We Moderns

Excerpts, from the 1918 volume

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Edwin Muir

Elementary Concerns of Weaponcraft

On the fundamental theory of archetypal weapons

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Jack R. Parnell

Architectural Symbolism of the Scepter

On the origin of the royal scepter as a rod of measure

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Alexander Ford

The Wand, and Fire

On the evolution of the wand symbol, and its relation to fire

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Morgan P. Stevens

The Canon

Excerpts, from the 1897 volume 

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William Stirling

Remarks on Proportion

On measurement and mysticism in the Greek temple

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Alexander Ford

Upon Their Shields

On the Spartan defeat by Epaminondas at Leuctra

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Jack R. Parnell

Maid, Mage, and Tower

On the symbolic tower, and axial cosmology

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Alexander Ford

The Sword, The Intellect

On the occult significance of swords

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Morgan P. Stevens

Focus of the Heart, Fortunes of War

On the lives of Sigismondo and Galeotto Malatesta, of Rimini

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Jack R. Parnell

Cicero's Somnium Scipionis

From the 1st c. BC Manuscript by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Translated by Andrew P. Peabody