[330] “I inquired,” says Mr. Martin, “of the inhabitants, what tradition they had concerning these stones; and they told me, it was a place appointed for worship in the time of heathenism; and that the chief Druid stood near the big stone in the centre, from whence he addressed himself to the people that surrounded him.”
[331] United at the feet in this manner
. The jewel in the freemasons’ royal arch is thus formed. Noah was a freemason; and being the inventor of that mysterious and sacredly-religious ceremony, called the Deluge, we may be satisfied that all the secrets of that body bear reference to my developments. I look upon their institution as most solemn and majestically sublime.
[332] In the accounts transmitted to us of the various Buddhas, no term occurs more commonly as descriptive of their innocence and their meekness than that of lamb.
[333] Gen. iii. 15.
[334] Luke iii. 39.
[335] See p. 132.
[336] Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 361.
[337] See chap. xvi. p. 221.