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  • That things do coincide, is evident, that the mathematics say, at one time or another many people experience what others see a synchronisms, but see no psychic significance in them, is short-sighted and reveals a lack of giftedness a kind of subconscious to conscious blindness.

    Meandering Notes From Afar: Bush, Ashcroft, Astrophysics, Time/Space, The Tachyon, Prophets and Profits... 2007

  • Although it was an era of resurgent Marianism, a recent survey had found that 90 percent of Roman Catholics remained unfamiliar with this Fatima business, and the fact that it had resurfaced so dramatically in his own life-in a setting occupied by Matisse's live blue nude and provided, at least in the beginning, by Audubon Poe's provider, Sol Glissant, well, these compounding synchronisms left him scant choice but to take it seriously.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Although it was an era of resurgent Marianism, a recent survey had found that 90 percent of Roman Catholics remained unfamiliar with this Fatima business, and the fact that it had resurfaced so dramatically in his own life-in a setting occupied by Matisse's live blue nude and provided, at least in the beginning, by Audubon Poe's provider, Sol Glissant, well, these compounding synchronisms left him scant choice but to take it seriously.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Through his synchronisms Mede sought to demonstrate the unity of the images in the Revelation, thereby establishing the continuing presence of the resurrected Christ, who would be manifested at the millennium.

    Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation Benjamin A. Ehlers 1992

  • There is no reason to suppose that the kings of either country would have dated their own reigns with reference to the other; besides, the synchronisms do not strictly agree with the other chronological notices of the reigns.

    Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

  • Probably the original documents contained the number of years in the reign, and the dates of the more important events; but the synchronisms represent an artificial scheme created by the redactor.

    Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

  • These apparent synchronisms, of course, may only rest upon the imagination of the Christian annalists of Ireland, who hoped to exalt their ancient rulers and heroes by bringing them into relation with and even making them participate in the events of the life of the Saviour.

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

  • It is practically certain that these synchronisms, as they are called, are not contemporary but the work of the redactors.

    Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

  • The majority of writers, after fixing the date at which Dynasty III. closed by means of the synchronisms and certain of the later chronological references, have accepted the figures of the Kings 'List for the earlier dynasties, ignoring their apparent inconsistencies with the system of Berossus and with the chronology of Nabonidus.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • In addition to the Kings 'List, other important chronological data consist of references in the classical authorities to the chronological system of Berossus (_q. v._); chronological references to earlier kings occurring in the later native inscriptions, such as Nabonidus's estimate of the period of Khammurabi (or Hammuribi); synchronisms, also furnished by the inscriptions, between kings of Babylon and of Assyria; and the early Babylonian date-lists.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

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