单词 | Orphic |
例句 | I believe we may have played Orpheus and Persephone in Sue Jagger’s fourth grade production of the Orphic Tragedy. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z The lengthy musical passages in recent novels, including a few loving and climactic concert scenes, seem to strive for music’s Orphic power. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Besides Ms. Kihlstedt, who also plays violin, “Orphic Machine” features the trumpeter Ron Miles and the tenor saxophonist Rob Sudduth, blending or jostling by turns with Mr. Goldberg’s woodsy clarinet. Review: Ben Goldberg’s ‘Orphic Machine’ Influenced by Poetry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Aucoin’s work, “The Orphic Moment,” probes the psychology of the crucial turning point from the myth of Orpheus in an anguished 16-minute dramatic scene. Review: ‘Orphic Moments,’ With Feast, at National Sawdust 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The music is bright as the young lovers leave the stage in an Orphic apotheosis. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Away at school, researching climate change, he assumes an Orphic sense of mission. In This Novel, a Mother Risks Everything for a Second Chance 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z But the most important thing — an Orphic struggle if ever there was one — was not to look back. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z “The Orphic Moment” ends at the very instance when Orpheus loses Eurydice for a second time. Review: ‘Orphic Moments,’ With Feast, at National Sawdust 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z This venture follows upon National Sawdust’s inventive operatic presentation “Orphic Moments” last year, featuring a triumphant Mr. Costanzo. Anthony Roth Costanzo in a Handel Rarity at National Sawdust 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z And it’s a clumsy one, attempting in the third act to weave aria pauses into a breakneck pace and an abrupt, Orphic turn. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Rilke, and the Orphic spirit that found utterance in him, was here to affirm the continuing power of poetry to move, uplift and sustain. Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe ? review 2011-07-29T22:00:40Z He knew he wanted to expand on his Orpheus-theme cantata, “The Orphic Moment.” A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The title evokes a piece of ancient, almost mythic film history: that surreal, Orphic moment, associated in the popular mind with “The Jazz Singer,” when pictures began to talk. Movie Review: ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,’ by Alain Resnais 2013-06-07T00:57:27Z It’s his own school that is in session — a one-way, Orphic descent into hell, with the violence manifest instead of latent, and his own pessimism front and center. A Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at Home in the Minds of Killers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z But some novelists have turned to music not to envy its Orphic power but to prod a bit dubiously at the very idea of attention as we’ve come to conceive of it. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z In an email, he wrote: With regard to the fourth grade Orphic Tragedy, I realize now that it was Rebecca Marshall — not you — who played Persephone to my Orpheus. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z Two “Orphic Hymns,” by Louis Karchin, represented a more conventional singing style, with elegant vocal lines and skillfully layered harmonies. Music Review: The Ensemble Ekmeles at Roulette in Brooklyn 2013-01-25T22:12:21Z This immersive, site-specific performance piece inspired by the current Getty Villa exhibition “Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife” is part nocturnal processional and part Orphic mystery rite — so comfy shoes and warm clothing are most definitely recommended. Weekend Picks for Nov. 8-11: Four Larks, Mikhailovsky Ballet and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z He spoke of creating a supreme Book, a “great work,” which would attempt an “Orphic explanation of the Earth.” The Terrifying Beauty of Mallarmé 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Proclus upon the “Timæus of Plato,” among other Orphic verses, cites the following: “Jupiter is a man, Jupiter is also an immortal maid.” The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z A generation that would despise an apocryphal book of Homer or a false Orphic hymn would not be easily satisfied with the credentials of a religion. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In the poems of Orpheus, Night is considered as the creative principle; and in the Orphic hymns we find Night invoked as “the parent of gods and men, and the origin of all things.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He was represented in the Orphic theology under the mixed symbol of a lion and a serpent, and sometimes of a serpent only. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z The "Orphic Sayings"—Mr. Alcott's contribution to the magazine—attracted the attention of the critics, who made them an excuse for assailing with ridicule, the entire transcendental party. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Orphic and other religious sects had enhanced the terrors of the world below,' etc. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z "Enthusiasm," he says, "is the characteristic of the Orphic poetry—repose that of the Homeric poems." The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z It will now be profitable if we examine the story of Sanchoniathon and the statements of the Orphic Hymns. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Near Lemisso, in the Island of Cyprus, is still to be seen a gigantic egg-shaped vase, which is supposed to represent the Mundane or Orphic Egg. