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THE

ORIGIN OF THE BUILDING

OF

OLOMON'S TEMPLE.

AN ORIENTAL TRADITION .

.. Some sp:tkc of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts."-Luke xxi. 5.

BY

JOHN BANV ARD.

~o~ton: .

PUBLISHED BY HOWARD GANNETT,

6 2 BROMFIELD STREET.

1880.

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PREFACE.

The two bl/others, Orlla1l 'and Araunah, menh'oned 7'12

the following' beautzjul trad£tion, are also mentioned in the

Bible. They were two Jebus£tes, one of the nations that

occupied Palestine before the Israelz'tes came from. Egypt.

Man)' suppose them to be one and the same person, but this

tradition speaks of them, as brotlters owning the jield itt

C011Z11Z01t, for whiclz Iiing Davtd paid six hundred sltekels,

gold (I Chronicles xxi. 25), to Ornan and jifty shekels of

silver to his brother Araunalt (2 Samuel xxiv. 24).

The story, it will be seen, harmolZZzes several incz"dents

recorded in tlte Scriptures, as well as zllustrates tlte man-

ners and customs of tile early inhabitants of Palestine __ and

for the convem'ence of those wltO might be sufficiently in-

terested in tllese respects, and for Bible students, n.otes for

references are added.

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lege1~d, a beautiful legend,·

We sat by a founta£n be1~eatJt a kigh moz,mta£n,

A moz,mtain that soar'd by the Syr£an sea:

Whe1~ a ha1vest moon strewed its s£lvery sheen,

Which called £nto thought the Arabian's

theme.

We had travelled that day, on that long summer's

day,·

That day, many .leagues o'er the Orient strand,·

And our tent we had p£tched, 'where our vzew was

enriched,

Through vistas of palm trees o'er ocea11, and

land:

Where mountain nils sang zn melodious Itme

Their vespers il~ silvery light to the moott .

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THROUGH VISTAS OF PALM TREES, O'ER OCEAN AND LAND.

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Mount Libanus* soared high, .far above us soared

high;

Libanus, the mount o.f historic .fame ,.

While our watch fire burnt low, 'Zvith a flickering

glow,

At t£mes beil1g .famled b)J the bl~eeze into flame,·

And all nature aroul1d was peaceful and still,'

Save the s£lvery tones o.f tJu~ musical rill.

WHILE OUR WATCH FIRE BURNT LOW, WITH A FLICKERING GLOW.

And this is that legend, that beautiful legend,·

The legend the Arab related that night

By the door o.f my tent, where acacia boughs bel:zt,

And tall cedar ,freest drank the silvery light,·

I, silent, rediJled in the shadowy vale,

And hearkened unto this most beautiful tale.

* Leba1t01' 1()aJ thzu lnOl1ln to the GreekJ and Rommu. t I Kings v. 6, 8, 10; iv. 3;3.

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He told of two brothers, affectionate brothers,'

Two brothers that garnered the same harvest

.field,

Bequeathed by their sire on tlte 11zoultfaz"n M oriah-

And bounteous harvests -it ever did yz"eld,.

A11,d never once failed the husba1zdman's hand,

Not eve11, Whe11, fami11,e ajJlz"cted the 1a71,d.

HI!: TULl> Ofo" TWO BROTHERS, AFFECTIONATE BROTH lUi::; •

./Vle1t's good acti011S will li'lIe, long after them live,'

Will live il1, remembral1,Ce for ages to come.

And pure names of renown are tral1,Slnz"tted .us down

The long vista of time from father to son:

So tradition has brought us each brother's 'JIlame,-

Araunah and Ornan.';"· are thus known to fame.

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HE TOLU OF TWO llROTHERS, AFFECTIONATE BROTHERS.

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TRADITION OF THE TEMPLE.

The'ir names are recorded, both brightly recorded;

Recorded by a11gelS on the holiest page,

The name of good Ornan -is wr-it in the Koran, And there to be read of in every age;

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While the Bible records brave Araunah's-;(- too,-

So are honored by Christian, the Moslem, t a71,d yew.

T il E KEDRON, T HAT F LOW E D THROU GH THE VALLEY AWAY.

Al1d their home the same tent, a broad. camel's hair tent,'

A tent where contentment reigned the IOJ1g day,

And its lines they had cast where a brooklet jlO'Zved past- .

The Kedron, that jlowed through the valley away.

When the sun sought the west, then Moriah's cool shade

Would there peacefully fall o'er valley a11,d glade.

