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and consequently radically false idea ; in the union of both is the truth . Eliphas Levi applies this interpretation to the Scriptures , divining that as in the first chapter of Genesis we find the creation in six days , the antithesis gives nsthe ideal

development of Deity in six nights . God , says Genesis , made man in his image , and philosophy proves that man made also God in man ' s likeness . The philosophic fact has served as

basis for the theurgic statement by the analogy of contraries . The progress of the human spirit in seeking to define Deity ; revealed to Moses , by antithesis , tho successive periods of Creation .

" The first chapter of Genesis , cabbalistically rendered , gives a luminous summary of the progress of universal theogony in the human spirit . Isolated , this summary would represent the Divinity as a fiction of man . Tho text of Moses , taken by itself , as usually read , would seem a

fable . Bnt upon nniting the two opposites , npon forming the double triangle , we shall be astonished at the light which dawns upon us . This is the inversion of Genesis , T . " " For ever , the immensity of Heaven and the extension of the earth inspired man with a conception of God . "

" But this idea was indefinite and vague , a mask of shadows over an infinite shade ; and man ' s spirit brooded upon its ideas as on the waters . " " Man then said : There must be a supreme intelligence ;

and there was a supreme intelligence . And man saw that it was good , and distinguished the Spirit of Light from that of Darkness ; he called the former God , and the latter Devil , and there was a Kingdom of Good and one of Evil . This was the first night . "

"Man said also—There must be an utter separation between the dreams of heaven and the realities of earth

And it was so ; and man divided the things above from those below ; he called the imaginary division Heaven . And the evening and the morning made the second night . " " And man said : We must separate in our religion the masses of clouds from the dry vault of heaven . He gave

to the dry heaven the name of father , to the firmament the name of mother . And man saw that it was good , and said , let there be bred in heaven all manner of symbols whence dogmas shall issue one from another , as the seed from the herb , and the herb from the seed . "

"Let us plant the primeval tree of mysterious and immortal fruits : and the heavens bore symbols like herbs , and the mysterious trees were born . And man saw that it was good . Thus the evening and the morning made the third night . "

Man said also : Let there be mystical planets in my heaven , that they may divide knowledge from ignorance , day from night ! And it was so : and man made two splendid Divinities , the great one for initiates , the small one for the people , and lesser Gods numerous as the stars .

And he placed them aloft in his heaven to be rulers of the earth , and to make a distinction between knowledge and ignorance , between day and night . And man saw that it was good , and the evening and the morning made a fourth night . "

"Man said also : Let the clouds bring forth flying dragons and grotesque shapes . And the clouds bore monsters to frighten children and devils with wings ; and

man blessed them , and said : Increase and multiply , and fill the heaven and the earth ; and man placed all the animals of earth in turn upon his altars . And the evening and the morning made the fifth night . "

" Man then adored animals and reptiles of all kinds , and having seen the effect , he said : Let us make a God in our image and likeness , that he may be ruler of the mythologic leviathans , of the monsters of heaven and of hell . And man made a God in his image and likeness , and blessed it

and said : Increase and multiply thy images ; I give thee the empire of heaven and dominion of earth . And it was thus ; and man saw what he had made that it was beautiful . And the evening and the morning made the sixth night . "

The foregoing is but one out of the innumerable fancies of the Cabbalists , who , throughout ponderous volumes , whose collection would fill waggons , must have exhausted every refinement of speculation and every subtlety of

ratiocination upon the symbolical and cryptic dogmas of the East ; preparing the way for those Manichce in Gnostics , of whom the Pope assures us that Freemasons are the more impious representatives . ( To be continued . )

Odds And Ends.

ODDS AND ENDS .

BY WALTER SPENCER , F . R . G . S ., & c .

