. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Daughter of Pborcus, changd by Circe into a Sea-Monller, and afterwards into a Rock in the Sicilian Sez, oppofite t(xthe Whirlpool Charyhdis i a very narrow Streight lying between(f) Syrens — See before Note (/), Emb. XI.(p) ;7aj —See Note (^) above. (?) Hofiile D^vcion^ — Evil Spirits appearing in frightful Forms tothe Heathen in their Sacrifices ; for appeafingof whom, or rather forpreventing the feeing cm, JEngas is ordetd by Heleaus to facrifice ina Purple Veil i Led, mida the Sacred Fire^Some ho If He Face I
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Daughter of Pborcus, changd by Circe into a Sea-Monller, and afterwards into a Rock in the Sicilian Sez, oppofite t(xthe Whirlpool Charyhdis i a very narrow Streight lying between(f) Syrens — See before Note (/), Emb. XI.(p) ;7aj —See Note (^) above. (?) Hofiile D^vcion^ — Evil Spirits appearing in frightful Forms tothe Heathen in their Sacrifices ; for appeafingof whom, or rather forpreventing the feeing cm, JEngas is ordetd by Heleaus to facrifice ina Purple Veil i Led, mida the Sacred Fire^Some ho If He Face Ihould interrupt tie hence, fays Salmafius, were derivd the Forms or Faces in theZodiacal Signs, calld Decans ; that which is rifing when any Perfonis born, being the Spirit ol his Nativity, founded on the PlatonicNotion of the Planetary Syftem, being animated each with its properSpirit, which, fays Herm. in Afclep. we call down by Incantations intoStatues, Rings, Pi^ures, &c. whence TJifmaus, Oracular Statues,and the Jeiviji Tgrapbim, arofe. Emblem C O. Emblem XXXVILrhe C A L L. AWAKE, deluded Soul! the Morning-StarBefpeaks the Purple Dawn, and IparklingDayShines radiant from the Eaft: Sec, all the Air Glows with new Light from Truths eternal Ray:Nature no longer mourns beneath the Shade Of Errors fatal Gloom; no more the Grove,Sacred to tieroes, and the hallowd Dead,Awes to Devotion, or invites to Love:In vain (a) Sabisa7i Balms, in fpiccy Streams,Flow from crownd Altars: Hecatombs in vain Low ( 113 ) Low with Prophetic Voice liivMiid the Flames, They cannot clcanlb thecoiulious Sinners Stains:Rile! Break thy Golden Dream ! Lift up thy Eyes! And lee Redemption^ Hke the Firll Days Sun, *Beam a rich Flood of Joy from opning Skies, And chear the World with Loves Seraphic Dawn!Behold the Sacred Symhol of thy Joys! Angels around in awful Tranfports the Million which the Fathers Voice Lnmortal Ipoke, and feald the Rolls of Fate,Depths, which from Times
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