* 2 Samuel xxiv. 20, 21, 22, 23. t The Mus/ems bditve in Ihe Htbr"1/J proplzels.

AND 0:"1£ OF THEM WAS A ~!OSl' PROMISING noy.

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They ploughed both together, they reaped both to-gether,·

Together they labored all the day long:

And whzle ploughil'tg the field or 'when, reaping its yield,

They lightened their labor with story or song.

Thus cheerfully to-ilz"ng Nil close of the day,

Tke-ir te1d then would seek in the valley away.

A FAMINE THAT SORELY AFFLICTED THE LAND.

One year came a fam-ine, a grievous fami1te ,.*

A famine that sorely afflicted the land.

Then the grain that was sold produced talents of gold,

Whe1t brought out of Ta rsh ish , the foreig1ters' strand.

Yet, -in that same year, that divinely blessed field

Refused 1101 the brothers a bountiful yield.

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The sheaves they divided, most justly divided,'

D£vided in numbers, all equally fair:

Two heaps were thus made, on the thrashing floor

laid, * As the setting sun paled 'tnthe western atr.

Then, sought they their tent from the toil of the day,

And in night's sweet repose slept their lire a'way.

H AD W EDDE D KETUR AH. A MAl nEN so COY.

A raunalt was wedded, lotzg lovingly wedded,.

Had wedded Keturah, a ma£den so coy:

And Jte had children three, all as fair as could be,

And one of them was a most promising boy.

Each night and each mOYJIt, in the shade of his tent,

He knelt and thanked God for these treasures He'd

sent.

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Now Ornan, h£s brother, less fortunate brother,-

Th£s brother had ne£ther a wife nor a ckild,'

For the day he Was wed his beloved lay dead,

Being sla£n £n a ra£d by the Amor£tes* w£ld.

So he constant rem az'71 ed, h£s after life through,

To Hagar, his chosen one, faitliful and true,

FOR THE DAY HE WAS WED HIS BELovfD LAY DEAD.

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NO'Zv, as they la£d sleeping, both peacefully sleeping;

And sleeping the tire of the£r toiNng a'way:

in kis sleep Onzan spoke, which Araunah awoke,-

Whel1 openil1g his eyes, he found £t not day,'

Toward a good action his thoughts then attuned,

A l1d thus w£th himself he lonely communed:

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"My brotlier -is lonely, unfortunate, lonely,·

Most lonely without either wife or a child,.

No family to cheer him, no wife to endear Izim,

His chosen one slain by the Amorites wild,.

It 'would be too se(fish, so blest qs I am,

To share the sheaves equal with brother Orna7,z."

MY BROTHER I S LONELY, U~FORTUNATE, LON ELY.

So rose he up softly, most carefully, softly,.

And softty stepped forth in the momzligltf so

mzld,·

On good actions in te7,zt, then his footsteps he be7,z!:

Direct to the field where the wheat sheaves were

piled,· Aud from his own portiOl,z he counted fourscore,

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To h£s tent then returning, all lightly return£ng,

Returnz'ng to rest w£th h£s act£ons c01,z/e1,z/,.

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H£s heart with love beatz'ng, for dea1' ones there

sleeping

So sweetly beneath the still shade of hz's tent,'

He laid himself . down to the sweetest of dreams,

A1'ld £n them he gl£ded down heavenly streams.*

A ND T H EX , I N HIS MlND, H E THUS L ON ELY COMMUNED,

As thus he lay dreamz'ng, so peacefully dream£ng,

Dreaming so sweetly the 1zz'ght watches away,

In hzs happz'ness spoke, whzch hz's brother awoke,

A nd wakefully mus£ng he thoughtfully lay,'

Toward a good act£on his thoughts were attuned,

A 1'ld then, in hz's mz'nd, he thus lonely communed,'

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"My brother is 'wedded, long lovingly wedded-

Wedded J(durah, for whom he must care;

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His family surround him-'wz'th love they have

bound him,

To toil ever Itard for their raiment aJild fare.

Witlt Ara'lmah, then, /,11 not eve'll divide,

Who for these dear loved ones must always provide."

illS FAMIL\' !'.URROl' ~D HIM-WIT H L OVE T H F:\" H AV E lI()tf ~ J) HI M . .

So 1/ose he -up softly, most carefully, softly "

A11d softly 'Zvent forth in the moonlight so mild.

011 good actions inte1zt, /ike Itis brother, he went

Direct to the field where tlte 'wheat sheaves were

pz'led;

There from Ius own porNon he counted fourscore,

To his loved brother's pile then added tlte store.

