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tho whole Bcriptural ncco,snt of thor, to forbid
thu conclusion TINT tho ideas symbolizcd by

| Az NrCN TyR1AN AZ JEwJBif.
Tyre Ind been n rich aud prosperous cit,
for ovorE two hundred years when Solomon
Terook f., tho buili;nE 9f tho Temple Ths
oshor , .,lta nrts . to dogreo that implied, a
hrowa wSro yot, nolnatl1o tribes living in
ton1B toni l., Tho ':. 3 tabernacle was only tent,
moro enduring structnro Of wood and stone,
Solomon NATURALLY appealed to tie groater nkil!
q tho subjects Of tho friendly Hiram. King Of
ryre. Whol, tho Hebrews boga1l to build tho
cnmo permanently stablis1lod. and, Ms q ,nemo-
rial Of this fact they embodied in tho arcl,ltcc-
t,ral design Of tho 1otnp1o symbol which, by
tho Tyrintis and many othor nations descended
| from tho nnciont Arynn stock, was cohsideroi
| eml!ematc Of
| DIVINE J.EApEnalsIr
! that hnd conducted thOm to a new
and permanent homo; this was tho trio stgniti-
cameo Of tho two pillars.
! Al long na tho 11obrows woro wanderers, tho
pillars Of cloud BY day and OF fro BY night wore
merely \ Motnphor. to oxproBB thoir belief In Il
Divine direction Of thoir movements. When
they caMo nt 1ast to tho promised, land, tho
1lgurativo pillars Of cloud and fire became the
| two pillars in tho porch of tho rompe NJ tlio
| symbol of tho establishment Of tho nation.
1 Having thus traced tho story Of tho olnblems
back through two liuoB Of descent to common
| point In Tyre, wo must tnke a lool. into tho
ronlotor past to lind tho origin Of tho symbol in
| TIL; EARLIEST RECORDED 1DEAH
Of tho human raco in connection with tho Doey,
and from TINT point VIC may follow its dosccilt
SI'. eS sno 'o"soe ~ oiooN
"u Ill., 'ousu14"n ,.nn,,t ra.' mysautoEs. va.
III luz ~ ateots niSM,o WHY eo.iPohoa tuo .e''.s
luz ;,ssa,,ont,, ~. 'naa t n,.suu 'nn "
could ontortain Tia ;doa of' MI ahstrncf
principle as tic ono universal ln,y. or Of
INV rol oxcont y;eihlo o,n. 10 tbom IL .oome;l
imt,oupbo that there could bo n spiritual osecuco
Without ao,,o natorial form. Fire. the most iu-
oxplcabo n,l striking Of tho agencies Of nature,
WIS nccoptcti by them rs th;s firut md all-pcr-
yntlinc force which cottroloii tbo uniyorso: md
tho sin tho rrundest onl moat brilliant mosg Of
fro, as lilo embodiment OF tho Deity,
cd by NIX Muller, which mav be cni,ed tho Geue-
sia Of tho Drahmi,1e, mud in them nro
rwo WORDS
around Which hayo crystalizod fancics growing
into myths, and myths growing into nonumonts
until The original conventions hayo been almost
lost, Yet through nil tf,cso changes eome clar-
actorstics Of tic original nearing havo boon
so ptampcd upou each new iorm, that tho
days when tho first peoples Of tho human
raco worshped tho s,ln on tho planB Of Central
ABia down through MI tllo agen to the conlt)ara-
lively modern symbol Of tho pllarB Of Hercules,
in ,1n,istntahla. :.
!: IN tho beginning there arose the golden
established tho carth nntl this aky WHO IL tho
God to whom wo shall offer our aacriiice?
2. Ho who gi1ca life, ho who gives strength,
whose command oil the bright gods revere,
whose shndow il Immortality; whose shadow ii
death; Who is tho God to whom we shull offer
our sacrifice?"
Il thoro woro nothing but tho coincidence of
the two words Etalcizod in tile foregoing yursos
Will, tho '.nmes Of the two pillars in Solomons
Tomple, joachim moaning strength, and Boaz to
eStabtish,-if tloro were nothing but this to
establish tho connection Of tho two pillars, as
well aH the PILLARS OF Hercules and also tho
0reek myth Of Cnstor aud rollux, with these
ancient expressions, tho identity of nil these
myths and sylnbus might be moro doubtful than
1t is; but
THERE Ia MORE,
In The Vcdas tho Sun In co1]ed .he
81 runner" tho "ouicl, rncor !" ho is called
Aryat tho horse: Acni. tlo fire. Arnsha. tho
red one tho strong o.io, tho sou Of Heayon md
Earth; Intsra, tho rod Of ali gods, He ia ropro-
sontcd as drawn in cl,nriot over lis ilaity coirso
throur1, tI,n hnnvans hv i tnn },aritu !. tI,o