The centre of this circle
is the centre of the Tau of ten squares which
is in
the
midst,
as
shown
in
the
illustration.
The Tau
and the
circle
together
make
one form
of the Rosy Cross,
the uniting of subject
and
object
which
is the Great Work, and which
is symbolized
sometimes
as
this cross and
circle,
sometimes
as
the Lingam-Yoni,
sometimes
as the
Ankh or Crux Ansata,
sometimes
by the Spire and Nave of a church
or
temple,
and sometimes
as
a marriage
feast,
mystic
marriage,
spiritual
marriage, "chymical nuptials,"
and in a hundred
other
ways.
Whatever
the form chosen,
it is the symbol of the Great Work.
This place of his working
therefore declares the nature
and object of the "Work.
Those persons
who
have
supposed
that
the
use of these
symbols
implied
worship
of the
generative
organs,
merely
attributed
to the
sages
of every time
and
country
minds
of a
calibre
equal to their own.
The Tau is composed
often
squares for the ten Sephiroth/
About
this Tau
is
escribed
a triangle,
which
is inscribed
in the great Circle;
but of the triangle
nothing
is actually
marked
but the three corners,
the
areas defined
by the cutting
of the lines bounding this
triangle.
This
triangle
is only visible
in
the
parts
which
are common
to two of the
^The Ten Sephiroth
are the Ten Units.
In one system of classification
(see " 777 ")
these are so arranged, and various ideas are so attributed
to them, that they have been
made to mean anything.
The more you know,
the more these numbers mean to you.