Mining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the letters and words in language as Bayley moves beyond mere pictures to understand the vital messages that have been ignored or lost across the centuries.
Mining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origin...
Subtitled: An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore and Mythologies. Symbols tell a story but we must first know how to read them. Otherwise, one just sees a picture without the intended message. This book produces the key to understanding many important symbols. For centuries emblems and symbols have been used for trademarks, watermarks, and decorative purposes. These were covered well in Volume One. Volume Two moves into many sacred and mystical areas, covering such things as the heavenly twins, the white horse, the sign of the cross, fire and...
Subtitled: An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore and Mythologies. Symbols tell a story but we must fir...
Originally published in 1902, this appeal for further investigation and research was "An attempt to establish certain propositions, e.g. that Bacon's "New Atlantis" is not an Utopian dream, but a thinly disguised account of an actual Secret Society with which he was closely associated; that the object of this Fraternity of learned men, known superficially to history as the Rosicrucians, was the advancement of learning; that the principal method by which the achievement of this end was attempted was the preparation and publication of instructive and elevating literature."
Originally published in 1902, this appeal for further investigation and research was "An attempt to establish certain propositions, e.g. that Bacon's ...
"Of all the many thousands of earthworks of various kinds to be found in England, those about which anything is known are very few, those of which there remains nothing more to be known scarcely exist. Each individual example is in itself a new problem in history, chronology, ethnology, and anthropology; within every one lie the hidden possibilities of a revolution in knowledge.
"Of all the many thousands of earthworks of various kinds to be found in England, those about which anything is known are very few, those of which the...
