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flaence of the number 7 on the Chinese institutions, laws, etc; the square; it's meaning; 

 the ,/forbidden city"; the word Fang; it's analysis, xxii. — The lodge symbol of the 

 world; tropical meaning of the square; origin of Chinese script ure; the two rules, 

 four figures, and eight diagrams of Fuh-hi; theory of Tso-khiu on the numbers 1, 2, 

 3 and 4; component parts of the character for four ; fourfold division of mankind, 

 xxiii. — The 4 seas and 4 canals; division of the year and the day; when day began 

 at midnight; division of hours; names for month and moon identical; hieroglyph for 

 the moon; the four cardinal points; the 6 points; division of fields and provinces , xxiv. — 

 Four human virtues; the numbers 6 and 8; the six venerable Ones; the six liberal 

 arts; the six departments; the six sorts of chariots, etc, of the magnates; the six de- 

 in ents and six sacrificial animals; the six kinds of grain; six the symbol of Earth; use 

 which the Emperor CM made of the number 6, xxv. — The number 8; the eight genu- 

 flexions and the eight gradations of obeisance; the eight points and eight sounds; the 

 // eight-borne sedan;" the number 9; the number of dissolution; masonic sentence; hiero- 

 glyph for the nine, xxvi. — Division of China into 9 parts; 9 gates of Peking; nine de- 

 grees of rank; the nine professkms; the nine apertures; nine punishments; nine officers; 

 the nine presents; the 3, 5 and 9 furrows; San to km ju, xxvu. — Confucius and the 

 boy Hiang-loh ; the 36 Decans and 72 Intelligences ; the numbers 12, 30 and 360; 

 the numbers of strokes inflicted as punishment, xxviii. — 



3. — Comparison of the symbols of Masonry and of the Hung-league; the sword; the 

 arch of steel; the lodge; analysis of the words Lodge and Fang, xxix. — English ap- 

 prentice-catechisin and Catechism of the Hung-league compared; Browne's Masterkey 

 and Catechism of the Hung-league compared; the seat of the master at the East, 

 xxx. — Fraternal spirit in Freemasonry and the Hung-league; equality ainongst mem- 

 te; meaning of the 'expression Tai-ping ; the bloody oath; it's universal diffusion; it's 

 antiquity in China; custom observed in making a treaty, xxxi. — Daj ah vastom-, Rev. 

 J. H. Barnstein; the Téphrapotes ; the three cups pledged to Heaven, Earth and the 

 Altar; the mourning-apparel ; symbolical death of the new member; the new man, xxxn. — 

 Inscription on the bathing tub of Emperor Ching-tang; symbolism of taking off the shoes; 

 the white apron and gloves; the white clothes of linen; colour of mourning white in China; 

 purification by water and fire; concordance of the Catechisms of the Hung-league and of 

 the Masons; the lighting of lamps, xxxin. — The holy temple; peaches and plums; their 

 symbolism; Taoist tradition; peach resembling the tree of life; the pine and cypress, 

 symbols of immortality; quotation of Confucius; planted on public places of towns; the 

 Fskebieli; cedar symbol of conjugal love; legend of the wife of Han-plang ; Love-trees; 

 sacred flowers; the rosé and lotus-flower, xxxv. — Wreath of golden flowers; flowers 

 givento Chinese doctors; the Rose-garden and Pung-lai ; the steelyard, scales, foot-measure 

 and mirror; the string or rope; it's symbolism; the red silk-thread; nuptial fetter of 

 red silk; the triangle of the Masons and of the Hung-league; abbreviations in writing ? 



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