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Symbolization.
into thirty six tablets of hieroglyphics , which , beyond doubt , record some event in the history of the mysterious people who once inhabited the city . " And , again , speaking of a curious pyramidal structure , he says , " it was about fourteen feet high , and three feet on each side , sculptured in very bold relief , on all four of the sides from the base to the top .
The front was the figure of a man curiously and richlydressed , and the face evidently a portrait . The back was of a different design , unlike anything we had ever seen before , and the sides were covered with hieroglyphics . " These symbolical customs are still retained , according to this authority , to a certain extent , by the present inhabitants .
He says that " in their hearts they are full of superstition , and practice , in silence and secresy , the rites received from their fathers . The padre told us that he was compelled to wink at them ; and there was one proof which he saw every day . The church of Quiche stands east and west . On entering it for vespers the Indians always bow to the west
, in reverence to the setting sun . " Symbolical instruction has passed in Europe by a graduation which it is easy to trace , down to our own times . Patriarchal symbolization was adopted by the Hebrews , and
was thence transferred , on the authority of its divine founder , to Christianity and Masonry . Its gradual progress down to our own times , may be distinctly seen in the permanent monuments produced by the Fraternity of Freemasons , — those magnificient ecclesiastical creations of the fine arts which time has failed to destroy , with their costly
decorations of sculpture and painting that dignify and adorn the several nations of Europe ; most of which are replete with symbols of significant meaning . Thus the segment of a circle , sometimes of azure , and sometimes edged with the three colours of the rainbow , was a symbol of heaven ; a globe or sphere , of the boundless universe ; a glory encircling
the body of our Saviour , shaped like a fish , and hence called the vesica piscis , suggested by the word 'I x dvs acrostically formed the initial letters of the titles of our Saviour , ina-ois X / XO-TOS , eeov Yios Sarnp—Jesus Christ the Son of God , the Saviour ; the three coloured rainbow encircling the Redeemerand three beams of liht radiating
, g from the head of Christ , symbolized the Holy Trinity . The sun and moon symbolized the course of human life ; the church militant was represented by an erect female figure with her hands raised as in prayer ; and the church triumphant by the new Jerusalem , the city of the Apoca-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Symbolization.
into thirty six tablets of hieroglyphics , which , beyond doubt , record some event in the history of the mysterious people who once inhabited the city . " And , again , speaking of a curious pyramidal structure , he says , " it was about fourteen feet high , and three feet on each side , sculptured in very bold relief , on all four of the sides from the base to the top .
The front was the figure of a man curiously and richlydressed , and the face evidently a portrait . The back was of a different design , unlike anything we had ever seen before , and the sides were covered with hieroglyphics . " These symbolical customs are still retained , according to this authority , to a certain extent , by the present inhabitants .
He says that " in their hearts they are full of superstition , and practice , in silence and secresy , the rites received from their fathers . The padre told us that he was compelled to wink at them ; and there was one proof which he saw every day . The church of Quiche stands east and west . On entering it for vespers the Indians always bow to the west
, in reverence to the setting sun . " Symbolical instruction has passed in Europe by a graduation which it is easy to trace , down to our own times . Patriarchal symbolization was adopted by the Hebrews , and
was thence transferred , on the authority of its divine founder , to Christianity and Masonry . Its gradual progress down to our own times , may be distinctly seen in the permanent monuments produced by the Fraternity of Freemasons , — those magnificient ecclesiastical creations of the fine arts which time has failed to destroy , with their costly
decorations of sculpture and painting that dignify and adorn the several nations of Europe ; most of which are replete with symbols of significant meaning . Thus the segment of a circle , sometimes of azure , and sometimes edged with the three colours of the rainbow , was a symbol of heaven ; a globe or sphere , of the boundless universe ; a glory encircling
the body of our Saviour , shaped like a fish , and hence called the vesica piscis , suggested by the word 'I x dvs acrostically formed the initial letters of the titles of our Saviour , ina-ois X / XO-TOS , eeov Yios Sarnp—Jesus Christ the Son of God , the Saviour ; the three coloured rainbow encircling the Redeemerand three beams of liht radiating
, g from the head of Christ , symbolized the Holy Trinity . The sun and moon symbolized the course of human life ; the church militant was represented by an erect female figure with her hands raised as in prayer ; and the church triumphant by the new Jerusalem , the city of the Apoca-