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The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Signs and

Symbols

The Ultimate A-Z Guide from Alchemy to the Zodiac

Adele Nozedar

For Adam and for the seven secrets

‘In every grain of sand there lies Hidden the soil of a star’

Arthur Machen

‘I do not need a leash or a tie To lead me astray In the land where dreams lie’

Yoav

In Nature’s temple, living pillars rise Speaking sometimes in words of abstruse sense; Man walks

through woods of symbols, dark and dense, Which gaze at him with fond familiar eyes.

Like distant echoes blent in the beyond In unity, in a deep darksome way, Vast as black night and vast

as splendent day, Perfumes and sounds and colors correspond.

From “Correspondences,” Charles Baudelaire

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Epigraph

Introduction

Part One Signs and Symbols of Magic and Mystery

Part Two Fauna

Part Three Flora

Part Four Flowers of the Underworld

Part Five Sacred Geometry and Places of Pilgrimage

Part Six Numbers

Part Seven Sacred Sounds, Secret Signs

Part Eight The Body as a Sacred Map

Part Nine Rites and Rituals, Customs and Observances

Part Ten The Nature of the Divine

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