The above is a very brief mention of the twelve messengers covering the entire time of human history as seen by the late Dr. Kenealy. The mystical Staff was in possession of eleven of the messengers, and will be in the hands of the coming twelfth. The learned author says he saw a mystic Staff at Lapmark at the house of one Niemesele. It was a square-sided stick, with fine gilt work and carving upon it. It was used as the ensign of office for the Chief or Governor of the place. No amount of money could buy it, as the safety of the place and people were believed to depend upon it, similar to the Ancile of the ancient Romans, and the Palladium of ancient Troy. Clarke (Travels x, 516) does not mention the age of this mystic rod, but it is probably the copy of one very ancient. We here give a copy of this much-prized Sceptre.

On this Rod there are carved ten hieroglyphs, and in each, it will

be observed, is seen that very ancient symbol, the Tau Cross T.

According to Mallet, not a single one of these letters is Runic (Northern Antiquities p. 232). The ten hieroglyphs signify the names of the of the Ten Avatars.

The first hieroglyph at the left is the triple Tau and signifies Adam the first angel messenger. "I am Aleph and Tau, the first and the last (Adam)."

The second is the logotype E, which is the initial of Enoch the second messenger or angel Metatron "the seventh from Adam" in lineal descent.

The third is a pure Chinese symbol, and also the triune sign, and signifies Fo-Hi. He is identified with Noah and the age of the Atlantean deluge. For in his days was Eber, from whom came the name Ebrew or Hebrew; he begat two sons, "the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided." John Kitto (Cyclopædia, II, p. 393) says "the earth was pelegged." The other son was Joktan (Gen. x, 25) who is supposed by some Egyptologists to have built the great pyramid Jeezeh. Fo-Hi was the first-third angel-MesLineation," which contains much an

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He wrote the Cova, or cient philosophy and wisdom.

The fourth is also a Chinese symbol, with its triple Tau, and indicates Brigoo. Noah was 600 years of age when the deluge occurred, we are told. Topilkin (our Son) or Brigoo was saved from a deluge

of water. The same account says the deluge ceased at the sound of "a voice proceeding from the heart of a mountain"; that is, a cleft in a rock. Bragi of the Scandinavians was the god who carried the trumpet, "the sound of which could be heard throughout all the world.” The fifth is an ancient Tau cross and signifies Zaratusht. Fireworship was figuratively God-worship. It was founded principally at Persepolis (City of Splendor). Spitama (the Most Beneficent) Zarathusht was in direct communication with Ahura Mazda (the all-knowing Lord).

The sixth symbol stands for Thoth or Hermes, Thoth-Hermes or Thothmes. He was the second-third Messiah or the "thrice-greatest." His mission ended the sixth Naros (600), or the first Saros (3600) of the twelve angel-Messiahs. His code is briefly told by the Smarag

dine Tablet.

The seventh symbol is an equilateral triangle standing on one of its angles; this signifies Amosis who knew of the triangular plate of gold engraved with the Tetragrammaton by Enoch; on this symbol stands the Nehustan raised by Moses in the wilderness. The exploits he accomplished by the peculiar name are too familiar to repeat. The Pentateuch is ascribed to him.

The eighth is a Chinese symbol and signifies Lao-Tseu who was always associated with the ninth messenger (Jesus). He is also often spoken of by the Evangelists (proclaimers of the messengers) under the name of Elias (Elijah), and as "the voice of one crying in the wilderness," similar to the fourth messenger (Brigoo), all indicating re-incarnations. The doctrine of metempsychosis seems to be plainly exemplified by this theory. Hengstenberg, in his Christology, maintains at length that Michael was no other than Jesus (Christ). He was the third-third angel-messenger.

The ninth symbol is said to be designed for Ahmed; the six lines represent a Naros (600) which was the period for his appearance after the ninth messenger (Jesus).

The tenth symbol on this Staff is the letter Z with the double cross, a characteristic emblem of power (lightning), the initial of Zeus the god of the forces of heaven. It stands for Zengis, another form for Chengiz-Khan, the eleventh messenger, whose kingdom approached a universal monarchy.

The symbol of the twelfth messenger will be a key, and he will be the "Key-keeper of the Fountain of Life." In his hand he will carry the Mystic Staff of the first Adam, which is preserved for him as a Sceptre to guide the nations. He will be the fourth-third messenger and unlock mysteries that have been kept secret from the foundation of the world, for which developments all people are now becoming prepared. He will be expected to harmonize and fraternize the world.

The triple Tau in each symbol signifies trinities which the twelve messengers represent. The seventh (Amosis), the tenth (Ahmed), and the eleventh (Chengiz-Chan), according to the author of this singular theory, represent the three Cabiri of ancient veneration. They were known by the names Axieros, Axiokersos, and Axiokersa. Some others add a fourth, Casmillos, to represent the coming Sosiosh. the details cannot be given here.

