The lost language of symbolism : an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies (1912)
Bayley, Harold · New York : Barnes & Noble · leaf 306
d these three rays when attached to the HolyOne constitute our letter E. There was a world-famous E inscribed over theOracle at Delphi/ Because this character has five points,the Greeks considered it to be equivalent to the numeral 5,but, says King, others more profoundly interpreted theletter as… … The five points of E caused it to be regarded asequivalent to the five-pointed Solomons Seal. It wasesteemed to be the letter of Light, and its appearance in fig.688 stamps that emblem as another example of the SingleEye of Light. The letter E, which by design or coincidenceis the fifth character…
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