Elizabeth : Elizabeth I of England (1533
... bridges are there. Such people are the ones who have had a ‘near-death experience.’ Many books have already been published on the subject, pioneered by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross and Raymond Moody. Let’s take the one written by Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick, The Truth in the Light. A frequent scenario of the near-death experiences examined in this work is as follows: at the moment of death the experiencers... × Ibid. × Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick, The Truth in the Light, p. 76. × Sujata Nahar, The Mother’s Chronicles II, pp. 180-81 ...
... " Both Havelock Ellis and Edith Lees were remarkable persons; their emotional natures were of an unusual fineness and the Red Immortal rode in great beauty through them. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett were perhaps still more subtly attuned to the Godhead. All the same, there is an insistent imperfection in our being, that will not allow Eros to establish his empyrean within us. Perhaps... instead of the religion of romance that seeks its beau ideal in human personalities. Havelock Ellis and Edith Lees had terrible tensions in spite of their extraordinary fineness; Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett could not avoid petty unpleasantnesses. We of grosser grain must expect innumerable shortcomings in our love-life. Love rises and love falls; it is with us a Godhead without his proper ...
... princess Johanna of the possibility of the marriage of her daughter to Grand Duke Peter and of the importance he attached to it. He, too, urged them to lose no time in setting out for Russia. Elizabeth received mother and daughter at the entrance to the state bedchamber and embraced them. She observed each of them attentively and was touched to tears by the likeness of Princess Johanna to the brother... and followed by Count Razumovsky, her Cossak favourite, whom Sophia considered one of the handsomest men she had even seen. He bore on a gold plate the insignia of the Order of St. Catherine, which Elizabeth conferred on Sophia and then on Princess Johanna. It was a sign that they had made a favourable first impression. Indeed, not only the Empress, but Peter, too, had been charmed by this demure ...
... September 1964 and on 15 July 1967 in the private conversations which make up the Agenda, that she had been Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603). In a conversation from 1964 she confirms an anecdote about Elizabeth she had told thirteen years before. ‘There is a true story about Queen Elizabeth. She had come to the last days of her life and was extremely ill. But there was trouble in the country about... is today). England was now a Protestant nation. When Anne Boleyn bore him Elizabeth, but no son, he repudiated her too by having his marriage to her declared illegal by the Parliament. Thus Elizabeth became illegitimate and lost her rights to the throne. Her mother was beheaded for treason and adultery before Elizabeth was three years old. Still her father continued showing interest in her and later... books, so that the Queen was soon known as ‘Bloody Mary.’ Mary, who remained childless, knew that the whole of Protestant England rallied behind Elizabeth, for no true-blue Englishman wanted England to become a dependency of hated Spain. Mary had Elizabeth imprisoned in the frightful Tower of London and it looked as if her head, just like her mother’s, might fall, but her strength of character and her ...
... or malice, he humiliated her frequently at court and Page 23 talked loudly of his intention of divorcing or shutting her away in a nunnery so that he could marry his mistress, Elizabeth Voronstsova. It was not only his personal behavior, but even more his disregard and contempt for Russian prestige, interests, and traditions that antagonized the nation. He demonstrated this... have approved their plan to seize the Emperor in Page 24 Peter III his room in the Winter Palace, just as the guards d seized Ivan VI and his mother, and had proclaimed Elizabeth twenty-one years earlier. The departure of Peter for Oranienbaum had thwarted1 this plan, and they had then adopted Panin's proposal to arrest Peter on his return to the capital. There was one... Count Kirill Razumovsky, who plotted silently, and without confiding in anyone except Catherine, and she kept his ideas secret, even from the Orlovs. Razumovsky, the Little Russian favourite of Elizabeth, was immensely rich in property and honours, but kindly, good-humoured, and generally liked, although there were those who dismissed him as a gay spoilt child of fortune. He was, however, extremely ...
... Catherine the Great ( Panting by Johann Baptist Lompi the Elder - 1793 ) Catherine the Great Introduction In England the period of the New Monarchy from Edward IV to Elizabeth, in France the great Bourbon period from Henry IV to Louis XIV in Spain the epoch which extends from Ferdinand to Philip II, in Russia the rule of Peter the Great and Catherine were the time in which... foreign affairs. Her ministers were to carry out her orders and were only occasionally called upon to advise her. She would read each paper submitted for her signature (she speaks with contempt of Elizabeth who nearly always signed without reading). She carried out after her own diplomacy through personal correspondence with all reigning monarchs. She would make it ____________________ ¹... she created outlets to the Black Sea and the Baltic, doubled the strength of the army and the Russian fleet, and expanded trade. During her reign, Russia exported twice as much as in the time of Elizabeth and imported three times more. Thanks to her imperialist and expansionist policies, based on long-term planning, she succeeded' in making Russia a much wealthier and more powerful country than it ...
