A Glossary of Important Symbols in Their Hebrew, Pagan and Christian Forms

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Bates & Guild Company, 1912 - 103 páginas
 

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Página 69 - white" or "purple" in an ordinary line of poetry, they evoke emotions so exclusively that I cannot say why they move me; but if I bring them into the same sentence with such obvious intellectual symbols as a cross or a crown of thorns, I think of purity and sovereignty. Furthermore, innumerable meanings, which are held to "white...
Página 16 - This, O monks, is the sacred truth of the path which leads to the extinction of suffering. It is this sacred eightfold path, to wit : Right Faith, Right Resolve, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Living, Right Effort, Right Thought, Right Self-concentration.
Página 28 - There are two works which bear the title of Edda ; " the one in verse, and the other in prose. The first may be considered a symbolical work on the Scandinavian Mythology : the latter a kind of commentary on the former. The Elder, or...
Página 56 - Every ornament, to deserve the name, must possess an appropriate meaning, and be introduced with an intelligent purpose, and on reasonable grounds. The symbolical associations of each ornament must be understood and considered: otherwise things beautiful in themselves will be rendered absurd by their application...
Página 74 - It is by no means true that the ancient systems of mythology have ceased to exist; they have only been diffused and transformed.
Página 37 - ... instantaneous embrace and the crushed-out life— all accomplished faster almost than the eye can follow. It is hardly to be wondered at that such power should impress people in an early stage of civilization with feelings of awe; and with savages it is probably true that most religions sprung from a desire to propitiate by worship those powers from whom they fear that injury may be done to themselves or their property.
Página 73 - The foundation of the city wall is equally beautiful, being "adorned with every kind of precious stone": jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprase, jacinth, amethyst (Rev 21:19-20).
Página 43 - Wall, and the noted one at Bath. Inasmuch as Bel, the Semitic Sun-god, was the great divinity of the Druids, it is easy to see what a ready acceptance the worship of his more refined Persian equivalent would find amongst Celtic races when once introduced by the Roman troops and colonists, many of them Orientals.

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