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or the four corners or angle-points of the “Lesser” or “Manifested World,” or the “Microcosm” of the Cabalists. Fig. 45 represents an Obelisk at Nineveh, now in the British Museum. Jacob’s Pillar, the Sacred Stone in Westminster Abbey, “Bethel,” &c., “Gilgal,” have a mythic alliance with the obelisk.
Fig. 55. Colossal Head, (British Museum.)
Regarding the Pyramids the following may be advanced: Murphy, the delineator of the Alhambra, considered the Pointed Arch to be a system founded on the principle of the Pyramid. The pointed or vertical Saracenic or Gothic
Fig. 56.
arch presents the form of the upper portion of the human fallÒj. The Saracenic arch denotes the union of the Linga and Yoni. In fig. 56 we have the sun rising from between the