"After that this cry was made, then came this worthy clarke Ewclyde, and said to the King and to all his great lords: 'If yee will, take me your children to governe, and to teach them one of the Seaven Scyences, wherewith they may live honestly as gentlemen should, under a condicion that yee will grant mee and them a commission that I may have power to rule them after the manner that the science ought to be ruled.' And that the Kinge and all his counsell granted to him anone, and sealed their commission. And then this worthy tooke to him these lords' sonns, and taught them the science of Geometric in practice, for to work in stones all manner of worthy worke that belongeth to buildinge churches, temples, castells, towres, and mannors, and all other manner of buildings." [150] Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, vol. I p. 393. [151] 1 Kings vi. 8. [152] An allusion to this symbolism is retained in one of the well-known mottoes of the order--"_Lux e tenebris._" [153] "An allegory is that in which, under borrowed characters and allusions, is shadowed some real action or moral instruction; or, to keep more strictly to its derivation (ἄλλος, _alius_, and ἀγορεύω, _dico_), it is that in which one thing is related and another thing is understood. Hence it is apparent that an allegory must have two senses--the literal and mystical; and for that reason it must convey its instruction under borrowed characters and allusions throughout."--_The Antiquity, Evidence, and Certainty of Christianity canvassed, or Dr. Middleton's Examination of the Bishop of London's Discourses on Prophecy. By Anselm Bayly, LL.B., Minor Canon of St. Paul's._ Lond, 1751. [154] The words themselves are purely classical, but the meanings here given to them are of a mediaeval or corrupt Latinity. Among the old Romans, a _trivium_ meant a place where three ways met, and a _quadrivium_ where four, or what we now call a _cross-road_. When we speak of the _paths of learning_, we readily discover the origin of the signification given by the scholastic philosophers to these terms. [155] Hist. of Philos. vol. ii. p. 337. [156] Such a talisman was the following figure:-- ----------- | 8 | 1 | 6 | |---|---|---| | 3 | 5 | 7 | |---|---|---| | 4 | 9 | 2 | ----------- [157] Anderson's Constitutions, 2d ed. 1738, p. 14. [158] Anderson's Constitutions, 3d ed. 1756, p. 24. [159] "The hidden doctrines of the unity of the Deity and the immortality of the soul were originally in all the Mysteries, even those of Cupid and Bacchus."--WARBURTON, _in Spence's Anecdotes_, p. 309.