john-r-bennett-the-origin-of-freemasonry-and-knights-templar

FREEMASONRY AND KNIGHTS TEMPLARset to sweat in the brickyards, and were beaten bytaskmasters until they broke out in insurrection.In the course of time, dermal of religious privilegescomplicated and intensified the rebellion. In theyear 1573 B. C, Pharaoh orders all the male childrenof the Hebrews to be drowned. Two yearslater Jochebed, the wife of Amram, a Levite, succeededin concealing her infant three months, butwhen she could no longer hide him, she put him ina basket of papyrus and placed the basket amongthe rushes of the Nile, and set his sister, Miriam,to watch from afar; finally the king's daughterfound the child, and, being struck with its beauty,determined to adopt it, and sent Miriam to fetcha Hebrew nurse, who conceived the idea of gettingher mother, and thus Jochebed became nurse toher own child. According to Ex. xi. 10, thechild was adopted by the king's daughter, who"called his name Moses; and she said, Because Idrew him out of the water." And according toActs vii. 22, he was initiated in all the secret wisdomof the Egyptian priesthood but the Bible tells;us nothing of his youth from his adoption by theprincess to the day when he slew an Egyptian overseerfor his barbarous treatment of a Jewish slave.This was in the year 1531 B. C. He was thencompelled to flee from Egypt, and lived many yearsin the land of the Midianites, with Jethro* thepriest, whose daughter he married and whose flockshe tended. In 1491 B. C. he was called, accordingto Exodus Hi., and Acts vii. 30-34, from the wildernessof Mount Sinai, where he was tending theflocks of his father-in-law, to free his brethrenfrom slavery in which they lived. He returned to