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abhorrent mysteries, 99, 162 absolute, 40, 55, 72, 160, 175 absorption, 74, 90, 93, 103, 1467 abstraction, 1920, 28, 489, 102, 148, 158, 164, 172, 174 Adam Kadmon, see Adam symbolism Adam symbolism, 44, 5560, 64, 678, 115, 169, 174 Africa symbolism, 24, 925, 100; see also Egypt symbolism alchemy, 142, 184 alliteration, 42; see also phonic resonance alterity, 5, 16; see also feminism; racism; stereotype anachronism, 22, 37 anal intercourse, 489, 172, 178, 179 androgyny, 546 angels, see cherubim; seraphim anger, 16, 180; see also destruction phase; feeling; purification animism, 2, 10, 86 annihilation, 7984, 87; see also destruction phase; purification anthropology, 6, 7, 161, 162; see also Frazer, James; Harrison, Jane Ellen; Nuttal, Zelia antithesis, see complementarity; holism; paradox; polarity (polarization) Aphrodite, 139 Apocalypse, 40, 48, 55 Apollonian, 77, 115, 161 apotheosis, see deification

Apropos of Lady Chatterleys Lover, 3, 18, 167, 168 aristocracy, 83, 101, 12830, 159, 1812 Aristocracy, 1812 ark symbolism, see Noah symbolism art, 14, 7, 29, 46, 50, 99, 15960, 173, 174; see also literary technique Art and Morality, 160, 161, 166 artist, see art assonance, 42; see also phonic resonance atheism, see destruction phase; nihilism authoritarianism, 12655; see also fascism awareness, see consciousness awe, 32, 119, 159; see also sacred experience; sacred feeling Ayin (Nothingness), 1745; see also sephirot Aztec, 12655, 183, 185 balance, see equilibrium Barthes, Roland, 167, 170 beak symbolism, 139 beetle symbolism, 94, 178 Besant,Annie, 6, 11, 53, 67, 1623, 173; see also Theosophy Bible, 3, 568, 71, 170, 173, 182, 185; see also Kabbalah bird symbolism, 25, 367, 41, 101, 103, 143, 145, 146, 1524, 169; see also Quetzalcoatl Blake,William, 175, 178, 185 Blavatsky, Helena, 6, 11, 53, 64, 1623, 173, 178; see also Theosophy

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complementarity, 101; see also holism; paradox concreteness, 37, 164; see also abstraction connection, see relatedness consciousness bodily, 3250, 58, 626, 11524, 1313, 139, 1467 mental, 4, 7, 8, 1530, 52, 60, 70, 7682, 86111 See also sacred experience; sacred feeling consonance, 42; see also phonic resonance contact, see relatedness; sacralization phase; somatic focalization contemplation, see meditation contrived narrative, 13, 31, 1269, 135, 154 copula, 70; see also stative cosmology, see cosmos cosmos, 48, 867, 11314, 158, 168, 177, 179 cosmic consciousness, see cosmos creative mystery, see creativity; mystery creativity, 1, 13, 43, 45, 534, 67, 74, 93, 11213, 123, 1301, 160, 161, 166, 181 criticism, 18, 30, 46, 50, 177; see also consciousness: mental Crosby, Harry, 99 The Crown, 52, 54, 93, 176 crown symbolism, 547, 175 curiosity, 26, 166 Dahlberg, Edward, 157 dance symbolism, 48, 79, 134, 1458, 184 darkness symbolism, 44, 57, 71, 72, 78, 81, 83, 90, 1014, 1078, 111, 11724, 1315, 1457, 149, 150, 1524, 161 day/night symbolism, 25, 49, 71, 77, 114, 153; see also Apollonian; darkness symbolism; Dionysian death symbolism, 2, 15, 16, 23, 30, 46, 7981, 867, 101, 104, 11011, 144, 169, 170, 176, 177; see also destruction phase; rebirth symbolism; sacralization phase

