The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Ancient Use of of the Magnet Wonderful Clairvoyant Vision of Mysteries Symbolic Meaning of Mythologic Fable The Great Significance of Hermes Symbolic Mythological Characters The Significance of the Mythic Bacchus The Wonder - working ...
... Ancient Use of of the Magnet Wonderful Clairvoyant Vision of Mysteries Symbolic Meaning of Mythologic Fable The Great Significance of Hermes Symbolic Mythological Characters The Significance of the Mythic Bacchus The Wonder - working ...
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... phenomena , which the most ancient mythology has wrapped in symbols , and which in the present times are corroborated by magnetic experiences . : VOL . II . B In the first place , the question will require answering ON MAGIC IN MYTHOLOGY.
... phenomena , which the most ancient mythology has wrapped in symbols , and which in the present times are corroborated by magnetic experiences . : VOL . II . B In the first place , the question will require answering ON MAGIC IN MYTHOLOGY.
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... ancient mythologies . Theories were the business of reflection , and came afterwards . Schweigger , in the works referred to , has in the amplest manner placed side by side the historical evidences in favour of the philosophical ...
... ancient mythologies . Theories were the business of reflection , and came afterwards . Schweigger , in the works referred to , has in the amplest manner placed side by side the historical evidences in favour of the philosophical ...
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... ancient monuments of the East and of the Greeks point to deeper contemplations of nature . The ima gination of the poets took out of these the material for their serious as well as their sportive images , and therefore the true poet is ...
... ancient monuments of the East and of the Greeks point to deeper contemplations of nature . The ima gination of the poets took out of these the material for their serious as well as their sportive images , and therefore the true poet is ...
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... ancient natural science and the myth are prior to history , and the mysteries belong to a previous world , from ... ancients will avail us , as well as the agreement of modern discoveries of natural -philosophy regarding the fixed laws ...
... ancient natural science and the myth are prior to history , and the mysteries belong to a previous world , from ... ancients will avail us , as well as the agreement of modern discoveries of natural -philosophy regarding the fixed laws ...
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