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  • Look up, e.g. in 'The Century Dictionary,' all terms that you do not understand, such as 'Baphometic Fire-Baptism.'

    A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

  • Spiritualism, with its very real and awful mysteries, is, to him, a vulgar thing because it brought consolation to common folk, but he loves to read papers on the Palladian Cultus, ancient and accepted Scottish rites, and Baphometic figures.

    The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • Spiritualism, with its very real and awful mysteries, is, to him, a vulgar thing because it brought consolation to common folk, but he loves to read papers on the Palladian Cultus, ancient and accepted Scottish rites, and Baphometic figures.

    The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • He speaks of it himself as "a Spiritual New-birth, or Baphometic Fire-baptism."

    Mysticism in English Literature Caroline F. E. Spurgeon 1905

  • The two Baphometic figures (vol. i., pp. 9 and 89), are reproductions from Lévi's plates.

    Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899

  • This is that "Baphometic Fire-baptism" or new-birth of spiritual awakening, which is the beginning of true manhood.

    Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896

  • 'It is from this hour that I incline to date my Spiritual New-birth, or Baphometic Fire-baptism; perhaps I directly thereupon began to be a

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Though, after this 'Baphometic Fire-baptism' of his, our Wanderer signifies that his Unrest was but increased; as, indeed, 'Indignation and Defiance,' especially against things in general, are not the most peaceable inmates; yet can the Psychologist surmise that it was no longer a quite hopeless Unrest; that henceforth it had at least a fixed centre to revolve round.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • For the fire-baptised soul, long so scathed and thunder-riven, here feels its own Freedom, which feeling is its Baphometic Baptism: the citadel of its whole kingdom it has thus gained by assault, and will keep inexpugnable; outwards from which the remaining dominions, not indeed without hard battling, will doubtless by degrees be conquered and pacificated.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Baphometic Fire-baptism, 128; placid indifference, 129;

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

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