to the equinox at 360 are 90 degrees, or three astronomical signs, each of 30 degrees, and H. At the same time there are four pictured signs or tribes from the winter colure, 270, to the termination of the year, or to the astronomical starting point of Aries, namely, H. One sign or pictured tribe must therefore be got rid of, or destroyed, or lacking, to allow the pictured signs to correspond with the astronomical signs. The sign Aquarius, or Neptune, or Moshua, or Budha, allotted to the priesthood of old as described, was not counted; Matthew, as seen, claims the tribe of Levi ! Luke xxiv. 33. Acts i. 26. Barrels. Leprous Altars Chariots Days . I Kings xviii. 33. Days As the full zodiac of twelve signs gives 360 degrees, so a zodiac of eleven solar signs must give 330 degrees. An implement called the triple tau, belonging to the Royal Arch Companions, is required to cancel, or curtain, or cover one sign from the twelve. The following passages authorize a zodiac of ten signs:— Brethren Gen. xlii. 3. Curtains. Exod. xxvi. 1, 3. Women. Lev. xxvi. 26. Men. The masonic triangle will close four signs, one-third of the circle. Here are authorities for the nine and a half, the twoand a half, and the half sign : Numb.xxxiv. 13. Numb.xxxiv. 15. Acres Israel . Isaiah v. 10. Amos v. 3. Tribes Jews Zech. viii. 23. Tribes · Josh, xii. 6. Luke xix. 16. Luke xix. 17. The double triangles of the Royal Arch Masons close two signs or 60 degrees, thus reducing the zodiac to ten signs or months-the Roman year of 300 degrees. The year was, and mystically now is, of ten months. January the first, September the seventh, October the eighth, November the ninth, and December the tenth. On the Astrolabe will presently be placed the Roman letters. Rome means "strength," or "power," and denotes the sun in his ascendency. Josh. xiii. 7, 8. Josh. xiv. 2, 3. "Some Hebrew critics assign Sagittarius to the half tribe of Manasseh." Next to Sagittarius is Gad, or Capri- Jamieson, p. 46 cornus; then Reuben. Jordan and Jericho will be determined at /R 286-two and a half tribes are 75 degrees, which added to R 286 gives AR 361 sun-rise in the first degree of Aries. The half-tribe can Numb. xxxiv. 14, 15.-For the tribe of the chil dren of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance: The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan Jericho east- be added to any full ward, toward the sunrising. accordingly tribe, here are the following zodiacs with their complements : L In all celestial maps, ancient and modern, the type of the astronomical sign Aries is placed on the preceding pictured sign Pisces; and the type of Pisces H, on the preceding pictured sign Aquarius, and so on throughout the whole circle of the ecliptic. Thus the zodiac with one sign covered is mystically of eleven signs, and yet at the same time twelve. The pictured Sagittarius is the month January, and R 281 is a point on the ecliptic between the 31st December and the 1st of January. R 286 is a point denoting the 6th January old Christmas-day, as also the Epiphany, and ÆR 291 is a point denoting the 11th of January, old New Year's day. There are three entrances to the Temple of Janus, and mythology tells of four, the fourth always closed. There are four gates in Sagittarius or January, and by progression 296 would be the fourth, and from 281 to 296 are 15 degrees, or half a sign, and this is the half tribe Exod. xxvi. 12.-And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. of Manasseh, which is closed, or not counted. Ophiuchus vel Esculapius is at all times wrestling with a serpent, the symbol of Eternity. Ophiuchus personates 66 old Israel, and the name Israel means one that wrestles with God." The Astrolabe gives James or Jacob to Sagittarius. Ophiuchus is in Scorpio. Astronomers place Sagittarius on Scorpio, consequently, Jacob must be with Gen, xxxii. 24, 25.—And Jacob was left alone; the wrestler, and and there wrestled a man with him until the break the signs Sagittarius and Scorpio, become one and the same. The denoting star ing of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 28. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou personating Israel power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. is "Alhague" at ÆR 261 which, with the sign of Sagittarius overlapping, would be R 291 of Sagittarius, and there to this day is Jacob's thigh out of joint, in the pictured sign, the 1st January (Old Style). Ezek. xliv. 1, 2.-Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. The of the outgate ward sanctuary that looketh towards the east is that of Jacob, or old New Year's day; this gate is to be shut, and not opened, and no man shall enter in by it. In other words, old New Year's day is to be closed, so that the gates at 281 and 286 alone remain open. The shutting of this gate of Jacob is Gen. xxv. 31-33.