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are seriously informed that it represents Apollo in the house of Castor and Pollux . This a very fair classic hoax , because Apollo is the Egyptian Castor , and celestial charts generally name Alpha the Gemini Castor vel Apollo , so that Apollo of Pompeii and Apollo of heaven are always at home in the house of Castor and Pollux , but they are

Fiff . 13 . not always in the Gemini , because all astronomers from time immemorial have placed the type of the Gemini on . the pictured sign Taurus , and in Taurus is the shepherd hitherto interpreted , with the

lamb , with his arm , * and Raguel , the shepherd of God . Castor then with his harp personates David , to whose house there is a key " that openeth and no man shutteth , and shutteth and no man openeth . '' f

Thus was it written to the Church ( Capella in-Auriga ) of Philadephia , which means "brotherly love , " for which Castor and Pollux were very celebrated . The key of the house of David is to be laid upon Ehakim ' s shoulder so "he shall open

and none shall shut , and he shall shut and none shall open . " % Who Eliakim was is not mentioned . What is meant by the key being placed on his shoulder , and not in his hand , or in his belt , where warders are supposed to carry such implements ?

Terrestrially keys on any man ' s shoulder could not work so as to open and shut doors of a hcuse , but celestially it would be otherwise . Eliakim means " resurrection , or strength : '' in other words , Samson or Hercules , and his right shoulder is

* Isaiah , 40 , 11 . f Eev . 3 , 7 . | Isaiah , 22 , 22

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with Algothi , the lion of the tribe of Judahthis is the root of David opposite—this is the Rock Peter of the New Testament , who has power to " bind on eai'tb and in heaven , and to loose on earth and in heaven . " * From this celestial Peter

of course , came the Papal keys , one of which opens and shuts the bottomless pit—Hiram Hercules is he " that liveth and was dead , and hath the keys of hell and death . "f The Masons select the shoulder of the apprentice on which

to lay their key , the triple tau , the government shall be upon his shoulder §; but , as before explained , the Papal and the Masonic keys , though they are somewhat differently constructed , serve exactly the same purpose , and the Masonic motto will suit either— " Nil nisi clavis deest . " Algothi

of 256 ° 36 ' , as so often stated , has the lambs opposite at 76 ° 36 ' , and there is Raguel , the shepherd , and Capella , and there in Taurus is the type of the Gemini . Samson or the lion of the tribe of Juda with his shoulder advancing one sign or 30

degrees will reach 286 ° on old Christmas Day , the 6 th of January ; and by so doing the opposite sign Taurus , in which , as just stated , are the lambs and Raguel at 76 ° , will be advanced a sign or 30 degrees on to 106 ° . And there is the

pictured sign Gemini , the Alpha of which is David vel Apollo , who thus , with Capella , and the lambs and Raguel , becomes allegorically " the shepherd . " Alpha of the Gemini must , therefore , interpret what David does with the sheep and lions , S j'c , or there is no truth in celestial Masonry . The movement of the shoulder of Hiram Hercules

has opened the house of David by placing the astronomical type of the Gemini on the pictured sign Gemini . Shutting the house would be the reversed motion , placing Cancer on the Gemini .

Gothic Architecture And Operative Freemasonry.

GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE AND OPERATIVE FREEMASONRY .

By Bro . W . P . BUCHAN . While studying this subject , my attention has been so much taken up lately with the following remarks of James Ferguson , Esq ., M . B . I . JB . A ., as contained at page 659 et seq . of vol . 2 nd of his " Illustrated Handbook of Architecture" pub . 1855 , that I make bold to quote them , they are of