The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Mysteries Symbolic Meaning of Mythologic Fable The Great Significance of Hermes Symbolic Mythological Characters The Significance of the Mythic Bacchus The Wonder - working Dactyls The Myth of Hercules Explained Magical Effects of ...
... Mysteries Symbolic Meaning of Mythologic Fable The Great Significance of Hermes Symbolic Mythological Characters The Significance of the Mythic Bacchus The Wonder - working Dactyls The Myth of Hercules Explained Magical Effects of ...
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... mysteries themselves have remained unsolved riddles , so that we only in a fragmentary and indirect manner can determine the inner proceedings and real nature of them from facts , indications , and signs that have become known , it is ...
... mysteries themselves have remained unsolved riddles , so that we only in a fragmentary and indirect manner can determine the inner proceedings and real nature of them from facts , indications , and signs that have become known , it is ...
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... , supported by these inquiries and other sources , endeavour to show that magic in the primeval ages - that is , before the so - called historical period - was contained in the mysteries , and that the greater portion 4 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
... , supported by these inquiries and other sources , endeavour to show that magic in the primeval ages - that is , before the so - called historical period - was contained in the mysteries , and that the greater portion 4 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
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... mysteries ; so that the mythology is to be regarded as a code of natural philosophy , and of re- ligious and poetical contemplations , in which natural science , or rather the objective and religious relations , furnish the material ...
... mysteries ; so that the mythology is to be regarded as a code of natural philosophy , and of re- ligious and poetical contemplations , in which natural science , or rather the objective and religious relations , furnish the material ...
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... mystery of our being , that which fills and agi- tates our life ; and therefore the ancients were observant of the divine intimations in momentous crises of life ; and the embodiment of these they called symbols . " The strictly ...
... mystery of our being , that which fills and agi- tates our life ; and therefore the ancients were observant of the divine intimations in momentous crises of life ; and the embodiment of these they called symbols . " The strictly ...
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