them, the genii of the north and of the south-that is, the keepers of the male principle of nature, of the active and fecundating forces—were figured by the same circle with its crossed diameters, to which wings were added. This we learn from the inscriptions that adorn the facade of the sanctuary at Uxmal (Plate LXXI.) and from the Troano and other Maya MSS.

These genii of the cardinal points, these four creators, are known to the Hindoo occultists as the “Four Maharajahs, or “great kings” of the Dhyan Chohans.' In Ocosingo, Guate

WINOED CIRCLE FROM OCOSINGO.

mala, as also in Egypt, we see them portrayed as circles with

wings; in Assyria, as ferouhers. They became the amshaspands of the Mazdeans; the Elohim and the seraphs of the Hebrews; the archangels of the Christians and Mohammedans; the kabiri and Titans of Hesiod's theogony; the four gods whose golden

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statues, Clement of Alexandria tells us,' were carried by the Egyptians at all the festivals of the gods.

These “four powerful ones," these “Canobs," these heavenly architects, emanated from the “ GREAT INFINITE ONE,' evolved the material universe from chaos. The Maya occultists figured this manifested universe by inscribing a square within a circle; that is, by joining the ends of the vertical and horizontal diameters.

The Pythagoreans honored numbers and geometrical designs with the names of the gods. The Egyptians called the monad 66

“ Intellect,” s male and female, “ god,” "chaos," “ darkness.”

· Clement of Alexandria, Stromat, v., p. 242.

Plutarch, De Iside, s. 76.
• Macrobius, Somnium Scipionis, c. 6.

statues, Clement of Alexandria tells us,' were carried by the Egyptians at all the festivals of the gods.

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These “four powerful ones,

, these “Canobs," these heavenly architects, emanated from the “Great INFINITE

GREAT ONE,” evolved the material universe from chaos. The Maya occultists figured this manifested universe by inscribing a square within a circle; that is, by joining the ends of the vertical and horizontal diameters.

The Pythagoreans honored numbers and geometrical designs with the names of the gods.2 The Egyptians called the monad“ Intellect,” s male and female, “ god,”

8 "chaos," “ darkness."

· Clement of Alexandria, Stromat, v., p. 242.
· Plutarch, De Iside, s. 76.
· Macrobius, Somnium Scipionis, c. 6.

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