Certainly, at present, he is rarely filled with the divine afflatus except when plying his saw.
Let any one study his sensations when a trained choir pours over him a flood of rapturous harmony, and he will perhaps find it difficult to decide whether it is a devotional uplift or an aesthetic afflatus that has seized him.
Wonder if the Divine Afflatus could get through my hat.
No inspiration yet, and no chance of Divine Afflatus to-day.
Moved by the afflatus which only a poet feels, he would now and then take up his poetic pen and give voice to the minstrelsy of his soul.
Hilliard could speak on almost any occasion with effectiveness; Yancey needed the afflatus of the hour derived from a sea of upturned faces, an expectant multitude, a subject of consuming interest.
De Groot says, "the tablet is considered to be imbued with the afflatus of the dead, and to have become his perpetual duplicate, to serve as a patron divinity in the domestic circle and there to receive the offspring's sacrifices and worship.
A powerful afflatus from the Infinite has given this book life.
Those who have heard him in some roused hour, when the full afflatus of his spirit moved him, will agree with me that the grandeur of talk was accomplished.
By continual introspection he is seeking the charm, so to speak, that will render his afflatus permanent.
Doubtless it is a very natural result of his resignation to this creative force that one of the poet's profoundest sensations during his afflatus should be that of reverence for his gift.
His afflatus comes upon him and departs, without his control or understanding.
It appears that little verse describing the poet's afflatus is written when the gods are actually with him.
And once more, it is Shelley who shows himself most keenly aware that, asleep or waking, the poet feels his afflatus coming in the same manner.
Footnote: Compare Browning's characterization of the afflatus of Eglamor in Sordello, Book II.
Still, as much as in apostolic times, does the Divine afflatus dwell in man, and the man so endued becomes a prophet, and declares the will of God in known or unknown tongues.
The Divine afflatus is not confined to those who have gathered at the tabernacle.
He appears to be caught so far in the afflatus that he must hear all the prophet has to tell.
But I dare say there is something in what you said at first--that you knew not what you wrote, by reason of the divine afflatus versifying within you.
And that afflatus was no such great matter, either: afflatuses should not promise more than they mean to perform.
There is no doubting the divineafflatus after that: left to yourself, you cannot so much as defend your own poems.
After stating that he had a pious spell upon him before visiting the room, and that the afflatus was still upon him, he entered into a labyrinthal defence of "the church.
His colleague in talking is Mrs. Abbatt, a very worthy lady, who has often the afflatus upon her, and who can hold forth with a good deal of earnestness and perspicuity.
Unbidden, unasked for, unsought, often in our lightest, most careless moments, the Divine Afflatusdescends upon us.
For two or three years I had done really good work, with the divine afflatus thrilling through every vein.
But no one could so well represent the king in his divine character as his son, who might be supposed to share the divine afflatus of his father.
The divine afflatusdescends equally on the good and the bad, the lofty and the lowly.
Finally the afflatus concentrated on Brigham Young as its second medium, and he has organized Mormonism.
As afflatus is the permanent element, and personal leadership the transitory, it is likely that in the cases of the dwindling Communities, leadership has been too strong and afflatus too weak.
Afflatus requires personal mediums; and probably success depends on the due adjustment of the proportion betweenafflatus and medium.
After his deposal and death there was a long interregnum; but the afflatus was only distributed, not extinguished.
There was evidently an afflatuson the men, and they wrote and acted as they were moved.
Finally theafflatus concentrated on another leader; and this time it was a man, Elder Meacham, who proved to be the final organizer.
It can not be doubted that there is a persistentafflatus connected with that power.
In all cases ofafflatus continuing after the death of the first medium, there seems to be an alternation of experience between afflatus and personal leadership, somewhat like that of the Primitive Christian Church.
Mere doctrines and forms without afflatus are not religion, and have no more power to organize successful Communities, than the theories of Owen and Fourier.
Our opinion, however, is, that the long quarrel between afflatus and personality will be decided in favor of afflatus, and that personality will pass into the secondary position in the ages to come.
To control this disagreeable symptom, the candidates for both species of afflatus used to come to their meetings provided with napkins and rollers with which to bind their middles, and prevent the supervening inflation.
Stories simmered in my brain, demanding to be writ; but I let them simmer, knowing that the longer the divine afflatus was bottled up the better it would be.
So far was the afflatus of the Spirit from being conditioned by the rite, that in Acts x.
Whenever a man of commanding moral genius appears in the world and speaks to the multitude from his height, they are for the moment lifted to his level and feel the afflatus of his spirit.
It feels the afflatusof the higher spirit dwelling in the parent, and out of this feeling is generated the sentiment of reverence.
They clear the atmosphere of mists, disclose to us our bearings, and fill our souls with the afflatus which wafts us toward "the haven where we would be.
I also feel the poetical afflatus coming over me, and, if you like, we will set about devouring paper like two boa-constrictors.
One of the tribal priests in a state of religious afflatus walks through the fire, into which some oil or butter is poured to make a sudden blaze.
Hindu saints of the same class are so directly imbued with the divine afflatus that they need not the purifying influence of fire, and are buried, not cremated.
The Parihar may be any man who is visited with the divine afflatus or selected as a mouthpiece by the deity; that is to say, a man of hysterical disposition or one subject to epileptic fits.
