{The Living Creatures of the Evangelists}[30th August 1989]

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The emblems associated with the 4 Gospels by (I presume) the later Church do to a considerable extent fit their circle characteristics – in both the original square, and the subsequent diagonal, positions:

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

				→	Eagle
			|		(St John)
(Wisdom of Seventh &c)		Human Face	c		(Theological)
		(St Matthew)
		–	↑	m~	–
	Horned Beast					Lion
	(St Luke)	↓			↓	(St Mark)
	(Artistic)		|			(Straightforward)*
			(Financial)

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*(but cf Complication!)

**[See next entry]

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