THE ARCANE SCHOOLS - Fort Myers Beach Masonic Lodge No. 362

old Saxon word meaning _skilful_.
[163]
"Pronaque cum spectent animalia caetera terram;
Os homini sublime dedit: coelumque tueri
Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus."
OVID, _Met._ i. 84.
"Thus, while the mute creation downward bend
Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend,
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes
Beholds his own hereditary skies."
DRYDEN.
[164] "[Greek: A)phanismo\s], disappearance, destruction, a perishing,
death, from [Greek: a)phani/zo], to remove from one's view, to
conceal,"
&c.--_Schrevel. Lex._
[165] "[Greek: Ey~resis], a finding, invention, discovery."--_Schrevel.
Lex._
[166] A French writer of the last century, speaking of the degree of
"Tres
Parfait Maitre," says, "C'est ici qu'on voit reellement qu'Hiram n'a
ete
que le type de Jesus Christ, que le temple et les autres symboles
maconniques sont des allegories relatives a l'Eglise, a la Foi, et aux
bonnes moeurs."--_Origine et Objet de la Franchemaconnerie, par le
F.B._
Paris, 1774.
[167] "This our order is a positive contradiction to the Judaic
blindness
and infidelity, and testifies our faith concerning the resurrection of
the
body."--HUTCHINSON, _Spirit of Masonry,_ lect. ix. p. 101.--The whole
lecture is occupied in advancing and supporting his peculiar theory.
[168] "Thus, then, it appears that the historical reference of the
legend
of Speculative Freemasonry, in all ages of the world, was--to our death
in
Adam and life in Christ. What, then, was the origin of our tradition?
Or,
in other words, to what particular incident did the legend of
initiation
refer before the flood? I conceive it to have been the offering and
assassination of Abel by his brother Cain; the escape of the murderer;
the
discovery of the body by his disconsolate parents, and its subsequent
interment, under a certain belief of its final resurrection from the
dead,
and of the detection and punishment of Cain by divine vengeance."--