There is nothing in this world so steady as some of the paradoxers. They are like the spiders who go on spinning after they have web enough to catch all the flies in the neighborhood, if the flies would but come. They are like the wild bees who go on making honey which they never can eat, proving _sic vos non vobis_ to be a physical necessity of their own contriving. But nobody robs their hives: no, unlike the bees, they go about offering their ware to any who will take it as a gift. I had just written the last sentence (Oct. 30, 1866, 8.45 A.M.) when in comes the second note received this morning from Dr. Thorn: at 1.30 P.M. came in a third. These arise out of the above account of the Rev. D. Thom, published Oct. 27: three notes had arrived before. For curiosity I give one day's allowance, supposing these to be all: more may arrive before night. 29th Oct. 1866. "Dear Sir,-- In re [swastika].[374] "So that 'Zaphnath Paaneah' may be after all the revealer of the 'Northern Tau' [Greek: Phaneroo]--To make manifest, shew, or explain; and this may satisfy the House of Joseph in Amos 5^c. While Belteshazzar = 666 may be also satisfactory to the House of David, and so we may have Zech. 10^c. 6^v. in operation when Ezekiel 37^c. 16^v. has been realised;--but there, what is the use of writing, it is all Coptic {232} to a man who has not [swastika], The Thau of the North, the double Vahu [Hebrew: W\qamats\W]. Look at Jeremiah 3^c. 8^v. and then to Psalm 83 for 'hidden ones' [Hebrew: TS\sheva\PW\dagesh\N\segol\Y Y\sheva\HW\qamats\H]--The Zephoni Jehovah, and say whether they have any connection with the Zephon _Thau_. The Hammer of Thor of Jeremiah 23^c. 29^v. as I gave you in No. 3 of my present edition. Yours truly LE CHEVALIER AU CIN." _By Greek Power._ C = 20 H = 8 E = 5 V = 6 A = 1 L = 30 I = 10 E = 5 R = 100 A = 1 U = 400 C = 20 I = 10 N = 50 ---- 666 There will be thousands of Morgans who will be among the wise and prudent of Hosea 14^c. 9^v. when the Seventh Angel sounds, let me number _that One_ by Greek, Rev. 17^c. 1^v: {233} S = 200 E = 5 x V = 6 E = 5 N = 50 T = 300 H = 8 A = 1 N = 50 x G = 6 E = 5 L = 30 ---- 666 V and G = 12 ought to be equal to one Gammadion or ^3[swastika]3 x 4 = 12, what say you? London, October 29, 1866. "Dear Sir,-- In re [swastika] versus [maltese cross]. However pretentious the X or [maltese cross] may be, and it is peculiarly so just now in this land; after all it is only made of two Roman V's--and so is only = [ one inverted](10)--and therefore is not the perfect number 12 of Revel^n, but is the mark of the goddess _Decima_! Yours truly WM. THORN." Had the _one_ who sent forth a pastoral (Romish) the other day, remained amongst the faithful expectants, see how he would have numbered, whereas he sold himself for the privilege of signing