... generally translated in mental words: I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and the ideal Grace. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee?") These are beautiful lines but they are not the expression of the soul in the language of the soul. There, can be great love-poetry without the evident ...
... in a sense beyond his comprehension and having nothing to do with his chronology. By the way, I may say that it is possible for the Mother to be two different women in the same age. She was both Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. In an earlier age she was at the same time Mona Lisa, Margaret de Valois and some other aristocratic lady whose name I forget for the moment. Of course we are here speaking ...
... thereafter. The Gospel of Luke describes the conception of John the Baptist using the same phrases as for that of Jesus, although the former was a product of Zechariah's normal marital relationship with Elizabeth. Mary chose to marry Joseph when she had conceived and lived with him as his wife. Joseph and Mary are designated as Jesus' parents when they seek him in the Temple and she tells him that he has worried ...
... most unostentatiously written document of the inmost heart of young love. It is indeed an exquisite piece of insight. Another book of rare insight matched with style is A Well Full of Leaves by Elizabeth Myers and so too is Gone to Earth by Mary Webb (both in the Penguin Paperbacks). A couple on a still finer and deeper level are The Fountain by Charles Morgan and A Many-splendoured ...
... his nightingale to his "sole self". It was such a delight to be with you and talk endlessly. Now that the "immortal bird" that is in you - or should I mention Browning's equivalent apropos of his Elizabeth: "half angel and half bird"? - has flown, my forlornness is somehow not as bad as Keats's, for the commu- Page 118 nication can still go on by means of letters. There is also the ...
... receptive of the afflatus, provided one has the true poetic turn. But if that turn is present in a sceptic or an atheist he can still by means of the artistic conscience create great verse. Did not Elizabeth Browning refer to the Roman poet Lucretius as denying divinely the Divine? Sometimes Lucretius is indeed stupendous, as in those phrases where he describes Page 120 the philosopher ...
... sceptic or an atheist can still create great poetry through the keen artistic conscience in him and feel as if immortal presences were moving from one perfect poise to another in his verse. Did not Elizabeth Browning refer to the Roman poet Lucretius as denying divinely the Divine? Marking how adaptable to the genuine poet's tirelessly corrective passion for perfection in his work is that faith ...
... browning struck, too, on some creative hints, but I could not abide Browning for long: he had a vigorously found felicity, yet not much lift. That extremely poetic and mystically pregnant novel by Elizabeth Myers, A Well Full of Leaves, was the only other reading-matter at my bedside. 1 tried on occasion to look at less congenial stuff, but so strong a ''No'' swept out from within my chest that 1 got ...
... absolute and unimpeachable expression. All that it says comes with the faultless face and gait of a godhead. How even materialism and atheism could come like this is well suggested by a phrase of Elizabeth Browning about Lucretius. She writes in a poem that he "denied divinely the Divine". This intrinsic divineness should provide us with a safe passage everywhere in the world of poetry and also ...
... music clearly enchanted Shakespeare. As it doubtless did William Herbert. However I am not a Shakespeare scholar and all I am really saying is that an Italian player of the virginals at the court of Elizabeth strikes me as the Dark Lady I would invent if I were a fiction-writer. I will let Muriel Bradbrook read your book, I'm sure she will enjoy it whoever her own candidate may be. 1 hope you will ...
... instances of this kind has history provided for us. It is not a freak of nature that we find Socrates and Buddha and Confucious as contemporaries. Contemporaries also were India's Akbar, England's Elizabeth and Italy's Leo X. Also the year 1905 has been known as Annus Mirabilis, a year of seminal importance—the sowing of the seed of a new earth-life—significant for the whole human race, for the East ...
... Baroda when she came to give some lectures there. I went to receive her at the station and take her to the house assigned to her; I also accompanied her to an interview 22. Miss Margaret Elizabeth Noble, who was a disciple of Vivekananda and had made India her home. She was a great social and political worker known for her revolutionary ardour and outlook, and a powerful writer on religious ...
... unrolling before her eyes. Page 149 17 Carrying on the Evolution It was February, 1951. Mother told us the following incident from the life of Queen Elizabeth I. "She had reached the last days of her life and was extremely ill. But there was trouble in the country; and for reasons of taxation a group of people (merchants, I think) had formed a delegation ...
