St John : variously called St. John the Evangelist, St. John the Divine, & Beloved Disciple. In his exile on Patmos Island, he is said to have written the Revelation.
... the Johannine wording I have drawn attention to the fact that the reading you have adopted does not occur in any Greek MS and is a later modification by the Fathers to make St. John support the idea of the Virgin Birth. What St. John says is not said about Jesus at all but about his followers and it indirectly suggests the Virgin Birth to be nothing save a symbol; for, if these followers, simply by believing... contents there is not the least harking back in the rest of these Gospels - then the contents of this sentence cannot but be symbolic Page 23 rather than factual to St. John. You have yourself taken St. John 1.13 as a sign of the new man, a new humanity and not exclusively as a description of Jesus - thus seeing in it a wide symbol - but you have linked the verse to Jesus' birth "from... to me to be consistent with the whole tradition, especially in the light of the concept of the new creation. I did not intend to suggest that St. John refers to the Virgin Birth in. that text, but it is perfectly consistent with it. Don't forget that St. John does not describe the institution of the Eucharist, yet he must surely have been aware of it. There are so many puzzles in the New Testament! ...
... sme moderne, lecture, 1948). 5 We are led to ask: "What is the rest of the Christian religion that is left out by modern Christianity?" All readers of Teilhard know how much store he sets by St. John and especially St. Paul in whom he reads a body of doctrine justifying his "faith in the world", his forward gaze towards a collective ultra-human ready to be gathered into Christ. But can we aver... one can see a correspondence or coincidence between what St. Paul says about the final unification of the Church and the convergence of cosmic history deduced from scientific reflexion." Touching on St. John in relation to the Teilhardian vision of Christ's re-appearance (Parousia) to super-naturalise a mature humanity millions of years hence, Rideau 10 pronounces: "...the attraction of a temporal Parousia... that it is already being realized in the here and now of history, by man's present entry into spiritual transfiguration, or his rejection of it." So even what Teilhard takes from St. John and St. Paul is 6.Ibid., p. 219. 7.Ibid., p. 627. 8.Ibid., p. 226. 9.Ibid., p. 218. 10.Ibid. Page 103 not seen by him with their eyes but ...
... to spiritual poetry. He, of course, protests that he cannot be considered totally unsympathetic to poetry of a spiritual order. "I can read," he says, "the Divine Comedy with pleasure, St. John of the Cross is a marvellous poet, poems of Kabir and Chandidas are exquisite. T. S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday is an excellent poem of spiritual tension, confusion and resolution which I can read... they give us neither the concreteness nor the intensity of spiritual vision and mystic experience. Mr. Lai's ignorance of this fact proves that he has no clear idea of spiritual poetry. St. John of the Cross is a real mystic and in his poems there is the immediacy of inner contact with the Eternal. But they are spiritual and mystic in a certain way - a highly Page 126 ... They are indeed, as Mr. Lai says, exquisite and they are authentically spiritual, but again more intense than immense and the masterful mantric expression is not theirs. If Mr. Lai responds to St. John of the Cross and to these two Indian singers he is not without any spiritual sympathy; still, he cannot be said to show true sensitiveness to the kind of inspiration that is Savitri. We are not ...
... in earth..." Both St. Paul and St. John may be cited also for a hint on 1.I: 1, 2, 10, 14. 2. Colossians I: 15, 16. Page 43 what we have termed the lack of personal outline in Blake's reference to the primary divinity of God the Father as distinguished from God the Son - the heavenly hiddenness of the former in ultimate light. St. John 3 not only says, "God is light"... begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." St. Paul 4 has the phrase about Christ: "the image of the invisible God." In passing, we may note that the sentences from St. John as well as St. Paul have the small h about Christ and God. In fact, the whole Bible has no capital H for either. Blake's non-capitalization for them is nothing to be wondered at. It is in the... with a mythopoeic vision and with an emotion of fascinated religious terror the war which Christian tradition tells us to have been waged in Heaven. The last book in the Bible, The Revelation of St. John the Divine, has the passage: "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found ...
