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ogy ' it has been called Bi-trinacria, a word which 

 denotes, however, no more (for the want of a better 

 term) than any object having six (twice three) Legs 

 or Arms. 



189. To illustrate more concretely this important 

 idea (of the Basic Bi-trinacria of the Cosmical Outlay) 

 one may conceive of a simple Ordinary Turn-style 

 (having a standard-post with two sets of arms at 

 right angles) ; but, to be more definite, imagine the 

 four arms adjusted to the four cardinal points of the 

 compass, North, South, East and West, and the 

 centering or standard-post to the Zenith and Nadir. 



190. This Figure-and-Posture is very fundamental 

 or governing in the Morphic Distribution of the Earth 

 and Heavens ; in the Plumb-centering, and Orientation 

 of the Great World-Dome which stands above us ; 

 and this again in alliance with the Pathagnomic 

 Lines in the Structure of the Human Body and 

 Head ; l with the Heavens and Hells in the Spiritual 

 Cosmogony of Swedenborg ; with Abstract Ethical 

 or Moral Conceptions and Science (as when we 

 speak of the Uprightness of a character), with the 

 Nature of Chemical Substances (see Introduction), 

 with numerous other branches of Science and Phil- 

 osophy ; and, pre-eminently, with the Analogical Echo- 

 ing of each of these aspects of Being to every other. 



191. By reference to these Axial Lines of Cosmical 

 Structure, and by the Analogical Outworkings of 



1 " Outlines of Anthropology," by Joseph R. Buchanan. For 

 Definitions, see Vocabulary, p. xi-xi : i. 



