eel;" the Indian, Egyptian and Grecian philosophical
conceptions of four elements, culminating in Plato's Cosmos and Theos (an
entity, spherical in shape, incorporating four elements) and, for
instance, the quadruplicate symbol carved in the centre of the Mexican
Cosmical Tablet, which exhibits the symbols of the same four elements
embodied in a single symbol, representing the supreme power, who is thus
proven to have been conceived by the Mexicans, as well as by the
Peruvians, as "the Air, Earth, Fire and Water in One," or the source of
the four elements.(150)

When it is likewise considered that the Mexicans employed the divine
title, "four times lord," that the Maya title "Kukulcan," signifies the
"Divine Four," that the ancient map of Mayapan proves that, like the
Kushite confederacy, and the kingdoms of Assyria, Egypt and Peru, it was a
"Four provinces in One" or a "four-fold state," the identity of the
principles underlying the archaic civilizations of the Old and New World
becomes more and more apparent. It likewise becomes evident that in each
of these countries the significance and symbolism of the archaic
cross-symbol and swastika must have been identical, and that, like the
pyramid (the form of which, in the ancient Greek alphabet, is given to the
letter delta which expresses, numerically, four, a quatuor, or 4,000) and
the square stone altar or column, it figured the Four in One, the mystic
Five or the Four and all-embracing One. The following array of facts
demonstrates further the universal association of archaic cross-symbolism
with the conception of an all-embracing, stable, central power.

A striking demonstration of this is furnished by the diagonal cross,
employed as a Chinese character, to express the word wu=five, just as it
is used, in Egyptian hieratic script, to express the syllables uu, un or
ur (see fig. 60). Sometimes, in Chinese, a horizontal line is drawn above
the cross and another beneath it, and John Chalmers informs us that,
according to the Shoh Wan, this "full form means the five elements between
heaven and earth, the upper line being heaven and the lower earth." The
sign thus obviously constituted an image of the Cosmos, the 5+2=heaven and
earth, thus furnishing the familiar seven directions in space, the chief
and synopsis of which is the sacred Centre.

The association, in ancient America, of the cross-shape with central
stable power, has already been discussed in the case of the C