Greek wave scroll
is used to represent the River of Life. Hence above the waters, representing the unformed ideas, appear conventionalized flower forms and butterflies symbolizing fixed ideas or the ever recurring forms of the natural world. The flower symbols (in the form of arches) suggesting the lily, the rose, and, the vine, are twelve in number signifying the twelve apostles or the twelve powers of man. Above these symbols of the fixed forms of the natural world appear the suggestion of constellations and heavenly bodies symbolizing the higher qualities of the human mind. |