All drawn to double the actual Size.
Title-page.
Serapis, lord of the subterranean world and its treasures. Assuming
here the added characters of Ammon and Phoebus, all three deities being
understood by the later theosophists as mere personifications of the
Solar Genius. Sapphirine Calcedony, the Jaspis aërizusa, chosen
as a material appropriate to the subject. The legend is the
dedicatory inscription upon an altar to the same god in the Villa
Albani.
Page x. Philosopher studying under the inspiration of a terminal bust of Socrates. Sard. Page 38. Democrìtus, the fìrst mineralogist. Sardoine.
Page 118. Parakeet carrying a bunch of nuts. This was the only species
known to the ancients, the "psittacus torquatus " of Central India, and
the " psittacus Alexandri " of Ceylon. It is bright-green, with a red
ring, torques, about the neck, and two long reflexed tail-feathers, exactly as described by Apuleius in his ' Florida.' Sard.
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138. Minerva wearing an Athenian helmet : an imitation of the pure
Greek style by the Neapolitan artist Rega, the greatest of the modern
school. Aqua-marine.
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169. Enormous Corinthian crater, of embossed metal, belonging to the
Phrygian (Bacchic) Mysteries; symbols of which are the shepherd's-crook
and pipes laid at its base. Red Jasper.
Page 224. Rural scene, bull and goats under a tree; a
