| The Grand Inquisitor Contributor(s): Blavatsky, H. P. (Translator), Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798550912720 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Physical Information: 0.07" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.13 lbs) 34 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "'The terrible and wise spirit, the spirit of self annihi-lation and non-being, ' goes on the Inquisitor, 'the great spirit of negation conversed with Thee in the wilder-ness, and we are told that he "tempted" Thee... Was it so? And if it were so, then it is impossible to utter any-thing more truthful than what is contained in his three offers, which Thou didst reject, and which are usually called "temptations." Yea; if ever there was on earth a genuine striking wonder produced, it was on that day of Thy three temptations, and it is precisely in these three short sentences that the marvelous miracle is con-tained. If it were possible that they should vanish and disappear for ever, without leaving any trace, from the record and from the memory of man, and that it should become necessary again to devise, invent, and make them reappear in Thy history once more, thinkest Thou that all the world's sages, all the legislators, initiates, philosophers and thinkers, if called upon to frame three questions which should, like these, besides answering the magnitude of the event, express in three short sen-tences the whole future history of this our world and of mankind-dost Thou believe, I as |
