Sentences with phrase «upper world»

Spite Your Face is a tale across two worlds - with a bright, glittering and ordered upper world, and a warped, dirty, impoverished lower world - where the lure of wealth, power and adoration entices a destitute young boy into the shimmering riches of the kingdom above.
And there is an upper world of what the Schoolman called Fruition or Fulfillment, in which all this relative relativity becomes actuality; in which the trees burst into flower or the rockets into flame.»
In the upper world, mind, thought, and ideas make their appearance as fruit on the topmost branches of an evolutionary tree.
They summoned Eurydice and gave her to him, but upon one condition: that he would not look back at her as she followed him, until they had reached the upper world.
Another text, the book Bahir, describes ten emanations or sefirot of the divine or upper world, which separate into nine masculine and one feminine power.
According to this version, the Seer asks the Yehudi to die «so that through the Yehudi the Seer might learn from the upper world what next step to take in the great Messianic enterprise.»
The «upper world» included celestial bodies and weather forces personified in mythic characters that exerted influences on the human situation.
UPPER WORLD: A young knight has arrived in a kingdom ruled by a ruthless ruler.
Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, an upper world to be shunned, not sought out.
An ingenious device was placed in a box that would open in two hundred years, giving instructions on how to return to the surface to find out if the upper world was once again inhabitable.
How does this episode — Fatima going on a journey to the upper world to find King Kade — work with the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, which Uncle Jihad tells Osama in an interlude of the Fatima tale [pp. 171 - 179]?
The next day, my father found her by her fountain - pool in the upper world.
The ancient Maya believed that the natural limestone formations of caves were sacred nexuses that connected the upper world of humans with the underworld of the gods.
Become the uncanny legend you were meant to be throughout the floating islands, upper world, and lower lands!
The color «black» symbolizes «above», the upper world, and all colors represent «below», the lower world.
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