Wayne Cooper is an acknowledged national painter known for his portrayals of Western and Indian subjects. He comes from a background of Indian heritage and was raised on a small ranch gaining first hand knowledge of Oklahoma ranch life.
Cooper is listed in Artists USA, Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in American Art, International Who's Who in Art and Antiques, Universal Directory of the Art and Personalities of the Americas, and others.
His works consist of oils, water colors, charcoals, pencil, sculpture (bronzes) and lithographs, and are contained in many private and public collections worldwide, including the halls of the Oklahoma State Senate and House of Representatives.


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4/20 in 2021: Iowans have come around to cannabis, but state and federal lawmakers are straying from their pot promises
Posted on Apr 20, 2021 by Emma McClatchey
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The latest Iowa Poll from the Des Moines Register and Mediacom revealed several areas in which public opinion conflicts with state legislators' priorities, from passing an anti-abortion amendment to the Iowa Constitution (opposed by 58 percent of respondents) to shortening early voting periods (52 percent were against), to slashing unemployment benefits for laid-off workers (of which a whopping 75 percent disapproved).
But nowhere was this discrepancy more prominent than on the issue of cannabis. In fact, as the Gazette's Adam Sullivan pointed out, medical cannabis is more popular with Iowans than Donald Trump is with Iowa Republicans: 78 percent are in favor of expanding the state's medical cannabis program. Fifty-four percent said they favor legalizing cannabis for recreational use — a significant increase from the 2013 Iowa Poll, when less than one-third of respondents expressed support for such a move.
Rather than meet this data with proposals to make medical cannabis more accessible; prepare the state to eventually legalize recreational cannabis, as Michigan, Illinois and 15 other states have done; or decriminalize cannabis possession, in light of Iowa's status as one of the worst in the nation for racial disparities in marijuana possession arrests, Republican legislators advanced a bill this week targeting the sale of glass pipes.
Though an Iowa court ruled that unused glass pipes are not considered drug paraphernalia, some Republican lawmakers insist businesses that sell such products are flouting the law.
"These devices, I've said from day one, are not being sold as glass art — that is, functionally, a lie. It is actually offensive to say it," Sen. Dan Dawson, a Council Bluffs Republican and Senate sponsor of SF 363, told a House subcommittee. "They are being sold as paraphernalia. They're not being sold as incense burners. They're not being sold [for] tobacco."
Dawson claimed without evidence that sales of glass pipes are increasing, and that the pipes are primarily used for drugs like meth, heroin and cocaine — a notion that drew plenty of online derision.
The Senate bill, passed earlier this year and now advancing through the House, would require sellers of glass and metal pipes to obtain a $1,500-a-year annual permit, and levy a 40 percent tax on sales of the pipes. (A House subcommittee has proposed lowering the tax rate to 20 percent.) Revenue from the tax would ostensibly go towards combatting drug abuse in the state.
"As Iowa, understandably, aims to address its methamphetamine problem via a tax that is intended to directly affect a specific consumer's pocket, it will inadvertently take money from the pockets of Iowans that are not part of the problem looking to be addressed, crush small businesses and eliminate 1,000s of jobs," reads a successful Change.org petition launched by a group of Iowa business owners seeking to kill the glass-tax bill, among them the owners of Iowa City's The Konnexion.
Cannabis bud. — Zak Neumann/Little Village
It's easy to forget that just a year ago, Iowa was pursuing a forward-thinking approach to cannabis. State cannabis regulators — with the approval of the Legislature and governor via the passage of HF 2589 in September 2020 — began steps to legitimize the state's medical cannabis program in federal law by applying for an exception to the Controlled Substances Act.
"But nothing has happened since last September," Carl Olsen, the founder of Iowans for Medical Marijuana, wrote in a piece for Bleeding Heartland on April 12. "The department tells me it is waiting for the Biden Administration to do something. The Biden Administration says it is too busy to deal with the situation. We should be doing what we can do right now, not waiting for something we don't even know will happen."
After Gov. Reynolds failed to respond to his inquiries, Olsen said, he filed paperwork in Polk County District Court to sue Reynolds, claiming she has a constitutional duty to follow through on the federal exemption process. He's happy to help the state out with the application, he adds.
Federal cannabis reform, of course, would better clear a path for Iowa's own laws to expand. And while public opinion and even the most mainstream of Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have expressed support for the cannabis industry, decriminalization and the expungement of marijuana-related charges, both President Biden and Vice President Harris have said they're too overwhelmed with the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues to act right now. On a higher note, the House is expected to pass the bipartisan SAFE Banking Act this month, which would protect banks that provide loans or other services to cannabis-based businesses in legal states from federal penalties. If passed in both houses of Congress and signed by President Biden, the bill would be a boon for cannabis retailers, all of whom must currently operate on a cash-only basis.
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Olsen's hoping that, even if his lawsuit fails, it will compel the state to release documents that illuminate their thoughts on cannabis reform.
As it stands, Iowa's medical marijuana program is one of the most restrictive in the country, capping levels of THC, the psychoactive component of cannabis, in a patients' cannabidiol supply to just 4.5 grams per each 90-day period, although there is an exemption for patients who are diagnosed as having a terminal illness and less than a year to live.
In addition to tight state regulations, the federal government's classification of marijuana as an illegal schedule 1 narcotic prevents or discourages many healthcare providers from recommending cannabis treatment to patients, and schools risk federal funding if they administer cannabis as medication. The DEA defines schedule 1 narcotics as having "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse."
Even if patients manage to secure a Medical Cannabidiol Registration Card for a condition such as MS, epilepsy or Crohn's disease, they may be hundreds of miles away from the nearest dispensary — Iowa law limits the state to only five cannabis dispensaries, and currently only three are open. Still, with just 5,000 Iowans with active medical cannabis cards, the dispensaries located in Waterloo, Windsor Heights and Sioux City struggle to stay viable.
"People are suffering now with the [federal] tax penalty and burdens on schools and health care facilities," Olsen told Adam Sullivan. "Why should we make them wait when there's something we can do immediately?"
