Contains both pagan and Christian emblems.
Fig. 1 is from Pugin, plate xviii., and is a very common finial
representing the trinity. Its shape is too significant to require an
explanation; yet with such emblems our Christian churches abound, that
the Trinity may never be absent from the minds of man or woman!
Fig. 2 is from Pugin, plate xxi. It is a combination of ideas concealing
the union patent in Fig. 4, Plate xi., supra.
Fig. 3 is from Moor's Hindu Pantheon. It is an ornament borne by Devi,
and symbolises the union of the triad with the unit.
Fig. 4 is from Pugin, plate xxxii. It is a double cross made up of the
male and female emblems. It is a conventionalised form of Fig. 4, Plate
xi., supra. Such eight-rayed figures, made like stars, seem to have been
very ancient, and to have been designed to indicate the junction of male
and female.
Fig. 5 is from Pugin, plate xvii., and represents the trinity and the
unity.
Fig. 6 is a Buddhist emblem from Birmah, Journal of Royal Asiatic
Society, vol. xviii., p. 392, plate i., fig. 62. It represents the short
sword, le bracquemard, a male symbol.
Fig. 7. is from Pagin, plate xvii. See Plate xi., Fig. 3, supra.
Figs. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 are Buddhist (see Fig. 6, supra), and symbolise
the triad.
Figs. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 are from Pugin, and simply represent the
trinity.
Figs. 18 and 19 are common Grecian emblems. The first is associated
with Neptune and water, the second with Bacchus. With the one we see
dolphins, emblems of the womb, the name of the two being assonant in
Greek; with the other, the saying, sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus,
must be coupled.