2 articles of his discharge, produces in the clerk's hands a receipt from James Pringle, of £24, and another from Robert Lowrie, of £3:7: 6, containing oblidgment to pay with a rent.

"The committee also report that there is in John Donaldson's hands £6: 13, and ordains him to pay in the same to the Treasurer, or grant bill therefore, and finds there is in John Sanderson's, the present Treasurer's, hands, £7:10.

"The sd day the commission to five for entrants continued.

"The preses, with consent of the lodge, modifies the fyne formerly imposed upon John Young, John Fountain, Adam Claperton, and Jeams Peacock, for their unwarrantable entring of Alexr, Methven to 6 shills. Scots per peice, and appoint the same to be immediately paid in to the Treasurer, and ordains them to use all diligence for recovering the entry money.

"The preses, with consent of the lodge, continues John Sanderson Treasurer till next year, and ordains the clerk to give the Treasurer an acpt. of all the deficients in payment of fynes or entries, and appoints him to do diligence betwixt and the next St. John's Day for recovering yrof. "The Treasurer accordingly received £3 from Torsonce, Captn. Scot, and Hugh Scot yr of Gala, as their fynes for absence last St. John's Day.

"The absents conforme to a note are fyned each of them in twenty shillings Scots, and ordained to pay the same to the Treasurer.

("Follows a list of 38 members, of whom 17 are marked absent and 6 of them excused.

"The preses with consent of the lodge, fines each of the absents in Twenty Shillg Scots, with 12 Shillg each of them in lieu of their proportion for dinner.

"The sd day the commission to five for entring, and admitting is continued for a year to

come.

"The sd day John Young, John Fountain and Adam Claperton paid each of them to the treasurer 6 Shillg Scots as a fine, modified last St. John's Day, and appoint the former orders for doing diligence for recovering Alexr. Methven's entrie money to continue.

"The preses with consent of the lodge continues John Sanderson to be their treasurer for a year to come, and ordain the clerk to give in to him an account of all deficient in payt of fynes or entries, in order to doing diligence for recovering yrof betwixt and next St. John's Day.

Dickson Traquair* the preses with consent of the "Upon application made to the lodge by Alexr. lodge ordains him to be instructed, and to pay in Three pounds Scots to the treasurer of entry money.

"The treasurer upon the supplication of Margret Vetch is appointed to give her four stones of oatmeal.

[Having now given the old records of this lodge down to Bro. Buchan's "pet date," 1717, I shall be glad to have the comments of the brethren upon the same, and opinions as to their operative or speculative character.R. SANDERSON.]

LODGE MINUTES, ETC.-No. 9.

"The preses with consent of the lodge recomends to the commission of five for entering to consider as to the entry money the distinctions following, (viz.,) that a tradesman pay at least five shillings sterling, and any other person whosoever, ten shillings sterling.

"Haughfoot, 27th Decr. 1719. “The which day John Donaldson being chosen preses of the meeting, caused call the roll of the haill members of the lodge.

Lodge of Scotland.
(Continued from page 327).

FROM THE MINUTES OF GLASGOW ST. MUNGO
LODGE (No. 27).

"St. John's Day, 27th Dec., 1791. A procession in a Masonic stile having been agreed upon by the Masters, &c., of the different lodges in this City, it accordingly took place from Somervail's house, opposite the High Church, and proceeded with the greatest regularity down the High-street, Saltmarket, along the Bridegate, up the Stockwell,

*Traquair distant from Haughfoot about 13 miles.

and from thence to this lodge room, where the brethren of the other lodges having drawn up in two ranks or rows, let the Saint Mungo Lodge pass thro' into their room, and afterwards proceeded to their respective lodge rooms."

Then follow the office-bearer's names, after which it says, "with a great number of very respectable brethren, who behaved with such decorum as perhaps has never been seen before in such a numerous assemblage, and the evening was concluded with the greatest harmony. Lodge shut about half-past twelve, and most of the members retired to their respective places of abode."

"Glasgow, May, 1792. Convened in the house of Bro. Pollock, Trongate, the Right Worshipful Master, Senior and Junior Wardens, the other office-bearers, and a very respectable number of the brethren. This being the day fixed for the procession at laying the foundation stone of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the meeting adjourned and walked in Masonic procession to St. Andrew's Church, about eleven o'clock forenoon, to hear the sermon prepared for the occasion. After Divine service the following bodies walked in procession, three in a rank along the Saltmarket-street and High-street in the following order :-"ist. The Lord Provost Magistrates and Council, preceded by their "2nd. The Principal and professors of the University, in their gowns, and with their mace carried before them.

