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Wells are symbols of portals to the Underworld as well as to the realms of spirits and fairies. The water in a well was deep, therefore it was believed to have a direct connection to the Underworld.
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
Sardanapalus, in Sardanapalus, act 5, scene 1
All men are intrinsical rascals, and I am only sorry that not being a dog I can't bite them.
When vitality wells up thus within an atom it endows it with an additional life, and gives it a power of attraction so that it immediately draws round it six other atoms which it arranges in a definite form, ...
the water of wells, and everiche of these congealeth
the water one wth coldenes another wth hotnes
another by arte another by nature, and the matter is
made one body and one gobbet. And knowe thou that ...
Pharyngula::Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher: despicable Dr Wells and his worthless tract, Icons of Evolution (stupid creationists)
Pharyngula::Wells and Haeckel's Embryos
Pharyngula::The Cambrian as an evolutionary exemplar ...
I have ordained should be followed, too, as regards Shraddha at holy places, dedication of a bull, the autumnal festival, on setting out on a journey, on the first entry into a house, the wearing of new clothes or jewels, dedication of tanks, wells, ...
It is in stones, and is fetched out by the stroke of the steele; it is in Earth, and makes that, after digging up, to smoake [smoke]: it is in Water, and heats springs, and wells: it is in the depth of the Sea, and makes that, ...
Wells, in his Outline of History, describing primitive life on the earth, states: "But though the ocean and intertidal water already swarmed with life, the land above the high-tide line was still, so far as we can guess, ...
The origins of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the wellspring of almost all modern occult thought and practice, is a matter of some controversy.
The grail maiden is likely to occur in many places, for instance as an echo of the once Hyperborean tradition of oracular prophecy at sacred wells and springs.
[#24] Note that no tautologies defile its linguistic wells. "As I have written" is never changed to "as I have observed, noted, described, said, indicated, remarked, pointed out" and so on.
The Life of God, His energy, and vitality, are found in every manifested atom; His essence indwells all forms. This we call Spirit, yet He Himself is other than those forms, just as man knows himself to be other than his bodies.
It refers to all aspects of the inner life, from fantasy and imagination to great heights of ecstasy, deep wells of grief, and the immense calm of spiritual security. This the world of feelings, the heart, our close emotional and spiritual ties.
Alignments and patterns of powerful, invisible earth energy said to connect various sacred sites, such as churches, temples, stone circles, megaliths, holy wells, burial sites, and other locations of spiritual or magical importance.
Norse practitioners, as well as some modern Witches, use natural pools of water, wells, or even waterfalls.
But his greatest contribution lay in his central role in the establishment of an occult current of ceremonial magic - the Golden Dawn tradition - that has become the wellspring for all western occultism ever since.
 See also: World, Spirit, Light, Ritual, Spiritual
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