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Hellenism

Agis, Cleomenes & the Gracchi

Plutarch's parallel lives of Agis, Cleomenes, Tiberius Gracchus and Caius Gracchus, with his comparison of them. From the Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated by John Dryden.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 130 min read
Hellenism

Agesilaus & Pompey

Plutarch's parallel lives of Agesilaus and Pompey, with his comparison of them. From the Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated by John Dryden.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 189 min read
English

Charity

Charity is the third and greatest theological virtue: for Aquinas it is friendship with God — a love, poured in by grace, by which we love God for his own sake and our neighbour in him. It is “the form of the virtues.”

Ben Ajaero · · 1 min read
English

Hope

In Aquinas’s theology, hope is the second theological virtue: a movement of the will, raised by grace, that reaches toward eternal happiness as a future good — arduous, but possible to attain with God’s help.

Ben Ajaero · · 1 min read
English

Faith

In Thomas Aquinas’s theology, faith is a theological virtue: an act of the intellect assenting to divine truth at the command of a will moved by grace — firmer than opinion, yet concerned with things unseen.

Ben Ajaero · · 1 min read
Akathist to our Most Holy Lady Mother of God
Christianity

Akathist to our Most Holy Lady Mother of God

The Akathist Hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos — the great Byzantine hymn of praise to the Mother of God, chanted standing (a-kathistos, 'not sitting'). Traditionally ascribed to St. Romanos the Melodist, its proem was added in thanksgiving for the deliverance of Constantinople from the siege of 626.

Ben Ajaero · · 8 min read
Thig 14.1 · Subha and the Libertine (Subha Jivakambavanika)
Buddhism

Thig 14.1 · Subha and the Libertine (Subha Jivakambavanika)

Therīgāthā · Thig 14.1. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 4 min read
Thig 12.1 · Punnika and the Brahman (Punnika)
Buddhism

Thig 12.1 · Punnika and the Brahman (Punnika)

Therīgāthā · Thig 12.1. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 2 min read
Thig 5.9 · The Former Jain Ascetic (Bhadda Kundalakesa)
Buddhism

Thig 5.9 · The Former Jain Ascetic (Bhadda Kundalakesa)

Therīgāthā · Thig 5.9. Translated by Hellmuth Hecker & Sister Khema.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 1 min read
Thig 4.1 · Bhadda Kapilani
Buddhism

Thig 4.1 · Bhadda Kapilani

Therīgāthā · Thig 4.1. Translated by Hellmuth Hecker & Sister Khema.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 1 min read
Thag 21 · Vangisa
Buddhism

Thag 21 · Vangisa

Theragāthā · Thag 21. Translated by John D. Ireland.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 8 min read
Thag 19 · Talaputa (Talaputa Thera)
Buddhism

Thag 19 · Talaputa (Talaputa Thera)

Theragāthā · Thag 19. Translated by Bhikkhu Khantipalo.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 7 min read
Thag 11.1 · Sankicca
Buddhism

Thag 11.1 · Sankicca

Theragāthā · Thag 11.1. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 2 min read
Thag 8.1 · Maha-Kaccana
Buddhism

Thag 8.1 · Maha-Kaccana

Theragāthā · Thag 8.1. Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 1 min read
Thag 5.9 · Vijitasena
Buddhism

Thag 5.9 · Vijitasena

Theragāthā · Thag 5.9. Translated by K.R. Norman.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 1 min read
Thag 2 · The Call of the Peacocks (Culaka)
Buddhism

Thag 2 · The Call of the Peacocks (Culaka)

Theragāthā · Thag 2. Translated by Andrew Olendzki.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 1 min read
AN 11.18 · The Cowherd (Gopalaka Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 11.18 · The Cowherd (Gopalaka Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 11.18. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 8 min read
AN 11.17 · To Dasama (Dasama Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 11.17 · To Dasama (Dasama Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 11.17. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 4 min read
AN 10.208 · The Sublime Attitudes (Brahmavihara Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 10.208 · The Sublime Attitudes (Brahmavihara Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 10.208. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 3 min read
AN 10.177 · To Janussonin (Janussonin Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 10.177 · To Janussonin (Janussonin Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 10.177. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 6 min read
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