Journal Enrty #8

5 things that i Understand
1. In the Masonic Legend, poeple are distinguished by names which vary in the different Rites.
2. The Rites of Masonry are designed to transmit a memorial of the legends of initiation and to perserve them among the Brethren.
3.Masonry is the Gnosis and the false Gnostics caused the condemnation of the true.
4. Mesmer, physician, postulated two modes in natural being called the substance and the life.
5. The sect of Saint-Jakin was an order of Gnostics steeped in the illusions of the Magic of Fascination.

4 Questions
How mnay chapters does the Y-Kim consist of?
What is the key that unlocks the Chinese puzzle?
What did the writer of Abbe de Villars certify?
How was the testimony extracted from his wife?

3 words I do not know
1. Pg 285 Indicible- Unspeakable
2. Pg 286 Regicides- To kill a king
3. Pg 286 Variant- tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity

2 literary elements
1."the Y-Kim is like that of the Pentateuch of Mysteries" pg 289- Simile
2."Nature in her wrath armed him" pg 309- Personification

1 sentence summary
The strange chronicles of futurity was an imitation of the succession of worlds.