[51] Some there are who think that much of the best work of Mr. Waite is in his poetry, of which there are two volumes, _A Book of Mystery and Vision_, and _Strange Houses of Sleep_. There one meets a fine spirit, alive to the glory of the world and all that charms the soul and sense of man, yet seeing past these; rich and significant thought so closely wedded to emotion that each seems either. Other books not to be omitted are his slender volume of aphorisms, _Steps to the Crown_, his _Life of Saint-Martin_, and his _Studies in Mysticism_; for what he touches he adorns. [52] Even the _Jewish Encyclopedia_, and such scholars as Zunz, Graetz, Luzzatto, Jost, and Munk avoid this jungle, as well they might, remembering the legend of the four sages in "the enclosed garden:" one of whom looked around and died; another lost his reason; a third tried to destroy the garden; and only one came out with his wits. See _The Cabala_, by Pick, and _The Kabbalah Unveiled_, by MacGregor. [53] Acts 17:26-28. THE COLLEGIA /# _This society was called the Dionysian Artificers, as Bacchus was supposed to be the inventor of building theaters; and they performed the Dionysian festivities. From this period, the Science of Astronomy which had given rise to the Dionysian rites, became connected with types taken from the art of building. The Ionian societies ... extended their moral views, in conjunction with the art of building, to many useful purposes, and to the practice of acts of benevolence. They had significant words to distinguish their members; and for the same purpose they used emblems taken from the art of building._ --JOSEPH DA COSTA, _Dionysian Artificers_ _We need not then consider it improbable, if in the dark centuries when the Roman empire was dying out, and its glorious temples falling into ruin; when the arts and sciences were falling into disuse or being enslaved; and when no place was safe from persecution and warfare, the guild of the Architects should fly for safety to almost the only free spot in Italy; and here, though they could no longer practice their craft, they preserved the legendary knowledge and precepts which, as history implies, came down to them through Vitruvius from older sources, some say from Solomon's builders themselves._ --LEADER SCOTT, _The Cathedral Builders_ #/ CHAPTER V _The Collegia_