From a criminal justice standpoint, Iowa took a small step in the right direction last month by advancing SSB 1226, a bill that would make the possession of under five grams of marijuana a simple misdemeanor for a first offense, with a maximum punishment of 30 days in jail and a $625 fine — down from six months in jail and up to a $1,000 fine. Democratic Sen. Joe Bolkcom of Iowa City, a vocal advocate for cannabis decriminalization and alcohol-like regulation, said the bill doesn't go far enough — that marijuana charges have "destroyed lives," disproportionately Black lives.
Sen. Dawson, the Republican glass-tax bill sponsor, disagreed.
"I certainly don't hold the view that our marijuana laws suddenly throw someone off a train track in life that they were otherwise fine on and destroys their family," he said.
Still, he supported the bill in subcommittee, saying it serves parole and probation officers.
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be tolerant of differences between various cultural traditions by enabling students to acquire an appreciation of and respect for their own and other cultures.
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Located in Patong, Rosewood Phuket is by the ocean, a 1-minute drive from Tri Trang Beach and 6 minutes from Patong Beach. This 5-star hotel is 3 mi (4.8 km) from Jungceylon Shopping Center and 4 mi (6.4 km) from Bangla Boxing Stadium.
Treat yourself to a stay in one of the 71 guestrooms, featuring private pools and LED televisions. Rooms have private furnished patios. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature deep soaking bathtubs and rainfall showerheads.
Enjoy recreational amenities such as a 24-hour health club and an outdoor pool. Additional amenities at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge).
Enjoy Thai cuisine at Ta Kai, one of the hotel's 3 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of the 24-hour room service. Unwind at the end of the day with a drink at the bar/lounge or the poolside bar. A complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast is served daily from 7 AM to 11 AM.
Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Free valet parking is available onsite.
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From taking the time to find quality, comfortable work shoes to eating healthy and getting proper rest, self-care is an important part of being a top-notch nurse to your patients.
This year, make self-care a top priority. Our Easy Self-Care Tips for Nurses digital edition features articles on nutrition, sleep habits, relaxation methods and other strategies that can have positive impacts at home and work.
Nutrition expert Julie Stefanski, MEd, RDN, CSSD, LDN, CDE, discusses ways nurses can improve their diets, providing tips such as planning simple meals and making breakfast a priority. She points out the irony of nurses working hard to ensure their patients eat healthy and stay hydrated without always following their own advice.
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Taking steps toward improved self-care can start with the right footwear. See what types of shoes fellow nurses prefer and why shoe choice is so essential to the profession in "Choose your nursing shoes wisely," an infographic created from a recent survey we conducted.
Also featured in the edition is the inspiring journey of Toni Scott, MSN, RN, from an unhealthy lifestyle that included smoking and dining out to founding her own yoga studio and helping other nurses transform their health.
The edition also includes information on the importance of getting a good night's sleep. In "Don't Lose Sleep" we highlight the detrimental effects of skipping shut-eye and how it can compromise patient safety.
Exercise also is a critical component of self-care. Don't miss tips by James F. Ross, PT, DPT, CSCS, who provides easy approaches to incorporate exercise into your daily life.
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Fly coast-to-coast in 48 hours for $5,200: Getting There
By Jim Cameron
Published 9:00 pm EDT, Sunday, August 11, 2019
A Ford Trimotor (top) can be seen in the Transcontinental Air Transport hangar northeast of Waynoka, Okla., which opened for operations on the airline's New York-to-Los Angeles air-rail route in July 1929. Farm equipment and hay bales (bottom) sit on the same concrete pad at the remains of the historic airfield on Tuesday, July 16, 2019 in Waynoka, Okla.
A Ford Trimotor (top) can be seen in the Transcontinental Air Transport hangar northeast of Waynoka, Okla., which opened for operations on the airline's New York-to-Los Angeles air-rail route in July 1929. Farm
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How does this sound: Fly coast-to-coast in just 48 hours for only $5,200?
That was the pitch for the first commercial, transcon air service in 1929 operated by TAT, Transcontinental Air Transport, much later to become TWA. Founded by aviation pioneer Clement Melville Keys, the firm worked with Charles Lindbergh to also secure lucrative mail contracts. But these flights were a first for passengers.
TAT was mocked as "take a train" because their service combined rail and air service to make it from New York to Los Angeles.
Passengers first boarded an overnight train at 6:05 p.m. from New York's Penn Station, "the Airways Special." This first leg of the journey was to avoid flying over the Allegheny Mountains, known to air mail pilots as "Hell's Stretch" due to the winds.
After an overnight journey in their luxury Pullman cars, the train arrived at a special rail station at Port Columbus, Ohio's airport, where they boarded a Ford Tri-Motor. The small plane had a pilot, co-pilot, steward (always a man) and seated eight or nine passengers. The plane flew at 2,500 feet at about 100 mph — straight through the clouds and rainstorms.
After two hours in flight, the plane made its first (of many) refueling stops in Indianapolis. Sandwiches were brought on board for the next hop, three hours away, in Kansas City. Then Wichita and finally Waynoka, Okla. The passengers there boarded a special TAT bus and were taken to the train station for their second overnight rail journey. But first came dinner at a purpose-built Harvey House restaurant.
By morning, the train arrived in Clovis N.M., where the passengers were again bused to the nearest airport, Portair N.M., where they had breakfast before boarding another plane to continue on to Albuquerque, Winslow and Kingman Ariz. Over the western mountain ranges, the Tri-Motor sometimes climbed as high as 8,000 feet.
Since the cabin was not pressurized, there was a lot of ear-popping and teeth chattering as a small onboard heater kept the cabin at no better than about 60 degrees. To treat air sickness caused by the turbulence, stewards passed out slices of lemon.
Finally, at about 6 pm Pacific Time, more than 48 hours after leaving New York, these aviation pioneers arrived in Los Angeles. The one-way fare was $352 (equal to $5,200 in today's dollars), and that was for the cheapest Pullman train accommodation, a lower berth.
Direct train service coast-to-coast in 1930 took three days, so the time savings by air was hard to justify when TAT tickets cost 50 percent more than luxurious Pullmans by rail.
In its first 18 months in operation, the TAT transcons lost $2.7 million ($41 million in 2019 dollars). It didn't help that, to maintain the prestige of flying TAT, each passenger was given a solid gold fountain pen from Tiffany's.
