Sacrarium

The name of the room in the houses of the ancient Romans, which contained the particular deity worshipped by the family : also the adytum of a temple. Sacred Heart. Jn P^jrypt, of Ilonis; in Babylon, of tlie jirod IM ; and the lacerated lunirt of Bacchu.s in Grcn-ee and clsewlierc. Its symbol was the persra. The pear-like shape of its fruit, and of its kernel especially, resembles the heart in form. It is sometimes seen on the head of Isis, the mother of Ilorus, the fruit being cut open and the heart-like kernel exposed to full view. The Roman Catholics liave since adopted the worship of tlic "sacred heart" of Jesus and of the Virgin Mary. Sacred Science. The name given to the inner esoteric philosophy, the secrets taught in days of old to the initiated candidates, and divulged during tlie last and supreme Initiation by the Hierophants. Sadaikariipa (".S'A.J. The essence of the immutable nature. Sadducees. A sect, the followers of one Zadok. a disciple of Antigoiuis Saccho. They are accused of having denied the immortality of the (personal) soul and that of the resurrection of the (physical and personal) body. Even .so do the Theosophists ; though tln-y deny neither the immortality of the Ego nor the resurrection of all its numerous and successive lives, which survive in the vumori/ of the Ego. But together with the Sadducee.s — a sect of learned philosophers who were to all the other Jews that which the polished and learned Gnostics were to the rest of the Greeks during the early centuries of our era — we certainly deny the immortality of the animal soul and the resurrection of the physical body. The Sadducees Avere the .scientists and the learned men of Jerusalem, and held the liigliest offices, such as of high priests and judges, while the Pharisees were almost from first to last the Pecksniffs of Judfea.