... response to spiritual poetry. He, of course, protests that he cannot be considered totally unsympathetic to poetry of a spiritual order. "I can read," he says, "the Divine Comedy with pleasure, St. John of the Cross is a marvellous poet, poems of Kabir and Chandidas are exquisite. T.S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday is an excellent poem of spiritual tension, confusion and resolution which I can read with... but they give us neither the concreteness nor the intensity of spiritual vision and mystic experience. Mr. Lal's ignorance of this fact proves that he has no clear idea of spiritual poetry. St. John of the Cross is a real mystic and in his poems there is the immediacy of inner contact with the Eternal. But they Page 414 are spiritual and mystic in a certain way—a highly personal... temper. They are indeed, as Mr. Lal says, exquisite and they are authentically spiritual, but again more intense than immense and the masterful mantric expression is not theirs. If Mr. Lal responds to St. John of the Cross and to these two Indian singers he is not without all spiritual sympathy; still, he cannot be said to show any sensitiveness to the kind of inspiration that is Savitri. We are not surprised ...
... We suggest that in drawing this portrait (of Jesus as the incarnate revelation descended on high to offer man light and truth) the evangelist (St. John) has capitalised on an identification of Jesus 3 Ibid, pp. 683, 693. 4 St. John, I.i.l. 5 Lalitā Sahasranama, Verse 81. Page 216 with the personified divine Wisdom as described in the Old Testament. 6 ... said that when we speak of God and his Shakti as husband and wife it is only a way of speaking to describe the indescribable relationship of the divine powers. 6 The Gospel According to St. John. 1 A Follower of Christ and a Disciple of Sri Aurobindo, p. 39. Page 217 component of the ensemble, (of the different traditions brought together by the Churches), bringing... Time. Yet to ourselves we say rekindling faith, "Oh, surely one day he shall come to our cry, 18 Ibid, p. 353. l9 Ibid, pp. 195-96. 20 Ibid, pp. 196. 21 St. John, viii, 32. Page 221 One day he shall create our life anew And utter the magic formula of peace And bring perfection to the scheme of things. One day he shall descend ...
... response to spiritual poetry. He, of course, protests that he cannot be considered totally unsympathetic to poetry of a spiritual order. "I can read", he says, "the Divine Comedy with pleasure , St. John of the Cross is a marvellous poet, poems of Kabir and Chandidas are exquisite, T. S. Eliot 's Ash- Wednesday is an excellent poem of spiritual tension, confusion and resolution which I can read... us neither the concreteness nor the intensity of spiritual vision and mystic experience. Mr. Lal's ignorance of this fact proves that he has no clear idea of spiritual poetry. St. John of the Cross is a real mystic and in his poems there is the immediacy of inner contact with the Eternal. But they are spiritual and mystic in a certain way - a highly personal devotion-coloured lyricism... temper. They are indeed, as Mr. Lal says, exquisite and they are authentically spiritual, but again more intense than immense and the masterful mantric expression is not theirs. If Mr. Lal responds to St. John of the Cross and to these two Indian singers he is not without all spiritual sympathy: still, he cannot be said to show any sensitiveness to the kind of inspiration that is Savitri. We are not ...
... Evangelist (I think it was St. John) who announced "a new heaven and a new EARTH." Yes, a new earth. Both are there. It's St. John. They haven't understood anything. No. And naturally, the ancient Vedas and all the old traditions announced a new earth, that's well known. Page 51 But even the Christians. Even the Christians, yes. St. John said that there would be ...
... the hand. Some member of the council was heard to say— 'It follows, then, that we must begin with the bastille St. John, and that will give the English time to—' Joan turned and said— Page 64 'Give yourselves no uneasiness about the bastille St. John. The English will know enough to retire from it and fall back on the bridge bastilles when they see us coming.' She added... was not disputed. We threw a bridge of a few boats across the narrow channel thence to the south shore and took up our march in good order and unmolested; for although there was a fortress there—St. John—the English Page 65 vacated and destroyed it and fell back on the bridge forts below as soon as our first boats were seen to leave the Orleans shore; which was what Joan had said would ...
