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Updated: May 6, 2025
Brentano's prose tales vary in quality from the over-allegorized latter part of The Fairy Tale of the Rhine and the Miller Radlauf to the simple and homely Kasper and Annie , with its elemental clash of soldiers and citizens. Through many of the tales there runs a note of satire and of symbolism, but the fancy is exuberant and the interest well maintained.
Religious painting, profuse in symbolism, with masses of details elaborately worked in, meets us in the first place. Before going into the little that is known of the family history of the Van Eycks, I should like to call attention to the numerous painter families in the middle ages.
He is a monster likewise; say since grotesqueness is in vogue the heart of Lucifer burning beneath the cool brain of a Grecian sage. The symbolism is not inapt, since Helwyse, while afflicted with pride and ambition as abstract as boundless, had, at the same time, a logical, fearless brain, and keen delight in beauty.
As preliminary to the inquiry which is about to be instituted, it is necessary to distinguish the Stone of Foundation, both in its symbolism and in its legendary history, from other stones which play an important part in the masonic ritual, but which are entirely distinct from it.
A similar fallacy induced the Greeks to adopt a like symbolism in their Dionysiac festivals, and the superficial but striking resemblance thus produced between the two religions has perhaps more than anything else misled enquirers, both ancient and modern, into identifying worships which, though certainly akin in nature, are perfectly distinct and independent in origin. Osiris a God of the Dead
Shall I describe the beauty of it all? the lights and flowers, the swinging censers, with the glory of the chant and the wealth of mystic symbolism which followed the passing of that solemn procession into the sanctuary? That could best be imagined, like the feeling in the heart of the young pastor who adored every line of the building.
The sea-wave, with all its beneficence, is yet devouring and terrible; but the silent wave of the blue mountain is lifted towards heaven in a stillness of perpetual mercy; and the one surge, unfathomable in its darkness, the other unshaken in its faithfulness, for ever bear the seal of their appointed symbolism: "Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; "Thy judgments are a great deep."
Christian mysticism has had much to do with symbolism and even with alchemy, and Zoroastrianism, which is generally regarded as a reasonable religion, attaches extraordinary importance to holy spells. So Indian religions are not singular in this respect, though the uncompromising thoroughness with which they work out this like other ideas leads to startling results.
The dream may be used to aid the dreamer in finding out his own life, it is true, and when we understand psychoanalysis as this process, and only this, it is not objectionable. But if such is the case there is no need of all the mechanism and symbolism.
In many passages Mechthild dwells on the clergy, and her reflections some very practical, others, to those not versed in symbolism, very quaint seem to suggest how grievously lacking she considered them to be.
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