The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Vision of Mysteries Symbolic Meaning of Mythologic Fable The Great Significance of Hermes Symbolic Mythological Characters The Significance of the Mythic Bacchus The Wonder - working Dactyls The Myth of Hercules Explained Magical ...
... Vision of Mysteries Symbolic Meaning of Mythologic Fable The Great Significance of Hermes Symbolic Mythological Characters The Significance of the Mythic Bacchus The Wonder - working Dactyls The Myth of Hercules Explained Magical ...
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... vision as we can expect to behold an idea . A physical view of a thing is not to be confounded with a logical one ; and thus is indicated the polarity of electricity and magnetism in the most striking manner . We may comprehend elec ...
... vision as we can expect to behold an idea . A physical view of a thing is not to be confounded with a logical one ; and thus is indicated the polarity of electricity and magnetism in the most striking manner . We may comprehend elec ...
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... vision ( p . 121 ) . Antiquity speaks also clearly of magnetic attraction and repulsion . In the sixth book of Lucretius on the nature of things , the marvellous phenomena of the loadstone are thus described : - " Men see the stone with ...
... vision ( p . 121 ) . Antiquity speaks also clearly of magnetic attraction and repulsion . In the sixth book of Lucretius on the nature of things , the marvellous phenomena of the loadstone are thus described : - " Men see the stone with ...
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... vision of a clairvoyant , in which those iron Samothracian rings were described by an indi- vidual who certainly had before known nothing of them . " In respect to the seeress , says the relater , I observe , that this vision has by no ...
... vision of a clairvoyant , in which those iron Samothracian rings were described by an indi- vidual who certainly had before known nothing of them . " In respect to the seeress , says the relater , I observe , that this vision has by no ...
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... touching and rubbing ; as we find , by our own experience , is most effectual . The invalids thus sitting along the chain , the priests WONDERFUL CLAIRVOYANT VISION OF MYSTERIES . 37 Wonderful Clairvoyant Vision of Mysteries.
... touching and rubbing ; as we find , by our own experience , is most effectual . The invalids thus sitting along the chain , the priests WONDERFUL CLAIRVOYANT VISION OF MYSTERIES . 37 Wonderful Clairvoyant Vision of Mysteries.
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