r that
it should not be profaned by the infidels. Second. As I have deserved,
by my travel and labor, the beauty of the great "Adonai" (Lord), the
mysteries of Masonry, in passing the seven principal degrees.

Q. What signifies the seven planets? A. The lights of the celestial
globe and also their influence, by which every matter exists on the
surface of the earth or globe.

Q. From what is the terrestrial globe formed? A. From the matter which
is formed by the concord of the four elements, designed by the four
triangles, that are in regard to them as the four greater planets.

Q. What are the names of the seven planets? A. Sun, Moon, Mars,
Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Saturn.

Q. Which are the four elements? A. Air, fire, earth, and water.

Q. What influence have the seven planets on the four elements? A.
Three general matters of which all bodies are composed--life, spirit,
and body; otherwise, salt, sulphur and mercury.

Q. What is life or salt? A. The life given by the Eternal Supreme, or
the planets, the agents of nature.

Q. What is the spirit or sulphur? A. A fixed matter, subject to
several productions.

Q. What is the body or mercury? A. Matter conducted or refined to its
form by the union of salt and sulphur, or the agreement of the three
governors of nature.

Q. What are those three governors of nature? A. Animal, vegetable and
mineral.

Q. What is animal? A. We understand in this, life--all that is divine
and amiable.

Q. Which of the elements serve for his productions? A. All the four
are necessary, among which, nevertheless, air and fire are
predominant; and it is those that render the animal the perfection of
the three governments, which man is elevated to by one-fourth of the
breath of the Divine Spirit, when he receives his soul.

Q. What is the vegetable? A. All that seems attached to the earth
reigns on the surface.

Q. Of what is it composed? A. Of a generative fire, formed into a body
whilst it remains in the earth, and is purified by its moisture and
becomes vegetable, and receives life by air and water; whereby the
four elements, though different, co-operate jointly and separately.

Q. What is the mineral? A. All that is generated and secreted in the
earth.

Q. What do we understand by this name? A. That which we call metals
and demi-metals and minerals.

Q. What is it that composes the minerals? A. The air penetrating by
the celestial influence into the earth, meets with a bo