradise, which even to-dayis to befound in the wall of the Kaaba, turned black by thedevout kisses of sinful lips..In the sixth century of the present era the keeperof this sacred stone was one Abdallah, a very poorbut noble man, of the tribe of Koreish, one of themost distinguished Arabian tribes; the guardianshipof the Kaaba was hereditarily entrusted to it.But his family, Hashem, was poor. Abdallah diedjust before his first son was born. That son wascalled Mohammed, "The Praised/' and was bornin Mecca in the year 570. In later years, whencomparative deification of the prophet took place,there were added to the circumstances of his birth,legends similar to those of the other founders ofgreat religions. It is said that as soon as he wasborn, he turned his eyes to the light and distinctlysaid, "God isgreat and I am his prophet," theriver Tigris overflowed its banks, the palace ofKing Chosroes toppled to the ground, the holy firesof Zoroaster that had burned for centuries wereextinguished by the brighter light, and mules talkedand sheep bowed to him when he went out. He losthis mother, Amena, when he was six years old, and122