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Advent [from Latin ad to, toward + venio to come] Arrival; in Christianity a period of some four weeks preceding Christmas.
ADVENT ::: (games) /ad'vent/ The prototypical computer Adventure game, first implemented by Will Crowther for a CDC computer (probably the 6600?) as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming.ADVENT was ported to the PDP-10, and expanded to the 350-point Classic puzzle-oriented version, by Don Woods of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence operating system permitted only six-letter filenames. All the versions since are based on the SAIL port.David Long of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Computing Facility (which had two of the four DEC20s on campus in the late 1970s and early the point count up to 500, then 501 points. Most of his work was in the data files, but he made some changes to the parser as well.This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style now expected in text adventure games, and popularised several tag lines that have become fixtures of in a little maze of twisty passages, all different. The magic words xyzzy and plugh also derive from this game.Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually *has* a Colossal Cave and a Bedquilt as in the game, and the Y2 that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance.See also vadding.[Was the original written in Fortran?][Jargon File] (1996-04-01)
ADVENT "games" /ad'vent/ The prototypical computer {adventure} game, first implemented by Will Crowther for a {CDC} computer (probably the {CDC 6600}?) as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming. ADVENT was ported to the {PDP-10}, and expanded to the 350-point {Classic} puzzle-oriented version, by Don Woods of the {Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory} (SAIL). The game is now better known as Adventure, but the {TOPS-10} {operating system} permitted only six-letter filenames. All the versions since are based on the SAIL port. David Long of the {University of Chicago} Graduate School of Business Computing Facility (which had two of the four {DEC20s} on campus in the late 1970s and early 1980s) was responsible for expanding the cave in a number of ways, and pushing the point count up to 500, then 501 points. Most of his work was in the data files, but he made some changes to the {parser} as well. This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style now expected in text adventure games, and popularised several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different." The "magic words" {xyzzy} and {plugh} also derive from this game. Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually *has* a "Colossal Cave" and a "Bedquilt" as in the game, and the "Y2" that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance. See also {vadding}. [Was the original written in Fortran?] [{Jargon File}] (1996-04-01)
Adventists: Religious sects originating from the Advent Movement, professing the personal and premillennial second advent of Christ, and the renewal of the Earth as an abode for the redeemed after a physical resurrection of the dead.
Adventitious Ideas: Those Ideas which appear to come from without, from objects outside the mind. Opposite of innate ideas. Descartes' form of the ontological argument for God was built upon the notion of adventitious Ideas. -- V.F.
Advent may also be used to signify the serial comings into the human sphere of a nirmanakaya who imbodies a dhyani-buddha — a perfected human being from a preceding manvantara — in order to enlighten the humanity of the current cycle. Such nirmanakayas work in the sphere of our earth as invisible or occasionally visible helpers of mankind.
Adventure Definition Language ::: (language, games) (ADL) An adventure game language interpreter designed by Ross Cunniff and Tim Brengle in 1987. ADL is semi-object-oriented with Lisp-like syntax and is a superset of DDL. It is available for Unix, MS-DOS, Amiga and Acorn Archimedes. , . (1995-03-20)
Adventure Definition Language "language, games" (ADL) An {adventure} game language {interpreter} designed by Ross Cunniff "cunniff@fc.hp.com" and Tim Brengle in 1987. ADL is semi-{object-oriented} with {Lisp}-like {syntax} and is a superset of {DDL}. It is available for {Unix}, {MS-DOS}, {Amiga} and {Acorn} {Archimedes}. {(ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.games/volume2)}, {(ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/fish/fish/f0/ff091)}. (1995-03-20)
advent ::: any important or epoch-making arrival. In modern usage applied poetically or grandiloquently to any arrival. advent"s, advents.
adventist ::: n. --> One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists.
adventitious ::: a. --> Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
adventive ::: a. --> Accidental.
Adventitious. ::: n. --> A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.
advent ::: n. --> The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
Coming; any important arrival; approach.
adventual ::: a. --> Relating to the season of advent.
adventured ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Adventure
adventureful ::: a. --> Given to adventure.
adventure ::: n. 1. Any novel or unexpected event in which one shares; an exciting or remarkable incident befalling any one. 2. The encountering of risks or participation in novel and exciting events; bold or daring activity, enterprise. adventure"s, world-adventure, world-adventure"s. *v. 3. To take the chance of; to commit to fortune; to undertake a thing of doubtful issue; to try, to chance, to venture into or upon. 4. To risk or hazard; stake. *adventuring.
adventure ::: n. --> That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Risk; danger; peril.
The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one&
adventurer ::: n. --> One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
adventurer ::: One who seeks adventures, or who engages in daring enterprises. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) adventurers, Adventurers.
adventurer ::: one who seeks adventures, or who engages in daring enterprises. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) adventurers, Adventurers.
adventuresome ::: a. --> Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.
adventuress ::: n. --> A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
adventuring ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Adventure
adventurously ::: adv. --> In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.
adventurousness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
adventurous ::: n. --> Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
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ad- ::: --> As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.
ADL ::: 1. (games) Adventure Definition Language.2. (language) Ada Development Language.R.A. Lees, 1989.3. (programming) API Definition Language.A project for Automatic Interface Test Generation. (1995-11-17)
ADL 1. "games" {Adventure Definition Language}. 2. "language" {Ada} Development Language. R.A. Lees, 1989. 3. "programming" {API} Definition Language. A project for Automatic Interface Test Generation. (1995-11-17)
adscititious ::: a. --> Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
Advent [from Latin ad to, toward + venio to come] Arrival; in Christianity a period of some four weeks preceding Christmas.
ADVENT ::: (games) /ad'vent/ The prototypical computer Adventure game, first implemented by Will Crowther for a CDC computer (probably the 6600?) as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming.ADVENT was ported to the PDP-10, and expanded to the 350-point Classic puzzle-oriented version, by Don Woods of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence operating system permitted only six-letter filenames. All the versions since are based on the SAIL port.David Long of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Computing Facility (which had two of the four DEC20s on campus in the late 1970s and early the point count up to 500, then 501 points. Most of his work was in the data files, but he made some changes to the parser as well.This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style now expected in text adventure games, and popularised several tag lines that have become fixtures of in a little maze of twisty passages, all different. The magic words xyzzy and plugh also derive from this game.Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually *has* a Colossal Cave and a Bedquilt as in the game, and the Y2 that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance.See also vadding.[Was the original written in Fortran?][Jargon File] (1996-04-01)
ADVENT "games" /ad'vent/ The prototypical computer {adventure} game, first implemented by Will Crowther for a {CDC} computer (probably the {CDC 6600}?) as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming. ADVENT was ported to the {PDP-10}, and expanded to the 350-point {Classic} puzzle-oriented version, by Don Woods of the {Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory} (SAIL). The game is now better known as Adventure, but the {TOPS-10} {operating system} permitted only six-letter filenames. All the versions since are based on the SAIL port. David Long of the {University of Chicago} Graduate School of Business Computing Facility (which had two of the four {DEC20s} on campus in the late 1970s and early 1980s) was responsible for expanding the cave in a number of ways, and pushing the point count up to 500, then 501 points. Most of his work was in the data files, but he made some changes to the {parser} as well. This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style now expected in text adventure games, and popularised several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different." The "magic words" {xyzzy} and {plugh} also derive from this game. Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually *has* a "Colossal Cave" and a "Bedquilt" as in the game, and the "Y2" that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance. See also {vadding}. [Was the original written in Fortran?] [{Jargon File}] (1996-04-01)
Adventists: Religious sects originating from the Advent Movement, professing the personal and premillennial second advent of Christ, and the renewal of the Earth as an abode for the redeemed after a physical resurrection of the dead.
Adventitious Ideas: Those Ideas which appear to come from without, from objects outside the mind. Opposite of innate ideas. Descartes' form of the ontological argument for God was built upon the notion of adventitious Ideas. -- V.F.
Advent may also be used to signify the serial comings into the human sphere of a nirmanakaya who imbodies a dhyani-buddha — a perfected human being from a preceding manvantara — in order to enlighten the humanity of the current cycle. Such nirmanakayas work in the sphere of our earth as invisible or occasionally visible helpers of mankind.
Adventure Definition Language ::: (language, games) (ADL) An adventure game language interpreter designed by Ross Cunniff and Tim Brengle in 1987. ADL is semi-object-oriented with Lisp-like syntax and is a superset of DDL. It is available for Unix, MS-DOS, Amiga and Acorn Archimedes. , . (1995-03-20)
Adventure Definition Language "language, games" (ADL) An {adventure} game language {interpreter} designed by Ross Cunniff "cunniff@fc.hp.com" and Tim Brengle in 1987. ADL is semi-{object-oriented} with {Lisp}-like {syntax} and is a superset of {DDL}. It is available for {Unix}, {MS-DOS}, {Amiga} and {Acorn} {Archimedes}. {(ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.games/volume2)}, {(ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/fish/fish/f0/ff091)}. (1995-03-20)
ADVSYS ::: (language, games) An adventure game language designed by David Betz in 1986. ADVSYS is object-oriented and Lisp-like. . (1995-03-20)
ADVSYS "language, games" An {adventure} game language designed by David Betz in 1986. ADVSYS is {object-oriented} and {Lisp}-like. {(ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.games/volume2)}. (1995-03-20)
Agantukaklesa. (P. Agantukakilesa; T. glo bur gyi nyon mongs; C. kechen fannao; J. kyakujin bonno; K. kaekchin ponnoe 客塵煩惱). In Sanskrit, "adventitious afflictions" or "adventitious defilements"; indicating that the KLEsA are accidental and extrinsic qualities of the mind, rather than natural and intrinsic. This notion builds on an ancient strand in Buddhist thought, such as in the oft-quoted passage in the PAli AnGUTTARANIKAYA: "The mind, O monks, is luminous but defiled by adventitious defilements" (pabhassaraM idaM bhikkave cittaM, taN ca kho Agantukehi upakkilesehi upakkilittham). Since defilements are introduced into the thought processes from without, the intrinsic purity of the mind (CITTA) can be restored through counteracting the influence of the klesa and overcoming the inveterate tendency toward attachment and its concomitant craving (LOBHA) and ill will (DVEsA), which empower them.This concept of Agantukaklesa is critical to the MAHAYANA doctrine of TATHAGATAGARBHA (embryo of buddhahood), where the mind is presumed to be innately enlightened, but that enlightenment is temporarily obscured or concealed by defilements (KLEsA) that are extrinsic to it.
Ajita. (T. Ma pham pa; C. Ayiduo; J. Aitta; K. Ailta 阿逸多). In Sanskrit and PAli, "Invincible"; proper name of several different figures in Buddhist literature. In the PAli tradition, Ajita is said to have been one of the sixteen mendicant disciples of the brAhmana ascetic BAvarĪ who visited the Buddha at the request of their teacher. Upon meeting the Buddha, Ajita saw that he was endowed with the thirty-two marks of a great man (MAHAPURUsALAKsAnA) and gained assurance that the Buddha's renown was well deserved. Starting with Ajita, all sixteen of the mendicants asked the Buddha questions. Ajita's question is preserved as the AjitamAnavapucchA in the ParAyanavagga of the SUTTANIPATA. At the end of the Buddha's explanations, Ajita and sixteen thousand followers are said to have become worthy ones (ARHAT) and entered the SAMGHA. Ajita returned to his old teacher BAvarī and recounted to him what happened. BAvarī himself converted and later became a nonreturner (ANAGAMIN). ¶ Another Ajita is Ajita-Kesakambala (Ajita of the Hair Blanket), a prominent leader of the LOKAYATA (Naturalist) school of Indian wandering religious (sRAMAnA) during the Buddha's time, who is mentioned occasionally in Buddhist scriptures. His doctrine is recounted in the PAli SAMANNAPHALASUTTA, where he is claimed to have denied the efficacy of moral cause and effect because of his materialist rejection of any prospect of transmigration or rebirth. ¶ An Ajita also traditionally appears as the fifteenth on the list of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who were charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. Ajita is said to reside on Mt. GṚDHRAKutA (Vulture Peak) with 1,500 disciples. He is known in Chinese as the "long-eyebrowed arhat" (changmei luohan) because he is said to have been born with long white eyebrows. In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Ajita is shown sitting on a rock, with both hands holding his right knee; his mouth is open, with his tongue and teeth exposed. East Asian images also sometimes show him leaning on a staff. In Tibetan iconography, he holds his two hands in his lap in DHYANAMUDRA. ¶ Ajita is finally a common epithet of the bodhisattva MAITREYA, used mostly when he is invoked in direct address.
AnAgatavaMsa. In PAli, "Chronicle of Future Events"; a medieval PAli work in verse detailing the advent of Metteya (MAITREYA) Buddha in the far distant future of this auspicious eon (bhaddakappa; S. BHADRAKALPA). The current eon is deemed auspicious because five buddhas-Maitreya being the fifth-appear during its duration, the maximum number possible. Attributed to Cola Kassapa, author of Vimativinodanī, the AnAgatavaMsa claims to have been preached to sARIPUTRA by the Buddha. The text elaborates upon the prophecy of the coming of Maitreya found in the CAKKAVATTISĪHANADASUTTA of the DĪGHANIKAYA. In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Burma, the AnAgatavaMsa became popular as a kind of charter for a host of millenarian movements and uprisings, including one that led in 1752 to the founding of Burma's last royal dynasty, the Konbaung. Its founder, Alaung hpaya (r. 1752-1760), and his sons utilized this text to justify claims that their wars of conquest were prophesied to usher in a Buddhist Golden Age. A synopsis in English of a nineteenth-century Burmese recension of the AnAgatavaMsa appears in HENRY CLARK WARREN's Buddhism in Translations as "The Buddhist Apocalypse."
Angaja. (T. Yan lag 'byung; C. Yinjietuo; J. Inkatsuda; K. In'get'a 因陀). The Sanskrit name of the thirteenth of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who were charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. He is said to reside on Guangxie Mountain with thirteen hundred disciples. According to the Chinese tradition, Angaja had been a snake wrangler before he was ordained, so whenever he went into the mountains, he carried a cloth bag with him to catch snakes, which he would release after removing their fangs so they would not injure people. For this reason, he earned the nickname "Cloth-Bag Arhat" (BUDAILUOHAN/heshang). In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Angaja leans against a staff, with his head lowered, reading a SuTRA that he holds in his left hand, his right hand counting recitation beads (JAPAMALA).
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assay ::: n. --> Trial; attempt; essay.
Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.
Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
Tested purity or value.
The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of
“At Sais, also, in the sacred precinct of Minerva, behind the chapel and joining the whole of the wall, is the tomb of one whose name I consider it impious to divulge on such an occasion; and in the inclosure stand large stone obelisks, and there is a lake near, ornamented with a stone margin, formed in a circle, and in size, as appeared to me, much the same as that in Delos, which is called the Circular. In this lake they perform by night the representation of that person’s adventures, which they call mysteries. On these matters, however, . . . I must observe a discrete silence; and respecting the sacred rites of Ceres, which the Greeks call Thesmophoria although I am acquainted with them, I must observe silence, . . . ” (Herodotus 2:170-1).
attemptive ::: a. --> Disposed to attempt; adventurous.
“At the mysteries of the Anthesteria . . . after the usual baptism by purification of water, the Mystae were made to pass through to another door (gate), and one particularly for that purpose, which was called, ‘the gate of Dionysus,’ and that of ‘the purified’ ” (IU 2:245-6). These were the Lesser Mysteries, preliminary and complementary to those held in the month of Boedromion (September) in Eleusis. Some scholars, seeing the analogy between climatic seasons and the stages of initiation, have supposed that the festival celebrated primarily the advent of spring and that the rites were symbolic of this; whereas others believe that the initiations were the main events and were held at times when nature harmonized with the purpose in view.
audacious ::: a. --> Daring; spirited; adventurous.
Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.
Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.
auntrous ::: a. --> Adventurous.
auntter ::: n. --> Adventure; hap.
Avalokitesvara. (T. Spyan ras gzigs; C. Guanshiyin/Guanyin; J. Kanzeon/Kannon; K. Kwanseŭm/Kwanŭm 觀世音/觀音). In Sanskrit, "Lord who Looks Down [in Empathy]"; the BODHISATTVA of compassion, the most widely worshipped of the MAHAYANA bodhisattvas and one of the earliest to appear in Buddhist literature. According to legend, Avalokitesvara was produced from a beam of light that radiated from the forehead of AMITABHA while that buddha was deep in meditation. For this reason, Buddhist iconography often depicts AmitAbha as embedded in Avalokitesvara's crown. His name dates back to the beginning of the Common Era, when he replaced the Vedic god BRAHMA as the attendant to sAKYAMUNI Buddha, inheriting in turn BrahmA's attribute of the lotus (PADMA). Images of Avalokitesvara as PADMAPAnI LOKEsVARA ("Lord with a Lotus in his Hand"), an early name, are numerous. Avalokitesvara is the interlocutor or main figure in numerous important MahAyAna sutras, including the PRAJNAPARAMITAHṚDAYASuTRA ("Heart Sutra"). His cult was introduced to China in the first century CE, where his name was translated as Guanshiyin ("Perceiver of the Sounds of the World") or GUANYIN ("Perceiver of Sounds"); his cult entered Korea and Japan with the advent of Buddhism in those countries. Avalokitesvara was once worshipped widely in Southeast Asia as well, beginning at the end of the first millennium CE. Although the MahAyAna tradition eventually faded from the region, images of Avalokitesvara remain. Avalokitesvara is also the patron deity of Tibet, where he is said to have taken the form of a monkey and mated with TARA in the form of a local demoness to produce the Tibetan race. Tibetan political and religious leaders have been identified as incarnations of him, such as the seventh-century king SRONG BTSAN SGAM PO (although that attribution was most likely a later addition to the king's legacy) and, notably, the DALAI LAMAs. The PO TA LA Palace, the residence of the Dalai Lamas, in the Tibetan capital of LHA SA is named for Avalokitesvara's abode on Mount POTALAKA in India. In China, Avalokitesvara as Guanyin underwent a transformation in gender into a popular female bodhisattva, although the male iconographic form also persists throughout East Asia. PUTUOSHAN, located off the east coast of China south of Shanghai, is said to be Potalaka. Avalokitesvara is generally depicted in the full raiments of a bodhisattva, often with an image of AmitAbha in his crown. He appears in numerous forms, among them the two-armed PadmapAni who stands and holds a lotus flower; the four-armed seated Avalokitesvara, known either as Caturbhuja Avalokitesvara [CaturbhujAvalokitesvara] or CintAmani Avalokitesvara [CintAmanyavalokitesvara], who holds the wish-fulfilling jewel (CINTAMAnI) with his central hands in ANJALIMUDRA, and a lotus and crystal rosary in his left and right hands, respectively; the eleven-armed, eleven-faced EKADAsAMUKHA; and the thousand-armed and thousand-headed SAHASRABHUJASAHASRANETRAVALOKITEsVARA (q.v. MAHAKARUnIKA). Tradition holds that his head split into multiple skulls when he beheld the suffering of the world. Numerous other forms also exist in which the god has three or more heads, and any number of arms. In his wrathful form as AstabhayatrAnAvalokitesvara (T. Spyan ras gzigs 'jigs pa brgyad skyob), "Avalokitesvara who Protects against the Eight Fears," the bodhisattva stands in ARDHAPARYAnKA ("half cross-legged posture") and has one face and eight hands, each of which holds a symbol of one of the eight fears. This name is also given to eight separate forms of Avalokitesvara that are each dedicated to protecting from one of the eight fears, namely: AgnibhayatrAnAvalokitesvara ("Avalokitesvara Who Protects from Fear of Fire") and so on, replacing fire with Jala (water), SiMha (lion), Hasti (elephant), Danda (cudgel), NAga (snake), dAkinī (witch) [alt. PisAcī]; and Cora (thief). In addition to his common iconographic characteristic, the lotus flower, Avalokitesvara also frequently holds, among other accoutrements, a jeweled rosary (JAPAMALA) given to him by Aksamati (as related in chapter twenty-five of the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA), or a vase. In East Asia, Avalokitesvara often appears in a triad: the buddha AmitAbha in the center, flanked to his left and right by his two bodhisattva attendants, Avalokitesvara and MAHASTHAMAPRAPTA, respectively. In Tibet, Avalokitesvara is part of a popular triad with VAJRAPAnI and MANJUsRĪ. As one of the AstAMAHOPAPUTRA, Avalokitesvara also appears with the other bodhisattvas in group representation. The tantric deity AMOGHAPAsA is also a form of Avalokitesvara. The famous mantra of Avalokitesvara, OM MAnI PADME HuM, is widely recited in the MahAyAna traditions and nearly universally in Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to the twenty-fifth chapter of the Saddharmapundarīkasutra, the KARAndAVYuHA is also devoted to him. See also BAIYI GUANYIN; GUANYIN; MIAOSHAN; MAnI BKA' 'BUM.
aventure ::: n. --> Accident; chance; adventure.
