denoting the transformer.
The divinities were placed in the following order: S’iva first, then Vishnu, and Brahmā last, to whom no temples were built. This was the case with nearly all the races of the Aryan group; there are scarcely any temples to Amn, Brahmă, Zeruane-Akerene, Uranos, Wodan, &c.
The order of the symbols, as given below, with their five significations—
| S’iva. | Vishnu. | Brahmā. |
| 1. Transformer, | Preserver, | Creator, |
| 2. Fire, | Water, | Sun, |
| 3. Justice, | Wisdom, | Power, |
| 4. Future, | Present, | Past, |
| 5. Time, | Space, | Matter, |
produced the most sacred word—
expressed by this triangular combination—
This was the mysterious Trimurty of the Indians, from which in time, according to the influences of nature, the degree of intellectual development, and the social and political condition of the different groups of the Aryan races, grew the different mystic conceptions of the triune power in one, working in nature.