Masonic Celestial Mysteries.

aquarius of astronomers is invariably placed ovei the pictured sign of the goat , and conjointly they give Aqua Aries , the " water or sea goat . " The ordinary English name is the deer , and there are many records representing Diana the moon riding

on the deer Capricornus which sign has twentyeight degrees , aud which sign is February of twenty-eight days or a lunar month of four weeks . Both Ptolemy ' s and Tycho ' s catalogues give tAventy-eight stars in Capricornus . The number

of stars now given to Capricornus by the Greenwich astronomers must puzzle Pan and every member of the Pantheon .

Scorpio was variously pictured , sometimes as a dragon , a serpent , & c . Under scorpio is the box ark , which as shewn becomes united to the Royal Arch . Scorpio is the twelfth sign or month of December of our vear .

Were it permitted to name the " points" the reading would become much more intelli gible , but the " points" must not be revealed , indeed some Masonic disciplinarians may consider these references to the mysteries ought not to be allowed , but unless it be shewn there are such hidden

secrets in Masonry , how can it be expected that the brethren can be led to enquire into the lost knowledge . It must therefore be allowed that our December is celestially the same as the Roman December

combined- with the signs Scorpio and Capricornus . Egypt according to celestial reading signifies Misriam " tribulation , " or mid winter , and that as explained is in Capricornus and Scorpio , which latter is the Egyptian accursed sign Typhon ,

with whom is the devil or satan . Consequently the opposite sign Cancer is mid summer and heaven . As the astronomical type of cancer is invariably on tho Gemini , it symbolically explains

Matt , xix ., 14 . Plutarch tells us that when the sun Avas in Scorpio the Egyptians enclosed the body of Osiris , the sun , in an ark or chest , and during the ceremony , a great annual festival was celebrated . This enclosure would be in D 2 D

ara the box ark , at mid - winter , and the festival was saturnalia which lasted five days and were never reckoned in astronomical calculations . Those five days were deducted from the natural year of 365 , aud by so doing the days correspond

with the degrees of the perfect circle 3 G 0 . These five days were known as dies non . The sun under the form of Apis , was always entombed at the winter solstice , in fact all the symbolical

representatives of his solar majesty came to their deaths somehow or other at the termination of the year in Egypt . In ancient time the chief ruler was assimilated to the sun , indeed not very long since English royalty was compared to the

two great great lights of heaven , and this can be seen in the dedication of all orthodox Bibles . In the dedication James is likened to the sun rising , and Elizabeth to the bri ght western star , the moon when setting in her full brilliancy .

" The entrances to the sepulchres of our Egyptian kings , " says , Mr . Belzorei "in the sacred valley of Beban-el-Malook are generally surmounted with a bas relief representing an oval , in which are sculptured a scarabasus , or beetle , and the figure

of a man with the head of a hawk . " The oval is the ellipsis or the sun ' s- course , and the hawks head celestially applies to the winter colure . Accordingly the scarabfEus formerly denoted the sign Capricornus . In the centre of the great

Egyptian gallery of the British Museum are two very important Masonic monuments , and from the conspicuous position in which they are placed it

would almost make one believe that the learned antiquaries who placed them , knew something about Egyptian mysteries—oh ! The monuments are a rams head and the scarabaDiis . The rams head is that of Aries and from one star in the

head of Aries can be interpreted all ancient knowledge . As stated , Egypt symbolises midwinter , mid-night darkness , " even darkness which may be felt , " and genuine Egyptian statuary is wrought in black stone or composition , but the

scarabasus in question is of doubtful black . The scarabajus then as stated is of Capricornus or Eoypt denoting winter . NOAV Jamieson tells us that in the Zodiacs of Dendera , Esne and -Moor ' s Hindu ,

Cancer is the summer sign and is represented as a scarabajus or beetle , this would argue that at some time or other the scarabmus was exalted to heaven . For very many years the summer sign has been Cancer the crab , the European

astronomers give the crab , and the Asiatic Budhists the same . And now for othoclox evidence respecting the ascent of the E gyptian scarabajus . About the year 1540 , there appeared numerous folio bibles including Cranmers , and the mystic

productions of Grafton and Whichchurch . In all these are Kalendars in which the church festivals are on the very same day of the month , as at present authorised by acts of parliament . In these Kalendars it states the day the sun enters each of