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  • Exalting incest as the "hieros gamos" [ 'chymical marriage'] of the gods, the mystic prerogative of kings, a priestly rite, etc., "alchemy, Jung writes in Mysterium Coniunctionis, archetypally transformed" the most heinous transgression of the law ... into a symbol of the union of opposites, hoping in this way to bring back the golden age. "[

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • Tickner's job is ensuring the actors and production crew avoid injury in a very physically challenging, inter-active production called Mysterium

    KYW Newsradio 1060 2010

  • While "Mysterium" has baffled subsequent generations, his "Prometheus" for orchestra and clavier à lumi è re — a kind of organ that would project colored lights onto walls — has inspired a succession of performers to realize a vision Mr. Scriabin himself never saw fulfilled.

    Orchestrating an Extrasensory Sound in Living Color Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

  • The Russian composer's "Mysterium," begun in 1903 and unfinished at his death 12 years later, was cast for orchestra and mixed choir, light organ, dancers, incense and smoke.

    Orchestrating an Extrasensory Sound in Living Color Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

  • "Mysterium" may be an extreme example, but it illustrates Mr. Scriabin's multisensory approach to his art, one that informs his miniatures for solo piano as much as his symphonic works.

    Orchestrating an Extrasensory Sound in Living Color Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

  • (And share your morning playlist in the comments.) - John Carpenter, "Main Title" (Theme from "Escape from New York") - Liturgy, "Mysterium"

    Clicky shuffle: Random songs for Tuesday morning 2010

  • "Mysterium" is anything out of which something germinally contained in it can be developed.

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • - he even projected a major work entitled '' Mysterium '', never realized, which would have employed all the senses, and was to take place at the foot of the [[Himalayas]].

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • - he even projected a major work entitled '' Mysterium '', never realized, which would have employed all the senses, and was to take place at the foot of the [[Himalayas]].

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • He's written a Hugo winner (Spin), but the rest of his stuff, such as A Bridge of Years, Blind Lake, Mysterium, Darwinia, The Chronoliths, etc. are great too.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

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