forthcoming. Above all is the right arm of Jupiter exalted. As shown, the point F 311 becomes A 281: thus closing one sign, or 30 degrees, and rendering the zodiac. to eleven signs, or 330 degrees. The semi-diameters are taken from the poles of the equator, without being otherwise denoted. Apollo and Hercules of the Gemini are exceptions: these symbolize the sun, and therefore claim the centres of the ecliptic as well as the centre of the equator.

Apollo Alpha of Gemini from centre of semi-ecliptic is at AR 106 do. pole of ecliptic,, R 107 do.

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Do. Hercules Beta of Gemini from Do.

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do. equator,, ecliptic pole pole of equator

R 110 R111 AR113

The Astrolabe, with the Median and Persian laws and the allegorical symbols, is perfected: yet all is unintelligible and useless. True, they record the "parts and points" Masons are still sworn to keep secret under the penalty of death; yet all these "parts and points" might be published to the whole world without anyone being able to discover any of the sacred mysteries. Keys are wanted. "Nil nisi clavis deest." (Nothing but the key is wanted.) Masons yet possess the keys, although for very many generations they have lost their use and value; nor could their use ever have been discovered were it not for the Act of Parliament passed in 1751.

It will be necessary here to mention that several symbols pictured in the heavens have been subjected to variation, and the cause may hereafter be interesting research. Thus, Coma Berenices, in the sign Virgo, and in the tribe Joseph, is in old plates pictured as a sheaf of corn, but Berenices, the head of hair, is also required. The

Gen. xxxvii. 7.-Behold we binding sheaves in

the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

Acts xxv. 13.-And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Cæsarea to salute

Festus.

same constellation has been made to symbolize swaddling clothes. As already observed, the three-toothed flesh-hook, or trident, has disappeared, and in its stead is the Masonic

1 Sam. ii. 13-And the priest's custom with the people when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with

a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand.

gauge. The bag of Mercury has given place to Medusa's head, and the shield of Mars is gone altogether, &c. &c.

Fortunately, old celestial charts and statuary remain to certify the correctness of these all but lost symbols.

The celestial entrances, or gates, or doors, are those points on the circle described, namely, A 281, B 286, C 291; and opposite 10°101, 106, and a 111. From ! these the positions of all the celestial points are reckoned, and the objects at the points must consequently proceed to the gates or entrances according to the laws which close the signs and half signs. Any object removed by the laws to any gate, as a general rule, remains there for combination according to other movements. Thus, on the Astrolabe, Simon is in the sign Pisces, and Peter in Scorpio: if these two signs can be legally united at a gate or entrance, there will be Simon Peter.*

The New Style of 1752, by means of intercalary days, has rendered the equinoxial pass-over of the sun on the equator permanently a fixed calendarial epoch of the 21st March, when the sun enters the astronomical Aries. But although the sun and the seasons are quite agreeable to this adjustment, the fixed stars do not participate in the arrangement, and as of old persist in performing the Divine ordinance of recession. If, therefore, any language could be legible from the fixed stars and the planets, including the sun and moon when in conjunction, the language could only be comprehensible when the fixed stars and planets were again placed as they were in the heavens at the time of the Convocation of Nice or Nisan Aries, when the Median and Persian Laws were constructed!

Considerable confusion arose during the progress of the eleven degrees or days of precession or recession, and the mystic truths were so veiled that they proved beyond comprehension. Fortunately, the British Government in 1751 temporally re-established the chartered heavens as they were at the Convocation of Nice. Thus is it set! forth in the preamble of the Act passed in 1751.

