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The interferences of the movement party in the sacerdotal elections were set aside; not only the Domitian law of 650, which transferred the election of the supreme priesthoods generally to the people, but also the similar older enactments as to the -Pontifex Maximus- and the -Curio Maximus- were cancelled by Sulla, and the colleges of priests received back the right of self-completion in its original absoluteness.
Now, my body was so near to being entirely dead that I knew in all absoluteness that by a quick concentration of will on the yet-alive patch of my torso it, too, would cease to be. But and here was the problem, and Morrell had not warned me: should I also will my head to be dead?
"We are most free, when we are most deeply pledged pledged irrevocably to the spiritual presence, with which our own being is so radically and so finally implicated." Thus freedom is obtained in a sense through self-surrender, but it is through this same self-surrender that we realise spiritual absoluteness.
In a recently published book by W. Stekel, Die Sprache des Traumes, which I was unable to utilize, there is a list of the most common sexual symbols, the object of which is to prove that all sexual symbols can be bisexually used. To be sure the clause in parentheses takes away much of the absoluteness of this assertion, for this is not at all permitted by the phantasy.
But I wondered whether your force would hold out, whether you might not be intimidated, whether you might not temporize, which would have been natural enough whether you might not have used some little social art or grace to cover up and disguise the absoluteness of your resolve but no! You were a heroine in the fight, and you gave your blows straight from the hilt, without flinching.
Thus the interest of their sidereal observations led them on, till the knowledge that scarce any other human vision was travelling within a hundred million miles of their own gave them such a sense of the isolation of that faculty as almost to be a sense of isolation in respect of their whole personality, causing a shudder at its absoluteness.
Every now and then she would ask him a question and he would answer rather shortly or she would make a statement which he would seal with a monosyllable. There were never any comments between them. In the absoluteness of their understanding, explanations and amplifications had become impossible.
But we cannot force any man into an insight or intuitive possession of the true philosophy, because we cannot give him abstraction, intellectual intuition, or constructive imagination; because we cannot organize for him an eye that can see, an ear that can listen to, or a heart that can feel, the harmonies of Nature, or recognise in her endless forms, the thousand-fold realization of those simple and majestic laws, which yet in their absoluteness can be discovered only in the recesses of his own spirit,—not by that man, therefore, whose imaginative powers have been ossified by the continual reaction and assimilating influences of mere objects on his mind, and who is a prisoner to his own eye and its reflex, the passive fancy!—not by him in whom an unbroken familiarity with the organic world, as if it were mechanical, with the sensitive, but as if it were insensate, has engendered the coarse and hard spirit of a sorcerer.
The word that is here rendered rightly enough, 'Lord, is the word which has been transferred into English as 'despot, and it carries with it some suggestion of the roughness and absoluteness of authority which that word suggests to us.
He can behold and understand God in the least degree, as well as in the greatest, only by the godlike within him; and he that loves thus the good and great, has no room, no thought, no necessity for comparison and difference. The truth satisfies him. He lives in its absoluteness. God makes the glow-worm as well as the star; the light in both is divine.
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