On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
did , the -which , if they should be "written every one , I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written . Amen . "—John xxi . 25 . Those who openly worship the sun , the civilized world designate as infidels . Infidel to what ? Are such men more infidel because they adore the sun as a type of the Creator , than are those who in blind ignorance worship the blocks of wood and stone ? Is it more impious for men to picture
intermediate gods among the brilliants of the heavenly host , than to suppose carnal man to have been gifted with heavenly attributes ?—more impious for man to ascend to heaven for types of his Creator , than to debase those dwelling in heaven by encasing them in corporal forms upon our earth ? Those adoring the sun know well there is a spirit far , far beyond those objects of heaven that are visible to our sight—a spirit that
" Stretcheth out the north over the empty place , and hangeth the earth upon nothing . "—Job xxvi . 7 . * ' The heavens declare the glory of God ; and the firmament sheweth his handywork . "—Psalm xix . 1 . And the heavenly choir seem to be perpetuallyappealing to man to address their Creator as the Lord and giver of eternal life . It requires no mystagogues , learned in books of men ' s own production , to tell who created them . From time immemorial the thoughtful mind must have adored the Unknown Godhead through the heavenly works . In all ages man , by contemplating them , has learnt to know himself , —to become convinced of his own utter ignorance and total insignificance : —
" For the whole world before thee is as a little gram of the balance , yea as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth . " —Wisdom xi . 22 . And truly the learned astronomers of former ages merely considered this earth of ours at one season of the year , and at one specific moment , but a mere grain in the balance ( s £ ?) : and this brings us to the Celestial Atlas : — " And I turned , and lifted " And I saw , and behold up my eyes , and looked , a white horse : and he that and behold , there came sat on him had a bow ; and four chariots out from be- a crown was given unto tween two mountains ; and him : and he went forth the mountains were moun- conquering , and to conquer , tains of brass . " And there went out " In the first chariot were another horse that was red : red horses ; and in the se- and power was given to cond chariot black horses ; him that sat thereon to take " And in the third cha- peace from the earth , and riot white horses ; and in that they should kill one the fourth chariot grisled another : and there was and bay horses . given unto him a great " Then I answered and sword . said unto the angel that " And I beheld , and lo talked with me , What are a black horse ; and he that these , my lord ? sat on him had a pair of "And the angel answered balances in his hand , and said unto me , These " Audi heard a voice in are the four spirits of the the midst of the four heasts heavens , which go forth say , A measure of wheat from standing before the for a penny , and three Lord of all the earth . measures of barley for a " The black horses which penny ; and sec thou hurt are therein go forth into not the oil and the wine , the north country ; and the " And I looked , and bewhite go forth after them ; hold a pale horse : and his and the grisled go forth to- name that sat on him was ward the south country . Death , and Hell followed " And the bay went with him . And power was forth , and sought to go that given unto them over the they might walk to and fro fourth part of the earth , to through the earth : and he kill with sword , and with said , Get you hence , walk hunger , and with death , to and fro through the and with the beasts of the earth . So they walked to earth . " —Rev . vi . and fro through the earth . " —Zech . vi . There are two mountains in the Celestial Atlasone is that from whence robur Caroli takes root ; the other is called Mons Menses . The horses of the four chariots of Zechariah are coloured red , blac / c , white , and grisled and bay ; grisled means grey speckled ; black and white might serve for grisled , —besides , in Genesis xxxi . 10—12 , speckled and grisled are spoken of . The horses of th Revelations are red , black , tvhite , and pale—may not pale and grisled be the same ? There are four horses in the Celestial Atlas , mystified and evidently purposely misnamed . The first ( say ) Pegasus ( Equuleus need not be taken into account ) , and its colour when picturedis red , or reddish ; the second is called Monoceros , it has all the attributes of a horse , and is coloured dark or black ; the third is the horse Centaurus , speckled or grisled ; and the fourth is the white horse , Sagittarius . It would be impossible to enter minutely into the interpretation of the above quotations , word for word , unless the reader had before him the Celestial Atlas and the masonic keys ; suffice then , that the sun is north in the Gemini in summer , and south in winter in Sagittarius . The black horses go forth into the north , and under Gemini is the black horse now called Monoceros ; the grisled go forth towards the south , and Centaurus goes forth towards the south . As to the white horse , Sagittarius , he that sat on him hud a bow ; who ever saw Sagittarius pictured without a bow ? The sword for th © red horse ( there is
only one in the heavens ) , the balance ( £ s )» the measure ( -G = ) . wheat ( spica ) , oil , and wine , &c , all require careful and precise movements of the keys , and cannot be well explained , but may be readily understood when the movements of the mystic keys are shown . Therefore I will confine my observations to Sagittarius , as the figure enables me to give more home particulars without direct reference to the keys or to the " wards " of the Median and Persian lock . Our astronomical knowledge is derived from the Budhists , through the Egyptians , and , if the modern scholar so pleases , through the Chaldeans also .
