Word: godhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising results was his suggestion, in The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, that "the Godhead must contain the Mother as well as the Father." Dame Laurentia was outraged at the thought of deifying Mary, and took him to task. "You want me, as if it were a sort of penance, to say a lot of Hail Maries," he flashed back. "But I am always saying Hail, Mary! on my travels ... I say it in my own natural and sincere way when She turns up in the temples and tombs of Egypt and among the gods of Hindustan-Hallo, Mary...
...idols and thereby calling attention to the universal God. Eastern Christianity was ripped by two great waves of iconoclasm scarcely less thorough than Mohammed's, and resting on the belief that images of God or of holy persons begot idolatry by distracting attention from the essence of the Godhead to the superficialities of concrete appearance. Today, the issue is only a minor one among Christians, but the vast majority of Moslems still take very seriously the Mosaic rule against graven images; they are especially incensed by statues of religious leaders, and, among these, a statue of Mohammed would...
...invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being under stood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead...
...other avatars . . . the long annal of the men and women who have anguished over man's condition and who have held up to us not only the mirror of our follies and greeds and lusts and fears, but have reminded us constantly of the tremendous shape of our godhead too ... of our capacity for honor and courage and compassion and pity and sacrifice...
Critics agree that William Blake was one of history's most deeply religious poets and painters-though they cannot agree on what his religion was. In 1761, when he was only four, Blake startled his parents with the announcement that he had seen the Godhead at his window. In 1827, when he was near death, he flabbergasted his friends with a 100-page philosophical poem called Jerusalem, which he not only illustrated but engraved and printed himself. His contemporaries called it "perfectly...