Opus 2 Quotes

Then Elizabeth came, bearing a tray of cakes and sweets, and finally Harriet, who carried with her a small sheaf of paper—her current opus, Henry VIII and the Unicorn of Doom . “I’m not certain Frances is going to be appeased by an evil unicorn,” Anne told her. Harriet looked up with one arched brow. “She did not specify that it must be a good unicorn.” Anne grimaced. “You’re going to have a battle on your hands, that’s all I’m going to say on the matter.” Harriet shrugged, then said, “I’m going to begin in act two. Act one is a complete disaster. I’ve had to rip it completely apart.” “Because of the unicorn?” “No,” Harriet said with a grimace. “I got the order of the wives wrong. It’s divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, widowed.” “How cheerful.” Harriet gave her a bit of a look, then said, “I switched one of the divorces with a beheading.” “May I give you a bit of advice?” Anne asked. Harriet looked up. “Don’t ever let anyone hear you say that out of context.

You are an opus all on your own

Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.

In search of Magnum opus - perhaps you were divined to be mine.

whittled down to her bones by the horrible cruelty of indifference and the brutal indifference of cruelty, she was one of us and she was all of us. She was the Others’ masterwork, their magnum opus, humanity’s past and its future, what they had done and what they promised to do,

An Alchemist’s journey is really a struggle to continue individual existence long after physical death, long after the bubble has burst. Another way to say this would be to say that an Alchemist’s journey is about changing the nature of the bubble that is his individuality, so that it becomes superfluid, unbound, unbreakable by the tides of the Dark Sea.

He considered for a moment, then started to play a piece that was very familiar to Ruth, although she had no idea what it was. It was lilting and wistful, and she could have sung the melody if she had wished. 'Alright?' He raised his eyebrows inquiringly. 'Yes. Exactly.' It was effortless and perfect, and he played it through to the end, closing with the softest and most delicate chords, which hung and faded in the quiet hall like the grains of dust raining through the evening light. Ruth was touched. It was all she had wanted. He did not move until there was complete silence again, then he closed the lid without saying anything, and stood up, shoving back the chair. ... 'What was that piece?' 'A Brahms waltz.' 'Hasn't it got a name?' she wanted it to remember. 'Number fifteen. Opus thirty-nine.' It hadn't sounded like numbers to Ruth.

The life of the dreamer, that is a projectionist, is a life of duality. A projectionist is a being that exists in two worlds simultaneously. On the one hand they participate in what at first seems to be a rather static existence, surrounded by human beings that oftentimes don’t have an inkling of the marvels possible to them. And on the other they explore and take part in fantastic adventures in worlds beyond rational description.

The projectionist’s intent, if focused on long enough, becomes a command (an energetic truth), which allows a person to move conscious awareness beyond the confines of the physical body. Not by waking up in a dream state or by having someone else manipulate your awareness, but by consciously and deliberately expanding the conscious range available to the awake individual in a methodical manner. In this way, the power and flexibility of this ghost-like self are slowly amplified, until a new type of self is birthed (a Unitary Entity that is usually seen in certain Alchemical symbolism as a Phoenix that never needs to touch the ground again).

