An Hermetic Work.

in a living Faith , he implore , and adore the most Soveraign grace of Gods Holy Spirit in all his Avorks : for it is the solemn custom of God to communicate his gifts candidly and liberally , only to candid and liberal men , mediately or immediately : for by this only holy way of the practice of Piet y , all students of difficult arts find what they desire . But they must exercise solitary Philosophical and Religious pleadings Avith . Jehovah , Avith a pure mouth and heart : For the heavenly Avisdom Sophia embraceth cur friendship , offering us her Rivers of gratious goodness and bountynever to be drawn dry .

, And most happy is he to Avhom the true kingly way shall be shewed by an Adept Possessor of this great Secret . But I foresee this small Preface will not satisfie my Eeadei * s alike ; some perchance taxing me for presuming as itAvere to teach them an art unknoAvn to my self , Avhen this hath been my only purpose to relate a History : yet I doubt not but this study of divine Avisdom , AA'ill be sweeter to some then any Nectar , or Ambrosia . I say no more , but conclude Avith that of Julius Ciesar Scaliger , That the end of truly

wise men is the communicating of Avisdom : According to that of Gregory Nyssen He that is . good , Communicates Avilliugly his goods to others , for the property of good men is to be profitable to others . ( To be Continued . )

Papers On The Great Pyramid.

PAPERS ON THE GREAT PYRAMID .

BY BRO . WM . KOWBOTTOM . { Continued from page 536 . ) IV . —THE REASON m ITS BUILDING . UOAV proceed to discuss the reasons which coidd have influenced the builders in

WE their erection of this monument at the particular epoch to which it belongs ; and , first of all , we may at once lay aside as univorthy our attention as Masons all reasons which fail to account for the scientific proportions ancl references Avith which it is found to abound . Glancing over the numerous purposes assigned by Avriters to the building , we cannot help being struck by the absurdity of some and the inadequacy of others . Mr . Bonwick devotes half the pages of his volume to this problem , while

Colonel HoAvard Vyse in his clay found sufficient matter to compile a most interesting appendix to his magnificent work . It is difficult to imagine how a traveller could see in the Pyramids either barriers against the desert , or filtering reservoirs for the Nile water ; much less that educated men could have left these nearly solid structures Avith the idea that they were the granaries that Joseph built to contain the stores of Avheat . Equally difficult , also , of belief , is the idea that the Great Pyramid is nothing more than a mere tomb ; though it is not denied that some one may have been buried in or near it , aud it is evident that in the erection of the later Pyramids this purpose was the sole end in vieAv .

There remain , then , to be considered the theories Avhich ascribe to it a scientific purpose . On a cursory glance , many of these appear contradictory , while others appealinconsequent . AVhat is Avanted , as appears to me , is some theory which , while embracing in its conception the most important of these vieAvs , should also present a sufficient apparent cause . I do not knoAV IIOAV to explain this more fully here , but as I proceed I hope my readers will grasp my meaning . This much for the present—I do not consider it correct to say the Pyramid teaches this or that scientific truth ; since ,