The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... universal internal resemblance , although the remaining means of under- standing these mythologies are greater or less in different countries . The German mythology , for instance , is of all others the poorest and most circumscribed in ...
... universal internal resemblance , although the remaining means of under- standing these mythologies are greater or less in different countries . The German mythology , for instance , is of all others the poorest and most circumscribed in ...
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... universal earth - magnetism , are the general powers by which nature performs her secret operations ; to which , however , we are not conducted by the ordinary aspect of nature , and still less by imagination , which busies itself with ...
... universal earth - magnetism , are the general powers by which nature performs her secret operations ; to which , however , we are not conducted by the ordinary aspect of nature , and still less by imagination , which busies itself with ...
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... universal activity of the elements of nature is shown in the opposition , so is it also in the universal amity and sympathy of spiritual upper , and the physical lower world . At the same time , the idea is also given that the whole ...
... universal activity of the elements of nature is shown in the opposition , so is it also in the universal amity and sympathy of spiritual upper , and the physical lower world . At the same time , the idea is also given that the whole ...
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... universal and magnificent activity of magnetism , even in a cosmic aspect . The newer phi- losophy speaks not merely of an earth magnetism ; it has discovered that a universal cosmic magnetism , a force active in the amber , pervades ...
... universal and magnificent activity of magnetism , even in a cosmic aspect . The newer phi- losophy speaks not merely of an earth magnetism ; it has discovered that a universal cosmic magnetism , a force active in the amber , pervades ...
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... universal powers of nature determine all the phe- nomena of life , they therefore determine the health and sick- ness , the life and death of men . The more general natural symbols applied to the greater gods ; and therefore every ...
... universal powers of nature determine all the phe- nomena of life , they therefore determine the health and sick- ness , the life and death of men . The more general natural symbols applied to the greater gods ; and therefore every ...
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