[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.

[210] Vorlesung ueber das Symbol des Tempels, in the “Jarbuechern der Gross.  Loge Roy.  York zur Freundschaft,” cited by Lenning, Encyc., voc. Tempel.

[211] In an Essay on the Masonic Idea of Man’s Destination, cited by Lenning, ut supra, from the Altenburg Zeitschift der Freimaurerei.

[212] Cited by Lenning, ut sup.

[213] Thus Dr. Oliver, while treating of the relation of the temple to the lodge, thus briefly alludes to this important symbol:  “As our ancient brethren erected a material temple, without the use of axe, hammer, or metal tool, so is our moral temple constructed.”—­Historical Landmarks, lect. xxxi.

[214] System of Speculative Masonry, ch. vi. p. 63.

[215] On the Speculative Temple—­an essay read in 1861 before the Grand Lodge of Alabama.

[216] A portion of this essay, but in a very abridged form, was used by the author in his work on “Cryptic Masonry.”

[217] Hist.  Landmarks, i. 459, note 52.

[218] See the Gemara and Buxtorf Lex.  Talm., p. 2541.

[219] Job xxxviii. 4-7.

[220] A New Translation of the Book of Job, notes, p. 196.

[221] In voc. [Hebrew:  shint-tav-yod-yod-heh], where some other curious extracts from the Talmud and Talmudic writers on the subject of the Stone of Foundation are given.

[222] Sepher Toldoth Jeshu, p. 6.  The abominably scurrilous character of this work aroused the indignation of the Christians, who, in the fifteenth century, were not distinguished for a spirit of tolerance, and the Jews, becoming alarmed, made every effort to suppress it.  But, in 1681, it was republished by Wagenselius in his “Tela Ignea Satanae,” with a Latin translation.