Then came the stock market crash of 1929. And on Sept. 3, 1929, a literal crash, as a TAT plane collided with a New Mexico mountain killing all eight on board. This was the first fatal crash of a commercial airplane, but just the first of three serious accidents in the next five months for TAT.
You can now fly non-stop from New York to Los Angeles in six hours for less than $200 one-way. You'll cruise in comfort in a pressurized cabin at 35,000 feet, watch a movie and surf the web — and you might even get a meal.


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I perceive the Acroyoga practice as a tool of personal transformation that expands itself in a socially way in the forms of interactions of respect, cordiality, and kindness from one another; through communication and corporal and verbal expression, we come to a better understanding of ourselves and the people with whom we relate in the practice.
It works from the inside out and vice versa, making us aware of the way we like to be treated, observing the reactions and actions that are generated in us and others, by interacting physically and emotionally. Balancing our conscious ego to respect and respect others we achieve the increasing of our degree of understanding, tolerance, and empathy for the diverse worlds that live in each head, becoming more open and receptive beings.
"In Acroyoga our being can be realized, celebrated and shared for the benefit of all" todos"
When our being constantly feels the experience of giving and receiving, supporting and being supported, it develops sensitivity to one another, attracts people in a special way of connection. Through contact, communication, and play generating friendship and a strong sense of community.
Technically Acroyoga is an interpersonal practice that integrates the fusion of the fundamentals of the practices of Yoga, Acrobatics and Thai massage; ancestral practices that in their components highlight the dynamic, spiritual, and loving elements of them, generating two main types of Acroyoga, the Solar or Acrobatic and the Lunar o Therapeutic.
Solar Acroyoga has more dynamic energy, where we develop an active body practice in which the body participates fully developing transitions through different positions where we work by means of strength, balance, concentration, and breathing.
Lunar Acroyoga focuses on a therapeutic flight, where through torsion, flexion pressure and extension of the body; it undergoes a decompression that takes him to a state of complete relaxation.
Acroyoga is learning to connect from the inside out. Through playful situations, it explores different ways of approaching, focus, communication, balance, flexibility, and mutual respect.


Niall Horan does not want you to be alone this Sunday night, so he serenaded the crowd at the American Music Awards performing his first solo single, "This Town."
The One Directioner kept it simple, as Horan does, letting the twinkle in his eye and his acoustic guitar take the lead.
Fans alternated between swelling with pride for the sensitive Irish singer and noting how eerie it is to see him on the stage without the 1D boys.


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ECU COVID-19 Cases Triple In One Week
PRE News & Ideas | By Jared Brumbaugh
The number of COVID-19 cases at East Carolina University in Greenville tripled last week. The university began tracking confirmed cases of coronavirus on July 5. From July 5 through August 1st, an average of 11.5 students and employees tested positive each week. However, the university said there were 30 cases the week of August 2nd through the 8th, just before classes began. Students accounted for 28 of the cases and two were employees. Since July 1st, ECU has required face covering when in public places and face-to-face meetings, including classrooms, labs, and buses.
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Jared Brumbaugh is the Assistant General Manager for Public Radio East. An Eastern North Carolina native, Jared began his professional public radio career at Public Radio East while he was a student at Craven Community College earning his degree in Electronics Engineering Technology. During his 15+ years at Public Radio East, he has served as an award-winning journalist, producer, and on-air host. When not at the station, Jared enjoys hiking, traveling, and honing his culinary skills.
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Finally a leopard bag that's just right.
Leopard prints will never go out of style and, while there have been many leopard print bags out this Autumn/Winter, we've not yet found one we'[re in love with until now. This Givenchy leopard print tote from the George V, Spring 2011 pre-collection is just pefect. Made of nappa leather, the bag is fully lined and has a suede outerlayer that's soft to the touch.
We love what Riccardo Tisci is doing at Givenchy and will be highlighting more pieces we think worthy of attention.


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Take a trip down memory lane with Studio X.
It's no secret that we're fueled by the drive and excitement of our team at Studio X, our dedication to exploring the unknown, and our amazing community of innovators. Because of this, we were able to achieve the unthinkable in 2022 and couldn't have done it without all of you.
As we look back on the year, we wanted to highlight the ways our business units have helped accelerate the pace of energy innovation.
1. The Studio X team surpassed hiring goals, and our team grew by 130%.
2. We embrace innovators from all over. Studio X has team members spanning three continents.
3. At Studio X, we believe in a healthy work-life balance. Not only are we a remote-first company, but employees also enjoy unlimited PTO. Our employees traveled to 4 continents, 13 countries, and over 50 cities in 2022.
4. Women make up 43% of our leadership team, which is comprised of our CEO, department heads, and the SixLab, Xeek, and XCover directors.
5. Our community grew by 32% in 2022, allowing us to connect with data scientists, geoscientists, and entrepreneurs from countries all over the world.
6. Studio X sponsored and participated in five events this year. Additionally, our thought leaders were invited to lead conversations at four other events.
7. We successfully completed our 2022 Climate Tech Accelerator Program and helped accelerate three startups in this year's cohort.
8. SixLab hosted two showcase events that allowed startups in the 2022 cohort to pitch their ideas to investors.
9. We started a Perks and Benefits Partnership Program to help our startups continue to make strides in their businesses.
10. SixLab brought eight subject matter experts from various industries to lead sessions and serve as mentors to the startups in our Climate Tech Accelerator Program.
11. Five investors made contact with the startups in the 2022 cohort following the showcase events.
12. A member of our 2021 cohort completed a proof-of-concept and presented the results to Shell.
13. Over 25 projects were successfully completed.
14. XiRs (explorers in residence) were crowd sourced from 8 countries to support these projects.
15. Our quest for open exploration allowed us to conduct XCover projects covering 13 countries.
16. Hundreds of thousands of square kms of seismic data were studied and thousands of wells were interpreted and integrated.
17. XCover XiRs worked on a wide range of projects, from prospect maturation to frontier basin exploration, which allowed us to crowdsource experienced petrophysicists, geophysicists, geoscience integrators, geodata scientists, and oceanographers—all while creating and testing new workflows and ideas.
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18. We have successfully released seven data science challenges since Xeek's relaunch in July.
