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Chapter IV: Book V: 1. On Faith, 220

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2. On Hope, 228

3. The objects of Faith and Hope perceived by the Mind alone, 229

4. Divine Things wrapped up in Figures both in the Sacred
and in Heathen Writers, 232

5. On the Symbols of Pythagoras, 236

6. The Mystic Meaning of the Tabernacle and its Furniture, 240

7. The Egyptian Symbols and Enigmas of Sacred Things, 245

8. The use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers, 247

9. Reasons for veiling the Truth in Symbols, 254

10. The opinion of the Apostles on veiling the Mysteries
of the Faith, 257

11. Abstraction from Material Things necessary in order to
attain to the true Knowledge of God, 261

12. God cannot be embraced in Words or by the Mind, 267

13. The Knowledge of God a Divine Gift, according to the
Philosophers, 270

14. Greek Plagiarisms from the Hebrews, 274

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