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- adjective of or pertaining to the goddess
Isis or her worship
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Fathers themselves were the first to recognize that "the devil too had his sacraments," and that the Eleusinian, Isiac, Mithraic and other _mystae_ used baptism in their rites of initiation.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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We may mention here another inscribed tablet, the celebrated Isiac table in the Museum at Turin.
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The mystic articles kept in the Isiac coffer were, says Eusebius, a ball, dice, (_turbo_) wheel, mirror, lock of wool.
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It produced the "Virgin of the Sphere," Queen of Heaven, "Isiac Controller of the Zodiac," at the same time that it made her the mother of all mankind.
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Temple may have used on that night one of the medieval incantations, or possibly the more ancient invocation of the Isiac rite with which a man of his knowledge and proclivities would certainly be familiar.
The Lost Stradivarius John Meade Falkner 1895
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Isiac altar now in the Capitol was found under the Biblioteca
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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Among them were a crocodile in red granite, the pedestal of a candelabrum, triangular in shape, with sphinxes at the corners; a column of the temple, with reliefs representing an Isiac procession; and a portion of a capital.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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Oceanus at Naples, the River-God buried in 1440, the Isiac altars of the Capitol and of the Louvre, the tripod, the crocodile and sundry other fragments which were found in 1883.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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The sacred vessel of the Isiac ceremony finds its counterpart in the Heavens.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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The Isiac tablet, describing the Mysteries of Isis, is charged with serpents in every part, as her emblems.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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