nited in one sempeternallie, with great loue communicating their
blessings, as you may see by the coppies at euery corner of the
trygonall stone.

And continuing her delectable speech, shee sayd, vnder the forme of the
Sunne, note this Greeke worde, _Adiegetos_. By the Ower looke vpon this,
_Adiachoristos_. And by the Vessel of fier, was engrauen, _Adiereynes_.

And to this ende are the three Monsters placed vnder the golden
Obelisque, because that there be three great opinions like those
Monsters: & as that with the humane countenaunce is best, so the other
be beastly and monstrous.

In the Spyre there be three plaine sides, lyneated with three circles,
signifying one for euery time. The past, the present, and to come; and
no other figure can holde these three circles, but in that inuariable.
And no mortall man can at one instant perfectlie discerne and see
together two sides of the same figure, sauing one integrally, which is
the Present: and therefore vppon great knowledge were these three
Characters engrauen, +O. O:. N+.

For which cause _Poliphilus_, not that I excuse my selfe for beeing ouer
prolix and tedious, but briefely to teach thee, and sette thee right vp.
In the knowledge heereof, thou shalt vnderstand, that the first basiall
Figure is onely knowne to hymselfe, and to one Sonne of man, which hath
a humane bodie glorifyed and without sinne: and the brightnes thereof
wee see but as in a glasse, and not cleerely as it is, for that it is
incomprehensible for a fynite substance.

But he that is indued with wisedome, let him consider of the glorious
brightnes thereof. But to the thirde Figure, which is of a darke and
blacke collour, wherein be the three golden Images: _The Blacke stone is
the Lawe: the Coppies foode: the three Women the preseruation of
Man-kind._

Nowe they which will looke higher, they see a Figure in a tryne aspect,
and the higher that they goe towardes the toppe, where the vnion of the
three is, be they neuer so wise, their vnderstanding is vnperfect: and
although that they see it, yet they knowe not what they see, but that
there is such a thing, in comparison whereof, they are fooles, theyr
power weake, and themselues nothing.

And there _Logistica_ hauing ended her allowed talke, proceeding from an
absolute knowledge, deepe iudgement, and sharpnesse of wit in Diuine
matters, and vnknowne to weake capacities, I began heereat to take
greater delight, then in any other meruailous worke