Identifier: antiquitiesofori00reddrich (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s, and claim that religion will only be pure andacceptable to the masses when science is respectedby its teachers, and the teachings of both science andrevelation are harmonized. The present deplorablecondition of the church in the midst of a people whosepride and boast is in irreligion and disbelief of thedogmas, can be charged mainly to the separation ofscience and religion, and the antagonism resultingtherefrom. The religion of the ancients embraced all the factsof physical science, while art and philosophy wereessential elements, and rested on a spiritual basis,since all combined were necessary to a right under-standing of the phenomena of nature, the motion ofthe heavenly bodies, the grand cosmogony of the uni-verse, the mystery of existence, and the notions of thefuture. The<^elements were generally grouped under fourheads—earth, fire, water and air. These representedthe universe of material things with which the soul hasto contend in this life. The material world, in their
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estimation, was the reflection of the real existences,the spiritual realities now unseen but represented bynature in its varied aspects, laws, motions, and quali-ties, which science aided by religion attempts to un-derstand. The initiation was, therefore, a great scientific, phi-losophic, religious drama, which had for its directobject the instruction of the candidate, and indirectlyhis culture in the verities of religion, a personal ac-countability to God, himself, and his fellow-beings,and a continuance of this state into the future life.In all their meditations, in every rite and ceremony,in sacrifice, public, or personal and private, in sorrow,affliction, suffering, or even in joy, they saw the sha-dow of the great unseen and mysterious One, who ispresent with every soul as its creator, preserver, andbeneficent help. INITIATION. The first step in the initiation of a candidate wasan introduction to the stern realities of the powers ofthe earthy elements. Gates of solid iron refused

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