The Quincunx. 



Antoninus ; and to be found in the An* 

 tiquities of the Gentiles,, before the ad 

 vent of Chrift, as in the Medall of King 

 Ytolomy^ figned with the fame characters, 

 and might be the beginning of fome 

 word or name, which Antiquaries have 

 not hit on. 



We will not revive the myfterious 

 crofles of &gypt, with circles on their 

 heads, in the breaft of Serapis, and the 

 hands of their Geniall fpirits, not unlike 

 the character of Ventu^ and looked on 

 by ancient Chriftians, with relation un 

 to Chrift, Since however they firft be 

 gan 5 the ^Egyptians thereby exprefled 

 the procefle and motion of the fpirit of 

 the world, and the diffufion thereof up- fome what 

 pntheCeleftiall and Elemental! nature 5 

 imply ed by a circle and right-lined in- 

 terfeftion. A fecret in their Telefmes 

 and magicall Chara&ers among them, banns* 

 Though he that confidereth the b plain 

 erode upon the head of the Owl in the 

 Laterane Obelisk 3 or the c crolle erefted 

 upon a picher diffufing ftreams of water 7 / ^ 

 intotwobafins, with fprinkling branch- Ritihus. 

 es in them, and all defcribed upon a *$*?** 



L 1*1 t T t i Tnonfante 



two^fcoted Altar 3 as in the Hierogly- 

 H phicks 



