The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... ideas ? Are the symbols and signs something springing up accidentally , or an arbitrary work of man ; or are they the orginal bearers and interpreters of necessary powers , which are only so far mysterious as we have lost the key to the ...
... ideas ? Are the symbols and signs something springing up accidentally , or an arbitrary work of man ; or are they the orginal bearers and interpreters of necessary powers , which are only so far mysterious as we have lost the key to the ...
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Joseph Ennemoser Mary Botham Howitt. ideas on the essential characteristics , on the natural laws and development of spiritual strength , given already in our introduction , there can be no existing revelations for one special language ...
Joseph Ennemoser Mary Botham Howitt. ideas on the essential characteristics , on the natural laws and development of spiritual strength , given already in our introduction , there can be no existing revelations for one special language ...
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... ideas which nations enter- tained of the world , and with the spirit of their language . Very beautifully and instructively does Creuzer describe symbolic poetry : although it was by no means his object to represent natural philosophy ...
... ideas which nations enter- tained of the world , and with the spirit of their language . Very beautifully and instructively does Creuzer describe symbolic poetry : although it was by no means his object to represent natural philosophy ...
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... idea is in a symbol laid in a coloured ray of signification . This signification , however , arises from the exuberance of the meaning in com- parison with the expression . The meaning must be clear ; that which is to be expressed must ...
... idea is in a symbol laid in a coloured ray of signification . This signification , however , arises from the exuberance of the meaning in com- parison with the expression . The meaning must be clear ; that which is to be expressed must ...
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... idea , -allegory only a general conception ; whence the mythos comprehends this , but not the symbol , since in it is a momentary totality , in the allegory an advance through a series of moments . The myth unfolds itself best in an ...
... idea , -allegory only a general conception ; whence the mythos comprehends this , but not the symbol , since in it is a momentary totality , in the allegory an advance through a series of moments . The myth unfolds itself best in an ...
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