Correspondence.

doctrine are discovered not only in the three principles of the Chaldaic theology , in the triplasios mithra of Persia , in the

THE IMPERIAL DIADEM . triad of India ( where it was promulgated in the Geeta fifteen hundred years before the birth of Plato ) , but also in the tanga-tanga or three in one of the South Americans . Abundant evidence can be adduced of the doctrine of the Trinity being well Imown to the ancient Jeivs . The letter Schin of the Hebrews , was adopted as a mysterious emblem to designate the tetragrammaton , and hence it was highly esteemed and worn on tlie head phylactery of the

HEAD PHYLACTERY OF THE ASCIEST JEAVS . Jews . The effects of inability to pronounce this letter are well known , or should be , to every ECIIOAV Craft . In the phylactery or mezurolh , which the ancient JCAVS fastened round the left arm , the word Shaddai was inscribed at length ; this word contains both the Schin , the acknowledged symbol of the three hypostases , and the Joel , the

initial letter of the word Jehovah . A p late showing these letters so applied , is a curious remnant of Jewish antiquity to be seen in the Pantheon Eebraicum , and shows how early the Jews entertained the notion of a heavenly Triad , and yet how anxious they were at the same time to express the unity . The Hebrew Joel , in their mystical al p habet , is .

TUIAESC . T . E , EXPRESSIVE OP TRINITY . designated \> y an equilateral triangle , to denote the Trinity , aud a single Jod to express unity . The ark and two

son , EXPRESSIVE op I . MTV . cherubiins are considered by some Hebrew writers as symbols of a trinity . In the system of Pythagoras , tho equilateral triangle represents tho Deity . Pythagoras taught that whatever had a

TK 1 AXGI . E ASP JOD , EXPIIESSIVF . 01 ' TH 1 ESITY iYSD P ^ ITY . middle was IA triform , and the triform figure constitutes perfection . It was esteemed tlie mosb sacred of emblems ; and when an obligation of more than usual importance was administered , it was given in a triangleand when so takennone were

, , ever known to violate it . " So highly , " says Bro . Oliver , "did the ancients esteem this figure , that ifc became among them an object of worship—they gave it the name of God . " * Erom * The word miV Y , H , Y , Ii , or , as pronounced and written by us , Yekoiak or Jehovah ( the VOAA-CIS iu the Hebrew language not being written but punctuated ) was held by the ancient Hebrews in extreme