Medieval architecture; its origins and development : with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York : Baker and Taylor Co. · leaf 201
e mysterious letters, and understands nothing oftheir significance. But the wise man rises from things visible 121 THE TRANSITION to things invisible; in reading in Nature he reads in the thoughtof God. Adam of St. Victor, seated in the refectory of his monastery,holds in his hand a nut. What is a… … III. 207. — Capital of South Transept of Soissons But the interior of the nut, which is food for man, that is Hishidden divinity. Thus beneath every physical object wasthought to be concealed the symbol of the sacrifice of Jesus,the idea of the Church, the image of the virtues and vices.…
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