... to meet, and therefore its spirit must be to enforce and centralise authority, to narrow or quite suppress liberty and free variation. In England the period of the New Monarchy from Edward IV to Elizabeth, in France the great Bourbon period from Henry IV to Louis XIV, in Spain the epoch which extends from Ferdinand to Philip II, in Russia the rule of Peter the Great and Catherine were the time in which... atrocious method of Page 380 the Inquisition and the oppressive will of the absolute Czars in Russia to impose also an absolute national Church. The effort failed in England because after Elizabeth it no longer answered to any genuine need; for the nation was already well-formed, strong and secure against disruption from without. Elsewhere it succeeded both in Protestant and Catholic countries ...
... form of ciphers. One cryptogram proved this authorship perfectly — except that by ill luck it did so in nineteenth-century English! Recently a book by two professional cryptologists, William and Elizabeth Friedman, Page 390 went into a thorough examination of all the claimed ciphers and cryptograms and proved them spurious. Reading the reviews of this book I wondered if one particular... you a cryptogram I have traced in Shakespeare. It definitely shows that those great dramas could never have been written by Shakespeare for the simple reason that they do not belong to the time of Elizabeth. So Bacon too is put out of court. My cryptogram confers an unsolicited honorifica- Page 391 bilitudinitatibus on a writer who would have protested vehemently against it. I shall ...
... From the same Talk from the past, Satprem reads a passage in which Mother tells the story of Queen Elizabeth, who, dying, received a delegation from the people in spite of her physician's protests: "We shall die afterwards." ) Is it recent? It's from 1951. Again this whole story of Elizabeth came back to me a few days ago! Since then, a part of the consciousness has been more self-assured ...
... and was also miraculous, but in a different manner. His mother, Elizabeth, was very old and beyond child-bearing age when the Angel Gabriel appeared to her aged husband Zachariah and announced that they would be the parents of a blessed child who would open the way for the future Saviour. It is written that when Mary visited Elizabeth when both women were pregnant, John leaped for joy inside his mother's ...
... not love her husband. Secondly, she had in her the masculine complex which made her a suffragist. The writer also explained how Napoleon divorced Josephine because he loved his mother and Queen Elizabeth had a masculine complex but those who came in contact with her had not the feminine complex in them strong enough to keep her to them. He even says that Mahatma Gandhi has a complex ! One never can... which is false. The Europeans have got a fixed idea about these sciences. They observe some abnormal phenomena, study them, find out a general law and then try to apply it everywhere. Napoleon, Elizabeth, Begum Samru all behaved in particular ways because they had complexes. It means that a man has a certain character and his actions are determined by that character. This we knew ten thousand years ...
... have been ignoble. So he remained calm, without stirring, without showing any outward fear. This is an example of what one can learn in the life of a king. There is also a true story about Queen Elizabeth. She had come to the last days of her life and was extremely ill. But there was trouble in the country and, about questions of taxation, a group of people (merchants, I believe) had formed a delegation ...
... been ignoble. So he remained calm, without stirring, without showing any outward fear. This is an example of what one can learn in the life of a king. There is also a true story about Queen Elizabeth. She had come to the last days of her life and was extremely ill. But there was trouble in the country and, about questions of taxation, a group of people (merchants, I believe) had formed a delegation ...
... of force failed in Ireland, partly because even a Russian or a German autocracy cannot apply perfectly and simply the large, thoroughgoing and utterly brutal and predatory methods of a Cromwell or Elizabeth, 3 partly because the resisting psychological factor of nationalism had become too self-conscious and capable of an organised passive resistance or at least a passive force of survival. But ...
... this conception employs the same phrase apropos of John the Baptist who, although his birth was to be favoured by God (1:14-17), was still to be a product of Zacchariah's marital relations with Elizabeth (1:13). Luke (7:28) puts into Jesus' own mouth the very phrase of Paul. The words are: "I tell you, of all the children born of women, there is no greater than John; yet the least in the kingdom ...
... haunted much by non-English word-music, many English words, especially when monosyllabic, are bound to be somewhat undignified, if not actually crude. There was the Spanish Ambassador in the days of Elizabeth who felt highly offended on being offered as assistant a man of the name of Cuts. How can the bearer of so plebeian and abbreviated an appellation impress an ear accustomed to grand things like "Don ...
