The Symbolic Wisdom of the Egyptians

is not at all practicable here under the moon original: "unter dem Monde." A common idiomatic expression of the era meaning "here on earth" or "in this mortal life.", it is easy to understand how superfluous the whole thing is.

Regardless of all this, the content of the following pages will not be such an unpleasant or useless read for all those who feel at least some impulse within themselves to reflect upon the human spirit and upon themselves; to see how that spirit, over the course of millennia, remains essentially the same, and yet is so diverse in its modifications. It is even a practical work for artists The author suggests that the symbolic imagery described in the book can serve as a reference for painters and sculptors working with complex allegories. who have to work with allegorical subjects.

Symbols? — How far, then, are we truly from symbols? Is not everything among us a symbol? Is not our entire language full of symbols? One has just as much religious as—