That he was the heir apparent to all this array of cast iron and wrought and galvanized, of tin and wire and steel and aluminum and nickel, did not save him from aching back and skinned knuckles, nor from the various initiations staged by the three or four other employees.

The successive "initiations" which are the milestones on the "Path of Perfection" upon which the devotee has set his feet represent successive emancipations of consciousness gained through work and knowledge.

The parallel is now plain to the reader: the corpuscle is the Yogi, bent on liberation: the heat which warms him is the Divine Love, centered in his heart, his initiations are the successive emancipations into higher and higher spaces, till he attains Nirvanainherits the kingdom prepared for him from the foundation of the world.

" A similar legend and similar ceremonies, varied only as to time, and place, and unimportant details, were to be found in all the initiations of the ancient Mysteries.

This speculative and operative societyspeculative in the esoteric, theologic lessons which were taught in its initiations, and operative in the labors of its members as architectswas distinguished by many peculiarities that closely assimilate it to the institution of Freemasonry.

Now, this mystic ladder, which connects the ground floor of the lodge with its roof or covering, is another important and interesting link, which binds, with one common chain, the symbolism and ceremonies of Freemasonry, and the symbolism and rites of the ancient initiations.

This rite of investiture, or the placing upon the aspirant some garment, as an indication of his appropriate preparation for the ceremonies in which he was about to engage, prevailed in all the ancient initiations.

Both are significant of purificationof that purification which was always symbolized by the ablution which preceded the ancient initiations into the sacred Mysteries.

In their spirit and their mystical design, these Mysteries bore a very great resemblance to the third degree of Masonry, and they are quoted to show the striking analogy between the ancient and the modern initiations.

In each of the initiations of the ancient Mysteries, there was a scenic representation of the death or disappearance of some god or hero, whose adventures constituted the legend of the Mystery.

These were used in the initiations of the religion of Zoroaster.

The ceremony of perambulating the lodge, or going in procession around the altar, which was universally practised in the ancient initiations and other religious ceremonies, and was always performed so that the persons moving should have the altar on their right hand.

In all the ancient initiations, the aspirant was placed in darkness for a period differing in each,among the Druids for three days, among the Greeks for twenty-seven, and in the Mysteries of Mithras for fifty.

To her is attributed the institution of the Eleusinian Mysteries in Greece, the most popular of all the ancient initiations.

An island in the Bay of Bombay, celebrated for the stupendous caverns artificially excavated out of the solid rock, which were appropriated to the initiations in the ancient Indian Mysteries.

It is predominant as a symbol in all the ancient initiations.

An island in the Bay of Bombay, celebrated for stupendous caverns excavated artificially out of the solid rock, and which were appropriated to the initiations in the ancient Mysteries of India.

A term applied to the initiations in the Mysteries of the ancient pagan world, and to the doctrines taught in those Mysteries.

In Rome, however, there can be little doubt that the initiations partook at length of a licentious character.

But as these mysteries were originally received by the Phoenicians from Egypt, he passed over into that country, where he remained twenty-two years, occupying himself in the study of geometry, astronomy, and all the initiations of the gods ([Greek: pa/sas theô~n teleta/s]), until he was carried a captive into Babylon by the soldiers of Cambyses, and that twelve years afterwards he returned to Samos at the age of sixty years.

"Cours des Initiations, p. 151.

Interprétatif des Initiations Anciennes et Modernes, p. 99.

It may be noticed that, in South Eastern Australia, the Being who presides, like Twanyirika, over initiations is not the supreme being, but a son or deputy of his, such as the Kurnai Tundun.

Judging from the analogy of Eleusis, the Bora, the Red Indian initiations, and so on, we may expect this to be the belief; but Mr. Macdonald knows very little about the matter.

I have learned since then it was a building equipped by a well-known secret society for its initiations.