Mysticism and its results : $b Being an inquiry into the uses and abuses of secrecyDelafield, John
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Mysticism and its results : $b Being an inquiry into the uses and abuses of secrecy
Delafield, John
Secret societies
[68] Page 25.
[69] Prideaux i. 338-'9.
[70] Plato in Alcibiade i. Stobases, p. 496. Clem. Alex. in Paedagogo i. p.
81.
[71] Prideaux Con. i. 395.
[72] Cicero de Divinatione, l. i. Philo Judaeus de spec. leg. Plutarch in
Artaxerxe.
[73] Prideaux i. 404-'5.
[74] See page 21, antea.
[75] Heeren, Politics Anc. Greece, p. 292.
[76] Remains of Japheth, 136.
[77] A bad way to extirpate error. Education, reason, and piety will meet
error openly.
[78] 2 Phil. ii. 9, 10.
[79] Matthew xv. 2, 3.
[80] Mark vii. 5-9.
[81] Coloss. ii. 8.
[82] 2 Thess. iii. 6, 7.
[83] Acts xx. 7, 8.
[84] John xx. 19.
[85] Neander, Gen. Hist. of Christ. Rel. &c., p. 98.
[86] Brev. Rom., p. 251. Lectio iij. infra Hebd. quartam Quadragesimae.
"Audistis grande mysterium. Interroga hominem: Christianus es? Respondet
tibi: non sum. Si paganus es, aut Judaeus? Si autem dixerit, non sum: adhuc
quaeris ab eo, Catechumenus, an fidelis? Si responderet tibi, Catechumenus:
inunctus est, nondum lotus. Sed unde inunctus? Quaere, et respondet. Quaere
ab illo, in quem credat? Eo ipso quo Catechumenus est, dicit, In Christum.
Ecce modo loquor et fidelibus et catechumenis. Quid dixi de sputo et luto?
Quia verbum caro factum est; hoc catechumeni audiunt: sed non eis sufficit
ad quod inuncti sunt: festinent ad lavacrum, si lumen inquirunt."
[87] Brev. Rom. p. 652. Festa Maji. Lectio viii. "Si ergo Nicodemus de
illis multis erat qui crediderunt in nomine ejus, jam in isto Nicodemo
attendamus, quare Jesus non se credebat eis. Respondit Jesus, et dixit ei:
Amen, Amen dico tibi, nisi quis renatus fuerit denuo, non potest videre
regnum Dei. Ipsis ergo se credit Jesus, qui nati fuerint denuo. Ecce illi
crediderant in eum, et Jesus non se credebat eis. Tales sunt, omnes
Catechumeni: ipsi jam credunt in nomine Christi, sed Jesus non se credit
eis. Intendat et intelligat charitas vestra. Si dixerimus catechumeno:
credis in Christum? Respondet, credo, et signat se cruce Christi: portat in
fronte, et non erubescit de cruce Domini sui. Ecce credit in nomine ejus.
Interrogemus cum: Manducas carnem filii hominis, et bibis sanguinem filii
hominis? Nescit quid dicimus, quia Jesus non se credidit ei."
[88] 1 Corinth. iii. 1, 2.
[89] 1 Peter ii. 2.
[90] Hebrews v. 12-14.
[91] Hebrews vi. 1.
[92] Matt. x. 5, &c.
[93] John xviii. 36.
[94] Llorente, Hist. Span. Inq. London. 1827.
[95] Enc. Brit. xv. 674.
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Corrections made to printed original.
p. 17. "Pharaoh, king of Egypt": 'Pharoah' in original. Also in Note 18.
p. 44. "more easily be employed": 'he' (for 'be') in original.
ibid. "the human mind is an emanation": 'humid' (for 'human') in original.
p. 49, diagram. Actual Hebrew letters in original. mem and tet are
transposed, kaph and vav look just like resh. * = final forms.
p. 52, note "54". Footnote marker missing, inserted in what seems to me the
most likely place.
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