The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 63
hosen language of mysticism is always an elaborate and involved symbolism.What could be more natural than that a building devoted to the worshipof a crucified Saviour should be made a symbol, not of the cross only, butof the body crucified ? The vesica piscis (a figure formed by the developing arcs… … -%OF»/3_J
Architecture · Theosophy
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