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Ca.sca.ra. Sagrada. Cascara sagrada, also known as sacred bark, chitten, dogwood, coffeeberry, bearberry, bitter bark, and bearwood, is the dried bark of Jdamnus Purshiana DeCandoUe. It is ia the form of browa, purpHsh browa, or brownish red flattened or transversely curved pieces, 1- to 5-mm thick, and has a characteristic odor and bitter taste. It should be collected at least one year prior to use. The active constituents are aloe-emodin... 

Ancient iron structures sometimes show no sign of corrosion or at most, very little. The clean atmosphere of past centuries may be responsible in that it allowed a very thin adherent layer of oxide to develop on the surface [22], This layer very often protects against even today s increasingly aggressive industrial pollutants Very often the conditions of the initial corrosion are the ones that determine the lifespan of metals [23], A well-known example is the sacred pillar of Kutub in Delhi, which was hand forged from large iron blooms in 410 a.d. In the pure dry air, the pillar remains free of rust traces but shows pitting corrosion of the iron... 

Delaunay, D., D. Lakehal, C. Barre, and C. Sacre. 1997. Numerical and wind runnel siinula-rioiis of gas dispersion around a rectangular building. J. Wind Engineering and Industrial. Aerodynamics, vols. 67-68, pp. 721-732. 

The numerous applioatioua of the Mtchelta Ofnnjipaca make it a -aluable plant, which ia regarded in some districts as sacred. 

Heil-formel, /. (Med.) prescription, -gerati n, therapeutic Apparatus, heilig, a. holy solemn, sacred, heiligen, v.t. hallow, sanctify consecrate. Heiligen-harz, n. guaiacum (resin), -holz, n. 

Pesticide use was not Carson s chosen topic. She preferred to author works that simply fostered a deeper appreciation of nature. A shy and soft-spoken woman, Carson wrote with an Albert Schweitzer-like reverence for life. All was sacred to her. Her style was lyrical, vivid, and romantic, falling mostly within the nature-writing tradition. She gave her creatures anthropomorphic characteristics, set them in dramatic situations, hoping, she said, to make animals in the woods or waters, where they live, as alive to others as they are to me. ... 

It is not about barhopping, with its mating and dating, or the power and prestige of a nine o clock table at the best new restaurant—sacred cattle of New York City. 

Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Sacred Heart of Mary. Similarly integrated into this same ritualistic celebration of the Redeeming Body, were the Feasts of the Transfiguration and that of the Ascension. 

Julia Kristeva, Logics of the Sacred and Revolt in John Lechte and Mary Zoumasi, After the Revolution (Sydney Artspace, 1998). 

As in the case of Fludd, Boehme s Christ was a metaphor for his own spiritual experiences and he employed alchemical terminology in order to describe these sacred moments of illumination. He regarded the purpose of life as being the effort to harmonise the oppositions within and without the human being, uniting them with God the Light. 

In Israel, elder is found growing in sacred sites steeped in religious tradition such as around the synagogue in Safed and in the monastery and archdiocesan yards of the old cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. 

Altman, Nathaniel, Sacred Trees, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1994. 

Hermes Trismegistus. [Aureus] The Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus Aureus or the Golden Tractate of Hermes, r http //www. sacred-... 

Hermes Trismegistus. [Emerald table] Glory of the world, rhttp //www.sacred-texts, com/alc/emer glor.html. [20031206],... 

Archelaos. [Upon the sacred art]. Rhetorical and religious aspects of Greek alchemy including a commentary and translation of the poem of the philosopher Archelaos Upon the sacred art, by C.A. Browne [Part 1], Ambix 2, no. 3-4 (Dec 1946) 129-137. Translated by C. A. Browne. 

Mary the Prophetess. The practise of Mary the Prophetess in the Alchymicall Art. [http //www.sacred-texts.com/alc/ maryprof.html. 

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