and were called Naim. If we read the nineteenth chapter of first Samuel with this understanding wo shall readily see that the incident there narrated was of a mediumistic nature. David had become afraid of Saul and he went with Samuel to “Naioth.” This is supposed by Bible translators to he a place, and maybe a village was so named. But if that was the ease, it was because the people who lived in that place were Naioth, or mediums. They were called prophets in the chapter before us, and it is significant that as soon as anyone came within their camp, he commenced to prophesy or speak under control. Even Saul, who came there, anxious to get David away that he might slay him, was seized by the spirits and prophesied, to the amazement of all present.
In the New Testament we are told that the Chirst went to the city of Nain and there raised the Son of Widow. In the Latin Testament, this city was not called Nain, but Naim, And it is very significant that all three, Naim, Naioth and Endor, where the sorceress that assisted Saul is supposed to have lived, are in the same locality by Mount Tabor.
Every Free Mason knows that the brethren of that Order are called “Sons of the Widow.” And it is stated in the Bible that Hiram Abiff, the Master Builder of Solomon’s Temple, was the Son of a Widow, a cunning craftsman. We cannot in the present article repeat the Masonic Legend which tells
