Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depends the deployment of a worldwide spiritual army. Her title is appropriate to the task: she is Mother General Mary Columba, 63, of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, head of the U.S.'s biggest, most active Roman Catholic women's missionary order. She is also a symbol of a remarkable 20th century fact: monastic orders are booming, especially...
...which have names with recognized meanings in the Hebrew, we find that they also deal with ideas current in astrology-a house, a hand, an eye, a fish, a serpent . . . while, strangely enough, the last of all in the Hebrew is Taw, a 'mark,' a 'sacred symbol,' the Aramaic Tor, 'oryx' or 'ox,' the Arabic Thaw, the Greek Tauros, the Latin Taurus, the Germanic Thor, 'the Thunderer.' Two bulls? The first and last letter of the alphabet a bull? One is reminded of Alam and Alad, the two bulls...
...seasons of harvest and the religious ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved a sort of shorthand which grew, in spite of cuneiform and hieroglyphics, into an alphabet. The very meanings of the symbols seem to bear this out. In Hebrew, for instance, the second letter of the alphabet. Beth, means "a house," or "a daughter." The second lunar symbol in Chinese means "a woman.""a daughter." The shape of the constellation on the ancient table and the letter Beth are similar...
...letter M apparently goes back to the Chinese Luna constellation Ψwhich in old forms of Hebrew turned into Ψ The Chinese Luna station is San, which is in the solar period Virgo. The astronomical symbol for Virgo: Ψ. To Scholar Moran, all this does more than shed light on the alphabet. Says he: "We are able to trace as never before the golden thread which runs through human history from the barbarity of human sacrifice and the earliest glimmerings of a vengeful God to the highest revelation that we have of ourselves as the children...
...committee in charge of designs and decorations for the prayer room tried hard to keep everything nondenominational. At the last minute a scroll was removed from the stained-glass window (donated by craftsmen and designers from California's 21st District) because it might be taken as a symbol of the Jewish Torah...