What is "symbolized"

Usage examples of "symbolized".

And this is the mystery of the Old Testament, in which the New was hidden, that there even earthly gifts are promised: those who were spiritual understanding even then, although not yet openly declaring, both the eternity which was symbolized by these earthly things, and in what gifts of God true felicity could be found.

And this law was given in conformity with the age of the world, and Contained at the first earthly promises, as I have said, which, however, symbolized eternal ones.

This nature, so constituted that offspring could not be looked for, symbolized the nature of the human race vitiated by sin and by just consequence condemned.

For then there shall be no more of this world, no more of the surgings and restlessness of human life, and it is this which is symbolized by the sea.

For what if this number ten signifies the whole number of kings who are to precede his coming, as totality is frequently symbolized by a thousand, or a hundred, or seven, or other numbers, which it is not necessary to recount?

For the animals selected as victims under the old law were required to be immaculate, and free from all blemish whatever, and symbolized holy men free from all sin, the only instance of which character was found in Christ.

For there shall then be in the body and soul of the saints the purity which was symbolized in the bodies of these victims.

For they are not in that bond of peace which is symbolized by that sacrament.

But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience.

So it is the discovery of your destiny that is symbolized by the father quest.

Now, the second psychological center is symbolized in the Indian order of spiritual development by the sex organs, which is to say the urge to procreation.

This opening of the heart to the world is what is symbolized mythologically as the virgin birth.

This has become symbolized in the images of religion, which represent that connecting link.

The person who is to be treated moves into the mandala as a way of moving into a mythological context that he will be identifying with -- he identifies himself with the symbolized power.

And whereas it must, of course, be the task of the historian, archaeologist, and prehistorian to show that the myths are as facts untrue — that there is no one Chosen People of God in this multiracial world, no Found Truth to which we all must bow, no One and Only True Church — it will be more and more, and with increasing urgency, the task of the psychologist and comparative mythologist not only to identify, analyze, and interpret the symbolized "facts of the mind," but also to evolve techniques for retaining these in health and, as the old traditions of the fading past dissolve, assist mankind to a knowledge and appreciation of our own inward, as well as the world's outward, orders of fact.