4o5 Phyficat and Mifcellaneous 



TheMeanivg thc Creator and Preferver of the World, as the WifdonijWhich 

 Anflta. "^^ is derived from Him, and directs and governs it, is fignified 

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

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

 certainly extraordinary, that this Figure fhould be fo often 

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

 the Hands, or fulpended 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 

 y4nfata therefore, was, in all Probability, The Name of the 

 Divine Being, as lamhlichus records it ', that travelled through 

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

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

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

 laClery of Ifis , 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, mSozomen 

 and other Chriftian Authors , as expreflive 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 .Acus Nautica, or the Mariner's Com- 

 pafs of the Antients*'. 



But to return to the Mathematical Figures. The He- 



(ikim h <8e?>Xi/fi)toK ^auy-aiTty, y^-m 2<iiV tw b AijvTiJij), tb, "nn ©» ovo/xat TTopeJJuxs TO AIHKON AI OAOT 

 TOT K02M0T. Iaml>l. Sed.S. cap.y. 2 Gerebat alius felici fiio gremio lummi numinis veneran- 

 dam effigiem, non pecoris, non avis, non feraz, ac ne hominis quidem iplius conlimiJem : fed 

 folerti repercu,etiain ipfa novitatereverendam altioris utcunquc& magno fiJentio tegendxre- 

 ligionis argumentum ineffabile. yipiil. Metam. l.ii. p 262. 3 £^ii. £, A^^i^nu, tw latv, euStfdfxr 

 oTj MH, iSl^i-laSm ^uMK-iietov &C. l^iffAMYMTtu "J-ilNH AAH0HS. Tlut. de Ifid. & Ofnid. P.377.& ^nS. 

 A ietffi 3, n vai (Serapidis) ■)(a^MTti^av '^u^'i njju'ia i^ipi^ti; iyKt)(a.fayi'.ivn{ Ton hi^tiis OAiaipitvYiytuy Tntf 

 Im^fMVav <fi la.rati.A t(fx>ivci>^jav (nfMiveu -rauviv 7W J^afw ZJTiHN EflEPXOMENHN. So^omcn 1. 7. Eccl. 



Hift. cap. 15. Ruffiii. Eccl. Hift. 1. 2. cap. 29. Suid. in Theodof. Socrat. 1. 9. Hift. Tripar. 

 4 * Aiiyfa)('o uiv Hpa/jx®') tv a.\l)inv ayi.KfjM, TOT AlflNOS "im ri Sr'ii tt^Ti^i^-iyav, w ^M^<t.vS)leis iTjfMumy Oaietv 

 ovTO, hA)viv o[M Ka.-m fui^im, as aKx^f ifoirat ^ionfctiniu' . Suid. in voce Hja/w®'. Porro idem Suidas 

 eadem repetit in verbo A/«>v6)|waif. Quo ex utroque loco rice colligas, ipfiflimum hoc efTe 

 Cgnura, T fcilicet Anfatum, AEVI, faeculi ineffabile, quod Seraph Alexandria manu teneat : 

 quod Alexandrini pro Seraplde & Adonide junftim colant. Idque prsfercim cum (t|g»w, feu 

 ineflfabile fignum vocetur perinde uti Uef-arL-m^, princeps pater, feu Bc/5bk, profundum Hoere- 

 fiarchae Valentini, & Tetragrammaton^<'/;«)V<j: Ctque fignum 7^ ouayQi' Seculi, atque xvi i 

 quorum 4. & 8. primseva; & deinde 30. & 2. idem Valentinus defcribit. Herw. Theolog. 

 Ethnic, p.ii. 4* Apud me conftitui, illud fignum T veteribus fuifle praeftitiffeque, quic- 

 quid noftris modo gubcrnatoribus eft, prseftatque /fa» MjHfif.i. 7<i. ibid. p. (Jo. 



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