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PRINCE OF THE TABERNACLE. 355
the page. Search and discover. You are ab:mt to
be taught by symbols. Forget not the universal law
of equilibrium. The ancients, in their evocations,
always erected two altars, and sacrificed two victims,
one black and one white ;
and the Priest, holding in
one hand the sword, and in the other the rod, had to
have one foot naked and the other shod.
Prepare, now, for admission to the inner mysteries.
M:. P.\ My brethren, the power of darkness has
prevailed over the prince of light. The earth
mourns, and is wrinkled with frost. The leaves drop
from the trees ; snow shrouds the mountains, and
cold winds sweep ovei the shuddering skies. All
nature laments ; and we share the common sorrow.
Excellent Senior Warden, let prayers be offered up
in the tabernacle for the return of light and the
reascension of the Sun, and of that moral and
spiritual light of which he is the type.
S.\W.'. Most Puissant, all the nations of the earth
do fast and pray. Our ancient taskmasters on the
banks of the Nile mourn for Osiris. The Chaldeans
lament for Bel, and the Phoenicians for Thammuz.
The Phrygian women clash their cymbals and weep
for Atys ; on the Syrian hills and over the Etruscan
plains the virgins lament for Dionusos ; while far in
India the Brahmans pray for the return of Cam a ;
and in Persia the Magi predict the resurrection of
Mithras. The dead will rise again, as the wheat