{The Sea-Eagle}[28th April 1991]

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The order of creatures:

One reason for adopting the Church’s (apparent) convention* arises out of the identification of Aquarius, the Water-Carrier, female or male, with Ganymede, the beautiful boy snatched away to Heaven by an Eagle.** Mind you[,] I had known of this previously, and reconciled it by reference to the Eagle carrying the Man elsewhere; but then again, the Eagle is the symbol of the Spirit. It must be a Fish-Eagle***....

*[As to the placing of the four symbols, eg on the front of, or around, altars, see earlier speculations on this, in earlier Volumes of this Journal []]

**(cf the Persian legend of the boy raised by an Eagle)

[Actually a Phoenix – the Simorgh – who found, and raised as her own, the white-haired infant Zal abandoned by his father King Sam on account of his strange appearance. From the Shahnameh, by Abolqasem Ferdowsi (940-1020CE)]

***See [next ts journal entry but two, [Redbook9:204][19910428:0955v]{The Sea-Eagle [continued (4)]}[28th April 1991],] 204

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