My father was not only a devout Jew, but also a distinguished Talmudist who often spent whole days and nights in study, without troubling himself much about mundane affairs.
The world reflects the image of the intellect, which again reflects the image of the mundane world, the one in the form of its visible appearance murta; and the other, in its invisible form amurta.
They laid thrice seven eggs in their proper time, which afterwards split in twain, like so many mundane eggs in their upper and lower valves or canals.
Then there rises the wilful mind from it, as a distinct and independent thing of itself, and thinks in itself as the undivided and universal Mind of the mundane world.
The spiritual body is represented by the wise, to be composed of the ten senses of perception and conception, the mind or memory and the understanding faculties; which is above and outside the corporeal half of the mundane egg.
The world is situated in that mundane seed of the universe, which is known under the name of intellect attributed to it by the wise.
Men residing in this mundane form of Brahma, and yet think it otherwise than a reflexion of the deity; just as a child looking at its own shadow in a glass, startles to think it as an apparition standing before it.
He was born in the form of creation, and it is he that is settled in everything in the universe; and caused this earth to appear from the bipartite mundane egg, as also the water which is twice as much as the land.
He contains this mundane sphere, together with all the worlds with their mountains and all other contents in himself; and the all powerful time which hurls them ever onward, is the warder at the doorway of his eternity.
Tell me, how can we intermingle the impure conception of the universal or mundane soul representing the mundees or universe, with the pure idea of the supreme soul, which is ever calm, quiet and transparent.
The salgrama stone is perforated by the vajra-kita, and contains many marks inside it, resembled to the map of the world in the mundane egg of the divine mind.
That which contains thousands of such worlds, as the mundane eggs, is as unlimited as the spacious womb of the firmament.
As the simple soul and the gross body or the mundane soul.
But as the souls of the blessed are most perfectly united to Divine justice, they do not suffer from sorrow, nor do they interfere in mundane affairs, except in accordance with Divine justice.
And now thou hast allowed the sorrow for the loss of old mundane ties of long ago to conquer thy desire of emancipation and break in upon thy devotion to thy vow.
Will the logician say to the scientist: "Your difficulty is that you are trusting too much to your mundane apparatus.
It only takes note of the ways and degrees of dependence uponmundane resources and conditions that values of every order must acknowledge.
Julia Soaemias is represented on coins as the Heavenly Virgin; but if the statement of Lampridius in regard to hermundane frailties is to be credited, her lightly adorned statue as Venus was more in character.
All his biographers are agreed that Thackeray was honestly fond of mundane advantages.
Now, in mundane letters it is the difference that counts, the più and not the uno.
Later Buddhism recognizes a special form of nirvana called apratishṭhita: those who attain it see that there is no real difference between mundane existence and nirvana and therefore devote themselves to a life of beneficent activity.
He thus adds to the mass M of mundane phenomena, independent of his subjectivity, the subjective complement x, which makes of the whole an utterly black picture illumined by no gleam of good.
The "converse" of the early Christians drifted away to the more mundane question of what was to be done after lunch.
So that you might almost say, putting it hyperbolically, I view all mundane happenings with the Fall for one terminus and the Millennium for the other.
She notes the same carelessness for worldly prosperity, the thoughtlessness for mundane concerns that goes with certain trains of spiritual speculation.
I do not pretend to be familiar with mundane zoology.
Now there are different Mundane eras--the common Mundane era 4,004 B.
Her biographers say, and doubtless with truth, that her heart was far away from these mundane interests; yet her talent for business was not the less displayed.
Doubtless, in their propagandism, they were acting in concurrence with a mundane policy; but, for the present at least, this policy was rational and humane.
It is, to the critic, moderately certain, that all which the words are intended to convey is, that every inhabitant of the New Jerusalem or Heaven will be as rich and happy as a mundane sovereign.
Beginning with the vast American continent, we find that the Esquimaux appear to have no conception whatever of a Creator, of a future state, of a mundane theocracy, or of any unseen agency but good or bad "luck.
He who maintains the eternity of the Veda and the corporeality of gods, and so on, is thus really driven to the hypothesis of the course of mundane existence being without a beginning (i.
How do you know that they have not come to you, as Critias and Alcibiades did to Socrates, to learn a merely political and mundane virtue?
And her voice took a tone which made it somewhat uncertain whether, in spite of all the lofty impassibility which she felt bound to possess, she did not hate Pelagia with a most human and mundane hatred.
The ox typifies strength, and the lion courage, while the eagle suggests inspiration and the power of soaring above mundane affairs.
Just what one deserves for coming to such a place," said Lady Mundane furiously, who, by the way, had repeatedly asked Wog to her own parties.
Lady Mundane positively refused to have anything to do with them, and, in fact, I live so little in the world, though I keep it up to some extent for the sake of my girls, that it was quite an accident my hearing of them.
He felt as though death was in his heart, yet he spoke as quietly as though he were telling some mundane tale, and not words conjured up by a desperate wisdom.
She often hinted that Eudol must be neglecting his farm for her sake, though her suggestions were absolutely to no purpose, seeing that Eudol had forgotten all about such mundane matters as harvesting or the pressing of cider.
Now, a certain mundane matter had been troubling Igraine's thought that day.
Astronomy is certainly an alluring science; set an astronomer before a telescope, and an overwhelming attraction draws his soul away through the tube up into heaven, and leaves his body without mundane interests.
