Margaret and Her Friends

The first day's topic was the genealogy of Heaven and Earth; then the Will or Jupiter; the Understanding, Mercury: the second day's, The celestial inspiration of Genius, perception and transmission of Divine Law; Apollo the terrene inspiration, Bacchus the impassioned abandonment. Of the thun derbolt, the caduceus, the ray and the grape, having disposed as well as might be, we came to the wave and the sea-shell it moulds to beauty.