The Rosicrucians : their rites and mysteries (1907)
Jennings, Hargrave, 1817?-1890 · London : George Routledge & Sons ; New York : E.P. Dutton & co · leaf 324
ens when black,we prove the transmission of an inextinguishableimportant hint in religion. The following are some of the most significant talis-mans of the Gnostics : VENUS ATTIRING OR ARMING 307 In fig. 255 we have the representation of the Gnos-tic Female Power in Nature—Venus, or… … Fig. 255 ing ; these are the attributes of the malific feminineelementary genius born of darkness or matter ,whose tremendous countenance, veiled as in the instanceof Isis, or masked as in that of the universal mytholog-ical Queen of Beauty, inspires or destroys according
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