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sees in this numeral the value of Pi, and further 

 more informs us that 318 is the Gnostic symbol for 

 Christ, as well as the number of Abraham s trained 

 servants. Frequent use of it is made in the Great 

 Pyramid ; for example, multiplied by six it gives 

 the height of the king s chamber, and multiplied 

 by two it gives half the base side of that apart 

 ment. Our author then puts the pyramid into a 

 sphere, and after this feat it is an easy transition 

 to Noah s flood, the zodiac, and modern ritualism. 

 Of similar purport, though more concise than this 

 octavo, is Dr. Watson Quinby s &quot; Solomon s Seal, 

 a Key to the Pyramid,&quot; published at Wilmington, 

 Delaware, in 1880. From this little book we learn 

 that &quot; in the early days of the world some one mea 

 sured the earth, and found its diameter, in round 

 numbers, to be 41,569,000 feet, or 498,828,000 

 inches;&quot; also that &quot;Vishnu means Fish-Nuh, 

 Noah-the-Fish, in allusion to his sojourn in the 

 ark.&quot; Moreover, the Institutes of Manu were 

 written by Noah, since Maha-Nuh = Great-Noah ! 

 With equal felicity, Rev. Edward Dingle (in his 

 &quot; The Balance of Physics, the Square of the Cir 

 cle, and the Earth s True Solar and Lunar Dis 

 tances,&quot; London, 1885, pp. 246) declares that 

 &quot; my success, let it be held what it may, was 

 secured by cleaving to the Mosaic initiation of the 



