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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...the sun had arisen at JR 286, and Babylon had disappeared. Bethlehem means "house of bread" or "house of war." There are two Bethlehems, Bethlehem Judah, at JR 286/ and Bethlehem Ephratah at JR i06.5 (See Birth of Christ.) Corinth means "which is satisfied, ornament," or "beauty." Corinth was founded 1355,6 and that celestially is JR 250 (say 251), when the planets were in conjunction, and celestial beauty perfected. Corinth is not mentioned in the Old Testament. Paul departed from Athens, or Athene, and came to Corinth, and there found Aquila and Priscilla, or Aquila and Antinous, at JR 251.7 r 105-142 A Calmet gives numerous medals, tokens, or coins, of Corinth, but he does not assert that any of them were found among the terrestrial ruins called Corinth, and if they were, is it to be understood that they represent the manners and customs of the people of Corinth? Did the naked little boys ride dolphins with palm trees growing out of their backs? Our apprentice mason can, when at celestial Corinth, 251-281, straddle across a dolphin Cetus. Use compasses, and at the same point is Tamar, the phcenix palm tree,8 and the sprig of Cassia. Damascus means "a sack full of blood," or " the similitude of burning," or "of the kiss," or "of the pot." Certainly a very extraordinary name for a terrestrial city, and yet the symbols apply celestially to the 31st of December, JR 281. The city is of Syria, JR 281.9 There is the sack and the blood, Isaiah vii. 8--For the head of Syria Damascus, .-. and the head of Damascus Rezin; and within the burning altar, threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, Iuq kisSinff TudaS that it be not a people. ' and the water-pot, at...