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# A Collection of Esoteric Writings of T. Subba Row/"H. X." and God Personal and Impersonal

"H. X." AND GOD PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
"H. X." in the above named article writes about the so-called Atheists: "In the first place while they talk of laws, they overlook, it seems to me, the fact that a law postulates a law-giver—a will at any rate that has impressed a course of action—and so it seems to me that admitting an inherent law, they cannot logically escape a will that originated that law, and such a will in such a case must be what mankind understands as God."
​If I am allowed to paraphrase this freely, it can be rendered thus:—
One of the fundamental laws of the Universe is that there can be no law without a law-giver.
Now, I find this assumption in Mill, if I am not mistaken, in what is appropriately called his 'Carpenter's theory of the Universe.' Mr. Joseph Cook in his Boston lectures, and subsequently at Bombay, uses the same argument; and doubtless many men take this for an axiom, as I did only a little while ago. But on investigation I find it not true in all cases. Their deduction from this is inconsistent with the axiom; and this delusion arises from the fact that human laws created by human beings are confounded with universal laws; and by analogy it is inferred, that those latter also must have been created by a law-giver. I proceed to show what, I believe, is an inconsistency in those who argue in this fashion. Just on account of its inconsistency with itself, the argument will not be clear, but may be intelligible on reflection.
If, then, 'That there can be no law without a law-giver' is a universal law, then, by this very law, which, to avoid confusion of ideas, I shall call the Law of laws, it must itself have a law-giver. This very giving of law implies that there was a time when the law did not exist,—i. e., before the will of the Giver 'impressed the course of action.' If this is admitted, then, there was a time when laws did not require a law-giver; is it not possible to conceive they may have existed then? They may have, or they may not, but it is, at least, a possible conception. If, on the other hand, anybody would say that this 'giving' does not imply any limit of time (which is a very audacious suggestion, to say the least,) even then he does not gain much by it. For, if the law were eternal, it was co-eternal with the giver, it had no birth; in fact, it was not given and there was no giver.
Having shown this difficulty in the way of accepting "H. X.'s" hypothesis, I have only to remark that his idea of 'personal' God is not without difficulties to me.
B. J. P.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Andromache

ANDROMACHE, the Wife of Hector, Daughter of Ætion, King of Thebes, in Cilicia, who, with seven sons, perished by the Hand of Achilles, in the same Day.
Dares, the Phrygian, represents Andromache as having brilliant eyes, fair, and tall. He adds, that she was beautiful, modest, wise, affable, and virtuous; tenderly attached to her husband and children; and it appears, that, notwithstanding the prevalent infidelity of the eastern nations, he confined his affection solely to this princess.
Euripides, on the contrary, has affirmed, that the tenderness of Andromache for her husband was so great, that it extended even to his mistresses; and, that she had nursed the children he had by them: but, this appears to have been said without sufficient foundation, and only proves the general opinion of the mildness and benevolence of her character.
The resignation, which an early acquaintance with misfortune inspires in minds even of the most sensibility, appears to have supported Andromache under the death of her husband, and the multiplied miseries which followed. Dictys of Crete, in his third book affirms, that she accompanied Priam to the tent of Achilles, to demand the dead body of Hector; and brought before him her two sons, Astyanax, (afterwards thrown by the Greeks from a high tower) and Laodamas, to excite his compassion.
On the partition of the captives, after the destruction of Troy, she fell to the share of Pyrrhus, the son of ​Achilles. She had by him three sons, named Molossus, Pielus, and Pergamus; and a daughter, Deidamia. Some make Pielus the eldest, and successor to his father; and deduce from him the kings of Epirus, down to Pyrrhus the Great, who died anno 272 B.C.
On the marriage of Pyrrhus with Hermione, this prince united Andromache to Helenus, the son of Priam, who was likewise his captive. Servius and Pausanius place it after the murder of Pyrrhus, at Delphi; and the former says that it took place, because, in dying he had commanded it. By this marriage she had Cestrinus.
Andromache survived Helenus, and left Epirus with Pergamus, the youngest of her sons by Pyrrhus, and followed him into Asia, where Pausanius says Pergamus disputed the sovereignty of the city of Teuthra, with its prince Areus, who had built it; that he killed the latter in single combat, and made himself master of the place, which he called Pergamus; and that the tomb of himself and Andromache were shown there in his time.
F. C.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Angosciola, (Europa)

