The fountain : with jets of new meanings / Illustrated with one hundred and forty-two engravings. By Andrew Jackson Davis.

  • Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910.
Date:
1870
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Credit: The fountain : with jets of new meanings / Illustrated with one hundred and forty-two engravings. By Andrew Jackson Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ophers into the elements of the circle—the ellipse being one of the conic sections—the figure remained without further analysis for over sixteen hundred years. O how long! At length, however, the remarkable properties of our letter were brought to light through minute mathematical investigation. Although this book is not designed to deal in philosophical abstractions, it cannot be deemed in- appropriate to quote a passage from the wise and comprehensive writer, J. W. Jackson, of Glasgow, who, being a faithful spiritual philosopher, perceives and affirms the spiritual origin of forms and figures. In the London magazine entitled Human Nature, for June, 1870, he thus comprehensively describes angles, circles, and the ellipse: The primordial bodies on the cosmic plane—suns, planets, and their satellites—are spherical, because the sphere or uni- versal circle represents the perfection of a unitary totality, whereof they are the primal reflection and reproduction. The circle in process of formation represents creation in evolution. When closed, by the movement of the radius vector over the entire cyclical circuit, it equally represents creation finished, and so ready for reabsorption into the Divine unity. We thus see that the centre symbolizes Deity and the cir- cumference creation, the radius vector being a pro- jection of the Divine, from the eternal sphere of the