19. Over $120,000 in prize money has been awarded to our challenge winners.
20. Our data science challenges have seen participation from over 700 teams worldwide!
21. We launched our first ever bounty-style challenge.
22. The Xeek community has composed at least 60 unique ML models and submitted them for different challenges.


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The 'EV revolution' has started around the world and is also gaining momentim here in India thanks to new launches and supporting infrastructure either being planned, proposed or expanded. Major Indian automakers have either already either launched battery-powered cars or have started development of these 'green vehicles'. On the occasion of World EV Day, here's taking a look at some of the battery-powered cars you can buy.
Hyundai Kona Electric:
Hyundai Kona is the first battery powered car in the company's lineup in India. It stands in the price range of ₹23.85 lakh to ₹24.10 lakh. With a full range of 452 km on a single charge, the Kona Electric is one of longest-ranged electric cars in the country. It is one of the most preferred EVs and its popularity can be credited to the highly sophisticated technology which underpins the Kona Electric.
It features a 39.2 kWh capacity of battery which sends power across a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM). This motor develops 136 PS of maximum power and 40.27 kgm (394.9 Nm) of peak torque. It gets fast charging feature which juices up the SUV to 80% charge in 60 minutes. On the other hand it takes 6 hours to charge from 0 to 100% with a household wall charger.
Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has recently announced that it had placed orders for 100 Kona EVs from Hyundai for government use. (More details here)
Tata Nexon EV:
The Nexon EV is Tata Motor's first all-electric SUV which comes based on the Nexon SUV. It was introduced in the Indian market earlier this year, along with the facelifted Nexon. It sits in a price bracket of ₹13.99 lakh to ₹15.99 lakh. At the heart of the Nexon EV sits a 30.2 kWh battery pack, which is used to send power across to a 129 PS/245 Nm electric motor. The Nexon EV holds gets an ARAI certified range of 312 km on a single charge.
(Also Read: World EV Day: Delhi to Mumbai in a battery-powered cab)
MG ZS EV:
The MG ZS EV stands in almost similar segment as the Hyundai Kona EV. Albeit, it has a slightly lower price range which starts from ₹19.88 lakh. It gets a 44.5 kWh, liquid-cooled IP67 rated battery which is teamed up with a permanent magnet synchronous motor pushing out 143 PS and 353 Nm.
Tata Tigor EV:
The Tigor EV was the Tata's first mass produced-battery powered vehicle. In the pilot stage it was made available only to the government officials, while in 2019, it was launched for private as well as commercial use. It currently ranges in between ₹9.54 lakh and ₹9.85 lakh. It has a 21.5 kWh battery pack which is coupled with an electric motor producing 40.7 PS of maximum power and 105 Nm peak torque.
(Also Read: World EV Day: This Asian country aims for 1.13 million EVs by 2025)
Mahindra eKUV100 (upcoming):
Showcased originally at the Auto Expo 2018, the eKUV100 was expected to go on sale in India earlier this year, but the launch was delayed due to the pandemic. So while it is not a car you can buy at the time of filing this report, it is still included in this list because it is going to stand as one of the most affordable all-electric cars in the Indian market with an estimate price range of ₹8.25 lakh to ₹9.30 lakh, when launched. It will pack a15.9 kWh battery pack which develops 53 hp with 120 Nm of torque.
Notable mention: Mercedes EQC is all set to be launched. While like the e-KUV100, it is an upcoming offering, the launch is expected to open up a premium luxury segment in India for EVs.
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North Carolina residents who provide drugs to someone who dies of an overdose could be charged with homicide. Increasingly, law enforcement in many states is cracking down on these drug providers using laws from the 1980s that were intended to go after crack cocaine dealers. Opponents of this crackdown say that those targeted are not drug dealers and that these types of prosecution do not deter addicts. Furthermore, they could actually increase overdose death rates since some people have been prosecuted after calling for medical aid.
A Pennsylvania woman turned herself in after a neighbor overdosed on heroin she provided. The man had given her $10 and asked if she could get him a small amount. The woman was unaware that Fentanyl was included in the heroin. This is a synthetic drug that can be deadly. The woman has been charged with drug delivery resulting in death and if convicted could be sentenced to decades in prison.
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Uniswap Opts For Binance BNB Chain Launch
With more than 80% of the vote, a temperature-checking vote recommending the deployment of Uniswap v3 over BNB Chain was approved. This is true despite community objections to shifting the decentralized exchange system (DEX) toward a platform with a higher degree of centralization.
The vote garnered "the greatest quantity [of participating wallets] throughout the entire Uniswap Governance History," with only 0.1% of voting wallets accounting for 99% of either the 24.9 million votes, but Uniswap may also be experiencing centralization issues.
Only five blockchains—Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, as well as Celo—are participating in Uniswap's v3 protocol, with 90% of its entire value locked on Ethereum (TVL). Compared to Curve (12) and Sushi, two popular DEXs, this is more traditional (23).
The proposal, promoted by Plasma Finance, might challenge the $2.45 bn TVL of Pancake Swap, the top exchange on the BNB Chain, which is a fork of Uniswap's more straightforward v2.
How BNB Chain can Help Uniswap Reach New Heights
One of the most often forked protocols is Uniswap v2, with SushiSwap's infamous "vampire assault" depleting a significant amount of Uniswap's TVL earlier in 2020. In April 2021, Uniswap introduced version 3 under a two-business license to fight this. The v3 code would become open-source upon expiration and is likely to fork on several blockchains.
Before the fork, Plasma Finance, which runs on Uniswap v3 and has its own responsive liquidity management system, Quadrat, is eager to build v3 TVL on the retail-friendly BNB Chain.
Furthermore, it would also result in the most well-known DEX for Ethereum migrating to a more centralized setting. When it suspended the whole network in reaction to a breach back in October, BNB Chain showed just how far it is from the principles of immutability and decentralization in the cryptosphere.
Uniswap Votes: What Does It Mean for Crypto Investors?
BNB Chain (formerly Binance Smart Chain) is popular among so-called "retail" investors, particularly during the height of the bull market, during which they were pushed out of Ethereum. This is due to its fast speeds and low costs. Although v3 may benefit traders, it isn't retail-friendly in terms of supplying liquidity.
