ALLEGOKICAL STAMP. 
The broad radiant circle, while it images the disk of the Sun, 
symbolizes his universal providence, ubiquity, and eternity, rela- 
tive to our planetary system of which He is the pivot or central 
and generative principle. The circle is also the geometrical type 
of friendship, all the parts of its periphery being equidistant from 
the centre, as in the group of friends or persons acting exclusive- 
ly in the tone of friendship, — there are no distinctions of grade, 
but equality reigns in all their distributions of use and of enjoy- 
ment, the ultimates of life, which coincide with the periphery of 
the circle. 
Within the circle is placed the triangle, symbol of the second 
attribute of Deity, Disiribidive Justice. It is formed by doubling 
the square, mechanical measure of justice and truth, and figures 
the Trinity, or three distributive passional principles of nature 
and humanity, whence the harmonies of the universe and of so- 
cieties proceed. This Triangle incloses the Cross, wreathed with 
a fruit-bearing grape vine. The Cross, inscribed with the initials 
of Jesus, symbolizes the crucifixion of private interests in devotion 
to the principles of collective charity and unity, and the fate 
that individual truth and goodness invokes upon its head, when 
it appears in the midst of false and evil societies ; which continues 
the same since the time of Christ till now. 
The crucifixion of the passions is the general lot of the human 
race, and especially of its laboring masses, and its honest reform- 
ers, during the incoherent periods or duration of the upside- 
down world, based on egotism and selfishness, on the isolated 
household, and smallest possible social combination. 
But, as in consequence of the coming of Christ to society, as 
he came once to the Jews of old; as the result of the scientific 
embodiment of those principles of action of which his life afforded 
so luminous an example; the passion of Friendship and the fruits 
of friendly communion, of which the grape and its wine are the 
chief types, will take the place of egotism and rule in the har- 
monized world ; so by wreathing the cross with the grape vine, 
I express the fruit or ultimate and harmonic purpose and result 
of the crucifixion, the justification of human nature, and the tri- 
umph of happiness. 
