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Egyp tians were aware of the precessional cycle , and theymade the total revolution consists of 25 , 920 years . * The Egyptian priest calculated as we do the movement of precession , consequently they knew as much as ive do this day . It would be singular if our being unacquainted with their mysteries should be considered as proof of their ignorance . " These are the words of

the celebrated Nonet : " According to these principles , which are those of all astronomers , " he adds , " we see that the annual precision being about 50 sec , and a fraction of about a fourth or fifth , the consequence is , that an entire degree is lost or displaced in seventyone yearseight or nine monthsand an entire sign in

, , 2152 or 3 years . "t According to the Egyptian cycle of 25 , 920 years , a sign is passed in 2160 years , or a degree in 72 years . The Hindoos have likewise certain sacred ages or yugs , as they are termed ; how they obtained them appears to be involved in mystery ; again we must

seek Masonic knowledge to explain from whence these yugs came , and yet in doing so , we are not infringing the Masonic obligations , nor giving publicity to any Masonic mystery . The Hindoos and Budhists , or rather their most learned men of this age , know nothing of the Egyptianseither ancient or modern

, , nor do they admit they obtained their knowledge of astronomy from any other people than their own immediate ancestor . Their yugs are : — Erotayug 1 , 728 , 000 years . Treta yug 1 , 206 , 000 „ Dwapereyug ... 864 , 000 „

Call yug 432 , 000 „ Total 4 , 320 , 000 The reader will perceive that there is a deduction of 432 from yug to yug . The zero seem to be unheeded ; let usthenfrom the denoters of the

, , 4 , 320 , 000 , or what they term the eternal , deduct the Egyptian cycle 25 , 920 , 4320 2592 1728

and here we have the denoters of the Greta yug . The Treta yug 1 , 296 , 000 is equal to the second of the cycle . „ Dwapere ,, 864 , 000 „ „ two-third „ „ Call „ 432 , 000 „ „ one-third 2 , 592 , 000 And thus these three yugs ive the denoters of the

g Egyptian Cycle . The precession of the equinox being dependent on the same position as regards tlie earth ' s equator , or at the belt equi-distant from the earth ' s poles of motion , it follows that the whole recession might be traversed without the earth ' s poles being influenced bthat

y motion . The easterns have , as we have seen , jumbled the precessional quantity with their eternal , and thus obtained the yugs ; and , strange to say , that although modern astronomers set at nought the knowledge of the easterns , yet they have made an exactly similar confusionand confounded precessional with the

, polar inclination . Now these are most unquestionably two distinct motions . Thus precessional requires the earth ' s equatorial poles should circle the sun yearly , or nearly so , and the annual difference is rectified by

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renovating at the starting point after a lapse of 25 , 920 years . The ecliptic poles gyrate around the earth's poles of motion daily , so these two motions , it is clear , can have nothing to do with the polar inclination . But the relative positions on our earth are gradually changing from their fixed distances , from say , the polar star . Observations made by the

ancients have led modern astronomers to believe the tropics are collapsing , or closing ou the equator , whereas it is the land where these observations were made that has been making a southerty descent . As this polar inclination , or variation , is probably spiral , it will account for every atom of our globe's surface

having been in succession a point of the diurnal motion . Thus every particle of land has been submerged and upheaved during periodical eternity . Thus that spot which is now polar , will in 1 , 080 , 000 years of the ancients , be on the equator and in 2 , 160 , 000 years , that same spot will reach the pole to

opposite . ^ Without reference questionable authority , let us observe that in the time of Galileo some precise spot was under the tropic at twemty-three degrees thirty minutes from the equator ; that same point was lately found to he only twenty-three degrees twenty-eight minutes , thus offering a difference

of two minutes of a degree . Galileo has been dead about 200 years , so here is a variation of one minute of inclination in one hundred years . The true astronomical years are of six months , because at the equator there are two summers , and two winters during twelve months . § According to this we should have one minute of a degree of inclination in 200 years , and 200 multiplied by the 21 , 600 , the minutes of the circle , produces 4 , 320 , 000 , the Budhists eternal .

New Materials For The Life Of John Flaxman, R.A.

NEW MATERIALS FOR THE LIFE OF JOHN FLAXMAN , R . A .

( Continued from page 123 . ) I now give entire the valuable annotations of Plaxman's sister-in-law ( Miss Maria Denman ) on my father ' s Life of " Elaxman . I need hardly add that Miss Maria ' s criticisms and additions appear in print for the first time : —• Page 275 . Mr . Plaxman was of a quick and hasty

temper when young , as well as of an enthusiastic mind ; but corrected by good sense and sound judgment when grown to manhood . Page 276 . He never was under the direction of Mr . Roubiliac , or any one else . Page 277 . Mr , Plaxman befriended Blake , as well ,

as many others , but without being assisted by any one , besides recommending him to many of his friends . I believe the story about the crutches to be an entire fabrication : he was alwaj ' s reckoned a delicate and weak child , but not infirm . Page 279 . The noble lord , who lacks both sense and good feeling , shows the narrowness of his own miud by endeavouring to turn into ridicule this highminded and talented man , who he found so much