Chapter XII - Internet Sacred Text Archive.
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING. To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change.
What Plotinus said of the gods, that each contained all the rest, is equally true of both demons and devils. The demons of Hunger are closely related to the demons of Fire: Agni devoured his parents (two sticks consumed by the flame they produce); and from them we pass easily to elemental demons, like the lightning, or demons of fever. And similarly we find a relationship between other.
Dead Christ in the Tomb depicts a newly deceased Christ laid out in a casket. The painting is life-size, nearly six feet long and just ten inches high. Christ’s body is emaciated, blue and swollen, riddled with the bloody wounds that were inflicted upon the man. His eyes are partially open, but they show death and not life in their glassy and lusterless appearance. It is everything a.
Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend Until imagination, ear and eye, Can be content with argument and deal In abstract things; or be derided by A sort of battered kettle at the heel. I pace upon the battlements and stare On the foundations of a house, or where Tree, like a sooty finger, starts from the earth; And send imagination forth.
The Geography of the Imagination show: first, because it charges word, image and sense to the fullest, fusing matter and manner; and secondly, t o allow meaning to be searched out.
Then there was Walpole's Letters—very witty, pert, and polite —and some odd volumes of plays, each of which was a precious casket of jewels of good things, shaming the trash nowadays passed off for dramas, containing 'The Jew of Malta,' 'Old Fortunatus,' 'The City Madam,' 'Volpone,' 'The Alchemist,' and other glorious old dramas of the age of Marlowe and Jonson, and that literary Damon and.
Orations 60-61: Funeral Speech. Erotic Essay. Exordia. Letters History, Volume I Books 14-19 Roman Antiquities, Volume VII Books 11-20 Natural History, Volume V: Books 17-19 Library of History, Volume V Books 12.41-13 Discourses 61-80. Fragments. Letters Testimonia, general index Natural History, Volume VI: Books 20-23 History of Rome, Volume XIII Books 43-45 5 maps, index Meteorologica.