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Title: A Dictionary of Symbols by J. E. Cirlot ISBN: 0-486-42523-1 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A sacred way of looking at the outer world
Comment: This is one of the most frequently used and most deeply pondered works of my permanent collection. It is, in my humble opinion, the best single volume on the subject of symbols and symbolism written in modern times.
Symbolism is a sacred way of looking at the outer world. It is a way of connecting the outer and inner worlds. A materialist sees, let's say an eagle, and simply sees a bird, while a symbolist sees an eagle and sees a message, a lesson, or a sermon. To the symbolist, the eagle also represents height, spirit, the sun, nobility, power, the lion of the air, etc. The symbolist doesn't totally ignore the materialist and mundane aspect of the eagle, he just realises that there is immeasurably MORE behind it.
The introduction of this book is an excellent essay of the symbolist mind-set. It covers symbolism in platonic thought, hermetism, renaissance thought, alchemy, heraldry, dream symbolism, as well as, the views of Goethe, Saunier, Bele, Guenon, Eliade, Scheider, and, of course, Jung.
The body of the book is in dictionary form with concise but comprehensive descriptions of topics from a historic and multi-cultural viewpoint. This is assisted by the many excellent line drawings, as well as, two sections of carefully chosen black and white photographs.
This is a book of correspondenses, of resonance, of the common rythym that connects things with a higher, sacred place. You learn that there are immeasurable depths to creation- and that you have merely been skipping across the surface of that creation like a stone across deep waters....
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Title: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols by J. C. Cooper ISBN: 0500271259 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols and Their Meanings by David Fontana ISBN: 0811804623 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Herder Dictionary of Symbols: Symbols from Art, Archaeology, Mythology, Literature, and Religion by Boris Matthews, Herder ISBN: 0933029845 Publisher: Chiron Pubns Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them by Hans Biedermann, Hames Hulbert, James Hulbert ISBN: 0452011183 Publisher: Meridian Books Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung ISBN: 0440351839 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 August, 1968 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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