How To Use Arcanum In A Sentence
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Aycock; Odd Fellow; Royal Arcanum; Junior; Baptist.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
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In fact, it's precisely because we do not know how it works that we do not rule out the possibility that it does in fact work, the possibility even that others might understand the workings we do not -- hence the term arcanum, with its associations of secret knowledge.
Archive 2008-08-01
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They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
VIII. English Traits. Character
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There was the arcanum; each yellow grain conduced to my exaltation, and the sum of these grains was the sum of my mightiness.
The Dignity of Dollars
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Sons of this Age, to labour in this work, no, not at all: but I shall rather dehort all, and every of the curious Indagators of this Art, that they seriously abstain from this most perilous Arcanum, as from a certain Sanctum
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires
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Freemasonry were off-shoots of the original Cabala, and that during the past 150 years new associations had been formed, and the parties who had introduced me into their arcanum were a society in affiliation with many others then in existence in different countries.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12
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Aycock; Odd Fellow; Royal Arcanum; Junior; Baptist.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
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They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the "winking Virgin," to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
English Traits (1856)
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You must know, my lady, dis precious mixture was de great secret - de arcanum mirificabile - of dat wonderful Arabian physician Hamech, which Paracelsus went mad wid cudgelling his prains to find out; and Avicenna and Galen and Trismegistus and Moderatus Columella all proke down in deir search to discover de meaning of de learned worts in which Hamech wrote de signification.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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My other artists are work-on-demand, but Arcanum decides on a case-by-case basis.
Arcane Circle
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There was the arcanum; each yellow grain conduced to my exaltation, and the sum of these grains was the sum of my mightiness.
The Dignity of Dollars
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Look at this precious phial, the incomparable elixir, the pabulum of life, the grand arcanum, the supernaculum, the mother and regenerator of nature, the source and the womb of all existence, past, present, and to come!
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
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From here the newly weds were "belled" or taken outside and put in the back of an old truck filled with straw and driven all the way to Greenville and back passing through Ithaca and Arcanum on the way-with car and truck horns blaring loudly, tin cans dragging behind with sparks flying, and people yelling-it was a wonder the hay never caught on fire.
Brookville Daily Photo
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This is an arcanum which is brought within the range of the understanding by the doctrine of degrees.
Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
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The arcanum "could have happened", basically, if we believe in occult systems which transcend the laws of nature.
Archive 2008-08-01
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There was the arcanum — nay, arcana, for each yellow grain conduced to my exaltation, and the sum of these grains was the sum of my mightiness.
THE DIGNITY OF DOLLARS
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So Dumuzi may become a chimera/arcanum as he transforms into a gazelle in his bid to escape the demons pursuing him, but relative to his society and worldscape he is disempowered, a humble shepherd, a boy crying for his mother — a nobody.
A Theory of Modes and Modalities
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The ministers of the word preach, and would be accepted with the people; take this "arcanum," [the secret] of it, -- pray over it; and it is the only way to have it accepted in the hearts of the people: follow it on with prayer.
The Sermons of John Owen
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I see exactly what you mean, and it fits really well with some of my own vaguer concerns with the belief in arcanum that marks out magic realism.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