A mischance causing a person&
advent ::: any important or epoch-making arrival. In modern usage applied poetically or grandiloquently to any arrival. advent"s, advents.
adventist ::: n. --> One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists.
adventitious ::: a. --> Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
adventive ::: a. --> Accidental.
Adventitious. ::: n. --> A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.
advent ::: n. --> The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
Coming; any important arrival; approach.
adventual ::: a. --> Relating to the season of advent.
adventured ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Adventure
adventureful ::: a. --> Given to adventure.
adventure ::: n. 1. Any novel or unexpected event in which one shares; an exciting or remarkable incident befalling any one. 2. The encountering of risks or participation in novel and exciting events; bold or daring activity, enterprise. adventure"s, world-adventure, world-adventure"s. *v. 3. To take the chance of; to commit to fortune; to undertake a thing of doubtful issue; to try, to chance, to venture into or upon. 4. To risk or hazard; stake. *adventuring.
adventure ::: n. --> That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Risk; danger; peril.
The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one&
adventurer ::: n. --> One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
adventurer ::: One who seeks adventures, or who engages in daring enterprises. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) adventurers, Adventurers.
adventurer ::: one who seeks adventures, or who engages in daring enterprises. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) adventurers, Adventurers.
adventuresome ::: a. --> Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.
adventuress ::: n. --> A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
adventuring ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Adventure
adventurously ::: adv. --> In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.
adventurousness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
adventurous ::: n. --> Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
Bakkula. [alt. Nakula; Vakula; etc.] (P. Bakkula; T. Ba ku la; C. Bojuluo; J. Hakukura; K. Pakkura 薄拘羅). Sanskrit and PAi name of an ARHAT disciple of the Buddha, who became an arhat only eight days after ordaining at the age of eighty. The Buddha declared him to be foremost among those who enjoyed good health, and also one of the four monks most proficient in superknowledges (ABHIJNA), supernatural powers that are the by-products of meditation. ¶ Bakkula is also traditionally listed as fifth (or, in Tibetan, ninth) of the sixteen arhat elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who are charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. He is said to reside in JAMBUDVĪPA with eight hundred disciples. According to the East Asian tradition, Bakkula was a fierce warrior. After he ordained, the Buddha calmed him by making him sit in meditation, whence he became known as the "Quietly Sitting Arhat" (Jingzuo Luohan). Bakkula may be the arhat known by the epithet of Kundovahan (Holder of the Mongoose; C. Juntoupohan) referred to in the sAriputraparipṛcchA ("Sutra of sAriputra's Questions"). In Tibetan iconography he holds a mongoose (nakula) spitting out jewels; East Asian images have him seated in a chair holding a mongoose, sometimes accompanied by a beggar child. In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Bakkula is shown sitting cross-legged on a rock, with both hands holding a backscratcher over his left shoulder. In Tibetan Buddhism, Bakkula (or Bakula) is the first figure in an important incarnation (SPRUL SKU) lineage of the DGE LUGS sect. The nineteenth Bakula Rinpoche (1917-2003) served in the Indian parliament and as the Indian ambassador to Mongolia. Bakkula is alternatively known in Sanskrit as Bakula, Vakkula, Vakula, Vatkula (cf. P. BAkula; Vakkula).
batch processing "programming" A system that takes a sequence (a "batch") of commands or jobs, executes them and returns the results, all without human intervention. This contrasts with an {interactive} system where the user's commands and the computer's responses are interleaved during a single run. A batch system typically takes its commands from a disk file (or a set of {punched cards} or {magnetic tape} in the {mainframe} days) and returns the results to a file (or prints them). Often there is a queue of jobs which the system processes as resources become available. Since the advent of the {personal computer}, the term "batch" has come to mean automating frequently performed tasks that would otherwise be done interactively by storing those commands in a "{batch file}" or "{script}". Usually this file is read by some kind of {command interpreter} but batch processing is sometimes used with GUI-based applications that define script equivalents for menu selections and other mouse actions. Such a recorded sequence of GUI actions is sometimes called a "{macro}". This may only exist in memory and may not be saved to disk whereas a batch normally implies something stored on disk. Unix {cron} jobs and Windows scheduled tasks are batch processing started at a predefined time by the system whereas mainframe batch jobs were typically initiated by an operator loading them into a queue. (2009-09-14)
batch processing ::: (programming) A system that takes a set (a batch) of commands or jobs, executes them and returns the results, all without human intervention. This contrasts with an interactive system where the user's commands and the computer's responses are interleaved during a single run.A batch system typically takes its commands from a disk file (or a set of punched cards or magnetic tape in the old days) and returns the results to a file (or prints them). Often there is a queue of jobs which the system processes as resources become available.Since the advent of the personal computer, the term batch has come to mean automating frequently performed tasks that would otherwise be done interactively called a macro. This may only exist in memory and may not be saved to disk whereas a batch normally implies something stored on disk. (1998-06-26)
bell "character" {ASCII} 7, ASCII {mnemonic} "BEL", the {character code} which prodces a standard audibile warning from the computer or {terminal}. In the {teletype} days it really was a bell, since the advent of the {VDU} it is more likely to be a sound sample (e.g. the sound of a bell) played through a loudspeaker. Also called "G-bell", because it is typed as Control-G. The term "beep" is preferred among some {microcomputer} hobbyists. Compare {feep}, {visible bell}. (1997-04-08)
Bhadra. (P. Bhadda; T. Bzang po; C. Batuoluo zunzhe; J. Batsudara sonja; K. Palt'ara chonja 跋陀羅尊者). The Sanskrit name of the sixth of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who are charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. He is said to reside in Sri Lanka with nine hundred disciples. His mother gave birth to him under the bhadra (auspicious) tree, hence his name. A cousin of the Buddha, he served as his attendant and was famed for his clear exposition of the teachings. In the Chinese tradition, he is charged with matters related to bathing and his image is therefore enshrined in bath houses in some mountain monasteries. In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Bhadra typically sits on a rock in meditation. His forehead is high, his cheeks plump, and his gaze is turned slightly upward. His right hand is hidden under his robes and his left hand rests on his knee, holding prayer beads (JAPAMALA). Some East Asian images also show him accompanied by a tiger. In Tibetan iconography, he holds his left hand at his chest in VITARKAMUDRA, his right at his lap in DHYANAMUDRA.
brahmaloka. (T. tshangs pa'i 'jig rten; C. fanjie; J. bonkai; K. pomgye 梵界). In Sanskrit and PAli, the "BRAHMA worlds." In its narrowest sense, brahmaloka refers to the first three heavens of the realm of subtle materiality (RuPADHATU), whose denizens live perpetually immersed in the bliss of the first meditative absorption (DHYANA; P. jhAna): BRAHMAKAYIKA (heaven of BrahmA's followers), BRAHMAPUROHITA (heaven of BrahmA's vassals), and MAHABRAHMA (heaven of BrahmA himself). The ruler of these three heavens is named either BrahmA or MahAbrahmA, and he mistakenly believes that he is the creator of the universe. In a more general sense, the brahmaloka can also refer collectively to all the heavens of both the realm of subtle materiality and the immaterial realm (ARuPYADHATU). The two realms are divided into twenty heavens, the top four of which comprise the immaterial realm. Denizens of the immaterial realm have no physical dimension but are entirely mental and are perpetually immersed in one of the four immaterial absorptions (ARuPYAVACARADHYANA). The realm of subtle materiality is divided into sixteen heavens, the top five of which are called the "pure abodes" (sUDDHAVASA), where nonreturners (ANAGAMIN) are reborn. When the time is right, inhabitants of the pure abodes descend to earth in the guise of brAhmanas to leave portents of the advent of future buddhas so that they can be recognized when they appear in the human realm. One heaven in the realm of subtle materiality is reserved for unconscious beings (S. asaMjNisattva; P. asaNNasatta) who pass their entire lives (which can last eons) in dreamless sleep, only to die the moment they awaken. As with the immaterial realm, the realm of subtle materiality is also divided into four broad strata that correspond to the four form-based meditative absorptions (RuPAVACARADHYANA) and the denizens of these strata perpetually experience the bliss of the corresponding dhyAna. Regardless of the particular heaven they occupy, all inhabitants of the brahmaloka are all classified as BrahmA gods and live in splendor that far exceeds that of the divinities in the lower sensuous realm of existence (KAMADHATU).
buccaneer ::: n. --> A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. ::: v. i. --> To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
buddhadhAtu. (T. sangs rgyas kyi khams; C. foxing; J. bussho; K. pulsong 佛性). In Sanskrit, "buddha-element," or "buddha-nature"; the inherent potential of all sentient beings to achieve buddhahood. The term is also widely used in Buddhist Sanskrit with the sense of "buddha relic," and the term DHATU alone is used to mean "buddha-element" (see also GOTRA, KULA). The term first appears in the MAHAYANA recension of the MAHAPARINIRVAnASuTRA, now available only in Chinese translation, which states that all sentient beings have the "buddha-element" (FOXING). (The Chinese translation foxing literally means "buddha-nature" and the Chinese has often been mistakenly back-translated as the Sanskrit buddhatA; buddhadhAtu is the accepted Sanskrit form.) The origin of the term may, however, be traced back as far as the AstASAHASRIKAPRAJNAPARAMITA, one of the earliest MahAyAna SuTRAs, where the fundamental substance of the mind is said to be luminous (prakṛtis cittasya prabhAsvarA), drawing on a strand of Buddhism that has its antecedents in such statements as the PAli AnGUTTARANIKAYA: "The mind, O monks, is luminous but defiled by adventitious defilements" (pabhassaraM idaM bhikkhave cittaM, taN ca kho Agantukehi upakkilesehi upakkilitthaM). Because the BODHISATTVA realizes that the buddha-element is inherent in him at the moment that he arouses the aspiration for enlightenment (BODHICITTOTPADA) and enters the BODHISATTVAYANA, he achieves the profound endurance (KsANTI) that enables him to undertake the arduous training, over not one, but three, incalculable eons of time (ASAMKHYEYAKALPA), that will lead to buddhahood. The buddhadhAtu is a seminal concept of the MahAyAna and leads to the development of such related doctrines as the "matrix of the tathAgatas" (TATHAGATAGARBHA) and the "immaculate consciousness" (AMALAVIJNANA). The term is also crucial in the development of the teachings of such indigenous East Asian schools of Buddhism as CHAN, which telescope the arduous path of the bodhisattva into a single moment of sudden awakening (DUNWU) to the inherency of the "buddha-nature" (foxing), as in the Chan teaching that merely "seeing the nature" is sufficient to "attain buddhahood" (JIANXING CHENGFO).
CakkavattisīhanAdasutta. (C. Zhuanlun shengwang xiuxing jing; J. Tenrinjoo shugyokyo; K. Chollyun songwang suhaeng kyong 轉輪聖王修行經). In PAli, "Discourse on the Lion's Roar of the Wheel-Turning Emperor"; the twenty-sixth sutta of the DĪGHANIKAYA (a separate DHARMAGUPTAKA recension appears as the sixth SuTRA in the Chinese translation of the DĪRGHAGAMA and a separate SarvAstivAda recension as the seventieth sutra in the Chinese translation of the MADHYAMAGAMA); the scripture is known especially for being the only sutta in the PAli canon that mentions the name of the Buddha's successor, Metteya (MAITREYA). Before a gathering of monks at the town of MAtulA in MAGADHA, the Buddha tells the story of a universal or wheel-turning monarch (cakkavattin; S. CAKRAVARTIN) named Dalhanemi, wherein he explains that righteousness and order are maintained in the world so long as kings observe their royal duties. Dalhanemi's successors, unfortunately, gradually abandoned their responsibilities, leading to immorality, strife, and the shortening of life spans from eighty thousand years to a mere ten; the sutta thus attributes the origins of evil in the world to the neglect of royal duty. Upon reaching this nadir, people finally recognize the error of their ways and begin anew to practice morality. The observance of morality leads to improved conditions, until eventually a universal monarch named Sankha appears, who will prepare the way for the advent of the future-Buddha Metteya (Maitreya).
carpetbagger ::: n. --> An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Cartesianism: The philosophy of the French thinker, Rene Descartes (Cartesius) 1596-1650. After completing his formal education at the Jesuit College at La Fleche, he spent the years 1612-1621 in travel and military service. The reminder of his life was devoted to study and writing. He died in Sweden, where he had gone in 1649 to tutor Queen Christina. His principal works are: Discours de la methode, (preface to his Geometric, Meteores, Dieptrique) Meditationes de prima philosophia, Principia philosophiae, Passions de l'ame, Regulae ad directionem ingenii, Le monde. Descartes is justly regarded as one of the founders of modern epistemology. Dissatisfied with the lack of agreement among philosophers, he decided that philosophy needed a new method, that of mathematics. He began by resolving to doubt everything which could not pass the test of his criterion of truth, viz. the clearness and distinctness of ideas. Anything which could pass this test was to be readmitted as self-evident. From self-evident truths, he deduced other truths which logically follow from them. Three kinds of ideas were distinguished: innate, by which he seems to mean little more than the mental power to think things or thoughts; adventitious, which come to him from without; factitious, produced within his own mind. He found most difficulty with the second type of ideas. The first reality discovered through his method is the thinking self. Though he might doubt nearly all else, Descartes could not reasonably doubt that he, who was thinking, existed as a res cogitans. This is the intuition enunciated in the famous aphorism: I think, therefore I am, Cogito ergo sum. This is not offered by Descartes as a compressed syllogism, but as an immediate intuition of his own thinking mind. Another reality, whose existence was obvious to Descartes, was God, the Supreme Being. Though he offered several proofs of the Divine Existence, he was convinced that he knew this also by an innate idea, and so, clearly and distinctly. But he did not find any clear ideas of an extra-mental, bodily world. He suspected its existence, but logical demonstration was needed to establish this truth. His adventitious ideas carry the vague suggestion that they are caused by bodies in an external world. By arguing that God would be a deceiver, in allowing him to think that bodies exist if they do not, he eventually convinced himself of the reality of bodies, his own and others. There are, then, three kinds of substance according to Descartes: Created spirits, i.e. the finite soul-substance of each man: these are immaterial agencies capable of performing spiritual operations, loosely united with bodies, but not extended since thought is their very essence. Uncreated Spirit, i.e. God, confined neither to space nor time, All-Good and All-Powerful, though his Existence can be known clearly, his Nature cannot be known adequately by men on earth, He is the God of Christianity, Creator, Providence and Final Cause of the universe. Bodies, i.e. created, physical substances existing independently of human thought and having as their chief attribute, extension. Cartesian physics regards bodies as the result of the introduction of "vortices", i.e. whorls of motion, into extension. Divisibility, figurability and mobility, are the notes of extension, which appears to be little more thin what Descartes' Scholastic teachers called geometrical space. God is the First Cause of all motion in the physical universe, which is conceived as a mechanical system operated by its Maker. Even the bodies of animals are automata. Sensation is the critical problem in Cartesian psychology; it is viewed by Descartes as a function of the soul, but he was never able to find a satisfactory explanation of the apparent fact that the soul is moved by the body when sensation occurs. The theory of animal spirits provided Descartes with a sort of bridge between mind and matter, since these spirits are supposed to be very subtle matter, halfway, as it were, between thought and extension in their nature. However, this theory of sensation is the weakest link in the Cartesian explanation of cognition. Intellectual error is accounted for by Descartes in his theory of assent, which makes judgment an act of free will. Where the will over-reaches the intellect, judgment may be false. That the will is absolutely free in man, capable even of choosing what is presented by the intellect as the less desirable of two alternatives, is probably a vestige of Scotism retained from his college course in Scholasticism. Common-sense and moderation are the keynotes of Descartes' famous rules for the regulation of his own conduct during his nine years of methodic doubt, and this ethical attitude continued throughout his life. He believed that man is responsible ultimately to God for the courses of action that he may choose. He admitted that conflicts may occur between human passions and human reason. A virtuous life is made possible by the knowledge of what is right and the consequent control of the lower tendencies of human nature. Six primary passions are described by Descartes wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy and sorrow. These are passive states of consciousness, partly caused by the body, acting through the animal spirits, and partly caused by the soul. Under rational control, they enable the soul to will what is good for the body. Descartes' terminology suggests that there are psychological faculties, but he insists that these powers are not really distinct from the soul itself, which is man's sole psychic agency. Descartes was a practical Catholic all his life and he tried to develop proofs of the existence of God, an explanation of the Eucharist, of the nature of religious faith, and of the operation of Divine Providence, using his philosophy as the basis for a new theology. This attempted theology has not found favor with Catholic theologians in general.
coadventure ::: n. --> An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers. ::: v. i. --> To share in a venture.
coadventurer ::: n. --> A fellow adventurer.
colonist ::: Madhav: “King Aswapathy had come to birth on earth with a special mission from the higher realms of the Spirit: to prepare the conditions for a divine advent, to embody in himself the soul of evolving humanity and to develop its aspiration for the Divine Life. he was conscious of the purpose for which he had sojourned in this mortal Nature and strove to extend here the reign of his native country of Infinity and Immortality.
complication ::: n. --> The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
condottiere ::: n. --> A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.
connector conspiracy "business, standard" The tendency of manufacturers (or, by extension, other designers) to come up with products that don't fit with the old stuff, thereby making you buy either all new stuff or expensive interface devices. The term probably came into prominence with the appearance of the DEC {KL-10}, none of whose connectors matched anything else. The KL-10 {Massbus} connector was actually *patented* by {DEC}, who reputedly refused to licence the design, thus effectively locking out competition for the lucrative Massbus peripherals market. This policy was a source of frustration for the owners of dying, obsolescent disk and tape drives. A related phenomenon is the invention of new screw heads so that only Designated Persons, possessing the magic screwdrivers, can remove covers and make repairs or install options. Older Apple {Macintosh}es took this one step further, requiring not only a hex wrench but a specialised case-cracking tool to open the box. With the advent of more open-systems computing this term has fallen somewhat into disuse. Compare {backward combatability}. [{Jargon File}] (2010-02-04)
cowboy ::: n. --> A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
CPU Wars /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to {ADVENT} and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See {eat flaming death}. [{Jargon File}]
Cudapanthaka. (P. Culapanthaka/Cullapantha; T. Lam phran bstan; C. Zhutubantuojia; J. Chudahantaka; K. Chudobant'akka 注荼半托迦). An eminent ARHAT declared in PAli sources as foremost among the Buddha's disciples in his ability to create mind-made bodies (MANOMAYAKAYA) and to manipulate mind (cittavivatta). Cudapanthaka was the younger of two brothers born to a merchant's daughter from RAJAGṚHA who had eloped with a slave. Each time she became pregnant, she wanted to return home to give birth to her children, but both were born during her journey home. For this reason, the brothers were named "Greater" Roadside (MahApanthaka; see PANTHAKA) and "Lesser" Roadside. The boys were eventually taken to RAjagṛha and raised by their grandparents, who were devoted to the Buddha. The elder brother Panthaka often accompanied his grandfather to listen to the Buddha's sermons and was inspired to be ordained. He proved to be an able monk, skilled in doctrine, and eventually attained arhatship. He later ordained his younger brother Cudapanthaka but was gravely disappointed in his brother's inability to memorize even a single verse of the dharma. Panthaka was so disappointed that he advised his brother to leave the order, much to the latter's distress. Once, the Buddha's physician JĪVAKA invited the Buddha and his monks to a morning meal. Panthaka gathered the monks together on the appointed day to attend the meal but intentionally omitted Cudapanthaka. So hurt was Cudapanthaka by his brother's contempt that he decided to return to lay life. The Buddha, knowing his mental state, comforted the young monk and taught him a simple exercise: he instructed him to sit facing east and, while repeating the phrase "rajoharanaM" ("cleaning off the dirt"), continue to wipe his face with a clean cloth. As Cudapanthaka noticed the cloth getting dirty from wiping off his sweat, he gained insight into the reality of impermanence (ANITYA) and immediately attained arhatship and was equipped with the four analytical knowledges (PRATISAMVID), including knowledge of the entire canon (TRIPItAKA). (According to other versions of the story, he came to a similar realization through sweeping.) Thereafter Cudapanthaka became renowned for his vast learning, as well as for his supranormal powers. He was a master of meditative concentration (SAMADHI) and of the subtle-materiality absorptions (RuPAVACARADHYANA). He could simultaneously create a thousand unique mind-made bodies (MANOMAYAKAYA), while other meditative specialists in the order could at best produce only two or three. ¶ Cudapanthaka is also traditionally listed as the last of the sixteen arhat elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who were charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Cudapanthaka sits among withered trees, his left hand raised with fingers slightly bent, and his right hand resting on his right thigh, holding a fan.
dareful ::: a. --> Full of daring or of defiance; adventurous.
daring ::: n. 1. Adventurous courage; boldness. daring"s. adj. 2. Bold or courageous; fearless or intrepid; adventurous.
daring ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Dare
of Dare ::: n. --> Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
dawn ::: n. **1. The first appearance of daylight in the morning. 2. The beginning or rise of anything; advent. dawn"s, dawns, dawn-sheen. v. 3. To begin to be perceived; appear; occur. dawns, dawned.
