This every scholar now knows. The able lectures of Mr. Gerald Massey alone are sufficient to convince any fair‐minded Christian that to accept the dead‐letter of the _Bible_ is equivalent to falling into a grosser error and superstition than any hitherto evolved by the brain of the savage South Sea Islander. But the fact to which even the most truth‐loving and truth‐searching Orientalists—whether Âryanists or Egyptologists—seem to remain blind, is that every symbol on papyrus or olla is a many‐faced diamond, each of whose facets not only includes several interpretations, but also relates to several sciences. This is instanced in the just quoted interpretation of the cat symbolizing the moon—an example of sidereo‐ terrestrial imagery; for the moon has with other nations many other meanings besides. As a learned Mason and Theosophist, the late Kenneth Mackenzie, has shown in his _Royal Masonic Cyclopædia_, there is a great difference between _emblem_ and _symbol_. The former “comprises a larger series of thoughts than a symbol, which may be said rather to illustrate some single special idea.” Hence, the symbols—lunar, or solar, for example—of several countries, each illustrating such a special idea, or series of ideas, form collectively an esoteric emblem. The latter is “a concrete visible picture or sign representing principles, or a series of principles, _recognizable by those who have received certain instructions_ [Initiates].” To put it still plainer, an emblem is usually _a series of graphic pictures_ viewed and explained allegorically, and unfolding an idea in panoramic views, one after the other. Thus the _Purânas_ are written emblems. So are the Mosaic and Christian _Testaments_, or the _Bible_, and all other exoteric Scriptures. As the same authority shows: All esoteric societies have made use of emblems and symbols, such as the Pythagorean Society, the Eleusinia, the Hermetic Brethren of Egypt, the Rosicrucians, and the Freemasons. Many of these emblems it is not proper to divulge to the general eye, and _a very minute difference_ may make the emblem or symbol differ widely in its meaning. The magical sigilla, being founded on certain principles of number, partake of this character, and although monstrous or ridiculous in the eyes of the uninstructed, convey a whole body of doctrine to those who have been trained to recognize them.