 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1805
...of itself, and vegetating from it* own matrix, or seed-vessel, without being fostered in the cart!:, was naturally adopted as the symbol of the productive power of the waters, upon which the active spirit of the Creator operated in giving life and vegetation t» matter. f Paganism... | |
 | 1844
...Lotus, from its peculiar method of fructification, was, throughout the east, adopted as emblematical of the " productive power of the waters which spread life and vegetation over the earth." " The Egyptians are said to have represented the pervading spirit or the ruling Providence of the Deity... | |
 | Godfrey Higgins - Black race - 1874 - 548 pages
...produc" tive of itself, and vegetating from its own matrix, without being " fostered in the earth, was naturally adopted as the symbol of the " productive power of the waters, upon which the active spirit of the 1 Pp. 84-86. This book was never sold, but only given away. A copy... | |
 | 1890
...therefore, of a nature thus reproductive in itself, the Nelumbo was naturally adopted as the symbol of of the productive power of the waters which spread...great fountain of life and motion, by rising above the horizon, and sinking under them as it retired below. Accordingly we find it employed in every part... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1895
...thus productive of itself, and vegetating from its own matrix, without being fostered in the earth, was naturally adopted as the symbol of the productive power of the waters, upon which the active spirit of the Creator operated in giving life and vegetation to matter. We accordingly... | |
 | Eliza Burt Gamble - Christianity and other religions - 1897 - 339 pages
...thus productive of itself, and vegetating from its own matrix, without being fostered in the earth, was naturally adopted as the symbol of the productive power of the waters, upon which the creative spirit of the Creator operated in giving life and vegetation to matter. We... | |
 | Hermione De Almeida, George H. Gilpin - Art - 2005 - 336 pages
...lotus or water lily ... [which] productive of itself, and vegetating from its own matrice ... [is] naturally adopted as the symbol of the productive power of the waters, upon which the active spirit of the creator operated in giving life and vegetation to matter — The... | |
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This plant, therefore, being thus productive of itself, and vegetating from its own matrix, without being fostered in the earth, was naturally adopted as the symbol of the productive power of the waters, upon which the active spirit of the Creator operated... 