The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... secret doctrine , which contains the signification — the symbol in the external of an embodied enigma , atveypa . Therein especially consists the temple symbolism of Greece and Rome . When the clearness of the scene is wholly ...
... secret doctrine , which contains the signification — the symbol in the external of an embodied enigma , atveypa . Therein especially consists the temple symbolism of Greece and Rome . When the clearness of the scene is wholly ...
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... secret doctrine of natural philosophy and theology , so that by the discovery of the knowledge of one we might come eventually upon that of all , as Schweigger has fully shown . But how comes it , it may be asked , that so little has ...
... secret doctrine of natural philosophy and theology , so that by the discovery of the knowledge of one we might come eventually upon that of all , as Schweigger has fully shown . But how comes it , it may be asked , that so little has ...
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... secrets , books and symbols of the ancient world being held secret in their totality , as well as in their fragments , as is still the case in India with astronomical science , this evil arose , —that not only did there cease to be any ...
... secrets , books and symbols of the ancient world being held secret in their totality , as well as in their fragments , as is still the case in India with astronomical science , this evil arose , —that not only did there cease to be any ...
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... secret operations ; to which , however , we are not conducted by the ordinary aspect of nature , and still less by imagination , which busies itself with all earthly and heavenly things , except with the deeper and silently- working ...
... secret operations ; to which , however , we are not conducted by the ordinary aspect of nature , and still less by imagination , which busies itself with all earthly and heavenly things , except with the deeper and silently- working ...
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... secret of her laws which proclaim their lord ; they only are affected by the joyful astonishment at the order and beauty of all her parts , and at the harmony of her momentary and successive operations : so that in time devotion sinks ...
... secret of her laws which proclaim their lord ; they only are affected by the joyful astonishment at the order and beauty of all her parts , and at the harmony of her momentary and successive operations : so that in time devotion sinks ...
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