Volume 2

The works.

  • Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
Date:
1912
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    CHAP, glyphical, derived from the Egyptians, and of an XI higher signification. By the mystical conjunction of Hawk and Lion, implying either the Genial or the sydereous Sun, the great celerity thereof, and the strength and vigour in its operations. And therefore under such Hieroglyphicks Osyris was described; and in ancient Coins we meet with Gryphins conjointly with Apollo's, Tripodes and Chariot wheels; and the marble Gryphins at Saint Peters in Rome, as learned men conjecture, were first translated from the Temple of Apollo. Whether hereby were not also mystically implied the activity of' the Sun in Leo, the power of God in the Sun, or the influence of the Coelestial Osyris, by Moptha the Genius of Nihis, might also be considered. And then the learned Kircheins, no man were likely to be a better Oedipus. CHAPTER XII Of the Phoenix. THAT there is but one Phoenix in the World, which after many hundred years burneth it self, and from the ashes thereof ariseth up another, is a conceit not new or altogether popular, but of great Antiquity; not only delivered by humane Authors, but frequently expressed also by holy Writers; by Cyril, Epiphanius, and others, by Ambrose in his Hexaineron, and Tertidlian in his Poem De Jiidicio Domini; but more agreeably unto the present sense, in his excellent Tract, De Resurrectione carnis. Ilium dico alitem orieidis pecuUarem, de singularitate famosum.