Lastly, I may refer to the preservation of this rite among the Druids, whose "mystical dance" around the _cairn_, or sacred stones, was nothing more nor less than the rite of circumambulation. On these occasions the priest always made three circuits, from east to west, by the right hand, around the altar or cairn, accompanied by all the worshippers. And so sacred was the rite once considered, that we learn from Toland[94] that in the Scottish Isles, once a principal seat of the Druidical religion, the people "never come to the ancient sacrificing and fire-hallowing _cairns_, but they walk three times around them, from east to west, according to the course of the sun." This sanctified tour, or round by the south, he observes, is called _Deiseal_, as the contrary, or unhallowed one by the north, is called _Tuapholl_. And he further remarks, that this word _Deiseal_ was derived "from _Deas_, the _right_ (understanding _hand_) and _soil_, one of the ancient names of the sun, the right hand in this round being ever next the heap." I might pursue these researches still further, and trace this rite of circumambulation to other nations of antiquity; but I conceive that enough has been said to show its universality, as well as the tenacity with which the essential ceremony of performing the motion a mystical number of times, and always by the right hand, from the east, through the south, to the west, was preserved. And I think that this singular analogy to the same rite in Freemasonry must lead us to the legitimate conclusion, that the common source of all these rites is to be found in the identical origin of the Spurious Freemasonry or pagan mysteries, and the pure, Primitive Freemasonry, from which the former seceded only to be deteriorated. In reviewing what has been said on this subject, it will at once be perceived that the essence of the ancient rite consisted in making the circumambulation around the altar, from the east to the south, from the south to the west, thence to the north, and to the east again. Now, in this the masonic rite of circumambulation strictly agrees with the ancient one. But this circuit by the right hand, it is admitted, was done as a representation of the sun's motion. It was a symbol of the sun's apparent course around the earth. And so, then, here again we have in Masonry that old and often-repeated allusion to sun-worship, which has already been seen in the officers of a lodge, and in the point within a circle. And as the circumambulation is made around the lodge, just as the sun was supposed to move around the earth, we are brought back to the original symbolism with which we commenced--that the lodge is a symbol of the world. XXII. The Rite of Intrusting, and the Symbolism of Light. The _rite of intrusting_, to which we are now to direct our attention, will supply us with many important and interesting symbols.