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and her manners, forbid not his claims, but rather consent
to them. In continuing to show her blasphemies* let the
doubter bearin mind, that in copying them here, I only &
sent to her claim.
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The Egyptian priests never believed in the reality of
the assassination of Osiris, nor tluzt a calf and an onion
could be Gods ; they never believed in the reality of devils,
and of angels, nor in a God who was born, and died, and
rose again."—(Esprit du Dogme, p. 32.)
It is worthy of the reader's notice, that Hutchiifson,
with the sanction of the Grand Lodge of England, Smith,
Lawrie, the learned historian of Free Masonry, and many
others, represent Egypt and her priests as largely connoted
with Masonry and Esprit, giving the masonic tradition
of wh&t the Egyptian priests did, and did not believe, is
within the record, ho brother can call him to order.
(P. 75.) Esprit informs us that the legend of Hiram and
his assassins is a Jewish substitute for the Egyptian representation
of the murder of Osiris; and again, (p. 77.) that
the legend of Hiram is an allegory of the Saviour; so that
the representation of the death of Hiram is a middle link,
connecting the death of the Cross to the death of Osiris.
Now we see the use of knowing what the Coptic priests believed
with respect to the death of Osiris; and how artfuOy
our lady insinuates a falsehood, that openly asserted would
fail of all impression, from the notorious character of the assertef.
" The Egyptian priests never believed in the reality
of the assassination of Osiris;" and the legend of Hiram being
an allegory of the death of the cross, and, previously,
the allegory of the death of Osiris, which is the allegory of
a falsehood, the death of the cross becomes no better to
Free Masonry, than the aneieht Masons' WORD, " which, 1 '
says the Sovereign Inspector General, " is not a word, but
a itaere jumble of sounds without meaning."
" Neither did the Egyptian priests believe, that a calf or
nil onion could be god*;" she will pawn her word for it—
When they bowed down before them in worship, invoking