Word: godhood
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...contemporary god of reason, restoring order amid emotional chaos. Honor Klein, the anthropologist, is the primordial goddess of instinct, violence, and what D. H. Lawrence called "the blood consciousness." These occult beings appear in rooms whose doors have not been opened, but a more tangible proof of godhood is their incestuous relationship, which sets them apart from the others and constitutes normal behavior only among gods. By making Honor the more powerful of the two, Miss Murdoch seems to attest the primacy of blood over brain. As for the syrnbolism of the severed head, it may signify the neurotic tyranny...
...philosophy and psychology, and several are retired government officials) rise at 4 a.m. and go to bed at 9 p.m., spend the day in prayers, lectures, exercises and devotional chants, plus the chorusing of such slogans as "Help Raise India" and "The Way to Godhood Is to Be Good, Do Good...
Swedenborg, Kierkegaard, Toynbee, et al. When he does not have his avant-garde up, Wilson sounds suspiciously like Norman Vincent Peale: "It is not original sin that keeps man unaware of his own godhood, but his failure to connect himself with his own powerhouse...
Cabinet's Birthday. Meanwhile in Japan the exact and hotly disputed nature of the Emperor Hirohito's godhood remained a major issue which still threatened to upset the Government of bustling old Admiral Keisuke Okada. Somewhat to his enemies' amazement the present stop-gap Cabinet rounded out a full year in office last week, celebrated with a champagne lunch...
...complete deliverance lies through an act for normal men the most unthinkable. When his young daughter, April, comes to Point Sur to fetch him for her mother, he forces her, passing through incest to the full exaltation of godhood...