... entire current emerges, leading us intuitively to the threshold where consciousness reverses, where the soul is enlightened and witnesses the appearance of the new Heaven and Earth of the apocalypse of St. John. That scientific terms differ from mystic words should not mislead us, for it is the same reality which they attempt to circumscribe. The soul of the scientist is not less spiritual than the... we experience today. In this essay I have attempted to describe the holy of holies of this temple at the end of time. This is obviously but a manner of speaking: according to the vision of St. John, there is no temple in the heavenly Jerusalem— and, therefore, no priests or religions, no more scriptures or prophets, no avatars or messiahs. It is, in fact, a matter of passage to another consciousness ...
... priceless. In conclusion, whatever else is read, Dilip's Sri Aurobindo Came to Me must also be read. Dilip was to Sri Aurobindo as St. John was in the bosom of Christ; and Sri Aurobindo Came to Me is the Aurobindonian Gospel according to Dilip — St. John. It is, accordingly, an indispensable book to all admirers of Sri Aurobindo; all students of Yoga; all lovers of poetry; and all serious ...
... 146,167-97, 222,231,237,258,261, 262,263-65 Rajan, B., 45,101 Ratio, Reason, 70,71 Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot, A, 41 Representative English Poetry, 24 fn. 9 Revelation of St. John the Divine, The, 44, 45,46,59 fn. 20 Rintrah, 205-06,231 Romantic Imagination, The, 137 fn. 1 Rossetti Ms., 54,55, 92 Rosenthal, M.L., 22,33-35,41 Sampson, John,T41 fn. 5... Education, i St. Athanasius, 50 St. Augustine, 73 St. Bonaventure, 48 fn. 17 St. Francis, 48 St. Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies, 48 fn. 17 St. John, 43 St. John's Gospel, 43,231 St. Paul, 43,44,102,230 "stars", 15,20-26,29,30,31,32, 36,37, 39, 58, 59,162,163,164,173-75, 180-81, 185 Page 274 Stukely ...
... Page 178 care to qualify it with the epithet 'human'. Does it mean, then, that there are forms of super-human speech bearing superior potencies? Yes, so it is. When the apostle St. John declares that "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God", 92 he is certainly not speaking of any mind-made word we know of. Similarly, when the Vedic mystic... power and light, born out of the profound depths and the sublimest heights of the Rishi's being and consciousness, that proceeds to the inevitable realisation of the truth it symbolises. 92.St. John, I. 1. 93.Sri Aurobindo, Kena Upanishad (1952 ed.), p. 39. 94. Rig-Veda, XI, 81.7. 95. Ibid., X. 114.8. 96. Ibid., I. 164. 45. 97. Ibid., I. 164, 45. ...
... Ibid., Chronological Table, p. 467, col. 2. 234. Ibid., The New Testament, p. 188. 235. The Virginal Conception. .., p. 116. 236. Ibid., fn. 193. 237. The Gospel of St. John (Harmondsworth: The Pelican New Testament Commentaries, Penguin Books, 1971), p. 623. 238. The Gospel of St. Luke (Harmondsworth: The Pelican New Testament Commentaries, Penguin Books, 1975)... "Junia... Outstanding Among the Apostles", in Women Priests, ed. L. and A. Swidler (New York: 1977), pp. 141-44. 275. The Jerusalem Bible, The New Testament, p. 300. 276. The Gospel of St. John, p. 632. 277. John Wenham, Easter Enigma: Do the Resurrection Stories contra- Page 236 dict one another? (Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1984), pp. 150-51, Note 26. ...
... the first couple of Christian generations. As we have observed, there is a strong tendency among certain enthusiasts to read in our own times the signs set forth in vivid figure by the Revelation of St. John the Divine. No doubt, the look-forward to a wonderful consummation of human history is a legitimate Page 90 one for all religious visionaries and can be said to hold true broadly... was used by Rome as a place of detention for prisoners whom the emperor ruling from his mighty city, built on seven hills, compelled to work in quarries to procure stone for his building projects. St. John the Divine must have been condemned to labour there, suffering a form of Christian martyrdom as part of the horrible persecutions by the Emperor Domitian who had come to the throne in 81 A.D. Domitian ...