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DDL ::: 1. [A Digital System Design Language (DDL), J.R. Duley, IEEE Trans on Computers c-17(9), pp. 850-861, Sep 1968].2. (language, games) An adventure language developed by M. Urban, C. Kostanick et al of the UCLA Computer Club. DDL was the forerunner of ADL.3. Data Definition Language.4. Document Description Language.5. Dynamic Data Exchange. (Originally Linking). (1997-06-05)
DDL 1. ["A Digital System Design Language (DDL)", J.R. Duley, IEEE Trans on Computers c-17(9), pp. 850-861, Sep 1968]. 2. "language, games" An {adventure} language developed by M. Urban, C. Kostanick et al of the {UCLA} Computer Club. DDL was the forerunner of {ADL}. 3. {Data Definition Language}. 4. {Document Description Language}. 5. {Dynamic Data Exchange}. (Originally "Linking"). (1997-06-05)
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demirep ::: n. --> A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
Dharmadhātustava. [alt. Dharmadhātustotra] (T. Chos dbyings bstod pa; C. Zan fajie song; J. San hokkaiju; K. Ch'an popkye song 讚法界頌). In Sanskrit, "Praise of the DHARMADHĀTU," a hymn in 101 stanzas attributed to NĀGĀRJUNA. It is cited by BHĀVAVIVEKA as a work by Nāgārjuna, but its authorship has been questioned by scholars because its substantialist elements seem at odds with the doctrine of emptiness (suNYATĀ), as espoused by Nāgārjuna in works such as the MuLAMADHYAMAKAKĀRIKĀ. The text is also not counted among the "four hymns" (CATUḤSTAVA), which can be more confidently ascribed to Nāgārjuna. However, in the Tibetan tradition, it is regarded as his work and is counted among his "devotional corpus" (STAVAKĀYA). Apart from a few stanzas quoted in extant Sanskrit works, the text is lost in the original Sanskrit and is preserved in Tibetan and Chinese (translated by DĀNAPĀLA). The Dharmadhātustava describes the nature of the realm of reality (dharmadhātu) as being pure in its essence but is hidden by the afflictions (KLEsA); when those taints are removed, the nature of reality is made manifest. Many of the metaphors in the text are similar to those found in the TATHĀGATAGARBHA literature. However, the dharmadhātu is also described in ontological terms as the cause of SAMSĀRA, uncreated, immovable, certain, pure, the seed, etc., descriptions that seem at odds with Nāgārjuna's more famous views. In Tibet, this apparent contradiction figured prominently in the so-called RANG STONG GZHAN STONG debates, where the proponents of the rang stong position, especially the DGE LUGS, saw Nāgārjuna's exposition of emptiness to be his definitive position and explained the dharmadhātu as emptiness. The proponents of the gzhan stong position, most famously the JO NANG, argued for a more substantialist reality that is not empty of its own nature (SVABHĀVA) but is devoid of adventitious defilements. They found support for this position in the Dharmadhātustava.
diddle ::: 1. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. I diddled a copy of ADVENT so it didn't double-space all the time. Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away.See tweak and twiddle.2. The action or result of diddling.See also tweak, twiddle, frob.[Jargon File] (1995-01-31)
diddle "jargon" (US) To work in a casual manner, or the result of such work. (In the UK "to diddle someone" means to cheat them). "I diddled a copy of {ADVENT} so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away." Similar to {twiddle}, less purposeful than {tweak}. [{Jargon File}] (2013-08-18)
disaventurous ::: a. --> Misadventurous; unfortunate.
disadventure ::: n. --> Misfortune; mishap.
disadventurous ::: a. --> Unprosperous; unfortunate.
disventure ::: n. --> A disadventure.
DROOL "games" Dave's Recycled Object-Oriented Language. Language for writing adventure games. An updated implementation of AdvSys. {multiple inheritance}, garbage collection. ["Dave's Recycled OO Language", David Betz, Dr. Dobbs J, Oct 1993, pp.74-78].
DROOL ::: (games) Dave's Recycled Object-Oriented Language. Language for writing adventure games. An updated implementation of AdvSys. multiple inheritance, garbage collection.[Dave's Recycled OO Language, David Betz, Dr. Dobbs J, Oct 1993, pp.74-78].
elegant (From Mathematics) Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than "clever", "winning" or even {cuspy}. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery, probably best known for his classic children's book "The Little Prince", was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-29)
elegant ::: (From Mathematics) Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever, winning or even cuspy.The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince, was also an elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.[Jargon File] (1994-11-29)
Eleusis (Greek) [from eleusis a coming, advent from eleusomai will come] Seat near Athens of one of the most renown Mystery centers in ancient Greece. In the New Testament, it is translated as “the advent.” See also ELEUSINIA; MYSTERIES
emprise ::: n. --> An enterprise; endeavor; adventure.
The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits. ::: v. t. --> To undertake.
emprising ::: v. t. --> Full of daring; adventurous.
episodical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious.
errant ::: 1. Wandering in search of adventure. 2. Straying from the proper course or standards. 3. Moving in an aimless or lightly changing manner.
errantry ::: n. --> A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures.
The employment of a knight-errant.
expediency ::: n. --> The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
Expedition; haste; dispatch.
An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
exploit ::: n. --> A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.
Combat; war.
To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion.
Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate
filibuster ::: n. --> A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855. ::: v. i.
Financial_porn ::: is a slang term used to describe sensationalist reports of financial news and products causing irrational buying that can be detrimental to investors' financial health. Short-term focus by the media on a financial topic can create excitement that does little to help investors make smart, long-term financial decisions, and in many cases clouds investors' decision-making ability. Expanded media coverage, specifically the advent of 24-hour cable news networks and the internet and the tools it has provided the financial industry, has led to a large increase in financial porn. Examples of financial porn include constant advertisements of easy-to-use trading-strategy products that purport to turn minimal investments into small fortunes, media coverage of the latest and greatest sector trends and magazines with front pages that claim to have the next 10-must-own mutual funds of next year. Many of these products and ideas expose investors to great risks posed by both the movement of the market and the risk of fraud.
foolhardy ::: a. --> Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
fully qualified domain name ::: (networking) (FQDN) The full name of a system, consisting of its local hostname and its domain name, including a top-level domain (tld). For example, sufficient to determine a unique Internet address for any host on the Internet. This process, called name resolution, uses the Domain Name System (DNS).With the explosion of interest in the Internet following the advent of the World-Wide Web, domain names (especially the most significant two components, therefore become highly political and is performed by a number of different registrars. There are different registries for the different tlds.A final dot on the end of a FQDN can be used to tell the DNS that the name is fully qualified and so needs no extra suffixes added, but it is not required.See also network, the, network address.(2005-06-09)
fully qualified domain name "networking" (FQDN) The full name of a system, consisting of its local {hostname} and its {domain} name, including a {top-level domain} (tld). For example, "venera" is a hostname and "venera.isi.edu" is an FQDN. An FQDN should be sufficient to determine a unique {Internet address} for any host on the {Internet}. This process, called "name resolution", uses the {Domain Name System} (DNS). With the explosion of interest in the {Internet} following the advent of the {web}, domain names (especially the most significant two components, e.g. "sun.com", and especially in the ".com" tld) have become a valuable part of many companies' "brand". The allocation of these, overseen by {ICANN}, has therefore become highly political and is performed by a number of different registrars. There are different registries for the different tlds. A final dot on the end of a FQDN can be used to tell the DNS that the name is fully qualified and so needs no extra suffixes added, but it is not required. See also {network, the}, {network address}. (2005-06-09)
games "games" "The time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted." -- {Bertrand Russell}. Here are some games-related pages on the {Web}: {Imperial Nomic (http://mit.edu:8001/people/achmed/fascist/)}, {Thoth's games and recreations page (http://cis.ufl.edu/~thoth/library/recreation.html)}, {Games Domain (http://wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk/GamesDomain)}, {Zarf's List of Games on the Web (http://leftfoot.com/games.html)}, {Dave's list of pointers to games resources (http://wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk/~djh/index.html)}, {Collaborative Fiction (http://asylum.cid.com/fiction/fiction.html)}. See also {3DO}, {ADL}, {ADVENT}, {ADVSYS}, {alpha/beta pruning}, {Amiga}, {CHIP-8}, {Core Wars}, {DROOL}, {empire}, {I see no X here.}, {Infocom}, {Inglish}, {initgame}, {life}, {minimax}, {moria}, {mudhead}, {multi-user Dimension}, {nethack}, {ogg}, {plugh}, {rogue}, {SPACEWAR}, {virtual reality}, {wizard mode}, {wumpus}, {xyzzy}, {ZIL}, {zorkmid}. See also {game theory}. (1996-03-03)
games ::: (games) The time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted. -- Bertrand Russell.Here are some games-related pages on the Web: , , , .See also 3DO, ADL, ADVENT, ADVSYS, alpha/beta pruning, Amiga, CHIP-8, Core Wars, DROOL, empire, I see no X here., Infocom, Inglish, initgame, life, minimax, moria, mudhead, multi-user Dimension, nethack, ogg, plugh, rogue, SPACEWAR, virtual reality, wizard mode, wumpus, xyzzy, ZIL, zorkmid.See also game theory. (1996-03-03)
Ge sar. A legendary king who is the hero of the most famous Tibetan cycle of epic poetry, traditionally sung by bards; it is said to be the longest work of literature in the world. The songs recount the birth and adventures of Ge sar, the king of the land of Gling. The name Ge sar apparently derives from Zoroastrian sources and stories of Ge sar appear in a number of Central Asian languages. It is unclear whether Ge sar was a historical figure; elements of the songs seem to derive from the period of the later dissemination (PHYI DAR) of Buddhism to Tibet, although the earliest version of the songs in the form they are known today dates to the fifteenth century. In the songs, the world has fallen into chaos and various gods such as Brahmā and sAKRA, and various Buddhist figures, such as PADMASAMBHAVA and the buddha AMITĀBHA, decide that a hero should descend into the world to restore order. That hero is Ge sar, who defeats many foes, including the evil king of Hor.
gest ::: n. --> A guest.
Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.
An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.
Gesture; bearing; deportment.
A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey
hack "jargon" 1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well. 2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed. 3. To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!" 4. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO." In a general (time-extended) sense: "What do you do around here?" "I hack TECO." More generally, "I hack "foo"" is roughly equivalent to ""foo" is my major interest (or project)". "I hack solid-state physics." See {Hacking X for Y}. 5. To pull a prank on. See {hacker}. 6. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking." 7. Short for {hacker}. 8. See {nethack}. 9. (MIT) To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this is usually performed at educational institutions) the Campus Police. This activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as {Dungeons and Dragons} and {Zork}. See also {vadding}. See also {neat hack}, {real hack}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-08-26)
hack ::: (jargon) 1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed.3. To bear emotionally or physically. I can't hack this heat!4. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: What are you doing? I'm hacking TECO. In a general (time-extended) sense: What do you equivalent to foo is my major interest (or project). I hack solid-state physics. See Hacking X for Y.5. To pull a prank on. See hacker.6. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. Whatcha up to? Oh, just hacking.7. Short for hacker.8. See nethack.9. (MIT) To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Zork. See also vadding.See also neat hack, real hack.[Jargon File] (1996-08-26)
happily ::: adv. --> By chance; peradventure; haply.
By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.
In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife.
With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success.
Harivamsa, Harivansa (Sanskrit) Harivaṃśa The lineage of Hari, or Krishna. A celebrated poem of 16,374 verses, generally regarded as a part of the Mahabharata, but believed by some to be of much later date than the greater epic. It treats of the adventures of the family of Krishna, being divided into three parts: an introduction that traces the dynasty; the life and adventures of Krishna; and the conditions occurring during the kali yuga and the future condition of the world.
Harivamsa (Harivansha) ::: [a poem supplementary to the Mahabharata dealing with the history and adventures of Krsna and his family].
Harper, Samuel A. Man’s High Adventure. Chicago:
Hunt the Wumpus "games, history" (Or "Wumpus") /wuhm'p*s/ A famous fantasy computer game, created by {Gregory Yob} in about 1973. Hunt the Wumpus appeared in Creative Computing, Vol 1, No 5, Sep - Oct 1975, where Yob says he had come up with the game two years previously, after seeing the grid-based games Hurkle, Snark and Mugwump at {People's Computing Company} (PCC). He later delivered Wumpus to PCC who published it in their newsletter. ESR says he saw a version including termites running on the {Dartmouth Time-Sharing System} in 1972-3. Magnus Olsson, in his 1992-07-07 {USENET} article "9207071854.AA21847@thep.lu.se", posted the {BASIC} {source code} of what he believed was pretty much the version that was published in 1973 in David Ahl's "101 Basic Computer Games", by {Digital Equipment Corporation}. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and M"obius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five "crooked arrows"; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus (which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location (later versions added "anaerobic termites" that ate arrows, bat migrations and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured {ADVENT} and {Zork} and was directly ancestral to both (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). There have been many {ports} including one distributed with {SunOS}, a {freeware} one for the {Macintosh} and a {C} emulation by {ESR}. [Does "101 Basic Computer Games" give any history?] (2004-10-04)
Hunt the Wumpus ::: (games, history) (Or Wumpus) /wuhm'p*s/ A famous fantasy computer game, created by Gregory Yob in about 1973.Hunt the Wumpus appeared in Creative Computing, Vol 1, No 5, Sep - Oct 1975, where Yob says he had come up with the game two years previously, after seeing the grid-based games Hurkle, Snark and Mugwump at People's Computing Company (PCC). He later delivered Wumpus to PCC who published it in their newsletter.ESR says he saw a version including termites running on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1972-3.Magnus Olsson, in his 1992-07-07 USENET article , posted the BASIC source code of what he believed was pretty much the version that was published in 1973 in David Ahl's 101 Basic Computer Games, by Digital Equipment Corporation.The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an (later versions added anaerobic termites that ate arrows, bat migrations and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations).This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In prefigured ADVENT and Zork and was directly ancestral to both (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony).There have been many ports including one distributed with SunOS, a freeware one for the Macintosh and a C emulation by ESR.[Does 101 Basic Computer Games give any history?](2004-10-04)
hypertext "hypertext" A term coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 for a collection of documents (or "nodes") containing cross-references or "links" which, with the aid of an interactive {browser} program, allow the reader to move easily from one document to another. The extension of hypertext to include other media - {sound}, {graphics}, and {video} - has been termed "{hypermedia}", but is usually just called "hypertext", especially since the advent of the {web} and {HTML}. (2000-09-10)
hypertext ::: (hypertext) A term coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 for a collection of documents (or nodes) containing cross-references or links which, with the aid of an interactive browser program, allow the reader to move easily from one document to another.The extension of hypertext to include other media - sound, graphics, and video - has been termed hypermedia, but is usually just called hypertext, especially since the advent of the World-Wide Web and HTML.(2000-09-10)
Iacchos, the god of wine in more senses than one, plays an important part in these Mysteries. Demeter’s daughter Persephone, goddess of the underworld, was also honored. The usual accounts, vague and fragmentary only, describe the dramatic representations of the adventures of these deities, the esoteric meaning of which was given in the Greater Mysteries.
icarian ::: a. --> Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.
Indian Philosophy: General name designating a plethora of more or less systematic thinking born and cultivated in the geographic region of India among the Hindus who represent an amalgamation of adventitious and indigenous peoples, but confined at first exclusively to the caste-conscious Indo-germanic conquerors of the lands of the Indus and Ganges. Its beginnings are lost in the dim past, while a distinct emergence in tangible form is demonstrable from about 1000 B.C. Hindu idiosyncrasies are responsible for our inability to date with any degree of accuracy many of the systems, schools, and philosophers, or in some cases even to refer to the latter by name. Inasmuch as memory, not writing, has been universally favored in India, an aphoristic form (cf. sutra), subtended by copious commentaries, give Indian Philosophy its distinctive appearance. The medium is Sanskrit and the dialects derived from it. There are translations in all major Asiatic and European languages. The West became familiar with it when philologists discovered during last century the importance of Sanskrit. As a type of thinking employing unfamiliar conceptions and a terminology fluctuating in meaning (cf., e.g., rasa), it is distinct from Western speculations. Several peaks have been reached in the past, yet Indian Philosophy does not cease to act fructifyingly upon the present mind in India as elsewhere. Various factions advance conflicting claims as to the value of Indian speculation, because interpretations have not as yet become standardized. Textual criticism is now making strides, but with varying successes. Among larger histories of Indian Philosophy may be mentioned those of Deussen, Das Gupta, Bel-valkar and Ranade, and Radhakrishnan.
Inglish "games" An English-like language used for {Adventure} games like "The Hobbit". Inglish could distinguish between "take the rope and axe" and "take the money and run". (1995-06-27)
Inglish ::: (games) An English-like language used for Adventure games like The Hobbit. Inglish could distinguish between take the rope and axe and take the money and run. (1995-06-27)
In pre-Christian Greece one of the great seats of initiation was Eleusis, a Greek word meaning coming or advent. All the Mystery schools of antiquity taught and dramatized doctrines dealing with that which is to come: the mysteries of death, rebirth, and initiation — the birth or awakening of the inner Buddha or Christos in the neophyte. This was called the coming or advent of the god within.
