. Iconologia, or, Moral emblems . the other. The Starry Sky fignifies the Grace o{God infpiring the Mind. The Hair,^c. that a Sinner can have only Irutifh and horrid Thoughts, Lookingupward denotes, that without Grace and Infpiration, the Mind cannotbe above Earthly Things. The HeHotroj)c, that as it alwaysturns toward the Sun, fo a Sinner once infpird, turns, with all Affedion,towards God. Fig. 192, Idea: IDEA A beautiful Lady, rapt into the Air ; covering her Nakednefs onlywith a fine white Veil; a Flame on her Head ; her Forehead furroundedwith a Circle of Gold fet with jewels; flic
. Iconologia, or, Moral emblems . the other. The Starry Sky fignifies the Grace o{God infpiring the Mind. The Hair,^c. that a Sinner can have only Irutifh and horrid Thoughts, Lookingupward denotes, that without Grace and Infpiration, the Mind cannotbe above Earthly Things. The HeHotroj)c, that as it alwaysturns toward the Sun, fo a Sinner once infpird, turns, with all Affedion,towards God. Fig. 192, Idea: IDEA A beautiful Lady, rapt into the Air ; covering her Nakednefs onlywith a fine white Veil; a Flame on her Head ; her Forehead furroundedwith a Circle of Gold fet with jewels; flic has the Image of Nature inher Arms, to which {he gives fuck; and points at a very fine Country,lying undernearh. In the Air, hecau^c immaterial, and confequently inm;utalle; naked,exempt from ccrpcreal l^2{\]cn : the white Veil, the Purity of Ideas,diflcring from corporeal Things : The Golden Circle denotes thePerfcffion of Ideas, being the Model of all i hings. The Countrypointed at, the inferiour, World, ^39->i£^.. ^^pjcirdin^-
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