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pending on that point maybe allowcil a little clothing ^roin 

 a clasical iniaiiination. 



" It is snfficicnt for me to observe, on the admission of 

 the foreii-oing premises, that the room situated in the exact 

 centre oT the Pyiamid of Cheops, as thf Sun is situated in 

 the centre of that starry system ofi wliich the Pyramid is a 

 syml)ol, must have been devoted to Osu'is. Next, that the 

 situation of the Sarcophagus, exactly placed on one of the 

 fori of an ellipse, and formed of two exact cubes, both of 

 which circumstances were symbols of the same meaning, 

 was dedicated to the birth of Horus, or Light, one of the 

 {lemini who sprung from the egg of Chaos. Now tha 

 Gemini were like the Cherubim, the two visible apparitioni 

 of the Triimc Principle; h)r, according to Fausanias, the 

 number of the I^ioseuri originally corresponded with the 

 Cabiri. And here I cannot but remark, that, according to 

 the Pythagoreans, in two minds, that is, I*is and Osiris, 

 wa? contained the great generating Fouuiain of souls, 

 and that Light and Life sprung from their mistical marriage. 

 Now the Dcmitiriiic jnincijiles of nature were represented 

 by cubic stones. Hence the cubic temple of Mecca, hence 

 the cubic stone of Bubaste. The temple of Solomon was 

 indeed built upon a similar model; it consisted of three 

 exact cubes, two of which were visible, but one invisible. 



" For mvself 1 have no doubt, although 1 may not be 

 able to express my ideas so stronely as I feel them, that the 

 Sarcophagus in question was devoted to the higher myste- 

 ries. We know that the Mosaic Tabernacle was formed 

 upon a similar model ; and that it contained, according to the 

 Rabbins, the Sephvrolh, that is, the Spheres or tl)e Sidereal 

 Gates, and the great Decad of the Law written on two stones. 

 Now we are infijrmed bv Puitarch and Apuleius, that a Clie?l 

 containing a golden Atk was used in the mysteries of Osiris. 

 We leari\ from Svnesius, that these Arks, according to the 

 priests, contained the Spheres ; those Spheres which were 

 sometimes represented by semicircles, and sometimes by 

 cubes ; those Spheres, of which the Dioscuri, the Sephy- 

 rolh, the Cherul:im, (and even Proserpine, the object of 

 Kicusinian initiation,) were alike the symbols. We are 

 told, moreover, bv Suidas and Eusebiu«, that Arks were 

 devoted to the mysteries of Fire, and that they were consi- 

 dered sacred, as well as the triangular form, to the great 

 triple Deity o\' E'cusinian as well as Esivpiiaii' initiation, 

 I5acchus, Proserpine, and Ceres. But that nothing may be 

 wanting to ideniilv these Arks with the triangular Pyramid, 



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