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

SUPPLEMENTALENCYCLOPAEDIAKhulil, is the same which the Moslems give to Abraham,"the friend of God"; and they profess to hold in theirkeeping the burial-place of the patriarchs, the "cave ofMachpelah." It is covered by a small mosque surroundedby a stone structure 60 feet high, 150 feet wide, and 200feet long. Within this no Christian ispermitted to enter :but it is evidently of very high antiquity, and may wellbe regarded as enclosing the true site of the ancient tomb.The environs of the city are very fertile, furnishing thefinest vineyards in Palestine, numerous plantations of oliveand other fruit trees and excellent pasturage.Horus The child of Osiris and Isis. He came into theworld to avenge his father. As a youth he takes the nameof Buto. Then he becomes the Strong Horus, the greathelper, the pillar of the world. Horus was the god of light,turning the gloom of winter into the verdure and life ofspring.Holy Land See CANAAN (Par. 6).IshmaelSee ISHMAELITES.Ishmaelites The descendants of Ishmael, the son ofAbraham and Hagar, who was born in the year 1910 B. C.Hagar was the Egyptian handmaid of Abraham's wifeSarah. Ishmael was at first regarded as "the son of thepromise," but after the birth and weaning of Isaac, he wasdriven from his father's house, at the age of about seventeen,and with his mother took their way towards Egypt, her nativeland. Overcome with heat and thirst, and then miraculouslyrelieved (Gen. xxi.), he remained in the wilderness ofParan, "and his mother took him a wife out of the land ofEgypt," and he became the father of twelve sons, heads ofArab tribes. He seems to have become on friendly termswith Isaac, and to have attended at the bedside of their dyingfather. At his own death he was 137 years old. TheIshmaelites were said in the days of Moses to have dwelt in180