Bloomsbury circle, see Forster, E. M.; Gertler, Mark;Woolf,Virginia body, 2030, 3250, 5364, 67, 70, 7781, 87125, 1315, 1389; see also consciousness: bodily born again, see rebirth symbolism Brewster,Achsah, 163 Brewster, Earl, 163, 168 Brown, Curtis, 165 Buber, Martin, 109 Bucke, Richard, 2, 160 Buddha, 7, 37, 50; see also Buddhism Buddhism, 37, 50, 11125, 163, 168, 170, 182 bullying, see will (willfulness) Bynner,Witter, 180 Campbell, Beatrice, 129 Campbell, Gordon, 74, 129, 174 carbon self, see self (models of) caricature, 18, 181 castration anxiety, 29 censorship, 13, 172, 178 center symbolism, 73; see also centrifugal/centripetal symbolism; wheel symbolism centrifugal/centripetal symbolism, 172 ceremony, 47, 1301, 138, 1408, 185 chakras, 11, 55, 912, 167, 177, 178; see also yoga chaos, 87, 92, 99, 112 character armor, 16 character assassination, 18, 181 cherubim, 57, 68, 74, 174 child symbolism, 257, 1056, 1089, 137, 161 chora, 28, 166 Christianity, 7, 159, 163, 178; see also Jesus codification, 74, 158, 185 colonialism, 12655 color symbolism, 142, 184 combat symbolism, 7882, 968, 1345; see also war communism, 129, 180 compassion, 17, 18, 38, 99, 115, 144

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de Beauvoir, Simone, 5, 16; see also feminism; patriarchy deconstruction, 9, 34, 4650; see also Derrida, Jacques deification, 6471, 1379, 168, 181, 184 demon symbolism, 108, 135, 179, 183; see also evil Derrida, Jacques, 161, 165; see also deconstruction; logocentrism; ocularcentrism destruction phase, 7, 1330, 7682, 87111, 161 Deus, 37; see also God; transcendence devil, see demon devolution, 512, 177 diamond symbolism, see jewel symbolism didacticism, 1314, 20, 119, 1269, 1301, 151, 171 Dionysian, 77, 114 discourses, see Kabbalistic discourses; mechanistic discourses; organic discourses; yogic discourses discovery symbolism, see exploration symbolism disintegration phase, see destruction phase dissection, 18; see also consciousness: mental; criticism dissolution, see destruction phase; reductionism distancing, 1718, 22, 24; see also destruction phase divinity, see God; Goddess; Godhead; immanence; transcendence dogma, 130, 182 dog symbolism, 35, 1445, 148 domination, see authoritarianism; fascism; patriarchy; sadomasochism door symbolism, 65, 68, 175 double rhythm, 6, 17, 29; see also destruction phase; oscillation; sacralization phase dream symbolism, 39, 92, 144 drum symbolism, 1456

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dualism, 18, 61, 105; 165, 178; see also consciousness: mental; logocentrism; ocularcentrism; specularity ecstasy, 37, 89, 100, 104, 105, 112, 114, 139, 149; see also Dionysian Eden, see Adam symbolism; Eve symbolism Eder, David, 162, 178, 179 egg symbolism, 115; see also rebirth symbolism ego, 16, 37, 54, 889, 161; see also consciousness: mental; logocentrism; ocularcentrism Egypt symbolism, 1212, 179; see also Africa symbolism Ein Sof (Infinite One), 53, 64, 723, 174, 175; see also Godhead Einstein,Albert, 160 electricity symbolism, 7880, 87, 902, 11213, 11619, 139 Eliot,T. S., 165 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 162 Empedocles, 177 equilibrium, 3, 26, 40, 545, 67, 69, 75, 77, 85, 87, 103, 106, 113, 114, 122, 140, 143, 160, 169, 175, 176, 177, 179 eroticism, see love; sex esotericism, see Buddhism; Golden Dawn Society; Hermeticism; Kabbalah; Sufism;Theosophy;Yoga Eternal Now, 37, 656, 160, 174, 182 eternal recurrence, 172 ether, 99, 178 Eve symbolism, 44, 56, 58, 102, 110, 115, 169 evil, 54, 73, 179; see also husk symbolism; sin evolution, 84, 177; see also devolution eye symbolism, see ocularcentrism; specularity The Fall, 51, 56, 174; see also Adam symbolism; Eve symbolism Fantasia of the Unconscious, 55, 86, 121, 177

