Symbols of 



Oh fer -cations in Egypt. 4.07 



?mff)heres of the World, were probably reprefented by half Disks, ^*^ Hcmir- 

 whichjaccording asthecircularPartsof them were placed u ρ ward s/^^^-^ ^7 ^"V 

 or downwards, might denote the upper or the lower Hemi/bjjere. 

 A Tyram'id or Obelisk, i. e. an equilateral, or an acute angled Py'•^"^!'^^" 

 Triangle with two equal Sides, denoted the Nature and^"'^^, 

 Element of Fire ' ; but, by a right angled Triangle % was un 

 derftood the Nature and Conftitution of the Univerfe, the 

 perpendicular expreihng Ofirk, or the Male; the Bafis, Tfis, 

 or the Female; and the H)'potheneufe, Orus^i.Q. the Air or fenlible 

 World, the Offspring of them both. The Mimdus HjyUus, as m woru r- 

 Kircher calls the material or elementary World ', was typified ^-^"""^^'' ' 

 by a Square, each Side, (as in the Table ^ of the Jewiflj Taber- 

 nacle,) reprefenting one Quarter of it. 



But there was not only a Myftery couched under thefe and ^x^^ Poi^ure, 

 fuch like Images themfelves, but the very Pofture, Drefs, andS^v^pdan 

 Matter of fome of them, were not without a Meaning. For|iwJr 

 when Ifis, Ofir'ts &c. are reprefented fitting, This is a Type ofsknng. 

 the Deity's being retired within itfelp \ or, that his Power is 

 firm and immoveable : as the Throne itfelf, when chequered 

 with black and white, might be emblematical of the A^ariety 

 of fublunary Things ^ When the Deities and Genij ftand up-standing. 

 right, as if they were ready for Adlion, but, at the fame Time, 

 have their Legs placed clofe together. This ■^ is to reprefent 

 them gliding, as it were, through the Air, without either Let or 

 Impedimenta But, when the World is typified by a Human 

 Figure, with it's Legs in the fame Pofture, This is a Token of 

 it's Stability. No lefs fy mbolical was the Drefs of their Deities. 



I ΚΧυψιμί^αί ο i^ oSiA/V/toi/i, τ? -Twfji oma. [Λτήναμα,τ.^ Porph. apud Eufeb. Prxp. Evang. p, 60. 

 2 htyvxi'to'jt 3 a.v Ti< ιΐιι^σΗί 7av 'Jfiylivav ts yj,}^iiij, μάλιψί τάτω τίιν ri τα,νη,: φί/τιν όμι/όυντα;• * πν^ςίαν oZt 

 7W ιΛν φΓζί'ί• of Saf, Λξςίν/, -ην 5' βάίπν, λίία, τίιν Ji ΰ'ποΊΜουσΛν, άμφοΐν ίγ^ίνω, ^ τίν μίν Oa'tetv as ao^mv, τ»)» 

 Si latv ω; -ύΰπ^Όχίν, ττν ji ίΐζ^ν as ^τί^αφ.». Plut, de Ιβά. & Of. p. 373-4. 3 Mundus corpo- 

 reus, ex elementis compoiuus, in quo proceifus rerum fit per lineas rcvitas, per quadrangu- 

 lum tui: indigitatus a prifcis. Plat, in Alcinoo. cap.ii. & 12. ζγηά Kirch. ΟΕά. ^gyot. Clal.7. 

 p. 103- T*f S οιμαι Ηκάνα ί Τίίτϋζα J^i^ol- (ΊίοΜ^σιν mpwiofMVn 7Π33•;, θίρίί, μί-ηττύ^α, iaet, yuuZvt 

 Clem. Alex. Strom. \.6. p. 474• 4 Meva/ h laur^, atrmf li ys■^ζ■ί^, βχΜταΰ σχμαύνΜ^ lamb. Seft. 7. 

 cap. 2. y ΟιτΛ^Λίοι i-)^a-\iv liv ύίΐί )ΐ3^ζοντα, ΌΟ^ <ημ<ΰνίίγ Λκινίιτον η^ζ ^ύναμιν. yippollod. Κάθχτκι 

 Λ, Ti ifftuoy <} J)Jvάμίas αΑνίτΤομίνοτ. Porph. ap\id Eufeb. Pr^p. Evang. p.di. 6 Qiii nmndihabe- 

 nas tenet, variegata fede fplendidus. Orph. dc Mercurio zpud Kirch. Synt. i. p.pj-. Hinc, 

 arbitror, Gr^tci Mercmio virgam ex albo & nigro variatam aririhuunt, ib'td. 7 Καηψ 

 βαίισμΛν -nKiov^ hu κβίτα a/oisj)a-/ii το/ι» •mS'oty iJi μίή^βιν άναομίνω^ α?λά i(g,-m ma Ιύμ/Λν αίαον >»i} oeuxr 

 Λΐ^ξ^τιίί^^ν, -ημνόνταν ^λλον τι '^ίΐίγ^ον « ίιa7πζiυoμίyωγ. S'to cK i^-n ά.)αΚμΛ-τα. τω/ ^ων Αΐ}ν?τ1ιοΐ tJ -nili 

 ζίΐ^ν^ντΐί Κ) wa-wij hivTts Ιζίτιν. Hel'wd. /Eth. Hill. 1. 3. p. 1 48. 8 Ay^ameiJis 'iiiy Λ)αΛμά η κΐσμν, 

 τοίί μίγ -τήίΊ» <ημβίζλ«Λ!>ταί t^y, Λνω^ν «Λ μίχει mJSiy mi/JKoy 'lyArioy 'πεχζίζ/^μίναν, im Si <} κίψβλίί 

 <τράί(Λν i•)^ ^uayr/, s\a to //» μίτ»ζα1ναν> Kj ^/<c jh των ugpar -TtsiMhiiy tfijriy, tu av (rpcu^ftiSiis c κί^μ^, 



Eufeb, Praep. Evang. p. 69. 



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