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z Ai me! their throats, their lusty, dimpled throats, That made the hills sing and the wood-ways dance As if to Orphic strains, and gave them life! The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z The Orphic poem Λιθικά, reputed to be of very early though unknown date, is rich in allusions to the virtues of many of the gem-stones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z In the first chapter of the "History of Greek Poetry," Schlegel speaks of the religious rites and mysteries of the primitive Greeks, and of the Orphic poetry to which they gave rise. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z In the Orphic Hymns we find much more clearly than in any other writing amongst the ancient Greeks the early Hellenic notion of the generation of the worlds and of mankind. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z And, anciently, there existed what is called the Orphic Life, men keeping fast to all things without life, and abstaining wholly from those that had. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z It was the opinion of Lobeck that the Orphic poems, in which the legend first comes into literature, were the work of Onomacritus.** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Zagreus was a name given to Dionysus by the Orphic poets. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It was the same, in emblematical writing, as the Orphic epithet, Pan-genetor, universal generator, in which sense it is still employed by the Hindus.” Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India 2011-05-31T02:00:29.133Z The Orphic hymn, in dark numbers, had pronounced the sky and the sea, earth the universal and fire the immortal, to be the limbs of Pan. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z In Imagination and Fancy, Hunt continues: “Not Milton himself is more learned in Grecisms, or nicer in entomological propriety; and nobody, throughout, has a style so Orphic and primeval.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Leaving aside the Orphic poems, which contain most of the facts in the legend of Dionysus Zagreus, the Bacch� of Euripides is the chief classical record of ideas about the god. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z After the death of their founder the Pythagoreans seem to have gradually blended with the Orphic communities, and the “Orphic life” was the recognised term for a life of purity and self-denial. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z He has little reference to any specially Orphic doctrine; not a word, for instance, about the immortality of the soul. The Bacchae of Euripides 2011-02-06T03:00:51.907Z This Orphic fast from meat was only broken by an annual sacramental banquet, originally, perhaps, of human, but later of raw bovine flesh. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The Orphic and Pythagorean mysticism which traced itself to Egypt or the remoter East, returned to its sources, to aid in moulding the cults of Egypt into a worship for the world. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius But Mr. Alcott had an architectural taste, more intelligible than his Orphic Sayings. Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott We are not, however, among those who believe that the origin of the Therapeut communities of Philo and of the Essenes of Philo and Josephus is to be traced to Orphic and Pythagorean influence. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z Nevertheless, this statement does not authorize us to infer, that in the ancient Orphic Hymns, previous to Herodotus, Apollo and the sun were identified. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 The Orphic Sect believed that "release" from the wheel of life was to be obtained by religious ceremonial and ritual. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The descent of the soul into gross material form, and its possible ascent again, if duly fortified, to ethereal worlds, was common to Mithra and the Orphic and Pythagorean systems. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius His Orphic Sayings in the Dial, now looked upon as classics, were the butt of the press at the time, and the derision of Boston society. Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott At Lesbos Apollonius visited the ancient temple of the Orphic mysteries, which in early years had been a great centre of prophecy and divination. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z In the Orphic cosmogony the origin of all goes back to Chronos, the personification of time, who produces Aether and Chaos. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Thus they shared with the Orphic religious Sect the principle of reincarnation. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy But the Isiac, like the Orphic revelation, while it gave a blessed promise for the life to come, attached grave conditions to the pledge. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius For the Orphic cult which had the longest period of influence, we possess what may be termed a hymn book containing eighty-seven hymns. Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries The Oriental and Orphic cults exercised a powerful hold over their votaries, and made an appeal very similar to that of Christianity. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. There were mystic chants and religious odes, purely lyrical in character, of which the best Orphic Hymns must have been the type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The Pythagoreans got it from the Orphic sect, to whom quite possibly it came indirectly from India, although even this is by no means certain, and is in fact highly doubtful. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy In that vision of human destiny, of the descent and ascent of the human soul, the old Orphic doctrine is united with the star-lore of the Euphrates. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius This tradition, possibly Orphic, Aristophanes took for text and embroidered it with his usual grotesqueness. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern A. Bronson Alcott appears in various forms, contributing "Days from a Diary," "Orphic Sayings," and so on. