From of Bishopgate Ship Tavern (London) to Antiquities ... G. Oliver (1840)
A London newspaper public, probably in 1726 (the same year of ms. Graham), an unusual ad calling on Masons "Antediluvian created the way" to gather for the feast of St. John the Baptist at the Ship Tavern Bishopgate the neighborhood, adding that the previous year Brothers were not present in sufficient numbers to constitute a Lodge "true and perfect. " The announcement - found at the beginning of the 900 Fr Henry Sadler, an expert on things Masonic, in a miscellany of newspaper clippings kept in the archives of the United Grand Lodge of England, but not traceable to a reliable source - continued:
" There are many instructions on Ancient Masonry, in particular on the meaning of letter G and how and by what procedure the Masons formed their Antediluvian Lodges, showing what innovations have been introduced recently by the Doctor and some others among the Moderns, with their trimmings ..., movable letters, Flaming Star
...." The document continues with a series of references to Masonic mixed with other items extraneous to art, and claims that to protect from intruders meeting would have been a member of the Society of Gorgomons, one of many ephemeral clubs of the time, and the concluding prayer was held in style henleiano (by John Henley, one speaker noted, as discussed at the time, an Anglican priest then returned to the lay state, but in some ways because the context here - it seems to me that no one has pointed out this coincidence-advocate of a "primitive liturgy" and a reductio ad Originem of Christian worship).
As noted Knoop, Jones and Hamer in Early Masonic Pamphlets , the extravagant ad did not state with certainty the existence of a group "antediluviano. Moreover, it is not even certain the data: Henry Sadler, Librarian of the UGLE, spoke to the Lodge Quatuor Crowned in 1910, of that crop found in a miscellaneous album in the archives of the Grand Lodge, but while on others it was reported the newspaper from which they had learned, on that no, it was only shown the year, so far not been possible to trace the source and make sure that the dating is correct. From the tone of the document, then, one might also infer that it is a form of mock masonry not uncommon at the time, that one or more individuals intended to mock, in this case, the claims of antiquity that the documents late medieval Freemasonry, called in the Old Duties, camped. But it is also possible that, especially the reference to Doctor (as was known in London circles Th Desaguliers, with J. Anderson, the ideologue of the Grand Lodge) and the Moderns (So \u200b\u200bthat innovators were called by the dissidents Antiens who form independent Grand Lodge in 1751), we are facing one of the first demands of an Art arcane Masonic faithful.
La'idea a Antediluvian Masonry will find a champion in the rev. George Oliver (1782-1867), himself an Anglican priest and enthusiastic Freemason. In his Antiquities of Masonry , Oliver (convinced that the art was " common in many systems which comes with the great universal empyrean space, thus pre-existing life on Earth and also known to the inhabitants of other worlds) Masonic trace a genealogy with respect to those of the manuscripts. more ancient as the ms. Cooke. In this example, there was talk of Lamech, a descendant of Adam 7 ° along the line of Cain, who lived before the flood, Lamech had two children by his wife Adah, Jubel (founder of geometry) and Jubal (founder of the music) and two by his wife, Zillah, a male and a female (Tubalcain, founder of metallurgy and Naamah, founder of the texture). Having spread the idea that the sins of men were uprooted by the flood, the fundamentals of these sciences would be engraved in two columns, one of which was later discovered by Hermes, who would teach the masonry to architects of the Tower of Babel. The legend then proceeds with Abraham, Solomon and so on, up to England the tenth century by King Athelstan and Edwin Prince. As you can see, Noah is not included directly in the genealogy of Art, in this traditio which also focuses on the "stone". But Oliver is over, see the Arts and constructive in its universality, apparently referring to a lesson similar to that of ms. Graham, proposes the following sequence: Adam, that is the archetypal humanity, had the knowledge of God, who lost in part by the Fall, and he passed it remains to children Cain and Seth, but the first perverted them, developing operational aspects (construction of the city, according to the biblical reference), but losing those speculative, Seth held by them conveyed to Enoch (to whom God, according to Oliver, who is joined here in the vein of its esoteric Jewish Book of Enoch , gave the mysterious Masonic Word), and these Lamech, by whom they learned Noach . Therefore, according to Oliver Master of Freemasonry Antediluvian chain passes for five masters: Adam, Seth, Enoch, Lamech, Noah.
the sons of Noach, who received from him the art, the only preserved Shem, Cham and Japheth scattered to the altered (Oliver refers to the Anatolian-greek mysteries, of which the true Masonry is not a continuation, but rather the original model).