... Browning struck, too, on some creative hints, but I could not abide Browning for long: he had a vigorously found felicity, yet not much lift. That extremely poetic and mystically pregnant novel by Elizabeth Myers, A Well Full of Leaves, was the only other reading-matter at my bedside. I tried on occasion to look at less congenial stuff, but so strong a "No" swept out from within my chest that I ...
... lasted a little longer in Elizabethan England than they did elsewhere. So thoughts of angels, devils, gnomes, witches persisted very much. A lot of witches were burnt in England even after the time of Elizabeth. In France I think Joan of Arc was the last witch burnt. They burnt her as a witch, you must realise. So we may expect Shakespeare to have catered to the popular taste for so-called occult phenomena ...
... poetry, whatever its subject, comes with the face and gait of a godhead. How even materialism and atheism could come like this is well hit off by a paradoxical turn of Page 202 Elizabeth Browning's about Lucretius: she writes in a poem that he "denied divinely the Divine". It is the intrinsic divineness of the intuition-packed creative style of poetry that is the soul's note ...
... Luc Ferry: L’Homme-Dieu , p. 136 (footnote). × Joseph Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland: Shakespeare alive!, p. 10. × Christiane Collange: Merci, mon siècle, p. 170. ...
... Government Arms Factory, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu and subsequently Dum Dum Factory, Calcutta. 36 . Premanand: a Gujarati sadhak who was the Librarian of the Ashram Library. 37 . Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery connected with Harper & Collins publishing house of America. She arranged for the publication of Sri Aurobindo’s books in America and Canada. 38 . Sunil Bhattacharya (1920-1988) ...
... conscious being. Now, this ( Mother's being ) is a rather special conscious being.... The psychic of this life ( laughing ) was rather collective! Memories of Catherine the Great, memories of Elizabeth, memories of two lives at the same time (!) at the time of Francis I, 4 memories ... innumerable memories, and quite diverse. Each one ... It's not that you were in such or such person for a whole ...
... skill. Through such form, poetry, whatever its subject, comes with the face and gait of a godhead. How even materialism and atheism could come like this is well hit off by a paradoxical turn of Elizabeth Browning's about Lucretius: she writes in a poem that he "denied divinely the Divine". It is the intrinsic divineness of the intuition-packed creative style of poetry that is the soul's ...
... Beddoes 197 Benson, Robert Hugh 23 Binyon, Laurence 210,223 Blake 153,197 blank-verse 102,215 Brahma-muhurta 253 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 302 brhat 302 Browning, Elizabeth 60,161 C Celtic fire and ether 197 ChadwickJohnA. 266 Chandidas 126 Chapman 189 Chattopadhyaya, Harindranath 36,42 Chit-Tapas 247 Coleridge 42,197,234 ...
... of things which we do not associate with spirituality: a man can even be an atheist, as the Roman Lucretius was, and still be a major poet. How this could be is well hit off by the English poetess Elizabeth Browning. She has written about Lucretius's atheism that he "denied divinely the Divine." There you have the essence of the poetic utterance Page 37 revealed. It is not the ...
... these, for all their wonderful achievements, can count as Avatars. Much less, though still glorious, the births attributed to her as Hatshepsut of ancient Egypt, Cleopatra at a later date and Elizabeth of England. As Mona Lisa, she was a mysterious inspirer of the greatest art, but nothing more. Her present birth seems to be her first manifestation of Avatarhood. It could be that Avatarhood was ...
... skill. Through such form poetry, whatever its subject, comes with the face and gait of a godhead. How even materialism and atheism could come like this is well hit off by a paradoxical turn of Elizabeth Browning's about Lucretius: she writes in a poem that he "denied divinely the Divine." It is the intrinsic divineness of the intuition-packed creative style of poetry that is the soul's ...
... who can resist the temptation of gold." Nobles controlled the palace guard that made and unmade "sovereigns"; they formed a caste of officers in the army; they manned¹ the Senate .which, under Elizabeth, made the laws; they headed the collegia, or ministries, that ruled over foreign relations, the courts, industry, commerce, and finance; they appointed the clerks who carried the bureaucracy; they ...
... polished people; nor was she surrounded from infancy by great and accomplished characters. In the estimate of an English historian Catherine was "the only woman ruler who has surpassed England's Elizabeth in ability, and equaled her in the enduring significance of her work." "She was," said a German historian, "every inch a 'political being,' unmatched by anyone of her sex in modern history, and ...
... Tales of Hinduism. The reader may be interested in knowing more about its author, an extraordinary woman who devoted her life to Mother India. Sister Nivedita's original name was Margaret Elizabeth Noble. She was born in 1867 in Ireland. Margaret's grand father, John Noble, was one of the Irish fighters for freedom. Her father was a minister of the church who spent most of his time serving ...
