Chapter I
Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston translation
UNCONSCIOUS SYMBOLISM
A. Unity of Significance and Form in its immediacy 36
1. The religion of Zoroaster 37
2. No true symbolical significance in the above 42
3. Equally destitute of an artistic character 44
B. Fantastic Symbolism 47
1. The Hindoo conception of Brahmâ 50
2. Sensuousness, measurelessness, and personifying activity of Hindoo imagination 51
3. Conception of purification and penance 64
C. Genuine Symbolism 65
1. Nature no longer accepted in its immediate sensuous existence as adequate to the significance. Art and general outlook of ancient Egypt 75
[(a) The inward import held independent of immediate existence in the embalmed corpse 76
(b) Doctrine of immortality of the soul as held by Egyptians 76
(c) Superterranean and subterranean modes of Egyptian art. The Pyramids] 77
2. Worship of animals, as the vision of a secreted soul. Symbolical and non-symbolical aspects of this cult 78
3. Works of Egyptian art are objective riddles. The Sphinx symbolic of the genius of Egypt. Memnons, Isis, and Osiris 79