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Masonic Celestial Mysteries.
MASONIC CELESTIAL MYSTERIES .
By Bro . HENRY MELVILLE . PAPER IV . LABOR OMNIA VINCIT . A province of France anciently
BRITANNIA , j called Armorica , from whence our BRETAGNE . ¦{ island is said to have been first BRITTANY . peopled . — "Bailey ' s Die , " fifth edition . ^ . Armorica , or Omorica , means " unbounded
space . " America was discovered by " Christ ' s carrier , Christopher" Columbus , "the dove , " after a sixth months' voyage . He started from a place abounding with calves , in order to reach ¦ el dorado .
Hengest led the Angles into Britain ! Hengest is a Saxon word said to mean " horse , " and he had a horse—Horsa—for brother , and the standard of his tribe was a white horse , and when these brothers died they were translated to heaven , where
they may be seen in celestial Philadelphia , sitting ¦ on a horse . Stone Henge was erected to perpetuate the treachery of Henge-est , who
assassinated V ortigern and 460 nobles , on Salisbury Plain . Stone Henge signifies stone gallows . * Henge means " hang / ' and est is the abbreviation of Ester our Easterf . As celestially asserted , the sun is hang'd , drawn , and quartered at the
end of every year , and there he is pendentisqui Dei , on or under the stone gallows . He is Tolo in the white horse , Sagittarius . Stone Henge is the ruin of a magnificent astrolabe , with a perfect horizon . " Stonehenge stands in the best situation
possible for observing the heavenly bodies , as there is a horizon nearly three miles distant on all sides , and on either distant hills that might have been so planted as to have measured any number of degrees of a circle , so as to calculate the right
• ascension or declension of a star or planet , " p . 63 , " Stonehenge , " 1808 . In former ages the sun was hanged just prior to the Easter Passover in Aries or Nisan . Whether Heugest or Horsa had any share in the construction of the" white horses
on the hills near Salisbury and elsewhere , is doubtful , but certain it is that the white horse of Hengest was the Royal Arch animal Hipparchus , and there in celestial atlases may be seen the red cross
and shield on the left arm of the Templar of Hieru-salem . Hipparchus , the learned , about 150 before Christ , arranged the intellectual zodiac whicli commences on the first of January , in the
white horse , Sagittarius , when the last star of the stone gallows is passed by the sun . The Budhists , according to Upham , plate 10 , picture Sagittarius
Fi ff . i . thus , and , it is well known in what manner the sign is represented on European atlases . "A . white horse , and he that sat on him had a bow , and a crown was given unto him , and he went
forth conquering and to conquer . " * The crown given to Sagittarius is Corona Australis , the worthess crown of victory , not a gem in it worth insertng in the table of stars of the constellation . The great grandfather of George the Third , being of
Brunswick , of course he was entitled to claim the lwhite horse , but George seems to have been satisfied with the lions and unicorn of Britannia , through iwhom , perhaps , though contrary to naliqiie law , he claimed France . Popular prejudice will not allow Britannia to be
of French extraction . The question to be answered , then , is where did she come from ? She does not belong to the Pantheon , or Lernpriere would give her pedigree . He mentions one Britannicus , son of Claudius Cajsar , but does not say
he was related to Britannia . It is not known whether Britannia ever had a father or mother , and although there is a large family of the Bulls , they are not stated to be the children of Britannia . Her ladyship is believed to be a virgin , there
being no record of her marriage . She may have had a host of " sons of Britons " as children , and yet according to orthodox Cruden , would be a virgin as well after as before her bringing' forth . Is Britannia of earth or heaven ? If of earth she must be French . As to heaven , no one would think of takintr Andromeda for the British idol . The
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Masonic Celestial Mysteries.
MASONIC CELESTIAL MYSTERIES .
By Bro . HENRY MELVILLE . PAPER IV . LABOR OMNIA VINCIT . A province of France anciently
BRITANNIA , j called Armorica , from whence our BRETAGNE . ¦{ island is said to have been first BRITTANY . peopled . — "Bailey ' s Die , " fifth edition . ^ . Armorica , or Omorica , means " unbounded
space . " America was discovered by " Christ ' s carrier , Christopher" Columbus , "the dove , " after a sixth months' voyage . He started from a place abounding with calves , in order to reach ¦ el dorado .
Hengest led the Angles into Britain ! Hengest is a Saxon word said to mean " horse , " and he had a horse—Horsa—for brother , and the standard of his tribe was a white horse , and when these brothers died they were translated to heaven , where
they may be seen in celestial Philadelphia , sitting ¦ on a horse . Stone Henge was erected to perpetuate the treachery of Henge-est , who
assassinated V ortigern and 460 nobles , on Salisbury Plain . Stone Henge signifies stone gallows . * Henge means " hang / ' and est is the abbreviation of Ester our Easterf . As celestially asserted , the sun is hang'd , drawn , and quartered at the
end of every year , and there he is pendentisqui Dei , on or under the stone gallows . He is Tolo in the white horse , Sagittarius . Stone Henge is the ruin of a magnificent astrolabe , with a perfect horizon . " Stonehenge stands in the best situation
possible for observing the heavenly bodies , as there is a horizon nearly three miles distant on all sides , and on either distant hills that might have been so planted as to have measured any number of degrees of a circle , so as to calculate the right
• ascension or declension of a star or planet , " p . 63 , " Stonehenge , " 1808 . In former ages the sun was hanged just prior to the Easter Passover in Aries or Nisan . Whether Heugest or Horsa had any share in the construction of the" white horses
on the hills near Salisbury and elsewhere , is doubtful , but certain it is that the white horse of Hengest was the Royal Arch animal Hipparchus , and there in celestial atlases may be seen the red cross
and shield on the left arm of the Templar of Hieru-salem . Hipparchus , the learned , about 150 before Christ , arranged the intellectual zodiac whicli commences on the first of January , in the
white horse , Sagittarius , when the last star of the stone gallows is passed by the sun . The Budhists , according to Upham , plate 10 , picture Sagittarius
Fi ff . i . thus , and , it is well known in what manner the sign is represented on European atlases . "A . white horse , and he that sat on him had a bow , and a crown was given unto him , and he went
forth conquering and to conquer . " * The crown given to Sagittarius is Corona Australis , the worthess crown of victory , not a gem in it worth insertng in the table of stars of the constellation . The great grandfather of George the Third , being of
Brunswick , of course he was entitled to claim the lwhite horse , but George seems to have been satisfied with the lions and unicorn of Britannia , through iwhom , perhaps , though contrary to naliqiie law , he claimed France . Popular prejudice will not allow Britannia to be
of French extraction . The question to be answered , then , is where did she come from ? She does not belong to the Pantheon , or Lernpriere would give her pedigree . He mentions one Britannicus , son of Claudius Cajsar , but does not say
he was related to Britannia . It is not known whether Britannia ever had a father or mother , and although there is a large family of the Bulls , they are not stated to be the children of Britannia . Her ladyship is believed to be a virgin , there
being no record of her marriage . She may have had a host of " sons of Britons " as children , and yet according to orthodox Cruden , would be a virgin as well after as before her bringing' forth . Is Britannia of earth or heaven ? If of earth she must be French . As to heaven , no one would think of takintr Andromeda for the British idol . The