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Fig. 167, "Hook of Saturn," "Crook of Bishops." "By hook or crook," meaning "by fair means or foul," is a proverbial expression continually heard.

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There are two works which will assist in throwing light upon that mystic system of the ancients, probably originating in the dreaming East, that refers the production of music to architectural forms or geometric diagrams;

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Fig. 157.
(2) Venus; (3) Mars; (4) Jupiter; (5) Saturn; (6) Moon; (7) Sun.
Fig. 158. Astrological Symbols of Planets: (1) Sol; (2) Luna; (3) Mer-
cury; (4) Venus; (5) Mars; (6) Jupiter; (7) Saturn.

Hindoo Monograms of Planets: (1) Mercury, Buddha (Boodh);

as columns and entablatures, or upright lines and crosslines, and mathematical arcs and diagonals, in their modifications and properties, of course are. These books, which will help to explain the passages of music given at p. 232, figs. 141, 142, are Hay's Natural Principles and Analogy of the Harmony of Form, and a very original and learned musical production, entitled The Analogy of the Laws of

Musical Temperament to the Natural Dissonance of Creation, by M. Vernon, published in London in 1867. Through a

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Fig. 159. Bhuddist Emblem.

Fig. 160. "Shield of David;" or, the "Seal of Solomon."

Fig. 161. Phallic Triad.

Fig. 162. Astrological Hand: (1) Jupiter; (2) Saturn; (3) Sun; (4) Mercury; (5) Mars; (6) Moon; (7) Venus.

Fig. 163. Indian and Greek.

strange theory, the music at p. 232 of our book is taken as the expression of the geometrical fronts of the two great

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Fig. 164. Isis, "Dragon's Head." Fig. 165. Hand in Benediction. temples, the Parthenon at Athens and the Pantheon at Rome, which are supposed to have been built with perfect

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art. We have "translated " these phantom Æolian melodies played in the winds (so to express it), and fixed them in modern musical notation.

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CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH.

THE ROSICRUCIANS AMIDST ANCIENT MYSTERIES. THEIR TRACES DISCOVERABLE IN THE

ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD.

HE "Collar of Esses" is supposed always to be a part of the Order of the Garter. The coupled "S.S." mean the "Sanctus Spiritus," or "Holy Spirit," or the "Third Person." The "Fleurs-deLis," or "Lisses," or the "Lilies of the Field," invariably appear in close connection with St. John, or the "Sanctus

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Spiritus," and also with the Blessed Virgin Mary, in all Christian symbola or insignia. The Prince of Wales's triple plume appears to have the same mythic Egyptian and Babylonian origin, and to be substantially the same symbol as the "Fleur-de-Lis." When arranged in threes, the "Fleurs-deLis" represent the triple powers of nature,-the "producer," the "means of production," and "that produced." The "Fleur-de-Lis" is presented in a deep disguise in the

"Three Feathers," which is the crest of the Prince of Wales; in this form the Fleur-de-Lis is intended to elude ordinary recognition. The reader will observe the hint of these significant "Lisses" in the triple scrolls or "Esses" coiled around the bar in the reverse of the Gnostic gem, the "Chnuphis Serpent," elsewhere given. This amulet is a fine opalescent chalcedony, very convex on both sides. It is the figure of the "Chnuphis Serpent" rearing himself aloft in act to dart, crowned with the seven vowels, the cabalistic gift to Man in his Fall, signifying "speech." The reverse presents the triple "S.S.S." coiled around the "Phallus."

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In fig. 170 we have the Prince of Wales's Feathers, from the Tomb of Edward the Black Prince, in Canterbury Cathedral. This badge presents the idea of the "Fleur-deLis," "Ich Dien!"-" I serve!"

Fig. 171 represents the Egyptian Triple Plumes, which are the same badge as the " Fleur-de-Lis " and the Prince of Wales's Feathers, meaning the "Trinity."

Fig. 172—also (ante) referred to as fig. 191—is a Gnostic Gem. It represents the "Chnuphis Serpent," spoken of at page 220.

A famous inscription (Delphic E) was placed above the portal of the Temple at Delphi. This inscription was a

THE TEMPLE AT DELPHI.

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single letter, namely, the letter E, the name of which in Greek was E, which is the second person of the present of the indicative of the verb , and signifies "Thou art;" being, as Plutarch has interpreted it, the salutation of the god by those who entered the Temple. See Plutarch de E apud Delph. Lord Monboddo's Origin and Progress of Language (1774), vol. ii. p. 85, refers to this letter E.

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The Delphic "E" means the number "Five," or the half of the Cabalistic Zodiac, or the Five Ascending Signs. This "Delphic E" is also the Seleucidan Anchor. It was adopted by the Gnostics to indicate the "Saviour," and it is frequent in the talismans and amulets of the early Chris

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tians. It is one of the principal gems of the Gnostics, and is a cameo in flat relief.

One of the charges against the Knights Templars was as follows: "That they bound, or touched, the head of an idol with cords, wherewith they bound themselves about their shirts or next their skins" ("Processus contra Templarios," Dugd. Monast. Ang. vol. vi. part ii. pp. 844-846,

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