The Great Pyramid And Freemasonry.

the King of Salem , was Malchi-Tsedek , which is , " by interprefca . tion , " King of Righteousness . There was but one man who could assume that title , and combine with it the office of hieraroh . That was Shem , the successor of Noah , the Tsadik , tbo Righteous . In the time of Abraham , there was but one prince greater than he , to whom he could pay tithe . That was Shem .

Our reverend interlocutor does not " expect to find any documentary evidence " in the Pyramid that Shem designed and built ifc . May the hand of time lie light upon him , that he may live to see it . There is another chamber yet to be explored . Meanwhile , documentary evidence is under onr hands . He who knows what manner of thing the Pyramid is , who knows the facts of it , and who knows how to

read the book called of Job , will find three things to be quite certain , —1 . That the writer of the book was Shem . 2 . That ifc is the story of his sufferings as Malchi-Tsedek . 3 . That the writer of the book must have been the man that built the Great Pyramid . This brings the matter to the edge of possible discussion in a news - paper . I decline to pursue it further , on this ground .

The existing ritual of the Lodge comes from the first ; Temple , as that of the Chapter comes from the second . But the Temple was not a Lodge . No more waa the Great Pyramid a Lodge . The Craft did not build the Pyramid . The Pyramid built- the Craft . And fche Craft waa built that it might preserve the sacred traditions aoross the eleven centuries to the building of the Temple . The standard

measures of the Tabernaole and Temple are absolutely identical with those of the Pyramid . He who would understand the transcendent splendour of the mathematic of the Temple , must go through the school of the transcendent mathematic of the Pyramids . The two are open to the world , the frivolous and slovenly world that pays no heed . The cube content of the Ark of Covenant is

precisely the cube content of the Coffer in the Pyramid . And what is still more to the point just now is , that the Imperial British Quarter for the measure of wheat is as near as may be the quarter of the Pyramid Coffer . Sir , I shall fill your paper and swamp your advertisements . I will not so abuse your charity .

I have the honour to be , your obedient servant , W . J . COCKBURN -MUIR . P . S . — " Who art thou , 0 Great Mountain P Before Zerubbabel—a plain . And he shall bring forth the COPESTONE with shoutings . " London , 10 th July 1881 .

To the Editor of the North Star . SIR , —I am snre that your readers , whether Masons or not , will have read Mr . Mnir ' s letter with the greatest pleasure . He need have made no apology for unduly trespassing on your space . I hope I shall not tire out your patience by the remarks whioh I wish to add to the correspondence .

I have been looking up Mauetho and Sanohoniatho , and possibly in time may stumble upon the tradition referred to by Mr . Muir . The Prince who influenced Cheops , and retired after the completion of the Pyramid with all his forces , and bnilt Salem ( i . e . Jerusalem ) , was most undoubtedly Sedek ( or Melchizedek ) , whom Philo calls Sydyk , and whom the best commentators , Jewish as well as Christian ,

identify with Shem . But I think that Salem must have been previously built , and that Sydyk ( whom Philo calls "the Just" ) at that time built fortifications , probably to repel the attacks which he might fear at the hands of the Haraites , whom he had just left in Egypt . Sanohoniatho , who had access to the records of the Cabiri , the secretaries of Thoth , the second King of Egypt , tells us that the

first King was Misor , the second Thoth . Eratosthenes calls them Menes and Athothes . Now Misor is the singular form of the dual Mizraim , and Menes was also written Mestraim , as we learn from Sanohoniatho , and this last is the very word used by Eusebius and Enpolemus to express the Hebrew Mizraim . Thus Misor and Menes are the same names ; so are also Thoth and

Athothes . Boshart gives several instances of the initial A being left out , e . g ., Aram ( Luke iii . 33 ) is written Ram in 1 Chron . ii . 9 j and Phtha , Vulcan ' s Egyptian name , is Aphthas in Suidas . The Misor of one old writer , and Menes of the other , being both equivalent to Mizraim , we have no difficulty in deciding that the first King of Egypt was the son of Ham . who waa set nn bv hia fathfir Nnah

After his death Ham was deified and worshipped under fche name of Hatnon , Amoun , or Hammon . This was the Greek Zens , and the Roman Jupiter . The city called Hammon—No . by Ezekiel xxx . 15—is rendered by the Septnagint Diospolis . Thus the three successions in the Genealogy of Sanohoniatho , viz ., Cronus ( i . e . Ham ) , Misor , and Anotu

, answer to the three in Eratosthenes , viz ., Jupiter , Hammon , Menes , and Athothes . Herodotus says Memphis was built by Menes , the first King . The Arabians called the town Meneph , and the Greek work Memphis is only a corruption of Menephis . Tbey also called it Mezer , as the Turks called it Mitzer , i . e ., Misor or Misraim .

In comparing Eratosthenes with Manetho , I find a list of kings , one of whom is called by the former Saophis , and by the latter Mnpis . Manetho affirms that this King built the greatest Pyramid and ascribes to him the Sacred Book , which he boasts he had got possession of as a rarity and a great prize . Was Saophis or Supis only another name for Cheops P and what was the Sacred Book P , .,., JOHN MIINER . Middleton . in-Teesdale 14 th July , 1881 .

