APPENDIX. 
Allegorical Stamp Explained. 
The vine’-wreatlied cross inclosed in the triangle and radiating circle. 
This figure, which I have devised to stamp the covers of all my 
works, presents a radiant circular periphery, in general allusion to 
the solar disk, and the life-giving rays of its universal Providence, 
which permeate the circumambient spheres of phenomenal nature 
in the mineral, vegetable, animal, and spiritual forms and degrees 
of its incarnation. 
There are twelve unequal groups of rays symbolic of the twelve 
radical passions of the human soul, common in different degrees 
to the whole animal world, and reflected and refracted by the 
vegetable and mineral, as I have shown in Comparative Psycho- 
logy,” and “ Human Trinity.” 
The twelve human or animal rays of the Sun, corresponding to 
these passions, are necessarily concrete in the physical or sensible 
rays, if we admit that an effect presupposes a cause, since the Sun 
could not impart to the animate beings whose germs his rays 
evolve and quicken in the surface soil of planets, any passional 
properties not pre-existing in the Sun and his rays, at least in 
their masculine potency, the evolution of the female elements of 
passion being reserved to the planet mothers. 
The twelve passional rays are distinguished into seven greater 
groups, for the seven spiritual passions, and five smaller groups 
for the five sensual passions. 
The engraving does not follow the distribution of the seven ray 
groups into four cardinal, corresponding to the social affections — 
Ambition, Friendship, Love, and Familism, and three intellectual 
or distributive, corresponding to the Centrifugal or Cabalist, the 
Centripetal or Composite, and the Oscillating or Papillon. 
