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The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries (1921)

Jennings, Hargrave, 1817?-1890 · London, G. Routledge & sons, limited: New York, E.P. Dutton & co · leaf 288

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172—also (ante) referred to as fig. 191—is aGnostic Gem. It represents the Chnuphis Serpent \spoken of above. A famous inscription (Delphic E) was placed abovethe portal of the Temple at Delphi. This inscription THE TEMPLE AT DELPHI 265 was a single letter, namely, the letter E, the name ofwhich in… … CHNU PHfS. Fig. 172 the Temple. See Plutarch de E apud Delph. LordMonboddos Origin and Progress of Language (1774),vol. ii. p. 85, refers to this letter E. The Delphic E means the number Five or thehalf of the Cabalistic Zodiac, or the Five Ascending-Signs. This Delphic E is also the Seleucidan…

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