Grp TIJN HIEROGLYP HICS, 
OBSERVABLE ON 
CALEDONIAN OBELISKS. 
} N or der to give a fatisfaftory illuftration of theft, it is not fo necefiary to go 
deep into the hiftory of the revolutions, which hieroglyphical writing under- 
^ nt > as to quote foine felect fentences of the more diftinguifhed authors who 
z'T Wrote on £ his fubjedb : but thefe are requifite to authenticate the application, 
^indicate the facred references here Hated, 
of u° ernl ^ ern ancient wifdom has been more remarkable than the hieroglyphic 
‘ e Serpent. In different ages it has had affixed to it the mod glorious and 
is j ^ 10rr *^ e ideas. Its plain, explicit, and ieemingly earlieft reference, is all that 
atten ded to: and of its univerfal application in this way all antiquity is 
dj ’ '■hat when placed over, or in the midft of abftrufe fymbols, it invariably in- 
a , a ^ e d that they were Spirit and Life, or bore allufion to objefts of a divine 
'ntelleftual nature *. 
tjj le m yftic lines, immediately under that of the Obelifk, fig. I. in the plate, are 
e hore to be conftrued as fome expreffive rudiments of facred fcience ; but 
^Ua C ° Ver P erfeftI y accor d with the defcription given by an eminent anti- 
Co / an ^ 5 °' a cori 'cfponding fymbol on the Pamphilian Obelifk at Rome, that it 
<t not have been more applicable if taken from this at Aberlemny J. “ Tres 
<c Clrcu hj intra duo fceptra inclufi. Triformis numenis dominium, in triplicum 
^nndum pulchre fane demonftrant.” 
•t ^ ne circles, then, included within the Triune line, finifhed at either end with 
'' b C ^ Ce P t:ra ^ em hlem, or enfign of Efficient Power, was the expreffive fym- 
" C ^ IVINE Dominion extended over heaven and earth, and the whole 
th IRcle °h the year ||.” While the facred Eye, within the triangle, gives the 
^§ht a fublimity, which it is impoffible to heighten. 
^ aVC ^ Cre t h en > on a Caledonian monument, one of the mod original 
acre d fymbols of the Eastern World ; in the myftic lines of which, thofe 
o fth are thoroughly verfed in antiquity can be at no lofs to difcern the rudiments 
tv. e ^pha and Omega, and other letters of the primaeval alphabet, as in the 
lifted NOAn ! 
n °lefs Cherubic Figures over the traverfeof the Cross, on the Obelifk, fig. III. 
to p e ^ S forcibly attraft attention, on account of the refemblance which they bear 
'I'h ^ ^^ tian hieroglyphics, 
is ^ at w ith vvings, which in its original may have refembled the Abraxa, fig. IV. 
° nl y one additionally felefled as the prefent fubjedt of obfervation : and the 
’’ Vero Serpentem fpiritualiffimum animal efle dicunt ; itaque res divinas, per Serpentis na- 
t Ki ta ^ ant * Eufebius, Prep. Evang. 1 . iii. c. 3. 
St. James’s Liturgy. 
decyphering 
rc her. Obelif. Pamphil. 148. J Ibid. 497. 
