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A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)

Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 113

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THE KABBALAH IOI mencing from solitary initials we find phrases being gradually built up such as follows — p. PHO. PHOMO IC. ICO. ICONARD R. RC. RCONARD. RCONCANSIN IRO. IROD. MIO. MIOVSPI HIPI PEHIEH We see from the initial letter herewith that the twisted pillars were the emblem of Piety and… … Fig. 241. — Initial. Fig. 239. Fig. 240. Paris, 1671. 1 6th century (?). 17th century. By Piety and Justice Man becomes an inhabitant of the New Jerusalem.1 The transposition of the H and I is, I think, justifiable, for the reason that the practice of anagrammatising was one of the arts of the…

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