Glory jest riddle study (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American edition. Some spotting on the boards else near fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. ix, 166 p.; 22 cm. The title is taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man. Contents: Preface -- 1 The heroic self -- 2 The birth of the anti-hero -- 3 The god within -- 4 Justice and judgment -- 5 The new man -- 6 Ways of salvation -- 7 Lightning from heaven -- Epilogue -- References. -- `But the advent of the Spirit cannot be commanded; no formula, magical or scientific, can bind it; it is as free as the wind's breath. `The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit.' As the Holy Ghost does not command, so it does not answer commands; but it will answer requests.' (p. 156) -- `So, by the process which I have called psychopoeia, `soulmaking', Psyche has reached a stage where she has earned her name and is fully-fledged; where, by her emergence into full self-consciousness, or the consciousness of what theologians have called `the ground of being', she is confronted with the choice of imitating Christ or aping God. She now breathes an unfamiliar ether, superimposed upon, but not displacing, that social atmosphere in which she was nurtured; an ether in which her new freedom of individuality and choice will carry with it the gravest personal consequences, for she will have it in her, if she chooses, to be the deity, creator and inhabitant of her own universe.' (p. 161) VG orig. green cloth in illus. light green dj. …