A Nature Mystic's ClueD. Goddard, 1925 - 282 sider |
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Side 150 - ... alone am calm, as one who has as yet received no omen; I am as a babe who has not learned to smile. I am forlorn, like a homeless wanderer! Common people have plenty; I alone am in want. I am a foolish man at heart! I am ignorant. Common people are vivacious and smart, I alone am dull and confused. Knowledge of the Tao, how vast! I am like a sailor far beyond a place of anchorage, adrift on a boundless ocean. Common people are useful, I am awkward. I stand in contrast to them — but oh, the...
Side 151 - ... path, who will set all their forces towards it, who will divest themselves of all that we have put on in our descent:- so, to those that approach the Holy Celebrations of the Mysteries, there are appointed purifications and the laying aside of the garments worn before, and the entry in nakedness- until, passing, on the upward way, all that is other than the God, each in the solitude of himself shall behold that solitary-dwelling Existence, the Apart, the Unmingled, the Pure, that from Which all...
Side 151 - Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland": this is the soundest counsel. But what is this flight? How are we to gain the open sea? For Odysseus is surely a parable to us when he commands the flight from the sorceries of Circe or Calypso- not content to linger for all the pleasure offered to his eyes and all the delight of sense filling his days.
Side 234 - His form is not to be beheld. No one soever sees Him with the eye. They who know Him with heart and mind As abiding in the heart become immortal.
Side 150 - Therefore we must ascend again towards the Good, the desired of every Soul. Anyone that has seen This, knows what I intend when I say that it is beautiful. Even the desire of it is to be desired as a Good. To attain it is for those that will take the upward path, who will set all their forces towards it, who will divest themselves of all that we have put on in our descent:— so, to those that approach the Holy Celebrations of the Mysteries, there are appointed purifications and the laying aside...
Side 179 - That which is born of flesh is flesh. That which is born of spirit is spirit.
Side 151 - And one that shall know this vision— with what passion of love shall he not be seized, with what pang of desire, what longing to be molten into one with This, what wondering delight! If he that has never seen this Being must hunger for It as for all his welfare, he that has known must love and reverence It as the very Beauty; he...
Side 248 - ... vouchsafes to send us, bearing in mind that whether He gives or takes away, all is still goodness and mercy, and that while we accept His blessings, we should no less accept His afflictions, for the Lord is a good Father, Who loves us dearly, and knows, far better than we do, what is best for us, causing all things to work together for good to those that love Him.
Side 234 - Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Side 165 - ... it should have had if it had stood still) into the wretchedness of this earth, and afterward into the prison of hell, there to...