... preserving "Christ on the scale of and at the head of creation". 1 According to Teilhard, such an exclusive regard is "the most essential aim and criterion of Christian orthodoxy" 2 and, "since St. John and St. Paul, the fundamental rule of theology". 3 The divine power so figured is the Cosmic or Universal Christ and, naturally, his central function is related to the cosmos with whose space-time... as the factors introducing the universal aspect of his religion. The Christian contribution is restricted to "personalism". Teilhard is often disposed to talk of the Christianity of St. Paul and St. John as supplying the universe-ingredient to make up his Universal Christ. Why has he not talked here of Pauline or Johannine "totality" plus the usual personalism of the Christ preached in the Gospels ...
... anointed one", or "The Messiah", the expected Savior of the Jews. Page 119 There are four Gospels, those of St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John. The first three show many similarities. However, the Gospel according to St. John is , quite different from the others. It seems to be more an interpretation than a record of the life of Jesus, and it makes implicit reference to certain ...
... Christian witnesses were present at the foot of the cross, whereas in fact 'it is intrinsically improbable that friends and relations of Jesus would be allowed to stand near the Cross' (Barrett, St. John [S.P.C.K., 1955], p. 98)." Thus John's touching scene looks inauthentic. Even if we accept it as genuine we may rightly ask: "Those who in Mark, Matthew and Luke are mentioned as Jesus' ...
... propaganda material for the Herrenvolk, the master race. ‘Two books belonged to the standard equipment of the German soldier in the first World War: Also Sprach Zarathustra and the Gospel of St John. It is difficult to say which of both authors thereby was most misused.’ (Bernal Maguus) Sri Aurobindo writes in The Human Cycle : ‘Nietzsche’s idea that to develop the superman out of our present ...
... Silence knew itself and thought took form: Self-made from the dual power creation rose. 7 — Savitri The Mother is the consciousness-force of the Divine. The opening words of the Gospel of St John, directly influenced by the Chaldean tradition, are well known: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ The Kathaka Upanishad says the same: ‘Prajapati ...
... look through Galileo’s telescope. There is, for instance, Arthur Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy ; or the literature of great Christian mystics like Meister Eckhart, Margarete Porete, Hadewych, St. John of the Cross; or the heritage of the Zen Masters, whose poetry is truth and truth poetry; or the Indian mystics; or the Ramayana and Mahabharata , the most voluminous epics in the world, filled ...
... the goal of a famous religious pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. Santiago de Compostella is a town near the northwest coast of Spain, and legend has it that the body of St James the Great, brother of St John the Evangelist and a major apostle of Christ, had arrived on that coast in a miraculous way. Many thousands of pilgrims still flock there on foot from all over Europe as penitents or to ask favours ...
... been published from the States I would advise you to buy it to get a fuller treatment of the viewpoint sketched in the article. Nostradamus has become a sensational theme, just as the Revelation of St. John has been. All kinds of terrifying prophecies are sought to be read in the latter, especially in America. One of the most fantastic interpretations is about the Anti-Christ. Poor John Carlos of Spain ...
... converging world this 'Christie' energy acquires an urgency and intensity of another order altogether. If the world is convergent and if Christ occupies its centre, then the Christogenesis of St. Paul and St. John is nothing else and nothing less than the extension, both awaited and unhoped for, of that noogenesis in which cosmogenesis - as regards our 23.Ibid., p. 296. 24.Ibid., p. 297 ...
... overt realisation what is here declared as an inward truth. The same background or basis is deducible from the Fourth Gospel where "Paul's Christ-mysticism" finds renewed expression through St. John. "Johannine mysticism, like the Pauline," comments Sidney Spencer, 15 "is a corporate and not merely an individual fact. It receives its culminating expression in the prayer of Jesus in Chapter 17 ...
... totally enthralled by the grandeur of the Great Masters; I ran out of all adjectives and accurate exclamations of praise and surprise. Michelangelo's half-finished painting "Madonna and Child with St. John and Angels" was very expressive. But I was bored by the repeating themes: Virgin and Child, Madonna and Child, Crucifixion of Christ. Perhaps during that era the mental vision and imagination were ...
... Prakriti & Purusha are again united. Utthapana—1½ hours. No defect of anima in Prana, only for last half hour in muscles,—not compelling. A repeated lipi—"John",—pointed to the Epistles of St John for a reference. The passage turned up ran— " Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God : because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby ...