Internet "networking" 1. With a lower-case "i", any set of {networks} interconnected with {routers}. 2. With an upper-case "I", the world's collection of interconnected networks. The Internet is a three-level {hierarchy} composed of {backbone networks}, {mid-level networks}, and {stub networks}. These include commercial (.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research networks (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks and span many different physical networks around the world with various {protocols}, chiefly the {Internet Protocol}. Until the advent of the {web} in 1990, the Internet was almost entirely unknown outside universities and corporate research departments and was accessed mostly via {command line} interfaces such as {telnet} and {FTP}. Since then it has grown to become a ubiquitous aspect of modern information systems, becoming highly commercial and a widely accepted medium for all sort of customer relations such as advertising, brand building and online sales and services. Its original spirit of cooperation and freedom have, to a great extent, survived this explosive transformation with the result that the vast majority of information available on the Internet is free of charge. While the web (primarily in the form of {HTML} and {HTTP}) is the best known aspect of the Internet, there are many other {protocols} in use, supporting applications such as {electronic mail}, {chat}, {remote login} and {file transfer}. There were 20,242 unique commercial domains registered with {InterNIC} in September 1994, 10% more than in August 1994. In 1996 there were over 100 {Internet access providers} in the US and a few in the UK (e.g. the {BBC Networking Club}, {Demon}, {PIPEX}). There are several bodies associated with the running of the Internet, including the {Internet Architecture Board}, the {Internet Assigned Numbers Authority}, the {Internet Engineering and Planning Group}, {Internet Engineering Steering Group}, and the {Internet Society}. See also {NYsernet}, {EUNet}. {The Internet Index (http://openmarket.com/intindex)} - statistics about the Internet. (2015-03-26)
Internet ::: (networking) (Note: capital I). The Internet is the largest internet (with a small i) in the world. It is a three level hierarchy composed of (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks and span many different physical networks around the world with various protocols, chiefly the Internet Protocol.Until the advent of the World-Wide Web in 1990, the Internet was almost entirely unknown outside universities and corporate research departments and was accessed this explosive transformation with the result that the vast majority of information available on the Internet is free of charge.While the web (primarily in the form of HTML and HTTP) is the best known aspect of the Internet, there are many other protocols in use, supporting applications such as electronic mail, Usenet, chat, remote login, and file transfer.There were 20,242 unique commercial domains registered with InterNIC in September 1994, 10% more than in August 1994. In 1996 there were over 100 Internet access providers in the US and a few in the UK (e.g. the BBC Networking Club, Demon, PIPEX).There are several bodies associated with the running of the Internet, including the Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the Internet Engineering and Planning Group, Internet Engineering Steering Group, and the Internet Society.See also NYsernet, EUNet. - statistics about the Internet.(2000-02-21)
In the Rig-Veda, Visvakarman is said to sacrifice himself to himself. This refers, among other things, to the fact that when manvantara opens, in order for its vast content of worlds and hierarchies to appear, the originating entities must — because of karmic mandate or impulse — themselves form the beginnings of things from themselves, thus sacrificing themselves to themselves so that the cosmos may appear in manifestation. Another significance of the statement is the reference to the spiritual resurrection at the end of the manvantara or, in the case of man, to the choice to be spiritual rather than material, to rise self-consciously from material existence into the one Life. “Then he ascends into heaven indeed; where, plunged into the incomprehensible absolute Being and Bliss of Paranirvana, he reigns unconditionally, and whence he will re-descend again at the next ‘coming,’ which one portion of humanity expects in its dead-letter sense as the second advent, and the other as the last ‘Kalki Avatar’ ” (SD 1:268).
invasion ::: the entrance, incursion or advent of anything (usually used in a negative sense).
I see no X here. "games" Hackers (and the interactive computer games they write) traditionally favour this slightly marked usage over other possible equivalents such as "There's no X here!" or "X is missing." or "Where's the X?". This goes back to the original PDP-10 {ADVENT}, which would respond in this wise if you asked it to do something involving an object not present at your location in the game. [{Jargon File}]
Itihasa: Epic; a book describing the life and adventures of a hero or heroes. The term is applied to Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The hero of the former is Sri Rama, the son of Dasaratha and of the latter, the five Pandavas.
Jinn; jinnee: In Arab occultistic terminology, one of a race of beings created out of fire, which inhabited the Earth before the advent of man. They can become visible or invisible at will, have many other superhuman and magic powers. Some jinns are good and friendly to humans, others are malignant.
Jīvaka. (T. 'Tsho byed; C. Qipo/Shubojia; J. Giba/Jubaka/Jubakuka; K. Kiba/Subakka 耆婆/戍博迦). A famous physician and lay disciple of the Buddha, declared foremost among laymen beloved by the people. The son of a courtesan, he was abandoned at birth on a dust heap. He was rescued by a prince who, when he was told the infant was still alive, gave him the name Jīvaka, meaning "Living" in Sanskrit and Pāli. As the adopted son of the prince, he was also known in Pāli as Jīvaka Komārabhacca, meaning Jīvaka who was "raised by the prince." (Alternatively, Komārabhacca may mean "master of pediatrics," as in the science of kaumārabhṛtya, the treatment of infants.) As a young man, Jīvaka studied medicine and soon became a renowned and wealthy doctor. It is said that his first patient gave him sixteen thousand coins, a pair of servants, and a coach with horses. King BIMBISĀRA of MAGADHA hired him as his royal physician and also assigned him to look after the health of the Buddha and his monks. Jīvaka continued to serve Bimbisāra's son AJĀTAsATRU, who murdered his father to usurp the throne, and it was Jīvaka who escorted the patricide before the Buddha, so he could repent from his crime. Jīvaka attended the Buddha on many occasions. He bandaged the Buddha's foot when it was injured by the rock hurled by DEVADATTA on GṚDHRAKutAPARVATA. Once, Jīvaka noted how the monks were pale and unhealthy in appearance and recommended that the Buddha require them to exercise regularly. He treated rich and poor alike and those who could not pay he treated without charge. So popular was Jīvaka that he could not treat all who came to him, yet he never neglected to serve the SAMGHA. For this reason, the poor and indigent began to enter the order simply to receive medical attention. When Jīvaka became aware of this trend, he recommended to the Buddha that persons suffering from certain diseases not be allowed to ordain. Jīvaka became a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA) and is included in a list of good men assured of realization of the deathless. ¶ Jīvaka is also traditionally listed as ninth of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who were charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. Jīvaka is said to reside in Gandhamādana with nine hundred disciples. The Chinese tradition says that this Jīvaka was originally a prince in a central Indian kingdom, whose younger brother wanted to fight him for the throne. But Jīvaka told his brother that he thought only of the Buddha and had never wanted to be king. He then exposed his chest, and his younger brother saw a buddha image engraved over his heart. Realizing his brother's sincerity, he then dismissed his troops. Jīvaka thus earned the nickname "Heart-Exposing ARHAT" (Kaixin Luohan). In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Jīvaka sits slightly leaning on a rock. He has an aquiline nose and deep-set eyes, a high forehead, and bright eyes staring forward. He holds a fan in his left hand, and his right fingers are bent.
Kālika. [alt. Karīka] (T. Dus ldan; C. Jialijia zunzhe; J. Karika sonja; K. Kariga chonja 迦里迦尊者). The Sanskrit name of one of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who were charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next Buddha, MAITREYA. Kālika is said to reside in the Lion's Island (SiMhatā; viz., Sri Lanka) with one thousand disciples. According to Chinese tradition, Kālika used to be an elephant tamer. (Because elephants have both great strength and endurance, they are a common symbol of the BUDDHADHARMA.) Because of this talent, he earned the nickname "Elephant-Riding Arhat" (Jixiang Luohan). In Tibetan iconography, he holds two earrings; East Asian images often portray him as an old man reading a scroll. In Chanyue Guanxiu's standard Chinese depiction, Kālika is encircled by long eyebrows, sitting in easy comfort on a rock, with his right arm wrapped around his right knee, and his long eyebrows twisted around his fingers. His right hand is placed naturally on an adjacent rock.
Kanaka Bharadvāja. (T. Bha ra dhwa dza bsod snyoms len; C. Jianuojiabaliduoshe; J. Kanyakabaridaja; K. Kanakkaballit'asa 迦諾迦跋釐墮闍). The Sanskrit name of the third of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who are charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. He holds a PĀTRA and lives in the eastern continent of VIDEHA with 3,600 disciples. Because he would lift his bowl up every time he received food on alms round, he was known in Chinese as the "Raising his Bowl Arhat" (Jubo Luohan). In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Kanaka Bharadvāja is depicted as skinny and emaciated as a stick, his eyes staring in anger, his mouth closed, and his eyebrows sticking out horizontally like a sword. Holding a chowrie in his right hand and resting his left hand on his knee, he sits leaning against a rock.
Kanakavatsa. (T. Gser be'u; C. Jianuojiafacuo; J. Kanyakabassa; K. Kanakkabolch'a 迦諾迦伐蹉). The Sanskrit name of the second of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who are charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA; he is said to reside in Kashmir with five hundred disciples. In the East Asian tradition, he is known as the "sRĀVAKA who knows all the wholesome and unwholesome dharmas." Because he was renowned as a dynamic debater, one day a person approached him and asked, "What is happiness?" He answered, "It is the contentment that is gained through sensuality in hearing, viewing, smelling, tasting, and touching." The person continued, "Then what is joy?" He replied, "It is the contentment that is gained not through sensuality, but instead through the sincerity and joy one feels in the Buddha's existence." For this reason, Kanakavatsa is also known as the "Happiness and Joy Arhat." In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Kanakavatsa is portrayed in a gray robe, sitting in meditation on a rock, with his hands forming a MUDRĀ, and carrying a staff on his shoulder. His face is full of wrinkles, with eyebrows hanging downward and his gaze turned slightly upward.
knight-errant ::: n. --> A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
knight-errantry ::: n. --> The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
Kukkutapāda, Mount. (T. Ri bo bya rkang; C. Jizushan; J. Keisokusen; K. Kyejoksan 鶏足山). In Sanskrit, "Cock's Foot"; a mountain located in the ancient Indian state of MAGADHA; also known as Gurupādaka (Honored Foot); the present Kurkihar, sixteen miles northeast of BODHGAYĀ. The mountain is renowned as the site where the Buddha's senior disciple, MAHĀKĀsYAPA, is said to be waiting in trance for the advent of the future buddha MAITREYA. Once Maiteya appears, Mahākāsyapa will hand over to him the robe (CĪVARA) of sĀKYAMUNI, symbolizing that Maitreya is his legitimate successor in the lineage of the buddhas. The Chinese monk-pilgrim FAXIAN visited the mountain on his sojourn in India in the fifth century CE, describing the mountain as home to many dangerous predators, including tigers and wolves.
kumara (kumara) ::: a youth, young man; prince; (on page 399, referkumara ring to a sortilege consisting of the title Dasakumaracaritam, "The Adventures of the Ten Princes", a Sanskrit work by Dan.d.in) interpreted to mean purus.a in the sense of an evolutionary type.
LP MUD "games" A kind of player-programmable multi-user adventure game. [More details?] See {MUD}.
LP MUD ::: (games) A kind of player-programmable multi-user adventure game.[More details?]See MUD.
lucky ::: superl. --> Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.
Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour.
luohan. (J. rakan; K. nahan 羅漢). In Chinese, ARHAT, referring to groups of venerated disciples of the Buddha who in their popular forms served as objects of cultic worship in East Asia. Countless paintings and statues of arhats were created, and legends and miracle stories concerning them circulated throughout the East Asian region. The arhats were commonly worshipped in groups of sixteen, eighteen, and five hundred, the last two of which developed without a canonical basis. Especially important was the cult of sixteen (later sometimes expanded to eighteen) arhat disciples (see sOdAsASTHAVIRA), whom the Buddha ordered to forgo PARINIRVĀnA and to continue to dwell in this world in order to preserve the Buddhist teachings until the coming of the future buddha, MAITREYA. Each of these arhats was assigned a residence and a retinue of disciples. Once Maitreya had advented on earth, the arhats would be charged with gathering the remaining relics of the current buddha sĀKYAMUNI and erecting one last STuPA to hold them, after which they would finally pass into PARINIRVĀnA. In China, arhat cults were popular particularly during the medieval period. Statues and paintings of arhats were enshrined throughout the land and Buddhists made offerings before those images. The Wuyue court even sponsored an annual summoning ritual of the five hundred arhats from the tenth century onward. The Song-dynasty court continued to sponsor the same ritual to pray for the welfare of the court and to ward off the evils. In Korea, the Koryo (918-1392) court performed a ritual for the five hundred arhats more than twenty-five times between 1053 and the end of the dynasty. The ritual was principally intended to pray for precipitation and protection from foreign invasion. This ritual even continued into the early Choson (1392-1910) period. Still today, most of the larger Korean monasteries will have on their campus an arhat hall (nahan chon), which enshrines paintings and/or images, typically of the group of sixteen. In Japan, the arhat cults were especially connected with the ZEN school. In particular, many monasteries associated with the SoToSHu have a hall dedicated to the arhats, which usually enshrines images of the sixteen, and the tradition engages in monthly and semiannual rituals dedicated to the arhats. In the Soto tradition, arhats are believed to play both salvific and apotropaic roles.
Mahākāsyapa. (P. Mahākassapa; T. 'Od srung chen po; C. Mohejiashe; J. Makakasho; K. Mahagasop 摩訶迦葉). Sanskrit name of one of the Buddha's leading disciples, regarded as foremost in the observance of ascetic practices (P. DHUTAnGA; S. dhutaguna). According to the Pāli accounts (where he is called Mahākassapa) his personal name was Pipphali and he was born to a brāhmana family in MAGADHA. Even as a child he was inclined toward renunciation and as a youth refused to marry. Finally, to placate his parents, he agreed to marry a woman matching in beauty a statue he had fashioned. His parents found a match in Bhaddā Kapilānī (S. BHADRA-KAPILĀNĪ), a beautiful maiden from Sāgala. But she likewise was inclined toward renunciation. Both sets of parents foiled their attempts to break off the engagement, so in the end they were wed but resolved not to consummate their marriage. Pipphali owned a vast estate with fertile soil, but one day he witnessed worms eaten by birds turned up by his plowman. Filled with pity for the creatures and fearful that he was ultimately to blame, he resolved then and there to renounce the world. At the same time, Bhaddā witnessed insects eaten by crows as they scurried among sesame seeds put out to dry. Feeling pity and fear at the sight, she also resolved to renounce the world. Realizing they were of like mind, Pipphali and Bhaddā put on the yellow robes of mendicants and abandoned their property. Although they left together, they parted ways lest they prove a hindrance to one another. Realizing what had transpired, the Buddha sat along Pipphali's path and showed himself resplendent with yogic power. Upon seeing the Buddha, Pipphali, whose name thenceforth became Kassapa, immediately recognized him as his teacher and was ordained. Traveling to Rājagaha (S. RĀJAGṚHA) with the Buddha, Mahākassapa requested to exchange his fine robe for the rag robe of the Buddha. The Buddha consented, and his conferral of his own rag robe on Mahākassapa was taken as a sign that, after the Buddha's demise, Mahākassapa would preside over the convention of the first Buddhist council (see COUNCIL, FIRST). Upon receiving the Buddha's robe, he took up the observance of thirteen ascetic practices (dhutanga) and in eight days became an arahant (S. ARHAT). Mahākassapa possessed great supranormal powers (P. iddhi; S. ṚDDHI) and was second only to the Buddha in his mastery of meditative absorption (P. JHĀNA; S. DHYĀNA). His body was said to be adorned with seven of the thirty-two marks of a superman (MAHĀPURUsALAKsAnA). So revered by the gods was he, that at the Buddha's funeral, the divinities would not allow the funeral pyre to be lit until Mahākassapa arrived and had one last chance to worship the Buddha's body. Mahākassapa seems to have been the most powerful monk after the death of the Buddha and is considered by some schools to have been the Buddha's successor as the first in a line of teachers (dharmācārya). He is said to have called and presided over the first Buddhist council, which he convened after the Buddha's death to counter the heresy of the wicked monk SUBHADRA (P. Subhadda). Before the council began, he demanded that ĀNANDA become an arhat in order to participate, which Ānanda finally did early in the morning just before the event. At the council, he questioned Ānanda and UPĀLI about what should be included in the SuTRA and VINAYA collections (PItAKA), respectively. He also chastised Ānanda for several deeds of commission and omission, including his entreaty of the Buddha to allow women to enter the order (see MAHĀPRAJĀPATĪ), his allowing the tears of women to fall on the Buddha's corpse, his stepping on the robe of the Buddha while mending it, his failure to recall which minor monastic rules the Buddha said could be ignored after his death, and his failure to ask the Buddha to live for an eon or until the end of the eon (see CĀPĀLACAITYA). Pāli sources make no mention of Mahākassapa after the events of the first council, although the Sanskrit AsOKĀVADĀNA notes that he passed away beneath three hills where his body will remain uncorrupted until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. At that time, his body will reanimate itself and hand over to Maitreya the rag robe of sĀKYAMUNI, thus passing on the dispensation of the buddhas. It is said that the robe will be very small, barely fitting over the finger of the much larger Maitreya. ¶ Like many of the great arhats, Mahākāsyapa appears frequently in the MAHĀYĀNA sutras, sometimes merely listed as a member of the audience, sometimes playing a more significant role. In the VIMALAKĪRTINIRDEsA, he is one of the sRĀVAKA disciples who is reluctant to visit Vimalakīrti. In the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, he is one of four arhats who understands the parable of the burning house and rejoices in the teaching of a single vehicle (EKAYĀNA); later in the sutra, the Buddha prophesies his eventual attainment of buddhahood. Mahākāsyapa is a central figure in the CHAN schools of East Asia. In the famous Chan story in which the Buddha conveys his enlightenment by simply holding up a flower before the congregation and smiling subtly (see NIANHUA WEIXIAO), it is only Mahākāsyapa who understands the Buddha's intent, making him the first recipient of the Buddha's "mind-to-mind" transmission (YIXIN CHUANXIN). He is thus considered the first patriarch (ZUSHI) of the Chan school.
Mahāmeghasutra. (T. Sprin chen po'i mdo; C. Dafangdeng wuxiang jing/Dayun jing; J. Daihodo musokyo/Daiungyo; K. Taebangdŭng musang kyong/Taeun kyong 大方等無想經/大雲經). In Sanskrit, the "Great Cloud Sutra"; it is also known in China as the Dafangdeng wuxiang jing. The Mahāmeghasutra contains the teachings given by the Buddha to the bodhisattva "Great Cloud Secret Storehouse" (C. Dayunmizang) on the inconceivable means of attaining liberation, SAMĀDHI, and the power of DHĀRAnĪs. The Buddha also declares that TATHĀGATAS remain forever present in the dharma and the SAMGHA despite having entered PARINIRVĀnA and that they are always endowed with the four qualities of NIRVĀnA mentioned in the MAHĀPARINIRVĀnASuTRA, namely, permanence, bliss, purity, and selfhood (see GUnAPĀRAMITĀ). The Mahāparinirvānasutra's influence on the Mahāmeghasutra can also be witnessed in the story of the goddess "Pure Light" (C. Jingguang). Having heard the Mahāparinirvānasutra in her past life, the goddess is told by the Buddha that she will be reborn as a universal monarch (CAKRAVARTIN). The sutra is often cited for its prophecy of the advent of NĀGĀRJUNA, as well as for its injunctions against meat-eating. It was also recited in order to induce rain. In China, commentators on the Mahāmeghasutra identified the newly enthroned Empress WU ZETIAN as the reincarnation of the goddess, seeking thereby to legitimize her rule. As Emperor Gaozong (r. 649-683) of the Tang dynasty suffered from increasingly ill health, his ambitious and pious wife Empress Wu took over the imperial administration. After her husband's death she exiled the legitimate heir Zhongzong (r. 683-684, 705-710) and usurped the throne. One of the many measures she took to gain the support of the people was the publication and circulation of the Mahāmeghasutra. Two translations by ZHU FONIAN and DHARMAKsEMA were available at the time. Wu Zetian also ordered the establishment of monasteries called DAYUNSI ("Great Cloud Monastery") in every prefecture of the empire.
