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Updated: May 16, 2025
Let us now say something of the shells in which pearls grow. Your Beatitude is not ignorant of the fact that Aristotle, and Pliny who followed the former in his theories, were not of the same opinion concerning the growth of pearls. They held but one point in common, and upon all others they differed. Neither would admit that pearl oysters moved after they were once formed.
Purisah tham-mah Sarathi, Unconquerable, Invincible, before whom the angels bow. 8. Sassahdah, Father of Beatitude, Teacher of the ways to bliss. 9. Poodh-tho, Endowed with boundless Compassion, Pitiful, Tender, Loving, Merciful, Benevolent. 10. Pak-havah, Glorious, endowed with inconceivable Merit, Adorable.
This is the beatitude of the unoffended, of those who do not stumble over the mystery of God's dealings with their life. This blessedness is within our reach also. There are times when we are overpowered with the mystery of life and nature.
We all remember its outlines, I suppose: the absence of Thomas from Christ's first meeting with the assembled disciples on Easter evening; the dogged disbelief with which he met their testimony; his arrogant assumption of the right to lay down the conditions on which he should believe, and Christ's gracious acceptance of the conditions; the discovery when they were offered that they were not needful; the burst of glad conviction which lifted him to the loftiest height reached while Christ was on earth, and then the summing up of all in our Lord's words 'Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed! the last Beatitude, that links us and all the generations yet to come with the story, and is like a finger pointing to it, as containing very special lessons for them all.
Henceforth his soul is vexed by no doubts respecting spiritual truth; he is exposed to no errors of faith; he is elevated to a state of beatitude which is even independent of the performance of good works; and being made a partaker of the unity of the divine nature he knows no further distinction of sects, but regards the true believers of all creeds as brethren.
This is what I always think of, this is what I hope for." Although her eyes were so glorious, and beaming with eternity, this distant sort of beatitude was not much to my liking. I wanted to have my love on earth; and my dear wife in my own home; and children in good time, if God should please to send us any. And then I would be to them, exactly what my father was to me.
She was just going out when it came, and she took it up with the mingled beatitude and almost sickening tremor that a lover feels touching the loved one's letter. She would not open it in the street, but carried it all the way to the garden of a certain College, and sat down to read it under the cedar-tree. That little letter, so short, boyish, and dry, transported her halfway to heaven.
Hemmed in between an old priest and a dirty, full-bearded man, a girl of delicate build, who looked very pretty with her soft eyes and silken skin, was eating some kidneys with an expression of absolute beatitude, although the so-called "sauce" in which they swam was simply greyish water. "Hum!" resumed even M. de Guersaint, "this salmon is not so bad.
"It was a case of love at first sight." "Happy Eulalie!" she said, enviously. "She has been favored beyond the computation of the gods. That beatitude falls to the lot of but few of her sex." "Are you voicing a personal grievance?" His eyes were full of amused incredulity. She smiled a little bitterly but evaded his question. "What do you hear from Grace?" she asked, inconsequentially.
The old harsh lines of life had passed, and the sternness of the endless battle had given way to an unaccountable joy. Every point that his delighted eyes dwelt upon was tinged with something of the beatitude that stirred his senses. Every step he took was something of an unreality.
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