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When the procession approached the castle, it moved in the street to the right towards the entry to the church and along the side of the wall to the east end of the ground prepared for the foundation of the building. When the procession arrived at the castle, the band of music played 'Come let us prepare,' &c. When the Lord Provost and Magistrates arrived at the spot where the stone was to be laid, the whole procession stopped and preserved their ranks, and then the Lord Provost, assisted by the Masters and Wardens of the several lodges, who had left their places for that purpose-the rest of the procession keeping their stations-together with James Adams, Esq., architect, proceeded to place the inscriptions, coins, writings, &c., in the stone, according to the ceremonies of Masonry. When this was finished, the Masters and Wardens of the several lodges returned to their places, and the band of music struck up 'On, on, my dear brethren.' Then the Lord Provost and the different bodies passed along the ground prepared for the foundations to the street on the west, and the procession returned down the High-street, the whole orders having passed by the foundation stone. In descending the street the several bodies retired from the procession to such places as they found convenient, and the lodges adjourned to their respective lodge rooms, where they dined and spent the evening with the utmost mirth and conviviality. N.B. The procession preserved the most regular order, and it was remarkable that black clothes, which gave an air of solemnity every person present was uniformly dressed in

suitable to the occasion."

"Immediately after Divine service the Magistrates and Council rose first, and the other bodies in the foregoing order, and proceeded accordingly three in a rank along the Saltmarket-street and High-street, the band of music playing the King's

On 2nd October, 1792, a meeting is held in the Master's house, when and where two candidates are initiated. This again done on 8th Nov., and again on 22nd Nov.

On 2nd Feb., 1794, "The Tyler of this lodge should be allowed for the ensuing year one pound

phis, which had some spots on it nearly in the form of a crescent; this singularity, says he, was of itself nothing, and deserved no greater attention than those white spots we see on the foreheads of horses, &c., yet the animal received the name of "Apis, the powerful God." After his death he was replaced by another that had nearly the same spots. "When the marks desired were not neat and exact, they were improved with a pencil." A pencil is a strange implement wherewith to mark a hairy beast, but not at all so to mark the crescent on a celestial chart. The crescent remains to this day in the face of

pis, the stars are N, 0, p. "O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, make thee instruments of captivity to go into captivity," and there is the daughter with chains on her wrists and on her ankles. "NP, or NOP or NOPH," implies or signifies Memphis, "For NOPH shall be waste and desolate," and "Egypt is like a very fair heifer.' Noph, Cruden says, means "honey comb," and compasses from the ecliptic pole will take the bee musca borealis to the mouth of the Egyptian heifer Apis, immediately under the crescent No p.t.

Elijah, meaning "the strong Lord," took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes, and with these built an altar. He cut Apis into pieces and laid him. on the wood, and twelve barrels of water were supplied by Aquarius, when the fire of the Lord, the sun at easter, burnt up the offering. This was the time of evening sacrifice.‡ The sun rising killed the young lion and also Apis. It is said the lion shall eat straw like the ox, that must be like a terrestrial ox, for although there is plenty of straw in the heavens, the mouths of Apis Junior and Apis Senior cannot by any means touch it,§ but the lion of the tribe of Juda has a whole truss to himself, that is, before he is skinned. "They made a calf in Horeb, thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass."|| "Behold, Behemoth eateth grass as an ox.'¶ moth eateth grass as an ox." Behemoth, says Bailey, is a wonderful creature some take to be the river horse. the river horse. Behemoth is rendered elephant, and leviathan, whale, in Job. The Budhists still represent Cetus as an elephant, and our whale cetus is an extraordinary animal with a proboscis,

With respect to the Bull family, it is of the most remote origin, far anterior to Britannia. Apis was in its youth a calf, it grew up to be a bull; a certain operation which takes place annually on the 1st Jan., certainly made him an ox or bullock. At times Apis is an heifer, and then becomes a cow. Lion-headed women have been referred to, and among the Egyptians there are many bullheaded women, some giving suck to young Osiris, or Antinous, on the first of Jan., whilst other women are giving the teat to the horned bull on the 1st Jan. If any intelligent brother wishes to see the one teat, let him look for hedir, the biblical Shedeur. Job tells us, that among the wicked, that is, those of Misraim, "Their bull gendereth and faileth not their cow calveth and casteth not her calf."* According to nature, such strange results would be utterly impossible, but like the virgin after having a child being still a virgin, so the cow calveth and casteth not her calf; this cannot be interpreted otherwise than astronomically. If the celestial bull did not gender, and the cow did not calve, where could the sun-bull come from for the ensuing year? The Abbé Pluchet says, "Chance produced a calf at Mem

and always troubling the rivers Eridanus and Po

OLD RUINS.

and not described. Apis Senior and Apis Junior cannot have their mouths filled with either straw or grass, but Cetus can have his mouth in the green field like an ox.

