Word: healers
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...developing a "theology of celebration," based on joy, hope and even fantasy, Cox concludes, "we can celebrate the past, delight in the present, and gladly anticipate the future without sacrificing one to the other. Christ has come to previous generations of men in various guises, as teacher, judge, healer. Now, in a new or really an old but recaptured guise, Christ has begun to make an unexpected entrance onto the stage of modern secular life. Enter Christ the harlequin: the symbol of festivity and fantasy in an age which has almost lost both...
...fills his books with the same gothic ribaldry and nightmarish fantasies that Hieronymus Bosch brooded on five centuries ago. In his latest novel, Mulata, published in the U.S. a month ago, boars talk, women are impregnated through the navel, men are transformed into dwarfs, giants or rocks. A healer tests the sacredness of a place by touching the earth "with the ten tongues of his hands." When an old woman dozes, she is "butterflying with sleep like all old people." When a crowd gathers, "nightfall assembled them, as it did the stars...
...than Mohammed, was the angel who at God's command dictated the Koran. Raphael, who escorted Tobias on his journey to Media, has a host of spiritual assignments: chief of the order of virtues, ruling prince of the second heaven, the guardian angel of science and knowledge, the healer of human disease. Of almost equal importance, says Davidson, is Uriel, archangel of salvation, often credited with warning Noah of the Flood. Despite their hierarchical importance, none of these four is the largest angel: that honor, according to the Zohar, goes to Metatron, whose height was equal to the breadth...
...feelings for her brother Tom, who is "like a painted Christ in a blue and pink oleo," a mystic, a pacifist and a lady-killer who bums around the countryside with a harpy seeking faith cures for her cancer. He gets to feel that he is something of a healer himself, and sees people who are not there. For a while, this unpleasant freak and sister Nellie attend something called "the Jago circle," "playing at vice" and "doing things the bourgeoisie don't dare," though what this could be is anybody's guess...
...spell, Orgon permits the disruption of his household, disinherits his son, signs away all his property, affiances his daughter to Tartuffe, and sweeps his wife (Salome Jens) into Tartuffe's sweaty-palmed lechery. This is madness, as the superbly sane Molière knew. And like an enchanted healer from some pre-psychoanalytic age, Molière devotes his play to making Orgon grow up to the age of reason...