title: Sacred Symbols of the Ancients
author: Edith Randall
description: It's a book for those interested in the particular subject. At base level explains the meaning for number of your birth date using playing cards (ancient method); then lots mores sophisticated info for those who want to go further.
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  Emblem and Symbol v. 02.59, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 7 February 2018 
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  Emblem and Symbol 
  
  CONFUSING WORDS SERIES 
  EMBLEM AND SYMBOL 
  Emblem and Symbol v. 02.59, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 7 February 2018 
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  Alas, alas, my son, a day will come when the sacred hieroglyph-
  ics will become but idols. The world will mistake the emblems of 
  science for gods, and accuse grand Egypt of having worshipped 
  hell-monsters. But those who will calumniate us thus, will 
  themselves worship Death instead of Life, folly in place of wis-
  dom; they will denounce love and fecundity, fill their temples 
  with dead men’s bones, as relics, and waste their youth in soli-
  tude and tears. Their virgins will be widows [nuns] before being 
  wives, and consume themselves in grief; because men will have 
  despised and profaned the sacred mysteries of Isis. 
  — Hermes Trismegistus
  1 
  HERE IS NO PURELY MYTHICAL ELEMENT in any of the ancient religious 
  texts; but the mode of though