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"Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them." After the subjection of Egypt by the stranger kings and the consequent introduction into the country of Sabianism, the dual creative force residing in the sun is represented by Seth.
However this may be, the reliefs really speak for themselves: those on the south side early Sabianism, house-building, pottery, training horses, weaving, lawgiving, and exploration are certainly by Andrea; while among the rest the Jubal, the Creation of Man, the Creation of Woman, seem to be his own among the work of his pupils.
ROYAL ART. Freemasonry is so called because it is supposed to have been founded by two kings, the kings of Israel and Tyre, and because it has been subsequently encouraged and patronized by monarchs in all countries. SABIANISM, or SABAISM. The worship of the sun, moon, and stars, the םימשה אבצ TSABA Hashmaim, "the host of heaven."
In a remote period of antiquity, Sabianism was diffused over Asia by the science of the Chaldæans and the arms of the Assyrians. From the observations of two thousand years, the priests and astronomers of Babylon deduced the eternal laws of nature and providence. They adored the seven gods or angels, who directed the course of the seven planets, and shed their irresistible influence on the earth.
But Sabianism, while it was the most ancient of the religious corruptions, was, I have said, also the most generally diffused; and hence, even among nations which afterwards adopted the polytheistic creed of deified men and factitious gods, this ancient sun-worship is seen to be continually exerting its influences.
The dogmas of the unity of God and the immortality of the soul were lost sight of, and the first deviation from the true worship occurred in the establishment of Sabianism, or the worship of the sun, moon, and stars, among some peoples, and the deification of men among others. Of these two deviations, Sabianism, or sun-worship, was both the earlier and the more generally diffused.
Light became the object of religious veneration, not because of the brilliancy and clearness of a particular sky, nor the warmth and genial influence of a particular climate, for the worship was universal, in Scandinavia as in India, but because it was the natural and inevitable result of the worship of the sun, the chief deity of Sabianism a faith which pervaded to an extraordinary extent the whole religious sentiment of antiquity.
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