Baal : the most important god in the pantheon Canaanites; the Old Testament speaks frequently of the Baal of a given place or refers to Baalim in the plural.
... never hope That Baal will excuse, Baal forgive. That's an ambition more impossible, A thought more rebel from the truth. ESARHADDON Baal! It seems to me that thou believ'st in Baal! ACHAB And what dost thou believe in? The gross crowd Believe the sun is God or else a stone. This though I credit not, yet Baal lives. ESARHADDON And if he lives, then you and I are Baal, Deserve as much... From of old It is. Page 287 ACHAB Then why not call it Baal? ESARHADDON For me I care not what 'tis called, Mithra or God. You call it Baal, Perizade says 'Tis Ormuzd, Mithra and the glorious Sun. I say 'tis force. ACHAB Then wherefore strive to change Assyria's law, o'erthrow the cult of Baal? ESARHADDON I do not, for it crumbles of itself. Why keep the rubbish... Soldiers and strength. This Mithra's worship is. Come, priest, you are incredulous yourself, But guard your trade, so do I mine, so all. Will it be loss to you, if it be said Baal and Mithra, these are one, but Baal Changes and grows more mild and merciful, A friend to men? Or if instead of blood's Unprofitable revenue we give Offerings of price, and heaps of captive gold In place of conquered ...
... of Power. SIRIOTH - the Angel of Love. GABRIEL - the Angel of Obedience. MICHAEL - the Angel of War. RAPHAEL - the Angel of Sweetness. THE ELOHIM. BELIAL - the Angel of Reason. BAAL - the Angel of Worldly Wisdom. MOLOCH - the Angel of Wrath. SUN. ASHTAR - the Angel of Beauty. MEROTH - the Angel of Youth. Page 937 Prologue Act I LUCIFER Master of ...
... 210 Atlantis, 223 Augustan Age, 205, 212 Augustine, St., 150 Augustus, 207 Australia, 106 Avatara(s), 49, 55, 69, 161, 205, 261, 277, 286, 390 BAAL,220 Babylon, 223 Bacon, 16 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, 114, 197 Bartho1omews, St., 52 Baudelaire, 48 Beethoven, 88 Behaviourism, 326 Benda ...
... of the faith thought himself alone and hid his head. God called to him to go forth and strive with the priests of Baal. "Always," He said, "in the nation I have chosen there are some who confess me and now too in this nation there are seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal." So always in this Bengal which God had chosen there would always be several thousands who would be true to the faith ...
... not its master, but its protector and the protector of all who are born in the sign. Indra (Zeus, Odin) protects the Ram, Agni (Moloch, Thor) the Bull, the Aswins (Castor & Pollux) the Twins, Upendra (Baal) the Crab, Varuna (Poseidon) the Lion, Aditi, called also Savitri or Sita (Astarte, Aphrodite) the Girl, Yama (Hades) the Balance, Aryama (Ares) the Scorpion, Mitra or Bhava (Apollo Phoebus) the Archer ...
... Writings from Manuscripts 1907-1908 Bande Mataram The Morality of Boycott Ages ago there was a priest of Baal who thought himself commissioned by the god to kill all who did not bow the knee to him. All men, terrified by the power and ferocity of the priest, bowed down before the idol and pretended to be his servants; and the few who refused, had ...
... literary usage. However, it has become famous, though not in an astrono-mical context, in contemporary France because of Julien Benda's book Belphegor where, turning its etymological significance (Baal-Peor, Semitic deity of licentiousness) to critical purposes, he has given a new adjective to the French language, Belph é gorien, to designate certain strains of degeneracy and effeminacy in the ...
... However, it has become famous, though not in an astronomical context, in contemporary France because of Julien Benda's book Belphégor where, turning its etymological significance (Baal-Peor, Semitic deity of licentiousness) to critical purposes, he has given a new adjective to the French language, Belphégorien, to designate certain strains of degeneracy and effeminacy in the ...
... would often repeat it aloud when I found myself alone. Hear how it begins, with what calm and majestic periods! I record them here not from the book but from memory: "Ages ago there was a priest of Baal who thought himself commissioned by the god to kill all who did not bow the knee to him... At last, a deliverer came and slew the priest and the world had rest..." How simple the words, almost ...
... but these are modelled some-what differently: the gods are made more human, too human, j as has often been observed. Zeus and Juno (Hera) are infinitely more human than Isis and Osiris or Moloch and Baal or even the Jewish Jehovah. These vital gods have a sombre air about them, solemn and serious, grim and powerful, but they have not the sunshine, the radiance and smile of Apollo (Apollo Belvedere) ...
... only a scene (Prologue) from Act I has survived and is now included in Volume 7 of the Centenary Library Edition. In the Dramatis Personae figure Lucifer, Sirioth, Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Belial, Baal, Moloch, Ashtorath, Meroth, Sun and the Elohim, but the dramatic fragment itself opens with a dialogue between Lucifer and Sun - Lucifer compelling obedience on the part of Sun - followed by a conversation ...
... Aurobindo's dramatic fragments. It has no title, and is cast in the form of a conversation between King Esarhaddon and the priest Achab, who between them would like to humanise the current religion of Baal - a cult harsh and bloody - more in tune with the revolutionary purpose. The theme has obvious affiliations with the change in religion in Perseus the Deliverer and Eric. (See SABCL, Vol. 7, p. ...
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