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56 touch upon these two lines, as well as the Holy Scripture; and while a Mason keeps himself circumscribed within these due bounds, it is impossible that he should materially err.

The point within a circle is an interesting and important symbol in Freemasonry, but it has been so debased in the interpretition of it given in the modern lectures, that the sooner that interpretation is forgotten by the Masonic student, the better will it be. The symbol is really a beautiful but somewhat abstruse allusion to the old sun-worship, and introduces us for the first time to that modification of it known among the ancients as the worship of the Phallus.

The Phallus was an imitation of the male generative organ. It was represented usually by a column, which was surrounded by a circle at its base, intended for the cteis, or female generative organ. This union of the phallus and the cteis, which is well