Apis, the sun king, or John Bull invariably meets his death at the end of the year. Sometimes like Antinous he is drowned iu the river Nihil, at other times he is slaughtered with the sword of Mythras, &c. When the sun man is slain, the elders assemble and strike off the heifer's neck at 286°, the Epiphany.-See Montfaucon, plate 112, vol. 2, and thence it ascends to heaven, as Apis Taurus, that is, the forequarters ascend,

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for the hind quarters are forbidden the Hebers, or Hebrews. The hind quarters left behind are quite good enough for those believing in the cross below (See Scutum) and the cross, and the hind quarters of Apis on the 1st Jan., AR 281. "He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man."+ fully understand how and why the sun bull received the name of John, requires further insight into the laws, when the esoteric reading of Gol, or Gaul, France and Wales, and the dispute between Menkar of Cetus, the Prince of Whales, and the Dauphin, the Dolphin, and mirach ocean Venus, or mermaid, and Dauphiness, or Dolphiness, will elucidate many obscure passages of ancient history.

The magnificent man-headed lion of Layard, in the British Museum, is the sun-man lion of the tribe of Juda, with the wings of Aquila; and the sun-man bull is Apis of Memphis, with the wings of Aquila, both indicating the sun passing the winter solstice, and the opening of a new year on the 1st Jan., and these sublime monuments have for ages past recorded the opening of the year in Egypt, and will continue to record time so long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations.‡

Ezekiel, xxxii., 2. † Isaiah, lvi., 3. Psalms, lxxii., 5.

Isle of Man, on Monday, Oct. 25, 1869.

By Bro. JAMES ADAMS, B.A., Secretary Tynwald Lodge.

History is like a magic mirror, in which we behold the men, manners, and events of bygone ages; and as the lives of bygone nations resemble in many respects the lives of those now in existence, the study of history has at all times proved delightful to intelligent mindsand the more so as, by a careful study of past events and their consequences, a very correct judgment of the results of social and political events in the present time however almost entirely lost. The scanty information can be formed. The histories of the earliest nations are, afforded by the Bible concerning the civilised nations with whom the Jews had to deal serves only to increase

our thirst for more extensive information.

It is not until about 500 years before our era that Herodotus, the father of history, gives us definite and clear pictures both of the Grecian nation, and also of those nations with whom the Greeks had constant intercourse. From the time of this historian we have an uninterrupted succession of histories that enables us to see by a clear light the manners and customs, the science and knowledge, of all the civilised nations of Europe. A thick veil shuts out from the view of the many the events that occurred before the age of history. This veil is partially drawn for the student who examines, with an intelligent mind, the stories related in the Grecian mythology. These fables may appear coarse and even absurd to the vulgar, but to the student they teach science and morality-recording, also, the learning and civilisation of nations that existed long anterior to the Greeks. There is, however, a clearer and more brilliant proof of the existence of an ancient state of civilisation in those monuments of skill-the remains of temples and ruined cities that exist in so many nations. The lofty pyramids, the stupendous walls and sculptured stones of ancient cities, declare the genius and mental refinement of peoples whose names are unknown. The architects and artists amongst them have left undeniable proofs of the learning, skill, and mental culture of mankind in every age of the world. The record of their greatness and mental power is imprinted on stone with an iron pen, that all may be struck with admiration of the men that that have lived.

There is nothing more astounding to a traveller in what we call a new country than when he comes to the ruins of a great city-a city without a name-giving us the record of a great, educated, and polished people. But when we ask, When did they live? the only answer is,

Ages ago, before the savages occupied these landseven long before it became overgrown with wood." Such cities are to be met with in Canada, in the midst of a dense forest, in various parts of North America, but more especially in Mexico, where the elegance of the architec ture displayed in the ruined temples and the beauty of the sculptured pillars excite as much wonder and admiration as the most splendid ruins in Attica.