Avrupa Parlamentosu'ndaki İspanyol mebuslarının katıldığı ve Avrupa Parlamentosu Başkanvekili Vidal Quadras'ın yönettiği kapalı toplantıda; "İslam ve Türkiye'de İslam"ı tartışıyoruz. İspanyollara has kibar bir üslup hakim... Ama İspanyol politikacıların ve tarihçi meskeltaşlarımızın bence temel bir yanlışı var; insanlığın kurtuluşunu laiklikte görebiliriz veya aksini düşünebiliriz. Ama İslam'ı sadece bağnazlık, kendi dinini ise bir kültür çevresi ile tarif edip asri medeniyetin öncisi olduğunuzu düşünürseniz ve 20. Yüzyıldaki refahınızı dininizin "esnekliğine"(!) bağlarsanız, tarihi realiteyi inkar etş olursunuz, kavga devam eder. İslam, fundamentalist gruplar üreten bir din dediğiniz zaman, on tane Müslüman fundamentalist grubun bir Katolik Opus Dei Örgütü'nün gücüne ve etkinliğine sahip olmadığını biömeniz gerekir. Katolik toplumların seçkinlerini toplayan; Papalık ve milli hükümetler arasındaki bağları kendine göre yöneten böyle bir kuruluş islam dünyasımda henüz yok; kurulmasına ve gelişmesine biraz da boşuna çalışılıyor. Ortadaki Rabıtatu'l-Alemu'l-İslam gibileri ancak Opus Dei'nin güneşte kurutulmuşu olabilir. Dindar olsın ya da olmasın, kimse kimliğinden fedakarlıkta bulunmak istemez, bulunmasın da zaten. Ama kendi dini kimliği ile övünüp öbürünün kimliğini aşağılamayı ve kendi dininde mistisizm ve akide diye yücelttiği unsurları öbürününkinde tehlikeli yobazlık belirtileri diye yaftalamayı kimse kabul edemez. Bu şartlarda 11 eylül havası da dağılamaz. İslam patriarksl bir din denildi. Hangi semavi din bugünün çağdaş denilen niteliklerine sahip? Bunların hepsi bir laf salatasıdır. 20. Yüzyılın muğlak kavramlarıyla 2 bin yıllık inançları değerlendirmek ne kadar sağlıklı sonuç verir? Engizisyon mahkemeleri çoktan kalktı ama mütekebbir bir akide insanların zihninde yaşıyor ve herkes birbirini itham ediyor.

If that focus is off and you are easily distracted, then there is no redoubling of hard effort and extra pain. Instead there is a waking up to the fact that your mind has become distracted, a ‘remembering’ of who you are and what you consciously want, and a gentle re-direction of that distracted attention back to focusing on that original conscious desire. You then repeat this process over and over again, until a change is made which happens slowly sometimes, faster at other times, but whatever the case, it is not painful and it’s not hard, it just requires time and attention.

The rational world view that is maintained by the waking conscious self is a perfect cage; it limits our potential so much that even the contemplation of the possibility of another greater reality is interpreted as insanity, guaranteeing that few will ever even suspect the marvels hidden in the depths of the Second World. But that is the price we all are willing to pay I suppose, to also protect the cozy sensible human world from the titans beyond the gate.

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I’m technically supposed to keep my eyes on him when he comes, but it’s hard not to flinch when your face is being used as a blank canvas for a magcum opus.

empoderaba a quienes la controlaban” (Heyer, 2006: 147). A principios de la década de 1940 Innis trabajó en un manuscrito de 2.400 páginas titulado A History of Communications, una opus magnum nunca publicada a excepción de los tres primeros capítulos utilizados en Empire and Communications. El

For me, as an Inner Alchemist, there is no body and soul; the body and the soul are one indivisible thing. The soul then IS the body in a certain vibrational range. As such, there is no Out There or In Here for an Alchemist. Duality and separation are a good way to teach at first, they help to create demarcations that can certainly help to maintain a type of sanity in a young mind, but they are illusions that must be left behind as the intellect grows.

The linear order of time then is only true during wakeful states, only during the OUT cycle of consciousness. But again, wakefulness is not a constant linear thing, it is constantly fluctuating even when most of us think that we are quite awake and alert. The only way for humanity to maintain any linear order within physical time at all, is to use external physical devices (like clocks) or to focus the attention and record changes (like in calendars) in the First World. In this way, we may keep track of the physical cycles like the shift of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the seasons. Indeed, the written word, and the keeping of historical records, are ways for the outer self, the conscious ego, to maintain a semblance of linear and stable order within time.

Everything that I have ever taught in my books is about training and empowering your ghost in the machine!

Please note then that conscious dreaming truly is after death training for the ghost in the machine, because its experiences when the conscious self is turned off every night, are what it will truly experience when physical life ends. Dreams are a real experience of after physical death realities.

...all projections of consciousness are indeed movements by the self from one place to another, from one dimension to another, and even though the physical body may not seem to move, it is nevertheless deeply affected by these journeys. Moreover, these journeys are not only powerful inner actions that can allow a person to escape the physical dimension and work through a great deal of repression and personal dis-balance, these real journeys provide access to a pool of knowledge and power that is staggering in its magnitude. Indeed, the most staggering of these possibilities is the energetic fact that we are indeed far more than the physical body, and that thanks to the non-physical aspects of our whole being, we have the possibility of surviving physical death!

