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“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe. Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right. Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit it to imitate the sayers. The poet does not wait for the hero or the sage, but, as they act and think primarily, so he writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning the others, though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sitters or models in the studio of a painter, or as assistants who bring building materials to an architect.”

Poetry Transcendentalism Neoplatonism

Book:Essays, Second Series

Source: Essays, Second Series

“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...”

Philosophy Natural Atheism Stoicism Superstition Stoic Platonism Biblical Criticism Neoplatonism Alexandrian Bruno Bauer Bauer

Book:A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists

Source: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists

“They have been instructed by nature and the sacred laws to serve the living God, who is superior to the good, and more simple than the one, and more ancient than the unit; with whom, however, who is there of those who profess piety that we can possibly compare?”

Philosophy Theology Plotinus Neoplatonism Divine Simplicity

Book:The Works of Philo

Source: The Works of Philo

“Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental oneness and luminous aliveness of the world with the Christian dogmas of the triune God, original sin and redemption. The universe is created, animated and unified by the perpetual self-realization of what Plotinus had called "the One," what the Bible had called "the Lord," and what he calls "the superessential Light.”

God Christianity Unity Theology Oneness Dogma Plato Medieval Platonic Plotinus Neoplatonism Abbot Suger St Denis Procus Pseudo Areopagite Pseudo Dionysius

Book:Meaning in the Visual Arts

Source: Meaning in the Visual Arts