Cyclopædia
Assuming mystic is required, the following 6 results were found.
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
this was in the early Days of the Phoenician or Egyptian Sages, when Words were more complex and obscure than now; and mystic Symbols and Hieroglyphics obtained; so that an Explication of their Marks or Words, might amount to a Revelation of their whole...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA
the Inventor.—Others, from Gefr, a kind of Parchment, made of the Skin of a Camel, whereon Ali and Giafar Sadek wrote in mystic Characters the Fate of Mahometanism, and the grand Events that were to happen till the End of the World.—But others, with...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASCETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCETIC
of Caesarea in Cappadocia. We also say, the Ascetic Life, meaning the Exercise of Prayer, Meditation, and Mortification—See MYSTIC.
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANAGOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGOGY
and Eternal. See ECSTASY, &c. This is not the natural Sense of such a Passage of Scripture; it is an Anagogy. See MYSTIC. We have Comments on the Scripture, which are Anagogies throughout. See ANAGOGICAL. ANAGOGY
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY
ALLEGORICAL, something containing an Allegory. See ALLEGORY. The Divines find divers Senses in Scripture; a Literal, a Mystical, and an Allegorical Sense. See MYSTIC, &c. The Prophecies, in particular, delivered in the Old Testament, are said to be many...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Rhetoric
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APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE
it as written in bad Greek, and even finds Solecisms and Barbarisms in it, abundance: though he allows it to contain a mystic sense, which he says he admires even where he does not understand. On the other hand, St. Justin, Irenaeus, and St. Augustine...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified