the hands of the Philistines, immediately after they had 

 taken the ark out of Shiloh, where it had been depo- 

 sited, the word Shiloh being the name of a tiny group 

 of stars in the sign Scorpio. The movable temple of the 

 Hebrews, or tabernacle, as described in Exodus, is the 

 best example we have of this representation of the uni- 

 verse, being described in such minute detail as to betray 

 its meaning to the dullest mind. It was divided into 

 two portions the lower or outer portion, and the upper 

 or inner portion, the holy of holies, where dwelt the 

 Hebrew chief tribal god, Yahouh, or Yah, sitting upon 

 the ark of the covenant, representing the winter part of 

 the heavens between the two covenants or equinoxes. 

 On each side of Yah was a cherub, or monster with four 

 faces (or, according to some, with four bodies) one like 

 a bull, another like a man, a third like an eagle, and the 

 last like a lion, as we find fully described by Ezekiel 

 (chap. i.). In my " Popular Faith Unveiled" (pp. 131, 

 174, and 247) I have attributed these heads (or bodies) 

 to the four zodiacal signs of ascension after the vernal 

 equinox, that like a bull to Taurus, that like a man to 

 Gemini, that like an eagle to Cancer, and that like a 

 lion to Leo ; but, according to Sir W. Drummond, in 

 his " (Edipus Judaicus," they correspond with the signs 

 at the four quarters of the sphere viz., the man to 

 Aquarius, the ox to Taurus, the lion to Leo, and the 

 eagle to Scorpio, this calculation being based on the 

 supposition that the cherubim were first introduced 

 during the period prior to B.C. 2188, when Taurus was 

 the vernal equinoxial point, while mine supposes Aries 

 to have been the chief zodiacal sign. Which calculation 

 is right the reader must decide for himself, after care- 

 fully studying the reasons given for both conclusions. 

 Clement of Alexandria, in his " Stromata," says of these 

 cherubim : " Each of them has six wings, whether they 

 typify the two bears, as some will have it, or, which is 



better, the two hemispheres Both have twelve wings, 



and thus through the circle of the zodiac, and of self- 

 marrying time, they typify the world perceived by the 

 senses." The table in the temple was symbolical of the 

 earth, as we learn from Clement of Alexandria again, 

 when he says : " The table, as I think, signifies the 



