Masonic Celestial Mysteries.

in his history of the heavens , says : " The symbolical writing , from the wrong use cupidity made of it , is the source of this evil . All nations swallowed the poison , by admitting the characters of this kind of writing , without receiving the sense of it . "

To frame the laws , mathematical instruments * or keys , were and are required , and these keys are still in possession of His Holiness the Pope and of Masons of the higher order . * Masons of this age know not the meaning of their keys , and

His Holiness , it is belived , is alike ignorant of the use of those he claims . No wonder , therefore , that the laws should be lost , when the keys framing them could not be produced to confirm their authority . The first Masonic key , the triple tau *

has for motto , " Nothing known without the key . " Tau means " cross or terminus , " and the Papal triple tau consists of three parallel bars crossing an upright staff—the bars being of unequal length . The Masonic triple tau and the upper bar of the Papal key act alike , and the

second bar of the Papal key performs precisely the same movement , as do the Masonic double triangles , the motto of which is " When you can put these things together yon know enough . " In this present writing reference to the two motions

"will only be required . It is presumed that no one will dispute the antiquity of the celestial lions , or the celestial bears . The two lions are in the sign of Leo in the Egyptian Calendar , and the two bears are in Ptolemy ' s plate of Anno Domini 138 .

And here it may be observed that the triple tau of the R . A . is a superior instrument to that of his Holiness , t for the construction of the Masonic key is strictly in accordance with " the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder , so he shall open and none shall shut , and he shall shut and none shall opent . ' - ' The left shoulder

ofthe entered Apprentice Antinous is at 290 ° plus 180 ° , and there is David vel Apollo at 110 ° , The chief use of the tri ple tau and the upper bar of the Papal key is to open and shut 30 degrees , or one sign on celestial planespheres ; or ,

as the Grand Registrar , Bro . M'lntyre , expressed , fr on the plane projection of the heavens . " Either the Masonic or the Papal keys should be marked ,

& c , on some transparent medium , and if the celestial objects were traced on the tracing board it would greatly facilitate the interpretations , but such assistance is Masonically strictly forbidden . Masons work from a centre , and celestially there

are three—the pole of the equator , the pole of the ecliptic , and the centre of the semi-ecliptic circle . To carry the lambs , the goat , Capella , and Raguel from 76 ° to 106 ° the triple tau or the upper bar of the Papal key must be used , and the solar type

of the Gemini , which is always on Taurus at 60 ° ; , will pass to 90 ? or to the pictured sign Gemini . By this motion are the lambs , & c , conveyed from 76 ° to 106 ° , and from the centre of the semi-ecliptic circle is David vel Apollo , otherwise the' Alplia of

the Gemini , at 106 ° . The reversed motion of the triple tan , or Papal key , closes or shuts the house or sign of David by lapping Cancer over the Gemini , thus taking back the lambs , & c , from 106 to their usual place at 76 ° , and the type of

the Gemini to where it is always to be seen in the neck of Taurus . When the keys take the pictured sign Cancer on to the Gemini , it shuts up the sign or house of David . The pictured sign Cancer consists only of twenty degrees , so that when

the keys remove thirty they must carry with themten degrees of the next pictured sign ; and the next sign to Cancer is the Lion Leo . At 136 from the ecliptic pole is Alplia , of the great bear , and at the same point are the mouths of both

lions , —a thread drawn from the ecliptic pole to 136 will ellucidate fully . So when , either of the triple taus close the sign or thirty degrees , the lion and the bear are with David , who is with the flock at 106 ° . The lion and bear returning

would take with them the lamb , but David went after him and delivered it out of his mouth . At 106 ° the lamb is in the mouth of the young lion with compasses from the pole of the equator , and from the pole of the ecliptic David would overtake

and rescue the lamb at 106 ° 36 ' . David said , moreover , the Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion , and out of the paw of the bear will deliver me from Goliath . * The paw of the great lion is "G" at 136 ° and " e" the paw of

the great bear at 136 ° , both reckoned from the pole of the equator ; the sign closed , and the paws of the lion and the bear are with David at 106 ° . The paw " G " of the great lion is just under the ecliptic as stated at 136 ° . The right hand of