| Richard Payne Knight - Isernia (Italy) - 1865 - 458 pages
...ceremonies performed in theworfhipof Priapus; which appeared not only contrary to the gravity and fanctity of religion, but fubverfive of the firft principles...underftood in their direct and obvious fenfe ; but are to beconfideredas fymbolical reprefentations of fome hidden meaning, which may be extremely wife and juft,... | |
| Albert Réville - 1866 - 134 pages
...some Account of the SYMBOM employed and their connection with the MYSTIC THEOLOGY of* the Ancients. * The forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense, but are to be considered as symbolical representations... | |
| Edgar Charles Beall - Marriage - 1905 - 292 pages
...principles of decency and good order in society. Even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion,...placed in a brothel than a temple. But the forms and ceremonies of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense; but are... | |
| Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 596 pages
...principles of decency and good order in society. Even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion, and more fit to he placed in a hrothel than a temple. But the forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always to... | |
| Randolph Trumbach - History - 1998 - 536 pages
...philosophical system of religion," and, with a sly dig at Christian sacramentalism, he pointed out that "the forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense; but are . . . symbolical representations of some hidden... | |
| Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 598 pages
...principles of decency and good order in society. Even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion,...and ceremonials of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense; but are to be considered as symbolical representations... | |
| Hargrave Jennings - Religion - 2007 - 117 pages
...principles of decency and good order in society. Even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion,...forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always to b© understood in their direct and obvious sense ; but are to be considered as symbolical representations... | |
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