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To his tent then return-i11g, all lightly returni11g,

Returning so happy with fee/i'ngs cmdent ,.

His heart with love beati11g, for dear rmes there

sleeping

So calmly withi11 the still shade of tlte tent:

He laid hi11lselj" down, to the sweetest of dreams,

And sa-iled with his brother dO'ZeJ7z heavenly streams.

THAT FI ELD IN PERFUME CAUSED THE PLAGUE TO DE STAVED.

But Providence wills it, oft blessedly wills it,.

Oft wills -it, though mortals the cO'lztrary pray.

" 'Tis man that proposes, but God that disposes,"

And verified oft is that proverb to-day.

Thus from the wheat sheaves that had on that '

field lain,

The brothers thrashed out equal measures of grain.

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A 1ld runs the tradzl£mz, the Arab tradzl£oll,

Tradi#on descending from parent to ch£!d:

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A t each harvest's full 111l00n, there zs heard a soft

tune,

Pervading the field where those wheat sheaves

were pz"led-

The voices of angels 'who chant their sweet strain

Throughout the night long, 'while then ripens grain.

TRADITION DESCENDING FROM PARENT TO CHILD.

Thence incense arises, there sweetly arises,

Ar£ses, pervades all the regioJIl around,.

WheJIl the bright golden ear begins to appear,

A ,ltd the we£ght o.f the germ bows gracefully down:

'Tis then the ripe gra£n, w£tlz r£ch odors o.f bloom, F£lls all the night air with the sweetest perfume,

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When men once offended, thez"r God they offended, ,x,

Offended by breaking kis holy command,--

To make theln repent, he a pestile/tce sent, t Whiclz, by l1,igltf and by da)!, afflicted the land,

And caused thousands to die, mz mountain and plailz,

tVlttle tlte living 'zve7,/e stricken 7vith sorr07V and pa'ilz.

WHILI!. THE LI\'lNG WERE STRICKEN WITH SORROW ANU rAIN.

Wizen the plague reached that field, that divinely

blest field,

That field in perfume caused the plague to be

stayed/

. A t its blest thrashil1,g floor stopped tile pestilence

sore,

A nd there by its incense Jorever allCryed:

Thus came that place holy, and sacred its socl,

And pious hands reared there a temple to God.i

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And tltat temple was .famed, ever after 'was .famed,

A nd .famed through the world 0' er mou1Z,tain

and main,·

For there God laid his hand, as he breathed 011/

the land,-

Thus most sacred the soil will ever rema'm,·

And n07.V pious mel1/ have the field in their care,

A lUj good pzlg'rims .from .far go thither .for prayer. -x·

AND GOOD I'I LCtW\lS FROM FAR GO THITH ER FOR l 'RAVER.

That peifitme still ascends, and 'wdl ever ascertd,

Ascend 0' er the world 'lvz"th its aroma s'lveet,·

Where hoo Christial1/S commzme, there p e1vades fllat pe1.fume,

Al1/d tlte sweetest o.f strains their .fellowshij; greet,·

Wherever two brothers in .fellowshij; stand,

That field has m1/ emblem -in every land.

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A'ltd tlms el,zds tltat legend, that beautiful legend,

Tlte legeltd the Arab related to me,

Tltat niglzt at tlze j"oztlZta£n, by LebatiOlt's mountail,z,

The mo1t11tai1l tlzat soared o'er the 5Jwian Sea:

..-illel wilen he Itad lold Ilis narrative throltglL,

The theme 7UI/lS so llO~V J IclZe7u it 70as trite.

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APPENDIX _0"--

Pertinent to this poem of the origin of Solomon's Temple, the following will be read with interest. It is a description of the laying of the corner stone of the first Christian temple erected in England since the Reformation, at Truro, in Cornwall.

The.ceremony was unusually splendid. The chief features were the grand Masonic rites -the Prince of Wales being Grand Master of England-the princely ~ tate and religious rites which, with almost barbaric pomp and glit te r, marked every phase of the proceedings. Brilliant weather added lustre to the scene. Truro was decorated with flags and triumphal arches, with Mason ic and loy".! mottoes. The Prince, wearing hi s Masonic robes of purple, heavy with gold embroidery, was received at the royal pavilion by the bishop and clergy clad in their white surpli ces and scarlet academic hoods. The members of the grand lodge, in their Masonic dresses of crimson, blue, green and purple, with gold chains and enamelled jewels, flanked the pav ilion. Behind them were the white robed choir and choral phil-harmonic societies.

