Holy Office : In 1908 when the Inquisition became an organ of papal government the word Inquisition was dropped & the Congregation charged with maintaining purity of faith came to be known officially as the Holy Office.
... All this is ordinary, And every wise benevolent conqueror Has learnt the trick of it. Then she'll love for ever. ANTONIO You are a Pagan and would burn for this If Love still kept his Holy Office. BASIL I Am safe from him. ANTONIO And therefore boast securely Page 809 Conducting in imagination wars That others have the burden of. I've seen The critical civilian ...
... domination by their priesthood of the sacred cult of freedom. They mean no doubt to extend it to the exploited at some distant date, but take care meanwhile to pay themselves the full price of their holy office before they deliver the article. Even the best machinery of this mechanical freedom yet discovered amounts to the unmodified will of a bare majority, or rather to its selection of a body of rulers ...
... Hell aptly and piously anticipated on earth by the fires of Smithfield, the glowing splendours of the Auto-da-fé, the unspeakable reek of agony that steams up thro' history from the dungeons of the Holy Office—nay, there are wise men who find an apology for these pious torturers; it was divine love after all seeking to save the soul at the cost of the perishable body! But the Aryan spirit of the East ...
... epithets and from my mind at least passes away never to return. Fire, material fire, has nothing to do with wisdom, truth and various knowledge—except indeed to burn them when it gets the chance from Holy Office or enthroned bigotry. Agni, of whom wisdom, truth and various knowledge are the attributes, cannot be the personification of fire or the god of the material flame, but must be & is something greater ...
... somewhere: they might, for instance, nominate me bishop of [such and such a country]." Then he would be driven out of the Vatican. But when something of that kind happens, you are put "under the Holy Office," which means you cannot talk to anyone and are obliged to answer with yes or no. "If this situation comes," asks PL., "what shall I do? Should I fight it out to assert my place at the Vatican, because ...
... and pitiless persecutor by a true or false confession, preferring jail or the gallows to this prolongation of tense misery, the French call it delicately "entering into the way of avowals". The Holy Office in Seville could not have invented a more Christian and gentlemanly euphemism. The American system, is in the fifth degree, I think, to keep the miserable accused fasting and sleepless and ply him ...
... without The Church's help, that's a mere form and makes No difference to the principle.[...] Page 265 Antonio: You are a Pagan and would burn for this If Love still kept his Holy Office. Basil: Am safe from him. Antonio: And therefore boast securely Conducting in imagination wars That others have the burden of. I've seen The critical civilian in his chair ...
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