Liquidity providers can define a price range within which they're prepared to assist trade using Uniswap v3. To continue to be lucrative, they should be updated when prices diverge. Since more experienced traders arbitrage price discrepancies, many market participants simply stick to idle LPing (as in v2), which ends up being a losing game since they gain less in trading costs than they incur in so-called transitory losses.
In response, Uniswap provided its study, which demonstrated passive LPs do indeed generate profits. However, it turned out that the inquiry was incorrect.
A protocol's degree of decentralization depends on the blockchain it is based on. And throughout the past year, several examples of the dangers of centralized cryptosystems have been shown.
Uniswap customers' assets on the BNB Network won't be supported by the same decentralization guarantees, even though governance is expected to remain on Ethereum for the time being.
Given its potential prominence as one of the leading instances of decentralization in the industry, this makes the seeming desire for relocation appear a little strange.
80% of respondents to a Uniswap poll support the move of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges to BNB Chain
About 80% of UNI token owners participated in a "temperature check" to see whether the Uniswap community supported moving the decentralized exchange's V3 system to BNB Chain.
Around 20 million tokens were cast in support of the change as of Sunday night, when voting on the Plasma Labs-sponsored initiative came to a close. According to a tweet from Plasma, "Our proposal to install Uniswap v3 over the BNB Network has passed the "Temperature Check" with 20 million "yes" votes and 6,495 $UNI participants (the most number in the history of Uniswap Governance).
Smart contracts are used by Uniswap and other decentralized exchanges (DEXs) to match deals and provide liquidity between traders. According to DeFiLlama, it secures over $3.4 billion in different tokens spanning five blockchains, including V3, which controls $2.6 billion of that total.
According to Plasma, who claims that the move is justified, BNB Chain, a public ledger closely associated with the centralized crypto trading platform Binance, has a huge and expanding user base, offering a potential new industry in addition to high transfer speeds and low fees, attempting to make it a suitable forum for Uniswap's DEX services.
Developers stated in that request that "deploying on BNB Chain might assist Uniswap to leverage the rising demand for DeFi there in the Binance ecosystem." "BNB Chain offers distinctive Features like staking and cross-chain compatibility that might improve the functioning of Uniswap v3."
A transition to BNB Chain might, among other advantages, bring in "1-2 million new users" and at least $1 billion more in liquidity through the BNB Chain ecosystem.
In the upcoming weeks, it is anticipated that Plasma will release a formal proposal explaining the change.
To implement the V3 protocol, Uniswap holders switch to the BNB PoS chain rather than Ethereum
Deploying the third iteration of the decentralized marketplace (DEX) system on BNB Chain, an adversary of the Ethereum network, is a decision made by holders of Uniswap (UNI).
The Uniswap team conducted a "temperature check" poll following the debate on the administration forum to see whether the community supports the plan. 20% of the votes were against the update, while the remaining 80% were in support of the deployment.
To better serve all customers in the Web3 environment, the ConsenSys executive added that the company thinks Uniswap must be "chain agnostic."
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changed, and those of the summer fell in winter. It was therefore found to be necessary to make a correction of the calendar, which was done by observations taken of the heliacal rising of the dog-star Sothis, or Sinus. In their sacred calendar, however, the Egyptian priests appear to have retained the "vague" or indefinite year of three hundred and sixty days, so that the festivals of the gods illustrating the legend of Osiris might pass through all the different seasons of the year. (Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians," vol. ii, chapter viii.) This ignorance of the true length of the solar year produced also a similar confusion in the times of celebrating the festival of the gods in other countries, so that a festival, originally intended (for instance) to celebrate the arrival of the sun at the summer solstice, with appropriate ceremonies, might come to fall in winter, when the nature of those ceremonies had no harmony with the season. In like manner a festival, originally intended to celebrate the new birth of the sun at the winter solstice, would in process of time come to be held in the summer, and thus be in utter violation of the solar allegory. This, of course had the effect to entirely hide, or greatly obscure, the original solar allusion of these festivals, and it was probably for this reason that the Egyptian priesthood retained the "vague" year in their sacred calendar.
The neglect of the function of a year in the calendar does not appear to amount to much, but owing to this cause alone, the first of January in the time of Julius Caesar had fallen back so as to nearly coincide with the autumnal equinox. Caesar corrected the calendar, but, in order to do so, was obliged to make an extraordinary year of four hundred and forty-five days; this was called "the year of confusion." This correction made by Caesar did not prevent the recurrence of the same evil, for in process of time it was found that the seasons again began to disagree with the almanac, and the religious festivals of the Christian Church, like those of its pagan predecessor began to fall out of place. This led to the correction made by Pope Gregory, and the subsequent adoption of our present method of keeping the calendar correct. The solar allegory, when it was introduced into countries north of Egypt, and whose agriculture was not regulated by the overflow of the Nile, was modified, as we have seen, in some particulars, in order to harmonize the allegory with the climate and order of seasons which prevailed in those countries; but any want of correspondence that subsequently existed between the festivals, originally intended to celebrate the summer and winter solstices and the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, and the true time of the sun's arrival at those points, was due to an imperfect calendar, resulting from an ignorance of the length of the solar year.
Another cause which had the effect to obscure the original astronomical signification of the mythological tales of antiquity is the phenomenon known as the "precession of the equinoxes, " which has also changed the order of the seasons, so far as the same is marked by the entrance of the sun into particular constellations of the zodiac, at certain periods of the year. As, for instance, the advent of spring was anciently marked by the entrance of the sun among the stars of the con stellation Taurus, it is now marked by his appearance among the stars of the constellation Pisces. The nature of this phenomenon and the astronomical changes which it has produced will be more fully explained in the following chapter.
In our astronomical explanation of the masonic traditions, legends, and emblems, all these causes thus tending to obscure and modify the original solar allegory, will be taken into account, and the same astronomically adapted, for obvious reasons to the astronomical conditions existing in countries north of the equator at the time of the building of King Solomon's temple, and some three or four hundred years immediately before and after.
