During the summer solstice, the Sun provokes songs of gratitude from all that breathes; hence Hiram, who represents it, can give to whomsoever has the right to it, the sacred Word, that is to say life. When the Sun descends to the inferior signs all Nature becomes mute, and Hiram can no longer give the sacred Word to the companions, who represent the three inert months of the year. The first companion strikes Hiram feebly with a rule twenty‐four inches long, symbol of the twenty‐four hours which make up each diurnal revolution; it is the first distribution of time, which after the exaltation of the mighty star, feebly assails his existence, giving him the first blow. The second companion strikes him with an _iron square_, symbol of the last season, figured by the intersections of two right lines, which would divide into four equal parts the Zodiacal circle, whose centre symbolises Hiram’s heart, where it touches the point of the four squares representing the four seasons: second distribution of time, which at that period strikes a heavier blow at the solar existence. The third companion strikes him mortally on his forehead with a heavy blow of his mallet, whose cylindrical form symbolises the year, the ring or circle: third distribution of time, the accomplishment of which deals the last blow to the existence of the _expiring_ Sun. From this interpretation it has been inferred that _Hiram_, a _founder_ of metals, the hero of the new legend with the title of _architect_, is Osiris (the Sun) of modern initiation; that _Isis_, his widow, is the _Lodge_, the emblem of the Earth (_loka_ in Sanskrit, the world) and that _Horus_, son of Osiris (or of light) and the widow’s son, is the _free Mason_, that is to say, the _Initiate_ who inhabits the terrestrial lodge (_the child of the Widow, and of Light_.)(510) And here again, our friends the Jesuits have to be mentioned, for the above rite is of their making. To give one instance of their success in throwing dust into the eyes of ordinary individuals to prevent their seeing the truths of Occultism, we will point out what they did in what is now called Freemasonry.