The Oriental figure of the monad given here is called " the pearl," "the most venerable." Its visible simulacra are believed to be pictured in the whorls on the back of the sacred tortoise that bears the Earth. Chinese Sacred Tortoise, bearing the Earth. Symbol of: 1st, Power; 2d, Law. Continuing with Ezekiel's picture of the cosmos, we find the "four living creatures," or "cherubims" standing for the potentialities of the four quarters of the ecliptic. These are described as the face of a Bull (East), a Lion (North), an Eagle (West), and a Man (South), evidently the vital forms of the numeral symbol of the great name (), reading from left to right, Yod-He-Vau-HeYahveh, Jehovah. In the fifteenth and sixteentin verses are these words: "Behold one wheel," and following, "As it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel." The symbolism so graphically portrayed by the "Man of God" among the Hebrews, in the sixth century before the Christian era, migrated eastward during this first great period of commercial and intellectual interchange of the Mediterranean races and assimilated peculiar variants. In Chinese symbolism, for instance, one easily identifies the sacred denary of numerals still reflecting the "magic square," and the divine 66 Sephiroth" of Judaism, but arranged on a wheel of nine compartments with the central one often occupied by the "Yang and Yir," the figure given at the beginning of this article. Eight Trigrams (Pa-Kwa). Early Chinese Magic Square, or Unit Figure. This wheel contains the mystic eight trigrams, called the "PaKwa," representing by entire and broken lines the relation of the masculine and feminine elements in nature, beginning at the point Aries of the Spring equinox. The sum of the lines in each transverse direction is nine, and by adding unity, the Infinite, we shall again realize the divine numeral symbol, ten, four times repeated. The The Mythical Emperor, Fuh-Hi (2750 B.C.?), discoverer of the Mystic Figures. "Pa-Kwa" is said to have been revealed to the fabulous "Fuh-hi" more than five thousand years ago. Fable places its first appearance on the back of the sacred Tortoise, which has a peculiar nume conformation of the carapace, consisting of a circle of ten whor closing three whorls on the dome of the shell, prefiguring the m division of the creative energy. The revelation associated with material symbol of the second law, Omnipotence (Summer), to light through the intervention of the Dragon Horse, the " Ki-I representing the third law, or mind, aptitude (Autumn). A tabulation here will best present the cyclic modifying influ symbolized on the wonderful wheel with its Oriental investiture, indicate the relativity of the fourfold principles in connection the seasons of the year. The Tetrad, 4, from which forms origin is called the governor of all things. It is the sign of the pl Jupiter (2). The Ogdoad (8) is the "Mother" number, the tainer of all things, as shown by the mystic Wheel. Existence was first negative; the first law (Spring-motion) became positive, with capacity of actuality, the second law (Sumi substance), and the unique positive equivalent, the creative " him" of the Bible, through which alone can the first law be kno "One is She, the Spirit of the Elohim of Life." The "monad the glyph of the dual Infinite, macroprosopus, which is allotted three first numbers (1-2-3 unity) on the magic square of 10 € = e nating attributes (nine chambers), but corresponds to Spring and Summer in the zodiacal modifying power of the ecliptic. The " Yang and Yin" is a glyph of manifestation, called microprosopus, man, having six symbolical numbers of the 10 emanations (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), and the two influences of Autumn (Form) and Winter (Purpose), as shown in the tabulation above; and ten (1-0) becomes One (1), but in a different manner, evolving a new Infinite, the "Christos." Tortoise of the Mystic Elements. The fourfold principles of ancient cosmologies have been admirably paraphrased by the " Mystic," Swedenborg: "Man Wills (1st) and Asks (2d); God Answers (3d) and Gives (4th)." In the beginning symbolism had a metaphysical origin, the key to which was man himself, in just proceeding, as an epitome of the universe. "And the just man is the foundation of the world." "Nature reveals Man, Man reveals God." These theories were a natural revelation to all alike in all countries at the distant period of the first blossoming of the human mind into conscious perception that spiritual principles manifested are powers over which man alone has control by intelligent correlation, but the selection of the signs to suggest the garnered truths fell to the |