eason. Twelfth. The box teaches to keep our secrets
inviolably. Thirteenth. The urn learns us that we ought to be as
delicious perfumes. Fourteenth. The brazen sea, that we ought to
purify ourselves, and destroy vice. Fifteenth. The circles on the
triangles demonstrate the immensity of the divinity under the symbol
of truth. Sixteenth. The poniard teacheth the step of the elected,
many are called, but few are chosen to the sublime knowledge of pure
truth. Seventeenth. The word albra signifies a king full of glory and
without blot. Eighteenth. The word Adonai signifies Sovereign Creator
of all things. Nineteenth. The seven cherubims are the symbols of the
delights of life, known by seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling,
smelling, tranquility, and thought.

Q. What represents the sun? A. It is an emblem of Divinity, which we
ought to regard as the image of God. This immense body represents the
infinity of God's wonderful will, as the only source of light and
good. The heat of the sun produces the rule of the seasons, recruits
nature, takes darkness from the winter, in order that the
deliciousness of spring might succeed. End of the physical lecture.

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GENERAL LECTURE IN THIS DEGREE.

Question--From whence came you? Answer--From the centre of the earth.

Q. How have you come from thence? A. By reflection, and the study of
nature.

Q. Who has taught you this? A. Men in general who are blind, and lead
others in their blindness.

Q. What do you understand by this blindness? A. I do not understand it
to be privy to their mysteries; but I understand under the name of
blindness, those who cease to be ardent, after they have been privy to
the light of the spirit of reason.

Q. Who are those? A. Those who, through the prejudices of superstition
and fanaticism, render their services to ignorance.

Q. What do you understand by fanaticism? A. The zeal of all particular
sects which are spread over the earth, who commit crimes by making
offerings to fraud and falsehood.

Q. And do you desire to rise from this darkness? A. My desire is to
come to the celestial truth, and to travel by the light of the sun.

Q. What represents that body? A. It is the figure of an only God, to
whom we ought to pay our adoration. The sun being the emblem of God,
we ought to regard it as the image of the Divinity; for that immense
body represents wonderfully the infinity of God. He invigorates and
produces