The Belzoni Masonic Mss.

serpent has ever been held by the ancients as the grand mystic emblem of Paradise lost , and was the first hieroglyphic emblematic device , and descended from Seth to the families of Ham and to the kings of Egypt , to be traced in the tombs of that wonderful race . And the serpent , united with other devices , was the mystic emblem of the tribes of the human race , and spread universally over the known parts of the globe . SARAH BELZONI .

THE ROYAL EGYPTIAN MASONIC APRONS . Conservative Freemasonry commenced with creation , established by the famil y of Seth . The Masonic apron originated from the covering or apron of fig leaves adopted by Adam and Eve after the fall , particularly the mystic apron of serpents , which was dedicated as a memorial to commemorate that fatal event . The triangular form of the Royal Egyptian Masonic Apron is

Masonic , astronomical , and emblematic . The sun , emblazoned in the corner , spreading its refulgent rays of divine heat and light over the globe . The king is never represented in this apron alone , it is accompanied always with the mystic apron of serpents , emblematic of the evil spirit under the guise of the serpent that beguiled our fair mother Eve . The apron of serpents is worn alone on state affairs—emblem of the royal dynasty and symbol of the fall .

The triangular apron I consider as a royal order of . the pyramid , to commemorate the occasion for its construction . The triangular and serpent aprons are exclusively royal . The two aprons appear to have been worn together only on grand Masonic meetings of the heiravchy , whose lodge was in the sacred recesses of a royal tomb ; a solemn type of that death denounced on the human race by the wilful transgression of the unborn pair .

A finer emblem could not have been adopted to commemorate that mystic and awful event entailed on their posterity until the final conflagration . Masonry may be traced in all mythology to the remotest parts of the globe . In the temples of the sun and moon , and in the very idols of Mexico , in the pyramids , temples , Babel , Stonehenge , and in the solemn groves of the Druids . Masonry shall be traced wherever man is found . Let the Masonic brethren search and they will find that the Egyptian Masonic key will unlock the hitherto unrevealed mysteries of Egyptian wisdom . S . B .

THE TOMB OP PHAROAH OUSIREI , KING OP EGYPT , IN THE VAL BEBAN EL MALOOK , THEBES , UPPEE EGYPT . This tomb was the largest and the last of the tombs discovered by the sacrificed traveller , Giovani Batista Belzoni , in 1818 . The above tomb was dedicated to the Masonic mysteriesblended and united with emblems of

, discoveries , inventions , and sciences in general , progressively as they took place from creation , from which originated the many fabulous inventions that mythology teems with . Freemasonry in earlier ages was very different from what is now denominated by that appellation , and at the epoch of the above tomb , had attained a grandeur and sublimity unknown in Europe . Pharoah OusireiKing of

, Egypt is represented in the greater part of this tomb as going through the ceremonies of initiation into the sublime mysteries of Masonry , & c , & c , & c . From hieroglyphics , drawings in the said tomb , there appears to be represented three distinct epochs in the life of the young king . First , on his accession to the kingdom , we behold him going through certain forms and ceremonies , and receiving instructions from the hierarch y in the sciences and secret art of

governing . Having passed his inauguration , and being accepted by the sacred order , I now introduce my young king established , I hope , in all his royal prerogatives , 2 i 2