“From shadows and symbols into the truth!”
Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal
His own epitaph at Edgbaston
“Magical shadow with symbolic powers!
A voice from the distant past, an evocation,
Is it not mine prepared for incantation?”
Nurse.
Hérodiade (1898)
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