| 单词 | the flight of the alone to the alone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe flight of the alone to the Alone With the. A person or being that is alone or solitary; spec. (with capital initial) (a title of) God. Originally and chiefly in the flight of the alone to the Alone [translating Hellenistic Greek ϕυγὴ μόνου πρὸς μόνον (Plotinus, Enneads 6. 9. 11)] and variants: the mystical union of the individual soul with the One (cf. one pron. 4) or God. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [noun] > person solein1377 alone1807 1807 W. Bridgman in tr. Paraphr. Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle ix. v. 397 (note) This passage may remind the reader of Plotinus of the very remarkable words with which he concludes his works; namely, that the employment of a truly good man is..a flight of the alone to the alone. 1874 Ld. Lytton Fables in Song I. 212 For whom, by whom, are these Thy wonders wrought? who recognises them? And who rejoices in them? The Alone, Is that the sum and summit of the All? 1877 H. P. Blavatsky Isis Unveiled II. ix. 413 The books considered ‘childish and foolish’..teach, as Porphyry says: ‘a liberation from all terrene concerns..a flight of the alone to the Alone’. 1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd After Scene 352 Exultant adoration give The Alone, through Whom all living live, The Alone, in Whom all dying die. 1980 Internat. Jrnl. Philos. Relig. 11 143 Mystics often say that their encounters with the divine are ineffable. The flight of the alone to the Alone is and must be wordless. 2000 L. Vaughan-Lee Love is Fire 72 The mystical path is always a solitary journey, from the alone to the Alone. < as lemmas |
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