"One who has rendered an esoteric reading of symbolism the greatest service, by discovering the chief key to ancient Hebrew symbology, interwoven strongly with metrology - one of the keys of the once universal mystery language - J. Ralston Skinner, of Cincinnati, the author of the Key to the Hebrew - Egyptian Mystery in the [...]
Category: The Mystery Language Of The Initiates
the mystery language of the initiates: symbolism and ideographs
"The religious and esoteric history of every nation was embedded in symbols; it was never expressed in so many words. All the thoughts and emotions, all the learning and knowledge, revealed and acquired, of the early races, found their pictorial expression in allegory and parable. Why? because the spoken word has a potency [...]
the mystery language of the initiates: symbolism and ideographs
"The untiring researches of Western, and especially German, symbologists, during the last and present centuries, have brought every occultist and most unprejudiced persons to see that without the help of symbology (with its seven departments, of which the moderns know nothing) no ancient scripture can ever be correctly understood. Symbology must be studied from [...]
the mystery language of the initiates: symbolism and ideographs
"The study of the hidden meaning in every religious and profane legend, of whatsoever nation, large or small - pre-eminently the traditions of the East - has occupied the greater portion of the present writer's life. She is one of those who feel convinced that no mythological story, no traditional event in the folklore [...]