Whichever view of the probable origin of these common symbolisms, all the world over, be adopted by any Christian student, the importance of the symbolisms themselves, in their relation to the truths of revelation, is manifestly the same.
Proclus alleges that even Plato himself drew many of his peculiar dogmas from the symbolisms of the ancients.
Modern folk-lore is full of symbolisms and personifications, as real to multitudes as are the mythical stories found in writings supposed to contain an infallible divine revelation.
And thus in the Arts we have symbolism at every stage of transparency and obscurity; from symbolisms which merely summarise speech to symbolisms which transcend it.
Accordingly, we find the early northern poetry an anticipation of the seriousness of modern English literature, and, as well, of its unequalled recognition of physical symbolisms of the sublime.
None of the symbolisms of the middle ages grew directly from Nature--it was based on second-hand reveries, and on emblems from which all juice and life had been drained ages before in the East.
There are many other symbolisms of color and light which have arisen in various ways but it is far beyond the scope of this book to discuss them.
Finally certain light-sources themselves became objects of worship and were surrounded by other lamps, and the symbolisms of light grew apace.
The Bible contains many references to the importance and symbolisms of light and fire.
The ceremonial use of light in the Christian church evolved both from adaptations of pagan customs and of the natural symbolisms of fire and light.
Early ecclesiasts employed these symbolisms in religious ceremonies and dictated the garbs of saints and other religious personages in the paintings which decorated their edifices.
These symbolisms can hardly fail to be recognized as based on the universal primitive rite of blood-covenanting.
Under the Mosaic ritual, the forms and the symbolisms of sacrifice were various.
Which ever view of the probable origin of these common symbolisms, all the world over, be adopted by any Christian student, the importance of the symbolisms themselves, in their relation to the truths of revelation, is manifestly the same.
The intelligibility of these vaguer symbolisms can hardly be due to anything but their automatic and silent translation into the terms of a fuller flow of speech.
The Cabala is full of unrestrained oriental imagination, of fancies run riot, and of symbolisms ridden to death.
It is for this reason that so many erotic symbolisms take root in childhood and puberty, before the sexual instincts have reached full development.
We meet with another group of erotic symbolisms--alike symbolisms of object and of act--in connection with the two functions adjoining the anatomical sexual focus: the urinary and alvine excretory functions.
From such a physiological symbolism it is but a step to the psychological symbolisms of scatalogic fetichism.
Indian symbolisms are used in the prettiest manner.
The Sabbath School lesson could be metamorphosed into a joy and the symbolisms of Christmas and Easter could be made a reality by the legitimate use of the dramatic instinct that is innate in all of us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "symbolisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