... on the person. There are many instances to show that some persons are dearer to the Divine than others. Besides Krishna and Arjuna, we have the instance of Buddha and Ananda. There is also St. John, the beloved disciple. Then again, Vivekananda was dearer to Ramakrishna than other disciples. Chaitanya showered his grace on Madhai and Jagai, but were they closer to him than Nitai? But ...
... of my visit, but will come back here as early as possible. Everything here is wonderful and spellbinding. One who sees beyond the surface panes might well wonder if the new heaven and the new earth St. John speaks of do not meet here. "There is a big church just a few minutes' walk away, and yesterday morning, the 1st of October, the celebrant said, 'Become citizens of the heavenly city....' He could ...
... understanding among the many religious and spiritual movements in the world. It is well known that Sufi ideas and even literary texts were borrowed by or lay behind teachings as diverse as those of St. John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Avila, Roger Bacon and Guru Nanak, as well as the Vedas. Many Sufis claim that their knowledge has existed/or thousands of years and has links with the Hermetic, Pythagorean ...
... concerned the symbolic and the power of sounds. The five sounds of the creating are I, followed by E, A, O, U — I being the original sound corresponding to the Word of the Evangelist according to St John: 'In the beginning was the Word, the Word was God'. E A O U represent the four stages of the creation. These four stages are symbolic of the respiration rhythm of the universe. These four rhythms generate ...
... on the person. There are many instances to show that some persons are dearer to the Divine than others. Besides Krishna and Arjuna, we have the instance of Buddha and Ananda. There is also St. John, the beloved disciple. Then again, Vivekananda was dearer to Ramakrishna than the other disciples. Chaitanya showered his grace on Madhai and Jagai, but were they closer to him than Nitai? ...
... as the sun beyond all darkness"; and that truth will be out, burst forth and spread abroad. Or in the words of the Biblical son of man: "I am from above.... I am not of this world....I am He...." (St. John.) And in the end may it not be that the present ruins and ravages are merely a symptom or a resultant of the pressures that the forces of the new creation are exerting from behind or ...
... Me" – the battle is fought, won or lost in another world beforehand; what we see on the material level are only the debris, disjecta membra, of forms and limbs thrown down ¹ The Bible: St. John. Page 345 from there. Only the sweeping or clearing is being done here for the appearance and establishment of what already has been built up unseen behind the material curtain. Or ...
... in the spirit), is also perpetually unrealisable. The mystic has to express in words experiences that are beyond verbal expression. As Gilbert Highet perceptively says (he is thinking of poets like St John of the Cross, Holderlin, Valery, Donne and T.S. Eliot): These people had a certain experience of life which they found so complex, so dangerous and alarming, so much profounder than ...
... distance up the hillsides. Helvellyn that day was shrouded in a white mist and could not very well be seen. We crossed the lake in the middle by the Bridges, and came back by the beautiful Vale of St. John and a path round Naddle Fell, getting home at 6 p.m. and eating a tremendous tea (the four of us getting through two considerable loaves). On Saturday we went to Watendlath which is certainly the ...
... thought itself is transcended. The night is darkest before dawn. The soul wallows in its dark night before it reaches the shore that is Aurora, the Sunrise to Eternity, Jacob Boehme's ultimate heaven. St John of the Cross saw as night the journey of the soul to God, for the pilgrim has but the razor's edge of Faith for his road, his starting-point is divorce from the world's claims, and the goal is ...
... went all three of us with a gentleman to Thirlmere... a lovely lake, and wonderfully placid and calm.... We crossed the lake in the middle by the Bridges, and came back by the beautiful Vale of St. John and a path round Naddle Fell, getting home at 6 p.m. and eating a tremendous tea (the four of us getting through two considerable loaves). On Saturday we went to Watendlath which is certainly ...
... body-consciousness was, if the memory is correct. the ninth stage. At that moment the body was still quite stiff and immobile. 12 "All things I then forgot. ... All ceased, and I was not," says St. John of the Cross narrating his unitive experience; but Mirra's recapitulation of her own essentially ineffable experience is far more vivid and precise. Like Sri Aurobindo in poems like "Trance of Waiting" ...
