The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... 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 , and the poetical the form , -which form ...
... 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 , and the poetical the form , -which form ...
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... regarded by the Cabiri and Dioscuri as a hieroglyphic record of electricity and mag- netism . The next circumstances of symbolical embodiment are the general elements of nature , -chaos and night ; the regular and the suddenly ...
... regarded by the Cabiri and Dioscuri as a hieroglyphic record of electricity and mag- netism . The next circumstances of symbolical embodiment are the general elements of nature , -chaos and night ; the regular and the suddenly ...
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... regarded as having a certain relation to iron , which the Curetes are said first to have discovered . The air has its positive and negative , its male and female states . It takes up into itself all . earthly elements ; developes in ...
... regarded as having a certain relation to iron , which the Curetes are said first to have discovered . The air has its positive and negative , its male and female states . It takes up into itself all . earthly elements ; developes in ...
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... regarded merely as a myth is the simplest , cleverest , and at the same time most profound ex- pression of a strictly scientifically defined truth of nature . Schweigger continues farther the verbal explanation of the electricity by ...
... regarded merely as a myth is the simplest , cleverest , and at the same time most profound ex- pression of a strictly scientifically defined truth of nature . Schweigger continues farther the verbal explanation of the electricity by ...
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... regarded merely as a figurative mode of speaking by the poets ; for this worship was very general , as Claudian the poet of Egyptian origin declares , not only of Egypt , but also says of Eros in his idyls , that he conquered all things ...
... regarded merely as a figurative mode of speaking by the poets ; for this worship was very general , as Claudian the poet of Egyptian origin declares , not only of Egypt , but also says of Eros in his idyls , that he conquered all things ...
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