What is "represents"

Usage examples of "represents".

That is a sad and true allegory which represents the companions of Ulysses changed by the enchantments of Circe into swine.

Apuleius represents Lucius, while still in the form of an ass, as addressing his prayers to Isis, whom he speaks of as the same as Ceres, Venus, Diana, and Proserpine, and as illuminating the walls of many cities simultaneously with her feminine lustre, and substituting her quivering light for the bright rays of the Sun.

It is said by some, with a nearer approach to interpretation, that the point within the circle represents God in the centre of the Universe.

The North Star, always fixed and immutable for us, represents the point in the centre of the circle, or the Deity in the centre of the Universe.

The Lion that guarded the Ark and held in his mouth the key wherewith to open it, figuratively represents Solomon, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, who preserved and communicated the key to the true knowledge of God, of His laws, and of the profound mysteries of the moral and physical Universe.

Masonry represents the Good Principle and constantly wars against the evil one.

The third apartment represents the consequences of sin and vice and the hell made of the human heart, by its fiery passions.

For the Kabalists, Light represents the Active Principle, and Darkness or Shadow is analogous to the Passive Principle.

Our Lodges are said to be due East and West, because the Master represents the rising Sun, and of course must be in the East.

The division of the first Decan of the Virgin, Aben Ezra says, represents a beautiful Virgin with flowing hair, sitting in a chair, with two ears of corn in her hand, and suckling an infant.

As the single Tau represents the one God, so, no doubt, the Triple Tau, the origin of which cannot be traced, was meant to represent the Trinity of his attributes, the three Masonic pillars, WISDOM, STRENGTH, and HARMONY.

The Blazing Star in our Lodges, we have already said, represents Sirius, Anubis, or Mercury, Guardian and Guide of Souls.

Four represents also the generative power, from which all combinations are derived.

A reason for it, given by Diodorus, is, that it represents earth, water, air, fire, and ether or spirit.

The second sign is styled mild spirit, and represents the secondary spirit, the spirit purely human.