cumbent weight of masonry. The same arrangement sometimes
occurs in classic architecture also, as when an opening spanned by a
single arch is subdivided by means of an order (Illustration 22).

Three is pre-eminently the number of architecture, because it is the
number of space, which for us is three-dimensional, and of all the
arts architecture is most concerned with the expression of spatial
relations. The division of a composition into three related parts is
so universal that it would seem to be the result of an instinctive
action of the human mind. The twin pylons of an Egyptian temple with
its entrance between, for a third division, has its correspondence in
the two towers of a Gothic cathedral and the intervening screen
wall of the nave. In the palaces of the Renaissance a threefold
division--vertically by means of quoins or pilasters, and horizontally
by means of cornices or string courses--was common, as was also the
division into a principal and two subordinate masses (Illustration
23).

[Illustration 22: THE LAW OF TRINITY. THE TRINITY OF HORIZONTAL VERTICAL
AND CURVED LINES.]

The architectural "orders" are divided threefold into pedestal or
stylobate, column and entablature; and each of these is again divided
threefold: the first into plinth, die and cornice; the second into
base, shaft and capital; the third into architrave, frieze and
cornice. In many cases these again lend themselves to a threefold
subdivision. A more detailed analysis of the capitals already shown to
be twofold reveals a third member: in the Greek Doric this consists
of the annulets immediately below the abacus; in the other orders, the
necking which divides the shaft from the cap.

CONSONANCE

"As is the small, so is the great" is a perpetually recurring phrase
in the literature of theosophy, and naturally so, for it is a succinct
statement of a fundamental and far-reaching truth. The scientist
recognizes it now and then and here and there, but the occultist
trusts it always and utterly. To him the microcosm and the macrocosm
are one and the same in essence, and the forth-going impulse
which calls a universe into being and the indrawing impulse which
extinguishes it again, each lasting millions of years, are echoed and
repeated in the inflow and outflow of the breath through the nostrils,
in nutrition and excretion, in daily activity and nightly rest, in
that longer day which we name a lifetime, and that longer rest in
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