And thus was the Holy Spirit, Ghost, Gas, Wind, Electrical Fire or Spirit of Authority imparted to the hierophant or gospel novitiate.
For the historical facts herein set forth as clearly prove such assumptions to be false, as figures can demonstrate the truth of any mathematical problem.
The hierophant enclosed him in a little boat and set him adrift, pointing him to a distant rock, which he calls "the harbor of life.
The three words which the hierophant said to the initiated?
Sometimes the hierophant was known simply by the title of his office with the addition of his father's name.
The hierophant was compelled to avoid contact with the dead in the same manner as the Cohanim of the Jewish faith, and with certain animals reputed to be unclean.
Next in rank to the hierophant and hierophantide came the male and female dadouchos, who were taken from the family of the Keryces.
The special duty of the female hierophant was to superintend the initiation of female aspirants, but she was present throughout the ceremony and played some part in the initiation of the male candidates.
Having thoroughly purified him, the hierophant now discloses to the initiated a region all over illuminated and shining with a divine splendour.
The part of the hierophantwas taken by the false prophet himself.
The male dadouchos particularly was associated with the hierophant in certain solemn and public functions, such as the opening address to the candidates for initiation and in the public prayers for the welfare of the State.
Even then, there was one part of the temple and one portion of the ceremony which could be entered and witnessed only by the hierophant and hierophantide.
And now the Muse, with mortal woes impress'd, Thus the fair Hierophant again address'd.
When all the rest obeyed, Theodorus the hierophant excused himself, saying, If he has done the State no wrong, I never cursed him.
But their intercourse was only dramatic or symbolical, for the hierophant had temporarily deprived himself of his virility by an application of hemlock.
After a time the hierophant reappeared, and in a blaze of light silently exhibited to the assembly a reaped ear of corn, the fruit of the divine marriage.
Rathunor was a daily visitor, and remembering the advice and instructions of the Hierophant he was calm, silent, and patient in his attentions to her and apparently took no heed of her fancies and strange conversation.
Then the Hierophant turning, mentally addressed Sarthia, the unseen witness of the interview, "Am I not right in making this pledge for you to Rathunor?
This enchanting music continued for some time, then gently died away until only the breathings of music could be heard, when the Hierophant raised his hands as if in supplication.
The Hierophant had given him to understand that at no distant day Nu-nah would become interested in spiritual things and be his teacher.
Rathunor soon revived in the fresh air of the outer court and now being summoned by a messenger from the Hierophant presented himself again before him.
So he suffered and heeded not the whisperings from within, until he could not endure it any longer, when he sought the presence of the Hierophant for advice and enlightenment.
The reviving forms of the two young girls were again brought into the Holy Sanctuary of the Temple and placed in front of the Altar and the Hierophant who had already taken his position.
Agreeable to appointment and the arrangements to be made it was necessary for the Hierophant and the Holy men of the Temple to assemble at an early hour, although the Transfer was not to take place until midnight.
My child," said the Hierophant in reply to her speechless inquiry as to the meaning of this wonder, "there are no barriers to the disembodied soul.
The Hierophant of the Temple, the Priests and the Lay Priests, and the Priestesses with their Vestal Virgins, were now assembled in their respective places.
The outer world had almost forgotten them, but not so with the Hierophant and the Priestess of the Temple.
As soon as he had been conveyed to an outer court, the Hierophant again continued.
So also he states that General Garibaldi was in 1860, and had been so for many previous years, the Grand Master and Grand Hierophant of the Rite of Memphis for all countries of the globe.
Madame Blavatsky was the High Priestess in this inner temple during her lifetime, and was succeeded by Hierophant W.
Cagliostro had his High Priestess in the person of a beautiful wife, Lorenza Feliciani, and Blavatsky her Hierophant in the somewhat prosaic guise of a New York reporter, Col.
On the first day of its life, they celebrated its symbolic marriage with the son of Dionysos, and the Hierophant deflowered it herself with a little golden knife; for virginity is displeasing to Aphrodite.
It was there that the hierophant stood to dictate to a young girl whose voice was clear and high the miraculous discourses which issued from the statue on the third day of the fete.
We still have the prayer of the real Orpheus, which the hierophant recited in the old Greek mysteries.
Let the Hierophant and the Torchbearer command that at the mysteries the Hellenes should offer first-fruits of their crops," etc.
As he stood confounded and irresolute, the melodious voice of the hierophant rang through the temple: "Let the priest Eubulides stand forth.
They are punished, the Hierophant said, because they have deserted the posts assigned to them by the gods.
One day, during the celebrations, the Hierophant uncovered the mysterious baskets, which are carried in the procession, and which are the object of the public veneration.
In the mysteries, the Hierophant taught the doctrine that our nature had been corrupted by a first sin.
Thereupon the Hierophant casting the fates, each soul picked up the one that fell before her, except myself who had been forbidden it.
The Hierophant is chosen in the family of the Eumolpides, one of the most ancient of Athens; the sacred herald in that of the Ceryces, which is a collateral branch of the other; the two other priests belong also to illustrious families.
The Hierophant explained these various emblems, and his vivid pictures added to our terror.
Then the same Hierophant placed before them callings of all kinds, whose number was greater than that of the souls who were to choose; for all the conditions of men and beasts were assembled therein.
The Hierophant added: he who chooses the last, provided he be judicious, and then be consistent in his conduct, may hope to be blessed in life.
Aristoteles was accused of impiety by the hierophant Eurymedon, for having sacrificed to the manes of his wife, according to the rite practiced in the worship of Ceres.
One of the greatest blessings and privileges of the initiation, the hierophant and other priests taught, was to secure here below a direct communion with the gods, and more especially beyond the grave.
This grand Cosmogonic idea he taught in the Mysteries; and thus the Hierophant explained the meaning of the mystic egg, seen by the Initiates in the Sanctuary.
But when the Hierophant has opened the entrance to the inmost sanctuary, and removed the robe that hides the Goddess, he exhibits her to the Initiate, resplendent with divine light.
Hierophant of Eleusis, Motive God of nature, veiled on throne, 411-l.
The words of Athenaeus, as far as I can understand them, seem to imply that he composed a speech for the Hierophant Eurymedon.
An indictment on the score of impiety was preferred against him by Eurymedon the Hierophant (chief priest of the Eleusinian Demeter), aided by Demophilus, son of the historian Ephorus.
The right hand is upraised and extended, being the reverse of that benediction which is given by the Hierophant in the fifth card.
The last hierophantof Eleusis was a high-priest of Mithra.
And Plutarch, on the death of their daughter, reminded his wife of the soothing words which they had together heard from the hierophant in the Dionysiac mysteries.
He formed a close alliance for a time with that roaming hierophant of philosophy, Apollonius of Tyana, the bond between them being probably a common asceticism and a common hatred of the imperial tyranny.
The true image, or veraicon, has become St. Veronica, as the supreme hierophant of Roman paganism is St. Peter.
The Chaldaic designation of the supreme pontiff andhierophant was peter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hierophant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
