Thursday, June 9, 2011

Exegesis

Freemasons (p.12) –
noun
a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons), having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
( lowercase ) History/Historical .
one of a class of skilled stoneworkers of the Middle Ages, possessing secret signs and passwords.
a member of a society composed of such workers, which also included honorary members (accepted masons) not connected with the building trades.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Freemasons 
“And lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace” (p.13) – Gen 19:28, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Barrel organ (p.13) – (Music / Instruments) an instrument consisting of a cylinder turned by a handle and having pins on it that interrupt the air flow to certain pipes, thereby playing any of a number of tunes
Raison (p.14) – reason
Société (p.14) – society/company
Musculus constrictor vesicae (p.15)
Musculus means muscle
constrictor means one that constricts, especially a muscle that contracts or compresses a part or organ of the body… a muscle that binds or restricts an opening, such as the ciliary body fibers that control the size of the pupil.
Vesicae is the bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gallbladder
Urea (p.15)- A water-soluble compound, CO(NH2)2, that is the major nitrogenous end product of protein metabolism and is the chief nitrogenous component of the urine in mammals and other organisms. Also called carbamide.
Aberratio (p.16) - aberration
deviation from the normal or the usual
imperfect refraction or focalization of a lens.
Apoplexia cerebralis (p.16)- Cerebral apoplexy - Latin description of the disease. Meaning: stroke
Pliny (p.16) - Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD – August 25, 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently.

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