I j Caiiiornis
I
KEY
TO THE
Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery
IN
THE SOURCE OF MEASURES
ORIGINATING
THE BRITISH INCH AND THE ANCIENT CUBIT
BY WHICH WAS BUILT THE GREAT PYRAMID OF EGYPT AND THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON; AND THROUGrf THE POSSESSION AND USE OF WHICH, MAN, ASSUMING TO REALIZE THE CREATIVE LAW OF THE DEITY, SET IT FORTH IN A MYSTERY, AMONG THE HEBREWS CALLED KABBALA
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PHILADELPHIA :
DAVID McKAY COMPAIW
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” OPEN THOU MINE EYES, THAT I MAY BEHOLD WONDROUS THINGS
OUT OF THY LAW !
“my son, if THINE HEART BE WISE, MY HEART SHALL REJOICE,
EVEN MINE :
” YEA, MY REINS SHALL REJOICE, WHEN THY LIPS SPEAK RIGHT
THINGS.”
“behold! THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY,
” THAT THE LIGHT SHALL NOT BE CLEAR, NOR DARK, BUT IT
SHALL BE ONE DAY,
“and THE LORD SHALL BE KING OVER ALL THE EAJtTH : IN THAT
DAY THERE SHALL BE
ONE J E H O VA H ,
AND HIS NAME SHALL BE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Introduction.
Contents an essay or study rather than, strictly speaking, a work. The whole a series of developments based upon the use of geometrical elements, giving expression in numerical values, founded on integral values of the circle, rediscovered by the late John A. Parker, and by Peter Metius in the i6th century. Brief statement of these developments ; the greatest being that the system from whence their derivation was anciently considered to be one resting in nature, or God, as the bast’s, or law, of the exertion, practically, of creative design : as such to be found as underlaying the Biblical structure. This introduction contains the Hebrew alphabet, with the values and powers of the letters, and some of their supposed symbols, with some remarks on the hieroglyphic use of the letters. (The proof of the uses of these values by the ancients is all that is claimed as being of use connected with the quadrature idea, so that the usual ofFen-siveness connected with any stated idea of quadrating the circle is not involved.)
Quadrature of the Circle hy yohn A. Parker.
It would be amply sufficient for the purposes of this work to give the numerical results (notating geometrical conditions) of Mr. Parker’s quadrature; but it is thought that the uses shown to have been anciently made will naturally lead to a desire to examine into the very means whereby these numerical data are obtainable. To satisfy such a desire the leading outlines of Mr. Parker’s work on the quadrature, and of Yn^ problem of three revolving bodies, with his uses of his results, are given, even pretty fully, by permission. His extremely interesting work is to be had in the city of New York, of John Wiley & Son.