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THIS 66 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Gnostics and
their Remains Ancient and Mediaeval, by C. W. King. To purchase the
entire book, please order ISBN 0766103811.
THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Gnostics and
their Remains Ancient and Mediaeval, by C. W. King. To purchase the
entire book, please order ISBN 0766103811.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1882 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1866 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1873 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1887 Edition.
WHEN this work first appeared, three-and-twenty years ago, it
became at once an object of unmerited abuse, and of equally
unmerited praise. Small divines mistaking it for an insidious
attempt to overthrow opinions "as by law established," spurted at
it with pens dipped in the milk of the Gospel; whilst, under the
very same hallucination, "Friends of Light" lauded it to the
skies--either party equally ignorant both of the subject, and of
the purpose of my labours. One noted Zoilus (whose recollections of
Homer would seem to be of the same deeply-marked nature as Ensign
Blifil's) is disgusted at my citing "Aidoneus" as a title of the
God of the Shades; another is astonished at my ignorance in calling
Bardanes a Persian, whereas he was a native of Pontus; not
understanding that my argument was equally valid in spite of the
mistake--Pontus being originally a province of the empire of
Darius, and what is more to the purpose, the actual focus whence
Mithraicism diffused itself over the Roman world. A still greater
cause of outcry against the book was my presuming to lay
presumptuous hands upon the Sacred Ark of Masonry, and openly
express my opinion that the "Free and Accepted" of these times have
no more real connexion with the ancient Craft, out of whose terms
and forms, like fig-leaves, they have stitched together aprons,
wherewith to cover the real nakedness of their pretension, than the
Italian Carbonari of Murat's day had with the trade of charcoal
burners, whose baskets were borrowed for the President's throne.
King Hiram's skull gnashed his teeth with rage within the cista
mystica; and one valiant young Levite of the course of Abia,
proceeds thus logically to confute all my assertions: "Athelstan
built a church: he could not build without masons; argal, Athelstan
was the founder of Masonry in England.
THIS 76 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Gnostics and
their Remains Ancient and Mediaeval, by C. W. King. To purchase the
entire book, please order ISBN 0766103811.
THIS 118 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Gnostics and
their Remains Ancient and Mediaeval, by C. W. King. To purchase the
entire book, please order ISBN 0766103811.
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imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Gnostics and
their Remains Ancient and Mediaeval, by C. W. King. To purchase the
entire book, please order ISBN 0766103811.
THIS 30 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Gnostics and
their Remains Ancient and Mediaeval, by C. W. King. To purchase the
entire book, please order ISBN 0766103811.
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