Bygone beliefs, being a series of excursions in the byways of thought (1920)
Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley), 1887-1943 · London, W. Rider · leaf 46
PYTHAGORAS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY 19 elaborate application of Pythagoras' great theorem.1 Hence the conclusion, as Plato put it, that " this [the regular dodecahedron] the Deity employed in tracing the plan of the Universe." 2 Hence also the high esteem in which the pentagon was held by the… … Fig. 9. The Pentagram. the pentagram, is obtained. This was adopted by the Pythagoreans as the badge of their Society, and for many ages was held as a symbol possessed of magic powers. The mediaeval magicians made use 1 In reference to this matter Frankland remarks: " In those early days the…
Magic · Superstition · Alchemy
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