Unless a person has a thorough knowledge of Christian doctrine he had better leave allegories alone.
Allegories are not very convincing, but like pictures they visualize a matter.
The allegoriesof amore played a prominent part, and spoiled many a masterpiece.
St. Bernard inaugurated that extraordinary blending of eroticism with half-crazy, inconceivable allegories and fantasies, which lasted for centuries.
Conrad inextricably mingles all the Biblical allegoriesmore or less applicable to Mary, the stories of the Gospels, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, etc.
In the palaces which we saw, several Court allegories were represented, which, atrocious as they were in point of art, might yet serve to attract the regard of the moraliser.
The next visions are those of the Seven Deadly Sins, allegorical figures, but powerful as those of Pilgrim's Progress, making the allegories of the Romaunt of the Rose seem like shadows in comparison.
This fling at Spenser and his followers marks the beginning of the modern and realistic school, which sees in life as it is enough poetic material, without the invention of allegories and impossible heroines.
The theory of daemons completely superseded the old Stoical naturalism, which regarded the different Pagan divinities as allegories or personifications of the Divine attributes.
For my own part, I shall the more willingly discuss this doctrine, because it keenly interests me, on account of the number and the diversity of the allegories it contains.
Often did he meditate upon the Holy Scriptures in order to find allegories in them.
Some are coloured, and have printed on them religious allegoriesor sentences of Confucius.
Although he disbelieved in her deities, he believed in the allegories they represented (or rather he interpreted those allegories anew).
This faith,' said he, 'is but a borrowed plagiarism from one of the many allegories invented by our priests of old.
I unfolded to him something of those sublime allegories which are couched beneath her worship.
These allegories are full of unnatural conceits, and are many of them borrowed from an older source.
But this tendency in me was too strong to be stifled, and it found its food in the fairy tales I loved, and in the religious allegories that I found yet more entrancing.
In magnificent allegoriesin the form of oil-paintings he first found the expression of his individuality.
The list ofallegories is exhaustless, and some of the allegories well-nigh interminable.
Within the garden the personages and action are allegories of the art of love.
In the later developments of the story, elaborate allegoriesare introduced, and monotonous moralizings take the place of the earlier, simpler humor.
This was in the shape of homilies, didactic poems, and long allegories touching manners and morals.
I have stated that it was from the Pish-de-danaans or Yavana philosophers of Egypt that Moses had learned the allegories of the Deluge and of the Fall.
For to the pure all things are pure: and the myths that shock the vulgar are nobleallegories to the wise and reverent.
If Homer used no allegories he committed all impieties.
Looking back upon them from the verge of the grave, which can not now be long untenanted, they seem, even to me, more like fantastic dreams or wild allegories than real occurrences.
That the litteral Story of our Saviour's Miracles must of necessity be true, or I should have no Foundation to build Allegories upon; which is a gross Mistake of other Writers against me, as well as of himself.
Of all these countless allegories none was reiterated with more unwearied persistence than that of the Seven Deadly Sins (those sins which in the doctrine of the Church lead to spiritual death because they are wilfully committed).
It is, to be sure, an allegory, but one of those allegories which seem inherent in the human mind and hence more natural than the most direct narrative.
Frescoes: Allegoriesof Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience, and Triumph of St. Francis.
If true they require no allegoriesto touch either our hearts or our intellects.
So long as a religion is fully alive, men do not talk about it or make allegories about it.
But in our day the expounders of the mass play with the allegories of human rites and play the fool with the people.
Think you I should find it difficult to play with allegories round anything in creation?
The people are greatly delighted with allegories and similitudes, and therefore Christ oftentimes useth them; for they are, as it were, certain pictures which set forth things as if they were painted before our eyes.
Allegories by Giotto in the ceiling over the High Altar.
But true it is, that he who, without judgment, makesallegories or follows those made by others, will not only be deceived but sustain deplorable injury, as there are examples to prove.
Such allegories are not conceived and invented by the Holy Spirit, but by the devil, the spirit of lies.
Allegories are not to have a world-wide treatment like the articles of faith 128.
What to think of the doctrine of these allegories 81.
How to regard Origen's, Augustine's and Jerome's allegories 77-78.
Hence, allegories of this nature, though lacking in aptness, are not necessarily wicked and a source of offense.
Christ and the apostles made use of allegoriesat times.
Allegories must either be avoided altogether or be worked out with the best judgment.
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