the Quincnnx MiflicaTly Considered. 185 



and thence into the memory by another 

 from within, the common decuflation 

 being in the under ftanding as is deliver 

 ed by *Bovitttis> Whether the intelle- 

 ftualand phantafticil lines be not thus 

 rightly difpofed,but magnified diminiih- 

 ed, diftorted) and ill placed in the Ma- 

 thematicks of fome brains, whereby 

 ithey have irregular apprehenfions of 

 things, perverted notions, conceptions* 

 nd incurable hallucinations,were co un- 

 deafant fpeculation. 



And if ^Egyptian Philofophy may ob- 



ain, the (bale of influences was thus dif- 



>ofed, nnd the geniall fpirits of both 



worlds, do trace their way in afcending 



and defcending Pyramids* myftically 



apprehended in the Letter X, and the o- 



pen Bill and ftrad ling Legges of a Stork, 



which was imitated by that Charafter. 



Of this Figure Pltto made choice to il- 

 luftrate the motion of the foul, both of 

 the world and man ; while he delivereth 

 that God divided the whole conjutiftion 

 length-wife., according to the figure of a 

 Greek X, and then turning it about re- 

 fleSed it into a circle 5 By the circle im 

 plying 



