In later Judaism a complete topography of it was attempted; “Abraham’s bosom” was defined to be the place of highest honor in it; and strongly colored descriptions were given of its gates of rubies, its sixty myriads of angels, the 800,000 kinds of trees which flourished in it, and ...
A winter gust howls through the valley as the caravan of carnival folk teeter along their broken path of carriage tracks, and a fat man in a purple velvet top hat behind the reins of the lead horse turns back to his apprentice, a despondent depressive type with ginger hair that has since...
Thus Milton blossomed in the atmosphere of a home full of music and respect for learning. Then he was sent to Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he acquired a good knowledge of Latin. He defined the true aim of knowledge as making the spirit of man reach out far and wide until it ...
by a heart shaped in the fashion of my Maker’s compass. Long hasthis strugglehaunted me. I come up wanting. Not measured to be enough. But when I close my eyes, my prayers assure me thatI’m not out of His handsor His control or His path. Until recently....
? Milton lived in a period of transition, a period which he was at the centre of, and in which his great work Paradise Lost defined. ? Milton was born into a rich family, and his father encouraged him to write; he was writing poetry by the age of nine. (portrait of Milton aged 9...
Usually there are five waves to these runs. While other traders were calling the rally over, I decided to buy because I could see the parabolic run pattern forming and only two steps in its clearly defined ladder. Other traders were calling the top because they’...
The Bible does not tell Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus. The Bible doesn't even tell us when Jesus was born. Of course we can look for "clues" within the gospels to when Jesus might have been born, and people have done that. The assumption of course is that these "clues"...
Paradise The concept of paradise may be defined as an “exemplary center” where needs and suffering are eliminated. The archetype of paradise has been employed by tourism to emulate a climate of relaxation,recreation, and abundance which contrasts with daily working life. In paradise, all desires...
they are now defined into some immortal etching of time. They’re initiated as some dying-and-rising deity, like these motifs through ancient mythology that we tell as metaphors for the natural phenomenon we can’t fully come to terms with. The resurrection story is nearly ubiquitous in mythol...