Some of the masonic emblems, however, must be referred to a period much earlier, and some to a much later date, for it must be remembered that the astronomical legends and emblems of freemasonry did not all originate at the same period of time nor among the same people. They all, however, harmonize in their allegorical method, and strictly conform to the state of the heavens, and astronomical conditions, and the order of the seasons, as well as the degree of scientific knowledge of the era and country in which they respectively originated and become incorporated into that system of symbolical instruction then already existing, and now known as masonic.
The poets, historians, and philosophers of Greece, all of whom had been initiated into the Mysteries, unite in describing the Supreme Being as ONE single, divine, and unapproachable essence, who created and governs the world. And in India the Supreme Deity is thus made to describe himself, in one of the sacred books, which has been preserved and transmitted from an unknown period: "I was even at first not any other thing; that which exists, the supreme; and afterward I am that which is; and he who must remain am I."
"I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, And my veil no mortal hath yet removed."
The angels have assembled themselves together in heaven before Ruder, made obeisance and asked him, "O Ruder, what art thou?" Ruder replied: " Were there any other, I would describe myself by a similitude. I always was, I always am, I always shall be. There is no other, so that I can say to you, I am like him. In this ME is the inward essence and the exterior substance of all things. I am the primitive cause of all things in the east or west, or north or south—above or below, it is I. I am all. I am older than all. I am the King of kings. My attributes are transcendent. I am Truth. I am the spirit of creation. I am the Creator. I am Almighty. I am Purity. I am the first, the middle, and the end. I am Light"
Certainly no more sublime and comprehensive description of the eternal God was ever written.
Muller in the same lecture fixes the date of the Vedas at "between twelve and fifteen hundred years before the Christian era." This is over three thousand years ago.
God is the first—incorruptible, eternal, unmade, invisible—most unlike everything—the leader or author of all good—unbribable—the best of the good—the wisest of the wise.
With all this evidence before him, and actually quoted in his writings, Dr. Oliver, strange as it may appear, is in the constant habit, in his works, of branding without distinction all the ancient Mysteries as "spurious freemasonry," an epithet which he invented, and which has been adopted by a few others. But, if the sublime views of God above quoted are "spurious," where shall we look for the genuine ones, for those taught in freemasonry today are the same?
Late discoveries make the fact, that the unity of God was taught in the ancient Egyptian Mysteries, beyond all doubt.
"Hail to thee, O Nile!
He never wearies of it.
He hath neither ministrants nor offerings; He is not adored in sanctuaries, His abode is not known.
No shrine is found with painted figures (of him). There is no building that can contain him. Unknown is his name in heaven. He does not manifest his forms; Vain are all representations of him."
He hath made the world with his hand, its waters, its atmosphere, its vegetation, all the flocks and birds, and fish, and reptiles, and beasts of the field.
Glory to thee who hast begotten all that exists, who hast made man, and made the gods also, and all the beasts of the field! Thou makest men to live. Thou hast no second to thee. Thou givest the breath of life. Thou art the light of the world.
But although God was the creator, yet he is himself "self-created."
His commencement is from the beginning. He is the God who has existed from old time, There is no God without him. No mother bore him, no father hath begotten him. God-goddess created from himself.
In many of the hymns we find allusion made to the mystery of his name, and its being hidden, secret, and unknown— ineffable, and not to be spoken.
The Egyptians tried to realize God by taking some natural object which should in itself convey to their minds some feature in God's nature. This became a necessity for the priests in the religious teaching of the people. Therefore in the sun they saw God manifested as the light of the world. The more fully they felt the infinite nature of God, the more they would seek in nature for symbols All the deities were regarded as manifestations of the one great Creator, the uncreated, the Father of the universe.
Hail to the Lord of the lapse of time, king of gods! Thou of many names, of holy transformations, of mysterious forms.
Nevertheless, as in Greece and India, so also in ancient Egypt, the symbols became in the popular mind actual gods, and the people degenerated into gross idolatry.
"They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made by corruptible man, and to birds, and to four-footed beasts, and creeping things,... and they changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the creator."
This is unfortunately the aspect in which the Egyptian Pantheon has presented itself to mankind for many centuries.
The conception of the unity of the Godhead did not prevent the Egyptians from thinking of God as very near to them.
He is their father, and they "sons beloved of their father." He is the "giver of life," "toucher of the hearts," "searcher of the inward parts is his name."
Every one glorifies thy goodness; mild is thy love toward us; thy tenderness surrounds our hearts; great is thy love in all the souls of men.
Let not thy face be turned away from us; the joy of our hearts is to contemplate thee. Chase all anguish from our hearts. He wipes tears from off all faces. Hail to thee, Ra! Lord of all truth, whose shrine is hidden.
Lord of the gods, who listeneth to the poor in his distress, gentle of heart when we cry to thee. Deliverer of the timid man from the violent, judging the poor—the poor and oppressed. Lord of mercy, most loving; at whose coming men live, at whose goodness gods and men rejoice—sovereign of life, health, and strength.
He is present with thee though thou be alone.
"Hail to thee, all creatures! Salutation from every land.
The gods adore thy majesty.
Who raises the heavens, who fixes the earth.
Such was the idea of God and his relations to man held by the ancient Egyptians, and, as we might expect, it drew forth in them "lovely and pleasant lives." The three cardinal requirements of Egyptian piety were— love to God, love of virtue, and love to man.
The honor due to parents sprang naturally from the belief in God as "Our Father, which art in heaven." We constantly find inscriptions on the tombs such as the following: "I honored my father and mother; I loved my brothers; I taught little children; I took care of orphans as though they had been my own children." In letters of excellent advice, addressed by an old man one hundred and ten years of age to a young friend (which forms the most ancient book in the world, dating 3000 B.C.), he says: "The obedience of a docile son is a blessing. God loves obedience. Disobedience is hated by God. The obedience of a son maketh glad the heart of his father. a son teachable in God's service will be happy in consequence of his obedience. He will grow to be old, he will find favor."
On the tombs we find the common formula: "I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, shelter to the stranger." This tenderness for suffering humanity is characteristic of the nation.
Gratefully does a man acknowledge in his autobiography (4000 B.C.) that, "Wandering, I wandered and was hungry; bread was set before me; I fled from the land naked; there was given me fine linen."
