This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... Egyptian antiquities at Boulak in the company of Madame Blavatsky and under the guidance of its learned curator, M. Maspero, and I well remember the interest with which I noticed among the contents of a case of trinkets attributed to one of the very earliest dynasties several beautifully cut cornelian ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... Egyptian antiquities at Boulak in the company of Madame Blavatsky and under the guidance of its learned curator, M. Maspero, and I well remember the interest with which I noticed among the contents of a case of trinkets attributed to one of the very earliest dynasties several beautifully cut cornelian representations of the cross rising out of the heart, exactly similar to the little charms of that shape which may be bought at a Catholic shop in London in the twentieth century. The most widely spread of the derivatives of the simple cross is perhaps the svastika, which is to be found, I believe, in every one of the countries mentioned above. It has been generally supposed to be identical with the hammer of Thor, but there seems some reason to believe that the latter sign was originally made simply in the shape of the letter T. At any rate, it is certain that when, as King Olaf was keeping Christmas at Drontheim, O'er his drinking-horn the sign He made of the cross divine As he drank, and muttered his prayers, But the Berserks evermore Made the sign of the hammer of Thor Over theirs--they were in reality using symbols practically identical. The svastika also appears occasionally in later Christian symbology; for example, it may be seen ornamenting the hem of the chasuble of a mediaeval bishop in a fine fulllength figure sculptured upon one of the tombs in Winchester Cathedral. The theosophical student should take care to avoid the mistake so often made by the more superficial observer, of confusing the meaning of all these various forms of the cross symbol. Each of them--the Greek, the Latin, the Maltese, the Tau, the Svastika--has its own particular signification, and is by no means to be confounded with any other, as will presently be...
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