The Effulgence Within

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Sunday, July 17, 2016

The Nature and Concept of Hell in Paradise Lost

Modem critics have held many different views of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Among these the major objection has been that the Book, a twelve volume epic, is militantly Christian and does not adhere to diverse viewpoints of the modern age. Milton’s religious views are actually a mirror of the age in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 15, 2016

Satan’s Travel through Space for reaching the Newly-Created World -- Earth

After the encounter with Sin and Death, Satan and Sin, looking out from the gates of Hell, see the boundless space of Night and Chaos. This is an illimitable ocean where “length and breadth and height and time and place are lost”. Chaos and Night are the ancestors of Nature, the stuff from which... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Satan's Encounter with Sin and Death

After the council of the fallen angels dissolves, Satan, on his way to the newly-constructed world, flies towards the Gates of Hell which are made of three layers of brass, three layers of iron, and three of adamantine. Before the gates, there sat on either side a formidable shape. One, Sin, seems... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

What happens to the Rebel Angels after their Fall ?

After Satan, Sin and others of his ilk, the fellow rebel angels, are expelled from heaven they fall into Hell. They don’t die (a ‘privilege’ angels are invested with). There, they are found bound by chains in the Lake of Fire. Upon quickly freeing themselves they fly to land, where they discover... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 11, 2016

Story of the Infernal Trinity in Man

Satan was created by God as an angel born in heaven and was called Lucifer, full of dynamism, resourcefulness and verve and at one time the brightest and highest of all angels who nurtured the desire to be God himself instead of being God’s servant. His thought of waging a rebellion against God... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 2, 2016

Lustrous Partneship Eternal

A consortium of stars I saw as if making love squillions of miles Up there in the skies, thrilled, shimmering with twinkling smiles And suddenly with a strange melancholy was I gripped; they only Seemed to be but were not, not near like Jocastas and Creons But distanced, such as imaginable in time... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Apostate Boudoir Memoirs

A ('disloyal?') man's experiences in a lady's private bedroom? Yesterday morn as I, startled, from my dream awoke, Wondering how’s it that my beloved’s at my side? Even as with cock’s-crow the sunlight broke Hesitantly, through the wide Open windows of her boudoir, falling On her disheveled hair,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

She Was a Phantom of Delight

Related Poem Content Details BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I was quite enamoured with the use of 'phantom'! The meter, the rhyme and rhythm, to me, is nothing short of spectacular... She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 25, 2016

The Divide in Division

Two disciples, serious practitioners both, so goes the Zen story Ate of two bowls: the one; his brother, of only one bone china The food served at their revered monk’s monastery Pale and shriveled shrank one; the other, grew to a wiry hyena. Worried and wearied asked he of his friend “Tell me O... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

A Truth-Lie Sonnet

After Falstaff's humor, I thought of converting an Aesop story into a fun sonnet with three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming abab, ccdd, effe, gg, typically Shakespearean and not Petrarchan sonnet. Hope you enjoy. Once upon a time, came two lost travelers Upon dense forests of the Ape lands. One... Sign in to see full entry.

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Embarking on a journey in spiritual quest is fraught with the dangers of doubt, tension and anxiety, disbeliefs, misgivings, and a whole lot of uncertainties. Still, it is that one most integral aspect of life that humankind can rarely ignore or do without. Scientific minds are at loggerheads with what constitute religious truths; likewise, there are close-minded believers that give no credence to scientific facts. What I intend and invite you to discuss here is an intelligent amalgamation of the two seemingly diabolically opposite understandings: whether there exists an interrelationship that can help man to evolve and bloom like the perennial lily?

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