Cycle

From the (J reek Iniklos. The ancients divided time into endless cycles, wheels within wheels, all sucii periods being of various durations, and each marking the beginning or the end of some event either cosmic, niuiidanr. pliysii-al or int-taphysical. There were eycU-s of only u few years, and cycles of immense duration, the pn-at Orphic cycle, referring to the ethnological change of races, lasting 120,000 years, and the cycle of Cassandrus of 136,000, which brought about a complete change in planetary inHuenecs and their correlations between men and gods — a fact entirely lost sight of by modern astrologers. Cynocephalus (Gr.).. The Egyptian llopl. There was a notable ditl'erence between the ape-headed gods and tlie "Cynocephalus" {Simi<i hamadryas) , a dog-headed baboon from upper Kgypt. The latter, whos«- sacred city was Hermopolis, was sacred to the lunar deities and ThothIlerraes, hence an emblem of secret wisdom — as was Ilanuman, the monkey-god of India, and later, the elephant-headed Ganesha. The mission of the Cynocephalus was to show the way for the Dead to the Seat of Judgment and Osiris, whereas the ape-gods were all phallic. They are almost invariably found in a crouching posture, holding on one hand the outa (the eye of Horus), and in the other the sexual cro.ss. Isis is seen sometimes riding on an ape, to designate the fall of divine nature into generation. g6 THKOSOPJIICAL D. •L-'* — Both in the Enjjlish and Ilebivw alphabets tlie fourth letter, whose numorioal value is four. The symbolical signification in the Kahhala of the DaUth is "door". It is the Greek A, throufrh which the world (whose symbol is the tetrad or muiiber four,) issued, produeinj: the divine seven. Tlie name of the Tetrad was Harmony with tlie Pythagoreans, "because it is a diatessaron in sesquitertia". With the Kabbalists, the divine name associated with Daleth was Daghuul.