"Nisan" Quotes from Famous Books
... Jews fixed the commencement of their year in the month Nisan, at the Vernal Equinox, at which season the Israelites marched out of Egypt and were relieved of their long bondage; in commemoration of which Exodus, they ate the Paschal Lamb at that Equinox. And when Bacchus and his army had long marched in burning deserts, they were ... — Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike |