Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because...
Paul Claudel, poet of high consequence, Roman Catholic mystic, French Ambassador to the U. S., (TIME, March 21), sailed for France last week on the S. S. Paris, to attend the marriage of his daughter, Marie, to M. Christian Vonam, rising diplomatist...
...John Gunther, Rome correspondent, hastened to radio to the Chicago Daily News on Holy Saturday (day before Easter Sunday). His evidence was warning to Roman Catholics that Pope Pius XI was a man, no god. They must not, as the ignorant among them are prone to do in their mystic exaltations during Holy Week, imagine Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti other than a onetime boy in Milan, onetime Papal Nuncio to Poland, onetime cardinal, now the 260th successor to St. Peter as head of their Church. They are no Egyptians to deify a pharaoh, no Romans to worship an emperor...
...indicate that the faculty of favile use, on abuse, of the English language determined the course into which these gentlemen directed their life efforts. Architecture, strangely enough, has attacked the next largest total, possibly, the four years of practice in reproducing the structural designs in the Yard created a mystic urge to imitate, or possibly to surpass, these models for generations of undergraduate artists. Of the two hundred considered, there was a goodly number whose labors in the humorous fortnightly's art department evidently inspired them to further and possibly higher creative endeavors, and they became artists...
...mentioned in my present husband's divorce suit last summer, having written a book about women, having delved into numerology,* I last week addressed a packed auditorium in Berlin on the subject: 'The real truth about the World War.' Said I: 'We learned that a mystic number was responsible. 1914's digits add up to 15. Fifteen means Jehovah, ergo the War was a Jewish conspiracy. The Jews organized the Sarajevo murder. Fortunately, the good old Aryan race instincts prevented the Jewish plot from succeeding. . . . Germany must go back to the good old Niebelungen religion...