their crimes, at the end of the _secret_, or great year of the World, _i.e._, the Period of Precession, when there was to be restoration and rebeginning. The Seven deposed constellations are seen by Enoch, looking like seven great blazing mountains overthrown—the seven mountains in _Revelation_, on which the Scarlet Lady sits.(369) There are seven keys to this, as to every other allegory, whether in the _Bible_ or in pagan religions. While Mr. Massey has hit upon the key in the mysteries of cosmogony, John Bentley in his _Hindu Astronomy_ claims that the Fall of the Angels, or _War in Heaven_, as given by the Hindus, is but a figure of the calculations of time‐periods, and goes on to show that among the Western nations the same war, with like results, took the form of the war of the Titans. In short, he makes it _astronomical_. So does the author of _The Source of Measures_: The celestial sphere with the earth, was divided into twelve compartments [astronomically], and these compartments were esteemed as _sexed_, the _lords_ or _husbands_ being respectively the planets presiding over them. This being the settled scheme, want of proper correction would bring it to pass, after a time, that error and confusion would ensue by the compartments coming under the lordship of the wrong planets. Instead of lawful wedlock, there would be illegal intercourse, as between the planets, “_sons of Elohim_” and these compartments, “daughters of H‐Adam,” or the _earth_‐man; and in fact the fourth verse of sixth _Genesis_ will bear _this_ interpretation for the usual one, _viz._, “In the same days, or periods, there were untimely births in the earth; and also behind that, when the sons of Elohim came to the daughters of H‐Adam, they begat to them the offspring of harlotry,” etc., astronomically indicating this confusion.(370) Do any of these learned explanations explain anything except a possible ingenious allegory, and a personification of the celestial bodies, by the ancient Mythologists and Priests? Carried to their last word they would undeniably explain much, and would thus furnish one of the right seven keys, fitting a great many of the Biblical puzzles yet opening none naturally and entirely, instead of being scientific and cunning master‐ keys. But they yet prove one thing—that neither the septiform chronology nor the septiform theogony and evolution of all things is of divine origin in the _Bible_. For let us see the sources at which the _Bible_ sipped its divine inspiration with regard to the sacred number seven. Says Mr. Massey in the same lecture: