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in the recess of it, behind the altar, has written on the circle on its breast, “Fulness of Wisdom.” It is the type

of the Breath of the Spirit. But it was once a Greek Harpy, and its wasted limbs remain, scarcely yet clothed with flesh from the claws of birds that they were.

At the sides of it are the two powers of the Seraphim and Thrones: the Seraphim with sword; the Thrones (TRONIS), with Fleur-de-lys sceptre,-lovely.

Opposite, on the arch by which you entered are The Virtues (VIRTUTES).

A dead body lies under a rock, out of which spring two torrents-one of water, one of fire. The Angel of the Virtues calls on the dead to rise.¹

Then the circle is thus completed:

1, being the Wisdom angel; 8, the Seraphim; 2, the Thrones; and 5, the Virtues. 3. Dominations. 4. Angels. 6. Potentates. 7. Princes: the last with helm and sword.

¹ [Compare Bible of Amiens, ch. iv. § 36 n.]

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