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

SUPPLEMENTAL ENCTCD >IVEDIAplace of punishment in Hades, or the lower world. TheTitans, in their wars, are said to have piled mountains uponmountains to scale heaven,, and they are taken as the typesof lawlessness, gigantic fcize and enormous strength.Typhon The rival and opponent of his brother Osiris,whom he destroyed. He was considered the author of allthe evil in the world. As Osiris was a type or symbol ofthe sun, Typhon was the symbol of winter, when the vigor,heat, and, as it were, life of the sun are destroyed, and ofdarkness as opposed to light.Tyre The celebrated emporium of Phoenicia, the seatof immense wealth and power, situated on the coast of theMediterranean, within the limits of the tribe of Asher asassigned by Joshua, though never reduced to subjection.There was a close alliance between David and Hiram, kingof Tyre, which was afterwards continued in the reign ofSolomon ;and it was from the assistance afforded by theTyrians, both in artificers and materials, that the house ofDavid, and afterwards the temple, were principally built.Tyre possessed the empire of the seas, and drew wealthand power from numerous colonies on the shores of theMediterranean and Atlantic. The inhabitants of Tyre werefilled with pride and luxury, and all the sins attendant onprosperity and immense wealth. It was the wealthiest andmost magnificent of all Phoenician cities, and flourished for3,000 years. Although taken and devastated successivelyby Shalmaneser, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, theSaracens, the Crusaders and Salim I., it was always rebuilt.It stood twenty miles south of Sidon, and the locality itoccupied was as strong in a military pointof view as itwas advantageous in commercial respects. One part of itwas on the continent and the other on an adjacent island;the narrow sound which separated these two parts formedits harbor. After conquering the continental part of thecity, Alexander the Great built a mole to the island by20T,