The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.

streaming out of his hand or side . * The asp irant was ready to believe in the supernatural nature of the autopsia , by being carefully instructed beforehand , that the Deity was about to reveal Himself in all His splendour . On all the Egyptian monuments the

Scarabeus , whenever it occurs , denotes life , and it 3 absence death . The figure before us , therefore , as used in the initiations , symbolised the Euresis , or raising of the aspirant from a darkness resembling deathto light and life ; and the Tracing

, Boards contain the explanations which attended this important ceremony . . Now it will be observed that life was hieroglyphically represented by light , and death by darkness ; and as the anaglyph contains no emblem to indicate the latter ,

we are fully justified by the whole tenor of Egyptian symbolical instruction , which is always uniform and consistent with itself , in our application of the anaglyph to the Euresis of the Hermesian

Freemasonry . These two , says the Geeta , " Light and darkness , are esteemed the world ' s eternal ways . He who walketh in the former path , returneth not ; whilst he who walketh in the latter path , cometh back again upon the earth . " The Theosophic hilosophers of the last

p century thus explained the two principles of light and darkness . The seven spirits of God are perfectly in every place ; but if in any one place they wrestle not triumphantly , in that place is no mobility , but a deep darkness . Such a house is the house

of flesh in man ; such was the whole space of this world , when the Deit y , in the seven spirits , had withdrawn itself from the devils ; and had so continued if the seven planets and stars had not risen from God ' s spirits . But the heart of the Deity

hideth itself in the corporiety and outbirth of this world ; which , therefore , is in great anguish , till the heart of God will move itself again in the seven spirits of God in this world , and kindle them , and then the sun and stars will to

pass away their first p lace , and the Li ght of God shall fill the body of the world , and when the anxiety tasteth the sweetness of the Light of God , all is richl y full of joy , and the whole body triumpheth ; which

now cannot be , because the fierce captive devil keeps the house in the outbirth of this world , till the last judgment day ; and then the heart of God with his fan will cleanse his floor , and breaking through , proclaim bright day . "

The aphanism , or preliminary part of the initiations , was performed in darkness to signify death , which was also a name for initiation ; for , as we have seen above , while TtXevTou signified "to die , " reXeio-Oai was used for initiation . The aspirant was

here the representative of the Sun , in his passage through the inferior signs of the Zodiac , viz ., from Scorpia to Pisces , in which the earth underwent a change from light to darkness—a real aphanismwhence the term Osirean was used to

designate a person actually deceased , as well as one who underwent the aphanism of the Spurious Freemasonry . -It was during this ceremony that the candidates are said , in our Scriptures , to eat the offerings of the dead , to pass into the silence

of the grave , and make their bed in darkness . * Darkness is frequently used metajmorically in the Jewish Scriptures . It is there made emblematical of everything that is evil and dangerous to man in his mortal state . t It is a symbol of

ignorance , ! ° f f ° lby , § of calamity , H of sin , 1 T and of death . ** The mystical analogy mig ht be extended to an indefinite length , both from the Old and New . Testaments ; but the enquiry would be out of place hereand the above instances will suffice

, to show the lig ht in which the emblem was understood by the Jewish prophets . The grave was a symbol of the silence or secresy with which they were expected to observe respecting the mysteries which were about to be revealed to them . And

they were told by the hierophant that man teaches Us to speak , but the gods enjoin us to silence ; from whence we should learn to keep secret the rites and ceremonies of initiation . ( To be continued . )