Masonic Celestial Mysteries.

astronomical figure , the interpretation of which cannot be misunderstood . It is that of a sedate

looking man , with wings on his shoulders , in like manner as Virgo is pictured , he' has an ear . of corn in his hand , and Isis , Virgo , is never

pictured without an ear of corn in her hand . Ptolemy , whose picture constellations are said to be of Anno Domini 138 has Auriga with a " scourge

of small cords , " in his right hand ; and on his left arm he has a goat—so has the

Assyrian figure . A strange fancy carrying a goat on the arm , and still more strange that no celestial figure of Auriga was ever represented without a goat on the arm . In Ptolemy , and in all modern atlases , there are two kids or lambs on the

arm or bosom with the goat . Isaiah xl ., 11 . Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , but the wisdom of the Egyptians could not always arrange to have brilliants to govern their astronomical points , therefore , of necessity , they had

to select small stars by which they could regulate their observations . Capella means " a little goat . " Capella of the goat is a brilliant of the first magnitude , and in the year 1820 was at M , 75 ° 51 ' , then one of the lambs , the little star *• lambda was at AR 76 ° 3 G' . At some time or other this little lamb must have been extinguished or

allegorically burnt , by the sun risiug at the vernal equinox in astronomical " aries , " but the Jews were commanded by Moses to reckon their festivals from Tishree , "Libra , " and that would be evening with them . There is a very beautiful

celestial interpretation of Abraham offering up his son'Isaac . —Gen . xxii ., 6 and 13 . Isaac said to his father , "Behold the fire and the wood , but where is the lamb for the holocaust ? " and his father replied the GODS will provide the lamb ; and

compasses will show the ram Aries caught in the thicket by its horns , when it was sacrificed on Ara , or the Masonic pedestal . It was early in the morning , very early—six o ' clock exactlysun-rise . Opposite Aries would be Tishree , Libra ,

and the Hebrew evening of the paschal offering of the lamb . " Tour lamb ye shall keep until the 14 th day of the month : and the whole assembly of the congregation shall kill it in the evening . " The 14 th day ( evening ) of the lunar month is the

full moon , and Spica , the ear of corn of Virgo , is called Azamech , meaning "the station of the moon . " The Jews are one clay or one degree on the circle in arrear of Christians , thus their moon day is our sabbath or sun day . The lamb ,

therefore , instead of being at 76 ° 36 ' , as with us , was with them at 77 ° 36 ' in the year 1 S 20 , The precessional cycle of the Egyptians is 25 , 920 years .,, or 72 years for each day or degree of the solar circle . 77 -36 years multiplied by 72 years gives-5580 or Anno Mundi of the Jews for the Christian

Anno Domini 1820 . " The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world . "—Rev . xiii ., 8 . The Jews , therefore , commenced , their civil or lunaryear at sun-set in Libra , whereas Christians formerly began their solar , or the Hebraic sacred

year , at Easter , in Aries—and , as already asserted , so do all astronomers to this day . The zodiac has been symbolised by all manner of things , among others to sheaves of corn , ( Gen . xxxvii ., 7 ) , loaves of bread and calces , & c . A celebrated orthodox

eastern offering of bread is that of the leavened hot cross bun . This bun does not bear the impress of the upright solstical cross alluded to in the last paper , for whoever saw the Eomau cross on the bun ? The bun cross is that of St . Andrew j

it is formed by the sun passing tho junction of the ecliptic andthe equator at the easter equinox . Andrew means " a ' stout and strong man , " and the

suu-man rises in his strength when passing St .. Andrew ' s cross . The Egyptians give the cross--bun and call it " sacred bread . " ( Champollion ' s

Egyptian Die . ) In Leviticus xxiv ., 5 and G , twelve cakes are to be baked on the Lord ' s table , which is Ara , the altar or pedestal—one cako for each sign—the last , the twelfth .,

for twelfth-cake clay , the Saviour ' s birthday , old style . There is always a fire on Ara . ( Liv . vi ., 13 ) . The altar , or pedestal , it has been

seen , applies to Capricomus or Pan , and the Abbe Montfaucon ( 168 plate , vol . 1 ) , gives us Pan , with his upright goat ' s horns , baking cakes on the altar .

The twelfth-cako is unleavened ; it is covered with snow , denoting winter ; it is eaten cold . Not many years back Pan supplied for its surface various representations of different illustrious members of the Pantheon . Although the bun is still a sacred symbol among the vulgar , Easter