It is something to have wept as we have wept,It is something to have done as we have done,It is something to have watched when all men slept,And seen the stars which never see the sun.It is something to have smelt the mystic rose,Although it break and leave the thorny rods,It is something to have … Continue reading The Great Minimum
Month: October 2022
The Planets
Lady Luna, in light canoe, By friths and shallows of fretted cloudland Cruises monthly; with chrism of dews And drench of dream, a drizzling glamour, Enchants us--the cheat! changing sometime A mind to madness, melancholy pale, Bleached with gazing on her blank count'nance Orb'd and ageless. In earth's bosom The shower of her rays, sharp-feathered … Continue reading The Planets
A Sort of “Illumination”
“If we try to imagine the state of mind of the Twelve, after Jesus had passed away, filled with an adoring love of their Master, and also with a deep sense of shame at their long continued 'hardness' or 'slowness' of heart in their attitude to the Great Teacher while he was with them, we … Continue reading A Sort of “Illumination”
Where History Begins
We shall never return to social sanitytill we begin at the beginning. We muststart where all history starts, with aman and a woman, and a child, andwith the province of liberty and propertywhich these need for their full humanity.As it is, we begin where history ends.We judge everything by the particularmuddle of the moment. — … Continue reading Where History Begins
The Supreme and Most Practical Value of Poetry
“The practical value of poetry is that it is realistic upon a point upon which nothing else can be realistic, the point of the actual desires of man. Ethics is the science of actions, but poetry is the science of motives. Some actions are ugly, and therefore some parts of ethics are ugly. But all … Continue reading The Supreme and Most Practical Value of Poetry
The Victory that Overcomes the World
To trust in spite of the look of being forgotten; to keep crying out into the vast whence comes no voice, and where seems no hearing; to struggle after light, where is no glimmer to guide in the direction of it; at every turn to find a doorless wall, yet ever seek a door; to … Continue reading The Victory that Overcomes the World
The Victory that Overcomes the World
To trust in spite of the look of being forgotten; to keep crying out into the vast whence comes no voice, and where seems no hearing; to struggle after light, where is no glimmer to guide in the direction of it; at every turn to find a doorless wall, yet ever seek a door; to … Continue reading The Victory that Overcomes the World
On Punishment
"Punishment is not directly for justice, else mercy would involve injustice. Then it is not for the sake of the punishment, as a thing that in itself ought to be done, but as a means to an end, that God punishes." George MacDonald
"As personal and private life is lower than participation in the Body of Christ, so the collective life is lower than the personal and private life and has no value save in its service. The secular community, since it exists for our natural good and not for our supernatural, has no higher end than to … Continue reading
Invisibly Converging Lines
“If, for instance, it was a book of metaphysics I opened, I had scarcely read two pages before I seemed to myself to be pondering over discovered truth, and constructing the intellectual machine whereby to communicate the discovery to my fellow men. With some books, however, of this nature, it seemed rather as if the … Continue reading Invisibly Converging Lines
Following A Star 