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gaze, see ocularcentrism; specularity gender, 547, 5861, 69, 168, 173; see also feminism; patriarchy; sex Genesis, see Adam symbolism; ark symbolism; Eve symbolism; Noah symbolism Genette, Gerard, 169 genitals, see John Thomas; Lady Jane; phallic symbolism; sadomasochism; sex; womb symbolism Gertler, Mark, 76, 129 God, 3, 537, 135; see also Goddess; Godhead; immanence; transcendence; Huitzilopochtli; Quetzalcoatl Goddess, 1378, 173, 183; see also Isis; Malintzi; Shekhinah Godhead, 53, 64, 98; see also Ein Sof (Infinite One) Golden Dawn Society (Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), 53, 163; see also Mathers, S. L. MacGregor;Waite, Arthur Edward;Yeats,W.B. Greek thought, 121, 166, 179; see also Empedocles; Heraclitus; Nietzsche, Friedrich; Plato Haeckel, Ernst, 11, 85, 177 hand symbolism, 389, 59, 90, 102, 136, 169; see also somatic focalization Harrison, Jane Ellen, 6, 7, 162 harvest symbolism, 103 hatred, 18; see also destruction phase; feeling; misanthropy head-centered consciousness, see consciousness: mental; logocentrism; ocularcentrism Heraclitus, 79, 167, 168, 169, 176 Hermeticism, 163; see also Golden Dawn Society; Mathers, S. L. MacGregor; Waite,Arthur Edward Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, see Golden Dawn Society hierarchy, see aristocracy; authoritarianism; fascism

fascism, 128, 180, 184; see also authoritarianism Faulkner,William, 166 feeling, 1, 2, 1516, 23, 267, 33, 36, 38, 408, 51, 57, 65, 74, 81, 87, 107, 114, 117, 1324, 1389, 171; see also destruction phase; sacralization phase; sacred feeling feminism, 5, 1516, 161, 1645, 180, 181, 182; see also goddess; Malintzi; mother symbolism; Shekhinah fetish, 23, 90 fictitious transport, see pseudo-mysticism fire symbolism, 38, 412, 167, 169 fixity, 25, 79, 1367, 143 flower symbolism, 89, 101, 111, 116 flux, see Heraclitus focalization, 169; see also point of view; somatic focalization force, see electricity symbolism; magnetism symbolism; radioactivity symbolism Forster, E. M., 129 Foucault, Michel, 165, 171, 174 fountain symbolism, 119, 132; see also water symbolism fourth dimension, 160 frame, 36, 66 Frank,Waldo, 175 Frankenstein, 177, 184 Frazer, James, 6, 85, 162 freedom, 69, 114, 178, 179; see also liberty Freud, Sigmund, 20, 23, 85, 165; see also Jung, Carl; Kristeva, Julia; Lacan, Jacques; psychoanalysis; Reich, Wilhelm friction symbolism, 901, 96, 139, 177 The Future of the Novel (also entitled Surgery for the Novelor the Bomb), 2 gap, 44, 47 Garden of Eden, see Adam symbolism; Eve symbolism Gardiner, Rolf, 180

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hierophant, 1, 2, 6; see also religious initiation rite hieros gamos, 56, 65, 13740 Hinduism, 11, 91, 11125, 163, 177 holiness, 65, 160; see also sacralization phase holism, 38, 401, 58, 95, 129, 160; see also complementarity; paradox Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit), 40, 56, 169, 173, 174, 175; see also soul Holy Temple, see temple symbolism homoeroticism, 133, 178 Hopkin, Sally, 159 horror, 136 horse symbolism, 63, 957, 1089 house symbolism, 689, 178; see also temple symbolism Huitzilopochtli, 13155, 183 hunt symbolism, 7881 husk symbolism, 52, 723, 163, 165; see also evil hymns, 1515, 182, 1845 hypnosis, 7282 IThou relation, 109; see also Buber, Martin ice symbolism, 95, 1078 ideal reader, 6; see also reader response theory image-thought, 43, 169, 170; see also visualization imagistic profusion, 356 imago, see Lacan, Jacques immanence, 4, 37, 545, 57, 133, 169; see also theos; transcendence impermanence, 170; see also Buddhism impersonality, 3, 37, 58, 64, 66, 109, 136, 148, 153 implied reader, 5; see also Iser,Wolfgang; reader response theory impotence, 183 independence, see singularity Indians, 12655 individualism, see singularity initiation, see religious initiation rite

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inner-outer polarity, 702; see also paradox; polarity (polarization) instrument symbolism, 867, 98, 109, 136, 138 integration, see sacralization phase intellectualism, see consciousness: mental interdependence, see relatedness interracial marriage, 13740, 183 intuition, 43, 66, 86 irony, 2930, 178; see also satire irritation, 30; see also destruction phase; feeling; purification Iser,Wolfgang, 5, 162; see also implied reader; reader response theory Isis, 174; see also Blavatsky, Helena; Goddess James,William, 2, 29, 159, 161 Jesus, 7, 645, 1514, 174; see also Christianity jewel symbolism, 10910, 142, 179 Jewish mysticism, see Kabbalah John Thomas, 47 John Thomas and Lady Jane, 30, 47 Joyce, James, 8, 163, 166 Jung, Carl, 163, 179 Kabbalah, 8, 5182, 91, 1735 Kabbalistic discourses, 8, 5182, 91, 1735 Kingdom, see Shekhinah Kierkegaard, Soren, 178 klippot (husks, shells), see husk symbolism knowledge, see consciousness koan, 168; see also Buddhism Koteliansky, S. S., 29, 176, 182 Krenkow, Fritz, 162 Kristeva, Julia, 28, 166 Kundalini energy, see chakras;Yoga Lacan, Jacques, 5, 23, 166, 168 Lady Chatterleys Lover, 9, 1350, 158, 16472 Lady Jane, 47

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magnetism symbolism, 80, 90 Malintzi, 13540, 183; see also Goddess Mann,Thomas, 27 Mansfield, Katherine, 129 marriage, 3, 25, 567, 6474, 13740, 168; see also hieros gamos masculinism, see aristocracy; authoritarianism; fascism; feminism; patriarchy masochism, see sadomasochism master, see aristocracy; authoritarianism; fascism; patriarchy masturbation, 167 materialism, 172 Mathers, S. L. MacGregor, 53, 173; see also Golden Dawn Society; Hermeticism; Kabbalah matter-mother connection, 978, 178 McLeod,Arthur, 159, 176 mechanism, 10, 20, 70, 85111, 166 mechanistic discourses, 10, 20, 70, 85111, 166 Medieval (period, consciousness), 58 meditation, 37, 41, 66, 163, 168, 169, 182; see also sacralization phase mesmerism, 7682 metal symbolism (also blade, sword), 7980, 96, 158 metaphor, 35, 164, 165, 167, 170; see also linked figures; symbolism metaphysics, 545; see also The Crown; The Reality of Peace;Study of Thomas Hardy metonym, 35, 167; see also linked figures; symbolism Mexico, 12655, 1805 militarism, 126, 1356, 1445 Millett, Kate, 16, 161 mind, see consciousness: mental mindfulness, 163; see also Buddhism; meditation mindlessness, see unconsciousness miniaturization, 28 mirror symbolism, see specularity

lava symbolism, 43, 48, 170, 184; see also volcano symbolism Lawrence, David Herbert, see topic or text of interest Lawrence, Frieda, 13, 156, 182, 183 Levi, Eliphas, 76, 163, 175 liberation, 179; see also freedom; liberty; Nirvana liberty, 69, 79, 1001 linked figures, 19, 234, 356, 41, 623, 6474, 878, 11213 literary devices, see literary technique literary technique, 56, 1314; see also abstraction; alliteration; assonance; codification; concreteness; consonance; copula; destruction phase; didacticism; discourses; distancing; frame; imagistic profusion; irony; linked figures; loop method; meditation; metaphor; metonym; miniaturization; negation; omission; paradox; parody; phonic resonance; pivotal words; plural pronoun; plural protagonist; religious initiation rite; repetition; rhyme; rhythm; sacralization phase; sacred discourses; sacralization phase; satire; somatic focalization; stative; subliminal links; summary; symbolism; textualization of sex; transvaluation; visualization logic, see logocentrism logocentrism, 1521, 161; see also consciousness: mental; Derrida, Jacques loop method, 778, 164 love, 445, 547, 74, 112; see also sacralization phase Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 183, 184 Luhan,Tony, 183 Lukacs, George, 166 machine, see mechanistic discourses magic, 10, 52, 7582, 856, 93, 103, 116, 179 magical discourses, 10, 52, 7582, 856, 93, 103, 116, 179

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misanthropy, 84, 176 miscegenation, see interracial marriage misogyny, see feminism; patriarchy mixing of discourses, 39, 103, 122 mob, 14850; see also racism; stereotype mockery; see satire modern consciousness, see consciousness: mental; modernism modernism, 27, 29, 934, 163, 166 moon symbolism, 7981 morality, 46, 50, 91, 99, 151, 160; see also authoritarianism; censorship; evil; fascism; relatedness; shame; violence Morality and the Novel, 2, 165 mortification phase, see destruction phase Moses, 71 Mother Earth, 978, 178 mother symbolism, 256, 45, 547, 69, 87, 101, 1056, 178, 179; see also child symbolism; Goddess; Malintzi; Shekhinah Movements in European History, 154, 178 Murry, John Middleton, 129 mystery, 33, 447, 95, 11724, 130, 1336, 150, 163, 174, 184; see also sacred experience mysticism, see Buddhism; Kabbalah; pseudo-mysticism; sacralization phase; Sufism;Theosophy;Yoga mythology, 75, 118, 1515; see also Bible; Ovid Narcissus, 75 narrative technique, see literary technique narrative texture, see literary technique narrative theory, see Barthes, Roland; Genette, Gerard; Iser,Wolfgang; reader response theory; somantic focalization;Todorov,Tzvetan narrators, 89, 1415, 164, 167; see also destruction phase; sacralization phase Navajo, see Indians negation, 29, 30, 45, 73, 166; see also destruction phase; sacralization phase New Testament, see Christianity; Jesus

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Nietzsche, Friedrich, 4, 8, 27, 161, 171, 175; see also Apollonian; Dionysian night/day symbolism, see day/night symbolism nightmare symbolism, 182 nihilism, 29 Nirvana, 114, 179; see also Buddhism;Yoga Noah symbolism, 71 nonduality, see holism nostalgia, 1034 The Novel and the Feelings, 2 novels role, 13; see also art Now, see Eternal Now number symbolism, 40, 445, 47, 143 numerology, see number symbolism numinous feeling, see feeling: sacred Nuttall, Zelia, 183 obscenity, 99; see also pornography; shame ocularcentrism, 1516, 229, 759, 879, 161, 166 omission, 44, 47 organic discourses, 325, 5764, 113, 166 orgasm, 21, 269, 37, 402, 89, 1034, 13840, 183 Orwell, George, 19 oscillation, 8, 14, 40, 43, 123, 163; see also double rhythm; snake slough otherness, see alterity Otto, Rudolf, 2, 16, 160 Ouspensky, P. D., 2, 20, 160, 166, 167 Ovid, 168 paganism, 43 panopticon, 24, 166; see also Foucault, Michel; ocularcentrism; specularity pantheism, 2, 53, 85, 173 Paradise, see Adam symbolism; Eve symbolism paradox, 35, 37, 158; see also complementarity; holism; polarity (polarization) parody, 17, 19, 22, 28, 93, 98, 11011; see also satire partiality, 94; see also holism

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predator-prey symbolism, see hunt symbolism Presence, see Shekhinah present moment, see Eternal Now priest, 2, 159; see also hierophant; prophet; religious initiation rite Primal Adam, see Adam symbolism primitivism, see Africa symbolism; The Plumed Serpent projection, 14950, 165 propaganda, 130 prophet, 2, 181; see also hierophant; priest; religious initiation rite prostitution, 102 Proust, Marcel, 166 Pryse, Richard, 11, 11213, 177, 179 pseudo-mysticism, 88, 93, 97, 103, 105, 110, 136 psychoanalysis, 179; see also Fantasia of the Unconscious; Freud, Sigmund; Jung, Carl; Kristeva, Julia; Lacan, Jacques; Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious; Reich,Wilhelm Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, 55, 86, 91, 121 purgation, see purification purification, 7, 16, 30, 45, 48; see also destruction phase Quetzalcoatl, 1112, 13155, 1813 Quetzalcoatl, 181, 182, 183, 184 Rabbinic period, 175 racism, 14751, 180, 183, 184; see also stereotype radioactivity symbolism, 87, 103 The Rainbow, 1, 910, 5182, 156, 1725 rainbow symbolism, 3, 45, 57, 69; see also Holy Ghost; immanence; perfection; relatedness; soul Rananim, 111, 12830, 182 rationality, see logocentrism reader response theory, 1, 5, 12, 158, 162; see also implied reader; Iser,Wolfgang The Reality of Peace, 105, 169, 185

passion, 3, 67, 16, 19, 37, 42, 49, 57, 61, 678, 75, 76, 79, 100, 101, 106, 109, 11524 passivity, 27, 49, 1389 patriarchy, 5, 38, 12655, 173, 181 peace symbolism, 39, 45, 47, 1045, 114, 118, 123, 152, 169 Pearn, Nancy, 164 pendulum symbolism, 1456; see also oscillation; rhythm perfection, 45, 69, 173; see also relatedness perspective, see point of view phallic symbolism, 423, 47, 96, 119, 132, 164, 168 phenomenology, 12, 158; see also reader response theory phoenix symbolism, see rebirth symbolism phonic resonance, 42; see also alliteration; assonance; consonance; repetition; rhythm; rhyme phosphorescence symbolism, 89, 100, 107 pillar symbolism, 69; see also temple symbolism pivotal words, 278 Plato, 166, 176, 179 play, 47, 99 The Plumed Serpent, 1112, 12655, 157, 1805 plural pronoun, 201, 35, 43 plural protagonist, 5861, 14651 Poe, Edgar Allan, 136 point of view, 378, 413; see also somatic focalization polarity (polarization), 54, 105, 118, 160, 176; see also complementarity; holism; paradox pornography, 323, 90, 167; see also censorship positional symbolism, 1423, 1534 positivism, 20, 22; see also mechanistic discourses; science postcolonial, 180 power, 547, 612; see also destruction phase; force; strength prayer, 1314

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rebirth symbolism (twice-born, born again), 38, 40, 44, 115, 137, 154, 161; see also sacralization phase recoil, 40, 43, 95, 1078; see also oscillation reductionism, 95, 100, 112, 176, 178; see also destruction phase reflexivity, see consciousness: mental; logocentrism; ocularcentrism; specularity regression, 1056, 172, 179; see also child symbolism Reich,Wilhelm, 16; see also character armour relatedness, 34, 69, 160, 168; see also perfection; sacralization phase; sacred experience; sacred feeling relationship, see relatedness religious belief, see sacralization phase; sacred experience religious experience, see sacred experience religious initiation rite, 1, 2, 6, 7, 3150, 1268, 1568, 168, 174; see also destruction phase; sacralization phase Renaissance, 6970, 174 repetition, 8, 1920, 278, 412, 49, 95, 171; see also alliteration; assonance; consonance; loop method; phonic resonance; pivotal words repression, 16, 18, 30, 165 repulsion, 16; see also destruction phase; feeling; purification resignation, 105 retrospection, 22, 107 revelation, 160; see also Holy Ghost; perfection; relatedness; sacred experience revitalization phase, see sacralization phase rhyme, 42 rhythm, 33, 367, 414, 47, 51, 63, 95, 113, 11516, 127, 143, 1457, 152, 166, 168; see also double rhythm; sacralization phase ridicule, 43, 171; see also satire rind symbolism, see husk symbolism

