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... soon as underneath it there was placed The magnet - stone : and with wild terror seemed The iron to flee from it in stern hate . " The poet speaks of the Samothracian ring , and of the magnetic experiments in the most ancient mysteries ...
... soon as underneath it there was placed The magnet - stone : and with wild terror seemed The iron to flee from it in stern hate . " The poet speaks of the Samothracian ring , and of the magnetic experiments in the most ancient mysteries ...
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... soon afterwards , that the Egyptians often call Isis by the name of Athene ; and , indeed , with an expression which means , " I came through myself , " - which clearly denotes an original power of acting . Typhon also is called Seth ...
... soon afterwards , that the Egyptians often call Isis by the name of Athene ; and , indeed , with an expression which means , " I came through myself , " - which clearly denotes an original power of acting . Typhon also is called Seth ...
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... Soon in the luscious feast themselves they lost , And drank oblivion to their native coast . Instant her circling wand the goddess waves , To hogs transforms them , and the sty receives . " ODYSSEY , Book x . ; The important magical ...
... Soon in the luscious feast themselves they lost , And drank oblivion to their native coast . Instant her circling wand the goddess waves , To hogs transforms them , and the sty receives . " ODYSSEY , Book x . ; The important magical ...
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... soon be made apparent . In the preceding mythological observations we have arrived at the result , that a natural philosophy excluding all secret practice and teaching was first made possible by the Christian religion with its ...
... soon be made apparent . In the preceding mythological observations we have arrived at the result , that a natural philosophy excluding all secret practice and teaching was first made possible by the Christian religion with its ...
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... soon afterwards regarded as a kind of spirit - women . There are many legends of the fairies of romance which accord wholly with the popular belief of the Germans ; whence the stories of the wise women . 66 The desire to learn the ...
... soon afterwards regarded as a kind of spirit - women . There are many legends of the fairies of romance which accord wholly with the popular belief of the Germans ; whence the stories of the wise women . 66 The desire to learn the ...
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