Maitreya. (P. Metteya; T. Byams pa; C. Mile; J. Miroku; K. Mirŭk 彌勒). In Sanskrit, "The Benevolent One"; the name of the next buddha, who now abides in TUsITA heaven as a BODHISATTVA, awaiting the proper time for him to take his final rebirth. Buddhists believed that their religion, like all conditioned things, was inevitably impermanent and would eventually vanish from the earth (cf. SADDHARMAVIPRALOPA; MOFA). According to one such calculation, the teachings of the current buddha sĀKYAMUNI would flourish for five hundred years after his death, after which would follow a one-thousand-year period of decline and a three-thousand-year period in which the dharma would be completely forgotten. At the conclusion of this long disappearance, Maitreya would then take his final birth in India (JAMBUDVĪPA) in order to reestablish the Buddhist dispensation anew. According to later calculations, Maitreya will not take rebirth for some time, far longer than the 4,500 years mentioned earlier. He will do so only after the human life span has decreased to ten years and then increased to eighty thousand years. (Stalwart scholiasts have calculated that his rebirth will occur 5.67 billion years after the death of sākyamuni.) Initially a minor figure in early Indian Buddhism, Maitreya (whose name derives from the Indic MAITRĪ, meaning "loving-kindness" or "benevolence") evolved during the early centuries of the Common Era into one of the most popular figures in Buddhism across Asia in both the mainstream and MAHĀYĀNA traditions. He is also known as AJITA, although there are indications that, at some point in history, the two were understood to be different deities. As the first bodhisattva to become a figure of worship, his imagery and cult set standards for the development of later bodhisattvas who became objects of cultic worship, such as AVALOKITEsVARA and MANJUsRĪ. Worship of Maitreya began early in Indian Buddhism and became especially popular in Central and East Asia during the fifth and sixth centuries. Such worship takes several forms, with disciples praying to either meet him when he is reborn on earth or in tusita heaven so that they may then take rebirth with him when he becomes a buddha, a destiny promised in the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra") to those who recite his name. Maitreya is also said to appear on earth, such as in a scene in the Chinese pilgrim XUANZANG's account of his seventh-century travels to India: attacked by pirates as he sailed on the Ganges River, Xuanzang prayed to and was rescued by the bodhisattva. Maitreya also famously appeared to the great Indian commentator ASAnGA in the form of a wounded dog as a means of teaching him the importance of compassion. Devotees across the Buddhist world also attempt to extend their life span in order to be alive when Maitreya comes, or to be reborn at the time of his presence in the world, a worldly paradise that will be known as ketumati. His earliest iconography depicts him standing or sitting, holding a vase (KUndIKĀ), symbolizing his imminent birth into the brāhmana caste, and displaying the ABHAYAMUDRĀ, both features that remain common attributes of his images. In addition, he frequently has a small STuPA in his headdress, believed to represent a prophecy regarding his descent to earth to receive the robes of his predecessor from MAHĀKĀsYAPA. Maitreya is also commonly depicted as a buddha, often shown sitting in "European pose" (BHADRĀSANA; see also MAITREYĀSANA), displaying the DHARMACAKRAMUDRĀ. He is said to sit in a chair in "pensive" posture in order to be able to quickly stand and descend to earth at the appropriate time. Once he is reborn, Maitreya will replicate the deeds of sākyamuni, with certain variations. For example, he will live the life of a householder for eight thousand years, but having seen the four sights (CATURNIMITTA) and renounced the world, he will practice asceticism for only one week before achieving buddhahood. As the Buddha, he will first travel to Mount KUKKUtAPĀDA near BODHGAYĀ where the great ARHAT Mahākāsyapa has been entombed in a state of deep SAMĀDHI, awaiting the advent of Maitreya. Mahākāsyapa has kept the robes of sākyamuni, which the previous buddha had entrusted to him to pass on to his successor. Upon his arrival, the mountain will break open, and Mahākāsyapa will come forth from a stupa and give Maitreya his robes. When Maitreya accepts the robes, it will only cover two fingers of his hands, causing people to comment at how diminutive the past buddha must have been. ¶ The cult of Maitreya entered East Asia with the initial propagation of Buddhism and reached widespread popularity starting in the fourth century CE, a result of the popularity of the Saddharmapundarīkasutra and several other early translations of Maitreya scriptures made in the fourth and fifth centuries. The Saddharmapundarīkasutra describes Maitreya's present abode in the tusita heaven, while other sutras discuss his future rebirth on earth and his present residence in heaven. Three important texts belonging to the latter category were translated into Chinese, starting in the fifth century, with two differing emphases: (1) the Guan Mile pusa shangsheng doushuo tian jing promised sentient beings the prospect of rebirth in tusita heaven together with Maitreya; and (2) the Guan Mile pusa xiasheng jing and (3) the Foshuo Mile da chengfo jing emphasized the rebirth of Maitreya in this world, where he will attain buddhahood under the Dragon Flower Tree (Nāgapuspa) and save numerous sentient beings. These three texts constituted the three principal scriptures of the Maitreya cult in East Asia. In China, Maitreya worship became popular from at least the fourth century: DAO'AN (312-385) and his followers were among the first to propagate the cult of Maitreya and the prospect of rebirth in tusita heaven. With the growing popularity of Maitreya, millenarian movements associated with his cult periodically developed in East Asia, which had both devotional and political dimensions. For example, when the Empress WU ZETIAN usurped the Tang-dynasty throne in 690, her followers attempted to justify the coup by referring to her as Maitreya being reborn on earth. In Korea, Maitreya worship was already popular by the sixth century. The Paekche king Mu (r. 600-641) identified his realm as the world in which Maitreya would be reborn. In Silla, the hwarang, an elite group of male youths, was often identified with Maitreya and such eminent Silla monks as WoNHYO (617-686), WoNCH'ŬK (613-696), and Kyonghŭng (fl. seventh century) composed commentaries on the Maitreya scriptures. Paekche monks transmitted Maitreya worship to Japan in the sixth century, where it became especially popular in the late eighth century. The worship of Maitreya in Japan regained popularity around the eleventh century, but gradually was replaced by devotions to AMITĀBHA and KsITIGARBHA. The worship of Maitreya has continued to exist to the present day in both Korea and Japan. The Maitreya cult was influential in the twentieth century, for example, in the establishment of the Korean new religions of Chŭngsan kyo and Yonghwa kyo. Maitreya also merged in China and Japan with a popular indigenous figure, BUDAI (d. 916)-a monk known for his fat belly-whence he acquired his now popular East Asian form of the "laughing Buddha." This Chinese holy man is said to have been an incarnation of the bodhisattva Maitreya (J. Miroku Bosatsu) and is included among the Japanese indigenous pantheon known as the "seven gods of good fortune"(SHICHIFUKUJIN). Hotei represents contentment and happiness and is often depicted holding a large cloth bag (Hotei literally means "hemp sack"). From this bag, which never empties, he feeds the poor and needy. In some places, he has also become the patron saint of restaurants and bars, since those who drink and eat well are said to be influenced by Hotei. Today, nearly all Chinese Buddhist monasteries (and many restaurants as well) will have an image of this Maitreya at the front entrance; folk belief has it that by rubbing his belly one can establish the potential for wealth.
mala. (T. dri ma; C. gou; J. ku; K. ku 垢). In Sanskrit, "taint," "stain," "maculation"; often used as a synonym for afflictions (KLEsA). Much of the discourse on the Buddhist path (MĀRGA) is expressed in terms of purity and pollution, with the path to liberation sometimes described as the gradual purification of the mind, in which various stains or taints are removed. What remains at the end of the process of purification is the subject of considerable discussion among the various Buddhist schools. For example, DHARMAKĪRTI declared in his PRAMĀnAVĀRTTIKA, "The nature of the mind is clear light; its stains are adventitious." See also AMALAVIJNĀNA.
ma mo. A class of indigenous Tibetan female spirits. They are generally hostile, known to carry disease sacks (nad rkyal). With the advent of Buddhism in Tibet, they came to be identified with the Indian deity Mātarī [alt. Mātṛkā]. DPAL LDAN LHA MO is considered their leader. PADMASAMBHAVA subdued all ma mo on a mountain named Chu bo ri. There are numerous groupings of ma mo who appear in various deities' retinues, such as Dpal ldan lha mo and YAMA, and who are invoked in rituals, called on both to cease their illness-causing activities and to inflict illnesses on enemies. They also figure in weather-making rituals, since they are able to withhold or send rain. They are depicted as ugly emaciated women with matted hair and withered breasts.
mārga. (P. magga; T. lam; C. dao; J. do; K. to 道). In Sanskrit, "path"; a polysemous term in Sanskrit, whose root denotation is a road, track, way, or course. As one of the most important terms in Buddhism, it refers to the metaphorical route from one state to another, typically from suffering to liberation, from SAMSĀRA to NIRVĀnA. The term derives in part from the view that the means of achieving liberation from suffering have been identified by the Buddha, and he himself has successfully followed the route to that goal, leaving behind tracks or footprints that others can follow. Indeed, it is the Buddhist view that each of the buddhas of the past has followed the same path to enlightenment. However, in the interval between buddhas, that path becomes forgotten, and the purpose of the next buddha's advent in the world is to rediscover and reopen that same path. The term mārga occurs in the Buddha's first sermon (S. DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANASuTRA; P. DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANASUTTA) as the fourth constituent of the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS (CATVĀRY ĀRYASATYĀNI), where it is identified as the eightfold path (ĀRYĀstĀnGAMĀRGA) between the two extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification. Elsewhere, the path is associated with the threefold training (TRIsIKsĀ) in morality (sĪLA), concentration (SAMĀDHI), and wisdom (PRAJNĀ). However, there are numerous delineations of the path to enlightenment. For example, both the mainstream Buddhist schools and the MAHĀYĀNA describe three paths: (1) the path of the sRĀVAKA, culminating in attainment of NIRVĀnA as an ARHAT; (2) the path of the PRATYEKABUDDHA, also culminating in the nirvāna of an arhat; and (3) the path of the BODHISATTVA, culminating in the attainment of buddhahood. Each of these paths has its own stages, with a common system describing five (PANCAMĀRGA): (1) the path of accumulation (SAMBHĀRAMĀRGA), (2) the path of preparation (PRAYOGAMĀRGA), (3) the path of vision (DARsANAMĀRGA), (4) the path of cultivation (BHĀVANĀMĀRGA), and (5) the adept path, "where there is nothing more to learn" (AsAIKsAMĀRGA). In more technical descriptions, the path to enlightenment is described as a series of moments of consciousness in a process of purification, in which increasingly subtle states of contaminants (ĀSRAVA) and afflictions (KLEsA) are permanently cleansed from the mind. The term "path" figures in the title of a number of highly important Buddhist works, such as the VISUDDHIMAGGA ("Path of Purification") by the Pāli commentator BUDDHAGHOSA. The Tibetan exegete TSONG KHA PA wrote of the "three principal aspects of the path" (lam rtso rnam gsum): renunciation, BODHICITTA, and correct view. See also DAO.
maybe ::: adv. --> Perhaps; possibly; peradventure. ::: a. --> Possible; probable, but not sure. ::: n.
mayhap ::: adv. --> Perhaps; peradventure.
mesprise ::: n. --> Contempt; scorn.
Misadventure; ill-success.
Metempsychosis(Greek) ::: A compound vocable which may be rendered briefly by "insouling after insouling," or "changingsoul after soul." Metempsychosis contains the specific meaning that the soul of an entity, human or other,moves not merely from condition to condition, migrates not merely from state to state or from body tobody; but also that it is an indivisible entity in its inmost essence, which is pursuing a course along itsown particular evolutionary path as an individual monad, taking upon itself soul after soul; and it is theadventures which befall the soul, in assuming soul after soul, which in their aggregate are groupedtogether under this word metempsychosis.In ordinary language metempsychosis is supposed to be a synonym for transmigration, reincarnation,preexistence, and palingenesis, etc., but all these words in the esoteric philosophy have specific meaningsof their own, and should not be confused. It is of course evident that these words have strict relationswith each other, as, for instance, every soul in its metempsychosis also transmigrates in its own particularsense; and inversely every transmigrating entity also has its metempsychosis or soul-changings in its ownparticular sense. But these connections or interminglings of meanings must not be confused with thespecific significance attached to each one of these words.The essential meaning of metempsychosis can perhaps be briefly described by saying that a monadduring the course of its evolutionary peregrinations throws forth from itself periodically a newsoul-garment or soul-sheath, and this changing of souls or soul-sheaths as the ages pass is calledmetempsychosis. (See also Transmigration, Reincarnation, Preexistence, Palingenesis)
Miaoshan. (J. Myozen; K. Myoson 妙善). In Chinese, "Sublime Wholesomeness"; a legendary Chinese princess who is said to have been an incarnation of the BODHISATTVA GUANYIN (S. AVALOKITEsVARA). According to legend, Princess Miaoshan was the youngest of three daughters born to King Zhuangyan. As in the legend of Prince SIDDHĀRTHA, Miaoshan refused to fulfill the social expectations of her father and instead endured great privations in order to pursue her Buddhist practice. In frustration, Miaoshan's father banished her to a convent, where the nuns were ordered to break the princess's religious resolve. The nuns were ultimately unsuccessful, however, and in anger, the king ordered the convent set ablaze. Miaoshan escaped to the mountain of Xiangshan, where she pursued a reclusive life. After several years, her father contracted jaundice, which, according to his doctors' diagnosis, was caused by his disrespect toward the three jewels (RATNATRAYA). The only thing that could cure him would be a tonic made from the eyes and ears of a person who was completely free from anger. As fate would have it, the only person who fulfilled this requirement turned out to be his own daughter. When Miaoshan heard of her father's dilemma, she willingly donated her eyes and ears for the tonic; and upon learning of their daughter's selfless generosity and filiality, Miaoshan's father and mother both repented and became devoted lay Buddhists. Miaoshan then apotheosized into the goddess Guanyin, specifically her manifestation as the "thousand-armed and thousand-eyed Guanyin" (SĀHASRABHUJASĀHASRANETRĀVALOKITEsVARA). Later redactions of the legend include Miaoshan's visit to hell, where she was said to have relieved the suffering of the hell denizens. The earliest reference to the Miaoshan legend appears in stele fragments that date from the early eleventh century, discovered at a site near Hangzhou. Other written sources include the Xiangshan baojuan ("Precious Scroll of Xiangshan Mountain"), which was revealed to a monk and then transmitted and disseminated by a minor civil servant. With the advent of the Princess Miaoshan legend, the Upper Tianzhu monastery, already recognized as early as the tenth century as a Guanyin worship site, became a major pilgrimage center. The earliest complete rendition of the Miaoshan legend dates from the early Song dynasty (c. twelve century). Thereafter, several renditions of the legend were produced up through the Qing dynasty.
misaventure ::: n. --> Misadventure.
misadventured ::: a. --> Unfortunate.
misadventure ::: n. --> Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.
misadventurous ::: a. --> Unfortunate.
mofa. (J. mappo; K. malpop 末法). In Chinese, "final dharma" period. The dispensation of Buddhism, like all compounded things, is presumed to be impermanent and subject to decay and eventually dissolution. This process of eschatological decline was believed to occur in stages, often calculated at either five hundred or one thousand years at each stage (although there were many variations), and began with the passage of the Buddha into PARINIRVĀnA. In East Asia, the notion of decline was formalized into an influential doctrinal system, consisting of three stages or periods named "true dharma" (zhengfa; see SADDHARMA), "semblance dharma" (XIANGFA), and "final dharma" (mofa). This tripartite system was not inherited from Indian Buddhism. The term mofa is not the translation of the Sanskrit SADDHARMAVIPRALOPA ("destruction of the dharma"), but is instead a neologism derived from moshi, the Chinese translation of term PAsCIMAKĀLA ("latter time"). The notion of the period of the final dharma spawned a large and influential exegetical tradition in East Asia. The date of the onset of the final period was variously calculated (and was generally assumed to have already begun soon after Buddhism's introduction into East Asia). This assumption was widely employed as doctrinal justification for certain practices, such as the invocation of the name of the buddha AMITĀBHA (NIANFO) or the cult of the future buddha MAITREYA. In such contexts, it was claimed that during the period of the final dharma, beings lacked the capacity to successfully follow the standard path to liberation set forth by the Buddha and instead should rely on the efficacious powers of Amitābha or the prospect of an easier practice regimen after the advent of sĀKYAMUNI Buddha's successor, Maitreya. The notion of the age of the final dharma was espoused in many indigenous scriptures (see APOCRYPHA) written in East Asia. It also played an important role in the formation of such traditions as PURE LAND, JoDOSHu, JoDO SHINSHu, NICHIRENSHu, NICHIREN SHOSHu, and others. See also SADDHARMAVIPRALOPA.
Multi-User Dimension "games" (MUD) (Or Multi-User Domain, originally "Multi-User Dungeon") A class of multi-player interactive game, accessible via the {Internet} or a {modem}. A MUD is like a real-time {chat} forum with structure; it has multiple "locations" like an {adventure} game and may include combat, traps, puzzles, magic and a simple economic system. A MUD where characters can build more structure onto the database that represents the existing world is sometimes known as a "{MUSH}". Most MUDs allow you to log in as a guest to look around before you create your own character. Historically, MUDs (and their more recent progeny with names of MU- form) derive from a hack by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw on the University of Essex's {DEC-10} in 1979. It was a game similar to the classic {Colossal Cave} adventure, except that it allowed multiple people to play at the same time and interact with each other. Descendants of that game still exist today and are sometimes generically called BartleMUDs. There is a widespread myth that the name MUD was trademarked to the commercial MUD run by Bartle on {British Telecom} (the motto: "You haven't *lived* 'til you've *died* on MUD!"); however, this is false - Richard Bartle explicitly placed "MUD" in the {PD} in 1985. BT was upset at this, as they had already printed trademark claims on some maps and posters, which were released and created the myth. Students on the European academic networks quickly improved on the MUD concept, spawning several new MUDs ({VAXMUD}, {AberMUD}, {LPMUD}). Many of these had associated {bulletin-board systems} for social interaction. Because these had an image as "research" they often survived administrative hostility to {BBSs} in general. This, together with the fact that {Usenet} feeds have been spotty and difficult to get in the UK, made the MUDs major foci of hackish social interaction there. AberMUD and other variants crossed the Atlantic around 1988 and quickly gained popularity in the US; they became nuclei for large hacker communities with only loose ties to traditional hackerdom (some observers see parallels with the growth of {Usenet} in the early 1980s). The second wave of MUDs (TinyMUD and variants) tended to emphasise social interaction, puzzles, and cooperative world-building as opposed to combat and competition. In 1991, over 50% of MUD sites are of a third major variety, LPMUD, which synthesises the combat/puzzle aspects of AberMUD and older systems with the extensibility of TinyMud. The trend toward greater programmability and flexibility will doubtless continue. The state of the art in MUD design is still moving very rapidly, with new simulation designs appearing (seemingly) every month. There is now a move afoot to deprecate the term {MUD} itself, as newer designs exhibit an exploding variety of names corresponding to the different simulation styles being explored. {UMN MUD Gopher page (gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu/11/fun/Games/MUDs/Links)}. {U Pennsylvania MUD Web page (http://cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mudinfo.html)}. See also {bonk/oif}, {FOD}, {link-dead}, {mudhead}, {MOO}, {MUCK}, {MUG}, {MUSE}, {chat}. {Usenet} newsgroups: {news:rec.games.mud.announce}, {news:rec.games.mud.admin}, {news:rec.games.mud.diku}, {news:rec.games.mud.lp}, {news:rec.games.mud.misc}, {news:rec.games.mud.tiny}. (1994-08-10)
multi-user "operating system" A term describing an {operating system} or {application program} that can be used by several people concurrently; opposite of {single-user}. {Unix} is an example of a multi-user operating system, whereas most (but not all) versions of {Microsoft Windows} are intended to support only one user at a time. A multi-user system, by definition, supports {concurrent processing} of multiple tasks (once known as "{time-sharing}") or true {parallel processing} if it has multiple {CPUs}. While {batch processing} systems often ran jobs for serveral users concurrently, the term "multi-user" typically implies {interactive} access. Before {Ethernet} networks were commonplace, multi-user systems were accessed from a {terminal} (e.g. a {vt100}) connected via a {serial line} (typically {RS-232}). This arrangement was eventually superseded by networked {personal computers}, perhaps sharing files on a {file server}. With the wide-spread availability of Internet connections, the idea of sharing centralised resources is becoming trendy again with {cloud computing} and {managed applications}, though this time it is the overhead of administering the system that is being shared rather than the cost of the hardware. In gaming, both on PCs and {games consoles}, the equivalent term is {multi-player}, though the first multi-player games (e.g. {ADVENT}) were on multi-user computers. (2009-11-23)
munchausenism ::: n. --> An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.
