Re.: The Four Zoas
The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures [zoas]. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
... As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
... As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, their wheels were lifted up.
Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Ezekiel 1:3-5, 13-16, 18-20
(Now come I to thee; and these thing I speak in the world:)
that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:21-23
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join
The varying verse, they full resounding line,
The long majestic March, Energy divine.
Pope, "Epistle to Augustus," 267-69
In Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life (1794, 1796), Darwin notes that Hume "places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason; and adds, that reason can only make a machine ... but the power of generation makes the maker." Darwin goes on to support Hume's conclusion "that the world itself might have been generated rather than created, ... increasing by the activity of its inherent principles rather than by the sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat." Darwin then interjects, "--What a magnificent idea of the infinite power of THE GREAT ARCHITECT! THE CAUSE OF CAUSES! PARENT OF PARENTS! ENS ENTIUM!" in The Temple of Nature (1802) nearly the same words characterize the source of "the immutable laws impressed on matter," the "amazing powers ... originally impressed on matter and spirit by the great Parent of Parents! Cause of Causes! Ens Entium!"
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him.
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. (AV gloss: That is, The oak of weeping) Genesis 35: 6-8
Some men think they have raised a great argument against the use of spectres and magic in heroic poetry by saying they are unnatural; but whether they or I believe there are such things, is not material; 'tis enough that, for aught we know, they may be in nature; and whatever is, or may be, is not properly unnatural.
Dryden, "Of Heroic Plays"
"A Spectre, or Apparition, is an Imagination of a substance without a Bodie, the which presenteth itself sensibly unto men, against the order and course of nature, and maketh them afraid." (A Treatise on Spectres, 1605)
"[Democritus and Epicurus] held that all bodies continually send forth slender films or spectres from their surface, of such extreme subtilty, that they easily penetrate our gross bodies, or enter by the organs of sense, and stamp their image upon the mind." (Reid, Essay on the Intellectual Powers of Man, 1785)
... out of the tomb of the murdered monarchy in France has arisen a vast, tremendous, unformed spectre, in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet overpowered the imagination, and subdued the fortitude of man. Going straight forward to its end, unappalled by peril, unchecked by remorse, despising all common maxims and all common means, that hideous phantom overpowered those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist. Burke, "Letters on a Regicide Peace," 1796
It seem'd all passions melted into one,
Assum'd the face of all, and yet was none:
Hell stood aghast at its portentous mien,
And shuddering Demons call'd the spectre Spleen.
Hayley, The Triumphs of Temper
Let ther be Light, said God, and forthwith Light
Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure
Sprung from the Deep, and from her Native East
To journie through the airie gloom began,
Sphear'd in a radiant Cloud, for yet the Sun
Was not; she in a cloudie Tabernacle
Sojurn'd the while.
Paradise Lost 7.243-48
So spake th' Omnipotent, and with his words
All seem'd well pleas'd, all seem'd but were not all.
That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent
In song and dance about the sacred Hill,
Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Sphear
Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheels
Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,
Eccentric, intervolv'd, yet regular
Then most, when most irregular they seem:
And in thir motions harmonie Divine
So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear
Listens delighted.
Paradise Lost 5.616-27
That memorable hour of wondrous birth,
When the DREAD SIRE, on emanation bent,
And big with nature, rising in his might,
Called forth creation, for then time was born,
By godhead streaming through a thousand worlds...
Young, Night Thoughts, Nt2
In short, the God who is revealed to us by the heart is an entirely different being than the God who is built up by external demonstration. He is not the judge nor the artificier, but the all-pervading immanent force, from whom all nature is an emanation. William Law, "On the Sacrament" 1762
P. B. Shelley, introducing himself to Godwin by letter, 3 Jan. 1812: "I have ardently desired to share on the footing of intimacy that intellect which I have delighted to contemplate in its emanations."
Hazlitt, 1818 declares that Wordworth's "genius ... is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age."
"I am glad you like Kenilworth; it is certainly a splendid production, more resembling a Romance than a Novel, and in my opinion one of the most interesting works that ever emanated from the great Sir Walter's pen ... Scott exhibits a wonderful knowledge of human nature, as well as surprising skill in embodying his perceptions so as to enable others to become participators in that knowledge." 17 year-old Charlotte Bronte writing to her friend Ellen Nussey in 1833