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...church, held no services. Small groups of admirers formed in different cities; Lebanese exiles circulated around him; circles of twelve poets each, appointed for life and acknowledging Gibran as master, were organized in New York, Damascus, Beirut. His poetry in Arabic was apparently more striking than his vague, formless lines in English would suggest...
...Into this well, recorded history goes only a little way, and not truth, but mystery, lies in its fathomless depths. Yet the myths of man are pious abbreviations reaching far deeper than his factual knowledge of events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar events, established itself among various peoples and produced that formation of coulisses which forever lures and leads onwards the traveler in time...
Frossia is the story of a girl who remained. A Russian chronicle of 358 pages, it is a documentary novel as solid and as solemn as a collection of social workers' case histories, formless, agonized, repetitious, linked only by the personality of Frossia, who in turn is kept going by her faith in a Russia that survives revolutions, the Tcheka, the Comintern, and remains the same...
Routine submarine patrol completed, the broad-winged Catalina lumbered baseward across Greenland's icecap, through a formless, numbing nothingness of snow and ice and haze and white fingers of sun feeling through clouds. Suddenly there was the awful crunch of hull against frozen snow and ice. The pilots grabbed for the throttles. The plane rose for an instant, settled, slid 300 feet up the slope of centuries-old ice, turned to rest on her left wing tip, stopped dead. An alert radio operator flashed...
...Brahman, Ramakrishna knew the formalities of Hindu worship. Hinduism asks its devotees to look on God as the ideal father, the ideal mother, the ideal husband, the ideal son, or the ideal friend. To the initiate, each name ultimately leads to the Nameless, the form to the Formless, the word to the Silence. The gods gradually merge in the one God. But until that realization is achieved - and it may take a million reincarnations - a Hindu devotee cannot dissociate human factors from his worship. Therefore Hindu deities must be bathed, clothed, decked with ornaments. They must...