234 W. Theobald — Notes on some of the symbols found on the [No. 3, 
117. A Dot within a Cross. Fig. 227. 
This may easily be regarded as a Rosicrucian symbol. The Rosi- 
cruoians (who were allied in ideas with the Templars) adopted as their 
badge a symbol of which the present is scarcely a variant. It consisted 
of a cross engraved on one side of a transparent red stone, and on the 
reverse side over the junction of the limbs of the cross was engraved a 
rose ; or as viewed through the stone, a red rose, crucified on or attached 
to a cross, whence the name of Rosicrucian, or Red Cross Knight. Hero 
we encounter a galaxy of pagan ideas. The Cross, prior to its appropria- 
tion by Christians, was an old nature -worship symbol, one of whose names 
was “ Thor’s hammer,” and was connected by its parallelism of ideas 
with the Sun. Now Adonis was the Sun in his lusty prime, and when 
the sun was slain by the boar of winter, he was changed, as the beauti- 
ful old fable relates, into a red rose. 
Woe ! Woe ! for love’s own Queen, since stretched in death 
Adonis lies, the beautiful, whose blood. 
Poured forth like water on the thirsty earth. 
Is matched by tears from Aphrodite’s eyes. 
Whore fell those teai’s anemonies npspring. 
And where each ruddy drop, Lo ! blooms a rose. 
Bion Idyl I. 62.* 
The Rosicrucians in their day aimed, however, (despite the absurd 
stories current about them) at little more probably than what Romanists 
and Ritualists are endeavouring in modern times to effect, viz,, to adorn 
the faith they love with the symbols and gew-gaws of paganism, the 
meaning of which they try to conceal under high-sounding names of their 
own, or of which perhaps the bulk of these ‘ puir bodies ’ may be honest- 
ly ignorant. 
This symbol occurs on a coin in the collection of Sir A. Cunningham. 
118. A RUDE HUMAN FIGURE HOLDING A ClUB IN THE LEFT HAND. Fig. 3. 
Above it are five dots, and these are probably intended to represent 
five heads. As the ‘ Lingam ’ has sometimes five ‘ heads,’ this figure is 
probably intended for Siva. 
119. An unknown Object, or Ornament. Fig. 212. 
* “ Ai, dt, rav K.vOip€taVi uttcoXcto KaXds 
AaKpvov d Ilac^ta roo'o’ov dcrcrov ‘^ASwvts 
’'Ai/Aa X€€t* rd 6e Travra ttotI xOova yiyverai avOrj* 
At/xa poSov tIktcl, rd 8c SaKpva rdv dvcp-tovav.” 
