AROERIS or HAR-_oeris_, the elder HORUS, is from the same old root that in the Hebrew has the form _Aūr_, or, with the definite article prefixed, _Haūr_, Light, or _the_ Light, splendor, flame, the Sun and his rays. The hieroglyphic of the younger HORUS was the point in a circle; of the Elder, a pair of eyes; and the festival of the thirtieth day of the month _Epiphi_, when the sun and moon were supposed to be in the same right line with the earth, was called "_The birth-day of the eyes of Horus_." In a papyrus published by Champollion, this god is styled "_Har-oeri_, Lord of the Solar Spirits, the beneficent eye of the Sun." Plutarch calls him "_Har-pocrates_;" but there is no trace of the latter part of the name in the hieroglyphic legends. He is the son of OSIRIS and ISIS; and is represented sitting on a throne supported by _lions_; the same word, in Egyptian, meaning _Lion_ and _Sun_. So Solomon made a great throne of ivory, plated with gold, with six steps, at each arm of which was a lion, and one on each side to each step, making seven on each side. Again, the Hebrew word [Hebrew], _Khi_, means "_living;_" and [Hebrew] _râm, "was, or shall be, raised or lifted up_." The latter is the same as [Hebrew], [Hebrew], [Hebrew], rōm, arōm, harūm, whence _Aram_, for Syria, or _Aramæa, High_-land. _Khairūm_, therefore, would mean "_was raised up to life, or living_." So, in Arabic, _hrm_, an unused root, meant, _"was high," "made great," "exalted_;" and _Hîrm_ means an _ox_, the symbol of the Sun in Taurus, at the Vernal Equinox. KHURUM, therefore, improperly called _Hiram_, is KHUR-OM, the same as _Her-ra_, _Her-mes_, and _Her-acles_, the "_Heracles Tyrius Invictus_," the personification of Light and the Son, the Mediator, Redeemer, and Saviour. From the Egyptian word _Ra_ came the Coptic _Oūro_, and the Hebrew _Aūr_, Light. _Har-oeri_, is _Hor_ or _Har_, the chief or _master_. _Hor_ is also heat; and _hora_, season or hour; and hence in several African dialects, as names of the Sun, _Airo, Ayero, eer, uiro, ghurrah_, and the like. The royal name rendered _Pharaoh_, was PHRA, that is, _Pai-ra_, the Sun. The legend of the contest between _Hor-ra_ and _Set_, or _Set-nu-bi_, the same as _Bar_ or _Bal_, is older than that of the strife between _Osiris_ and _Typhon_; as old, at least, as the nineteenth dynasty. It is called in the Book of the Dead, "The day of the battle between Horus and Set." The later myth connects itself with Phoenicia and Syria. The body of OSIRIS went ashore at _Gebal_ or _Byblos_, sixty miles above Tsūr. You will not fail to notice that in the name of each murderer of Khūrūm, that of the Evil God Bal is found. * * * * *