-And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he allegorically illussware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto trated. Jacob, Israel (as just ex Jacob. plained) is Alhague at R 261, and Algothi of Hercules is at R 256. Hercules with the lion's skin "is all over like an hairy garment," and is Esau. Hercules or Hiram always dies on the 31st December, R 281. When about. to die, what profit was the birthright to him? And Esau swore on the centre of the altar at R 256, and sold the point on the circle at /R 256 to Jacob. So Jacob of R 261 claims AR 256, and Esau of ÆR 256 is reduced to AR 251. Cyrus means "belly," and Algenib is the brilliant or prince star of Perseus, and is in the belly of the constellation. By the laws the constellation of Persis opens at the third gate, R 291, New Year's day (Old Style). The Prince Algenib opens the year at the Epiphany R 286, and the See Psalm xxiv. 7, 9, 10. adamantine sword of the Persian opens the year at ÆR 281 the 1st of January. Algenib being cen Isa. xlv. 1. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the tral, the two-leaved loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut. Prov. xxvi. 14-The door turneth upon his hinges, so the slothful upon his bed. Eack. xli. 2.-And the breadth of the door ten cubits; and the sides of the docr five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. gates of R281, and R 291 hinge thereon at 286, the solstitial winter point. The full breadth of the door is ten cu bits, that is from RR 281 to R 291, or 5 cubits on either side of the Persian lawgiver. The sign of Aries claims Perseus, and the sign Libra is the Hebrew 7, med meaning a meaeasure. Libra is the tribe Dan, and med-dan means "measure of judgment;" and the scales, as described, are the symbols of judgment. Median has the same signification. Aries from sunrising rules the day; Libra from sunset rules the night. Aries as described is the Hebrew Nisan, and Libra is the Hebrew Tishree. The Persian lawgiver, Algenib of Aries, the Median lawgiver, Chemali of Libra, between them claim the kingdoms of the world, or solar circle. (See the fingers of the man's hand in the plaister of the wall (lactea), under the circular wall, the equator, at AR 286.) The sun-king from the ecliptic could see the part of the hand that wrote. The laws place a wall candlestick at R 286. Algenib claiming his three gates or entrances R 281, R 286, and R 291, Chemali, precisely opposite, must claim his three gates or entrances; and there is Genubi at R 101, Chemali at R 106, and Moloch or Kronos at R 111.1 Daniel v. 5, 28.-In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. The year opens solstitially and equinoxially at R 281, the point is therefore the Alpha and Omega. The point R 281 is applicable only to the natural year, because Old charts give small squares or cubits of one degree each, on either side of the ecliptic; these squares extend to eight degrees from the ecliptic, so as to enclose the courses of the planets. Any wanderer could be readily discovered if the number of the cubit of the sign were stated where he then domiciled. There are other allegorical cubits, but those of the square degree is the ordinary measurement. the lunar circle consists of 52 weeks or 364 days, con| sequently lunar time begins at R 282, It is therefore necessary in framing the laws to give the solar and lunar points for each law, thus R 281-2, and ÆR 286-7, and so on throughout the circle. As stated, the laws are framed in accordance with the complements of the reduced zodiacal signs. The first reduction or "part" is the half curtain, or half tribe of Manasseh, or 15 degrees from R 281-2 to R 296-7. The intermediate space cancelled, or covered or lapped over so that R 296-7 becomes the same point as AR 281-2, and consequently is either the solstitial or the equinoxial point, whichever may be required in interpreting the mysteries. The second gate, R 286, has for half tribe ÆR 301-2. The third gate, as witnessed, is ordered to be shut, and it shuts upon R 286. Strange, however, that for more distant points the gate R 291-2 requires to be open in order to produce the laws. Thus one and half signs from R 291 give AR 336, and two signs from R 291 give R351, &c. Next to half signs come full signs of 30 degrees. Thus R 2812 becomes R 311-2, and ÆR 286-7 becomes R 316-7, and so forth. It is not every point that can be enumerated by complements of reduced zodiacs that constitute law. points on the astrolabe. The omissions seem to be somewhat arbitrary reference therefore had better be made to the Index to the laws, the points there enumerated Pages 3 and 4, having had their correctness tested by very numerous applications. (See also Astrolabe, frontispiece.) Having all the points marked in consecutive order on the Astrolabe, outside the circle of the Church Feasts, give to each point. a letter alphabetically commencing with Roman A for IR 281, the 1st of January, Roman B for R 286, C for R 291, and so on. The alphabet becomes exhausted, and then comes the solstitial colure. The Roman Z is the Hebrew, tau. The Hebrew harpist is the Egyptian Apollo. The 119th Psalm of David is dedicated to the Hebrew Alphabet, and the following fifteen psalms are called "songs of degrees of David."* Fifteen degrees. from the summer colure is 105, and from the centre of the semi-ecliptic at R 106 is David the Egyptian Apollo, Median and Persian Laws |