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{{Footnote return|*|fn1746}} “Westminster Review”: Septenary Institutions; “Stone Him to Death.” ...engraved the fundamental principles of his art on two pillars of brick and stone, the latter of which “he saw himself [Josephus] {{Style S-Italic|to remain ...

...pon words to connect it with {{Style S-Italic|Petroma,}} the double set of stone tablets used ...aspect, and feels herself powerless to refute the accusations—to throw the stone at those who were her models. When men like Pythagoras, Plato, and Iamblich ...

...It is what the Hebrews call the {{Style S-Italic|Scham hamphorash.}} This stone is watched by two lions of gold, who roar as soon as it is approached.{{Foo ...lay, which he showed to the nations and passed it off for the true cubical stone of Israel.}} ...

...c|with Christians the myth has become a historical entity, the fundamental stone on which Christianity, with its dogma of redemption, is built.}} He is as n ...

...lic|Kabala.}} Between two pillars, which are connected by an arch, the key-stone of the latter is represented by a {{Style S-Italic|crescent.}} This is the ...stone,{{Footnote mark|§|fn1383}} sacred to this Hindu deity, is an unhewn stone like the Beth-el, consecrated by the Patriarch Jacob, and set up by him “fo ...

...by side, as a united stone, the tops of which are rounded.. . . The right stone is {{Style S-Italic|masculine,}} the left {{Style S-Italic|feminine}}.” The ...iations, when exhibiting to the candidates the {{Style S-Italic|Petroma}} (stone tablet containing the last revelation made by the hierophant to the neophyt ...

...usco, are smaller hiding places filled with treasures of gold and precious stone, the accumulations of many generations of Incas, the aggregate value of whi ...y.—}}In this they are not less remarkable. They made the operation for the stone, succeeded admirably in the operation for cataract, and the extraction of t ...

...ssigned them in the modern “Force-correlation.” Synesius mentions books of stone which he found in the temple of Memphis, on which was engraved the followin The marked respect paid by the Buddhists to the sapphire-stone—which was also sacred to Luna, in every other country—may be found based on ...

...the derivation of which we have to look to an incredibly early epoch. The stone called {{Style S-Italic|magnet}} is believed by many to owe its name to Mag ...on people, the Heraclean.”{{Footnote mark|‡|fn236}} It was the country and stone which were called after the Magi, not the Magi after one or the other. Plin ...

...present time, profess to belong to it, {{Style S-Italic|the philosopher’s stone, the elixir of life, the art of invisibility,}} and the power of communicat ...the centre of a square room, presented as a slave, and seated upon a large stone with twelve escallops; his arms are crossed upon his breast, his body incli ...

...sed only to the initiates. As soon as humanity entered upon a new one, the stone age, with which the preceding cycle had closed, began to gradually merge in ...ed up to her pictures of people and scenes which he thinks belonged to the stone age. She saw men closely resembling monkeys, with a body very hairy, and “a ...

...g and bursting simultaneously, with a tremendous force, broke out the huge stone, as neatly as a diamond cuts a pane of glass. ...er houses, and again into courts unseen before. The roof was throughout of stone like the walls, and both were exquisitely carved all over with figures. Eve ...

...demonstrate by the phenomenon of the spark from flint and from every other stone, whose spirit when forcibly disturbed springs to sight spark-like, and imme ...dent|American society, including many scientists. The kabalistic axiom, “A stone becomes a plant, a plant an animal, an animal a man, a man a spirit, and a ...

...c|jidegnoni}}) shall surely be put {{Style S-Italic|to death,}} they shall stone them with stones, {{Style S-Italic|their blood shall be}} upon them.”}} ...s, and suspended by a rope passing over a pulley fixed to the ceiling. The stone, being hoisted to its extreme height, falls with all its weight upon the pa ...

...ic|Messianic”}} amulet, of the second or third century, b.c. It is a green stone of a pentagonal form; at the bottom is engraved a fish; higher, Solomon’s s ...and emanations.{{Footnote mark|†|fn1456}} This basic and true fundamental stone of the secret cycles, shows on its very face, that far from taking their re ...

...tralized by an opposing law of equal potency. Thus, it is natural that the stone should fall to the ground in obedience to one force, and it is equally natu ...

...nds on our knowledge of kindred elements. He believed in the philosopher’s stone, “of which the world hath so great an opinion of, which hath been bragged o ...ing foolishly spent over two million livres in search of the philosopher’s stone. “The Chinese,” he says, “reputed so wise, have for three or four thousand ...

...ny powers concealed in the {{Style S-Italic|inner}} nature of the plant or stone? And that they are only waiting to be brought in relation with some other p ...ision in a century which has crowned the edifice of philosophy with a cope-stone of protoplasm. The first is declared a {{Style S-Italic|physical impossibil ...

...of science to solve the problem. The caves of France and the relics of the stone age afford a point at which to begin.}} ...cluding that mankind in the nineteenth century was “just emerging from the Stone Age?” ...

...nce of things. What he scattered through his writings on the philosopher’s stone, on pigmies and spirits of the mines; on signs, on homunculi, and the elixi ...a {{Style S-Italic|spirit}}, then you are obliged to concede the same to a stone. If your dead and utterly passive matter can manifest a tendency toward gra ...