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the heathen world it owed to then- ideas of the great virtues attributable to the angle and all angular forms or combinations . The triquetra , or filphot , was an inferior ; the crux ansata , or Thor ' s hammer , where the angles were returned on themselves , its potence of highest intensity . The Maltese , or equal-sided , cross , is found on the most ancient Egyptian sarcophagi as an hieroglyphic , the prototype of which they found in that remarkable constellation of the southern heavens—the Southern Cross .
In the Key of the Nile its shape takes the Latin form , ancl is an almost invariable attribute of the supreme Isis ; but it must not be concealed , that the round ring by which that potent symbol was surmounted , may easily have been viewed or converted into the rose , when it was necessary to inculcate upon both priests and votaries the impenetrable veil of secrecy ancl silence under
Avhich the Isiac rites were to be shrouded from the profane world . Well might the mobbled statue of Isis at Sais bear the inscription which Plutarch has recorded : " No one of woman born has ever raised my veil , or can do so . " It AVOUICI have been Avell for the purity of the priesthood , and the honesty of their rites , that the exhumation of their temple at Pompeii hacl not revealed the
secret cells in Avhich their juggling celebrations were prepared for the expectant crOAvd . We will pass over , hoAvever , other ancient ancl some modern introductions of the rose and cross , to come to their junction as a Christian emblem . The union Avas easy and beautiful , and its force to Avork upon the multitude Avas early appreciated in the
Roman Catholic liturgy . What Ave call the " rosary , " said to have been personally delivered to St . Dominic by the Virgin Mary , has in German the appellation of Rosencrantz . As the circuit of the beads forms the head , so the dependent cross forms the base ofthe Nile Key of Isis Ave have before alluded to : it is phonically near in pronunciation to Rosencreutz , and though not exactly identical in meaning , might by a metaphor be brought within the pale of the Rosy Cross . I might insist
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the heathen world it owed to then- ideas of the great virtues attributable to the angle and all angular forms or combinations . The triquetra , or filphot , was an inferior ; the crux ansata , or Thor ' s hammer , where the angles were returned on themselves , its potence of highest intensity . The Maltese , or equal-sided , cross , is found on the most ancient Egyptian sarcophagi as an hieroglyphic , the prototype of which they found in that remarkable constellation of the southern heavens—the Southern Cross .
In the Key of the Nile its shape takes the Latin form , ancl is an almost invariable attribute of the supreme Isis ; but it must not be concealed , that the round ring by which that potent symbol was surmounted , may easily have been viewed or converted into the rose , when it was necessary to inculcate upon both priests and votaries the impenetrable veil of secrecy ancl silence under
Avhich the Isiac rites were to be shrouded from the profane world . Well might the mobbled statue of Isis at Sais bear the inscription which Plutarch has recorded : " No one of woman born has ever raised my veil , or can do so . " It AVOUICI have been Avell for the purity of the priesthood , and the honesty of their rites , that the exhumation of their temple at Pompeii hacl not revealed the
secret cells in Avhich their juggling celebrations were prepared for the expectant crOAvd . We will pass over , hoAvever , other ancient ancl some modern introductions of the rose and cross , to come to their junction as a Christian emblem . The union Avas easy and beautiful , and its force to Avork upon the multitude Avas early appreciated in the
Roman Catholic liturgy . What Ave call the " rosary , " said to have been personally delivered to St . Dominic by the Virgin Mary , has in German the appellation of Rosencrantz . As the circuit of the beads forms the head , so the dependent cross forms the base ofthe Nile Key of Isis Ave have before alluded to : it is phonically near in pronunciation to Rosencreutz , and though not exactly identical in meaning , might by a metaphor be brought within the pale of the Rosy Cross . I might insist