• Orphic Sayings 2 and 3

    Orphic Sayings 2 and 3 Wednesday, May 12, 2021 3:50 a.m. I don’t know if I will be able to sustain enthusiasm for this project. Now that we have begun to translate old into new, it seems to me we made our point, and others can do for themselves if they care to. What do…

  • Orphic Sayings 4 through 6

    Thursday, May 13, 2021 4 a.m. Let’s continue with Bronson Alcott’s Orphic Sayings, then. [IV. IMMORTALITY. [The grander my conception of being, the nobler my future. There can be no sublimity of life without faith in the soul’s eternity. Let me live superior to sense and custom, vigilant alway, and I shall experience my divinity;…

  • Orphic Sayings 7 through 13

    Friday, May 14, 2021 5:20 a.m. Continuing with Bronson Alcott’s Orphic Sayings. [VII. SPIRITUALISM. [Piety is not scientific; yet embosoms the facts that reason develops in scientific order to the understanding. Religion, being a sentiment, is science yet in synthetic relations; truth yet undetached from love; thought not yet severed from action. For every fact…

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  • Orphic Sayings 14 through 18

    Saturday, May 15, 2021 3:45 a.m. A fast glance at the next few sayings, and they seem to be easily grasped. But let’s see how they look when seriously examined. [XIV. INSTINCT AND REASON. [Innocent, the soul is quick with instincts of unerring aim; then she knows by intuition what lapsed reason defines by laborious…

  • Orphic Sayings 19 through 23

    Sunday, May 16, 2021 3:15 a.m. Let’s continue. [XIX. THOUGHT AND ACTION. [Great thoughts exalt and deify the thinker; still more ennobling is the effect of great deeds on the actor. The dilation and joy of the soul at these visitations of God is like that of the invalid, again inhaling the mountain breeze after…

  • Orphic Sayings 24 through 30

    Monday, May 17, 2021 3 a.m. XXIV. BREAD. The hunger of an age is alike a presentiment and pledge of its own supply. Instinct is not only prophetic but provident. When there is a general craving for bread, that shall assuredly be satisfied; bread is even then growing in the fields. Now, men are lean…

  • Orphic Sayings 31 through 37

    Tuesday, May 18, 2021 3:10 a.m. Continuing. XXXI. CALCULUS. We need, what Genius is unconsciously seeking, and, by some daring generalization of the universe, shall assuredly discover, a spiritual calculus, a novum organon, whereby nature shall be divined in the soul, the soul in God, matter in spirit, polarity resolved into unity; and that power…

  • Orphic sayings 38 through 43

    Wednesday, May 19, 2021 6:15 a.m. Looking at Alcott’s write-up in Wikipedia, I see the citation I half-remembered. A writer for the Boston Post called Orphic Sayings “a train of fifteen railroad cars with one passenger.” Not that we would look to newspapers for profundity, but still, you can see that this would be the…

  • Orphic Sayings 44 through 46

    Thursday, May 20, 2021 3:30 a.m. So, we are at number 44 already, out of 100 sayings. This is going much faster than I expected it would. XLIV. GRAVITATION. Love and gravity are a twofold action of one life, whose conservative instincts in man and nature preserve inviolate the harmony of the immutable and eternal…