The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... already in our introduction , there can be no existing revelations for one special language , for poetry and religion , as isolated . The human soul is an indivisible unity of spiritual powers . The sense , which in subjective feeling ...
... already in our introduction , there can be no existing revelations for one special language , for poetry and religion , as isolated . The human soul is an indivisible unity of spiritual powers . The sense , which in subjective feeling ...
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... already said that the origin of the significant myth of Hercules seemed to him to lie as remote from his times as it appears to do from our own - that is , in the night of long past ages . Now we know the world in greater circles , and ...
... already said that the origin of the significant myth of Hercules seemed to him to lie as remote from his times as it appears to do from our own - that is , in the night of long past ages . Now we know the world in greater circles , and ...
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... already have been absent in the later mysteries , since , according to Herodotus , these mysteries united themselves to a more ancient period , at the bottom of which lay those principles of natural inquiry , —namely , the Samothracian ...
... already have been absent in the later mysteries , since , according to Herodotus , these mysteries united themselves to a more ancient period , at the bottom of which lay those principles of natural inquiry , —namely , the Samothracian ...
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... already spoken . Let us first , however , look round us at the symbols which have in general a physical signification , and then at those in particular which denote a purely magical relation . We have already seen that the ancient ...
... already spoken . Let us first , however , look round us at the symbols which have in general a physical signification , and then at those in particular which denote a purely magical relation . We have already seen that the ancient ...
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... already had been thrust down by Uranus into Tartarus , and there , by the continually - clearing upper air of heaven by Jupiter , and by the increasing thickness of the crust of the earth , were for ever shut down into the under - world ...
... already had been thrust down by Uranus into Tartarus , and there , by the continually - clearing upper air of heaven by Jupiter , and by the increasing thickness of the crust of the earth , were for ever shut down into the under - world ...
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