The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... imagination draws her images and pictures of the physical and spiritual world . For re- ligion mythology is a chaos , through which still the dimmed . rays of the sun of the true knowledge of God 2 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
... imagination draws her images and pictures of the physical and spiritual world . For re- ligion mythology is a chaos , through which still the dimmed . rays of the sun of the true knowledge of God 2 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
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... imagination , or is it the force of the feelings and of the religious mind which therein symbolises poetical or religious ideas ? Are the symbols and signs something springing up accidentally , or an arbitrary work of man ; or are they ...
... imagination , or is it the force of the feelings and of the religious mind which therein symbolises poetical or religious ideas ? Are the symbols and signs something springing up accidentally , or an arbitrary work of man ; or are they ...
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... imagination over the understanding is strikingly obvious in the 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 ...
... imagination over the understanding is strikingly obvious in the 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 ...
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... imaginative compositions and the religions of the nations , " he says ( Moser's Abridgment , 1822 , p . 22 ) , “ lie as a fact at the bottom of the general life of things , without any separation of the spiritual and the bodily . This ...
... imaginative compositions and the religions of the nations , " he says ( Moser's Abridgment , 1822 , p . 22 ) , “ lie as a fact at the bottom of the general life of things , without any separation of the spiritual and the bodily . This ...
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... imagination , which busies itself with all earthly and heavenly things , except with the deeper and silently- working laws of creation . A speculative philosophy will just as little lead us to a right understanding of it ; for con ...
... imagination , which busies itself with all earthly and heavenly things , except with the deeper and silently- working laws of creation . A speculative philosophy will just as little lead us to a right understanding of it ; for con ...
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