Love of truth and justice was also a distinguishing trait of the Egyptians. God is thus invoked, "Rock of truth is thy name." In an inscription at Sistrum a king addresses Hathor, goddess of truth, "I offer to thee the truth, O goddess, for truth is thy work, and thou thyself art the truth." Truthfulness was an essential part of the Egyptian moral code, and in the Egyptian Ritual we are informed that, when after death the soul enters the hall of the Two Truths, or Perfect Justice, it repeats the words learned upon earth: "O thou great God, Lord of Truth, I have known thee, I have known thy name: Lord of Truth is thy name. I never told a lie at the tribunal of truth."
But enough had been advanced to establish the fact that the ancient Mysteries originally taught the unity of God, and also that their moral code was both pure and exalted.
That the ancient Mysteries, after the people became corrupt, became corrupt in their turn, there can be no doubt, but in their inception they were not so. The crowning secret was a knowledge of the true God, and the disclosure of the fact that the sun was only a symbol of the great Creator, and not itself a divine being. In the midst of an age where the worship of the sun was the established religion of all nations, no one could with safety avow his disbelieve in the divine nature of the heavenly bodies. To do so would be instant destruction.
Before the great truth of the real nature and attributes of God could be communicated, the candidate was required to take all the degrees of the Mysteries, and give the strongest proofs of his fidelity and zeal.
A knowledge of the true God was, in the language of the Orphic hymn, "the secret of secrets" to be only communicated when the aspirant was "perfectly initiated," with "doors carefully guarded and the profane excluded!" It was even then, to those to whom it was to be communicated, "a solemn and unexpected truth which "startled their ears" and "overturned their preconceived opinions."
Taught from their earliest infancy to regard the sun, moon, and stars as actual divinities, a wandering in the darkness of a false system religion, they were on their initiation into the Mysteries first brought to behold the true light and there obtained for the first time a knowledge of the true God. This was the real AUTOPSY, "bringing to light," of the candidate in the Mysteries. "It was difficult," says Plato, "to attest and dangerous to publish, the knowledge of the true God.
The light thus communicated under the strictest conditions of secrecy to be kept, when communicated, religiously hidden from the initiated, it being well known that a public profession of the great truth would be visited by a heavy hand of both the civil and religious authorities, and not only their own lives but that of their kindred be thus sacrificed to the superstitious rage of the ignorant multitude, and the interested fury of the ministers of a false religion.
It is true that the priests themselves often took an active part in the Mysteries, of which they had taken the higher degrees. The Mysteries served as a sort of theological and scientific seminary, which they studied the truths of religion and science, and from the higher degrees of which the ranks of the priesthood and rulers were from time to time recruited. But these facts could be of a help to him who rashly made a public profession of his want of faith in the national solar gods.
highest of crimes and he who did so could hope for no mercy. The very priests who perhaps had initiated him, and who did not themselves believe in the divinity of the sun, moon, and stars, would be the first to denounce his alleged impiety and atheism, and urge on his punishment. Nor would any of the brotherhood help him, as he would be considered by them as a perjured traitor, who had violated the most solemn obligations, and now sought to destroy the order itself by exposing it to the superstitious wrath of the ignorant multitude.
So long, however, as the initiated held their peace, they all might, at the solemn assemblies of the Mysteries, held under circumstances of profound secrecy and sanctioned by the government itself, worship the one true God without fear; indeed, such a worship was enjoined upon them. But, should they openly disclose their belief in the actual divinity of the sun, moon, and stars, their danger was immediate and their ruin certain. Thus all alike, from the most exalted hierophant to the humblest of the initiated, were the slaves, and sometimes the victims, of a system of state policy which they all upheld and defended. It is true, however, that in the progress of many centuries the Mysteries became corrupt, and lost a knowledge of the true God, but in their original institution they not only taught the truth concerning the Deity, but protected his worshipers so long as they kept sacred their vows of secrecy. That the doctrine of immortality was also directly taught in the Mysteries, we are informed by Cicero, who had himself been initiated. (See "Tusculan Disputations," Book I, cxiii.) Among all the corruptions which at a later date prevailed, there, however, yet remained a "chosen band," who preserved the ancient teachings of the Mysteries in their purity. They were obliged for their own protection, however, to render their symbols yet more obscure, and make thicker and draw still closer the veil of allegory about the penetralia of divine truth. From these few and faithful ones the truth was handed down to following generations, and from them all that is great, glorious, and ancient in modern freemasonry was derived.
noblest and most glorious of all his physical works—the sun— and only orthodox and pious to compare his nature and attributes to a carpenter's rule or a stonecutters square? Certainly this is not what Dr. Mackey intends, yet such is the natural inference from his language.
Neither does it follow that those who give the masonic ritual an astronomical and scientific as well as a moral interpretation, deny to masonry the glorious distinction of having been in past ages the depository of a knowledge of the true God, and of the immortal nature of man. All that we contend is, that those great truths were taught not only by allegory and symbol, but originally and mainly by astronomical symbol and allegory.
The more exalted and holy any doctrine is, the more elevated and sublime should be the symbols and emblems to teach and illustrate it.
As the being and attributes of God and the immortality of the soul are the two most exalted and sublime of all truths, so are the sun, moon and stars the most glorious and sublime objects in nature. There are, therefore, a peculiar fitness and beauty in the employment of the latter to symbolically and emblematically illustrate the former. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork."
In this work no attempt will be made to identify the masonic emblems, traditions, and legends with the Mysteries of any particular nation. All the Mysteries were originally astronomical in their character, but differed in form and detail, as they were founded on different modifications of the Egyptian legend of the personified sun-god. Dr. Mackey, in strange contradiction to the words which we have above quoted from page 236 of his "Symbolism of Freemasonry," devotes a whole chapter of that interesting and learned work to prove that freemasonry was derived directly from the Grecian Mysteries of Dionysus. He thinks it certain that the Tyrian artificer, Hiram, was a member of the Dionysiac fraternity, and that he, at the head of the Tyrian workmen at the time of the building of King Solomon's temple, introduced the Dionysiac Mysteries in a modified and purified form among the Hebrews (Chapter VI). Dr. Oliver, who denies in all its detail the astronomical theory, with an equal inconsistency advocates the same idea. (See his "Theocratic Philosophy of Freemasonry," Lecture VIII.) According to Dr. Mackey, and Dr. Oliver, also, freemasonry is therefore only a modified and purified form of the Grecian Mysteries of Dionysus.
