The lost language of symbolism : an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies (1912)
Bayley, Harold · New York : Barnes & Noble · leaf 170
e,which gemmed the sky like stars at night. ^ In Bonaventuras Life of St Francis^ there is narrated anincident which occurred, it is said, in Assisi. According tothis account St Francis was sleeping one night in a hut, andwas absent in the body from his sons. Suddenly atabout midnight, while some… … 418 chariot a shining ball of fire rested, in appearance like untothe Sun, making the night radiant. ^ This phenomenon—an experience to which other mystics have testified andwhich is illustrated in fig. 418—was known as the Visionof Adonai. It is to be inferred that the poet who was responsiblefor…
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