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ritual, see ceremony; religious initiation rite Rivera, Diego, 148 Roberts,William, 184 Roman (thought, culture), 101, 176, 178 Rosicrucians, see Golden Dawn Society; Levi, Eliphas; Mathers, S. L. Macgregor rupture, see consciousness: mental; Derrida, Jacques; logocentrism; ocularcentrism; specularity Russell, Bertrand, 76, 129, 182 Sabbath, 1701 sacralization phase, 612, 30, 3150, 5175, 11125, 12655, 1568, 161 sacred discourses, see Kabbalistic discourses; organic discourses;Yogic discourses sacred experience, 3; see also immanence; relatedness; sacralization phase; sacred feeling; transcendence sacred feeling, 1, 2, 3, 32, 42, 44, 159; see also feeling; sacred experience sadomasochism, 7782, 92111, 176, 178 St. John of the Cross, 183 salt symbolism, 7980 sanctimony, 46 satire, 1719, 43, 46; see also consciousness: mental; criticism; destruction phase; irony; parody; ridicule schema, 13, 185 science, 1922, 70, 76, 85111, 166 scientific discourse, see mechanistic discourses scopophilia, 24; see also ocularcentrism; specularity Secker, Martin, 176 seed symbolism, 723, 136, 175; see also husk symbolism self (models of), 169, 172, 175; see also consciousness self consciousness, see consciousness: mental; logocentrism; ocularcentrism; specularity

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Son of God, 7, 67, 113, 11620, 173; see also Jesus; religious initiation rite soul, 2, 18, 21, 37, 41, 56, 61, 645, 74, 75, 7780, 945, 98, 103, 11011, 115, 124, 127, 129, 1312, 138, 159, 170, 173, 178, 181, 182; see also Holy Ghost spatial symbolism, 164 specularity, 225, 97, 166; see also consciousness: mental; ocularcentrism speculation, see specularity; time consciousness Spencer, Herbert, 11, 85, 177 spirit, 4, 7, 8, 40, 43, 45, 61, 645, 69, 74, 127, 134, 143, 1489, 161, 173, 175, 179 spiritual experience, see sacred experience spite, 18 split consciousness, see consciousness: mental; logocentrism; ocularcentrism; specularity spontaneity, 3, 4, 21, 28, 42, 55, 75, 92, 100, 109, 112, 116, 127, 131, 136, 138, 141, 1523, 165, 181, 183, 185 star symbolism, 114, 122, 152, 179 stative, 267; see also copula Steiner, Rudolf, 163 stereotype, 14751, 184; see also racism stillness symbolism, 3, 423, 73, 79, 114, 152, 170 stoicism, 29 strange conjunction, 114; see also equilibrium; perfection; relatedness; star symbolism strength, 667, 175; see also Nietzsche; power; sephirot Studies in Classic American Literature, 169, 171, 181 Study of Thomas Hardy, 46, 159, 166, 174, 175 style, see literary technique subliminal links, 35 suffering, 16, 165; see also feeling Sufism, 173

self reflexivity, see consciousness: mental; logocentrism; ocularcentrism; specularity Seltzer,Thomas, 180 sensuous versus sensual, 89 sephirot (divine creative powers), 537, 174; see also Kabbalah seraphim, 74 serpent symbolism, 61, 117, 153, 175; see also Quetzalcoatl seven levels of awareness (field or spheres of consciousness), 167; see also consciousness sex, 3, 1930, 3150, 58, 64, 68, 878, 92111, 13840, 167 sexism, see feminism; patriarchy shame, 13, 49, 124, 171 Shekhinah (feminine divine Presence), 547, 679, 74, 1735; see also Goddess; Kabbalah Shelley, Mary, 177; see also Frankenstein shell symbolism, see husk symbolism sight, see consciousness: mental; destruction phase; ocularcentrism; specularity silence symbolism, 15, 24, 74, 76, 1214, 135, 1479 simulacrum, see ocularcentrism; specularity sin, 54; see also evil singularity, 81, 178, 179 The Sisters, 51; see also The Rainbow; Women in Love Sitra Achara (Other Side), see evil sleep symbolism, 39, 77, 111, 169 snake slough, 9 snake symbolism, see serpent symbolism snow symbolism, see ice symbolism socialism, 148 sodomy, see anal intercourse somatic awareness, see consciousness, body; somatic focalization somatic focalization, 334, 3747, 169; see also sacralization phase

