Notes By Father Foy On His Second Lecture.

NOTES BY FATHER FOY ON HIS SECOND LECTURE .

\ VE continue , at his request , Father Foy ' s notes from page 460 . " When a Rosicrucian adept testified a neat desire of acquiring new lights , and was thought able to undergo the necessary trials , ho was admitted to the degree of

Kadosch ; or of the regenerated man , where all ambiguity ceases . The rite of nutation is thus : —A deep cave , or rather a precipice , ivhence a narrow tower rises to the summit of the lodge , having no avenue to it but by subterraneous passages ; rep lete with horror is this place -where the candidate is abandoned to himself , tied hand and foot . In this situation he finds

himself raised from the ground by machines , making the most frightful noise . He slowly ascends this dark vault , sometimes for hours together , and then suddenly falls as if he were not supported by any thing . Thus mounting and falling , alternatelyhe must carefully avoid showing

, any signs of fear . All this , however , is a very imperfect account of the terrors of which men , who have undergone these trials , speak . They declared that it was impossible for them to give an exact description of them ; machinery , speeches ,

horrors of every kind were brought into play . They declared that at length they lost their senses , and knew not ivhero they wore . Draughts Avere given them , ivhich , adding to their corporeal strength , did not soothe them ; but rather increased their strength , only to leave them a prey to fury and terror .

Here , again the candidate is transformed into an assassin . Here it is no longer the supposed founder of masonry , Hiram , who is to be avenged , but it is Molay , the Grand Master of the Knights Templars , and the person who is to fall by the assassin ' s hand is Philip le Bel , King

° f France , under whose reign the order of the Templars was- destroyed . " AVhen , then , the adept sallies forth from tlie cavern , with the reeking head , he cries Kekom ( I have killed him ) . After this atrocious trial he is admitted to the oath . At the time that he takes it , one of the Kni ghts Kadosch holds a pistol to his

breast , making a sign that he would murder him , if he did not pronounce it . Then , at length , the veil is rent asunder . The secret is disclosed . The adept is informed that till now he had only been partially admitted to the truth ; that Liberty and Equality , which had constituted the first secret on his admission into

masonry , consisted in bis recognizing no profane superior on earth — ( that is no superior outside that body ) : —and hi viewing kings and priests in no other light than as men on a level with their fellow

mon , having no other rights to sit on the throne , or to serve at the altar , but what the people had granted them , and of lohichtliey had therigh ( of deprivingthemwheneverthey pleased . They are also informed thai Princes and Priests have too long abused the goodness and simplicity of the people ;

that the grand object of masonry , in building Temples to Liberty mid Equality , is to rid the earth of this double pest , by destroying every altar 'which credulity and superstition has erected , and every throne on which lucre only to be seen despots tyrannizing over slaves . Hence the song of these Societies .

" Ni Culte , ni Pretres , ni Roi , Car la nouvelle Eve , c ' est toi . " " Nor Worship ) , nor Priests , nor Kings , for thou art the new Eve . " At page 76 of the English translation of worshipMons . Dupanloup ' s pamphleta

, , more modern mode of the Kadosch Rite is given , but still retaining thc same ideas as those of the earlier rite given by Barruel , above . " In the fourth apartment is held the Supreme Council of the electthe great

, Knights Kadosch . It is hung with red , and lit with twelve yellow wax candles . Arrived at this Divine Sanctuary , the candidate learns the nature of the engagements that he contracts . Then he is made to go up and down a mysterious ladder .

The emblems of this exalted grade are : ' A Cross , ' with a ' Serpent bearing three heads . ' The serpent signifies the spirit of evil . The three heads of the serpent are an emblem of the evil which has been introduced into the three higher grades of society . One of tho serpent's heads wears a croivn , and denotes the sovereigns : another wears a tiara , or cross keys , and