However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the remains and evidences of its previous life. So also Moses saw to it that all those who had known Egypt and her mysteries should end their life in the desert; at Ephesus St Paul burnt all books which treated of the occult sciences; and in fine, the French Revolution, daughter of the great Johannite Orient and the ashes of the Templars, spoliated the churches and blasphemed the allegories of the Divine Cultus. But all doctrines and all revivals proscribe Magic and condemn its mysteries to the flames and to oblivion. The reason is that each religion or philosophy which comes into the world is a Benjamin of humanity and insures its own life by destroying its mother. It is because the symbolical serpent turns ever devouring its own tail; it is because, as essential condition of existence, a void is necessary to every plenitude, space for every dimension, an affirmation for each negation: herein is the eternal realization of the phoenix allegory.
Éliphas LéviTag: allegory magick renewal phoenix 1855
God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: forgiveness renewal
I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.
Diane DettmannTag: loss widows renewal spouse grief-inspirational
December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.
Alberto VilloldoTag: renewal 2012 alberto-villoldo dec-21
It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.
Anna QuindlenTag: life history cities london renewal city-life circle-of-life literary-london metropolis fictional-london
Tag: spiritual encouragement renewal
The first day of spring, the vernal equinox—the season of renewal when the earth sheds its winter cloak, flowers bloom, and the heart feels as though everything is once again imaginable. The smell of fresh-cut grass, shagging fly balls, and scraping mud from baseball cleats. A brief contemplation and tear for those gone from the field, their easy laugh and nimble sprint no longer gracing the game.
Galen WatsonTag: remembrance renewal
As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew.
Phil WohlTag: rebirth renewal death-of-a-loved-one love-story
I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration.
Jay WoodmanTag: inspiration nature health healthy renewal sustainable healthily sustainably
Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise.
N.T. WrightTag: art hope apologetics resurrection renewal mystics
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