As fanciful (and Albert G. Mackey, in Chapter XXIII. of his History of Freemasonry , retires as the Masonic lore), drawn from the ierostoria rev. Oliver has some absolute advantages: 1) Filling in Noach ' ancestry of Freemasonry, by adjusting or by filling a unique situation: the absence of the first man called right and for that with his past through a "dead" regenerative (such as Master Hiram), herald, the Talmud, a cult founded on the universal duty and right, 2) celebrates the lineage of Seth at the expense of Cain in the Bible is also credited with building skills (see above) should be deprecate the spirit of Cain, who has crept into the Freemasonry in recent times, whenever we tried to divert it from its spiritual essence to make it "operational" in the narrow sense.
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Antediluvian or Noahides?
At this point one may ask: which of the two adjectives, or antediluviano Noachide , best fits the Masonic lineage to which we refer? And pre-condition for the application to be meaningful and substantive issue more than nominal: there is a difference between the two actual definitions?
There is, but does not mean that both do not work in a complementary manner. For Antediluvian Masonry Arts means ideal Edenic , which resists the impact of degeneration (the Fall) and comes to us in its purity integrates: the base is, indeed, the construct of primordial nature, no phage, where the creatures are not killed for food each other (in Genesis, God gives human beings and animals " green grass" as food). It was an art of speculation, because the man did not need homes or places of worship, what needed to be with-create ("naming" in the biblical sense, means customize ) was life (for this El Chai, the Living God, said " Let us make man in our image ") in its macro and microcosmic forms were different shapes, colors and sounds in their innumerable combinations and permutations. That, in view Noachide, was to extend the authority of the Adam Qadmon, Old Man or Celeste. Noachide designates the next Arts "restored" the man Noah built the Ark, the building becomes the paradigm of aggression defense of human and natural agents (the role of "necrofugo" of the city is highlighted by Norman Brown will Life Against Death ), Art has solidified , by working on ideal models we have progressed to that of wood (vegetable) and then to that of stone (mineral), down by the denser grades of cosmic manifestation, which is parallel to the down fall but also to a prodromal inflation, because it achieves the goal the Emerald Table " as above so below." In this way, axial remains precarious and while the construction of the human degree.
Noach is the kind of man that regenerates itself, but for its status of Adam Earth is destined to fall (eats meat, he gets drunk, etc.). In him remains absolute and relative intertwined, although as 'ish tzaddik he has avoided total aberration in which they had fallen the other Antediluvian. Speaking of eating meat, the biblical text indicates that as a concession to the divine escaped from the Flood, as we observe in the Iranian tradition King Yima - which he shares with Noah having ferried men, animals and plants through what reportedly Avestan scriptures, it would seem an ice age rather than a flood, and have established a proto-law or flow intentio universal - is maligned for pardon to the killing of animals for food and worship. If we release into the idea that traditional channels Noachide (one of which Iran is a major factor), we can read the "concession" as a divine acknowledgment of an ontology of human decadence, now only remnant - although, with Noach, oriented to the reintegration of primitive heavenly virtues - of what was state, and was to be had / has to be made.
In summary, we assume that the title implies Noachide status Freemason aware that it must proceed to the renovation work focused on tzedakah, but immersed in the contradictions of being and land ; antediluviano attribute, instead, refers to the expanded consciousness of the Master Noachide station before, one where it still reflected, directly, the creative work of El Chai, the living God, and the memory of Eden was vivid, not blurred and scarred.
Michael Moramarco
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