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The Cross and the Lotus Flower: Reinventing Christian Art in Early Modern Indiadoi:10.1086/scj5202001KERALA (India)GOA (India : State)CHRISTIAN art & symbolismHINDU art & symbolismJESUIT missionsJESUITSJESUIT historyMATERIAL cultureIt has long been acknowledged that the success of the ...
20. “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering. … The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no ...
held her to me. Drums thumped upon the Nile, the sound carried up & outward by the water, beating in time with my heart. I pressed my face to her neck & the smell of the lotus flower enveloped me & I realized that she was the source of it; she was the crushed flower giving fort...
In addition to causing delayed cellular development, cold stress results in plants flowering early, flower abscission, and fruit drop shedding, all of which are harmful for the reproduction of flowering plants [9,10,11]. Cold stress is classified as chilling (0–15 °C) and freezing (<0 °...
It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away” (James 4: 14). “As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. And its place remembers it no more” (Psalm 103: 15-...
Jung writes that the lotus "corresponds to the 'Golden Flower' of Chinese meditative alchemy, the rose of the Rosicrucians, and the mystic rose in Dante's Paradiso."14 The Christian Litany of Loreto, Italy, likens the Mother of God to a beautiful Rose (instead of a Lotus) and her ...