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have symbols of that law which governed in all the sacred places, whether in 

 art or in nature. 



If it is objected that we begin to read these figures not with the beginning of 

 the word, we answer that the word A-l-h-m, of four letters, represents a square. 

 But the numbers which these letters signify, are the acknowledged symbols of a 

 circle. Now, it is in the circle that we read these figures, and what difference 

 does it make where we begin to read on a circle, which has neither beginning nor 

 end, provided we read according to the Hebrew custom, from right to left. Is 

 it not the more significant of the Being who had no beginning ? 



Further, a circle is the proverbial symbol of fullness or perfection and eterni- 

 ty, as a square is a symbol of rectitude or righteousness and truth, all attributes 

 of Deity himself, while the unchangeable proportions symbolized, is no less sug. 

 gestive of immutability. No one calls it a coincidence merely, that the symbol 

 of a pyramid is found in the cartouche of a king of the fourth Egyptian dynasty. 

 It is accepted as evidence that Cheops built it. Is it any less conclusive that the 

 Almighty has revealed to man that symbol of modern science which entered into 

 the construction of all the sacred architecture on earth and in heaven, when we 

 find it in the first recorded name of His, ever written by inspiration ? 



But, happily, we are not left to the necessity of merely theorizing on this 

 subject. That people have been really inspired from above to construct the 

 sacred architecture which contains the symbols in question, is recorded in Reve- 

 lation as a positive fact. Bezaleel and Aholiab " were filled with the Spirit of 

 God," to enable them to work in all manner of workmanship, pertaining to the 

 construction of what pertained to the tabernacle of Moses. (See Ex. xxxi. 



Now, we are willing to concede that there may have been one chance in a 

 million that this was an accident, vvithin the limits of possibihty. So, "atthe^ 

 mouth of two or three witnesses, that every word may be established," we will 

 bring forth a second attest. We will examine that specimen of architecture which 

 is acknowledged to be the most sacred of any work of inspired man on earth, 

 called the ark of the covenant, on which nothing was done without Divine direc- 

 tion in the doing of it. The all-essential thing in a covenant is the signature. 

 Did the Almighty have his signature on and in that ark and its contents ? We 

 answer, we find the same symbol that we did in his first recorded name, both in 

 the measures and in the name. 



First, let us see the measures, 2^ cubits long, i^ broad, i^ deep: 



2^X20-612 inch£s=5i.53 inches. 



iKXi/^=3X2o-6i2=6i836 in.-M2=5.i53 feet. 



So, in the denomination of both feet and inches, we find this peculiar group 

 of figures. And, these figures, 5153 in inches, are the area of our circle of 81 

 inches in diameter. Now, let us examine the word covenant. In Hebrew it is 

 B-r-y-th. Let us place these letters on the corners of a square of 81 inches to 

 the side, and see if the numbers represented are symbolical of our circle, with 8r 

 inches for its diameter? (Diagram e.) It is permissible to omit the ciphers, ^^'e 



