Philo : Philo Judaeus, Alexandrian Jewish philosopher whose doctrines also influenced Christian religious writings.
... historically known to have been a religious group of Jews akin to the Qumran Essenes. The authoritative account of them in ancient times is The Contemplative Life (I.2, cp. II.10-11) by the famous Philo of Alexandria (a contemporary of Christ). He locates them not in Crete but in Egypt. However, there is some truth in another part of the dream-man's declaration to Vivekananda. A later authority on... xvii, 3-23) shows how struck he was by the likeness of the Therapeutae to Christian monks of his own day. He even thought they might have been Christians and that their founder's writings to which Philo had referred might be the Epistles and Gospels of the New Testament. The Telugu book to which you refer was obviously penned by someone who was very much of an ignoramus. In contradiction ...
... prescription with a gifted human whom I will call Mr. Philo (abbreviated from philosopher) who had to be sent away from the Ashram because he refused to give up drink. What about his view, I asked, about God himself being as much bound by his own laws as his creatures by their own karma? Pat came his answer the next morning. "As to Philo." he wrote, "the Mother and I have always thought poorly... never able to understand with the mind anything but the orthodox Adwaitic ideas in their most general and popular form. As for his idea of the Divine being bound, being a hostage to law as much as Philo himself or his cat, that was an old pet idea of his...an idea that can be accepted only by those who are unable to think philosophically or make the necessary spiritual distinctions. The laws of this ...
... Sir Bampfylde from the scene of his exploits, the philo-Mahomedanism of the Shillong Government was no longer openly flourished in the face of the public but it was steadily continued in practice. The alliance of Anglo-India with the Nawab was from the beginning made the most of by the Englishman which for some time carried on a very active philo-Mahomedan and anti-Hindu crusade in its columns and ...
... have to meet not only the bitter antagonism of the Indian Government, but the opposition, open or veiled, of a vast majority in the Commons. How then can it possibly be enforced? Can our handful of philo-Indian members help to eject a Government that will not ratify its empty triumph? It would be too absurd even to dream of such a thing: and even if any of them were so impossibly rash, their constituencies ...
... me" (John 14:10). The transcendent God is immanent here without the immanent God's excluding the transcendent. And with John such a phenomenon has a wide bearing. To him, Christ is the Logos (a la Philo), the universal Word, an immanent principle of eternal Life and Light as well as a personal being, the Son of God. It is also "the Light of men" (1:4), "the true light that Page 68 ...
... Jesus who never existed. Even Eusebius (3rd-4th century A.D.) remarks on the remarkable similarity of Therapeutae to Christian monks and feels that their writings (referred to by Christ's contemporary Philo of Alexandria) might be the Epistles and Gospels of the NT. It is, however, important to note that even the opponents of Gmstianity have never questioned Jesus' existence, but only doubted his divinity ...
... insights of Sri Aurobindo. An expanded version of this attempt constitutes the present book. As Sri Aurobindo is not only a scholar in. many languages, a penetrating literary critic, a far-reaching philo-sophical thinker and a profound poet but also a master of spiritual illumination, a guide to the all-round inner development which he terms the Integral Yoga, it has been felt that concentration on ...
... intuitional, psychic rather than vitalistic, departing in fact from a superficial vitalism as much as its predecessors departed from the objective mind of the past. This new movement aimed like the new philo sophic Intuitionalism at a real rending of the veil, the seizure by the human mind of that which does not overtly express itself, the touch and penetration into the hidden soul of things. Much of it ...
... argumentative trend but for his visual sense. His imagination is all the time breaking in. For instance, Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be" is a series of self-questionings in which a number of semi-philo- Page 282 sophical issues are touched on. From the very start, however, images are crowding into the language. Still, in a few passages Shakespeare keeps up the true logopoeic level ...
... only seize on relative truth, not on the true truth of things, but the Logos is one and universal, an absolute reason therefore combining and managing all the relativities of the many. Was not then Philo justified in deducing from this idea of an intelligent Force originating and governing the world, Zeus and Fire, his interpretation of the Logos as "the divine dynamic, the energy and the self-revelation ...
... 61 ): There are Two who are One and play in many worlds. Patal tells us that Greshom Holem interprets the love between God and Wisdom as the love of husband and wife. According to him Philo unequivocally says that God is the husband of Wisdom. Mrs. Dyne refers to the line in Savitri . Creatrix, the Eternal artist's Bride! It need not be said that when we speak of God ...
... pragmatic standard especial, if not entire, importance is given to the first category; the other category, "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", is held at a discount. The thoughtful people are philo-sophers at the most, they are ineffectual angels in this workaday world of ours. We need Page 33 upon earth people of sterner stuff, dynamic people who are not thought-bound, but know ...
... experience of Self, it is denied and removed; so the experience of the Self can be sublated by the experience of Sunya; it is denied and removed. Page 157 [Note by a correspondent:] "Hegelian philos. (rendering G. aufheben, used by Hegel as having the opposite meanings of 'destroy' and 'preserve'). See quotation: 'Nothing passes over into Being, but Being equally sublates itself, is a passing ...
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