 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 566 pages
...the divine lights. To the same purpose, Themestias : " It being thoroughly purified, he now displays to the initiated* " a region all over illuminated, and shining with a divine splen" dour. The clouds and thick darkness are dispersed, and the " mind emerges into day, full of... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...till the prophet or conductor lays open the vestibule of the temple. Being thoroughly purified, he now discloses to the initiated a region all over illuminated, and shining with divine splendour. The cloud and thick darkness are dispersed ; and the mind emerges, as it were, into... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Mythology - 1816 - 752 pages
...initiated a region all over illuminated and shining with a divine splendor. The cloud and thick darlmess are dispersed : and the mind, which before was full...emerges, as it were, into day, replete with light and chearfulness, out of the profound depth into which it had been plunged1. This was called the Autopsia... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Religion - 1816 - 728 pages
...these mystic visions was, Themistius immediately goes on to inform us. Having thoroughly purified him, the hierophant now discloses to the initiated a region all over illuminated and shining with a divine splendor. The cloud and thick darkness are dispersed : and the mind, which before was full of disconsolate... | |
 | Edward Upham - Egypt - 1822 - 110 pages
...I adored them. From Themistius, we learn that the initiated being purified, have disclosed to them a region all over illuminated, and shining with a...the profound depth into which it had been plunged. Stobreus says, this scene once over, a miraculous and divine light displays itself, and shining plains... | |
 | Philip Wentworth Buckham - 1825 - 332 pages
...Themistius describes the initiated just entered upon this scene. — It being thoroughly purified, he now discloses to the initiated, a region' all over...cloud and thick darkness are dispersed; and the mind emerges, as it were, into day, full of light and cheerfulness, as before, of disconsolate obscurity".... | |
 | John Fellows - Freemasonry - 1835 - 482 pages
...Themistius describes the initiated, when just entered upon this scene. " It being thoroughly purified, he now discloses to the initiated, a region all over illuminated, and shining with a divine splendor. This which was all over illuminated, and which the priest had thoroughly purified, was agalma,... | |
 | John Fellows - 1835 - 432 pages
...Themistius describes the initiated, wheri' just entered upon this scene. " It being thoroughly purified, he now discloses to the initiated, a region all over illuminated, and shining witb> a divine splendor. This which was all over illuminated, and whichthe priest had thoroughly purified,... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 720 pages
...Zoroast. V Thil which «as nil over illuminated, and which Uie priest had thoroughly puritird, was with a divine splendour. The cloud and thick darkness are dispersed;* and the mind emerges, as it were, into day, full of light and cheerfulness ; as before, of disconsolate obscurity."... | |
 | John Fellows - Mysteries, Religious - 1860 - 376 pages
...Themistius describes the initiated, when just entered upon this scene, " It being thoroughly purified, he now discloses to the initiated a region all over illuminated, and shining with a divine splendour. This which was all ocer illuminated, and which the priest had thoroughly purified was agalma, an image.... | |
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Having thoroughly purified him (an aspirant), the hierophant now discloses to the initiated a region all over illuminated and shining with a divine splendour. The cloud and thick darkness are dispersed, and the mind, which before was full of disconsolate... 