Masonic Celestial Mysteries.

In Aries is m Andromeda , who personates , under various appellations , the moon . Andromeda in the Phcenecian language means " a long chain ; " * and here is Ptolemy ' s Andromeda with her long chain , as pictured in his plates of Anno Domini

loo . The brilliant , without discretion , or miracli , is covered with her girdle or zone , and hacl Andromeda retained her zone , her character would not have suffered as it has clone in more modern times . f Aries is equinoxical and Andromeda the equinoxical moon .

From our globe the solstices ( or the sun on the meridian of the equator ) are the equinoxes of the northern and southern hemispheres ; and thus is it that Libra or Tishree of autumn , is united to the northern summer solstice : and Aries of the vernal

equinox united to the winter solstice . So there is the authority for the sun standing still , iu the midst of heaven at the solstice in the tropic sign Cancer on the Gemini at 106 , with tbe autumnal sign Libra or Tishree lifted up with Gibeon , & c ,

to 106 : and opposite the winter solstice of the south , with the moon of equinoxical Aries , brought down to 286 . Joshua does not say it was the full moon that stayed ; indeed it could not possibly be so , because Easter is always the full moou ( see Common Prayer Book ) , and the Easter full moon would be in Libra , or say Gibeon , whereas

Masonic Celestial Mysteries.

J oshua ' s moon is described as being in Ajalon or Aries . Here is Ptolemy ' s p late rendered more intelligible . /? 0--0--0 i §^ -c > - ©/ $

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From the earth , the sun and all the planets are in conjunction in the Gemini , and as de facto tha sun is in the Gemini , the moon and earth are iu Sagittarius ( Ajalon as explained ) . It is generally considered that the moon was at her full when

she stayed , but if so , she would be between the earth and the sign Sagittarius and in that case the planets would not be in conjunction . It is very unusual to represent the new moon at the autumnal equinox , and the writer says , " There

was no day like that before or after it . " Perhaps some of our learned contributors , —Bro . Buchan , for instance , for he knows everything and can instruct everybody—perhaps he ( W . P . B . ) will so far oblige as to tell your readers when the next

conjunct ou of the planets will take place . To save trouble , if he will make the calculations to a minute of a degree , it will be sufficiently satisfactory . After W . P . B . so favours the world , with his opinions relative to astronomical matters , will indeed deserve attention , but not until then .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

ITALIAN SEOBET SOCIETIES . A new work published at Milan , by Gr . de Castro , under the title of II Month Ber / rcto , gives an account of the modern secret societies engrafted on Masonry . —NOTA . HE SUTOE tJLTEA CEEPIDAM ( p . 430 ) .

Under this title " Argwe " seeks to evade the facts as to Hhodocanatns , or llhodocanacki . The ma' -riage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert has nothing to do with the matter . Queen Maud , Queeu Mary I ., Mary Queen of Scots , Queen Mary II . Queeu Annetbe Princess Sophia of Hanover

, , , and Queen Victori a transmit the Crown of England , because it is what is called a "female fief , " capable of transmission by females . The case of Prance , for instance , is the reverse , as it has always been a male fief . Bro . Yarker will therefore have the kindness yet

to explain how the marriage of Theodora Pal _ 3 ologina , so long unheard of , can convey the title and prerogatives of the Emperors of Constantinople . I repeat the whole of the questions . As Bro .