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[196] Histoire Pittoresque des Religions, t. i. p. 217.
[197] According to Toland (_Works_, i. 74), the festival of searching,
cutting, and consecrating the mistletoe, took place on the 10th of
March,
or New Year's day. "This," he says, "is the ceremony to which Virgil
alludes, by his _golden branch,_ in the Sixth Book of the AEneid." No
doubt
of it; for all these sacred plants had a common origin in some ancient
and
general symbolic idea.
[198] "Under this branch is figured the wreath of myrtle, with which
the
initiated were crowned at the celebration of the Mysteries."--
WARBURTON,
_Divine Legation,_ vol. i. p. 299.
[199] "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Gen. iii. 19.
Bush
interprets the decree to mean that "some species of toilsome occupation
is
the appointed lot of all men."
[200] Aristotle says, "He that cannot contract society with others, or
who, through his own self-sufficiency [Greek: ay)ta/rkeian], does not
need
it, forms no part of the community, but is either a wild beast or a
god."
[201] "Der Arbeiter," says Lenning, "ist der symbolische Name eines
Freimaurers"--the Workman is the symbolic name of a Freemason.--
_Encyclop.
der Fraumererei._
[202] John iii. 19-21.
[203] I Corinth, iii. 9.
[204] Orbis Miraculum, or the Temple of Solomon, pourtrayed by
Scripture
Light, ch. ix. p. 192. London, 1659.
[205] Swedenborg a Hermetic Philosopher, &c., p. 210. The object of the
author is to show that the Swedish sage was an adept, and that his
writings may be interpreted from the point of view of Hermetic
philosophy.
[206] Cours Philosophique et Interpretatif des Initiations Anciennes et
Modernes, p. 99.
[207] Ibid., p. 176.
[208] Histoire Generale de la Franc-maconnerie, p. 52.
[209] Histoire de la Magie, liv. v. ch. vii. p. 100.