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The Sea Priestess Quotes
The Sea Priestess
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“There is something very intimate and personal about one's books. They reveal so much of one's private soul.”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“I can best compare my life to a vitaminless diet--plenty of nutritive bulk, but the little something that meant health was lacking. I suppose my trouble was really spiritual scurvy.”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“This life looked like being a wash-out, so I pinned my hopes to the next.”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“God be thanked, the meanest of His mortals, Has two soul-sides, one to face the world with; One to show a woman when he loves her.”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“I saw the sea-gods come, moving with an irresistible momentum, not rising into the air as the riders rose, but deep in their own element, unhasting, unresting; for the power of the sea is in the weight of the waters and not in the wind-blown crests. These Great Ones rose with the tide, and like the tide, nothing might withstand them.”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“The great sun, moving in the heavenly houses, has left the House of the Fishes for the House of the Water-bearer. In the coming age shall humanity be holy, and in the perfection of
the human shall we find the humane. Take up the manhood into Godhead, and bring down the Godhead into manhood, and this shall be the day of God with us; for God is made manifest in Nature, and Nature is the self-expression of God.”
― The Sea Priestess
the human shall we find the humane. Take up the manhood into Godhead, and bring down the Godhead into manhood, and this shall be the day of God with us; for God is made manifest in Nature, and Nature is the self-expression of God.”
― The Sea Priestess
“No one can sacrifice for another. We each sacrifice ourselves, and thereby gain the power to give magical help to each other.”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“she was in this life, but not of it.”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“You got the sea-priestess through the moon," she said, "for the moon rules the sea. They are not two separate experiences, but two consecutive parts of the same experience.”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“And it seemed to me that there were two worships, one of the sun, and one of the moon; and that my love of the moon and the sea was the older and was to the other as the other is to us. And I could believe that the druids, priests of the sun-cult, must have looked upon the strange sea-fires of a forgotten worship as we look upon the barrows and dolmens. For it came to me, I do not know why, that those who worshipped the moon and the sea built great fires at the uttermost neap, and as the tide came in, it took them.”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“Then there was the even odder incident of Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who went out to meet Abraham, bearing bread and wine after the fight was over and the kings were all sunk in the slime-pits. Who was this priest of a forgotten worship whom Abraham honoured? I”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
“We hear a lot about Daniel in the lions' den, but we hear nothing at all about Daniel in his official capacity as Beltcshazzar, head magician to the king of Babylon and satrap of Chaldea. Another”
― The Sea Priestess
― The Sea Priestess
