The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . GRECIAN DORIC CAP lONIO CAP II UNITY AND POLARITY 29. ?*YO EXDi&TTE. FROMTEMPLEiOT MABJ,EOME CMJUCULOJIJOFCORJNTHIANCAP BALWTEE) 3Y SAN GALLQ bodily structure. The ma-sonic guilds of the MiddleAges were custodians of theesoteric—which is the the-osophic—side of the Chris-tian faith, and every studentof the Secret Doctrine knowshow fundamental and far-reaching is this idea of entire cathedral sym-bolized the crucified body ofChrist; its two towers, manand woman—that Adam andEve, for whose redemption,according to popul
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . GRECIAN DORIC CAP lONIO CAP II UNITY AND POLARITY 29. ?*YO EXDi&TTE. FROMTEMPLEiOT MABJ,EOME CMJUCULOJIJOFCORJNTHIANCAP BALWTEE) 3Y SAN GALLQ bodily structure. The ma-sonic guilds of the MiddleAges were custodians of theesoteric—which is the the-osophic—side of the Chris-tian faith, and every studentof the Secret Doctrine knowshow fundamental and far-reaching is this idea of entire cathedral sym-bolized the crucified body ofChrist; its two towers, manand woman—that Adam andEve, for whose redemption,according to popular belief,Christ suffered and was cru-cified. The north, or righthand tower (the mansside) was called the sacredmale pillar, Jachin; and the south, or left hand tower (the woman5 side)the sacred female pillar, Boaz, from the twocolumns flanking the gate to Solomons Temple—itself an allegory of the bodily temple. Inonly a few of the French cathedrals is thisdistinction clearly and consistently maintained,and of these Tours forms perhaps the mostremarkable example, for in its flamboyantfacade, over and abo
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