Brother! Well Met!

When they got to the humble room in which was the marquis , ancl his fair wife and gentle daughter , they found the old soldier philosophically smoking . He recognized Juviennot , ancl the ladies in their ecstacy would have embraced him when he gave the marquis the passport . It was duly filled up with the names of Citoyen Brune , his wife and daughter ancl domestique , and Puisac gave him three lines , signed by Mirabeau , to himself , which simply said ,

" De pechez vous citoyen et mon ami . —MIRABEAU . " At the gate at early dawn , though no hesitation was shown , the passport , being " en regie , " our friend thought the paper with Mirabeau ' s name might do good , and so he showed it to the sergeant . It was quite sufficient . And so it was all the way . When they got to Calais , as good luck would have it , a courier sent b y the French Government was going over to England ,

and whether the good looks of Adele de Merilhac charmed ( or he might have been a Freemason , too ; they are very ubiquitous , those Freemasons ) deponent can say no more than that , just as Juviennot had said , when he was denounced at the Jacobins he was bowling across the English Channel . He was denounced , ancl was searched for b y the police , but never found . M . de Puisac , finding things going badly , got a diplomatic appointment

through Mirabeau ' s influence , ancl then joined the Merilhacs in England . He is the same Viscomte de Puisac who represented the French Empire at Vienna under Napoleon I . Merilhac is the same General , ancl after Marshal , De Merilhac whose name is recorded in more than one of Napoleon ' s despatches . Juviennot rose to hig h rank , but never gave up Freemasonry , and if you will read over the minutes of the Grand Orient of France , you will find that when Freemasonry revived after the Reign of Terror , first under the Consulate , and then under the Empire , the three names of Merilhac , Puisac , and Juviennot are recorded as present at more than one important seance .

The Ancient Mysteries.

THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES .

( Continued from page 176 . ) TJUT it was not now the Pontif who taught this doctrine of the great soul of - * - * the world . Nature herself appeared to the initiated , ancl a voice was heard pronouncing the following words * : "Moved b y thy prayers , I am come ; I am Nature , the universal parent ; the soverei gn of the elements ; the spring of ages ; the first of the gods ; the queen of the Manes ; under one form I re ° all the

present gods ancl all the goddesses . I dispense the light of heaven ; I agitate the billows of the ocean ; I encompass the infernal regions with silence and horror . All nations acknowledge my power . The Phrygians call me the Mother of the Gods ; the inhabitants of Cyprus , Venus ; those of Athens , Ceres ; but in Egypt , and among the people on whom the sun first sheds his early beams , sages , learned in the ancient doctrine , have called me Isis . Under all these names , ancl with many different ceremonies , I am the only deity whom the universe invokes . " This passage will not permit us to doubt the identit y of the mysteries , which nowhere differed essentially , as we have already ob-