ellauri146.html on line 361: Eloa"/>But who is Eloa?
ellauri146.html on line 365: Eloa comes from the throne of God, and proclaims that now the Redeemer is led to death, on which the angels of the earth form a circle round Mount Calvary, also nam'd Golgotha. Then, having consecrated that hill, he worships the Messiah. Gabriel conducts the souls of the fathers from the sun to the Mount for olives, and Adam addresses the earth. Satan and Adramelech, hovering in triumph, are put to flight by Eloa. Jesus is nail'd to the cross. The thoughts of Adam. The conversion of one of the malefactors. Uriel places a planet before the sun, and then conducts to the earth the souls of all the future generations of mankind. Eve, seeing them coming, addresses them. Eloa ascends to Heaven. Eve is affected at seeing Mary. Two angels of death fly round the cross. Eve addresses the Saviour, and the souls of the children yet unborn. Claptrap does a lot of addressing in the epos. Hope the letters reach the sender, unlike Elvis's:
ellauri146.html on line 396: Alfred de Vigny's Eloa: A Modern Myth
ellauri146.html on line 400: One of the outstanding features of the Romantic era in France was the re-evaluation of the feminine. It was widely assumed that man's capacity for rational thought and scientific achievement needed to be tempered by woman's capacity for sentiment. Indeed, the beneficial influence of woman's love and compassion was considered a necessary precondition to moral development, both for the individual and for all mankind. Woman thus had redemptive qualities (cash value). Perhaps the purest expression of this constellation of ideas is to be found in the utopian religious sects of the period and in the Romantic epic. Alfred de Vigny's Eloa (1824) may be read in this context. Eloa is the first of a series of angel women appearing in the Romantic epic. She is followed by Rachel in Edgar Quinet's Ahasvérus (1833), Sémida in Alexandre Soumet's La Divine Epopée (1840), Marie in Alphonse Constant's La Mère de Dieu (1844) and Liberté in Victor Hugo's La Fin de Satan (fragments written in 1854 and 1859, published posthumously in 1886). The mission of these quasi-divine female figures is to help put an end to evil.
ellauri146.html on line 402: As any reader of Vigny's poem knows, Eloa descends from heaven to console and save Satan. It is suggested that if she had succeeded, evil might have ceased to exist, but Vigny does not permit this to happen. Instead, Satan seduces Eloa and causes her to fall with him to the depths of hell. Despite the failure of Eloa's attempt, the fact remains that Vigny lays out the essential elements of what I call the myth of the angel woman and the end of evil; he links together the divine feminine principle and the redemption of humanity. This constitutes one of the major original elements of Eloa.
ellauri146.html on line 404: We tend not to focus on this view of Eloa as a myth of the redeeming feminine for several reasons. First, the central portion of the poem is devoted to Satan's seduction of Eloa, an activity which, for most of us, is anything but celestial. Perhaps this explains Stendhal's sarcastic description of Eloa in the Courrier anglais of 1 December 1824: "Tex-Willer-larme, devenue ange femelle, et séduite par le diable lui-même" (the ex-tear, turned into a female angel, and seduced by the devil himself). Flottes and Bonnefoy insist that the very fine psychological analysis of the seduction makes us see human protagonists in an angelic decor, which weakens any metaphysical meaning Vigny might attach to his poem. Germain, who had the benefit of Hunt's masterly work, The Epic in Ninteenth Century France (1941), states flatly that the drama of Eloa is not metaphysical but moral. Bénichou, however, does remark in Le Sacre de l'écrivain 1750-1830 (1973) that the creation of Eloa corresponds to the theological promotion of the feminine as an agent of redemption prominent in the religious sects of the Romantic period. I am sure Satan was greatly consoled by Eloa, if that's any consolation.
ellauri146.html on line 406: The second reason we tend not to see Eloa in this light is the emphasis scholars have placed on the Romantic rehabilitation of Satan. We have not had adequate corresponding emphasis on the concomitant rehabilitation of women.
xxx/ellauri091.html on line 813: John R Mott oli aikanaan maailmanlaajuisesti hyväxytyin kristitty. Niin oli Jeesuskin niin kauan kuin se oli ainoa. Paras mahdollinen kristitty. Mott ei ehkä ajanut nimellisesti Amerikan asiaa, mutta globalisaation apostolina se kulki jeesussandaalit jalassa. Menkää ja tehkää kaikki kansat opetuslapsixeni! Kõige maade kristlased ühinege! Make Christ the King! se villizi nuorisoa huolimatta maasta, kansasta ja ihonväristä. Samaan laarin se sataa kumminkin, minun isäni talossa on monta kauppahuonetta. Eloa on paljon mutta työväkeä on vähän. Työnantajalle win-win tilanne.
xxx/ellauri174.html on line 420: Hohhoijaa, vielä 170 sivua tavaamatta. Alfred de Vigny (se Eloa">Eloan kynäilijä) töräyttää tässä kohtaa mottona: sukupuolet kuolevat huoneiston eri päissä, heittäen toisiinsa ärtyneitä kazeita. No kyllä kai, kun toinen ei tee enää muuta kuin kääntyilee, huokailee ja piereskelee. Kyllä siinä aika äkkiä pannaan sängyt ensin L-asentoon ja sitten eri päähän taloa. Vigny oli yxi 19. vuosisadan kuuluisimpia pehmopornoilijoita. Niitä piisasi. 19. vuosisata oli pehmopornon loistoaikaa. Olis menneet silikoninuket hyvin kaupaxi. Kauppa käy kuin siimaa, sanoi Manne Salminen.
xxx/ellauri303.html on line 287: Sukkot (katoxet eli majat) on 1 juutalaisen miehen 3 jalasta, regel. 2 muuta ovat pesah Elli pääsiäinen ja šavuot eli helluntai. Helluntaiystävät siirsi oman illanviettonsa syysjuhlaxi tehdäxeen pesäeron kirkollisempiin kiistanalaisiin. Šavuot ja Sukkot ovat molemmat elonkorjuujuhlia. Eloa on paljon, vaan työmiehiä vähän. Työnjohtajia kyllä piisaisi.
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