Author: Charles Alfred Speed Williams
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Keywords: chinese, art, symbolism, ages, handbook, motifs, comprehensive
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-04-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 080483704X
ISBN-13: 9780804837040

Gain a deeper appreciation for Chinese art and architecture by understanding its symbols. The Yin and Yang, dragon, phoenix, five elements, and other symbols are explained in their historical and cultural context. Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs also includes articles on Chinese beliefs, customs, arts and crafts, foods, agriculture and medicine.Originally published in 1941, this is the standard reference book, with over 400 illustrations to help clarify and define this ancient, complex culture.

Author: Milton A. Pottenger
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: symbolism
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1564594645
ISBN-13: 9781564594648

1905. A Treatise on the Soul of Things; How the Natural World is but a Symbol of the Real World; the Modern Church, with its Spire and Cross, and the Bible Account of Noah’s Ark Symbols of the Phallic Religion. Information contained in this book: Pack of Playing Cards, or Book of Fifty-two; An Ancient Masonic Bible; Each Card a Symbol of Universal Law; U.S.A. a Masonic Nation, whose Duty and History are Read in these Ancient Sacred Symbols; Ten Digits constituting our Mathematical System; Why they are Made in the Manner they are; Why there are but Ten; They and the Ten Spot Cards Rev

Author: Sepharial
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: symbolism, cosmic
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0766193152
ISBN-13: 9780766193154

1912. Being a discussion and exposition of some recondite and obscure points in the art of the Kabalists, the mysteries of sound, form and number, and the basic principles of cosmic symbolism. Contents: The Meaning and Purpose of Occultism; The Problems of Science; The Modern Miracle; Therapy-Ancient and Modern; The Star of Bethlehem; Cosmic Symbology; Reading the Symbols; Ancient and Modern Examples; A Typical Case; The Law of Cycles; The Time Factor in Kabalism; Involution and Evolution; Planetary Numbers; Some Further Kabalas; Planetary Sounds; Planetary Hour; Celestial Magnetic Polarities;

Author: Henri Peyre
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Keywords: symbolism
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2010-03-14
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0817356312
ISBN-13: 9780817356316

Author: Edwyn. Beva
Publisher: Mcintosh Pre
Keywords: belief, symbolism
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $43.45
ISBN-10: 1443731471
ISBN-13: 9781443731478

Originally published in 1938. SYMBOLISM AND BELIEF by EDWYN BEVAN PREFACE: THE lectures contained in this volume were given for the University of Edinburgh on Lord Giffords founda tion In the years 1933 and 1934. I have delayed their publication in the hope that with process of time I might, by further reading and thought, be able to expand and modify them, so as to make them more worthy of presen tation to the public in the form of a book. This hope has been so meagrely realized that it now seems best to let them go forth, with all their imperfections on their head, hardly at all altered from

Author: Paul Ricoeur
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: evil, symbolism
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1986-11-12
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0807015679
ISBN-13: 9780807015674

Symbolism of Evil is a Beacon Press publication.

Author: Edwyn. Beva
Publisher: Mcintosh Pre
Keywords: belief, symbolism
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1406772976
ISBN-13: 9781406772975

SYMBOLISM AND BELIEF by EDWYN BEVAN London GEORGE ALLEN UNWIN LTD Museum Street TO MY FRIEND ALFRED EDWARD TAYLOR without whose prompting and encouragement these lectures would never have been written PREFACE JL HE lectures contained in this volume were given for the University of Edinburgh on Lord Giffords founda tion In the years 1933 and 1934. I have delayed their publication in the hope that with process of time I might, by further reading and thought, be able to expand and modify them, so as to make them more worthy of presen tation to the public in the form of a book. This hope has been