4-05 Phyfical and Mifcellaneous 



TheMeauivg thc Creator and Preferver of the World, as the Wifdom, which 

 Anfau. '"''is derived from Him, and direols and governs it, is fignified 

 by the +, T, or t, as Rewrites it, the Monogram, as He fur- 

 ther conjeftures, oi Mercury, Thoth, Taaut, or (*t ) Ththa. It is 

 certainly extraordinary, that this Figure ihould be fo often 

 found in their fymbolical Writings, being feen alone, held in 

 the Hands, or iuipended over the Necks of their Deities. I 

 have often obferved, that Beetles and fuch other Sacred Ani- 

 mals and Symbols, as were bored through and intended for 

 Amulets, had this Figure impreffed upon them. The Crux 

 jlnfata therefore, was, in all Probability, The Name of the 

 'Dh'me Being, as lamhlichus records it ', that tra'velled through 

 the World. We may further fuppofe it to be the ^venerable 

 Effigies of the Supreme 'Deity, which, y^puleius' informs us, 

 IPOS not made in the Likenefs of any Creature ; or, the Thy- 

 la&ery οϊ Tfis , which, not unlike the Thummim in the 

 Breaft Plate of the High Prieft, fignified, according to Tlu- 

 tarch ', The Voice of Truth. But the Interpretation of this 

 Figure, (the Crofs-Part of it at leaft,) is recorded, in Sozomen 

 and other Chr^βian Authors , as expreffive of The Life to 

 come ^ .• being the fame, with the ineffable Image of Eternity ^ % 

 that is taken Notice of by Suidas ; and which the learned 

 Herwart, in a very elaborate Diflertation, hath endeavour- 

 ed to prove to be the .^ctis Nautica, or the Mariner's Com- 

 pafs of the Antients"^'. 



But to return to the Mathematical Figures. The He- 



I tiprfynaoLTa 3 u -muviv την ΙίΊν Ep^Jf ' ή^μνήυσί ο Είτκί «JCJpUTDf Αμμα¥» βασι^ίί, Ιν iS'uTtis lufar Λνα^ί•)ξαμ' 

 μΐνκν h h^yyf^upmi ■^ζά.μμασιν, i(3.-m %Άν 7W h htyuiHa, 79, 7\n Θ?5 ονομΛ wape</)M)t? TO ΔΙΗΚΟΝ ΔΙ ΟΛΟΤ 

 TOT KOSMOT. Iambi. Sed.8. cap. j•. 2 Gerebat alius felici fuo grcmio iiimmi numinis vcneran- 

 dam effigiem, non pecoris, non avis, non ferx, ac ne liominis quidcm ipiius coniimilem : led 

 folerci repercu,ctiam ipfa novitatercverendam altioris utcunquetSi magno filentio tegendxrc- 

 ligionis argumentum ineffabile. ^pul. Metam. I.ii. ρ 262. 3 Δια. >y λψ,άαχ, rh Inc, ai^uiyw 

 077 κύί/, <^i-\.ctSim ρυλΜ-ήεΛον &c. (ξ(ψιιν-ΰί•ταχ ΦΛΝΗ ΑΛΗΘΗ2. Tlut. de Ifid. & Ofirid. P.377.& 578- 

 4 φΛίϊ 0, η vox (Scrapidis) -χΛξΛκτΛξων sauox ημαω ίμί,ξϋί tyzty(!tfayiAvis( To/r λιθο /t ivttipnyiyeu, ■Jiap' 

 i-mnuivav Si τα τοίάΛ 1(μ>ινου5ιϋην στιμαιΥΜ -ιά.υην ί»ι -χΛφη ΖίΙΗΝ ΕΠΕΡΧΟΜΕΝΗΜ. So^ojnen 1.7• Eccl. 

 Hift. cap. I J. Ruffin. Eccl. Hift. 1. 2. cap. 29. Suid. in Theodof. Socr.it. 1. 9. Hift. Tripar. 

 4« Aiiyva [0 utv Ηρβ/ίκ®') τι α'ζξνην ί^αλμα, TOT ΑΙίΙΝΟΣ vot η θίϊ ng.Ti;)^uiVoy, oy \Ki^!iySjiM( ivummv Oneir 

 οντά, hJhviv Ιμ^ κατά μυζίκιίν, ώί άλΜθωί ipiveu SnoKfatnuH . i)uid. in voce Hjaiffy.®'. PoiTO idem Sllidas 

 eadem repctit in verbo AtayvcSμωv. Quo ex utroque loco rice colligas, ipfiifimum hoc eiTe 

 Cgnum, Τ fcilicet Anfatum, AEVI, fxculi ineffabile, quod Serapis yilcxandru manu teneat : 

 quod Alexandrini pro Serap'ide & Alontde jundim colant. Idque prifertim cum i\l»-nr, feu 

 ineffabile fignum vocetur perindc uti Π^ί^ίτΒρ, princeps pater, leu Ε^θϊκ, profundum Haere- 

 fiaichs Valentini, & Tetragrammatonyi;/;oM : iitque fignum η tuZvQr Sectil'i, atque aevi j 

 quorum 4. & 8. primxva j & deinde 30. & 2• idem Valentinus delciibit. Herw. Tlieolog. 

 Ethnic, p.ii. 4' Apud me conftitui, illud fignum Τ vcteribus fuilfe prj;ftitiifeque, quic- 

 quid noftris mode gubcrnatoribus eft, ^ΐχ^ζΐ(\\χ^ yicusNautna. W. ibid. p. do. 



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