... and its banks all round the brink are beautifully wooded, the trees going some distance up the hill sides. We crossed the lake in the middle by the Bridges, and came back by the beautiful Vale of St. John Page 147 and a path round Naddle Fell, getting home at 6 P.M. and eating a tremendous tea (the four of us getting through two considerable loaves). "On Saturday we went to ...
... had a deep impact on the English language. Many excellent translations have done less than this but have brought something of the original - Leishman's Rilke, Eliot and others who have translated St. John Perse in such a way as to make a shining contribution to the art of translation." Surely Chapman or Pope or Dryden, in their remarkably successful compositions, cannot be considered truly "faithful" ...
... connections he gave to it. First, the conventional notion of cosmi-cality which goes with all ideas of Godhead and with which Teilhard often tried to identify it in order to link to St. Paul and St. John the " 'new' Christianity" 3 he was fighting for. Secondly, the irrational idea that the cosmic Christ was necessarily a consequence and extension of the historic Jesus rather than the historic Jesus ...
... Rajan, B. Paradise Lost and the Seventeenth Century Reader (London), 1947. Rosenthal, M. L., Smith, A. J. M. Exploring Poetry (The Macmillan Company, New York), 1957. St. John First Epistle Gospel Page 268 The Revelation St. Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies - English Omnibus of the Sources for the Life of St. Francis ...
... 307. Ibid . , p. 664 ( Jerusalem 2 . 38, 1 . II ) . 308. Paradise Lost . Bk . II . 1 . 383. Page 230 the invisible God" 309 - as well as from the saying in The Gospel of St. John: "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." 310 So, taking a comprehensive view, we need not be surprised at tracing in ...
... the hordes of Night. "Who once have seen thy Face have known, 0 Friend: "'Tis not a myth that Love is one with Light." "This is the Aurobindonian Gospel according to Dilip — St. John. It is an indispensable book to all admirers of Sri Aurobindo and his works." — K.R.S. I YENGAR INVOCATION TO SRI AUROBINDO Knowing thee once, do we not know the Truth ...
... have used the expression sa aik ṣ ata, seya ṁ devat ā aik ṣ ata 51 : the Spirit 'looked' and the creation arose with the 47. Ibid., X. 71. 2. 48. The Life Divine, p. 26. 49. St. John. I. 1. Compare the Upanishadic revelation: Vāk brahma ("The Word is brahman"). 50. The Life Divine, p. 108. 51. Chhandogya Upanishad. Page 109 primal splendours ...
... The Life Divine 38,59,166,320 Page 378 The Riddle of This World 254 TheRishi 99 The Secret of the Veda 302 Urvasie 2,60,74,218,289 St. John of the Cross 126 subtle-physical body 116 plane 209 Sufi 70 sukshma sharira 116 Sun of Truth 38,86 Supermind 51,58 Supernature 12,128,208,273,315 Swinburne ...
... at the same time that it is in a phenomenal process of formation: it is an eternal Prime Mover from in-front, an Omega who is also an Alpha. Now, Teilhard, basing himself on St. Paul and St. John, stresses the cosmic function of Christ. This function starts with the Incarnation which joins Christ to the material universe. It passes through his Resurrection from the dead by which he becomes ...
... incomprehensible or banal to people enthusiastic over connections that are physical and relationships properly cosmic... No, the Body of Christ must be understood boldly, as it was seen and loved by St. John, St. Paul and the Fathers. It forms in nature a world which is new, an organism moving and alive in which we are all united physically, biologically...." The next extract, from Teilhard's ...
... Madhya-mika Buddhists, the Tao or omnipresent and transcendent Nihil by the Chinese, and as the indefinable and ineffable Permanent by the Mahayanists. 5 Many Christian mystics too, notably St. John of the Cross with his doctrine of noche obscura, speak of 'a complete ignorance', 'a divine Darkness' through which the spiritualised Mind has to pass before one can expect to attain to the supreme ...
