In Literature And In Art, Alike, This Gloomy Fashion Of Regarding Death Has Been Characteristic Of Christianity. Death Has Been Painted As A Skeleton Grasping A Scythe, A Grinning Skull, A Threatening Figure With Terrible Face And Uplifted Dart, A Bony Scarecrow Shaking An Hourglass - All That Could Alarm And Repel Has Been Gathered Round This Rightly-named King Of Terrors.

-Annie Besant

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In Literature And In Art, Alike, This

Annie Besant

In Literature And In Art, Alike, This Gloomy Fashion Of Regarding Death Has Been Characteristic Of Christianity. Death Has Been Painted As A Skeleton Grasping A Scythe, A Grinning Skull, A Threatening Figure With Terrible Face And Uplifted Dart, A Bony Scarecrow Shaking An Hourglass - All That Could Alarm And Repel Has Been Gathered Round This Rightly-named King Of Terrors.

Topic

Fashion

Art

Kings

The Soul Which Is Approaching Its' Liberation, As It Looks Back Over Past Lives... Down The Vistas Of The Centuries Along Which It Has Slowly Been Climbing,... Is Able To See There The Way In Which The Bonds Were Made, The Causes Which Set It In Motion. It Is Able To See How Many Of Those Causes Have Worked Themselves Out And... How Many... Are Still Working Themselves Out.

Karma

Past

Climbing