The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-08-13
From the Gasette. of Egypt 2
ADDRESS
Delivered by King KnInkaua in Reply 40
Address by the Grand Masier of the
Orient of Egypt, proposing His Majesty
Honorary Grand Master of the Great
Orient Of Egypt.

Orient Of Egypt.
[ thank you most sincerely for the kind
pressions you have used in welcoming me here
this evening, and at the same time acknowledge
with high appreciation the honor you have con-
ferred upon me Hon. Grand Master of the
Grand National ORIENT Of Egypt.
| cannot help but express to you the gratitude
l feel for the kindness exhibited by the people of
Cairo and especially by your wise, able and no.
BILE ruler. fully acquiesee In and acknowledge
the high claims you have asprred TO, as expressed
by Most Worthy Grand Master this evening.
Though the organization OF your grand body is
OF recent date; STILL having its residence in the
land Of antiquity, it should be entitled TO the
consideration OF other Masonic lodges wherever
dispersed throughout the world Considering
this your ultimatum, iJ is no less important
that your Grand Lodge Is destined to play a
conspicuous part in the future for the fulfllment
of an event which | will endeavor partially to
elucidate. It was my good Fortune yesterday to
make humble pilgrimage to those vast and
noble piles Of antiquity, the Pyramids. The con-
temptation of the vastness, the age and grandeur
of these structures, has doubt furnished
food for reflection to men of every country and
every age. But they are indeed more valuable
to us brethren of the Masonic fraternity, for
they teach us innumerable lessons of the pre-
cepts of our Holy Order. They show to us
Wisdom, Strength and Beauty in the conception of
tive, and calculated by the wisdom of speculative
masonry of that remote period, for n purpose
and destiny t. be fulfilled. | will enumeTate
but few that have come unde: my observation
Look in every direction and survey the
roundings, one is confronted with mathematical
symbols and signs Of speculative masonry. No
one doubt their identity. or that they were
built under the auspices Of operative masonry
as means of instruction to speculative ma
sonry. In the monument of the Sphinx you
can observe these meanings: Strength, repro
duced by the form of lion guarding the cause
way in the human had is represented
Wisdom, symbOlically representing the two
pillars at the entrance OF all masonic lodges.
The bases of the Pyramids zach form true, per-
feet square, the four sides c the base lying due
north and south, east ana west, showing the
position by which every lodge has subsequently
been laid, even that of the great lodge and tenn
pie OF Solomon, at Jerusabm The altitudinal
position of the Pyramid 1t its true meridian
forms pivot of a compass, or centre OF a circle;
that centre of a circle by all of which no Master
Mason can materially err. The Pyramid, if taken
as one solid mass becomes the worlds corner
stone, and suitably typifyilg the cornerstone
which the builders refused and neglected for
ages, should now be accepted, emblematcally,
as the chief cornerstone of our Masonic edifce.
Reverse the Pyramid, and you will have key
stone of an arch-a Roya Arch of the world
circumference The position of the Pyramids
being thus established as the pivot Of n compass,
the right limb or arm running due northeast
towards and ending at the coast of Pelusia, and
the left limb pointing due north west in the di-
rection Of and ending at Alexandria, form to-
gether triangle, the arc between the two points
forming an arch or quarter of u circle; and, as
II designed, we Os Halraii, representing the
northwest limb or point of the compass, should
meet you, brothers of the Grand National Orient
Of Egypt, representing the northeast point, for a
purpose. An idea has struck me as to the sig
nltcance of our meeting here this evening,
which | will hereafter propose, if | may be
allowed, to your grand body for consideration,
and which it is hoped will be pregnant of good re-
suits for the benefit Of Masonry and of our COM
mon humanity.
There is no doubt, as our worthy Grand
Master has expressed THAT Egypt was the cradle
OF operative and speculative Masonry. Frag-
mentary evidence of the forms by which the
initiated have to pass the ordeal of initiation to
gain admission into the worship and knowledge
OF the mysteries Of OSIRIS, RoruS and Isis, have
been handed down to The ceremony of
baptism is considered by the ancient Egyptians
as one Of the most important the initiated
undergoing the tremendous ordeal of first passing
through living flame Of fire, and second, that
Of water. This is prescribed 10 the ritual of
one ol our degrees OF Masonry, and is now repre-
sented by the Christian formula of baptism, by
that OF the spirit representative of the flame,
and the second form by that Of water. The
Scripture evidently shows that Moses, the great
law-giyer of the Jews, must have received in
structions from his father-in-law, priest OF
INDIAN, who impaired TO him the knowledge of
the mysteries of Isis, to make him by inspiration
command the Children OF Israel. Enoch's Pill
lars of stone and brass, which are emblems of
Masonry, ante-date the period of Noah's food
a conclusive proof of its great antiquity, inter-
mingled with the religious ceremonies Of the
period with those of a later date, as proved by
the mixed Masonic worship at the building of
Solsmon's Temple, derived from more ancient
formulas
The interior of the Pyramid contains no less
the Kings chamber to the end of the passage
marked a series Of numbers OF feet. inches or