"Whereas the calendar commonly used, called the Julian, hath been discovered to be erroneous, by means whereof the vernal or spring equinox, which, at the time of the General Council of Nice, in

*The dies non, be it understood, between ÆR 281 and ÆR 286 are not always closed; on the contrary, ÆR 281 is frequently considered the entrance of the yearly circle; but of course it cannot denote the solar circle.

the year of our Lord three hundred and twenty-five, happened on or about the twenty-first day of March, now happens on the ninth or tenth day of the same month : and the said error is still increasing, and if not remedied would in process of time occasion the several equinoxes and solstices to fall at very different times in the civil year from what they formerly did, which might tend to mislead persons ignorant of the said alteration. And whereas a method of correcting the calendar in such manner as that the equinoxes and solstices may for the future fall nearly on the same nominal days on which the same happened at the time of the said General Council hath been received and established, and is now generally practised by almost all other nations of Europe, &c.

This Act defines the solstitial and equinoxial time to calendral days, but the brilliants of heaven (with the constellations) the British Parliament deemed it prudent not to meddle with. One grand result has been consequent on the New Style, and that is, the constellations of good celestial charts have nearly the same relation to the sun as they had at the time of the Convocation of Nice, so that now with the masonic implements or keys can be framed the Median and Persian Laws, and the laws so framed can verify the truth of the ancient mysteries. Nice is from the Hebrew Nisan, and the Grand Council or Convocation of Nice was the conjunction of the planets.

CONSTRUCTION OF THE TRIPLE

TAU, &c.

Isaiah ix. 6.—For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah xxii. 20, and 22.—And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

"FOR unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder." The child is the offspring of us (the n), and the parents will be discovered when the interpretation of creation is given. The Sun of righteousness is born every year after passing the winter colure. As Antinous or young Osiris, he has a government, and at the same time a key of the house of David laid upon his shoulder.

There is another reading, but then it is not the child, nor is the government of any kind to be laid on his shoulder-only the key of the house of David. David Apollo is arrived at 106 after his fifteen songs of degrees already fully interpreted. Eliakim means "resurrection of God, or resurrection of the God of strength," and consequently Hercules is to open and shut the house or sign of David, and the key is to be on his shoulder.

Peter is celebrated for his keys, and Algothi and "d" of Hercules are at ÆR 256, and opposite thereto is Capella at AR 76. If Algothi and 8 of the shoulder of Hercules close one sign then are they at R 286, and 76 reaches David at R 106, and there also by the same motion is Capella and part of Taurus covering the Gemini, or house of David, which is consequently shut up or closed-the reversed motion would open or uncover the Gemini, or the house of David. Calmet gives a very remarkable key on a medal or token of Gaza. Gaza means "strong," or "goat," and Hercules, as just seen, is at 286, and there is the goat, Capricornus. He says, "The

conjecture is submitted, that it is

a key of a peculiar shape; and it is possible, besides the character of the city, it is the key of Syria towards Egypt." Calmet does not name the lock, but it certainly does fit the celestial lock near Egypt, which is at R 281. The perpendicular is the winter colure-the cross branch, the equinoxial colure, and the projecting limbs denote one sign each, below and above from the colure-the upper pointing to Cancer, that below pointing to Capricornus. Close the two bars on the colure, and Cancer and Capricornus are closed upon the colure, and there the types 2, and 1 are invariably placed in all celestial charts..

To return to the new-born son, or personified infant sun or child Antinous. He and his shoulder strictly symbolize lunar time, commencing, as the constellation does, at R 282-the shoulder say "o" at ÆR 292, which, reduced to solar time, is 291 old New Year's day, the 11th January. Erect a perpendicular from this left shoulder parallel to the solstitial colure, and let it terminate at four cubits or degrees above the ecliptic circle: this perpendicular will cut the type of the Gemini II which is always in the neck of Taurus on the ecliptic at 30 ecliptical degrees from the colure. Precisely opposite, that is at R 249, erect a similar perpendicular: this will cut the type of Leo, which is always in the body of the crab, Cancer. Unite these pillars or posts by a bar or line traced over the colure of the equinoxes. Within the circle on the

nisi clavis deest," and verily without this key nothing is known, whereas when the mastery of the double triangles is accomplished you know enough, “si talia jungere possis sit tibi scire satis."

