The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... True Knowledge the Opponent of Witchcraft Witch Trials 173 177 The Cooking - witches 193 Witch Mountains of Europe 195 Magic Herbs , Trees , & c . Superstitions The Healing Art . Sympathetic Superstitions 201 202 205 207 Sympathetic ...
... True Knowledge the Opponent of Witchcraft Witch Trials 173 177 The Cooking - witches 193 Witch Mountains of Europe 195 Magic Herbs , Trees , & c . Superstitions The Healing Art . Sympathetic Superstitions 201 202 205 207 Sympathetic ...
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... imagination draws her images and pictures of the physical and spiritual world . For re- ligion mythology is a chaos , through which still the dimmed . rays of the sun of the true knowledge of God 2 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
... imagination draws her images and pictures of the physical and spiritual world . For re- ligion mythology is a chaos , through which still the dimmed . rays of the sun of the true knowledge of God 2 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
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... true god - man raises himself , and comes forth as in sublimation . If , now , we do not look upon mythology as that so easily assigned fact , but seck to penetrate behind that fact itself , and to fathom the origin of things there , we ...
... true god - man raises himself , and comes forth as in sublimation . If , now , we do not look upon mythology as that so easily assigned fact , but seck to penetrate behind that fact itself , and to fathom the origin of things there , we ...
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... true poet is actually styled by Plato , the teacher of the present and the future ; whence the Pythian madness is of more value than the human rationality which is so highly lauded ; since in these the most eloquent echoes of the past ...
... true poet is actually styled by Plato , the teacher of the present and the future ; whence the Pythian madness is of more value than the human rationality which is so highly lauded ; since in these the most eloquent echoes of the past ...
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... true feeling of nature , and the true meaning of the symbols , may already have been absent in the later mysteries , since , according to Herodotus , these mysteries united themselves to a more ancient period , at the bottom of which ...
... true feeling of nature , and the true meaning of the symbols , may already have been absent in the later mysteries , since , according to Herodotus , these mysteries united themselves to a more ancient period , at the bottom of which ...
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