Nāgasena. (T. Klu sde; C. Naxian biqiu/Naqiexina; J. Nasen biku/Nagasaina; K. Nason pigu/Nagasona 那先比丘/那伽犀那). The Sanskrit and Pāli name for an eminent ARHAT celebrated in the Pāli MILINDAPANHA and the Sanskrit Nāgasenabhiksusutra (which may derive from a Bactrian SARVĀSTIVĀDA textual lineage) for his discussions on Buddhist doctrine with the Bactrian Greek king Menander (P. Milinda). Although Nāgasena was not born into a Buddhist family, he was destined to come to the aid of the Buddha's religion in fulfillment of a promise he had made in his previous existence as a divinity in the TRĀYASTRIMsA heaven. Thus, according to the Pāli account, he was born into a brāhmana family in the Himalayas and became well versed in the Vedas at an early age. King Milinda was harassing the Buddhist order by skillfully disputing points of doctrine and defeating Buddhist representatives in debate. To counter this threat, the elder Assagutta summoned the monk Rohana, and charged him with the task of converting Nāgasena, convincing him to join the order and training him so that he might vanquish King Milinda and convert him to Buddhism. Rohana visited Nāgasena's house for seven years and ten months before receiving so much as a greeting from his proud brāhmana father. Finally, impressed by the monk's demeanor, Nāgasena's father became his patron and invited him daily for his morning meal. After Nāgasena was sufficiently educated in Vedic lore, Rohana engaged him in discussions and convinced him of the veracity of the Buddha's teachings. Nāgasena entered the order under Rohana who, as his preceptor, taught him ABHIDHAMMA (S. ABHIDHARMA). One day, Nāgasena, having inherited his father's pride, questioned the intelligence of his teacher. Rohana, an arhat endowed with the power to read others' minds, rebuked Nāgasena for his arrogance. Nāgasena begged forgiveness, but Rohana would grant it only if Nāgasena defeated King Milinda in debate. Thereafter, Nāgasena was sent to the Vattaniya hermitage to train under Assagutta and while there achieved stream-entry (SROTAĀPANNA). He was then sent to PĀtALIPUTRA to study under the elder Dhammarakkhita, where he attained arhatship. At the appropriate time, Nāgasena, who was then widely renowned for his erudition, was invited to Milinda's kingdom. There, in the Sankheyya hermitage, Nāgasena engaged King Milinda in discussion on various points of doctrine, at the end of which the king took refuge in the three jewels (RATNATRAYA) and became a lay disciple in the Buddha's religion. Scholars are uncertain whether such a dialogue ever took place. There was indeed a famous king named Menander (Milinda in Indian sources) who ruled over a large region that encompassed parts of modern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan during the middle of the second century BCE. There is, however, no historical evidence of Nāgasena. The text itself was probably composed or compiled around the beginning of the Common Era and marks some of the earliest abhidharma-style exchanges found in the literature. ¶ A different Nāgasena (corresponding to the second of the two Chinese transcriptions in the entry heading) is also traditionally listed as twelfth of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. East Asian sources claim that he resides on Bandubo Mountain with twelve hundred disciples. He is often depicted in paintings as cleaning his ears, earning him the nickname "Ear-Picking Arhat" (Wa'er Luohan). In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Nāgasena sits leaning on a rock, with large nose and deep-set eyes, staring ahead in anger. He has a high forehead and a hump on his back. His mouth is open with his tongue exposed. He supports his chin with his fists.
Namsan. (南山). In Korean, "South Mountain," important Buddhist site located to the south of the ancient Silla-dynasty capital of KYoNGJU. Namsan had been worshipped as a Korean sacred mountain since prehistoric times and was strongly embedded in local shamanic cults. With the advent of Buddhism, Namsan became the center of Buddhist worship in Korea as the representation of Mt. SUMERU, the axis mundi of the world in Buddhist cosmology. As a result, the whole area of Namsan is dotted with rock-cut reliefs, engravings, and stone images, all fine examples of Korean Buddhist art from the seventh through the fourteenth centuries, depicting among many others the buddhas sĀKYAMUNI, BHAIsAJYAGURU, and AMITĀBHA. Most of these images date from the seventh and eighth centuries, when the political power of the Silla dynasty was at its height. Most noteworthy is the massive boulder in T'apkok (Pagoda Valley), which is carved with a rich tapestry of Buddhist images that depict the popular view of the Buddhist world during the Silla period. In the center of the boulder's northern face is a seated buddha image, which is flanked by two images of wooden pagodas. A mythical lion below the pagodas acts as a guardian to this scene. The eastern face expresses the belief in the PURE LAND. It depicts a narrative scene of Amitābha, flanked by two BODHISATTVAs, presumably AVALOKITEsVARA and MAHĀSTHĀMAPRĀPTA, with accompanying images of flying beings (S. APSARAS) and monks who came to venerate this central figure. On the boulder's southern face, a buddha triad and an individual image of a bodhisattva are carved. Finally, on its western face is depicted an image of sākyamuni at the moment of his awakening beneath two BODHI TREEs. Other noteworthy Buddhist images at Namsan include the rock-cut reliefs of seven buddhas at Ch'ilburam (Seven Buddhas Rock), which is uniquely composed of two boulders, one with a buddha triad, the other one with four bodhisattvas; the seated stone statue of sākyamuni at Mirŭkkok (Maitreya Valley), which is one of the best-preserved Buddhist stone statues from the eighth century; the seated image of a bodhisattva carved on the high cliff of Sinsonam (Fairy Rock); and the seated figure of sākyamuni in Samnŭnggok (Samnŭng Valley), which was carved on a colossal rock twenty-three feet high and sixteen feet in width.
Nichiren Shoshu. (日蓮正宗). In Japanese, "Orthodox School of Nichiren"; one of the principal Japanese Buddhist schools based on the teachings of NICHIREN (1222-1282). Nichiren Shoshu is descended from Nichiren through Nichiko (1246-1332), the alleged sole heir of Nichiren among his six chief disciples. Nichiko was a loyal student and archivist of Nichiren's writings, who established in 1290 what was then called the Fuji school at TAISEKIJI, a monastery on Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka prefecture. Nichiko's school later divided into eight subbranches, known collectively as the Fuji Monryu (Fuji schools) or Nichiko Monryu (Nichiko schools). The monk Nichikan (1665-1726), a noted commentator and teacher, was instrumental in resurrecting the observance of Nichiren's teachings at Taisekiji. He was also the person who systematized and established many of the innovative features of the school, particularly the school's unique view that Nichiren was the Buddha (see below). The eight associated temples that remained in the Fuji school reunited in 1876 as the Komon sect, later adopting a new name, the Honmon. However, in 1899, Taisekiji split from the other temples and established an independent sect, renaming itself Nichiren Shoshu in 1912. In 1930, MAKIGUCHI TSUNESABURO and Toda Josei established the SoKA GAKKAI (then called Soka Kyoiku Gakkai), a lay organization for the promotion of Nichiren Shoshu thought, but quickly ran afoul of the Japanese government's promotion of the cult of state Shintoism. Makiguchi refused to comply with government promulgation of Shinto worship and was imprisoned for violating the Peace Preservation Law; he died in prison in 1944. Toda was eventually released, and he devoted himself after World War II to promoting Soka Gakkai and Nichiren Shoshu, which at that time were closely connected. The two groups acrimoniously separated in 1991, Nichiren Shoshu accusing Soka Gakkai of forming a personality cult around their leader IKEDA DAISAKU (b. 1928) and of improper modifications of Nichiren practice; Soka Gakkai accusing the Nichiren Shoshu leader Abe Nikken of trying to dominate both organizations. The two groups now operate independently. Nichiren Shoshu has grown to over seven hundreds temples in Japan, as well as a few temples in foreign countries. Nichiren Shoshu distinguishes itself from the other Nichiren schools by its unique view of the person of Nichiren: it regards the founder as the true buddha in this current degenerate age of the dharma (J. mappo; C. MOFA), a buddha whom sĀKYAMUNI promised his followers would appear two thousand years in the future; therefore, they refer to Nichiren as daishonin, or great sage. Other Nichiren schools instead regard the founder as the reincarnation of Jogyo Bosatsu (the BODHISATTVA VIsIstACĀRITRA). Nichiren Shoshu's claim to orthodoxy is based on two documents, not recognized by other Nichiren schools, in which Nichiren claims to transfer his dharma to Nichiko, viz., the Minobu sojosho ("Minobu Transfer Document") and the Ikegami sojosho ("Ikegami Transfer Document"), which are believed to have been written in 1282 by Nichiren, the first at Minobu and the second on the day of his death at Ikegami. Nichiren Shoshu practice is focused on the dai-gohonzon mandala, the ultimate object of devotion in the school, which Nichiren created. The DAI-GOHONZON (great object of devotion), a MAndALA (here, a cosmological chart) inscribed by Nichiren in 1279, includes the DAIMOKU (lit., "title"), viz., the phrase "NAMU MYoHoRENGEKYo" (Homage to the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA), which is considered to be the embodiment of Nichiren's enlightenment and the ultimate reason for his advent in this world. The gohonzon is placed in a shrine or on a simple altar in the homes of devotees of the sect. This veneration of the gohonzon to the exclusion of all other deities and images of the Buddha distinguishes Nichiren Shoshu from other Nichiren schools. The school interprets the three jewels (RATNATRAYA) of the Buddha, DHARMA, and SAMGHA to refer, respectively, to Nichiren (the buddha); to namu Myohorengekyo and the gohonzon (the dharma); and to his successor Nichiko (the saMgha). By contrast, other Nichiren schools generally consider sākyamuni to be the Buddha and Nichiren the saMgha, and do not include the gohonzon in the dharma, since they question its authenticity. All schools of Nichiren thought accept Nichiren's acknowledgment of the buddhahood that is latent in all creatures and the ability of all human beings of any class to achieve buddhahood in this lifetime.
novel: Generally speaking a novel is any extended fictional prose narrative that focuses on a few crucial characters but often involves scores of secondary characters. The novel can cover any subject from any view point. Within English there are a few contenders for the first 'true novel': Bunyan's Pilgrims's progress,Defoe's Robinson Crusoe or Moll Flanders. After the birth of the novel in the 18th century, the 19th century saw a rise in the production of the novel, with the advent of novelists such as Austen and the Bronte sisters.
object-oriented programming "programming" (OOP) The use of a class of programming languages and techniques based on the concept of an "{object}" which is a data structure ({abstract data type}) encapsulated with a set of routines, called "{methods}", which operate on the data. Operations on the data can __only__ be performed via these methods, which are common to all objects that are instances of a particular "{class}". Thus the interface to objects is well defined, and allows the code implementing the methods to be changed so long as the interface remains the same. Each class is a separate {module} and has a position in a "{class hierarchy}". Methods or code in one class can be passed down the hierarchy to a {subclass} or inherited from a {superclass}. This is called "{inheritance}". A {procedure} call is described as invoking a method on an object (which effectively becomes the procedure's first {argument}), and may optionally include other arguments. The method name is looked up in the object's class to find out how to perform that operation on the given object. If the method is not defined for the object's class, it is looked for in its superclass and so on up the class hierarchy until it is found or there is no higher superclass. OOP started with {SIMULA-67} around 1970 and became all-pervasive with the advent of {C++}, and later {Java}. Another popular object-oriented programming language (OOPL) is {Smalltalk}, a seminal example from {Xerox}'s {Palo Alto Research Center} (PARC). Others include {Ada}, {Object Pascal}, {Objective C}, {DRAGOON}, {BETA}, {Emerald}, {POOL}, {Eiffel}, {Self}, {Oblog}, {ESP}, {LOOPS}, {POLKA}, and {Python}. Other languages, such as {Perl} and {VB}, permit, but do not enforce OOP. {FAQ (http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~scg/OOinfo/FAQ/)}. {(http://zgdv.igd.fhg.de/papers/se/oop/)}. {(http://cuiwww.unige.ch/Chloe/OOinfo)}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.object}. (2001-10-11)
object-oriented programming ::: (programming) (OOP) The use of a class of programming languages and techniques based on the concept of an object which is a data structure the code implementing the methods to be changed so long as the interface remains the same.Each class is a separate module and has a position in a class hierarchy. Methods or code in one class can be passed down the hierarchy to a subclass or inherited from a superclass. This is called inheritance.A procedure call is described as invoking a method on an object (which effectively becomes the procedure's first argument), and may optionally include for the object's class, it is looked for in its superclass and so on up the class hierarchy until it is found or there is no higher superclass.OOP started with SIMULA-67 around 1970 and became all-pervasive with the advent of C++, and later Java. Another popular object-oriented programming language POOL, Eiffel, Self, Oblog, ESP, Loops, POLKA, and Python. Other languages, such as Perl and VB, permit, but do not enforce OOP. . . .Usenet newsgroup: comp.object.(2001-10-11)
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Operating System/Multiprogramming of Fixed Tasks ::: (operating system) (OS/MFT) One of the IBM operating systems associated with the IBM 360, released in 1966 and targetted at mid-range IBM 360 users series of IBM operating systems, the other being OS/MVT. Smaller 360 mainframes used DOS.OS/MFT shared JCL and utilities with OS/MVT but allocated memory differently. In OS/MFT, partitions of memory were of a fixed number and size, specified by the generation and configuration of the operating system. As this class of mainframe had typically less than 512K of main memory, partitions tended to be about 128K.With the advent of Virtual Storage and the System 370's Dynamic Address Translation (DAT), OS/MFT was improved to become OS/VS1, taking account of virtual storage in a single partition up to 16MB. (1999-01-22)
Operating System/Multiprogramming of Fixed Tasks "operating system" (OS/MFT) One of the {IBM} {operating systems} associated with the {IBM 360}, released in 1966 and targetted at mid-range {IBM 360} users (typically 360/40, 360/50). OS/MFT was the juinior member of the main 'OS' series of IBM operating systems, the other being {OS/MVT}. Smaller 360 mainframes used {DOS}. OS/MFT shared {JCL} and utilities with OS/MVT but allocated memory differently. In OS/MFT, partitions of memory were of a fixed number and size, specified by the generation and configuration of the operating system. As this class of mainframe had typically less than 512K of main memory, partitions tended to be about 128K. With the advent of {Virtual Storage} and the {System 370}'s {Dynamic Address Translation} (DAT), OS/MFT was improved to become {OS/VS1}, taking account of virtual storage in a single partition up to 16MB. (1999-01-22)
Panthaka. [alt. Mahāpanthaka] (P. Mahāpanthaka; T. Lam chen bstan; C. Bantuojia; J. Hantaka; K. Pant'akka 半託迦). An ARHAT known for his mastery of the four immaterial absorptions (ĀRuPYADHYĀNA); according to Pāli sources, the Buddha declared him foremost in the ability to manipulate perception (saNNāvivattakusalānaM). Panthaka was the elder of two brothers born to a merchant's daughter from RĀJAGṚHA who had eloped with a slave. After she became pregnant, she decided to return home to give birth, but the infant was born along the way. This happened again when she gave birth to her second child. Because both he and his younger brother, CudAPANTHAKA, were born along the side of a road, they were given the names, "Greater" and "Lesser" Roadside. The boys were eventually taken to Rājagṛha and raised by their grandparents, who were devoted to the Buddha. Panthaka often accompanied his grandfather to listen to the Buddha's sermons and was inspired to ordain. He proved to be an able monk, skilled in doctrine, and eventually attained arhatship. He later ordained his younger brother Cudapanthaka but was gravely disappointed in his brother's inability to memorize even a single verse of the dharma. He treated Cudapanthaka with such contempt that the Buddha intervened on his behalf, giving the younger brother a simple technique by which he too attained arhatship. ¶ Panthaka is also traditionally listed as tenth of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who were charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA; his younger brother Cudapanthaka is the sixteenth on that list. Panthaka resides in the TRĀYASTRIMsA heaven (the heaven of the thirty-three devas) with 1,300 disciples. Panthaka was good at arithmetic and an expert in chanting and music. When sitting in meditation, Panthaka often sat in half-lotus posture; and after his finished his sitting, he would raise both his hands and take a deep breath. For this reason, he was given the nickname "the Arhat who Reaches Out His Hands" (Tanshou Luohan). In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Panthaka has placed his sitting-cloth on a rock, where he sits in meditation, with a sash across his shoulders. Holding a scroll in both hands, he appears to be reading a SuTRA.
paraunter ::: adv. --> Peradventure. See Paraventure.
paraventure ::: adv. --> Peradventure; perchance.
Patristic Philosophy: The advent of Christian revelation introduced a profound change in the history of philosophy. New facts about God, the world and man were juxtaposed to the conclusions of pagan philosophy, while reason was at once presented with the problem of reconciling these facts with the pagan position and the task of constructing them into a new science called theology.