ANGOSCIOLA, (EUROPA)
Drew portraits and pictures for altar-pieces, from the designs of Antonio Campi. In 1568 she was visited by Vasari, who was astonished at the freshness and beauty of her colouring.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Andre, (Calderini)

ANDRE, CALDERINI, (NOVELLA) an Italian Lady of great Learning and Beauty in the Fifteenth Century.
Jean Andre, her father, caused her to be instructed with the greatest care in every branch of polite literature; and afterwards made her study law, in which she ​made such great progress, that, when any thing happened to prevent his giving a lesson to his pupils, he sent her to supply his place. As he feared that her youth and beauty might distract the attention of her auditors, she was concealed from them by a curtain. To do honour to the name of his daughter and her mother, Andre published, under the title of Novella, his commentary upon the decretals of Gregory IX. She was given by him in marriage to John Calderini, a learned professor of the canon law.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Androclea

ANDROCLEA,
Celebrated for her love to her country, was of Thebes, in Bœotia. That state was at war with the Orchomenians, they consulted the oracle, which answered, they would be victors, if the most noble amongst them would incur a voluntary death. Antiphenes, the father of Androclea, was the most illustrious, by birth, amongst the Thebans, but did not feel disposed to make that sacrifice for their welfare. Androclea and her sister Alcis, more courageous or more generous than their father, fulfilled this duty in his stead; ​and the Thebans, in gratitude, erected the statue of a lion to their honour in the Temple of Diana.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Angosciola, (Anna Maria, or Minerva)

ANGOSCIOLA, (ANNA MARIA, or MINERVA)
Was celebrated for her skill in painting, but more for her great knowledge in Latin and Italian literature. She died young.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Ancre

ANCRE. See GALIGAL.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Andreini, (Isabella)

ANDREINI, (ISABELLA) an excellent Italian Actress of great poetical Abilities. Born at Padua, 1562, died at Lyons, 1604.
This lady was the wife of Francis Andreini, an Italian comedian and poet, though not so celebrated in either character as his wife, towards whom nature appears to have been unusually prodigal of charms and excellencies. The exquisite beauty of her face and person, the melody of her voice in speech and singing, and the taste and feeling she possessed, rendered her inimitable upon the stage. Under her picture, this inscription was put in Latin, "If you admire, reader, this glory of the theatre, when you only see her, what would you do if you heard her?"
The eulogiums of all the learned men of the age, but more particularly the works she left behind her, establish her claim to poetical excellence. She played admirably well on several instruments, understood the French and Spanish languages, and was not unacquainted with philosophy.
Cardinal Cinthio Aldobrandini had a great esteem for her, as appears by many of her poems, and the epistle ​dedicatory to her works. When she went to France, she was kindly received by their majesties, and the celebrated people at court; and wrote several sonnets in their praise, which are to be seen in the second part of her poems.
Isabella Andreini died of a miscarriage, at Lyons, in the forty-second year of her age. Her husband had her interred in the same city; and honoured her with an epitaph, in which he extols her virtues, talents, and piety; and it is worthy of remark, that, amidst all the incense offered to her charms and acquirements, she always preserved a most unblemished reputation.
The death of this actress was not only lamented by her husband, in many poems, but a number of Latin and Italian elegies were consecrated to her memory; several of which were prefixed to her works, in the edition of Milan, in 1605.
Besides her sonnets, madrigals, songs, and eclogues, we have a pastoral of her's, intitled Mirtilla, and letters, which were printed at Venice, in 1610.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Angosciola, (Lucia)

ANGOSCIOLA, (LUCIA)
Attained such excellence in painting, that, at her death, in 1566, it was the common opinion amongst artists, that if she had not been taken from the world, she would have even surpassed her mistress, the famous Sophonisba, by whom she, and the two preceding, all sisters, were instructed.
Lucia also excelled in singing, and possessed an extensive acquaintance with polite literature.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Angosciola-Lomellini, (Sophonisba)