Masons always work from a centre. In the plane projections of the heavens there are three centres :— 1. The pole of the equator;

2. The pole of the ecliptic; and

3. The centre of the semi-ecliptic.

In the centre of the masonic double triangles is the sun within a triangle, and the moon and the earth beneath, denoting a solar eclipse; from the base of the triangle to the apex, or summer solstice, is one-third of the circle, or four signs, or eight hours, or 120 degrees; the descent of course requiring the same time. This implement therefore denotes a latitude where at the summer solstice there are 16 hours of sunlight and eight hours from sunset to sunrise.

His Holiness the Pope and the Roman Catholic Clergy are inimical to Masonry. His Holiness frequently denounces the craft, and occasionally excommunicates the brethren; no pious Catholic can therefore be found among the order so denounced by the priesthood. That Masonry was co-existing with Catholicism is evidentpractically the Masonic tools are claimed by the Catholics, who also retain the Masonic book, the Bible. The Bramins are Masons, and their religion can be easily traced to the heavens. The Mahommedans do not forbid Masonry; and among the Jews are probably the most enlightened of the Craft.

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preserved with great veneration His Holiness does not know its use. The ancients had horn books:

let the papal triple tau be traced on a leaf of horn or glass or on any other transparent medium; the upper bar denoting one sign on the equator on either side of the solstitial colurethe middle bar in like manner denoting two signs, and the other three signs. This papal tau, made to fit the equator, would not suit the ecliptic semicircle; it is therefore not to be compared with the masonic triple tau; and yet strange as it may appear the Masons of the 33d or highest degree claim it as their symbol.

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Whether the Masons obtained it from the

Pope, or the Pope pirated it from the Masons,

cannot now be decided, nor does it matter

-the masonic triple tau engraved on a transparent medium will be found to work well from the three centres described. Allow the key to be placed as constructed, and then from the pole of the equator move the point of the upper bar, which is at R 120, to the | solstitial colure at R 90. By this motion 30 equatorial degrees will be closed or shut up or carried forward from 120 to R 90; consequently, the solar sign of pictured Cancer will cover the pictured sign of Gemini. Reverse the motion by taking the point of the triple tau which is at 60 R to the colure at R 90, and the pictured Taurus will cover pictured Gemini, or otherwise close 30 degrees. On the ecliptic, if the point of the triple tau cutting the type of the II Gemini in the bull's neck be moved to the colure, 30 ecliptical degrees will be removed, and the type of the Gemini II will be on the colure upon the pictured Gemini, and this motion returning Cancer to the pictured Crab, the house of David will be open or uncovered. The reverse takes place by closing the right point on the ecliptic, and the type of Cancer will pass to the colure, and there at R 90 the type of will be found in all atlases.

Great attention is required regarding the centres. The tables of stars in atlases are now generally calculated from the pole of the equator; consequently all readings would appear imperfect if authors intended the workings. See pp. 15 & 17 to be from other centres.' It may be well here to observe that Alpha of the Gemini, David, or Apollo, is at R 106

from the centre of the semi-ecliptic; that from the ecliptic pole Apollo is at R 107, and from the pole of the equator the brilliant is at ÆR 110. Thus "X" (lambda) of Leo Major, the Lion's tooth, is by the table of stars at R 140; but from the ecliptic pole A is at AR 136, and from the centre of the semi-ecliptic at AR 133. The twelve pictured constellations on the ecliptic are all of different measurement, not like the solar houses or signs of 30 degrees each. If, therefore, a solar sign is to be placed over the Gemini by either of the right-hand points of the triple tau, all pictured Cancer and part of pictured Leo will be required to shut up the solar house of David, because pictured Cancer has only 20 degrees -ten degrees of pictured Leo, therefore, must accompany Cancer in the movement. ·

Rigel of Orion culminates with Auriga. Rigel is the Biblical Raguel, meaning "the shepherd of God." Auriga gathers the lambs with his arm, and carries them in

Isaiah xl. 11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry in his bosom, shall gently lead those that are with young.

Ezek. xxxiv. 23. —And I will set up one shepherd

over them, and he shall feed them, my servant

David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their

shepherd.

his bosom.

