![]() ![]() Otto notes that the category of the holy resembles the category of the beautiful in “that it completely eludes apprehension in terms of concepts.” (5) The holy and the beautiful cannot be adequately defined, yet they are palpable objects of experience. (In a later chapter, Otto will assert that mysticism “is the stressing to a very high degree, indeed the overstressing, of the non-rational or supra-rational elements in religion.” (22)) In what follows, Otto draws attention to passages in the Bible and other sacred texts, which when reread without the customary ethical presuppositions bring us up against the terrible, primordial significance of the sacred. However, actual worship, culminating in mystical contemplation of the divine, discloses an altogether irrational, “ineffable” object whose attributes elude conceptualization. These elements constitute the rational dimension of the divine, rational in the sense that it can be articulated in clear concepts. Theology tends to fasten on those elements of the divine that can be made intelligible and given ethical meaning. History and the A Priori in Religion: Summary and Conclusion The Manifestation of the “Holy” and the Faculty of “Divination” The Holy as a Category of Value: Sin and Atonement “Mysterium Tremendum”: The Analysis of “Tremendum” ![]() The Elements of the “Numinous”: Creature-Feeling Numbers in brackets refer to pages of this edition. These notes are based on the 1958 Oxford University Press edition of the translation by John W. ![]() Sumerian votive figures from Tell Asmar, Iraq. ![]()
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Honesty is for suckers, like the oh-so- not charming Prince Cyrus, who plans to strip Violet of her official role once he’s crowned at the end of the summer-unless Violet does something about it.īut when the king asks her to falsely prophesy Cyrus’s love story for an upcoming ball, Violet awakens a dreaded curse, one that will end in either damnation or salvation for the kingdom-all depending on the prince’s choice of future bride. Violet is a prophet and a liar, influencing the royal court with her cleverly phrased-and not always true-divinations. Synopsis: A darkly enchanting fantasy debut about a morally gray witch, a cursed prince, and a prophecy that ignites their fate-twisted destinies-perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince and Serpent & Dove. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Woolf’s mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson), had been born in India and later served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. 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Don’t kill him.Ī tear caught on the edge of my lips. If you kill my Guardian, then I will never forgive you. I need all the help I can get, and that includes yours. My love for my Guardian is one of those blessings. I’m the only one of our kind who has ever felt the most perfect happiness and the truest sorrow - because of this soul. This human soul has given me so many blessings and curses. “I would mourn him forever with a broken heart. “Michael grew silent, his gaze softening as he looked from me to Will, and a dim light of hope flickered in my heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then, I wish someone had thrust a book like Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge into my hands. I wish someone had pointed out that I was lolling on a campus founded by Philadelphia Quakers, many of whom who drew the line against slavery almost 200 years before the Civil War. ![]() Because, while I never finished an entire can of soda, I gulped every morsel of Margaret Mitchell’s romanticized South, including the images of loyal, hardworking, genial slaves whose ministrations made Scarlett long for the antebellum days when all was ducky. We could argue about which was the greater poison. Each afternoon, I parked myself under a maple tree and devoured Gone with the Wind while sipping a Diet Coke. The summer I was 12, I spent weekday mornings on the tennis courts at Friends Central School in Wynnewood, swinging a clumsy backhand and counting the minutes until lunch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The contemporary essayist Rebecca Solnit renovates Woolf’s metaphor, writing in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (2007): “the straight line of conventional narrative is too often an elevated freeway permitting no unplanned encounters or necessary detours. ![]() Having lost her thought at a border enforced by patriarchy, Woolf raises the problems of wandering, trespassing, and thinking as a woman. Woolf next remarks: “What idea it had been that had sent me so audaciously trespassing, I could not now remember.” ![]() She is immediately intercepted, however, by “a man’s figure” and told to use the gravel path. While she sits beside the river, thought lets “its line down into the stream , letting the water lift it and sink it, until-you know the little tug-the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one’s line.” Upon hauling in the thought, Woolf remarks that it might be best “put back.” Yet once put back, the thought excites her again, and Woolf walks off “with extreme rapidity” over the Oxbridge grass. In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf famously speaks of the way a thought comes upon her. For Rebecca Solnit and Virginia Woolf, thought travels by detour and collision. ![]() |