... Later on we may profitably compare these to the techniques employed by Sri Aurobindo in his humorous utterances. (1)From Nicholas Bacon: Sir Nicholas Bacon, a Tudor judge in the time of Elizabeth, was once importuned by a criminal to spare his life on account of kinship. "How so?" demanded the judge. "Because my name is Hog and yours is Bacon; and hog and bacon are so near akin that ...
... British crown and ultimately responsible to the parliament, that launched British rule in India. The British East India Company was established on 31 December 1600 AD, under a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I for a period of 15 years for spice trading, with a capital of £70,000. In 1640, the Company acquired the site of modern Madras (Chennai), where it quickly built Fort St George. In 1668, King Charles ...
... photograph Sri Aurobindo. As a press photographer, he had made a name for himself during the Korean War. He had a very expensive Leica camera. Mother wanted to buy me a similar one. Mother wrote to Elizabeth, a disciple who Page 42 ran a centre in Mother and Sri Aurobindo's name in America, to buy a Leica and send it here. But she could not get one. Then Mother got Chimanbhai to buy a beautiful ...
... instances of this kind has history provided for us. It is not a freak of nature that we find Socrates and Buddha and Confucious as contemporaries. Contemporaries also were India's Akbar, England's Elizabeth and Italy's Leo X. Also the year 1905 has been known as Annus Mirabilis, a year of seminal importance – the sowing of the seed of a new earth-life – significant for the whole human race, for the East ...
... DANTE, 228,284,287, 388 – The Divine Comedy, 388 Darshanas, 297 David-Neele, Alexandra, 142, 173 Diti, 287 Durga, 249 Duryodhana, 206 EINSTEIN, 222, 344, 374, 376 Elizabeth, 196 England, 117, 196 Esau, 121 Europe, 297, 383 FAR EAST, THE, 54 Faust, 397 France, 78, 141 GANGES, THE, 85n George VI, 117 Gita, the, 173, 198,208-9,248, 267,272 ...
... and J. T. Wilde (1955) 6. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 582 7. Ibid., Vol. 17, pp. 399-400 8. Aldous Huxley, Text and Pretext (Phoenix edn.), p. 75 9. Elizabeth Barren Browning 10. Gerald Manley Hopkins 11. William Blake 12. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 1 13. Keats' Ode to a Nightingale 14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. ...
... certain times there were four simultaneous emanations." She had specifically mentioned the time of the Italian and the French Renaissance, and she had named Marguerite de Navarre, Mona Lisa, Queen Elizabeth I of England. They were almost contemporaries. Between 1533 and 1549 three of them were alive; only Marguerite de Valois was born some three years after the death of her great-aunt. All the four ...
... her silver cape, so pale. She remained standing for five minutes. There were two assistants behind her to prevent her from falling. And that crowd below. Then I remembered that anecdote about Queen Elizabeth, the 1st, who tore herself from her deathbed, despite her doctors’ protests, to receive a delegation of merchants: “We shall die afterwards.” It was Mother who recounted this story to me, and it was ...
... Pondicherry, in a sort of self-forged prison. Ezra Pound's open identification with politics during the Second World War led first to his isolation at Pisa and later to his relegation to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., on the recommendation of a commission of psychiatrists (he was ultimately released in 1958). Starting from opposite directions, as it were, these two great poets wrote ...
... prominent wide-toned verb "Shine" in the next. I think a truer Homeric version is the result, especially as the whole tone is a controlled majesty and drive, than the version made by Chapman in Elizabeth's time: And the unmeasured firmament breaks to disclose its light. The expression is very fine, though a little more generalised than Tennyson's: what stamps it as inferior to the latter is ...
... He once remarked: "May my last breath be drawn through a pipe and exhaled in a pun." PUNS OF VARIOUS KINDS 1. Lowly pun or the "pun obvious": Example 1: The Virgin Queen Elizabeth's supposed remark: "Ye be burly, my Lord of Burleigh, but ye make less stir than the Earl of Leicester." 57 Example 2: When after the election of 1892 the Liberal Party was returned to power ...
... use of the English language, and seems to be a blind-spot in your reading of him. Perhaps the best advice I ever received as a young poet was from Ezra Pound, on my one meeting with him - in St. Elizabeth's mental hospital, outside Washington DC while he was still confined there - as I went up to him, he started on poetry straight away, saying he'd been reading a poem of mine which he liked, but added ...
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