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) This dualism with its accompanying asceticism is to be found in the Persian religion, in India, in later Jewish thought, in the Orphic cults of Greece and even in Plato. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance The Pythagoreans were closely associated with the Orphic Sect, and took from it the belief in the transmigration of souls, including transmigration of human souls into animals. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It is thus that the East and West, Orphic mysteries and Chaldaean astrology, combined to satisfy the craving for a moral faith and the vision of another world. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius There is an Orphic fragment which runs: The innumerable souls that are precipitated from the great heart of the universe swarms as birds swarm. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern An Orphic line runs thus: "Zeus is the beginning, Zeus is the middle, out of Zeus all things have been made." Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning These are associated with the name of Orpheus, and are commonly classed together as Orphic cosmogonies. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance The Orphic theogony is again another advance, having new fictions and new personages, as in the case of Zagreus, the horned child of Jupiter by his own daughter Persephone. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The Orphic lore, the mysteries of the Eleusinian goddesses and Dionysus, had for ages taught a dim doctrine of immortality, under the veil of legend, through the scenic effects of their dramatic mysteries. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The so-called Orphic poem places the wide houses of the goddess Demeter in Britain. The Ethnology of the British Islands But such pantheistic language is common in Orphic and other mystic literature. Five Stages of Greek Religion This was the aim of the Orphic poets. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Such a view appears in India in the Vedanta philosophy, and in Greece a little later it is more or less involved in Orphic theories and in the systems of several philosophers. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Mithraism strove to nurse the hope, but, like the contemporaneous Platonism and the more ancient Orphic lore, it linked it with moral responsibility and grave consequences. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He supplies us with a commentary upon the word Demeter, in the so-called Orphic poem—a commentary which will soon be exhibited. The Ethnology of the British Islands And in the Orphic tradition it is laid down that Zeus yields up his power to Dionysus and bids all the gods of the Cosmos obey him. Five Stages of Greek Religion The god Dionysus also is placed by the Orphic writers at the head of the whole process of creation. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems The lulled reason yielded place to reverie, and the whole rapt being abandoned itself like an Orphic worshipper to the guidance of an unseen mysteriarch. Apologia Diffidentis In the sixth book of the Aeneid the eschatologies of old Rome and Greece are combined, but not blended, with the doctrines of transmigration and purgatorial expiation descending from Pythagoras or the Orphic mystics. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The idea of re-birth was in the air; it was the very keynote of all the solemn initiations and mysteries—Mythraic, Orphic, Eleusinian—through which repentant pagans secured pardon and eternal bliss. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" "The Orphic traditions certainly embody at least one cosmic truth." The Orchard of Tears “It is ze entire liberation from the laws of logical perspective that makes movement—the Orphic cubism—if you will allow me to say so!” Bird of Paradise In these still hours of night or early dawn there steals upon the charmed mind an Orphic sense of worship and inexplicable joy. Apologia Diffidentis The Orphic theogony belongs to a later date, but acquired even greater popular veneration than the Hesiodic. Ancient States and Empires The Mithraic Mysteries of the Persians, the Orphic and Bacchic Mysteries and the later Eleusinian semi-Mysteries of the Greeks, the Mysteries of Samothrace, Scythia, Chaldea, are familiar in name, at least, as household words. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Through his abstract Orphic dreams the words reached Paul's mind; and they were oddly familiar. The Orchard of Tears And the whole account is symbolical, we think, consciously symbolical; it has an Orphic tinge, hinting of mystic rites. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary There is the same didactic condensation, the same Orphic ‘oneness,’ which distinguishes all Alcottism proper. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Alas! to some a Mug of Ale Is better than an Orphic Tale! Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II On this use of symbols Proclus remarks that "the Orphic method aimed at revealing divine things by means of symbols, a method common to all writers of divine lore." Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries The Pythagorean and Orphic sects developed this tie. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Again, there is a change of style, which now is strongly tinged with the Orphic, initiatory, symbolical manner, in marked contrast with the clear-flowing narrative which has just preceded. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Far from the footpaths of the thoughtless, An Orphic priest and bard, I bring to light again a hymn Of a thrice-ancient cult. Life Immovable First Part The famous Orphic tablets from South Italy are taken as dating from the third and fourth centuries B.C., and if not actually Pythagorean, they are next door to being so. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus After emitting which Orphic utterance at West Point, Styles Staple emptied the partnership's pocket-flask, and then slept peacefully until we reached the "Cradle of the Confederacy." Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death The idea of the Orphic mysteries was that humanity is suffering and sinful, and must be initiated in order to wash away its stains and be redeemed from its sins. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals He was a poet, a teacher of the religious doctrines known as the Orphic mysteries, and a great musician, having inherited from his father an extraordinary genius for music. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome The Orphic, chiefly deserving mention as the probable foundation of the Eleusinian. Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy But the Orphic tradition, with its pictures of purgatory and of eternal bliss and torment, has on the whole dominated the other two in popular Christian belief. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield In Greece, the doctrine of Rebirths is met with in the Orphic tradition, continued by Pythagoras and Plato. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution The soul which is purified by the Orphic rites and Orphic mode of life is redeemed from this eternal round and returns to God. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It was the day of seers and "Orphic" utterances; the air was full of the enthusiasm of humanity and thick with philanthropic projects and plans for the regeneration of the universe. Brief History of English and American Literature No doubt here and there a few philosophical hymns which have been quoted so often that people have begun to imagine that the Veda is a kind of collection of Orphic hymns. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge And Orphic purity was mainly, though not entirely, the result of moral discipline. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The verses selected for this use were probably of a devotional character, like what are now known as the Orphic hymns, of which the lines upon the next page may be taken as a specimen. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present The soul passed from one body to another, according to the Orphic sects, with intervals in which it underwent purification. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The ancient Orphic doctrines, which were taught in the Mysteries, seem to have been based on the oriental idea of Emanation. Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws Some traces however are to be still found in the Orphic verses above-mentioned, by which we may discover her original character and department. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) We may also take it that he was familiar with all sorts of Orphic and Pythagorean sectaries. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Symbolism of the double sex of the Universe and Orphic egg, 655-l. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The Orphic priests described this "intermediate state" with graphic distinctness, surpassing that of the Eleusinian mysteries. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals This was a sacred title given by the Amonians to their Gods; which often occurs in the Orphic hymns, when any Deity is invoked. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. These were the Orphic hymns, which were sung by the Lycomed� at Athens. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) The Pythagorean and the Orphic rules of life were well known throughout antiquity, and were probably obeyed by large numbers. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The famous Orphic egg was consecrated to Bacchus in his Mysteries. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The old Orphic verses cited by Thomas Taylor in his Treatise on the Mysteries run thus: "The soul that uninitiated dies Plunged in the blackest mire in Hades lies." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Hence Poseidon or Neptune, in the Orphic verses, is, like Zeus, styled the father of Gods and men. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. The fable probably relates to the Dionusiaca, and other Orphic rites, which had been in early times introduced into the part of the world abovementioned, where they were celebrated at a place called Orpha. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) To be a god meant for a Greek simply to be immortal; the Orphic saint was delivered from the painful cycle of recurring births and deaths. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield "Zeus," says the Orphic line, "is the Beginning, Zeus the Middle; out of Zeus all things have been made". Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry It was elaborately wrought up by the Orphic poets. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The author of the Orphic verses speaks of the Moon as both male and female. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Add to this, that Homer and Hesiod, and the authors of the Orphic poetry, knew of no such duplicates. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) The youthful Orphic face of Christ changed to a solemn visage, with large, round eyes, saint-like beard, and melancholy air. A Text-Book of the History of Painting He was the same with Kneph, from whose mouth issued the Orphic egg out of which came the Universe. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Bronson Alcott, then cogitating his own ephemeral experiment at Fruitlands, sometimes descended on the gay community and was doubtless "Orphic" at his leisure. Life of Father Hecker In one of the fragments of the Orphic poetry there is every thing, which I have been saying comprehended within a very short compass. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. They are all imitations, rather than translations of the antient Orphic poetry, accompanied with a short comment. