History of the Knights of Pythias: With an Account of the Life and Time of Damon and PythiasJ.D. Weeks and Company, 1874 - 297 頁 |
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第 284 頁 - In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite ; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there.
第 282 頁 - Bees will not work except in darkness; Thought will not work except in Silence; neither will Virtue work except in Secrecy. Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth! Neither shalt thou prate even to thy own heart of "those secrets known to all.
第 284 頁 - Friends,' elsewhere observes- the Professor, ' not ' our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one ' is King over us ; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead ' us heavenward ; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hell
第 285 頁 - Fantasy; the vessel it drinks out of? Ever in the dullest existence, there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness (thou partly hast it in thy choice, which of the two) that gleams in from the circumambient Eternity, and colours with its own hues our little islet of Time.
第 288 頁 - If thou ask to what height man has carried it in this matter, look on our divinest Symbol : on Jesus of Nazareth, and his life and his biography, and what followed therefrom.
第 283 頁 - In a Symbol there is concealment and yet revelation : here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance. And if both the Speech be itself high, and the Silence fit and noble, how expressive will their union be ! Thus in many a painted Device, or simple Sealemblem, the commonest Truth stands out to us proclaimed with quite new emphasis. " For it is here that Fantasy with...
第 287 頁 - In that divinely transfigured Sleep, as of Victory, resting over the beloved face which now knows thee no more, read (if thou canst for tears) the confluence of Time with Eternity, and some gleam of the latter peering through. "Highest of all Symbols are those wherein the Artist or Poet has risen into Prophet, and all men can recognize a present God, and worship the same : I mean religious Symbols.
第 284 頁 - Nature,' preaches, as he can, by act and word ? Not a Hut he builds but is the visible embodiment of a Thought ; but bears visible record of invisible things ; but is, in the transcendental sense, symbolical as well as real.
第 39 頁 - Oracle, and preserve it in purity of mind and heart. Go on, in the right way, and contemplate THE SOLE GOVERNOR OF THE WORLD : HE IS ONE, AND OF HIMSELF ALONE ; AND TO THAT ONE ALL THINGS OWE THEIR BEING. HE OPERATES THROUGH ALL, WAS NEVER SEEN BY MORTAL EYES, BUT DOES HIMSELF SEE EVERY ONE...
第 284 頁 - Symbols, recognised as such or not recognised : the Universe is but one vast Symbol of God ; nay if thou wilt have it, what is man himself but a Symbol of God ; is not all that he does symbolical ; a revelation to Sense of the mystic god-given force that is in him ; a