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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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So rife are the emblems, symbols and allegories in Masonry that a study of them alone would occupy a researcher many years if not a lifetime.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Through Waite's inspiration and guidance she created a Tarot which delicately embodies all the subtle allegories in a work of art.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Some synchronicities are more subtle and dreamlike, containing metaphors and allegories that teach us principles: In her book The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self (HarperCollins) Jean Shinoda Bolen writes about an incident that appears to have answered a question asked at a dinner party with friends.
Allegories will appeal to the Aquarian man because they help him develop and use his own reasoning powers to obtain a greater understanding of spiritual realities.
With mystics they were mystical, and unfolded the inner meanings of phenomena, or explained allegories and the figurative sense of the allegories themselves.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Renaissance allegories make frequent allusions both to both Greek and Roman legends and literature, and also to the wealth of Christian allegorical stories and symbols developed during the Middle Ages.
Nerdrum, in his somber allegories, uses this contemporary zeitgeist and ancient symbolism to describe his catastrophic vision of the world as it unfolds on a timeless mythical plane with poetry of a Homeric vastness.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Allegories , aphorisms , apologues , fables , gnomes , and proverbs are so closely related to didactic poetry that they may be considered specific types of that genre.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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Couched in the most moving language and replete with image-provoking allegories, this verse permits the suppliant to pour out his innermost feelings of total inadequacy in the presence of his Lord.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Christians generally believed that the Old Testament spoke about Jesus Christ, not merely prophetically but in types and allegories which the Spirit revealed to Christians.
Our Lord and Saviour Himself spoke in parables and gave us allegories of the Kingdom of God.
I believe this is so because it offers perfect Biblical parables and allegories which have grown into salient themes of the Gospel truth.
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