A CHARACTERISTIC example of early Colonial manners and customs occurred at Port Lyttelton , N . Z ., one day when I had ridden over there from Christchnrch , on business . I dined in company with various acquaintances at an excellent restaurant which had been started there by a Frenchman . Two of the company had to return

earlier than others , and went round to the stables to saddle their beasts . I believe that all of ns had been imbibing freely in colonial fashion ; and my friends found that some one in playful jest had abstracted the horse of one of them —Jim Woodville . Jim swore he would have somebodv ' s

horse , and as we all hastened to secure our property , the only unclaimed animal was found to be a broken-down jobhorse , known as "Old Jacob . " No saddle or bridle was forthcoming , but Jim , with the recklessness produced by strong potations , hastily fitted on a halter , and mounting

bare-back , spurred up the hill . The direct road goes over a mountain as steep and precipitous as Victoria Peak at Hong-kong , zigzagging sinuously to the top . The first

railroad in New Zealand was just then being commenced from Lyttelton to Christchnrch , by tunnelling through the mountain ; a rude refrain , sung everywhere in the colony , ran thus :

" Tbe governor says he will bore a bole through , tho hill , For a railway to Christchnrch according : Sixty thousand pounds a year will be circulated here , Coming from the other side of Jordan . " which sentiment could not be other than gratifying to the

generally impecunious public of the place at that time . The iron road , however , was , as yet , only on paper , and over the old tortuous stony one all hurried travellers had to go . The angles of many of the zigzags overhung sheer precipices , which were marked by low rubble walls , to prevent

accidents in the dark . Approaching one of these , Jim and his comrade were canvassing the respective merits of certain steeple-chasers , when , inspired by a bright idea , the former asked , " Did you ever see ' Old Jacob' jump ?" Receiving a negative reply , and being incapable of seeing

moro than a yard in advance , Jim put spurs to his beast , with the exclamation , " What ! never saw ' Old Jacob ' jump '" and , ere his startled companion could stop him , flew over the rubble wall and utterly disappeared from view . His friend dismounted in alarm , and gazed , horror

struck , over the parapet . At about forty feet below he distinguished the form of the old white horse among the rocks and boulders ; he scrambled down the side to the spot , and found Jim extended prone amid flax-bushes , white and unconscious . All efforts to reanimate him proving

unavailing , he had to take him on his back , grasping the arms over his shoulders , and with incredible labour to carry him up again on to the road after a painful and circuitous climb . This operation occupied four hours . He then secured him on his own horse , and took him back to Lyttelton , where a surgeon succeeded in bringing him to .

Freemasonry And The Bank Holiday.

FREEMASONRY AND THE BANK HOLIDAY .

We understand that there is likely to be a largo gathering of Free , masons in the old City of York on Monday next ( Bank Holiday ) , the occasion being the ceremony of constitution of a new Masonic Lodge by tho Eiirht Worship ful Provincial Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland . The movement , which has resulted in the establishment of the Eboracum Lodge , which will stand No . 1611 on the roll of the

Grand Lodge of England , has , we learn , received very wide and substantial supporo amongst the brethren of the mystic tie , and every preparation is being made to celebrate the opening ceremony in a befitting manner . The Lodge room is situated in Micklegate , next door to the Qneen's Hotel , and is a most suitable apartment , handsomely furnished . The ceremony has been fixed by the Provincial

authorities to take place at 2 . 30 p . m ., and at 4 . 30 p . m . a banquet has been arranged to take place at the De Gray Eooms , York . The day and the occasion will doubtless draw a large muster from both provinces , and many Freemasons will be glad to embrace the opportunity of visiting a city containing so mnch that is interesting to the arcbteologist and associated so intimately with the old Masonio Legends .

HOM . OWIT ' 8 PIILS AND OiirarBifT . —The close , sultry weather which prevails durimr the Into summer months , is very liabl" to L'ive rise to vari-ms forms of febrile and abdominal complaints , tho action of heat on the vegetation cnu-ea pmanations of a most do eterious character to be given off , nnd these ppm-- nte the air and so are taken into the system by breathins *; tho products . . f vegetable decomposition also find their way into our water supply , and ! ence it .. osner source of danger arises . Whenever any symptoms arise , indiuatinjr that incipient fever , or diarrhoea , is developing U'el , immediate recourse should be had to these remedies . The Ointment must be used assiduously to the abdominal surface , and the Pills taken inwardly in aperient doses ,