ANGOSCIOLA-LOMELLINI, (SOPHONISBA) a female Painter, of a noble Family, at Cremona, Died 1620.
Studied under Bernardino Campi, then under Sojaro, and obtained so great a reputation, that Philip II. invited her to Spain, in 1559; caused her to take his portrait and that of the queen, (one of the latter was also sent to pope Pius IV. at his particular request) and she was so highly esteemed by both of them, that she was assigned a pension, and received many valuable presents. They afterwards married her to Don Fabrizio di Moncada, a Sicilian nobleman, with a splendid dowry, and a pension of one thousand ducats, on the duchy of Palermo. She was sent to her husband with every mark of royal bounty; but soon became a widow, and married, secondly, Orazio Lomellini, who was of one of the most illustrious families in Genoa. She lived to be extremely old, and lost her eye-sight; but still delighted to talk with painters on the difficulties of the art. Anthony Vandyke used to say, that "he had received more ​instruction from the painting of a blind woman, than from his master." She taught her art to her three sisters.
Madame Genlis; Abecedario Pittorico, &c.
# A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students/God is my Father, and His Son loves Him

God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.
Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. I must return it, for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and keeping it within its kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear behind and only peace ahead. How still the way Your loving Son is led along to You!
Brother, we find that stillness now. The way is open. Now we follow it in peace together. You have reached your hand to me, and I will never leave you. We are one, and it is but this oneness that we seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that was not begun.
# A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students/God, being Love, is also happiness

God, being Love, is also happiness.
Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.
Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. These images, with no reality in truth, bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:
    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.
Begin your periods of practicing today with this association, which corrects the false belief that God is fear. It also emphasizes happiness belongs to you, because of what He is.
Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. God, being Love, it will be given you. Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears with this assurance, kind and wholly true:
    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    And it is happiness I seek today.
    I cannot fail, because I seek the truth.
# A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students/God has condemned me not. No more do I

God has condemned me not. No more do I.
My Father knows my holiness. Shall I deny His knowledge, and believe in what His knowledge makes impossible? Shall I accept as true what He proclaims as false? Or shall I take His Word for what I am, since He is my Creator, and the One Who knows the true condition of His Son?
Father, I was mistaken in myself, because I failed to realize the Source from which I came. I have not left that Source to enter in a body and to die. My holiness remains a part of me, as I am part of You. And my mistakes about myself are dreams. I let them go today. And I stand ready to receive Your Word alone for what I really am.
# A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students/God did not create a meaningless world

God did not create a meaningless world.
The idea for today is, of course, the reason why a meaningless world is impossible. What God did not create does not exist. And everything that does exist exists as He created it. The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist.
The exercises for today are to be practiced with eyes closed throughout. The mind-searching period should be short, a minute at most. Do not have more than three practice periods with today's idea unless you find them comfortable. If you do, it will be because you really understand what they are for.
The idea for today is another step in learning to let go the thoughts that you have written on the world, and see the Word of God in their place. The early steps in this exchange, which can truly be called salvation, can be quite difficult and even quite painful. Some of them will lead you directly into fear. You will not be left there. You will go far beyond it. Our direction is toward perfect safety and perfect peace.
With eyes closed, think of all the horrors in the world that cross your mind. Name each one as it occurs to you, and then deny its reality. God did not create it, and so it is not real. Say, for example:
    God did not create that war, and so it is not real.
    God did not create that airplane crash, and so it is not real.
    God did not create that disaster [specify], and so it is not real.
Suitable subjects for the application of today's idea also include anything you are afraid might happen to you, or to anyone about whom you are concerned. In each case, name the "disaster" quite specifically. Do not use general terms. For example, do not say, "God did not create illness," but, "God did not create cancer," or heart attacks, or whatever may arouse fear in you.
This is your personal repertory of horrors at which you are looking. These things are part of the world you see. Some of them are shared illusions, and others are part of your personal hell. It does not matter. What God did not create can only be in your own mind apart from His. Therefore, it has no meaning. In recognition of this fact, conclude the practice periods by repeating today's idea:
    God did not create a meaningless world.
The idea for today can, of course, be applied to anything that disturbs you during the day, aside from the practice periods. Be very specific in applying it. Say:
    God did not create a meaningless world.
    He did not create [specify the situation which is disturbing you],
    and so it is not real.
# A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students/God in His mercy wills that I be saved

God in His mercy wills that I be saved.
I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, "God wills that I be saved from this," and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my Father's Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. And I need but remember that God's Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.
Father, Your Holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You.
# A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students/God is in everything I see

