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The Rosicrucians : their rites and mysteries (1907)

Jennings, Hargrave, 1817?-1890 · London : George Routledge & Sons ; New York : E.P. Dutton & co · leaf 259

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Fig. 72 : Obeliscus Fig. 73 : Obelisk Fig. 75 : Two Round Towers architecture, which is generally called Gothic ; andthey prove how the upright, or original phallic form,was adopted and gradually mingled in Christianarchitecture—in reality at last becoming its dominantfeature. 242 THE ROSICRUCIANS… … Fig. 74 : Propylon, Thebes every temple, Christian as well as heathen. It issurmounted by the fir-cone {thyrsus) of Bacchus,and the sculptured urns below it are represented asflaming with the mystic fire. 77 78 76

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