Chaldea has , from the meaning of the word , reference to " demons , " and , therefore , no wonder that the science of astronomy was considered as one of magic , or one of the black arts . The Budhists picture Irru , or Jeru , almost always on a white horse— " Jeru , ' ' with the eastern salutation of peace , " salam , " will give us our Jerusalem . Eighteen hundred and fifty years back the Saviour was born , when the sun was in ( Jerusalem ) Sagittarius , at the winter solstice , now the 22 nd of December : three days after the solstice
we place the birth of Christ . The Budhists , then , picture the sun Irru , or Jeru , just in the manner described by John in the Revelations—he is on & white horse , he has a crown on his head and a bow in his hand , but he has no arrow . Our astronomers give the house of Sagittarius two arrows—one in the hands of the man , the other is above it , is called Sagitta ; it is at one of the windows of Heaven . It is eastward , and the keys would prove the position to be Syria .
" And Elisha said unto him , Take bow and arrows . And he took unto him bow and arrows . " And he said to the king of Israel , Put thine hand upon the bow . And he put his hand upon it : and Elisha put his hands upon the king ' s hands . " And he said , Open the window eastward . And he opened it . Then Elisha said , Shoot . And he shot . And he said , The arrow of the Lord ' s deliverance , and the arrow of deliverance from Syria . " —2 Kings xiii . 15—17 .
Elisha means " God that saves , or saviour . ' Is not the sun in the position described , or rather was not the sun in the position described , at the winter solstice 1850 years back , the saviour of our world ' s nature ? Was he not then the little Orus that in time became the mighty Osiris ? Was it not the child called from out of Misriam , or Egypt ? The zodiac of Denderah gives Sagittarius with the bow and arrow , and a human and also a dog ' s head ; and Anubis at times is pictured as a bowman , with bow and arrow and a dog ' s head , and meant , if it meant anything , to denote the sun in Sagittarius , or rather combinations of stars which characterized the period of a great event ; and those stars are to ' this day to be found , defined most minutely , in Sagitta and in
Cam s minor . The Temple of Budha is called the Temple of the White Horse . The Japanese Sakia is pictured ^ as mounted on a white horse , and " Sinha Sakia" is the " Lion of the Moon . " And have we not been taught to consider Isis as symbolical of the moon ?—and have we not in the British Museum some score or more sculptures of the lion-headed Isis ? From the colour of the horse of Woden , or Budha , as it is symbolized in the arms of Saxony , I conclude that in the west , as well as the east , it was thought to be white . A similar inference may be drawn from the
stupendous representation of the same mystic animal in the English vale of the white horse ; ? so that we have traced Sagittarius from the Budhists of the far east to England ; and our King Stephen wore on his armorial bearings the very figure of Sagittarius as represented in the Budhist plates . Her Majesty Victoria , it is true , does not carry in her arms the white horse ; f still she has the lion , so that our fair Isis Victoria might in after ages be pictured , not exactly with a lioirshead , like the sedatelooking Egyptian Isis , but with a lion as a supporter . If , however , our Queen has lost from her armorial
bearings ( those of England ) the whitehorseof theeast , still the white horses are to be found in her stables , and on state occasions her chariot is drawn by the horses of the God Woden , or Budha . Should there yet remain any doubt as to our Queen ' s claim to the ownership of the emblem , there is sufficient proof in the daily use made of the broad arrow uy her Majesty ' s servants—it is the type of Sagittarius ! I have again trespassed considerably on your space . My next will be explanatory of the solar or " church of England feasts . " Henry S . Melville .