David therefore kept his father's flock.* Capella, the little goat, is the denoting brilliant,

1 Sam. xvii. 34. 35.—And David said unto Saul,

Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

but the kid or lamb, (A) lambda, is at against me, I caught by his beard, and smote him, R 76, and Taurus closed ecliptically

And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered out of his mouth: and when he arose

and slew him.

on the Gemini will carry the lamb 30 degrees to ÆR 106, David.

[It is now necessary to appeal to the Median and Persian Laws as authorities. The references are set forth in the margin, and are simple and easily understood when explained. Here is "Y 52 "—the Roman letter Y will be found to claim R 76, delivering the objects there to the gate, which is R 106. The denoting number 52 produces "lamb or lambs,"

* The Lord God said, “I will set up one shepherd, and he shali feed my sheep," flock, "even my servant David." David died and was buried about 1,004 B.C. 1 Kings ii. 10. Ezekiel was written about 574 B.C., or 430 years after David's burial.

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thus the lamb of R 76 is to be taken to the gate ◇ 106. The next reference is "e 22 a." Look at the Arabic letter e, and it will be found to claim R 141, carrying the objects there to the gate "a 111." The denoting number " 22" points out the "mouth" of the Lion, Leo major. 35 O is David. The next reference is "e 23 a," and that gives the "tooth" of the Lion at R111. The next appeal to the Laws is BB" V 4 B” “F 5 A." The Arabic letter v denotes AR 256, proceeding to B281 and 286, and the number v 4" points out the Altar-so the Altar proceeds to the gates R 281 and R 286. Roman E 5 B gives "Gad" at B 286, and the Roman F 5 A produces "Reuben" at the gate A--R 281. Care must be taken not to confound one alphabet with the other. At times the gates at 281-286 and 291 close on 251-256 and 261, but the laws provide for this, and will be interpreted in the text.]

The lamb, when ecliptically at R 106, is equatorially at 110.1 And there came a lion (Leo Major) and a bear (Ursa Major) from R140 to R110 (by closing one sign), and took the lamb at AR 110,2 when David, from R 106,3 went after the lamb to R110 and brought it back to 106. The reading is: David "went out after him," after whom? "and delivered it," what? "out of his mouth," whose mouth? Lambda A of Leo is the tooth star at R 140.4

at all times embracing (ß Gemini), is on the meridian with Procyon of Canis Minor.

"Save me," sings David, "from the lion's mouth." From the ecliptic

Psalm xxii. 21.-Save me from the lion's mouth: for

| thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. pole A lambda of Leo is at R 136,

and closing a sign, from the centre of the ecliptic circle, the Alpha of Gemini, or David, is in the lion's mouth. Use compasses to simplify the proof. The horn of the unicorn at R 91, by closing half a sign, will be with David at AR 106—that is, one horn of a unicorn-but the text is horns of unicorns. There is another fabulous Unicornus, or one-horned beast, the horn of which is at R 46: by using the double triangle, two signs or 60 degrees closed, there is the horn with David. There is another Unicornus under David, near the pole of the ecliptic. David also makes mention of Psalm xvii. 12.-Like as a lion is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret Leo Minor. In places. order to silence any doubts as to the Astronomical interpretation of the Biblical lions and bears, Cruden had better be consulted seriatim with the Median and Persian Laws. In the southern hemisphere, the triple tau, as a general rule, works from the pole of the equator.1

Josh. xxii. 34. And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar; for it a witness between us that the Lord God.

Gen. xxxii. 28.-And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

The double triangles of the Royal Arch being enclosed points two signs or

in the equatorial circle, have their 60 degrees distant from each other, so that any point. moving to a colure will enclose or remove two signs, or months, thus reducing the circle to 300 degrees, or ten signs or months, to the Roman year. The square, when on a transparent medium, will enclose or remove three signs, and the triangle four signs. There does not seem much mystery about working any other key than the tripletau-that requires practice on account of its working from three centres in the northern hemisphere. All the