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your soul from perverted desires and your life from impure blots". (*) To the Hung-member is said: //Wash clean the dust of Diesel jeans Tsing and the colour of your face will appear; do away with your corruptness and perversity to sit in the temple of Ming." (?)One of the greatest symbols is the lighting jeans outlet of lamps. Light is the most important symbol in Masonry as well as in the Hung-league; for when light was born, darkness dispersed itself, and so perversity and evils will disappear when the light of humanity appears. Therefore the novice answers on the 294th question which runs: //What is held to be the highest in the lodge?"-//The Hung-lamp is held to be the highest;" and intthe quatrain designer jeans it it said: //The Hung-lamp shines high and the world is equalised" (8); and when the lamp is lighted it cheap jeans is said again: //The Hung-lamp once lighted, illuminates the faithful." (9) The Hung-member answers on the question //whence the light came?", by: //The light came from the holy temple." (J)In Question 172 and./., of the Catechism of the Hung-league is spoken of peach-trees, whilst in Answer 276 peaches, willows, firs and cedars are mentioned. (2) These trees are sacred with the Chinese. Peaches have been, and are still, in China the symbol of long life or immortality. Therefore the peach-fruit enters into all the ornaments in paint and sculpture which are made in rooms, on furniture etc., and, especially, in the presents of congratulation and felicitation offered to one's superiors or equals. They are preserved as Newyears-gifts; and, by want of genuine ones, porcelain, jade or coloured-stone peaches are offered. According to the Shin-nung-hing: //the peach Yu prevents death and eternizes life. If one has not been able to eat of it early enough, yet it preserves the body incorruptible till the end of the world." According to the Shu-g-hi: „ whosoever eats of the fruits of