God is in everything I see.
The idea for today explains why you can see all purpose in everything. It explains why nothing is separate, by itself or in itself. And it explains why nothing you see means anything. In fact, it explains every idea we have used thus far, and all subsequent ones as well. Today's idea is the whole basis for vision.
You will probably find this idea very difficult to grasp at this point. You may find it silly, irreverent, senseless, funny and even objectionable. Certainly God is not in a table, for example, as you see it. Yet we emphasized yesterday that a table shares the purpose of the universe. And what shares the purpose of the universe shares the purpose of its Creator.
Try then, today, to begin to learn how to look on all things with love, appreciation and open-mindedness. You do not see them now. Would you know what is in them? Nothing is as it appears to you. Its holy purpose stands beyond your little range. When vision has shown you the holiness that lights up the world, you will understand today's idea perfectly. And you will not understand how you could ever have found it difficult.
Our six two-minute practice periods for today should follow a now familiar pattern: Begin with repeating the idea to yourself, and then apply it to randomly chosen subjects about you, naming each one specifically. Try to avoid the tendency toward self-directed selection, which may be particularly tempting in connection with today's idea because of its wholly alien nature. Remember that any order you impose is equally alien to reality.
Your list of subjects should therefore be as free of self-selection as possible. For example, a suitable list might include:
    God is in this coat hanger.
    God is in this magazine.
    God is in this finger.
    God is in this lamp.
    God is in that body.
    God is in that door.
    God is in that waste basket.
In addition to the assigned practice periods, repeat the idea for today at least once an hour, looking slowly about you as you say the words unhurriedly to yourself. At least once or twice, you should experience a sense of restfulness as you do this.
# A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students/God is in everything I see because God is in my mind

God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.
The idea for today is the springboard for vision. From this idea will the world open up before you, and you will look upon it and see in it what you have never seen before. Nor will what you saw before be even faintly visible to you.
Today we are trying to use a new kind of "projection." We are not attempting to get rid of what we do not like by seeing it outside. Instead, we are trying to see in the world what is in our minds, and what we want to recognize is there. Thus, we are trying to join with what we see, rather than keeping it apart from us. That is the fundamental difference between vision and the way you see.
Today's idea should be applied as often as possible throughout the day. Whenever you have a moment or so, repeat it to yourself slowly, looking about you, and trying to realize that the idea applies to everything you do see now, or could see now if it were within the range of your sight.
Real vision is not limited to concepts such as "near" and "far." To help you begin to get used to this idea, try to think of things beyond your present range as well as those you can actually see, as you apply today's idea.
Real vision is not only unlimited by space and distance, but it does not depend on the body's eyes at all. The mind is its only source. To aid in helping you to become more accustomed to this idea as well, devote several practice periods to applying today's idea with your eyes closed, using whatever subjects come to mind, and looking within rather than without. Today's idea applies equally to both.
# A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students/God is my Father, and He loves His Son

God is my Father, and He loves His Son.
My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light. It lights the world as well. It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world. There is no gift but this that can be either given or received. This is reality, and only this. This is illusion's end. It is the truth.
My Name, O Father, still is known to You. I have forgotten It, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do. Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal what You would have me see instead.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gong

From volume 1 of the work.
​GONG. (Fr. Tam-tam, from the Indian name.) This is a Chinese instrument, made of bronze (80 copper to 20 tin); in form, a thin round plate with the edges turned up, like a shallow sieve or tambourine. It is struck with a stick, ending in a large padded leather knob. The effect produced is an awful crash or clang, which adds considerably to the horrors of a melodramatic scene. Meyerbeer has even used it pianissimo with the orchestra, in 'Robert le Diablo' (scene of the resurrection of the nuns); and Cherubini has one stroke of it in his Requiem in C minor, absolutely solo (Dies iræ, bar 7). If a long-continued and loud noise is desired, it should first be struck very gently, and the force of the stroke gradually increased until the effect becomes almost terrific.
[ V. de P. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Goodson, Richard

From volume 1 of the work.
[ W. H. H. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gollmick, Adolph

[ A. C. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gombert, Nicolas

From volume 1 of the work.
[ J. R. S. B. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gomez, A. Carlos

From volume 1 of the work.
[ G. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Goltermann, Georg

From volume 1 of the work.
[ G. ]