EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES,
OR
RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS
OF THE ANCIENT
EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS,
ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF
FREEMASONRY.
BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M.
NEW-YORK:
1835.
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (EXPLANATION OF THE FRONTISPIECE) wrote:
The Blazing Star is Anubis, the Dog-star; whose rising forewarned the Egyptians of the approach of the overflowing of the Nile. Hence the great veneration in which it was held by them, and which has descended to the Freemasons.
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (EXPLANATION OF THE FRONTISPIECE) wrote:
Among the emblems of masonry, in Cross's Chart, is the figure of a Key, which is, also generally displayed in Masonic monitors. The Key was the attribute of Anubis, the Dog-star, in afternoons dominated Mercury, and indicated the closing of one year, and opening of another; because the Egyptians formerly commenced the year at the rising of this star.
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 6) wrote:
I warned them of the danger; whereupon they called it Thaaut or Tayaut, the dog; they called it also the barker, the monitor, in Egyptian, Anubis;
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 7) wrote:
I will hereby remark, that the Anubis or Dog-Star, so useful to the ancient Egyptians is the Blazing-Star of masonry; and although the craft are ignorant of its origin as a masonic symbol, they are actually taught the moral drawn from its original emblematical use.
"The names given to this public sign were Anubis the barker, the giver of advices, or Tahaut the dog." The meaning then that has been handed down to masons of the blazing-star, completely identifies it with Anubis the dog-star.
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 15) wrote:
Death and Resurrection of Osiris.
To the above is superadded a large Anubis, who with an empathic gesture, turning towards Isis who has an empty throne on her head . . . . The position of the Master mason, when in the act of raising Hiram, is a fac simile of that of Anubis over the body of Osiris.
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 37) wrote:
The names given to this public sign were Anubis the barker, the giver of advices or Tahaut the dog, or AEsculapius the man dog. * It was still the same meaning or same public sign; but they were three names for one and the same thing. A sufficient ground for them to derive from thence three personages of their history, the chronology whereof will be still lengthened by this means. They make their demi-god Anubis to reign before Menes, without telling us where.
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 38) wrote:
But it was very superfluous, here to have recourse to means of reconciliation; since AEsculapius or the man-dog, and the Tahaut, or the dog-star, as well as Anubis, were no more than the names of one figure that was exposed in the assembly of the people, to warn them of the appearance of that star, the rising of which would soon be succeeded by the inundation. *
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 48) wrote:
These calculations found in the registers of the most laborious among the learned, being always joined with names of men such as Anubis, Thot, Menes, Osiris, and others whom they lodged in the stars, passed for the term of the terrestrial life of these gods.
The dog-star has already afforded us two deities, one residing in the fine star near Cancer, under the name of Thot or of Anubis, and very well employed in the swelling and sinking the river Nile,
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 50) wrote:
But they still observed the custom of making the god Anubis who was the door-keeper of the feasts, to proceed the pomp of Isis, which was the first feast of the year;
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 51) wrote:
Anubis as considered as a symbol, was in reality the rule of the feasts, and the introducer of all the symbolic figures that were successfully shown to the people during the whole year. When a god, he was made inventor and regulator of these feasts.
This they made the noblest function of Anubis; and it was with regard to this frivolous opinion, that the pomp of Isis was always proceeded by a dog.
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 52) wrote:
The compasses and square, of which he is made the inventor, are no other than the compasses and square that were put into the hands of Anubis or Horus, to warn the husbandmen to be in readiness to measure their lands, to take angles in order to distinguish them from the lands of others. Thus he was made the inventor of the symbolical instruments they saw in their hands.
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 53) wrote:
The first answers to the Supreme Intelligence; the second to Osiris the sun; the third to Isis; and the fourth to Anubis.
EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIES, OR RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND DRUIDS, ALSO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPORT OF FREEMASONRY. BY JOHN FELLOWS, A.M. NEW-YORK: 1835 (PAGE 79) wrote:
The fourth was called the messenger of the gods, or Mercury, which corresponds to the Egyptian Anubis, with his dog's head and measure of the Nile,
Etc.
Dear John Gee,
You are in serious, hot water. You do realize you are going to have to answer for all of this? You know that Anubis in Facsimile No. 3, is an Egyptian god known to Freemasonry and you must come to terms that his snout was viciously hacked out of the lead plate.
Shulem