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) The Orphic hymns proclaim the high doctrine of the divineness of all life, and open, at least for the hopes of men, the gates of immortality. Among Famous Books Their separation was one of form rather than of substance: and from the time when Hercules obtained initiation from Triptolemus, or Pythagoras received Orphic tenets, the two conceptions were tending to re-combine. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry It crops up now and again as a tenet held by philosophers or communities of cosmopolitan tastes such as the Orphic Societies, but usually in circumstances which suggest a foreign origin. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Probably the first of Orphic pictures was that produced by the quite authentic donkey who was induced to smear a canvas by lashing a tail duly dipped in paint. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects It was the former temple, to which the Babylonians, and Persians had recourse: and it was from the Magi of these parts, that the Orphic rites and mysteries were originally derived. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) It was the day of seers and "Orphic" utterances; the air was fall of the enthusiasm of humanity and thick with philanthropic projects and plans for the regeneration of the universe. Initial Studies in American Letters The Orphic metamorphosis meant a complete disappearance from her life. Children of the Market Place But it seems indisputable that there were widely spread both in Greece and Italy societies called Pythagorean or Orphic which inculcated a common rule of life and believed in metempsychosis. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 It was given a title as Orphic as the painting, was accepted by a jury anxious to find new forms of talent, and was hung in the Salon d'Automne. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects In some of the Orphic verses she is represented not only as a Deity, but as the light of the world. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Orphic odes" and "runes" of the bedlamite seer and bard of mystery "Who rides a beetle which he calls a 'sphinx.' Initial Studies in American Letters But it played a prominent part in the philosophy of Pythagoras and in the Orphic mysteries, which had some connection with Thrace and possibly also with Crete. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 The Orphic hymns, long before the advent of the popular divinities, celebrated the Pantheos, the Universal God. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Of the Orphic doctrines we are able to give a somewhat better account. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology M. Reinach claims that the primitive elements of the Orphic myth of the Thracian Dionysos-Zagreus—divine serpents producing an egg whence came the horned snake Zagreus, occur in dislocated form in Gaul. The Religion of the Ancient Celts It was by a contradiction that the first Greek philosophers affirmed immortality, by abandoning natural philosophy and intruding into theology, by formulating not an Apollonian but a Dionysiac and Orphic dogma. Tragic Sense Of Life Societies such as the Pythagorean and Orphic brotherhoods were also common in Greece from the sixth century B.C. onwards but the result was small, for the genius of the Greeks turned towards politics and philosophy. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 The difference is that in the Christian revelation and in the Orphic Hymns there is dignity, while in Krishna's discourse there is frivolous and vulgar particularity. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 As far back as the sixth century before Christ, there were scattered through Greece hymns, lyrical poems, and prose treatises, treating of theological questions, and called Orphic writings. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The Orphic Mysteries had long taught the doctrine. Christian Mysticism They knew of it as a teaching both of Pythagoras and of the Orphic Mysteries: that is, those did who were initiates or Pythagoreans. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 It is screened by an Orphic philosophy, for is not Nature or Illusion the female side of the Divine Male? The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow "Nymphs of the green abysses with faces fresh as a rosebud, fragrant virgins that took the forms of all the monsters of the deep," sang the Orphic hymn on the Grecian shore. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel The Orphic writings develop, by degrees, a system of cosmogony, in which Time was the first principle of things, from which came chaos and ether. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Apollo or the sun is so called in the Orphic hymn, Oft as the Delian king with Sirius holds The central heavens. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Very different in character is the "Hymn to Ares", which is Orphic in character. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica It is improbable that in this somewhat Orphic mystery there lies any pre-Vedic myth. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Each soul may find faith to her mind, Seek you the peace of the groves Elysian, Or the ivy twine and the wands of vine, The Dionysian, Orphic rite? The Centaur The pantheism of the Orphic theology is constantly apparent. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology One of the epithets of Apollo, or the Sun, in the Orphic hymn inscribed to him. Poetical Works of Akenside There is little evidence that he had any influence on posterity, though there may be traces of such influence in Hyginus and the Orphic Argonautica. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The fragments of the Orphic hymns, and those of Linus and Musaeus, show these poets entertained sounder notions of the Supreme Being than many philosophers of a later date. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Certainly his library contained all the then available books bearing on the Mysteries, the Orphic poems, the worship of Mithras, and the Neo-Platonists. