[539] “Cyclopædia of Bible Literature,” vol. vii. p. 477.
[540] See Clapton Rolfe, “The Ancient Use of Liturgical Colours.” (Parker, 1879.)
[541] See “Indian Arts,” by Sir G. Birdwood, i. p. 97. He says this
form is the sign of the Buddhist or Jainis, and that the
fire-stick form was that of the Sakti race in India.
[542] See chapter on [patterns], p. [103-4], ante.
[543] Revelations chap. xxii. v. 2.
[544] In mediæval times the cross in a circle was sometimes called the “clavus”