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“Three Feathers” which is the crest of the Prince of Wales; in this form the Fleur-de-Lis is intended to elude ordinary recognition. The reader will observe the hint of these significant “Lisses” in the triple scrolls of “Esses” coiled around the bar in the reverse of the Gnostic gem, the “Chnuphis Serpent,” elsewhere given. This amulet is a fine opalescent chalcedony, very convex on both sides. It is the figure of the “Chnuphis Serpent” rearing himself aloft in act to dart, crowned with the seven vowels, the cabalistic gift to Man in his fall, signifying “speech.” The reverse presents the triple “S.S.S.” coiled around the “Phallus.” 169
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Figs 169, 170, 171. In fig. 170 we have the Prince of Wales’s Feathers, from the Tomb of Edward the Black Prince, in Canterbury Cathedral. This badge presents the idea of the “Fleur-deLis,” “Ich Dien!”—“I serve!” Fig. 171 represents the Egyptian Triple Plumes, which are the same badge as the “Fleur-de-Lis” and the Prince of Wales’s Feathers, meaning the “Trinity.” Fig. 172—also (ante) referred to as fig. 191—is a Gnostic Gem. It represents the “Chnuphis Serpent,” spoken of at page 220. A famous inscription (Delphic E) was placed above the portal of the Temple at Delphi. This inscription was a