Pegu. [alt. Bago]. Former capital of the Mon (Talaing) kingdom of RāmaNNadesa (1287-1539) in Lower Burma; also called Hanthawaddi. Founded c. 825 CE on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, Pegu served as an important entrepôt, which had flourishing commercial and cultural links with Sri Lanka, India, and ports farther east. The port was made the Mon capital in 1353 when the Mon court was transferred there from the city of Muttama (Martaban). The kingdom of RāmaNNadesa had originally gained independence in 1287 with the collapse of its former suzerain, the Burmese empire of PAGAN (Bagan), and for much of the next two and a half centuries it was engaged in internecine warfare with Pagan's landlocked successor state, AVA, for control of the maritime province of Bassein on Pegu's western flank. As the capital of a wealthy trading kingdom, Pegu was filled with numerous Buddhist shrines and monasteries. These included the Kyaikpien, Mahazedi, Shwegugale, and Shwemawdaw pagodas, and the nearby Shwethalyaung, a colossal reclining buddha built in 994. The most important Mon king in the religious sphere to rule from Pegu was Dhammacedi (r. 1472-1492) who, in 1476, conducted a purification of the Mon sāsana along the lines of the reformed Sinhalese tradition. The purification is recorded in the KALYĀnĪ INSCRIPTIONS erected in Pegu at site of Kalyānī Sīmā Hall. Pegu fell to the Burmese in 1539, who retained it as the capital of their new Burmese Empire until 1599. The beauty of Pegu was regularly extolled in the travelogues of European merchants and adventurers. Pegu again briefly became the capital of an independent Mon kingdom between 1747 and 1757, after which it was utterly destroyed by the Burmese king ALAUNGPAYA (r. 1752-1760), founder of the Konbaung empire (1752-1885). It was rebuilt and subsequently served as the British capital of Lower Burma between 1852 and 1862 and is currently the capital of Bago District.
peradventure ::: adv. & conj. --> By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. ::: n. --> Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure.
perchance ::: adv. --> By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
perhaps ::: adv. --> By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.
peripheral "hardware" (Or "peripheral device", "device") Any part of a computer other than the {CPU} or {working memory}, i.e. {disks}, {keyboards}, {monitors}, {mice}, {printers}, {scanners}, {tape drives}, {microphones}, {speakers}, {cameras}, to list just the less exotic ones. High speed working {memory}, such as {RAM}, {ROM} or, in the old days, {core} would not normally be referred to as peripherals. The more modern term "device" is also more general in that it is used for things such as a {pseudo-tty}, a {RAM drive}, or a {network adaptor}. Some argue that, since the advent of the {personal computer}, the {motherboard}, {hard disk}, keyboard, mouse, and monitor are all parts of the base system, and only use the term "peripheral" for optional additional components. (2002-09-03)
peripheral ::: (hardware) (Or peripheral device, device) Any part of a computer other than the CPU or working memory, i.e. disks, keyboards, monitors, mice, printers, scanners, tape drives, microphones, speakers, cameras, to list just the less exotic ones.High speed working memory, such as RAM, ROM or, in the old days, core would not normally be referred to as peripherals. The more modern term device is also more general in that it is used for things such as a pseudo-tty, a RAM drive, or a network adaptor.Some argue that, since the advent of the personal computer, the motherboard, hard disk, keyboard, mouse, and monitor are all parts of the base system, and only use the term peripheral for optional additional components.(2002-09-03)
picaresque ::: a. --> Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
Pindola-Bhāradvāja. (T. Bha ra dhwa dza Bsod snyoms len; C. Bintoulu Poluoduo zunzhe; J. Binzuruharada sonja; K. Pinduro Pallat'a chonja 賓頭盧頗羅墮尊者). Sanskrit and Pāli proper name of a prominent monk-disciple of the Buddha, born as the son of a brāhmana priest in the service of King Udāyana of Kausāmbī. He was a successful teacher of the Vedas, first encountering the Buddha when his travels took him to RĀJAGṚHA. Gluttonous by nature, he was impressed by all the offerings the Buddha's disciples received and so resolved to enter the order. For this reason, he carried with him an exceptionally large alms bowl (PĀTRA) made from a gourd. After he was finally able to conquer his avarice, he became an ARHAT and uttered his "lion's roar" (SIMHANĀDA) in the presence of the Buddha, for which reason he was declared the foremost lion's roarer (siMhanādin) among the Buddha's disciples. In a famous story found in several recensions of the VINAYA, the Buddha rebuked Pindola for performing the following miracle before a crowd. A rich merchant had placed a valuable sandalwood alms bowl (pātra) atop a pole and challenged any mendicant to retrieve it with a magical display. Encouraged by MAHĀMAUDGALYĀYANA, Pindola entered the contest and used his magical powers to rise into the air and retrieve the bowl. The Buddha rebuked Pindola for his crass exhibitionism, and ordered that the bowl be ground into sandalwood powder (presumably for incense). The incident was the occasion for the Buddha to pass the "rule of defeat" (PĀRĀJIKA), forbidding monks from displaying supernatural powers before the laity. Sanskrit sources state that the Buddha rebuked Pindola for his misdeed and ordered him not to live in JAMBUDVĪPA, but to move to aparagodānīya (see GODĀNĪYA) to proselytize (where he is said to reside with a thousand disciples). The Buddha also forbade him from entering PARINIRVĀnA so that he would remain in the world after the Buddha's demise and continue to serve as a field of blessings (PUnYAKsETRA) for sentient beings; for this reason, Pindola is also known in Chinese as the "World-Dwelling Arhat" (Zhushi Luohan). This is the reason why some traditions still today invoke his name for protection and why he is traditionally listed as the first of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who are charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. According to the DIVYĀVADĀNA, Pindola was given the principal seat at the third Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI) called by Emperor AsOKA (see COUNCIL, THIRD); at that point, he was already several hundred years old, with long white hair and eyebrows that he had to hold back in order to see. In China, DAO'AN of the Eastern Jin dynasty once had a dream of a white-haired foreign monk, with long, flowing eyebrows. Later, Master Dao'an's disciple LUSHAN HUIYUAN read the SARVĀSTIVĀDA VINAYA and realized that the monk whom his teacher had dreamed about was Pindola. From that point on, Dao'an offered Pindola food every day, and, for this reason, a picture or image of Pindola is often enshrined in monastic dining halls in China. This is also why Pindola was given another nickname in Chinese, the "Long-Browed Monk" (Changmei Seng). In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction of the sixteen arhats, Pindola-Bharadvāja is portrayed as squatting on a rock, holding a staff in his left hand, leaning on a rock with his right, with a text placed on his knees. In Tibetan iconography Pindola holds a pātra; other East Asian images depict him holding a text and either a chowrie (C. FUZI; S. VĀLAVYAJANA) or a pātra.
plugh "games" /ploogh/ A magic word from the {ADVENT} game. [{Jargon File}] (1996-04-01)
plugh ::: (games) /ploogh/ A magic word from the ADVENT game.[Jargon File] (1996-04-01)
Potentiality: See Dynamis. Power: In general: the physical, mental and moral ability to act or to receive an action; the general faculty of doing, making, performing, realizing, achieving, producing or succeeding; ability, capacity, virtue, virtuality, potency, potentiality, faculty, efficacy, efficacity, efficiency, operative causality, process of change or becoming; natural operative force, energy, vigor, strength, or effective condition applied or applicable to work; person, agent, body, institution, government or state, having or exercising an ability to act in accordance with its nature and functions; spirit, divinity, deity, superhuman agent, supernatural principle of activity; an attribute or name of God; in theology, an order of angels; in law the authority, capacity or right to exercise certain natural and legal prerogatives, also, the authority vestcd in a person by law; influence, prerogative, force. A. In psychology, power is sometimes synonymous with faculty (q.v.). It also means a quality which renders the nature of an individual agent apt to elicit certain physical and moral actions. Hence, power is a natural endowment enabling the intellect to condition the will and thus create hibits and virtues, in a higher degree, power is a moral disposition enabling the individual to cultivate his perfectibility. The distinction between powers is given by the distinction of their actions. Powers are acthe or operative, and passive or receptive; they are immediate or remote. Even impotence and incapacity are not different in kind from power, but simply in degree. These Aristotelian views on power, including its ontological interpretation, have held the ground for centuries, and we find them partly also in Hobbes and Locke who defined power as the ability to make or to receive change. Hume's analysis of power showed it to be an illusion; and with the advent of positivism and experimental psychology, this concept lost much of its value. The notion of power has been used by Fechner in his doctrine and law concerning the relation between stimuli and sensations.
prabhāsvara. (P. pabhassara; T. 'od gsal; C. guangming; J. komyo; K. kwangmyong 光明). In Sanskrit, "luminous," "resplendent"; referring to an effulgence of light and often used as a metaphor for either deep states of meditation or, especially, the nature of the mind. This notion of the innate effulgence of the mind has a long pedigree in Buddhism, and its locus classicus is the oft-quoted passage in the Pāli AnGUTTARANIKĀYA: "The mind, O monks, is luminous (P. pabhassara), but is defiled by adventitious defilements" (pabhassaraM idaM bhikkave cittaM taN ca kho āgantukehi upakkilesehi upakkilitthaM). A similar sentiment appears in the early MAHĀYĀNA scripture AstASĀHASRIKĀPRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀSuTRA, where it states that the "thought of enlightenment is no thought, since in its essential original nature thought is transparently luminous." Through enlightenment, the mind's innate luminosity is restored to its full intensity so that it shines through all objects, revealing their inherent vacuity and lack of substance. This same strand eventually develops into TATHĀGATAGARBHA thought, which sees the mind as inherently enlightened, the defilements of mind as ultimately extrinsic to the mind (cf. ĀGANTUKAKLEsA), and the prospect of buddhahood as innate in all sentient beings. The concept of the "mind of clear light" (see PRABHĀSVARACITTA) becomes particularly important in ANUTTARAYOGATANTRA, where it is described as the primordial and fundamental form of consciousness, which becomes manifest at particular moments, such as falling asleep, awaking from sleep, orgasm, and especially, at the moment of death. Many practices of the stage of completion (NIsPANNAKRAMA) are devoted to making manifest this mind of clear light and using it to understand the nature of reality. As such, the practice of clear light is one of the six yogas of Nāropa (NA RO CHOS DRUG).
prakṛtivisuddhi. (T. rang bzhin gyis rnam par dag pa; C. benxing jing; J. honshojo; K. ponsong chong 本性淨). In Sanskrit, "intrinsic purity," a term used to describe the inherent purity and luminosity of the mind, with the implication that all afflictions (KLEsA) are therefore adventitious and extrinsic to the mind's true nature.
"Progress admittedly does not march on securely in a straight line like a man sure of his familiar way or an army covering an unimpeded terrain or well-mapped unoccupied spaces. Human progress is very much an adventure through the unknown, an unknown full of surprises and baffling obstacles; it stumbles often, it misses its way at many points, it cedes here in order to gain there, it retraces its steps frequently in order to get more widely forward.” *The Renaissance in India
“Progress admittedly does not march on securely in a straight line like a man sure of his familiar way or an army covering an unimpeded terrain or well-mapped unoccupied spaces. Human progress is very much an adventure through the unknown, an unknown full of surprises and baffling obstacles; it stumbles often, it misses its way at many points, it cedes here in order to gain there, it retraces its steps frequently in order to get more widely forward.” The Renaissance in India
pure land. (C. jingtu; J. jodo; K. chongt'o 浄土). An English term with no direct equivalent in Sanskrit that is used to translate the Chinese JINGTU (more literally, "purified ground"); the Chinese term may be related to the term PARIsUDDHABUDDHAKsETRA (although this latter term does not appear in the SUKHĀVATĪVYuHASuTRA, the text most closely aligned with pure land thought). The term "pure land" has several denotations in English, which have led to some confusion in its use. These include (1) a buddha-field (BUDDHAKsETRA) purified of transgressions and suffering by a buddha and thus deemed an auspicious place in which to take rebirth; (2) the specific (and most famous) of these purified fields, that of the buddha AMITĀBHA, named SUKHĀVATĪ; (3) the tradition of texts and practices in MAHĀYĀNA Buddhism dedicated to the description of a number of buddha-fields, including that of Amitābha, and the practices to ensure rebirth there; (4) a tradition of texts and practice in East Asian and Tibetan Buddhism, associated specifically with the goal of rebirth in the purified buddha-field of Amitābha; (5) the JoDOSHu and JoDO SHINSHu schools of Japanese Buddhism, deriving from the teachings of HoNEN and SHINRAN, which set forth a "single practice" for rebirth in sukhāvatī. It is important to note that, although the Sukhāvatīvyuhasutra (and other sutras describing other buddha-fields) originated in India, there was no "pure land school" in Indian Buddhism; rebirth in a buddha-field, and especially that of sukhāvatī, was one of the many generalized goals of Mahāyāna practice. Although there was an extensive tradition in China of scriptural exegesis of the major pure land sutras, this was not enough in itself to constitute a self-consciously "pure land school"; indeed, techniques for rebirth in sukhāvatī became popular in many strands of Chinese Buddhism (see NIANFO), especially in light of theories of the disappearance of the dharma (see MOFA). Finally, it is important to note that the goal of rebirth in sukhāvatī was an important practice in Japan prior to the advent of Honen, and remained so in schools other than Jodoshu and Jodo Shinshu.
Rāhula. (T. Sgra gcan 'dzin; C. Luohouluo; J. Ragora; K. Rahura 羅睺羅). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "Fetter"; proper name of the ARHAT who was the Buddha's only child, born on the day his father renounced the world. According to the Pāli account, as soon as Prince SIDDHARTHA learned of the birth of his son, he immediately chose to become a mendicant, for he saw his son as a "fetter" binding him ever more tightly to the household life. In a famous scene, the prince looks at his sleeping wife and infant son before departing from the palace to seek enlightenment. He wishes to hold his son one last time but fears that he will awaken his wife and lose his resolve. In the MuLASARVĀSTIVĀDA VINAYA version of the story, Rāhula was conceived on the night of his father's departure from the palace and remained in gestation for a full six years, being born on the night that his father achieved buddhahood. After his enlightenment, when the Buddha accepted an invitation to visit his father's palace, Rāhula's mother (RĀHULAMĀTĀ) YAsODHARĀ sent her son to her former husband to ask for his inheritance, whereupon the Buddha ordered sĀRIPUTRA to ordain the boy. Rāhula thus became the first novice (sRĀMAnERA) to enter the order. Knowing Yasodharā's grief at the loss of her son, the Buddha's father, King sUDDHODANA, requested that in the future no child should be ordained without the consent of his parents; the Buddha accepted his request and a question about parental consent was incorporated into the ordination procedure. Rāhula is described as dutiful and always in search of instruction. In one sermon to the young boy, the Buddha warns him never to lie, even in jest. Rāhula often accompanied the Buddha or sāriputra on their alms rounds (PIndAPĀTA). The meditation topic the Buddha assigned to Rāhula was intended to counter the novice's strong carnal nature. When his mind was ready, the Buddha taught him the Cula-Rāhulovādasutta, at the end of which Rāhula attained arhatship. Rāhula was meticulous in his observation of the monastic regulations, and the Buddha declared him foremost among his disciples in his eagerness for training. According to Chinese sources, Rāhula was also renowned for his patience. One day in sRĀVASTĪ, he was harshly beaten and was bleeding badly from a head wound, but he bore his injury with composure and equanimity, which led the Buddha to praise him. Rāhula was also foremost in "practicing with discretion" (C. mixing diyi), meaning that he applied himself at all times in religious practice but without making a display of it. Rāhula passed away before both sāriputra and the Buddha during a sojourn in TRĀYASTRIMsA heaven. In previous lives, Rāhula had many times been the son of the bodhisattva. He was called "lucky Rāhula" by his friends and Rāhula himself acknowledged his good fortune both for being the Buddha's son and for attaining arhatship. In the MAHĀYĀNA, Rāhula appears in a number of sutras, such as the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, where his father predicts that he will become a buddha. Rāhula is also traditionally listed as eleventh of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who were charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. He is said to reside in Biliyangqu zhou (a Sanskrit transcription that supposedly means "land of chestnuts and grains") with 1,100 disciples. In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Rāhula is portrayed sitting on a rock in wide-eyed meditation, with his right finger held above his chest, pointing outward, and his left hand resting on his left knee.
rale ::: n. --> An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.
Ratnagotravibhāga. [alt. Ratnagotravibhanga] (T. Dkon mchog gi rigs rnam par dbye ba; C. Jiujing yisheng baoxing lun; J. Kukyo ichijo hoshoron; K. Kugyong ilsŭng posong non 究竟一乘寶性論). In Sanskrit, "Analysis of the Lineage of the [Three] Jewels," a seminal Indian MAHĀYĀNA sĀSTRA on the doctrine of the "embryo of the tathāgatas" (TATHĀGATAGARBHA), probably dating from the fourth century CE. Its full title is Ratnagotravibhāga-Mahāyāna-Uttaratantra and the treatise is often referred to simply as the Uttaratantra, or "Sublime Continuation." The Sanskrit recension is extant, along with Chinese and Tibetan translations. (RATNAMATI's Chinese translation was finished in 508.) The Chinese tradition attributes the work to Sāramati (C. Jianyi), while the Tibetan tradition attributes the core verses of the text to MAITREYA/MAITREYANĀTHA and its prose commentary entitled the Uttaratantravyākhyā to ASAnGA. It is one of the "five books of Maitreya," which, according to legend, were presented by the future buddha Maitreya to Asanga during the latter's visit to the TUsITA heaven. The primary subject of the Ratnagotravibhāga is the tathāgatagarbha or buddha-nature; this is the element (DHĀTU) or lineage (GOTRA) of the buddhas, which is present in all beings. The text offers an extensive overview of the tathāgatagarbha doctrine as set forth in such sutras as the TATHĀGATAGARBHASuTRA and the sRĪMĀLĀDEVĪSIMHANĀDASuTRA. Like the srīmālā Sutra, the treatise describes the tathāgatagarbha as being both empty (sunya) of the afflictions (KLEsA) but nonempty (asunya) of the buddhas' infinite virtues. In ordinary beings, the tathāgatagarbha may be obscured by adventitious defilements, but when those defilements are removed, the state of enlightenment is restored. In proving this claim, the treatise examines in detail the "body of the tathāgata," an alternate name for the buddha-nature, which is said to have four perfect virtues (GUnAPĀRAMITĀ): permanence, bliss, selfhood, and purity. Those who have not realized the buddha-nature make two fundamental mistakes about emptiness (suNYATĀ): either viewing emptiness as annihilation (see UCCHEDADṚstI), assuming that the experience of NIRVĀnA requires the extinction of the phenomenal world; or substantiating emptiness by presuming that it is something distinct from materiality (RuPA). Instead, the Ratnagotravibhāga asserts that the tathāgatagarbha is free from all the various types of afflictions, but fully contains the myriad inconceivable attributes of a buddha. The treatise also examines the specific deeds the buddhas perform for the welfare of all sentient beings. See also FOXING.