The Princess of 'Yales was dressed in light sage green and gold. Her two sons, who wore the uniforms of naval cadets, stood in advance of the general line. Offi~ers in uni-forms of scarlet and gold; ladies in brilliant toilets ; civic dignitaries in their offIcial robes made the scene one of st riking splendor. As the trumpets soullll ed the firs t no tes of the national anthem, the cannon roared in rhythm. The Prince then advanced to lay the foun-dation stone, and delivered the following speech to the assembled Masons:

BRETHREN: vYe are an ancient fraternity, which from the earliest days has been iden-tified with all that is beautiful and grand in architecture. You wil! therefo re be proud to have aided me, as I have been proud to work with you , in commenci ng a bui ld ing which, by the beauty of its design and the solidity of its const ruction, will, we trust, be an or · nament to thi s city and provin ce for centuries to come. But, brethren, it is something far more than this. It is a temple to be erected to the glory and worship of our H eavenly Father-the great Architect and Creator of all things. And, whatever minor difierences may be among us, I feel sure that the same spirit mllsl be in your minds this day which animated the J ews of old, when, as Ezra tell s us, the bu ilders laid the founda lions of the Temple of the Lord, and they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David, King of Israel. And they sang together in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord, because he is good, for hi s mercy endureth forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation s of the H ouse of the Lord were laid.

Be it known 10 you thaI we be lawful Masons, true and faithful to the laws of our country. Although not ourselves operative Masons, we have from tima immemorial been associated with buildings to be raised for the benefit of mankind, the adornment of the world and the glory of the Great A rchitec t of the unive rse. " 'e have among us secrets concealed from those who are not ]'vIasons, but they are lawful and honorable, and not opposed to the laws either of God or man. They were intrusted to Masons in ancient times, and, having been faithfully transmitted to us, it is our duty to convey them inviolate to our posterity. vYe are assembled here to-clay in the presence of you all to erect a house for the worship of the Prince of the Most High, which we pray that God may prosper as it seems good to him .

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~ " ries us back into the trallitionary ages whence came ~ ~~~ the" Legend of the Temple." Tilt) Jews, when they -B~f;- left Egypt, carried with them many of the customs of r~ , their task masters; amI Solomon, " 'hen bnilding the ~h) :~~ ~

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temple, fashioned it evi(lently after the Egyptian edi-fices, as anybody, by reading the description of the Jerusalem temple, will find it accords ill itl; gelleral de~ign with those existing at the presellt day in Egypt.

Egyptians always placed in front of their temples two

immediately before w~at were termed the lJ1'olJylm, and so Solomon placed two pillars in front of the one at Jerusalem, which he called Jacliin and Boaz, respectively. The cmwts, also, of the JelVisll temple answer to the naos, and pl'onaos of tbe Egyptian structures.

The obelisk which is to adom our Central Park was quar-ried at Assouan, in Nubia (tile far Syene of the Scriptures), aud brought llown the Nile on immense rafts and set up at the famous City of Heliopolis, in Lower Egypt. It is of sienite, or, as the French call it, rose granite, an exceedingly durable sto.ne. There if! still remaining in this same quarry a monolith, which, had the ancients succeeded in getting it out, would have been the largest ever erected; but, unfort.unately, it broke in the middle, and so was abandoned in the quarry.

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From lleliopolis the Cleopatra monoliths were removed to Alex·

andria, after havillg stood before the 'remple of the Sun at tbe

former city for on~r a thollsall(l years. So the volnptuous queen

had nothing to (10 with the ohelisks that bear bel' name. "Cleo·

patnl. Needles" arc a misnomer, flS much so as Pompey's Pillar is to the column of Dioclesian, for we now know they were set np

at Alexanuria in the eighth year of the reign of Augustus, or

twenty-three years l.leforc the birth of Christ, alHl seven years

after the death of Cleopatra herself. Heliopolis seems to have been literally a city of obelisks, for

it flU'lIished nearly all that were transported to Europe. Only one

is now rema.ining where once stoo(l this migbty city-a monument

of divine wrath-for Heliopolis is the Betbshemath of the Scriptures,

the destruction of which Ezekiel prophesied, and to render bis words as they ' should be: "Thus saith the Lord God, behold, I

am against the Pharoah, ana I will se))(l Nel.luchadnczzar, king of

Bal.lylon, alltl wheu he cometh he shall slllite the land; he shall

hreak the obelisks that arc in Bethshemath, wlJich is' ill the lalJ(l

of Bgypt, lind the temples of the gods of the :Egyptians shall he burt! with fire. Surely as I live, saith the Lonl of host.s, as Tahor

is among the mountains, and Carmel hy the sea, so shall he come.

