Classical Theology.

manner are oil and -wine placed together . Tbe olive survived tbe deluge and was found by the dove ; geologists might see something in this . We noAv might perhaps think man could do better without the olive than the horse . But science has taught us to believe that , if there had been no horse , man would haA'e discovered something in its place of more advantage to him even , than that beautiful ,

serviceable , and noble animal . Minerva named the city , and called it Athena , after one of her own names , in Greek , Adrjvd , which word means " she never sucked the breast , " for she sprang full-grown and armed , that is , in the proof mail of wisdom , from her father ' s brain ; which signifies that a wise man ' s soulfortified with wisdom and virtuemakes itself invincible .

, , She is a virgin ; as also each of the Muses are ; and , in accordance therewith , the " sight of God is promised to pure and undefiled eyes . " We see here that the very heathens thought chaste eyes could see the Almighty . Indeed , in the visions of holy men , so to speak , " wisdom and modesty have often appeared in the form and habit of virgins . " And to this day it is in the Romish Church lawful to believe in the

visit of angels- —particularly of one such in female shape . This bright messenger , when she is seen , they style the Blessed Virgin . Nevertheless , we should say , any and every feminine spirit , not haglooking , the Papacy would so denominate . NOAV here is brought to our mind a high power of Masonry . The Stoics well observe , that wisdonvis philosophy , and the wise are the

only free men . There is a good and bad invisible agency that is always at work—for what end we will pass over . The agency of celestial spirits works miracles ; the agency of terrestrial spirits works magic , We know the rod serpent of Aaron sAvallowed up the serpent rods of tbe Magi . Moses , therefore , wrought by miracles ; the Magi by " their enchantments . " But of this enough for the time beurg . Let us endeavour to find out for ourselves that " the fear of the Lord

is the beginning of wisdom ; and the knowledge of the holy is understanding . " We will not enforce the ancient belief that the image of Pallas fell from heaven into her temple , while Troy was being built , before it was covered with a roof . Nevertheless , what the Ark Avas to the Jews , the Palladium was to the Trojans—their confidence

and safety . Destruction followed the loss of either . God forsook the Israelites ; Pallas assorted with the Grecians . We know bow the Je \ A's suffered , and how Troy fell . The Palladium became the pledge of the stability of the Roman empire , as it had heretofore been a token ofthe security of Troy . The name of Isis is generally understood to signify wisdom . Upon

the pavement of her Egyptian temples , written in letters of gol ' , was the folloAving inscription , "I am what is , what shall be , what hath been : by none have I been unveiled . The fruit which I have brought forth is this—the sun is born . " It is not the outward adornments of beauty and dress that can . com-2 Y 2