Hi sunt qui descendunt mare in navibus, facientes operationes in aquis multis. Ascendunt usque ad coelos, & descendunt usque ad abys...

Q. An Tartarus sit aliquid, utrum vero nihil? R. Est aliquid nempe locus cruciatus Luc. 6 [sic.]. Est nihil de quo Plato in Phaedone. Sic ᾅδ...

Both S. Basil , and S. Chrysostome put this difference in that place, between the labour of the Ant, and the Bee, That the Ants worke but...

A godly father sitting on a draught, To do as need and nature hath us taught, Mumbled (as was his manner) certain prayers, And unto him ...

That then there is damnation, and why it is, and when it is, is cleare enough; but what this damnation is, neither the tongue of good Angels...

12 March, the Repose of St. Symeon the New Theologian

Doctrina XII , De timore et poenis inferni (Migne, Patrologia Graeca , 88, 1752) Through the body, the soul is distracted from its pa...

That great Library, those infinite Volumes of the Books of Creatures, shall be taken away, quite away, no more Nature; those reverend Manu...

As to those that fall away from God, I wonder where it is they exist, those that are far removed from Him that is everywhere, and verily, ...

Depiction of the torments of the damned in the Buddhist sub-hell of Nyôfunjo (Dung Pit), or the shifunsho (place of excrement), one of ...

I fall sick of Sin , and am bedded and bedrid, buried and putrified in the practise of Sin, and all this while have no presage, no pulse, no...

Wir sind die Bienen des Unsichtbaren. Nous boutinons éperdument le miel du visible, pour l'accumuler dans la grande ruche d'or de ...

The last and lowest region of the Bardo [is] known as the Sidpa Bardo , where the dead man (...) begins to fall a prey to sexual fantasies...

Надобно вам знать, милостивый государь, что я имею обыкновение затыкатьна ночь уши с того проклятого случая, когда в одной русской корчме за...

Da sind Tage, wo alles um einen licht ist, leicht, kaum angegeben in der hellen Luft und doch deutlich. Das Nächste schon hat Töne der Ferne...

Je crois et avec foi, peut-être que comme la vue en rêve d'une personne est, à certains points de vue, une preuve de sa réalité métaphy...

Craterium aureum Ach, nie genug dieses einen Erlebnisses: das Leben währet vierundzwanzig Stunden und, wenn es hoch kommt, war es eine ...

Le mal n'est donc pas une simple absence (...) c'est un mélange de l'être et du non-être. Toutes les manifestations du Malin ...

Herbordus Mistladerius Magistro Ortvino incomparabili in doctrina praeceptori suo sulsissimo Salutem dicit quam nemo dinumerare poterit ...

On pourrait ranger (...) le genre humain civilisé en trois grandes catégories : les reguliers, les resserrés et les relâchés. (...) Pour me...

Les surréalistes Poco dopo esser giunto a Parigi trovai una forte opposizione da parte di quel gruppo di degenerati, di teppistoidi, di ...

Cette nouveauté est une poésie étrange et profonde, mystérieuse et solitaire infiniment, qui se base sur le stimmung (j'use de ce mo...

George Bacovia (1881–1957) is widely regarded as having been one of the most important Romanian poets of the twentieth century. Although hi...