THE BIG STICK
a lot of holy souteneurs in idleness—and they find it pays to foam at the mouth
from time to time against the other souteneurs who live on poor prostitutes
instead of wealthy virgins,
I should like, too, to ask Mr. Coote a rather curious question.
We were talking about paternity. His then secretary, Mr. Hewston, had
given me to understand that the Vigilance Society made a practice of paying
(on behalf of and at the expense of the fathers) allowances to the mothers of
illegitimate children, of caring for the mothers, helping them to get work, and
eventually marrying them to honest fellows of their own class.
This seemed too sensible to be true. Mr. Hewston’s honest heart had led
him to misunderstand.
Mr. Coote indignantly corrected this view of the Society’s work. They never
did that sort of thing, he said, except in a few very special cases.
Now I want to know about these very special cases. Are they by any chance
those in which the fathers are reputable and pious persons, highly esteemed for
their Evangelicalism and philanthropy? . . .
There have been some ill-disposed persons who were not ashamed to assert
that some of the methods of Vigilance Societies reminded them of blackmail.
Is there another side to the medal? A. QUILLER, JR.
THE CANON. An Exposition of the Pagan Mysteries perpetuated in the Cabala
as the rule of all the arts. Elkin Mathews.
This is a very extraordinary book, and it should be a fair “eye-opener ” to
such as consider the Qabalah a fanciful concatenation of numbers, words, and
names. Also it may come as rather a rude shock to some of our “ fancied”
knowalls, our “cocksureites,” who are under the delusion that knowledge was
born with their grandmothers, and has now reached perfection in themselves, for
it proves conclusively enough by actual measurements of existing monuments
and records that the ancients, hundreds of years ago, were perfectly well
acquainted with what we are pleased in our swollenheadiness to call “the
discoveries of modern science.”
Every ancient temple was built on a definite symbolic design and was not a
haphazard erection of brick and mortar dependent on £ s.d. On the contrary,
it closely followed the measurements of the body of Christ or of a Man which it
was supposed to represent.
The three great canonical numbers are 2,368 (IESOUS CHRISTOS), 1,480
(CHRISTOS) and 888 (IESOUS), Numerous other numbers also occur but
most hinge on these three. Here is an example. 888, 1,480 and 2,368 are to
each other in the ratio of 3, 5 and 8. 358 is numerically equal to Messiah, and
and 358} x6=2,151 which is again a symbol of the Hebrew Messiah, Alpha
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