now know the first number was separable so as to give as a remainder 3550, as to which the 355 is part of our Man-Even-Jehovah ratio and measure, and was significant of the lunar year. From this it is evident that Josephus has made a purposed change to 3650 to indicate in 365 the days of the solar year. When the name J'hoshua was formed it was by the interpolation of the number 3 (letter) so as evenly to divide the Great Name. This 3 may be used with either side of the divide or balance;-as, shua, which gives the number 365, alluding to the solar year of which J'hoshua was the symbol, or on the other side by , or 351. It

is strange but the sum of the first part is 311 or reverse 113, while the 1 and 5 and 3 of the second part gives our familiar numbers 135. But the number 153 is equally significant in various places. It is for instance the number of great fishes miraculously caught, as related in the New Testament. Let me quote from a comment by J. H. Walden in the International Standard, not however vouching for its correctness in all particulars: "Dr. Mahan has shown us that the Hebrew words Beni ha Elohim, meaning the sons of God,' are equal in numerical value to 153. So also Rebecca' in the Greek, and the Hebrew Ishah, 'woman'--each makes 153. 'The house of Israel my people' is value for 1530, or 153 multiplied by 10, the number of the tribes of the house of Israel, as distinguished throughout the Bible from the tribes of the house of Judah, commonly called Jews. The net in which the fishes were caught makes 8 times 153. And the letters of the word 'fishes' add up also to 8 times 153. So does the name Abram, and so do the two words Shibboleth and Sibboleth, all in the Hebrew, make 8 times 153." But see the great significance of all in our mode and examples :153X8 1224 which is Abram ; which read on a circle is

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41224, which is our 20612X2 The two fishes, the sign in the Zodiac, will be 565×2,--and 1130 is at the same time diameter to a circumference of 3550 as above, and circumference to a diameter of 360! (To be exact 360 is diameter to a circumference of 1130 9+, or 36 to 113.09, an approximate quite close enough to give 1130, or two fishes, a value of double indication or significance). Thus we see the welding together of so many symbolic expressions of the Holy Books in the name J'hoshua. As said, the name is first shadowed forth in the word salvation (Ex. 14, 13), the sum of the digit values of the word being 26, the sum of the values of the let

ters of Jehovah's name. The word is from, shua, and this by permissible change can be rendered, shua, also, which is the last part of Joshua's name to make 365, composed of the bush, and the vav and he of the Great Name. This name for Jesus is a favorite one in Luke, as the "horn of salvation, chap. 1, v. 69, and "all flesh shall see the salvation of God," chap. iii, v. 6, or the Jehovah of Elohim, and see chap. xix, v. 9.

The people in camp represented the starry hosts of heaven, in the midst of which was this said astronomical book of the Tabernacle, containing the results of the proceedings at Sinai. The initial mark in the heavens was made at the beginning of the Exodus by the Lord: This month (Nisan) shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you,"--and on the 14th day of the month was the commemorative feast of Passover:-"In the first month, in the 14th day of the month, at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even." By the lunar calendar the 14th Nisan was a movable feast, but by Nisan civil it was as Seyffarth says, the 19th Julian March, which was carried over, by the blotting out of three days, from, say the 9th hour of the 19th until even, the whole of the 20th, and the 21st until even, to the vernal equinox, closing on March 21st at even. We are authorized to say that Moses founded his system from his knowledge of the learning of the Egyptian mysteries,--and this being so, we find this statement by Dr. William Lübke, in his Outlines of the History of Art, p. 19 Speaking of the Egyptians, he says:

"The Pharaohs certainly ruled with unlimited power; and so high was their position above the whole people, even above the privileged castes of priests and soldiers, that they shared divine adoration, and were identified with the gods of the land. There was, however, an extremely complicated web of legal and ceremonial arrangements, which fettered the power of the ruler, and commanded his respect. Next to the ruler the priestly caste enjoyed the most considerable influence. The priests were the guardians of science, especially of geometrical and astronomical knowledge, which they knew how to envelop with a veil of mystery:-they were the superintendents and warders of the temples, the guardians of the theoretical and practical religious systems,"

Just as Moses was with the Hebrews. Turning now to a Hebrew authority:--Josephus "is spoken of in the highest terms by men of the greatest learning and the soundest judgment. His fidelity, veracity, and probity, are universally allowed." He was

of the chief family of the first course of the 24 courses of priests, and of royal descent on the mother's side. To his distinguished birth he added profound learning. Closing his description of the

Tabernacle, he says:

"Here one may wonder at the ill-will which men bear to us, and which they profess to be on account of our despising that deity which they pretend to honor; for if any one do but consider the fabric of the tabernacle, and take a view of the garments of the high priest, and of those vessels which we make use of in our sacred ministration, he will find that our legislator was a divine man, and that we are unjustly reproached by others; for if any one do, without prejudice and with judgment, look upon these things, he will find they were every one made in way of imitation and representation of the universe. When Moses distinguished the tabernacle into three parts (the outercourt before the door was taken as one part, like the porch of the temple), and allowed two of them to the priests, as a place accessible and common, he denoted the land and the sea, these being of general access unto all; but he set apart the third division for God, because heaven is inaccessible unto man. And when he ordered 12 loaves to be set on the table, he denoted the year, as distinguished into so many months. By branching out the candlesticks into 70 parts, he secretely intimated the Decani, or 70 divisions of the planets, and as to the seven lamps upon the candlesticks, they referred to the course of the planets, of which that is the number. The veils, too, which were composed of four things, they declared the four elements; the fine linen the earth, the purple the sea, the blue the air, and the scarlet fire. Now the vestment of the high priest, being made of linen signified the earth, the blue denoted the sky, being like lightning in its pomegranates, and in the noise of the bells resembling thunder. And for the ephod, it showed that God had made the universe out of four elements, and the gold was the splendor of light. He also appointed the breast-plate to be placed in the middle of the ephod to resemble the earth, for that has the very middle place of the world. And the girdle which encompassed the high priest round signified the ocean, for that goes around about and includes the universe. Each of the sardonyxes declares to us the sun and the moon, those I mean that were in the nature of buttons on the high priest's shoulders. And for the 12 stones, whether we understand by them the month, or whether we understand the like number of the signs of that circle which the Greeks call the Zodiac, we shall not be mistaken in their meaning. And for the mitre which was of a blue color, it seems to me to mean heaven."

To this add the testimony of Molitor, as to the wisdom of the Thora, that it contained cabbalistically, an epitomised exact description of the cosmogony,--and that it, as a whole, "is a divine hieroglyph of unending hieroglyphics,"--that is, language within language of the word of God. From this it is to be gathered that the Pentateuch is, beside its other, as moral, spiritual, divine teaching, a compendium of astronomy, geometry and applied intelligible number

values. If so, however, such general symbolism as is given by Josephus, is unworthy unless it be connected with more profound and useful exact exposition. Such exposition we seem to have discovered in the occult teachings connected with Mount Sinai and the holy names. It seems clear that the results we have arrived at are truly those growing out of the premises taken, and that the premises themselves are substantially those which are really and intentionally couched in the verbiage of the text. For, it is thought that no stretch of bizarre ingenuity or imagination, can originate and uphold such trains of connection in such continuity. But we can go further to enforce what has been said, and carry the result to a more determined end. In the first place, it will be observed that the number of Moses' name, or 3 and 4 and 5, are those of the least integral solution of the Pythagorean problem, and for permutation call for the use of a triangle; and further, that use of this problem seems to run as of continuous use in the text. Also, dis covery has been made of so many numbers composed in the double, such for instance, as 113-311 from 226,-135-531,-105—(6)— 501-345-543,-453-354, and so on, as almost to preclude the idea of invention. With this said, the simple finding the exact value of the lunar year and month does not close the matter, but the work goes on to make a definite use of the result, as follows:The law of Moses, or the parallel of the basis of the "practical religion" of the Egyptian priests, as connected with astronomy, was described as written upon two tables of stone, and these were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. Why not some other substance, as gold, or brass, or silver? For this reason :-The word stone is abn, -and the express mention of two such, gives us the numbers 125-521, a clear case, again, of the duplication of numbers. The reason why is almost conclusive, and exclusive of any denial, when the connection is found of these numbers with the process of finding the value of the lunar year, through use of the Pythagorean problem. For, when the sides of a right angle triangle are 354-3670548, and given to find the diagonal of the square, the process will be as follows:-354.3670548 squared is 125576.0095+, which, multiplied by 2 is 251152. to the extent of the integral or whole numbers;-wherein is found to be expressed our duplicate numbers 125-521 changed by permutation, or T'mura. Then the square root of 251152.0190+ will be 501.1506, or the diagonal

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required,-which is the changed reading of 1056501 as said.— Therefore the substance "stone" in and by yirtue of its name, gives rise to the very number which used twice gives the key-note of solution of our problem. And, as in other instances, the fact could be shown geometrically, so as to fit to the use made of the stones, viz., the placing them in the Ark. The Ark was 2.5 cubits long, whose length was divided by the meeting of the wings of the cheru bim, the technical symbol of the flight of time. So the length was divided into 1.25 and 1.25 cubits, or a display of the same numbers with our stone duplication. Therefore there were taken two stones, each 1.25 cubits broad and 2.5 cubits long. Together they would form a perfect square, our typical square again. 5 These could be placed in the Ark diagram of these two stones :

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Placed on a triangle the numbers 125-521, or the words abn-abn, may be, by permuta tion, read as 251-152, and let this be the indi. cated area of a square, say in days. The sides of such a square will each be 5011506, while the interior half diagonals, crossing each other at the central point, which was the place designated for the meeting of Jehovah with the high priest, must each thereof be 354.3670548, or our exact astronomical measure,--and this was the meeting intended. It is shown in the integrals only, as 453— 354, reading from the center outward, and as seen is the meeting of Moses and I Am That I Am, face to face, in the Tabernacle as reported. It is all a condensed, yet clear, repetition of the calculations at Sinai, but now tabulated so as to be carried as a record. Thus, the rules of the "practical religion" were written on the geometrical ascertainment, and perpetual record for monument, of the lunar year, and placed within the Ark, to be carried in the march of the hosts, which were themselves the representatives of the stars and the starry vault of heaven,—and all, again, through a simple use of our typical square and the triangle. As already said, the same figure of speech is made use of in the New Testament, wherein the expression is: "Thou art Peter (a stone) and on this stone I will found my Church." In this connection the conclusion of Sir Wm. Drummond in Oedipus Judaicus is of interest. He says:

"Of all the Jewish symbols the Ark is perhaps the most mysterious. Synesius, speaking of the Egyptian hierophants, observes that they have Kōmasteria, which are arks, concealing they say the spheres".