An.d the land 01' Egypt !>hall l.le utterly waste and desolate, from

the tower of Syene even to the bor(lers of Ethiopia." This proph· ecy is literally fulfilled, and the obelisk still standing at Bethshe-

math is a monumellt to the truth t.hereof.

'L'hese obelisks wer'e mmally erected to commemomte some im-

portant event in the life of the ruling king, au(1 were always dedi-

cated to the gods, so that their sacredness would prevent their over·

throw. The pal'1~ obelii;k is de(iicated to the go(l Ra, or the Sun;

as the llawk hieroglyphs at the pyramidion, as the top of the shaft

is called, indicate. 'rhe hawk, as flying the highest, and conse-

quently nearest to the sun, and belie,"ecl to lJave the faculty of

gazing Oil the orb, was especially dedicated to the Sun God, or

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l{,a, as in the ancient Egyptian. The obseryer will notice, at inter-

vals among tlle lliel'oglyplls, long o,al figmes, containillg -within

them varions hierogl~'phical characters. These are the names of certain kings of Egypt. These ova.ls are called, iJy the Egyptolo-

gists, "royal cartouches." They gaY3 the first clue to the deciph-

ering of the hieroglyphs, tIle nallle of ptolemy EpiplHtnes iJeing

the first Idng's name that was phonetically made out .. Now the

names of all the kings, or "phal'oahs," of Egypt, are known a

long way back, anterior to the time of 1\'[oses, or before Abraham

entereu the land. The key to the reauillg of the sacred Cllal'actel's, as the hiero-

glyphs are calleu, was disco\'el'ed ill tlle famolls Rosetta stolle, now iu the British Museum. When Napoleoll was il1 Egypt au officer of the cllgiueers found this stOlle at Rosetta, when he was con-stmcting a redoubt. It had an ellgravetl inscription in threc different characters, one iJeillg iu Greek. As we can reall the Greek, through it the l'eatlillg of the allciellt EgyptialJ characters was thus filially disconred. Se\-eral classieal writers tell us of two magnificent obelisks that were erected at the City of 011, as it is called in the Bible, by the son of Sesostris the Great, who inherited a certain killd of ophthalmia or blindness from his father; allli, after having tried all liintls of rellletlies in Yain, he besought the power of the gods, to whom lie malle numerous oblations and sacrifices, to propitiate thell1, constantly for the period of ten years, when he was rewarded by an oracle from Bnto, which informed hilll how he could recover bis sight. This oracle informed him where he conld procure a most poweIful eye water~ that would restore bis sight.. This remedy could only be found under certain cOllllitiollf). The king was to apply to a certain lauy whom the ora de specifietl, and then procnre the remedy for . his affiictioll. After a long search he fonnd this lady, in the person of a poor gardener's wife. He recovered his sight; but the cure resulted in the destmction of several thousand women, including his own wife, hurning them without mercy, where he collected' them, in

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the town of Erythrebolus, including the town itself. The par-ticulars of these events it would not be decorous to mention here,

but they can be found in Herodotus. In gratitude for his recovery, the king, we are further informed, raised two imposing obelisks to the gods at Heliopolis, each a hundred cubits in height.

The ancient writers often speak of certain" mysteries" of the Egyptians. The priests were undoubtedly a mysterious brother-hood, for we know they had their secrets-the oracle, for instance.

Thcy did not use the common chal'acters of the land in writing, what was called demotic, but bad characters of their own-the biero-glyphs. They bad also a sign by wbich tbey saluted each other, by placing their hands in some peculiar manner on the knee; so Herodotus, who wrote 300 years B. 0 ., tells us. No doubt the "Father of History" was initiatetl in the mysteries whicb he men-tions, and Sfl,YS: "I am not at liberty to divulge." Query: What prevents bim-his masonic oath ~ What were the MYSTERIES OF THE CAllIRI? vVlIat were the peculiar ceremonies which he informs '

us the Pelasgians also adopted ' He speaks of being "initiated"

iu certain mysterious rites. Is not this free masonry ' He also names various nations who adopted the "mysteries of the Cabiri" from the Egyptians. Again be says: "Whoever has been initiated

in the mysteries will know what I mean." He was writing this for the Greeks and Romans, showing that this masonic Cabiri

order existed at the time in Europe.

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