'the swarm that in the noontide beam were born,' feeling in ourselves the power to direct, this way or that, the forces of Nature--of Nature, of which we form so trivial a part--shall we, in our boundless arrogance, in our pitiful conceit, deny that power to
the Ancient of Days? Saying, to our Creator, 'Thus far and no further.
Sylvie and Bruno
He is the Man of War, the Prince of Peace, the Avenger of our Blood and
the Ancient of Days. He is the Lord of Hosts, the Comforter, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah and the All-Consuming Fire.
An Ode To The Giver Of Life
13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to
the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
'ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED'
Among the passages are Ezra 4: opposition to temple building, Ezra 7: the mission of Ezra, Daniel 3:1-30: Nebuchadnezzar's statue, Daniel 5:1-6:1:Belshazzar's feast, and Daniel 7:
the Ancient of Days and the Son of Man.
Aramaic Ezra and Daniel: A Handbook on the Aramaic Text
God is described as
the Ancient of Days in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 7, Verse 9.
Our God has no parents
Presumably Yahweh, the God of Israel, is the God called in Daniel, Chapter 7 "
the Ancient of Days, the hair of his head is like white wool."
O come divine Messiah: Messiah used to refer to a political king. One scripture scholar explains how we got from there to Jesus Christ
One of the founding gifts, from Manchester Guardian owner John Edward Taylor, included 266 drawings and watercolours, among them 22 works by Turner and William Blake's
The Ancient of Days. We'll be showing a mass hang of the best of them as part of the reopening programme.
Maria Balshaw on the reopening of the Whitworth Art Gallery
The Ancient of Days. Blake was instructed to write the poem by a mocking fairy.
Alexis Myre: orchid petal and small twig of the upper hemisphere: "Ojo de Dios"
They argue that in the Kabbala the miracle in the wilderness is attributed not to the Almighty but to "
the ancient of days." From the Kabbalistic description of "
the ancient of days." They deduce that it might have been how a primitive culture would have described a sophisticated machine.
If the Truth be Told"
And behold there came with the cloud of heavens, one like unto a son of man [Israel] and he came to
the ancient of days [God] and he was brought near before him, and was given dominion, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed (7:9-14).
The influence of Daniel's prophetic moral lessons on the structure and themes of the passover Haggadah
The riddle of our origins has inspired a number of visionary works of art, including interpretations as diverse as William Blake's illustration of the cosmological designer Urizen in
The Ancient of Days (1794) and Auguste Rodin's marble sculpture of primordial man issuing from the outstretched palm of The Hand of God (1898).
Envisioning origins: an artful look at our formation
If you wanted to have a Standing On Pavement Cracks Day you'd have to register with
the Ancient of Days or the Silver Stocking of the Diurnal or something.
John Avison column
His enthusiasm was fired by The Kabbalah Unveiled, by KL Macgregor, published in 1887, claiming to be a translation of The Zohar, an ancient Jewish mystical work about a power/machine called
the Ancient of Days, apparently fitted with three skulls in the Russian doll style.
OBITUARY: George Sassoon
Perennially restless in his voice, Foulds has moments of Elgarian delicacy (brooding horns in "Old Greek Legend") and Holstian grimness (a grinding funeral march in "
The Ancient of Days"), but his constant recourse to exotic modes and scales, tending to cancel each other out, has surely lost its shock-effect by now - and the quartertones at the heart of "Columbine" sound tired and mannered within an otherwise ravishingly lovely movement.
Neglected composer back in the fold; CBSO Symphony Hall
Service theme is "Sacred Sounds of
the Ancient of Days." The program includes ancient Australian aboriginal didgeridoo, Baha'i Farsi chant, Buddhist Zendo chant, a Romanian Orthodox chant, a Zoroastrian chanted prayer, Andean sacred music, a Sikh ragi playing a classical Sikh shabad, and ancient songs and chants of Sufi, Hindu, Judaic, Muslim Sikh and Catholic traditions.
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