{"product_id":"sweet-waters-of-the-crystal-well-volume-i-a-poetical-interpretation-of-the-bible-9781764640305","title":"Sweet Waters of the Crystal Well: Volume I: A Poetical Interpretation of the Bible","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Slattery\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Eurekamen Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Eurekamen Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Spirituality - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"THE voice of the turtle is heard in the land. The green book of the earth is open, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the four winds are turning the leaves, while Nature, chief secretary to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecreative Word, sits busy at her inditing of many a lovely poem -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat book shall we open side by side with Nature's? First, the book of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Book of the Poets may well come next - even this book, if indeed it deserve\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe nobility of its name.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning, The Book of The Poets, June-August, 1842.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristianity and the old nature faith have lain down side by side in the cottages, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand I would proclaim that peace as loudly as I can among the kingdoms of poetry, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhere there is no peace that is not joyous, no battle that does not give life instead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof death; I may even try to persuade others, in more sober prose, that there can\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebe no language more worthy of poetry and of the meditation of the soul than that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich has been made, or can be made, out of a subtlety of desire, an emotion of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esacrifice, a delight in order, that are perhaps Christian, and myths and images that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emirror the energies of woods and streams, and of their wild creatures. Has any\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epart of that majestic heraldry of the poets had a very different fountain? Is it not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe ritual of the marriage of heaven and earth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eW. B. Yeats, POEMS, Preface to the Third Edition, January, 1901.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading the Bible should be an exhilarating and mystical experience; enough to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emake you laugh, and cry, and shout for joy! There are secrets in the Bible, which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecan only be revealed through the lens of poetry; when the Prophets and the Poets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esing together, with the constants of the Universe keeping perfect time. We should\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elisten to the Logos!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you thought you knew the Bible, be astonished at yourself!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eurekamen Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47883309777047,"sku":"9781764640305","price":3410.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781764640305.webp?v=1781101035","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sweet-waters-of-the-crystal-well-volume-i-a-poetical-interpretation-of-the-bible-9781764640305","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}