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" guarding the door of Darkness " An allusion to the Cumaean Sibyl, the priestess who presided over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae. In Roman mythology, an entrance to the Underworld was said to be located at Avernus, a crater lake near Cumae. In Virgil's Aeneid, the Sibyl guards 'the door of gloomy Dis' – the door of the Underworld into which Aeneas is to descend. Page 26 A pall (from the Latin pallium, meaning cloak) is a cloth which covers a casket or coffin at funerals. In a letter to R. Page 26 Morituri te salutant ('those about to die salute you') is widely believed to have been the standard Roman gladiatorial salute to the emperor upon entering the arena.
Page 26 Plato was a classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Page 27 A gaberdine (or gabardine) is a long, loose gown or cloak with wide sleeves. Page 27 Page 28.
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The York Corpus Christi Plays: Introduction. Malachi. Voltaire, by John Morley. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Voltaire, by John Morley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Voltaire Author: John Morley Release Date: September 23, 2012 [EBook #40846] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VOLTAIRE *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh. Center for Science in Society. I.
The story begins with Shizhe's highly theoretical and formal search to "secure a variable in the scope of a universal quantifier... " This was an inquiry into the nature of quantification: what does it mean to say that "everything is x"? To get at the meaning of that linguistic pattern, Shizhe reviewed a formalism ("skolem function") in which value x determines value y; we moved from a discussion of empty sets (if x is empty, there is no pairing, so y has no value?)
, to an understanding that not 2 but actually 3 things (=sets) are involved in the act of universal quantification. That (hidden) third element, or "variable," could be an indefinite adjective (which gives the a larger range) or tense (which anchors the sentence onto a point in a time line). And my mind leapt over the questions about HOW sentences made meaning to WHAT the meaning was... II. Evoke what is not yet known, what surprises. Or, as Darwin said. Some examples-- Draft A: Compose your own life of learning. Browsegh. The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain.
Journeying to the Goddess. “Srinmo’s themes karma, Universal Law, excellence, sports and cycles.
Her symbols are the wheel and boomerang. In Tibet, this Goddess holds the Great Round, a cosmic wheel upon which the movement of human life is recorded with each thought, word, and deed. Srinmo’s demonic visage represents the human fear of death and reminds that one should strive for good in this life for the beauty it brings now and n our next incarnation. In Virginia, the Boomerang Festival is a festival of skill centering on the ancient boomerangs believed to have been used originally by the Egyptians. Metaphysically speaking, the boomerang’s movement represents the threefold law and Srinmo’s karmic balance (i.e., everything you send out returns to you thrice).
‘What goes around comes around.’ Pay particular attention to your routine and the way you interact with people all day, and see what Srinmo reveals to you. ‘As I turn to the right, I move closer to the Light!’” Srinmo with different Tibetan temples upon her body.