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There is another Rod mentioned in Nimrod (11, 20; III, 251) the sword-sceptre of Pelops, previously referred to in this paper, and which descended from one king to another, similar to the Staff of Adam. This book says "it is the prototype of all magical wands." The second engraving shows an illustration of it. There are twelve symbols engraved on it, which are interpreted as follows:

The first symbol to the right is the initial of Oannes (Adam), and also represents the sun, one of the first objects of worship.

The second is a cross and signifies Enoch who, to perpetuate them, engravedon two pillars the discoveries of his Naros.

The third is a snake, a Chinese symbol for Fo-Hi (Buddha, "the Wise "). He is the one who said, "Heaven is One; how can there be more than One God there?"

The fourth, the triangular points, were said to represent Europe, Asia, and Africa, which were left to Brigoo after he was saved from the water when the earth divided and Atlantis was lost.

The fifth is the sun and represents Zaratusht who symbolized the true God by the sun and fire-worship.

The sixth is the monad in the rude square to represent Thoth, who taught, and wrote many books on, the arts and sciences, and religion. He left those sublime truths engraved on the Emerald Stone.

The seventh, the several lines, represent Amosis and the Mystic Staff so potent in his hands.

The eighth, the square, is for Lao-Tseu. At the present day the same square is in the center of Chinese coins, and among many of their sacred symbols.

The ninth, the two parallels, denotes Jesus who was so closely allied with the eighth messsenger (Elijah), that they are always placed together.

The tenth, the monad in the equilateral triangle, represents Ahmed who said that "there was but one God, and Ahmed is his prophet."

The eleventh, the crescent, stands on the rod for Chengiz-Khan who endeavored to unite in some degree the religions of "the Cross and the Crescent."

The twelfth and last on this Pelopean Staff is the monad and the altar, or the reverse of the symbol of the sixth messenger (Thoth). Thoth-Hermes gathered the wisdom of all previous Naroses, a portion of which has been preserved to us in his Divine Pymander. The mission of the twelfth will be to collect the wisdom of ages which has been preserved in fragments that there may be one universal Volume of Truth, and he is ot have the key to the Book-the Magic Staff.

Such is a brief epitome of Dr Kenealy's theory of the drama of the world, and the twelve Messiahs as they appeared to him. The Staff of Adam was possessed by eleven of them, and will be in the hands of the twelfth. There is a wonderful similarity in the two illustrations of the Staff and the symbols on each.

Mercury of the Romans is the Hermes of the Greeks, and closely identified with the Thoth of the Egyptians. He was a priest-king and messenger of the gods, and a messenger of Jupiter in particular. He was the personification of the Egyptian priesthood the records of which had come to the Greeks in a very meagre form. He was the epitome of knowledge, endowed with all that pertains to magic, secrecy and mystery, and his very name has become in our day an arcane ad

jective of hermetic mystery, hermetically sealed. He bears in his hand the caduceus or Staff, which sometimes has wings at it extremities. The same symbol (the baton) today is carried by our marshals in all processional bodies. It has, by some circumstance, perpetuated this idea in the name of one of our prominent American cities Rouge (Scarlet Wand).

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Another representation of Hermes was perpetuated by the Greeks and Romans, in setting up bounds at the divisions of their lands, and gardens. Hermes was said to have taught agriculture, commerce, architecture; and various inventions were credited to him. His statue was thus held in great veneration, and some represent him holding the Staff. He is said to have received the "golden three-leafed Rod" from Apollo in exchange for a lyre which he had invented. Apollo was a son of Jupiter, and presided over prophecy, and at birth cried out he would declare the will of Jove. These mythological personages are only another version of the preservation of the Staff of Adam, and many allusions are made to it throughout the classics. (Iliad XXIV, 343).

Weale says that in architecture "Aaron's Rod is a rod with one serpent twined around it, while Mercury's Rod has two serpents."

Josephus (Ant. IV, 4,) tells us that there was strife among the twelve tribes as to which should have the honor of the priesthood, and even Moses feared for his own life, so great was the contention. Hence the principals of the twelve tribes were requested to bring each his rod with the name of his tribe witten upon it. So each principal brought his rod, as did Aaron also, who had Levi written on his rod.

"These rods Moses laid up in the tabernacle of God. On the next day he brought out the rods, which were known from one another by those who brought them, they having distinctly marked them, as the multitude had noted also. But they saw buds and branches grown out of Aaron's rod, with ripe fruit upon them; they were almonds, the rod having been cut out of that tree. The people were so amazed at this strange sight, that though Moses and Aaron were before under some degree of hatred by the tribes, they now laid that hatred aside, and began to admire the judgment of God concerning them; so that thereafter the people applauded what God had decreed, and permitted Aaron to enjoy the priesthood peaceably."