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary I practise the Orphic, which says: "Baptize thyself in pure water every morning when thou leavest thy couch," which I more concisely render, Wash betimes. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis Walks o'er the great string of my Orphic Lyre; Or guides around the burning pole The winged chariot of some blissful soul: While thou— Oh son of earth, what dreams shall rise for thee! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes His "Orphic Sayings" amused and perplexed the critics, who made them an excuse for assailing the entire Transcendental school. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities After six years of absence Hawthorne returned to Concord, where he purchased a small house formerly occupied by Orphic Alcott. Literary and Social Essays The metempsychosis which he taught under Orphic and Pythagorean inspiration is an essential ingredient of his theory of the world, and is, therefore, perpetually recurring in his more important works. Purgatory When Hawthorne philosophizes it is not in old threadbare proverbs or Orphic generalities, but always specifically and to the point. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne No Orphic rune, no Thracian scroll, Hath magic to avert the morrow; No healing all those medicines brave Apollo to the Asclepiad gave; Pale herbs of comfort in the bowl Of man's wide sorrow. Alcestis An extensive Orphic literature first appeared at the time of the Persian war, when the remains of the Pythagorean order in Magna Graecia united themselves to the Orphic associations. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities And he who desires to signify divine concerns through symbols is Orphic, and, in short, accords with those who write fables respecting the gods. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato He read in a high, clear treble the telegraphic dispatches, the sanguinary editorial ratiocinations, Orphic in their prophetic sententiousness, and then turned to the local columns. The Iron Game A Tale of the War And yet Homer and Hesiod, and those old Orphic singers, were of another mind.... Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face Orphic literature and worship had a strong magical element in them. Alcestis It is difficult to tell when this association was formed in Greece, but we find in Hesiod something of the Orphic spirit, and the beginning of higher and more hopeful views of death. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities With some unfixed, though real, place in the general scheme of Greek religion, this phase of the worship of Dionysus had its special development in the Orphic literature and mysteries. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays The Orphic Argonaut sings of the division of the ancient Lyktonia into separate islands. Atlantis : the antediluvian world Nothing can be easier or more delusive than to explain all this wild part of the Orphic cosmogony as an allegorical veil of any modern ideas we choose to select. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 None of us moved under that Orphic suspense until, "A woman," remarked George. Waifs and Strays Part 1 In the Orphic theogony we find, for the first time, the idea of creation. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities "No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike," said I, with a degree of Orphic wisdom that astonished myself. The Blithedale Romance He persecuted Cain and his sons because they were skilful workmen; he exterminated the Philistines because they composed Orphic poems, and fables like those of AEsop. Thais On the whole, the Orphic fragments appear to contain survivals of savage myths of the origin of things blended with purer speculations. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 For in those days men are said to have lived a sort of Orphic life, having the use of all lifeless things, but abstaining from all living things. Laws There is an Oriental, or rather an Egyptian element in them, and they have an affinity to the mysteries and to the Orphic modes of worship. Gorgias Socrates in answer appeals first of all to the old Orphic tradition that the souls of the dead are in the world below, and that the living come from them. Phaedo It found its way into Hellas probably through the medium of Orphic and Pythagorean rites and mysteries. Meno We may suppose that the Orphic poems were collected, edited and probably interpolated, in this dark hour of Greece. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 But more probably, the word is Orphic, and simply denotes that the body is the place of ward in which the soul suffers the penalty of sin,—en o sozetai. Cratylus It is the speech of the tragic poet and a sort of poem, like tragedy, moving among the gods of Olympus, and not among the elder or Orphic deities. Symposium The Hesiodic and Orphic cosmogonies were a phase of thought intermediate between mythology and philosophy and had a great influence on the beginnings of knowledge. Timaeus And the Orphic poets add a similar picture of another. The Republic On the whole, however, our Orphic authorities can never be quoted with much satisfaction. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 The idea of an antagonism seems to have been cardinal in the thought of the Essenes and the Orphic cult and in the Persian dualism. God the Invisible King After Homer and Hesiod, our most ancient authorities for Greek cosmogonic myths are probably the so-called Orphic fragments. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 He is full of Porphyry, Iamblichus and Plotinus, of misapplied logic, of misunderstood grammar, and of the Orphic theology. Timaeus Hesiod and the Orphic poets moved in a region of half-personification in which the meaning or principle appeared through the person. Timaeus We must not regard a myth as necessarily late or necessarily foreign because we first meet it in an "Orphic composition". Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 |
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