Masonic Celestial Mysteries.

Hiram or Hercules is just under the ecliptic at 106 ° . Close the sign and from the ecliptic centre there is the hand and lion ' s grip . As a lion cannot well enter a Masonic lodge , the paw is cut off expressly to suit Masonic purposes . The exaltation as described was shown on the atlas to the

Grand Registrar , who reported it to be accurately pointed out according to law . The antiquity of the lion ' s grip cannot be doubted . In Ptolemy ' s plate of Anno Domiui 138 , there is Antinous the Apprentice , Hiram exalted in the Gemini , and Leo Major , and authority to place Leo on the Gemini .

David is supposed to have been a territorial king , with officers of state ancl a numerous body guard around him sufficient to protect his person from a host of enemies . What , therefore , does he mean by singing in one of his sacred songs ,

" Save me from the lion's mouth . " AVhat lion's mouth r * In Rastell ' s "Pastime of the People /' Eichard the First , King of England , is pictured like Samson strangling a lion , ancl King George the Third , whose coins represent him as King of

France , had pet royal lions in the Tower . Did David keep a similar mauagerie iu his house , and was the exclamation intended to indicate the great Royal lion ? That it was one particular beast is evident , because it expressly signifies one— "the

lion / ' If there was really danger of the lion ' s mouth why not have the animal destroyed , or , at all events , why not have his dangerous teetli broken out , as David himself recommends that

plan . " Break out , says he , " the great teeth of the young lions . " f Celestially the cheek tooth " e " of the great lion remains , but there are no great cheek teeth in the mouth of the young lion . There is , however , one remarkable tooth in Leo

Major . It is A [ lambda ) , ancl equatorilly is at 140 and the rign closed it is with David , who equatorily is also at 110 . And with compasses from the centre of the ecliptic there is David actually in the mouth of the royal lion . The reason

David gives why he should be saved from the lion ' s mouth is , because he has been heard from the horns of the unicorns . What on earth can lions have to do with unicorns , excepting as supporters of the arms of Britannia ? There ,

nevertheless , must have been unicorns in the time of David , and so there were celestially , because David aud his Darling are both seated above the back

of the unicorn " Monoceros . " By closing half a curtain or sign , or by closing the " 15 degrees of David , " the horns of the animal will be with David at 106 ° , so there is one horn ; but the text expresses the plural both as regards horns and

unicorns . Others , therefore , must be produced ! Urn-corn merely means one horn , ancl on the meridian of David , low down near the south ecliptic pole , is the horn of the sea-unicorn called " El Dorado . " There is another unicorn or horned

beast , Cetus , the unicorn-whale , and with the Masonic double triangles , or with the second bar of the Papal triple tau , the horn reaches David . In the preceding verse David sings , " Deliver my soul from the sword , and my darling from the

power of the dog . " * One of the laws places the handle of the sword over David ' s head , and a thread from the ecliptic pole to "procyon" the brilliant of Canis Minor will pass by "] 3 eta ,, Gemini , David ' s darling . And all these things occur

precisely opposite Algothi , so that a living dog is better than a dead lion . f By the by , with any transparent medium trace Taurus , and close the sign on the Gemini , and just see if David is not ou the horns of a dilemma , and he sings , " Many

bulls have compassed me : strong ( lions ) of Bashan have beset me round . " ± Bashan means "in the tooth . " So poor David was troubled with bulls on one side , and lions on the other side . For

thus pushing , the ox formerly was under penalty of 30 pieces of silver or 30 degrees . § And here is a problem for Mark Masters . Samson beheld a swarm of bees in the carcase of the lion , and Montfaucon gives the following ( plates 148 vol . 2 )

"Surrounded with mystic figures , intermingled with stars , aud a bee in the jowl of the lion—Can this have any allusion to the history of Samson ? " So asks the Abbo ! Compasses from the ecliptic centre will place Musca Borealis the bee in the

mouth of Leo Major . The mystic figures are evidently those of Mark Masters , but their intent remains to be ellucidated . The seven stars are

assuredly the seven planets , for they were m conjunction at the very point where the bee fits the lion's mouth . One more reference to David and lions . He says , " Rescue my soul from destruction , my darling , from the Iions . " |[ From the centre of the

Psalms , 22 , 20 . f Eccle . 9 , 4 . 1 Psalm , 22 , 12 . § Exod , 31 , 32 . || Psalm , 35 , 17 .