P . S . —I again repeat that should you or any of your readers doubt the application of the keys , I am ready , whenever called upon , to prove their use and importance by reading any portion of the sacred writings . I will first explain the nature and working Faber ' s Pagan Idolatry , ii . 358 . + Auriga carries on his left arm , in his bosom , a goat and two lamba , and one of the Ninevitc sculptures in the British Museum has in its left arm , in his bosom , a goat , and in tho right hand a piece of honeycomb . "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd : be shall gather tho lambs with his arm , and carry them in his bosom . "—Isaiah xl . 11 . "And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish , and of an honeycomb . "—Luke xxiv . 42 . The head of the figure , if I remember right , is that of an eagle ( aijuila ) . fcach of these emblems are , when combined , so many difiercnt types for picturing the great event which occurred 1850 years back .
of the keys , which are indeed very simple , and then afterwards leave the party to select the biblical passages which they may require to be interpreted by them . Should there be any doubters , perhaps you will be good enough to give them my address .
Untitled Article
A PROPER FINANCIAL SYSTEM . July 3 , 1850 . Sib , —Permit me , with a few additions and explanations , to revert to the subject of my late letter to you , which you were kind enough to describe as " A proper system , of Finance . " My propositions in that letter were : — 1 . That all realized property should decline in value to the producer and his heirs at the uniform rate of one ( not five as misprinted ) per cent , per annum—an extended funding system gradually absorbing and becoming eventually the sole measure or reservoir as it were of such property—the purposes of trade&calone excepted .
, , 2 . That all or nearly all present modes of taxation be superseded by the use of a paper currency declining daily in value in passing from hand to hand at an adequate rate per cent , per annum . -To these I now subjoin the following proposition : — 3 . That—our post-offices discharging the duties of savings' banks—facilities for the deposit and resumption of such paper money , be at all times open to the public . Now , applying proposition ( 1 ) as a commencement
to a debt of a thousand millions —( and the debt might at once with manifest advantage under such a system be raised far higher )—the annual reduction upon it would , of course , be ten millions . Government , therefore , without adding to the assumed constant burden on the country , might annually assume a loan of ten millions—or issue notes , or apply its deposits to that extent so as to cancel a part passu amount of the current imposts . Here , then , we have our first immediate annual saving of ten
millions . To retrenchment , as before hinted , we may look for the means of effecting a further reduction of ten millions . And , lastly , we save a third ten millions by the application of proposition ( 2 ) to actual practicesince we thereby save not only a certain amount of interest , but the entire of our present costs of rate and tax collection throughout the country . Thus , then , by the plan proposed , we have obviously , as has been stated , by the simplest means , an annual saving to the country of not less than thirty millions !
But this is not all . In proposition ( 3 ) we have a yet more powerful agent for the mitigation of taxes . For it will be evident in the first place that , whatever the amount of issue by Government , the right of deposit would always relieve a plethoric moneymarket , an assertion which will appear the more convincing when we reflect that , as the rate of decline for money in circulation would always greatly exceed the rate of decline for money in deposit , the common interests of society would be a satisfactory
guarantee that , with due facilities for deposit , nothing like an excess of circulation—nothing like a consequent depreciation , independent of that measuring the taxation , could take place . Again , the right of resumption being equally facile , the contrary extreme would be provided against . Hence it would appear that , either way under the proposed svstem , the money-market would always of itself maintain itself in a constant equilibrium , which at present , unless I egregiously misapprehend the subject , does not seem to be the case . need tax
Meanwhile , Government nothing by conceding such a right of deposit : —for , always without any undue appearance of severity , it might be ordered first , that no note should be received in deposit , unless at a value implying that its liabilities for the current month as a note m circulation were fully discharged ; and , secondly , in like manner , that no note should be resumed from deposit for circulation but at the value which as a note in deposit it would have at the expiration of the month , -when the decline-tax would be consummated . Again , the notes in deposit might on the first day of each month , instead of quarterly as now , be made use of , in common with such an amount of fresh issue as would equal the monthly taxation or general
decline in the whole circulation , to pay the dividends , or to meet any other of its liabilities . And if , moderately every year for some specific purpose , Government chose to exceed the general amount of issue required for the purposes of trade and of taxation , the only result , as we have seen , would be , not derangement , not complaint , consequently , but simply an increase immediately in the amount of deposits ; and , hence , every month a constantly renewed power , without public detriment , to carry out yet further such specific purposes . And , finally , though , under such a system , we should find the national debt swelling to an enormous extent , to which it * present amount , burdensome as the existing system makes it , could be contracted only in the most pigmy proportions—yet , we should recollect that with eyery fresh increase of liability ,
Untitled Article
3 vix 20 , 1850 . ] Kt ) C ILeatiev . 387
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), July 20, 1850, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1847/page/13/
-