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Creuzer, in his "Symbolik," says that myths and symbols were derived, on the one hand, from the helpless condition and the poor and scanty beginnings of religious knowledge among the ancient peoples, and on the other, from the benevolent designs of the priests educated in the East, or of Eastern origin, to form them to a purer and higher knowledge.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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The most important of these differences is to be found in Calvin's system, which taught that only such as are predestined infallibly to eternal salvation obtain justification, whilst in those not predestined God produces a mere appearance of faith and righteousness, and this in order to punish them the more severely in hell (Cf. Mohler, "Symbolik", sec. 12).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Here there is plain opposition between the two types (see Sauer, "Symbolik", p. 247), whereas in early Christian imagery the Church of the Circumcision and the Church of the Gentiles are depicted as constitutive parts of the one Kingdom of God upon earth.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The "Symbolik" acted like an electric spark, and stirred up many both in and out of the Church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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"Symbolik", II, 331), though fragments of Greek remained for many centuries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Koellner_, Professor of Theology at Goettingen, in his excellent "Symbolik," p. 501, states: "There was a Latin Directory for
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Wie gibt er, einfache und von ausgeglichenem Entwurf, ist dieser Metamorphosis Chair die ganze Symbolik, die die Dynamik einschließt, die alles kreativer täglich handhat.
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Symbolik des Kirchengebäudes und seiner Ausstattung in der Auffassung des Mittelalters, 2nd ed.
ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968
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One of the most inter - esting of nineteenth-century cosmological studies is A. von Thimus 'Die harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES HAAR 1968
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'And,' as J.B. Friederich states (_Symbolik und Mythologie der Natur_, p. 225), 'in the Tyrol the rose has a _deathly_ meaning, since it is there believed that whoever wears an Alpine rose in his hat during a thunderstorm will be struck by the lightning; for which reason it is called the thunder-rose -- a name probably derived from the consecration of that flower to Donar, the god of thunder.'
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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