...touching them'.51 We may recall John Milton's apostrophe of the Spirit at the beginning of Paradise Lost: Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant. 1 133 'And I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize in water - it was...

...More appropriate still might be Milton's invocation of the Holy Spirit in book 1 of Paradise Lost: "Thou from the first / Wast present, and with mighty.../ Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss / And mad'st it pregnant." The image of the dove and her action of grace, effected on Christmas Eve and producing...

...is Love, the magnet that uplifts and saves the world, and the word of Love is the expression of God. "And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest; *** What in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support," that, under thy loving care...

...Milton, whose portrayal of the Holy Spirit in the opening lines of Paradise Lost is androgynous: . . . thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty...outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant . . . (1.19-22) In this passage, which fascinated the English romantic poets, the...

...is God. There is no other I." Could freedom from fear be the same as letting go of ego? O Spirit... Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty...outspread, Dovelike sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine.... — Paradise Lost THE NET . ..the net whose every...

...God, 28. 15 In the opening invocation to Paradise Lost Milton addresses the Holy Spirit as Thou [who] from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant (1.19-22). All citations of Milton's poetry from Complete Poems and Major Prose,...

...unattempted yet in Prose or Rime. And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st;...outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumin, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of...

...Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th" upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest : thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant. What in me is dark, Illumine ! what is low raise and support, That to the height...

...Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world, and all our woe. [ Paradise Lost 1 1-3] God, who from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...brooding on the vast Abyss And madest it pregnant. [I 19-22] This God describes himself as he orders his Son (ho logosl to create the world with a word....

...of Milton's invocation of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Paradise Lost (book 1, lines 19-22): Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant. will be jeopardized by reciprocity or by Federal legislation, and the present antiquated...