sweet to the taste but inflicting bitter pains difficult to be cured at a subsequent period, by which the soul must of necessity, be agitated and thrown in confusion not being able to settle on any resting-place.” In addition, the lines of Virgil, Georgic IV, may be considered: “_His mother’s precepts he performs with care: The temple visits, and adores with prayer: Four altars, raises: from his herd he culls For slaughter, four the fairest of his bulls: Four heifers from his female store he took, All fair and all unknowing of the yoke. Nine mornings thence, with sacrifice and prayers, The powers atoned, he to the grave repairs. Behold a prodigy! for, from within The broken bowels and the bloated skin, A buzzing noise of bees his ears alarms: Straight issue through the sides assembling swarms. Dark as a cloud, they make a wheeling flight, Then on a neighboring tree, descending, light: Like a large cluster of black grapes they show, And make a large dependence from the bough._” DRYDEN’S TRANSLATION. We must again look to symbology if we desire to understand the meaning. Of old the Bee was a symbol of the Soul, and by the laws of Mohammed bees were admitted to the joys of Heaven. The votaries of Ceres adored the Moon under the symbol of a bee—a symbol appearing on some of the Greek coins, notably on those of Ephesus where Diana, goddess of the Moon, was worshipped and whence the cry, “Great is Diana of the Ephesians,” reached the ears of Paul (Acts XIX). Porphyry writes: “The Moon presiding over generation was called a bee and also a bull, and Taurus is the exaltation of the Moon.” He adds symbolically: “But bees are oxbegotten, and this appellation is also given to soul proceeding to generation.” (“Cave of the Nymphs.”) The explanation of the veiled mystery is that the Moon at the full is the symbol of the soul, the emblem of which is a bee. It comes from the body of a bull or Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac, in which as Porphyry observes she is in her exaltation and powerful; Taurus is the earth sign of the planet Venus in the guise of the goddess of Generation, and as the soul enters the world, new born, the waters of the Jordan are needed to purify it as, when it leaves the body, water was left for it to wash off the emanations of its deserted covering. Further into the mysteries it is unnecessary to go. The veil of Isis hides the truth, and only he who will strive to understand heavenly wisdom can hope to pierce that veil.