It is true that, like the others, these Mysteries became corrupt, but is equally true that the Mysteries of Dionysus, like all the other Mysteries, were astronomical in their character. Dionysus is but another name for Osiris, and is the personified sun-god, the legend of whose death, the search for whose body, and its recovery, together with his subsequent "raising" from death and the grave of a new life, forms the theme of the ceremony of initiation; all of which the aspirant was caused to dramatically enact.
"One thing, at least" says Dr. Mackey, is incapable of refutation; and that is, that we are indebted to the Tyrian masons for the introduction of the symbol of Hiram Abif. The idea of the symbol, though modified by the Jewish masons, is not Jewish in its inception. It was evidently borrowed from the pagan "Mysteries," where Bacchus, Adonis, Proserpine, and a host of other apotheosized beings play the same role that Hiram does in the masonic Mysteries.
1. That Hiram Abif, as described in the masonic legend, is a mystical being, or "symbol" only, and not a historical person, any more than Bacchus, Adonis, or Proserpine.
2. That the whole legend of the third degree is an allegory and not a history.
4. That in this allegory Hiram "plays the same role as that of Bacchus, or Dionysus, and Osiris, and all the other personified sun-gods in the various forms of the Mysteries.
Now what is this role? It is simply that of the personified sun—slain like Osiris, Bacchus, Adonis, or Dionysus, at the Autumnal equinox; lying dead during the winter months, being restored to life at the vernal equinox, and exalted in power and glory at the summer solstice.
These admissions of Dr. Mackey cover the whole ground, and sanction every position to be taken in this work. It is not, however, my intention to trace the masonic traditions, legends, and emblems, like Dr. Mackey, to any one of the ancient Mysteries to the exclusion of the others, as masonry has features derived from each of them. It is, however, my design to show that it is of an astronomical nature, and had its origin, in common with all the ancient Mysteries, in a lofty system of astronomical allegories, originally intended to teach the unity of God, the immortality of the soul, and an exalted code of morality; while at the same time, by the use of the same allegories and symbols, the leading facts of astronomical science were to be both illustrated and preserved—in other words, to show that freemasonry is a system of science as well as morality, veiled in an astronomical allegory and illustrated by astronomical symbols.
It is also the intention of this work to unlock this allegory, and to show the true scientific and astronomical meaning, as well as moral application, not only of all the legends, but of all the emblems and symbols of freemasonry which have any claim to antiquity.
The real character and true origin of the peculiar symbolism of freemasonry and its allegories have been a great puzzle to most members of the fraternity. The great moral truths which those symbols and allegories teach are plain enough; the only mystery is, how came those truths to be taught by those peculiar symbols and in that peculiar manner?
It is also worthy of remark that, while the moral truths which our emblems, symbols, and legends teach are still well understood, yet those great scientific truths, which are equally said to illustrate and teach, are wholly lost, and at least their connection with them. This lost connection between our emblems, symbols, and legends, and many of the profoundest truths of science, will be restored in the pages of this work.
Oliver and Hutchinson have both, with much labor, and the former with great learning, attempted to prove that the master-mason's degree is a Christian institution—not in the sense of its being pervaded with the spirit of Christianity, which is true, but a Christian institution in the same sense as the Church or the rite of baptism is. Dr. Mackey correctly says they have "fallen into a great error." The theory that our fraternity had its origin in the building societies of the middle ages is sufficiently disproved by our ritual itself, which has many features that are totally inconsistent with any such theory, and point to a far more remote era; although many things relating to operative masonry were no doubt then ingrafted on it.
Dr. Mackey, Oliver, and others, will not accept the astronomical theory, and thus the whole matter remains, so far as they are concerned, a mystery. The astronomical theory is, however, the only correct one, as the following pages will sufficiently show.
The great difficulty is, that it has never been properly and at the same time fully presented. It has been advanced mainly by antimasons, who understood many other things much better than they did our ritual and the legends and symbolism of our order; or by skeptics, endeavoring at the same time to tear down the Christian religion. The advocacy of the astronomical theory by this kind of writers, especially the latter, has done much to render it unpopular, and induced many authors and thinkers to discard it without a due and fair examination. Many masons, like Dr. Oliver, seem to have an illogical and almost superstitious fear of having the astronomical character of our symbolism established. The fact is, however, that the great moral truths of freemasonry are indestructible, and stand independent of the symbolism intended to illustrate them, and to conceal them also, in past ages, when disclosure exposed the initiated to persecution and death, as an unbeliever in the actual divinity of the sun, moon and stars. The great moral teachings of freemasonry will not suffer any danger of destruction or damage if it is fully established that the emblems by which they are illustrated, like the imagery of the Bible, are mainly astronomical instead of mechanical.
The following pages, it is believed, contain convincing proofs of the real character and origin of our symbolism. Portions of the masonic ritual, and a few of the emblems, have in a general way been shown by several writers to be of astronomical origin, and the assertion has been frequently made that the whole system has an astronomical significance. But it is believed that this work contains the only full and complete demonstration of the purely astronomical and scientific import of the whole ritual, and all the details of the solar allegory, as applied to masonry—accompanied by a particular exposition of the astronomical import and origin of all of its ancient emblems, symbols, and legends, over seventy in number (see index), that has ever been made. The traditions and emblems of freemasonry have been made to speak for themselves, and they tell their own origin and meaning in a language which can not fail to convince any reader, who combines a knowledge of the lodge and chapter degrees with the main outlines and leading principles of astronomy and geometry. These sciences, so often alluded to in our ritual, are eminently masonic, and without some knowledge of them what is to follow will not be fully understood.
It is hoped that this work will also not be without interest to the uninitiated. They will at least, be able to see, unfolded in its pages, a beautiful and impressive astronomical allegory, which, by the use of sublime and august emblems, teaches the unity of God and the immortality of the soul. The work also throws much light upon the religion of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, as well as mythology in general. How far the solar allegory may be truthfully applied to freemasonry they, of course, will not be able fully to determine for themselves, except in a general way and on minor points. As for the rest, they will be expected to be complacent enough to take the opinion of well-informed members of the fraternity.


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