Qutb can refer to celestial movements and used as an astronomical term or a spiritual symbol.
This is the secret of the symbol, the spiritual, mythological symbol.
This is a historical misinterpretation of spiritual symbols.
Mayor Coletti rendered a similar assessment, saying that the crosses in public buildings were not so much spiritual symbols as civic ones.
And the use of a fundamentally spiritual symbol may be a clue to a new industry attitude.
"But from the Japanese point of view, it's a sort of spiritual symbol."
Father Estevao wasn't all that popular a figure-he never went drinking with the boys-but he was a kind of spiritual symbol.
Was it a spiritual symbol, as it had been in earlier religious art?
This cloth is often adorned by a pentacle, or other spiritual symbol.
You'll see how Lawrence uses flowers as both spiritual and sexual symbols.