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On Symbols And Symbolism.
filii autem sunt ecclesiaj septem . Unde Paulus septem ecclesiis scripsit et Apocalypsis ecclesias septem ponit et lucernse septiformes in tabernaculo : "— "A barren ( church of the Jews ) bore sevenfold , and the more sons she had , the more she became Aveak ; but the sons of the church are seven : Avhence Paul Avrote to the seven churchesand the Apocal names seven
, ypse churches ; and seven-armed candlesticks were placed in the tabernacle . " In the Lutheran churches of North Germany , a full-sized representation of this candlestick is frequently found placed facing the altar at the bottom of the choir . We recollect having seen one in the cathedral of St . Blaize , at Brunswick ,
eight or ten feet high , of a white metal resembling peAvter ; and Ave fancy , also , to recollect a similar one in the cathedrals at Hildesheim and Halberstadt .
THE ARK . If Ave take the Indian Bacchus , as many very erudite mythologists are inclined to do , to be derived from Noah , the introduction of the cista mystica , or sacred allegorical chest , is perfectly accounted for ; its introduction into the Eleusinian
processions and the Dionysiacal rites was frequent , and is incontestable . Virgil cannot enumerate the instruments necessary to agriculture without allusion to the mythic character of the chest , or wdcker hamper ( Georg . i . ver . 166 ) : — " Arbutea ? crates et mystica vannus Iacchi . " The subject is so frequent on medals of a serpentthe emblem
, of good fortune and health , creeping into such a wicker basket , that the peculiar name of c ( r ) istoferi has been attributed to them by numismatists , a name which the Latin artists of the Church have appropriated to a saint whom they significantly name Christopherus , from ahvays bearing on his shoulder the most precious portion of the Churchits soul and founderas
, , the infant Jesus . This is best illustrated by the pictorial representations of a Dionysiacal procession , figured in the " Antiquities of Herculaneum , " vol . ii . p . 135 . A woman forms part of the group , carrying on her shoulder a square box Avith a projecting roof ; and Avhat stamps it peculiarly as a type of the Noachic Ark is a door in the front .
Numerous allusions to the Bacchic Ark are scattered through all the classic writers ; and so sacred Avas its name , that , equally with the sacred Tetragrammaton of the JeAvs , it Avas unpronounceable . Oppian ( Cyneg . ii . 258 ) calls the ark of firAvood , that had contained the infant Bacchus , and Avhich Avas carried
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On Symbols And Symbolism.
filii autem sunt ecclesiaj septem . Unde Paulus septem ecclesiis scripsit et Apocalypsis ecclesias septem ponit et lucernse septiformes in tabernaculo : "— "A barren ( church of the Jews ) bore sevenfold , and the more sons she had , the more she became Aveak ; but the sons of the church are seven : Avhence Paul Avrote to the seven churchesand the Apocal names seven
, ypse churches ; and seven-armed candlesticks were placed in the tabernacle . " In the Lutheran churches of North Germany , a full-sized representation of this candlestick is frequently found placed facing the altar at the bottom of the choir . We recollect having seen one in the cathedral of St . Blaize , at Brunswick ,
eight or ten feet high , of a white metal resembling peAvter ; and Ave fancy , also , to recollect a similar one in the cathedrals at Hildesheim and Halberstadt .
THE ARK . If Ave take the Indian Bacchus , as many very erudite mythologists are inclined to do , to be derived from Noah , the introduction of the cista mystica , or sacred allegorical chest , is perfectly accounted for ; its introduction into the Eleusinian
processions and the Dionysiacal rites was frequent , and is incontestable . Virgil cannot enumerate the instruments necessary to agriculture without allusion to the mythic character of the chest , or wdcker hamper ( Georg . i . ver . 166 ) : — " Arbutea ? crates et mystica vannus Iacchi . " The subject is so frequent on medals of a serpentthe emblem
, of good fortune and health , creeping into such a wicker basket , that the peculiar name of c ( r ) istoferi has been attributed to them by numismatists , a name which the Latin artists of the Church have appropriated to a saint whom they significantly name Christopherus , from ahvays bearing on his shoulder the most precious portion of the Churchits soul and founderas
, , the infant Jesus . This is best illustrated by the pictorial representations of a Dionysiacal procession , figured in the " Antiquities of Herculaneum , " vol . ii . p . 135 . A woman forms part of the group , carrying on her shoulder a square box Avith a projecting roof ; and Avhat stamps it peculiarly as a type of the Noachic Ark is a door in the front .
Numerous allusions to the Bacchic Ark are scattered through all the classic writers ; and so sacred Avas its name , that , equally with the sacred Tetragrammaton of the JeAvs , it Avas unpronounceable . Oppian ( Cyneg . ii . 258 ) calls the ark of firAvood , that had contained the infant Bacchus , and Avhich Avas carried