Correspondence.

ANCIENT SYMBOLISM ILLUSTRATED . —II . BY BRO . ROB . MARTIN , M . D ., VAST DEPUTY PROV . G 1 UN 1 ) MASTER OF SUFFOLK ; AXD l' . E . COM . OF KNIUIITS TFMl'I . AU , & 0 . THE MYSTIC T 1 UANGLE . THE beautiful lotus of the Nile is another emblem which equally applied to Noahto the -arkand to the generative

, , power ; for , as at the overflowings of the Nile that lovely plant floats on the surface while all other vegetation is immersed beneath the rivpid waters , it reminds the Egyptians of the flood , and is adopted by them as the symbol of the ark . The mystic symbol called a modius , or vrokos , from 2 > ohis , mullus , is the bell or seed vessel of the lotus , or watjr

lily ( nymphcea nelumbo of Linnteus ) , which being of a nature reproductive in itself , was also adopted by the ancients as a symbol of the reproductive powers of the waters which spread life and vegetation over the earth , and was ou that account received as an emblem of Noah , from whom sprang all the nations of the world . In this curious and very ancient arkite hieroglyphic , copied from tlie rare work of Kircher , it will he seen that

KOAH ON THE LOTUS T . P . AT . the god representing Noah , and rising from the lotus or ark , forms one triangle with his ri ght arm , a second with his left , and suspends a third from his shoulder , emblematical of Iris three sons . _ For ten generations from Noah we read of no manifestations of the Deity to his rebellious subjects , till the time of

Abraham who was the tenth from Noah , and who , about one thousand nine hundred and twenty years before Christ , was directed oi' the Lord to go into Egypt , where it would appear he attempted to draw back the Egyptians from idolatry , and in some degree for a time succeeded ; yet three centuries and a half after that period , Egypt was found b y

Moses in the depths of idolatrous delusion . Erom the date , however , of his inspired teaching , we trace in all the subsequent triads indicative of the Deity a close resemblance to our accepted doctrine of the Trinity , symbolized by our triangle—a first great cause , at whose fiat the world ' and all that therein iswas created—a generative attributeby whom

, , all things were made , and without whom was not anything made that was made—and the emanating spirit . Orpheus , whose principles the Pythagoreans adopted , and Avho lived before Hesiocl or Homer , went for instruction , about twelve hundred years before Christ , into Egypt , and thence brought the following definition of a Deity : — " There

exists an unknown being who is the highest and most ancient of all beings , and author of all things ; this sublime being is life , light , and knowledge . " The . celebrated prayer of Agamemnon to the gods when he called upon them to attest and confirm his treaty with Priam , about eleven hundred and

thirty years before Christ , will probably suggest itself to the remembrance of some of my readers . He gave a complete abstract of the elementary system on wliich the mystic triangle was founded , naming first the awful and venerable Father of all ; then tlie sun , who , by his li ght and heat , superintends and regulates the universe ; and lastly , the diffusion ofthe great active spirit which pervades the watersthe earthand

, , the regions under the earth . Again , tho supreme triad at Hicropolis appears in tho temple of Samothrace , in three celebrated statues called Venus , Pothos , and Phaethon , or Nature , Attraction , and Light . According to Kircher , the globe , tho wing , and the serpent formed the trinity of Egypt . In O'Brien ' s history of tho round towers of Ireland will be

found several instances of triads iu the original Iran or Persian and Irish religions . The tetragranuuafcou of the Essenes had a strong affinity to our equilateral trian gle , and was clearly expressive of a trinity in unity ; it was communicated in a whisper , according to Tarphon , and under a disguised formso that while its

, component parts were universally known , the connected Avhole was tin incommunicable mystery . The symbol by . which the mime ivas designated consisted of three Jods , with the point Kanulz placed under them to express the equality of the three persons of which they believe the godhead to be

THE TETHAGKAMMATO' or THE ESSENES . composed . Another celebrated symbol of this august name was , the disposal of three points in a radiated form , so as to represent an imperial diadem , Visible traces of this triune