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summary, 27, 489, 152 The Symbolic Meaning, 136, 171 symbolism, see Adam (Eden, Paradise); Africa; beak; beetle (scarab); bird; center; centrifugal/centripetal; child; combat; crown; dance; darkness; day/night; death; demon; dog; door; dream; drum; egg; Egypt; electricity (circuit); Eve; exploration (discovery); eye; fire; flower; fountain; friction; hand; harvest; horse; house; hunt; husk (rind, shell); ice (snow); instrument; jewel (diamond); lava; machine; magnetism; metal (blade, sword); mirror; moon; mother; nightmare; Noah (ark); number; peace; pendulum; phosphorescence; positional; radioactivity; rainbow (iridescence); rebirth; salt; seed; serpent (snake); silence; sleep; star; stillness; temple; thrills; tree; unknown; volcano; voluptuousness; vortex (whirlwind, whirlpool, spiral); water; wave; wheel (hub, rim); womb sympathy, 1618; see also satire syncretism, 148 tactile focalization, see hand symbolism; somatic focalization Tantric Yoga, see Yoga;Yogic discourses technology, see mechanistic discourses; science temple symbolism, 68, 175 tenderness, 49, 115, 150, 171; see also love textualization of sex, 21 theater symbolism, 19, 24, 2930 theocracy, 12655, 184 theos, 37; see also immanence Theosophy, 68, 51, 67, 162, 163, 167; see also Besant,Annie; Blavatsky, Helena; Pryse, Richard thrills symbolism, 19, 21, 41, 75, 101 time consciousness, 22, 74; see also Eternal Now time-space, 22; see also eternal recurrence

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Todorov,Tzvetan, 169 touch, see hand symbolism; somatic focalization tourism, 1401, 184 trance, 778 transcendence, 4, 37, 545; see also Deus; immanence; sacred experience transfiguration, 68; see also immanence; Jesus; religious initiation rite; sacralization phase; sacred experience transformation, see immanence; religious initiation rite; sacralization phase; sacred experience; transcendence transvaluation, 1920, 45, 83125; see also Nietzsche, Friedrich; sacralization phase Tree of Life, 55, 85; see also sephirot tree symbolism, 36, 55, 85, 173 trinity, 41, 64 unconsciousness, 18, 37, 414, 55, 86, 91, 100, 117, 121, 1324, 165, 171 Underhill, Evelyn, 4, 7, 40, 160, 169 unknown symbolism, 43, 44, 58, 64, 65, 78, 101, 108, 123, 140 utterance, 74, 175 Van Gogh,Vincent, 160 verbosity, see logocentrism violence, see destruction phase vision, see ocularcentrism; point of view; somatic focalization; specularity; visualization visionary, see prophet visuality, see ocularcentrism; specularity visualization, 8, 43, 169; see also meditation vitalism, 4, 38, 180; see also Nietzsche, Friedrich; sacralization phase vitalization phase, see sacralization phase vivification phase, see sacralization phase volcano symbolism, 151, 170, 184; see also lava symbolism voluptuousness symbolism, 49, 89, 146

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vortex symbolism, 42, 43, 97, 1334, 184; see also image-thought; loop method voyeurism, see ocularcentrism; specularity vulnerability, 32, 35, 42, 1367 Waite,Arthur Edward, 53, 69, 170, 173; see also Golden Dawn Society war, 22, 52, 834, 87, 173, 176, 182, 183; see also combat symbolism water symbolism, 41, 43, 118, 167, 169; see also fountain symbolism; Heraclitus; wave symbolism wave symbolism, 41, 48, 623, 146; see also double rhythm; oscillation; rhythm; water symbolism wheel symbolism, 73, 96, 147, 175, 178; see also holism whirlwind symbolism, see vortex symbolism wholeness, see holism Why the Novel Matters, 3; see also novels role