One of the best ways to understand just how inadequate words can be when it comes to talking about subjective experience, is to realize that there are often multiple ways to describe inner action, and that even though these definitions can sometimes seem to contradict themselves in some ways, they are nevertheless quite valid.

When it comes to a wedding, all women are artists and the least shading out of synch with their creative thought can make or break their magnum opus. It makes it worse when one of them is actually an artist.

And on the seventh day God finished His work … and He rested … from all His work which He had done” (Genesis 2:2). Thus, work itself is something divine, something God Himself does. So

In spite of his name, Bob Troutman wasn’t much of a catch.

old ladies who remembered when cotton briefs only cost ten cents a pair.

tidying with what a couple of the other pianists had called her obsessive-compulsive neatness. Well, could she help it if she liked the sheet music alphabetized? And then put in numerical order according to the year it was written?

One minute I was shopping for my daughter, and the next minute, I saw one of the most dangerous women in the world straightening underwear at Lauderdale’s.

Hoo-kay, Marnie thought. Whoever this guy was, he’d caught the express train from la-la land and hopped off at weirdsville. And now he was looking around for the platform for his connection to loonytown.

figure out if he knew her from somewhere. But he didn’t, she was sure, unless it was just in passing at the mall. She would have remembered a man like him. For a long, long time. And then she would have dreamed about him. A lot. Probably without clothes. On either of them.

If I were her? First thing I’d do is torch my little black book and start over again. Because the men that woman attracts are just plain odd.

Gee, color her suspicious, but if he kept this up, she was going to start thinking he wasn’t a mall security guard at all.

After all, it had been…how long since his last sexual encounter? He did some mental math: carry the one, make the seven an eight…multiply by pi…add the square root of sixty-two…do the hokeypokey and turn yourself around…When he saw the final number, he immediately erased the blackboard. No way could it have

this is the symbol of the crossed keys of Simon Peter: the papal coat of arms. The two keys represent the power of binding and loosing—the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. The triple crown symbolizes the three powers the pope retains as father of kings, governor of the world, and Vicar of Christ.

There is no question that Master Alighieri’s work is a faithful account of a proper institution. The inscription, “All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” is reprinted in colour in every volume of institutional art history—not merely because gate inscriptions are among the discipline’s most characteristic styles of opus framing. Far beyond that, the appearance of this institution marks a moment akin to Bach’s transformation of composition or Shakespeare’s of the plot. For institutional arts, there is a definitive “before” and “after” the sombre gate flung open. On that point, our correspondent was correct. But, Wholly Spiders, what of the dating? If a 29th-century poet fancied to rhyme a verse about the Nile, should we date the river’s origin to the birthday of his poem? Did the ticket booths of the Ministry of Dreams emptied for the first time only in 2024, when our modest account was published? More bizarre ideas are difficult to encounter. Hasn’t the institution faithfully recorded by the Florentine poet been in operation ever since that poor fool, Adam, failed to exercise independent judgement? To evidence that this occurred well before 1321 is a typical assignment, an average junior historian handles with ease by their second year of study.

When the early Church of Jerusalem introduced baptism, the connection between repentance and baptism was still clear (Acts ii, 38). There still is an indirect connection between moral purity and the significance of baptism99 in Heb. x, 22: "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." The similarity of this language to Josephus' description has already been recognized100; now we must also compare the language used by DSD III, 8-9: "By the submission of his soul to all the statutes of God his flesh will be cleansed, that he may be sprinkled with water for impurity and sanctify himself101 with water of cleanness." The language, not the meaning, is similar in this case, since the author of the Epistle does not really want to say that repentance is necessary for effective baptism, but only makes use of a traditional phrase. Elsewhere in the NT Epistles and Johannine writings the connection between baptism and repentance is entirely lacking, in spite of the great importance which repentance had in Christianity from its very beginning in the teaching of Jesus (Bul. 73-4). In my opinion102 this loss of the element of repentance in Christian baptism can be explained by the increasing importance given to its sacramental aspect, which makes it an opus operatum. It is interesting to note that the Apostolic Fathers, when speaking about repentance and baptism (Barn, xvi, 8-9; Herm. IV Mand. Iii, 1-2), seem to regard repentance as a result of baptism, not as a condition for it.103