... 390 Ashwapati, 237-41, 243, 246, 274 Asura, 250, 287, 368 Atris, 372 BEATRICE, 284 Beethoven, 273 Bharati, 189 Bible, the, 121, 305, 345n – Book of Job, 305n – St. John , 345n Borman, 316 Brahma, 256 Brahman, 181-2, 185, 188-9, 193, 205, 290, 299, 339, 368, 385 Brindaban, 385 Britain, 338 Buddha, 52-3, 104-6,182-3,196,221, 225,309,311, 344,349 ...
... super Platos, one cannot help thinking that this is really a paltry culmination for so many millions of years and so many billions of individuals expended along the way. Beethoven or Shelley, or even St. John, cannot be evolutionary goals, or else life has no true meaning – for who could fail to see that their works are admirable precisely because of their lack of contact with life? They all tell us that ...
... Partition of Bengal, 201, 204ff, 282, 294 Patkar. R.N.,51,52,53,195 Patwardhan, Annasaheb, 276 Pavitra (P. B. de St. Hilaire), 539ff, 576 Pearson, N., 516fn Perse, St. John, 78 Perseus the Deliverer, 68,119,120,139,186, 242, 327, 642, 646; conflict in the play both individual and cosmic, 121; dialectical progress through conflict and change, 121-22; ludicrous ...
... 171 25. A Handbook of Marxism (1933), p. 47 26. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 15, pp. 568, 569 27. Ibid., Vol. 17, p. 117 28. Ibid., Vol. 15, p. 206 29. St . John. X, 13, 34 30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 84 31. Ibid.. Vol.. 15, p. 244 32. Ibid., p. 254 33. Ibid., p. 262 34. Ibid., p. 263 ...
... elder brother of Saint John. He was one of those privileged to be admitted to the room where Jesus raised the daughter of Jairus to life. He was also one of the three apostles, along with St Peter and St John, who accompanied Jesus when he retired to the mountain in the spring of A.D. 29, and witnessed the transfiguration of Christ. Apostle of Spain, his body reposes at Compostella in Spain, it is claimed ...
... fulfilment? Thus Hopkins again: With an anvil-ding And with fire in him forge thy will Or rather, rather then, stealing as Spring Through him, melt him but master him still. And thus St. John of the Cross: O burn that burns to heal, O more than pleasant wound .. 34 But, then, it is unnecessary - it is even foolish and perverse - to subscribe to all the enormities of ...
... they come from a very Indian and even a very Bengali mentality and may seem in translation to a different mind a profuse display of fancy and sentiment... 27 The very next year (1948), St. John Perse's Amers was published in French, in which the poet celebrated the sea and himself in the sea, even as Whitman had celebrated himself and the universe in himself. If we sought a parallel ...
... reflects fame not only on India but on his University and College, and when the name of the first Indian Senior Wrangler is mentioned, it will also be remembered that he belonged to Cambridge and to St. John's. But examinations, however important, are only a preliminary. I lay stress upon this because there is too much of a tendency in this country to regard education as a mere episode, finished when once ...
... devoted Teresa. Théon's father is listed as: Judes L. Bimstein, Rabbi. Alma's father as: William J. Ware (deceased), Gentleman. The three of them went to live in N°ll Belgrave Road, St. John's Wood, Marylebone, which was Alma's residence. Page 54 It would seem that Alma and Teresa were friends from their convent days at Claydon, Suffolk. The latter remained a lifelong ...
... reflects fame not only on India but on his University and College, and when the name of the first Indian Senior Wrangler is mentioned, it will also be remembered that he belonged to Cambridge and to St. Johns. But examinations, however important, are only a preliminary. I lay stress upon this because there is too much of a tendency in this country to regard education as a mere episode, finished when... of 19th December 1955, 6, Burlington Road became 68, St. Stephen's Garden with effect from 1st January, 1938. The proprietor of the house in 1892, when Sri Aurobindo was living there, was Mrs. Lloyd Ellis, but we have no further information about it. Buses 7, 7A, 28, 31 and 46 pass along Chepstow Road, W. 2, which is crossed by St. Stephen's Gardens. Yours sincerely, sd. H.J.W. Wilson... are consequently unable to certify that he is qualified to be appointed to the Civil Service of India. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, John Hennell The Under Secretary of State, India Office VII Minute Paper. J & P Public Department. Letter from C. S. Commissioners Dated 17 Nov ...
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