“…The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, “New Hampshire” (1923)
“I have never confused the spectre’s ring with the man’s. The ghost’s ring is a strange vibration in the bell that it derives from nothing else, and I have asserted that the bell stirs to the eye. I don’t wonder that you failed to hear it. But I heard it.”
Charles Dickens, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman, Mugby Junction: The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round (1866)
“So the gods will depart from mankind - a grievous thing! And only evil angels will remain who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches by main force into all manner of reckless crime, into wars, and robberies, and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature of the soul…Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought mroe profitable than life…the pious will be deemed insane, and the impious sie, the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.”
Trismegistus to Asclepius, Asclepius III [A Fragment], Walter Scott English translation of the Latin text attributed to Apuleius, Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which contain Religious or Philosophical Teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, 1924 1:341-7 (date unknown)
“The Snow-drop in purest white arraie
First rears her head on Candelmas daie
While the Crocus hastens to the shrine
Of Primrose love on Saint Valentine
Then comes the Daffodil beside
Our Ladye’s Smock at our Ladye Tide…”
V.S. Lean, A Flower Calendar, Collectanea, vol. 1 p. 449 (1902)
“…at the beginning, the human body was of a half-ethereal nature; and that, before the fall, mankind communed freely with the now unseen universes. But since that time matter has become the formidable barrier between us and the world of spirits.”
Mme. H.P.Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A master-key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology, Pt. I - Science, Ch. 1, Vol. 1, pg. 1-2 (1877)
“It sounds like the cry not of a man but of a race, a great religious, civilized race, who could not understand how god could so cruelly visit the world.”
Ignatius Donnely, Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel, 2007 Echo Library Edition, commenting on the Book of Job, p. 176 (1883)
“He hears me not, but o’er the yawning deep
Rides heavy; his storms are unchain’d; sheathed
In ribbed steel, I dare not lift mine eyes;
For he hath rear’d his sceptre o’er the world.”
William Blake, ‘To Winter,’ Poetical Sketches (1783)
“luminous, bleached—
white water—
that light in the narrows
before a storm breaks.”
John Montague, ‘White Water,’ from Drunken Sailor,
Wake Forest University Press, p. 13 (2005)
“O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors;
The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark
Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,
Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.”
William Blake, ‘To Winter,’ Poetrical Sketches (1783)
“Over her head he could see the afternoon sunlight streaming duskily in through the bow windows as it had always done. Golden and still. The way sunlight falls into museums and the halls of the dead.”
Stephen King; The Stand, Complete & Uncut Edition Ch. 12, p. 126 (1978, 1990)
“They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom…”
Charles Dickens; A Christmas Carol, Stave III: The Second of Three Spirits, p. 119 (17 Dec 1843)
“…And the Christmas bells that ring there, are the clanging chimes of doom, Well, tonight, thank God it’s them, instead of you.”
-Sting & Bono, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (1984)
“Do you realize how great the 2nd and 3rd centuries after Christ were? Not because of the pomp of the empire in its sunset…In Rome, the Praetorians were slaughtering their emperors, but in the Mediterranean area, there flourished the epoch of Apuleius, the mysteries of Isis, and that great return to spirituality: Neoplatonism, gnosis. Blissful times, …A splendid epoch…The knowledge I am talking about is diffuse and disjointed; it is as ancient as the world itself, reaching back beyond Pythagoras, to the Brahmans of India, the mages, the gymnosophists, and even the barbarians of the far north, the Druids of Gaul and the British Isles…”
Umberto Eco, “Aglié’s soliloquy,” Milan, p. 154-155 (1988)
“There’s a natural mystic blowing through the air; If you listen carefully now you will hear.”
Bob Marley, ‘Natural Mystic’ (1969)
“Ye have locked yourselves up in cages of fear; and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack freedom.”
Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst; K.S.C., ‘Epistle to the Paranoids,’ The Honest Book of Truth
![“So the gods will depart from mankind - a grievous thing! And only evil angels will remain who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches by main force into all manner of reckless crime, into wars, and robberies, and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature of the soul…Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought mroe profitable than life…the pious will be deemed insane, and the impious sie, the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.”Trismegistus to Asclepius, Asclepius III [A Fragment], Walter Scott English translation of the Latin text attributed to Apuleius, Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which contain Religious or Philosophical Teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, 1924 1:341-7 (date unknown)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyz0utQBSq1qk6ryvo1_1280.jpg)
