The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX could pass the first standard in a Masonic Board School. E.g. on the apron of the 18o the Monogram of the Eternal is misspelt—blasphemouslymisspelt. Any Yid from Houndsditch could correct it. And on the M.W.S. jewel, Jeheshua is usually spelt with a Resh ! There was a {air Maid of Bombay Who was put in an awkward situation, the nature of which it is unnecessary to discuss, By the mate ofa lugger, An ignorant Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix Who always spelt Jeheshua with a Resh. Prate not of scholarship, Bro. Crowe! Such ignorance, when combined with the Satanic Pride to which the possession of an apron with blue silk and silver tassels, value three hal(~bull! naturally predisposes mankind, leads to presumption, bigotry and intolerance. So we find Bro. Crowe asserting that all other degrees than his own are “ spurious and worthless.” Go slow, Bro. Crowe! The intelligence of Freemasons may be guessed by the level at which they rate that of cowans and eavesdroppers, They print their secret rituals for any one to buy; so (ar, so good, why shouldn’t they? But they print initials and finals of “missing words" which no single reader of??שושחלWar/Ely could mlSS. “Advance 3 short step with your l—~—t {—t," would not have baffled Edgar Allan Poe! They are even such b— f——s—(will they decipher this?—it stands for " bright fellows ")—that when by accident they do baffle you—— “Gives him the P——e, C—w, and S—,"—they print it full in another place, but in the same connectifan—u The Pickaxe, Crow, and Shovel," No, Bro. Crowe! Whoa, Bro. Crowe! (Blow Bro. Crowel Ed.) But for all Masons who wish to know the mysteries of how to address a V.W. P. Pres. Brd. G. Pur., and the order of precedence of a Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies, this is the Book. K. S. Ι. POEMS DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. By CLIFFORD BAX. Daniel. 4:. 64'. JUST the book of verse we should have expected from C. W. Daniel—the feeble, fluent, derived expression of a decadent and frail personality. Mr. Bax is a pupil of Victor Β. Neuburg, so far as form goes; but oh l what a lot he has to learn ! ST. MAURICE Ε. KULM. 256