The third apartment represents the consequences of sin and vice, and the hell made of the human heart; by its fiery passions. It any see in it also a type of the Hades fo the Greeks, the Gehanna of the Hebrews, the Tartarus of the Romans, or the Hell of the Christians, or only on the agonies of remorse and the tortures of an upbraiding conscience, it is the right of each to do so.

The fourth apartment represents the Universe, freed from the insolent dominion and tyranny of the Principle of Evil, and brilliant with the true Light that flows from the Supreme Deity; when sin and wrong, and pain and sorrow, remorse and misery, shall be no more forever; when the great plans of Infinite Eternal Wisdom shall be fully developed; and all God's creatures, seeing that all apparent evil and individual suffering and wrong were but the drops that went to swell the great river of infinte goodness, shall know that vast as is the power of Deity, His goodness and beneficence are infinite as His power. If any see in it a type of the peculiar mysteries of any faithor creed, or an allusion to any past occurrences, it is their right to do so. Let each apply its symbols as he pleaces. To all of us they typify the universal rule of Masonry,- of its three chief virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity; of brotherly love and universal benevolence. We labor here to no other end. These symbols need no other interpretation.

The obligations of our Ancient Brethren of the Rose Croix were to fulfill all the duties of friendhsip, cheerfulness, charity, peace, liberality, temperance and chastity; and scrupulously to avoid imopurity, haughtiness, hatred, anger and every other kind of vice. They took their philosophy from the old Theology of the Egyptians, as Moses and Solomon had done, and borrowed its hieroglyphics and the ciphers of the Hebrews. Their principle rules were, to exercise the professiom of medicine charitably and without fee, to advance the cause of virtue, enlarge the sciences, and induce men to live as in the primitive times of the world.