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The Rosicrucians : their rites and mysteries (1907)

Jennings, Hargrave, 1817?-1890 · London : George Routledge & Sons ; New York : E.P. Dutton & co · leaf 321

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n of the Logos , or Word , according to the Gnostics. Fig. 252 : The Good Shepherd bearing upon hisshoulders the Lost Lamb, as he seems to the uninit-iated eye : but on close inspection he becomes thedouble-headed Anubis ; having one head human,the other a jackals, whilst his girdle assumes the… … Fig. 252 ing for mutual recognition mentioned by Epiphanius.Neatly engraved in a beautiful red sard, fashionedto an octagon form ; a shape never met in the classof antique gems, though so much affected in Mediaevalart, on account of its supposed mystic virtues (TheGnostics, p. 201). One of the…

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