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The Midsummer Holidays.

THE MIDSUMMER HOLIDAYS .

PEOPLE may or may not be partial to fever heat , but it ia unquestionable that from 90 ° to 96 ° in the shade , and about 130 ° in the sun is as nearly tropical temperature as in thia benighted climate of ours we can ever hope to reaoh . Thoso who aro compelled to remain in London in such circumstances , find even sitting perfectly still is a somewhat warm task , while locomotion on wheels is barely endurable . We shall not be surprised , therefore , if everybody

who has the time and means afc his disposal makes a point of hurrying into the country whenever he finds the chance . The efflux of Londoners afc this season is always on a large scale , and though London , when it is out of town , looks pretty much a 3 ifc does afc other seasons of the year , there must in fche order of things be a rare amount of traffic of all descriptions during Jthe summer months .

Naturally enough the bulk of this traffic devolves on our railway companies , and of these there are few , if any , whioh place greater facilities at the disposal of fche publio than the London , Chatham , and Dover Railway Company . It is very natural thia should be fche oase , seeing that ifc is in communication with sundry of the most favoured seaside and inland resorts of fche Metropolis .

People may sneer , if they will , afc Margate as Cookneydom-super-Mare , afc Ramsgate , at Herne Bay , afc Broadstairs ; but , for all their Sneering , these seaside localities reap a grand harvest during fche summer season , when there is anything like a summer to be enjoyed . Dover has unwonted attractions and never fails to draw ifca contingent of visitors , to say nothing of the through traffio to France .

Then there are Chatham and Rochester , Qneensborough and Sheerness , Canterbury with its Cathedral , and Maidstone with its Gaol , Sevenoaks , Faversham , Teynham , Sittingbourne—all places which have and exeroise a claim to attention on the part of Londoners . To the seaside resorts , Ramsgate and its neighbouring localities , cheap fast trains run daily , afc the most reasonable

fares—10 s and 5 s first and second class fares , single ; 15 s , and 8 a double . Dover has its cheap fast train daily—fares to and fro , first class , 22 s 6 d , second class , 17 a 6 d ; third olass , 10 s 6 d , and to the end of October monthly season tickets—first class , £ 6 , and second olass £ 5 will be issued . Indeed , every possible faoility is offered for rapid intercommunication between the Kentish watering-places and

London , while there is a further advantage in that for certain places tickets issued by the London , Chatham , and Dover are available by the South Eastern trains and vice versb \ . All we need further do ia to refer our readers to the published time tables of the London , Chatham , and Dover Company for July , August , September , & c . Full particulars will be found therein . We may mention further that the

Company have issued an "Illustrated Guide , " containing views and descriptions of the Calais-Douvres Packet Boat , the Crystal Palace , Dulwioh Gallery , Ramsgate , Broadstairs , Margate , Rochester , Westgate-on-Sea , the Isle of Thanet , Heme Bay , Canterbury , Dover , Calais , Brussels ( with Map ) , and Field of Waterloo . This Guide like others we have seen of the same

character , contains in the modest compass of thirty-two pages a rare amount of information , while ifc is needless to say all the salient features of interest are noted . We would suggest to the L . C . and D . Company the publication of a more extensive work , vendible afc

sixpence instead of a penny . We think there are hundreds who would be only too willing to purchase it , if in the compass of ( say ) about 150 pages ifc gave the local history as regards essentials—sayof the most important places on the line . However , the Guide Book before ns is unquestionably a model of excellence , so far as ifc goes .

The next annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight is to be held afc Portsmouth , on Tuesday , the 9 th of August . The Right

Worshipful the Provincial Grand Master ( Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P . ) will preside on the occasion , and , in view of an unusually large muster of brethren from all parts of the Province , the Lecture Hall has been engaged for the occasion .

he Monde Maconnique for last month contains an elaborate and highly-appreciative sketch of the late M . Emile Littre , the eminent French lexicographer , who died some time back afc the advanced age of eighty . M . Littre was one of the most brilliant , as well as one of the most

laborious , of French literary men of the day , but it was not till he was well advanced in his seventy-fifth year that he joined the ranks of Freemasonry , having been initiated the 8 th of July 1875 , by Fr . C . Cousin , Venerable ( W . M . ) of

the Lodge La Clemente Amitie . Nor , having regard to his years , is it to be expected he could have taken any very active part in the work of fche Craft . As to the sketch , we should have been more content had the address at the

grave of M . Littre , pronounced by M . Wyronboff , been omitted . It was in the very worst of bad taste on the part of M . WybourofE , in the face of the expressed wish of the family that there shonld be no discourse pronounced over the grave of their deceased relative , to have publicly

set their wishes at defiance . M . Littre , as he died a Christian , received Christian burial , and the feelings of the family , as well as the memory of the deceased , should have been respected . Our contemporary must forgive as if we point out that it is in equally bad taste to publish in its columns M . Wybouroff ' s graceless and un-Masonic address .