Adam is said by the Easterns to have received from Raphael a magic ring, which became his symbol, and which he handed down to his descendants selected to know and read mysteries. This was no other than the ‘crux ansata,’ or handled cross, so common on Egyptian monuments as the hieroglyph of Life out of death. The circle symbolized the apple, and thus the Carthusian emblem, which bears the motto “Stat crux dum volvitur orbis,” is in reality the mystic symbol of Adam. “Which,” says the Arabic philosopher, Ibn-ephi, “Mizraim received from Ham, and Ham from Noah, and Noah from Enoch, and Enoch from Seth, and Seth from Adam, and Adam from the angel Raphael. Ham wrought with it great marvels, and Hermes received it from him and placed it amongst the hieroglyphics. But this character signifies the progress and motion of the Spirit of the world, and it was a magic seal, kept secret among their mysteries, and a ring constraining demons.”[104] Footnote 81: Weil, p. 28. Footnote 82: Basnage, Histoire des Juifs. La Haye, iii. p. 391. Footnote 83: Tract. Avod., f. 1, col. 3; also Tract. Pesachim, f. 118, col. 1. Footnote 84: Eisenmenger, i. pp. 376, 377. Footnote 85: Eisenmenger, i. pp. 377-80. Footnote 86: Talmud, Avoda Sara, fol. 8 a, and in Levy, Parabeln, p. 300. Footnote 87: It is a popular superstition among the lower orders in England that a woman who dies in childbirth, even if she be unmarried, cannot be lost. Footnote 88: Weil, pp. 29-38. Footnote 89: Dillman, Das Adambuch des Morgenlandes; Göttingen, 1853. This book is not to be confounded with the Testament of Adam. Footnote 90: Tabari, i., capp. xxviii. xxix. Footnote 91: In More Nevochim, quoted by Fabricius, i. p. 5. Footnote 92: Gen. v. 1. Footnote 93: Fabricius, i. p. 11. Footnote 94: Adv. Hæresi, c. 5. Footnote 95: Eusebius Nierembergius, De Origine S. Scripturæ. Lugd., 1641, p. 46. Footnote 96: Fabricius, i. p. 33. Footnote 97: Ferdinand de Troilo, Orientale Itinerario. Dresd., 1676, p. 323. Footnote 98: Selden, De Synedriis, ii. p. 452. Footnote 99: Hottinger, Historia Orientalis, lib. i. c. 8. Footnote 100: Jacobus Vitriacus, Hist. Hierosol., c. lxxxv. Footnote 101: As King Charles’s oak may be seen in the fern-root. Footnote 102: Fabricius, i. p. 84. Footnote 103: Neue Ierosolymitanische Pilgerfahrt. Würtzburg, 1667, p. 47. Footnote 104: Stephanus Le Moyne, Notæ ad Varia Sacra, p. 863. VI. CAIN AND ABEL. After that the child given to Satan died, says Tabari, Adam had another son, and he called him Seth, and Seth was prophet in the room of his father, after the death of Adam. Adam had many more children; every time that Eve bore, she bare twins, whereof one was male, the other female, and the twins were given to one another as husband and wife.