Word: godly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority join just to be with the gang-and are more or less surprised to experience a quite considerable spiritual uplift after they get in. Said a Rutland, Vt. advertising salesman: "There's something gets under your skin at a lodge meeting which makes you think about God...
...God & Geometry. It began radiating officially some 230 years ago-a development from guilds of masons who built England's cathedrals. In 1717, guildsmen got together for a feast in the Goose & Gridiron tavern in London and the modern Masonic fraternity was born...
...Gift of God. During the summer and fall of 1947 a sort of premonition of Gandhi's martyrdom had oppressed Sheean; he spoke of it to friends and editors and finally persuaded Editor Ted Patrick of Holiday to send him to India. In New Delhi, he hung around with other American reporters during the days of Gandhi's last fast, then went...
...Gandhi answered simply that if violent means were used the result was always bad. Sheean asked him if the physical world was illusion and Gandhi told him that that was an incorrect translation of the word Maya; he agreed that it meant "appearances," and added in a whisper: "God is in everything. Even in the stone. Even in the stone...
Sheean came to a crucial religious question, whether certainty of God preceded renunciation of the world. Gandhi answered at once, "No, the renunciation precedes the certainty." Then he quoted to Sheean the first verse of the Isha Upanishad: "The whole world is the garment of the Lord. Renounce it, then, and receive it back as the gift of God...