“The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.” LittlesBookLightTeachingCenturyMaterialsSourceInfiniteJewDoctrineFormerLatterEmanate Author:Albert Pike
“There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.” HumansFactsHandsSeemsForcePartyCenturyHorrorDareDenyContraryFormerCharacteristicsLatterEmpiresDecayPregnantSymptomsHuman HistoryNineteenth CenturyRoman EmpireEpochSurpassing Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings
“There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the culture of the latter may carry a deep tradition influenced by Christian values, its posture of rebellion will give it a direction that is more explicitly and consciously anti-Christian.” PeopleGivingMayHas BeensChristianValuesCultureDifferencesReligiousCenturyTraditionPostsLatterRebellionPaganismPostureAnti ChristianChristian Values Author:Edmund Clowney
“For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.” IfsMenMayDoeFightingGreaterCenturyDyingHeroGloryHarderShiningGreat MenLatterRunnersMarathonBeamBrowsLaurelsLatter DaysMarathon RunnersWreaths Author:Adolf Hitler
“Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.” WorldShouldHumansEndsWholeAbleBeautifulSpiritDesirePurposeOrderImaginationViewsEconomyCenturyMaterialsTerribleShapesLimitsIllusionBoringSurfaceFleshMysteriousAccomplishmentRealmsLatterMortalityHarshHauntingTranscendencePhenomenalConstancy Author:David Bentley Hart