The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries (1921)
Jennings, Hargrave, 1817?-1890 · London, G. Routledge & sons, limited: New York, E.P. Dutton & co · leaf 330
tileus 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 ARMING1 In fig. 255 we have the representation of the Gnos-tic Female Power in Nature—Venus, or… … Fig. 235 ing; these are the attributes of the malific feminineelementary genius born of darkness or matter r9whose 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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