The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... whole visible world is only an image of a spiritual one ; an idea which was expressed by the remotest antiquity , though it was poetically , and which the newest philosophy confirms as founded in the double nature of man . The magnetic ...
... whole visible world is only an image of a spiritual one ; an idea which was expressed by the remotest antiquity , though it was poetically , and which the newest philosophy confirms as founded in the double nature of man . The magnetic ...
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... whole circle of heaven . " That the Sons of Heaven , or the Dioscuri , constantly die and return to life together , while yet it is as imperatively necessary that one should die that the other may live , appears an impossi- bility . But ...
... whole circle of heaven . " That the Sons of Heaven , or the Dioscuri , constantly die and return to life together , while yet it is as imperatively necessary that one should die that the other may live , appears an impossi- bility . But ...
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... whole space formed by the pillars . At this chain now sate the sick on each side , with the pillars at their backs , holding the chain with one hand , and in the other , by a short handle , a ball , on the top of which was a cross ...
... whole space formed by the pillars . At this chain now sate the sick on each side , with the pillars at their backs , holding the chain with one hand , and in the other , by a short handle , a ball , on the top of which was a cross ...
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... whole of the peculiar phenomena of magnetic somnambulism are personified , which will become more striking in what follows . As herald of the gods , and especially of Zeus , Hermes is sent out , in order to arrange all sorts of ...
... whole of the peculiar phenomena of magnetic somnambulism are personified , which will become more striking in what follows . As herald of the gods , and especially of Zeus , Hermes is sent out , in order to arrange all sorts of ...
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... whole series of images there was a leading type , which artistic imagination adorned with new com- binations , or gave prominence to individual characteristics , or added historical events to them . I will here only refer to such of ...
... whole series of images there was a leading type , which artistic imagination adorned with new com- binations , or gave prominence to individual characteristics , or added historical events to them . I will here only refer to such of ...
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