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Article TO THE EDITOR. Page 1 of 1 Article ON MYSTIC AND CABALISTIC NUMBERS. Page 1 of 8 →
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I cannot allow your number for December to appear without sending you a few remarks in answer to your correspondent Noachida Dalruadicus . I understood that Brother , in the article to which I alluded , to express some astonishment at the omission of the Kni ghts Templar ' s degree in Bro . Rosenberg ' s Chart , and to explain that omission , I observed that there was no such grade known abroadand this I stated advisedl . In his lto me Noachida
, y repy goes farther , and , as it were , calls my attention to another passage in the same paper to which I had not made any allusion , in which he intimates , that though net named , yet the Order of K . T . is perpetuated among those 33 degrees . Now , reluctantly , I am compelled to differ , on this point , in toto from him ; I do so , however , the more willingly that difference of opinion often tends to elicit truth . In denying his assertion , I only do so as far as the" Rite Ecossais Ancien et Accepts" is concerned
, and not as regards the Irish practice of that rite , with which I am little , if at all , acquainted . After thus differing from Noachida , wdiom I esteem as asealous and learned Mason , I conclude joyfully with a complete concuri-ence in that part of his article in which he deplores the multiplicity and variety of Orders and Rites ; and gladly will I publish in your excellent Review , with your permission , some remarks on this subject , written by an eminent French Brother . By inserting these few
and hasty lines , you will add one to the many obligations already your due from Your ' s sincerely and fraternally , Temple , December 8 th . LATOMUS .
On Mystic And Cabalistic Numbers.
ON MYSTIC AND CABALISTIC NUMBERS .
BY D . W . NASH , { Of the Royal Sussex Lodge of Hospitality , No , 221 . ) THE harmony and proportion displayed in all parts of this material universe has ever been a favourite subject of meditation with philosophic minds ; whether as brought to light in those laws which govern the
movements and limit the courses of the numberless shining orbs scattered through space , or in those which regulate the composition and condition of the inanimate matter of which this terrestrial globe is formed , or the development and existence of the beings by which it is inhabited . To the students of nature at an early period of intellectual history , the hidden secrets of that mysterious correspondence and intimate but inexplicable relation supposed to exist between this earth and
its inhabitants , and those bright planets which wheel their courses around our common luminary , afforded an inexhaustible field of speculation and inquiry . " Insignis est , " writes an old philosopher of this school , " reruin naturalium et divinarium harmonia ; nullaque scientia in histerris comparavi illi potest . " The modern chemist , also , lias not
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I cannot allow your number for December to appear without sending you a few remarks in answer to your correspondent Noachida Dalruadicus . I understood that Brother , in the article to which I alluded , to express some astonishment at the omission of the Kni ghts Templar ' s degree in Bro . Rosenberg ' s Chart , and to explain that omission , I observed that there was no such grade known abroadand this I stated advisedl . In his lto me Noachida
, y repy goes farther , and , as it were , calls my attention to another passage in the same paper to which I had not made any allusion , in which he intimates , that though net named , yet the Order of K . T . is perpetuated among those 33 degrees . Now , reluctantly , I am compelled to differ , on this point , in toto from him ; I do so , however , the more willingly that difference of opinion often tends to elicit truth . In denying his assertion , I only do so as far as the" Rite Ecossais Ancien et Accepts" is concerned
, and not as regards the Irish practice of that rite , with which I am little , if at all , acquainted . After thus differing from Noachida , wdiom I esteem as asealous and learned Mason , I conclude joyfully with a complete concuri-ence in that part of his article in which he deplores the multiplicity and variety of Orders and Rites ; and gladly will I publish in your excellent Review , with your permission , some remarks on this subject , written by an eminent French Brother . By inserting these few
and hasty lines , you will add one to the many obligations already your due from Your ' s sincerely and fraternally , Temple , December 8 th . LATOMUS .
On Mystic And Cabalistic Numbers.
ON MYSTIC AND CABALISTIC NUMBERS .
BY D . W . NASH , { Of the Royal Sussex Lodge of Hospitality , No , 221 . ) THE harmony and proportion displayed in all parts of this material universe has ever been a favourite subject of meditation with philosophic minds ; whether as brought to light in those laws which govern the
movements and limit the courses of the numberless shining orbs scattered through space , or in those which regulate the composition and condition of the inanimate matter of which this terrestrial globe is formed , or the development and existence of the beings by which it is inhabited . To the students of nature at an early period of intellectual history , the hidden secrets of that mysterious correspondence and intimate but inexplicable relation supposed to exist between this earth and
its inhabitants , and those bright planets which wheel their courses around our common luminary , afforded an inexhaustible field of speculation and inquiry . " Insignis est , " writes an old philosopher of this school , " reruin naturalium et divinarium harmonia ; nullaque scientia in histerris comparavi illi potest . " The modern chemist , also , lias not