The Agony in the Garden

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1. Problems of mysticism and its symbolism · Herbert Silberer

   John xix, 33. " But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not ANALYTIC INTERPRETATION 85 his legs." — 40 f. " Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen cloths with the spices. . . . Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulcher, wherein was never man yet laid." We shall mention later the significance of garden and grave. It supports that of the cloths.] Rank …

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2. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero · Otto Rank

   And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things which they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.” We now …

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3. Intentions · Oscar Wilde

   PEN, PENCIL, AND POISON 73 of "The Crucifixion," by Rembrandt. It is ex- tremely characteristic of his style: — " Darkness — sooty, portentous darkness — shrouds the whole scene: only above the accursed wood, as if through a horrid rift in the murky ceiling, a rainy deluge — ' sleety- flaw, discoloured water ' — streams down amain, spreading a grisly spectral light, even more horrible than that palpable night. Already the Earth pants thick and fast ! the dark- ened Cross trembles ! the winds are dropt — …

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4. Religious art in France, 13 century · Emile Mâle

   186 OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY was buried, so that His blood should flow over the bones of our first parent.1 The Cross was not fashioned from any chance wood but from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Its trunk, after having served as the bridge over which the Queen of Sheba passed when she entered Jerusalem, had been miraculously preserved at the bottom of the Temple reservoir. So by the will of God the instrument of the Fall became the means of the Redemption.* And lastly, the …

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5. News from Nowhere · William Morris

   "Such a thing is unknown," said he. "In a society where there is no punishment to evade, no law to triumph over, remorse will certainly follow transgression." "And lesser outbreaks of violence," said I, "how do you deal with them? for hitherto we have been talking of great tragedies, I suppose?" Said Hammond: "If the ill-doer is not sick or mad (in which case he must be restrained till his sickness or madness is cured) it is clear that grief and humiliation must follow the ill-deed; and society in general …

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6. Problems of mysticism and its symbolism · Herbert Silberer

   286 PROBLEMS OF MYSTICISM which it may expect in the celestial bliss." How- ever, I do not know whether such a man can be found on earth. " He continues : Of this method of distinguish- ing between the works of the spirits, Saint John (I John IV, 3) speaks in his epistle: * Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God ' (or as it is translated by Luther : ' Who does not recognize that Jesus Christ is come …

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