236 KEY. A. B. GRIMALDI, M.A., ON THE ZODIACAL ARRANGEMENT 



was attached. A great dividing line was at the Eeformation. 

 The Reformation came, and as with the besom of destruction 

 swept away the whole of that series of ideas connected with 

 such matters as the Zodiac, and to this day we have never 

 recovered the lost ground. 



Up to the time of the Eeformation all our important 

 churches possessed a Zodiac. V. le Due, the official architect 

 of Napoleon III. has said that in the mediaeval days every 

 church in Trance had its zodiac. There are many uses to 

 which it has been applied. Some have even said it was the very 

 origin of religion. It was extensively used in the Patriarchal 

 Church (the first Church), the Hebrew Church (the second 

 Church), and in the Christian Church (the third and last true 

 Church). This zodiacal arrangement has laid hold with tenacity 

 on these three Churches, and cannot therefore be an insignificant 

 subject, having also been so extensively adopted in the Pagan 

 religion. It is impossible to understand the peculiarities of 

 that Church unless you know something of the Zodiac. If we 

 ask for the Bible of the Christian Church, the answer is the 

 New Testament ; for tliat of the Hebrew Church, the answer is 

 the Old Testament ; but for that of the Patriarchal Church 

 probably there is no answer. Here is the answer which can be 

 set forth and examined and considered. The Christian Church 

 stands or falls by the Hebrew Church. If you undermine and 

 destroy that Church you undermine the Christian Church itself. 

 The Hebrew Church is the result of the Patriarchal Church. 

 One is the flower of which the other is the bud. 



Another point is that the Zodiacal arrangement shows the 

 essential identity of the doctrines of these three Churches, and 

 it is also constantly referred to in the Old Testament. There 

 are passages and texts which cannot be explained without this 

 key ; and so also in the New Testament, but then the types 

 and shadows passed away and there was not the same 

 necessity ; therefore it is comparatively sparsely used. 



It is also found in our own churches and cathedrals. 

 Opinions of modern investigators may be quoted. 



Sir Wm. Drummond : " There is nothing then impossible 

 in the report of Josephus when he says that the descendants 

 of Seth were successful astronomers, and ascril)es to him the 

 invention of the cycle which Cassini Inought to perfection — 

 that the invention of the Zodiac ought to be attributed to the 

 antediluvians may appear to some a rash and idle conjecture, 

 but I shall not renounce that conjecture merely because it may 

 startle those who never tliought of the sul)ject." 



