From the book Concealment and Revelation Chapters in this book (24) Frontmatter Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Editions Used Introduction Chapter 1. The Paradox of Esotericism: “And Not on the Chariot Alone” Chapter 2. The Hidden and the Sublime: Vision and Restriction in the ...
The house was calm, the only two occupants currently present being Zorian and Kirielle… and thankfully, Kirielle was amusing herself with doodling into her notebook instead of pestering him. That was good, because trying to levitate a snail, like Zorian was currently doing, was not at all...
The next day. As the night deepened, the room was bathed in the soft, flickering glow of a single candle. Anos had conjured it with his creation magic, the flame dancing and casting long, wavering shadows on the walls. The Demon King of Tyranny himself was engrossed i...
The Antichrist and the False Prophet- Chapter 13 of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to shew unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass.
In some of its habitual oppositions, it is contraposed to ‘ history*, or to ‘ science’, or to ‘ philosophy*, or to ‘ allegory* or to ‘ truth’.16 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Age of the Enlightenment, the term had commonly a pejorative connotation: a myth ...
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said MACONDO and another larger one on...
This in turn suggests that the book doesn’t mean for readers to take it as an ultimate authority, but rather as one source of potential revelation among many. Unlock with LitCharts A+ Active Themes Feeling death coming ever closer, Bernard wonders if it’s even possible to make sense...
There was a book behind the boy, and it was titled ‘Mysterious Power Handbook.’ “…‘A hundred simply-explained methods to train your powers. Join the Bravers.’ Even in a world where magic exists, I’m surprised that there are these kinds of books,” Banda murmured to himself. ...
His report on these tests helped the Army choose the M-16 as its standard weapon. And yet, the initial deployment of the M-16 in Vietnam was considered a disaster, with guns jamming in bad weather, and with its unusually small bullets failing to stop the enemy as promised. Young men ...
11. The apocalyptic concept of the "Second Coming" of Jesus Christ, based on the Book of Revelation and part of the theology of many an evangelical preacher like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, had begun to make its appearance in the rhetoric of Republican p...