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the lamaisin of the East, continuing to exist an-d develop its infi- 

 nitely prolific germs of variation and transmutation in the Greek and 

 Roman Catholic churches, and in some of their Protestant offshoots. 

 That the communion cup upon the altar, the pallium on th« shoul- 

 ders of the Clxrdinal, the Elizabethan collar around the neck of the 

 Domprediger at Berne, the baptism of the bell, the swinging of the 

 censer, the name of the pulpit, and its normal box-form, mounted on 

 a pillar and surrounded by quaint sculpture, are but instances of 

 remaining arkism. 



31. That the Legends af the Saints are to be rescued from con- 

 tempt, and explained, only by reference to the spirit of arkism, 

 which has thoroughly and energetically inspired the Church of 

 Christ; inventing perpetually new dresses for the old symbols, and 

 recommending them thereby to new classes of society, or to new 

 sections of the heathen world. A perfect harmony can thus be es- 

 tablished between the stories of the cloister and the sagas and folks- 

 lore of the hearth ; between the mythical St. Christopher and the 

 equally mythical William Tell. 



32. That Free-Masonry probably offers to its initiated another 

 field for investigating living arkism. Its gavel and trowel are sacred 

 symbols of the mountain; and its other insignia, the square and the 

 compasses, are equally easy to read in the light of architectural mys- 

 ticism. Its primagval grand-master, Solomon, the Man of the Cell, 

 called himself the QELT (nSnp) or Cabalist.* Many branches of 

 Free-Masonry have been produced in the course of ages, known by 

 different names, and various in spirit, language, and rites, according 

 to the*temper of the times, the blood of the members, and the pro- 

 gress of ideas. But so far as their interior history has ever been re- 

 vealed, the revelation has exposed the elements of arkism as the stuff 

 of which originally their essence was composed. No pbenomenoa 

 connected with the existence of man has excited more curiosity and 

 speculation than the universal spread of not only the spirit, but the 

 language of Free-Masonry around the world. It can only be ex- 

 plained by reference to the simplicity of its formularies, and their 

 preservation from the remotest antiquity, as modern representatives 

 of primaeval arkism. 



* QEL, "^np, uuiKna-ia., kirlc, church, as well as the verbs which cor- 

 respond to them and from which they are commonly supposed to be 

 derived, viz., ^np, jtaxsa, select, collect, &c., find their explanation ia 

 the Arkite Cahala. 



