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THE SIGN OF FOUR

Five books alone of God's indighting  Moses the surch left us in writing But tis by very few attended To practise what's therein commanded Thre Patriarch's all both deaf & dumb   Comprise it in one onely sum One witness too loudly proclaims  Who's good for nought is voyd of brains Fifty is more then five in tale  And yet they'r onely twice in all Howere the end a thousand close  Hee's mighty wealthy this who knows. Five things in life do this declare  And five in death were also there The sentence is pronounct by four One makes the garland & no more

A CERTAIN HALLOWED SYMBOL

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MICHAEL MAIER'S ATALANTA FUGIENS EMBLEM 21

A CREATION OF RYAN DAVIS

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THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE

AN ÆNIGMA OF BASIL VALENTINE IN THE NOTES OF ISAAC NEWTON

Adam sat in a water-bathWhere Venus her own likeness hath like herself one hath

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The link between Bacon's work and the Rosicrucians' ideals which Yates allegedly found was the conformity of the purposes expressed by the Rosicrucian Manifestos and Bacon's plan of a "Great Instauration", for the two were calling for a reformation of both "divine and human understanding", as well as both had in view the purpose of mankind's return to the "state before the Fall".

JAMES JOYCE

THE INSTAURATION

The "Spring of Sprung Verse," spring and all.

Merchants' marks are as old as the sealings of the third millennium BCE found in Sumer that originated in the Indus Valley. Impressions of cloth, strings and other packing material on the reverse of tags with seal impressions indicate that the Harappan seals were used to control economic administration and trade. Amphorae from the Roman Empire can sometimes be traced to their sources from the inscriptions on their handles. Commercial inscriptions in Latin, known as Tituli picti, appear on Roman containers used for trade. Symbolic merchants' marks continued to be used by artisans and townspeople of the medieval and early modern eras to identify themselves and authenticate their goods. These distinctive and easily recognizable marks often appeared in their seals on documents and on products made for sale. They are often found on headstones and in works of stained glass, brass and stone, serving in place of heraldic imagery, which could not be used by the middle classes. They were the precursors of hallmarks, printer's marks and trademarks. To manage the risks of piracy or shipwreck, merchants often consigned a cargo to several vessels or caravans; a mark on a bale established legal ownership and avoided confusion. Early travellers, voyagers and merchants displayed their merchant's marks as well to ward off evil. Adventurous travellers and sailors ascribed the terrors and perils of their life to the wrath of the Devil. To counter these dangers merchants employed all sorts of religious and magical means to place their caravans, ships and merchandise under the protection of God and His Saints. One such symbol combined the mystical "Sign of Four" with the merchant's name or initials. The "Sign of Four” was an outgrowth of an ancient symbol adopted by the Romans and by Christianity, Chi Rho (XP), standing for the first two letters of Christus in Greek letters; this was simplified to a reversed "4" in Medieval times.  The "Sign of Four" is called the "Staff of Mercury" (Caduceus) in German and Scandinavian literature on house marks.

BASIL VALENTINE MYSTERY OF THE MICROCOSM

"Allow me. And, heaving alljawbreakical expressions out of old Sare Isaac's universal of specious arismystic unsaid": 

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Adam sat in a water-bathWhere Venus her own likeness hath like herself one hath

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