Image Bembine Table of Isis.png thumb 300px right The Bembine Table of Isis . The Bembine Tablet , the Bembine Table of Isis or the Mensa Isiaca Isiac Tablet is an elaborate tablet of bronze with enamel and silver inlay of probable Ancient Rome Roman origin and mimicking Ancient Egypt Egyptian style. It was used by the 17th century Hermeticism hermeticist Athanasius Kircher as the primary source for developing his translations of Egyptian hieroglyph ics the hieroglyphics on the Tablet are now known to be nonsense, and Kircher s translations spurious. ref name MuseumAntiquities http www.museoegizio.org pages Most important pieces.jsp Museum of Antiquities, Turin . Retrieved 13 December 2006 ref ref name SecretTeachings cite book last Hall first Manly Palmer authorlink Manly Palmer Hall year 1928 title The Secret Teachings of All Ages url http www.sacred texts.com eso sta sta13.htm ref It was also celebrated by later occultists including Eliphas Levi , William Wynn Westcott and Manly P. Hall as a key to interpreting the Book of Thoth or Tarot , and Thomas Taylor neoplatonist Thomas Taylor even claimed that this tablet formed the altar before which Plato stood as he received initiation within a subterranean hall in the Great Pyramid of Giza . The Tablet was named after Cardinal Bembo , a celebrated antiquarian who acquired it after the 1527 Sack of Rome 1527 sack of Rome . ref name SecretTeachings Origins The Tablet has been dated to some time in the first century, probably originating in Rome . ref name MuseumAntiquities Nothing is known of it until after the sack of Rome. Cardinal Bembo acquired it at an exorbitant price from a certain locksmith or ironworker into whose hands it had fallen. After Bembo s death in 1547 the Tablet was acquired by the House of Mantua , remaining in their museum until the capture of Mantua in 1630 by Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II s troops. The Tablet eventually came into the hands of Cardinal Pava , who presented it to th ... more details
toward what was described as oriental cults, and it was in his reign that the Isiac festival ... his villa at Tibur with Isiac scenes. Galerius regarded Isis as his protector. ref R.E Witt, Isis in the Ancient ... more details
Infobox person name Orville Bullington birth date birth date 1882 2 10 birth place Indian Springs br Vernon County, Missouri Vernon County , Missouri , br United States USA death place Wichita Falls, Texas Wichita Falls br Wichita County, Texas Wichita County , Texas death date death date and age 1956 11 24 1882 2 10 residence 1 Poolville, Texas Poolville , Parker County, Texas Parker County , Texas br 2 Munday, Texas Munday , Knox County, Texas Knox County , Texas br 3 Wichita Falls, Texas occupation Attorney at law United States Attorney Educator alma mater Sam Houston State University br University of Texas Law School party United States Republican Party Republican gubernatorial nominee in Texas, 1932 religion spouse Sadie Kell Bullington married 1911 his death children William Orville Bullington parents William I. and Sarah Holmes Bullington footnotes Orville Bullington February 10, 1882&ndash November 24, 1956 was an attorney at law United States attorney and business man in Wichita Falls, Texas Wichita Falls , Texas , who was the unsuccessful Republican Party United States Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1932 against former Governor of Texas Governor Miriam Ferguson Miriam Wallace Ma Ferguson . Early years, education, family, military Bullington was born in Indian Springs, northwest of Schell City, Missouri Schell City in Vernon County, Missouri Vernon County in western Missouri , to William Isiac Bullington and the former Sarah Holmes, both natives of Tennessee . ref name handbook cite web url http www.tshaonline.org handbook online articles BB fbu18.html title The Handbook of Texas on line Orville Bullington publisher tshaonline.org accessdate June 11, 2010 ref He was educated at a private school in Tennessee and at some point during childhood relocated with his family to Poolville, Texas Poolville in Parker County, Texas Parker County west of Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth . ref cite web url http webcache.googleusercontent.com search?q cache iVflrUnVX0J w ... more details
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