README file ::: (convention) An introduction traditionally included in the top-level directory of a Unix source distribution, containing a pointer to more detailed be named README, or READ.ME, or rarely ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant.In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions.The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland in which Alice confronts magic munchies labelled Eat Me and Drink Me.[Jargon File] (1995-02-28)
README file "convention, documentation" A {text file} traditionally included in the top-level {directory} of a {software} distribution, containing pointers to {documentation}, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in {Unix} source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the {Macintosh} and {IBM PC} worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me". [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-28)
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ::: (humour) Back in the good old days - the Golden Era of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called Real Men and out that Real Men don't relate to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.)But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with TRASH-80s.There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings).LANGUAGESThe easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use Fortran. Quiche Eaters use need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a keypunch, a Fortran IV compiler, and a beer.Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran.Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran.Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran.Real Programmers do Artificial Intelligence programs in Fortran.If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing.STRUCTURED PROGRAMMINGThe academics in computer science have gotten into the structured programming rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming:Real Programmers aren't afraid to use GOTOs.Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused.Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting.Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 nanoseconds in the middle of a tight loop.Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious.Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using assigned GOTOs.Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name.OPERATING SYSTEMSWhat kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M.Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right systems: they send jokes around the world on UUCP-net and write adventure games and research papers.No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte core dump without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.)OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken.PROGRAMMING TOOLSWhat kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer.One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies.In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse.Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - Emacs and VI being two. The the Real Programmer wants a you asked for it, you got it text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise.It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary object Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called job security.Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers:Fortran preprocessors like MORTRAN and RATFOR. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming.Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps.Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient.Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5].THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORKWhere does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real or sorting mailing lists for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!).Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers.Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions.It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies.Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles.Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter.The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances.As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs.THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAYGenerally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room:At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it.At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper.At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand.At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary.In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time.THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITATWhat sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done.The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are:Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office.Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush.Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages.Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969.Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine.Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions.Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.)The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general:No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night).Real Programmers don't wear neckties.Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes.Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9].A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire ASCII (or EBCDIC) code table.Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee.THE FUTUREWhat of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers?From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be.Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal "humour" Back in the good old days - the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers - they're so impersonal". (A previous work [1] points out that Real Men don't "relate" to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.) But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow Real Men out of the water playing Asteroids and Pac-Man, and anyone can buy and even understand their very own Personal Computer. The Real Programmer is in danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with {TRASH-80s}. There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is made clear, it will give these kids something to aspire to -- a role model, a Father Figure. It will also help explain to the employers of Real Programmers why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings). LANGUAGES The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use {Fortran}. Quiche Eaters use {Pascal}. Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of Pascal, gave a talk once at which he was asked how to pronounce his name. He replied, "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'." One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism endorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the {IBM 370} {Fortran-G} and H compilers. Real programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a {keypunch}, a {Fortran IV} {compiler}, and a beer. Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran. Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran. Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran. Real Programmers do {Artificial Intelligence} programs in Fortran. If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in {assembly language}. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING The academics in computer science have gotten into the "structured programming" rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer uses some special language constructs and techniques. They don't all agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the examples they use to show their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some obscure journal or another - clearly not enough of an example to convince anyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different computer languages, and create 1000-line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and understand a 200,000-line Fortran program, then speed it up by a factor of two. Any Real Programmer will tell you that all the Structured Coding in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming: Real Programmers aren't afraid to use {GOTOs}. Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused. Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting. Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 {nanoseconds} in the middle of a tight loop. Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious. Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using {assigned GOTOs}. Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Wirth (the above-mentioned Quiche Eater) actually wrote an entire book [2] contending that you could write a program based on data structures, instead of the other way around. As all Real Programmers know, the only useful data structure is the Array. Strings, lists, structures, sets - these are all special cases of arrays and can be treated that way just as easily without messing up your programing language with all sorts of complications. The worst thing about fancy data types is that you have to declare them, and Real Programming Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name. OPERATING SYSTEMS What kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M. Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do Serious Work on Unix systems: they send jokes around the world on {UUCP}-net and write adventure games and research papers. No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great programmer can write JCL without referring to the manual at all. A truly outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte {core dump} without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.) OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is encouraged. The best way to approach the system is through a keypunch. Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken. PROGRAMMING TOOLS What kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back in the days when computers had front panels, this was actually done occasionally. Your typical Real Programmer knew the entire bootstrap loader by memory in hex, and toggled it in whenever it got destroyed by his program. (Back then, memory was memory - it didn't go away when the power went off. Today, memory either forgets things when you don't want it to, or remembers things long after they're better forgotten.) Legend has it that {Seymore Cray}, inventor of the Cray I supercomputer and most of Control Data's computers, actually toggled the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer. One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had crashed in the middle of saving some important work. Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone. The moral of this story: while a Real Programmer usually includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies. In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a single keypunch. The Real Programmer in this situation has to do his work with a "text editor" program. Most systems supply several text editors to select from, and the Real Programmer must be careful to pick one that reflects his personal style. Many people believe that the best text editors in the world were written at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for use on their Alto and Dorado computers [3]. Unfortunately, no Real Programmer would ever use a computer whose operating system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse. Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - {Emacs} and {VI} being two. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise. It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine. For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary {object code} directly, using a wonderful program called SUPERZAP (or its equivalent on non-IBM machines). This works so well that many working programs on IBM systems bear no relation to the original Fortran code. In many cases, the original source code is no longer available. When it comes time to fix a program like this, no manager would even think of sending anything less than a Real Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called "job security". Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers: Fortran preprocessors like {MORTRAN} and {RATFOR}. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming. Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps. Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient. Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5]. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORK Where does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real Programmer would be caught dead writing accounts-receivable programs in {COBOL}, or sorting {mailing lists} for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!). Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers. Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions. It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies. Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles. Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation - hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter. The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances. As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, however, a black cloud has formed on the Real Programmer horizon. It seems that some highly placed Quiche Eaters at the Defense Department decided that all Defense programs should be written in some grand unified language called "ADA" ((C), DoD). For a while, it seemed that ADA was destined to become a language that went against all the precepts of Real Programming - a language with structure, a language with data types, {strong typing}, and semicolons. In short, a language designed to cripple the creativity of the typical Real Programmer. Fortunately, the language adopted by DoD has enough interesting features to make it approachable -- it's incredibly complex, includes methods for messing with the operating system and rearranging memory, and Edsgar Dijkstra doesn't like it [6]. (Dijkstra, as I'm sure you know, was the author of "GoTos Considered Harmful" - a landmark work in programming methodology, applauded by Pascal programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language. The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing there's enough money in it. There are several Real Programmers building video games at Atari, for example. (But not playing them - a Real Programmer knows how to beat the machine every time: no challenge in that.) Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because nobody has found a use for computer graphics yet. On the other hand, all computer graphics is done in Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAY Generally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be doing for fun anyway (although he is careful not to express this opinion out loud). Occasionally, the Real Programmer does step out of the office for a breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room: At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it. At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper. At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand. At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying "Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary." In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time. THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT What sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done. The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are: Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office. Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush. Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages. Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969. Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine. Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions. Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.) The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer - it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general: No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night). Real Programmers don't wear neckties. Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes. Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9]. A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire {ASCII} (or EBCDIC) code table. Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee. THE FUTURE What of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same outlook on life as their elders. Many of them have never seen a computer with a front panel. Hardly anyone graduating from school these days can do hex arithmetic without a calculator. College graduates these days are soft - protected from the realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses, and "user friendly" operating systems. Worst of all, some of these alleged "computer scientists" manage to get degrees without ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers? From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, despite all the efforts of Pascal programmers the world over. Even more subtle tricks, like adding structured coding constructs to Fortran have failed. Oh sure, some computer vendors have come out with Fortran 77 compilers, but every one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be. Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real Programmer - two different and subtly incompatible user interfaces, an arcane and complicated teletype driver, virtual memory. If you ignore the fact that it's "structured", even 'C' programming can be appreciated by the Real Programmer: after all, there's no type checking, variable names are seven (ten? eight?) characters long, and the added bonus of the Pointer data type is thrown in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
recital ::: n. --> The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.
A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.
That which is recited; a story; a narration.
A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.
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rhonchus ::: n. --> An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. See Rale.
romance ::: 1. A long medieval narrative in prose or verse that tells of the adventures and heroic exploits of chivalric heroes. 2. The colourful world, life, or conditions as in novels and other prose narratives depicting heroic or marvellous deeds and pageantry. 3. A love affair.
romance ::: n. --> A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life,
Ṛsipatana. (P. Isipatana; T. Drang srong lhung ba; C. Xianren duochu; J. Sennin dasho; K. Sonin t'ach'o 仙人墮處). In Sanskrit, lit. "Place where Holy Men Descend"; referring specifically to the Ṛsipatana (P. Isipatana) MṚGADĀVA (Deer Park), located just northeast of the city of Vārānasī, where the Buddha spoke his first sermon, the "Turning of the Wheel of the Dharma" (DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANASuTRA; P. DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANASUTTA); this site is also commonly known as the Deer Park (Mṛgadāva) in SĀRNĀTH. Explanations for the name Ṛsipatana generally involve slight variations of a story set in the time of the previous buddha KĀsYAPA. Just before the advent of Kāsyapa, five hundred PRATYEKABUDDHAs were said to be living in the hills of the park. When they heard of the coming of this Buddha, they flew into to the air, attained NIRVĀnA, and manifested the fire element; the fire burned their material bodies, which fell as ashes to the park below. Thus, the site came to be called "the place where holy men descend." Others argue that Ṛsipatana is instead a variation of Ṛsipattana, meaning "gathering place of holy men."
saga "jargon" (WPI) A {cuspy} but bogus raving story about N {random} broken people. Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by {Guy Steele} (GLS): Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at {MIT} for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at {Stanford}, particularly our mutual friend {Richard Gabriel} (RPG). RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to {Palo Alto} (going {logical} south on route 101, parallel to {El Camino Bignum}). Palo Alto is adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco. We ate at The Good Earth, a "health food" restaurant, very popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder. JONL ordered such a shake - the waitress claimed the flavour of the day was "lalaberry". I still have no idea what that might be, but it became a running joke. It was the colour of raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant. After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavours. It's a chain, and they have a slogan: "If you don't live near an Uncle Gaylord's - MOVE!" Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other non-natural garbage). JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in {Berkeley}, California, the first time either of us had been on the West Coast. When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store. The ice cream there was very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavour, ginger honey. Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth - indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit --- a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times. Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that "Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad! That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat." After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase him: "Wow! Ginger! The spice that makes rotten meat taste good!" "Say! Why don't we find some dog that's been run over and sat in the sun for a week and put some *ginger* on it for dinner?!" "Right! With a lalaberry shake!" And so on. This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humour, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream. Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing. I unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had je ne sais quoi du jour, but RPG and JONL had lapin (rabbit). (Waitress: "Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today." RPG: "Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any *ginger*!") We finished the meal late, about 11 P.M., which is 2 A.M Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's! Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not mentioned it. We still knew very little of the local geography. I did figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley. RPG said "Fine!" and we drove on for a while and talked. I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When he awoke, RPG said, "Gee, JONL, you must have slept all the way over the bridge!", referring to the one spanning San Francisco Bay. Just then we came to a sign that said "University Avenue". I mumbled something about working our way over to Telegraph Avenue; RPG said "Right!" and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's. Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all. JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from the way it does in daylight.) He said, "This isn't the Uncle Gaylord's I went to in Berkeley! It looked like a barn! But this place looks *just like* the one back in Palo Alto!" RPG deadpanned, "Well, this is the one *I* always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco, too. Remember, they're a chain." JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant - he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto. JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavour, as not too many people like it. JONL said, "I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone." The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first. "Some people think it tastes like soap." JONL insisted, "Look, I *love* ginger. I eat Chinese food. I eat raw ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto. I *know* I like that flavour!" At the words "back in Palo Alto" the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught his eye and winked. Through my stupor I still hadn't quite grasped what was going on, and thought RPG was rolling on the floor laughing and clutching his stomach just because JONL had launched into his spiel ("makes rotten meat a dish for princes") for the forty-third time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully. RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles. JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time. At length the g.b.t.c. said, "How's the ginger honey?" JONL said, "Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it?" Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and even teaches classes on how to make his ice cream at home. So the g.b.t.c. got out the recipe, and he and JONL pored over it for a while. But the g.b.t.c. could contain his curiosity no longer, and asked again, "You really like that stuff, huh?" JONL said, "Yeah, I've been eating it constantly back in Palo Alto for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!" G.b.t.c. looked him straight in the eye and said, "You're *in* Palo Alto!" JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, "I've been hacked!" [My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an "ollalieberry" - ESR] [Ironic footnote: it appears that the {meme} about ginger vs. rotting meat may be an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination of mediaeval recipes or period purchase records for spices, and appears full-blown in the works of Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. - ESR] [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-08)
saga: Lengthy Scandinavian and Icelandic prose narratives about famous historical heroes, notable families, or the adventures of kings and warriors.
sea king ::: --> One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.
second generation computer "architecture" A computer built from {transistors}, designed between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s. {Ferrite core memory} and {magnetic drums} replaced {cathode ray tubes} and {delay-line storage} for main {memory}. {Index registers} and {floating point} arithmetic hardware became widespread. Machine-independent {high level programming languages} such as {ALGOL}, {COBOL} and {Fortran} were introduced to simplify programming. {I/O processors} were introduced to supervise input-output operations independently of the {CPU} thus freeing the CPU from time-consuming housekeeping functions. The CPU would send the I/O processor an initial instruction to start operating and the I/O processor would then continue independently of the CPU. When completed, or in the event of an error, the I/O processor sent an {interrupt} to the CPU. {Batch} processing became feasible with the improvement in I/O and storage technology in that a batch of jobs could be prepared in advance, stored on magnetic tape and processed on the computer in one continuous operation placing the results on another magnetic tape. It became commonplace for auxiliary, small computers to be used to process the input and output tapes off-line thus leaving the main computer free to process user programs. Computer manufacturers began to provide system software such as {compilers}, {subroutine} libraries and batch monitors. With the advent of second generation computers it became necessary to talk about computer systems, since the number of memory units, processors, I/O devices, and other system components could vary between different installations, even though the same basic computer was used. The instruction repertoire of the {IBM 7094} (a typical second generation machine) had over 200 instructions including data transfer instructions for transferring a {word} of information between the CPU and memory or between two CPU registers; fixed-point and floating point arithmetic instructions; {logic} instructions (AND, OR etc.); instructions for modifying {index registers}; conditional and unconditional branching; {subroutines}; input-output operations for transferring data between I/O devices and main memory. (1996-11-25)
second generation computer ::: (architecture) A computer built from transistors, designed between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s.Ferrite core memory and magnetic drums replaced cathode ray tubes and delay-line storage for main memory. Index registers and floating point arithmetic hardware became widespread. Machine-independent high level programming languages such as ALGOL, COBOL and Fortran were introduced to simplify programming.I/O processors were introduced to supervise input-output operations independently of the CPU thus freeing the CPU from time-consuming housekeeping When completed, or in the event of an error, the I/O processor sent an interrupt to the CPU.Batch processing became feasible with the improvement in I/O and storage technology in that a batch of jobs could be prepared in advance, stored on provide system software such as compilers, subroutine libraries and batch monitors.With the advent of second generation computers it became necessary to talk about computer systems, since the number of memory units, processors, I/O devices, and other system components could vary between different installations, even though the same basic computer was used.The instruction repertoire of the IBM 7094 (a typical second generation machine) had over 200 instructions including data transfer instructions for transferring unconditional branching; subroutines; input-output operations for transferring data between I/O devices and main memory. (1996-11-25)
She lun zong. (J. Shoronshu; K. Sop non chong 攝論宗). In Chinese, "School of the MAHĀYĀNASAMGRAHA"; one of the early Chinese indigenous doctrinal schools, focusing on YOGĀCĀRA philosophy. The school has its origins in exegetical traditions that began with PARAMĀRTHA's (499-569) translation of ASAnGA's MahāyānasaMgraha (C. She Dasheng lun). The school played a central role in early Chinese doctrinal controversies concerning the interpretation of consciousness in two different Indian Buddhist systems of thought: Yogācāra and TATHĀGATAGARBHA. The controversies revolved around the issue of the nature of the eighth storehouse consciousness (ĀLAYAVIJNĀNA), based on VASUBANDHU's ambiguous position in the SHIDIJING LUN (DAsABHuMIVYĀKHYĀNA), a commentary on the DAsABHuMIKASuTRA. In some passages, Vasubandhu implied that the ālayavijNāna was the tainted source from which SAMSĀRA arises; in others, he implied instead that the ālayavijNāna was coextensive with suchness (TATHATĀ) and thus fundamentally pure. The northern branch of the DI LUN ZONG argued that the storehouse consciousness was impure; it is a tainted source that produces only defiled dharmas. By contrast, the southern branch argued that the ālayavijNāna was fundamentally pure but came to be adventitiously associated with impure elements: it was the functioning of suchness and thus was pure, but it also was subject to the same laws of conditioned origination (PRATĪTYASAMUTPĀDA) as the sensory consciousnesses and thus on that level was also impure. The She lun school sought to integrate these two interpretations by drawing on Paramārtha's concept of an immaculate consciousness (AMALAVIJNĀNA). Paramārtha in his personal writings condemned the ālayavijNāna as being fundamentally impure, positing instead that only a ninth mode of consciousness, which he termed the immaculate consciousness, was pure. Following Paramārtha, She lun exegetes treated the ālayavijNāna as impure, and instead established the amalavijNāna as the pure ninth consciousness. They identified this new consciousness with suchness (tathatā) by using it as a synonym for PARINIsPANNA, the perfected nature described in Yogācāra philosophy. In the She lun zong interpretation, amalavijNāna thus came to be regarded as the absolute basis for all previous eight types of consciousness; the eighth consciousness, the ālayavijNāna, was instead seen as the provisional basis of afflictions (KLEsA). Several She lun masters advocated this admixture between ālayavijNāna and tathāgatagarbha thought, including Huikai (518-568), Daoni (fl. 590), Huikuang (534-613), and Tanqian (542-607). Tanqian was especially influential and was even invited by the Sui emperor Wendi (r. 581-604) to the imperial capital of Chang'an in 587 to preach the She lun teachings. The emperor later built the monastery of Chandingsi in the capital and appointed Tanqian as its first abbot, which became the center of the She lun zong. Sengbian (568-642), a She lun master from Daoni's lineage, was one of the teachers of the renowned Korean Yogācāra master WoNCH'ŬK (613-696). Doctrinal positions held in the She lun zong were crucial in the evolution of the HUAYAN school of the mature Chinese tradition.
sodasasthavira. (T. gnas brtan bcu drug; C. shiliu zunzhe; J. jurokusonja; K. simnyuk chonja 十六尊者). In Sanskrit, "the sixteen elders" (most commonly known in the East Asian tradition as the "sixteen ARHATs"); a group of sixteen venerated arhat (C. LUOHAN) disciples of the Buddha whom the Buddha orders to forgo NIRVĀnA and to continue to dwell in this world in order to preserve the Buddhist teachings until the coming of the future buddha, MAITREYA. Each of these arhats is assigned an (often mythical) residence and a retinue of disciples. With Maitreya's advent, they will gather the relics of the current buddha sĀKYAMUNI and erect one last STuPA to hold them, after which they will finally pass into PARINIRVĀnA. The sāriputraparipṛcchā ("Sutra on sāriputra's Questions"), which was translated at least by the Eastern Jin dynasty (317-420 CE) but may date closer to the beginning of the millennium, mentions four great monks (mahā-BHIKsU) to whom the Buddha entrusted the propagation of the teachings after his death: MAHĀKĀsYAPA, PIndOLA, Kundovahan (C. Juntoupohan, "Holder of the Mongoose," apparently identical to BAKKULA), and RĀHULA. The MILE XIASHENG JING ("Sutra on the Advent of Maitreya"), translated in 303 CE by DHARMARAKsA, states instead that the Buddha instructed these same four monks to wait until after the buddhadharma of the current dispensation was completely extinct before entering PARINIRVĀnA. The sāriputraparipṛcchā's account is also found in the FAHUA WENJU by TIANTAI ZHIYI (538-597) of the Sui dynasty. The Mahāyānāvatāra (C. Ru dasheng lun; "Entry into the Mahāyāna"), a treatise written by Sāramati (C. Jianyi) and translated into Chinese c. 400 CE by Daotai of the Northern Liang dynasty (397-439) first mentions "sixteen" great disciples (mahā-sRĀVAKA) who disperse throughout the world to preserve the Buddha's teachings after his death, but does not name them. Indeed, it is not until the Tang dynasty that the full list of sixteen disciples who preserve the buddhadharma is first introduced into the Chinese tradition. This complete list first appears in the Nandimitrāvadāna (Da aluohan Nantimiduo luo suoshuo fazhu ji, abbr. Fazhu ji, "Record of the Duration of the Dharma Spoken by the Great Arhat NANDIMITRA"), which was translated by XUANZANG in 654 CE. (Nandimitra [C. Qingyou zunzhe] was born in the second century CE in Sri Lanka.) This text tells the story of the Buddha's special charge to this group of elders and offers each of their names, residences, and numbers of disciples. JINGQI ZHANRAN's (711-782) Fahua wenju ji, a commentary to TIANTAI ZHIYI's (538-597) FAHUA WENJU, also cites an account from the apocryphal Ratnameghasutra (Bao yun jing) that the Buddha charged sixteen "worthy ones" (S. arhat; C. luohan) with preserving the BUDDHADHARMA until the advent of Maitreya, after which they could then enter parinirvāna. Zhanran's citation of this sutra gives the names of each of the sixteen arhats, along with their residence and the number of their followers; but while Pindola's and Rāhula's names are included in the sixteen, Mahākāsyapa is not mentioned. According to the Xuanhe huapu ("The Xuanhe Chronology of Painting"), the earliest Chinese iconography showing a group of sixteen disciples probably dates to the Liang dynasty (502-557), when ZHANG SENGYAO (d.u.; fl c. 502-549) first painted a rendering of the sodasasthavira. After the Nandimitrāvadāna was translated into Chinese in the middle of the seventh century, the group of sixteen elders became so universally revered within China that many verses, paintings, and sculptures were dedicated to them. As a group, they appear frequently in East Asian monastic art, each arhat specifically identified by his unique (and often wildly exaggerated) physical characteristics. The most renowned such painting was made at the end of the ninth century by the monk CHANYUE GUANXIU (832-912); his work became the standard presentation of the sixteen. His vivid portrayal of the arhats offers an extreme, stylized rendition of how the Chinese envisioned "Indians" (fan) or "Westerners" (hu). He gives each of his subjects a distinctive bearing and deportment and unique phrenological features and physical characteristics; these features are subsequently repeated routinely in the Chinese artistic tradition. The standard roster of arhats now recognized in the East Asian tradition, in their typical order, are (1) PIndOLA BHĀRADVĀJA; (2) KANAKAVATSA; (3) KANAKA BHĀRADVĀJA; (4) SUBINDA [alt. Suvinda]; (5) BAKKULA [alt. Bākula, Nakula]; (6) BHADRA; (7) KĀLIKA [alt. Karīka]; (8) VAJRAPUTRA; (9) JĪVAKA; (10) PANTHAKA; (11) RĀHULA; (12) NĀGASENA; (13) AnGAJA; (14) VANAVĀSIN; (15) AJITA; (16) CudAPANTHAKA. Sometime before the Song dynasty, the Chinese occasionally added two extra arhats to the roster, possibly in response to Daoist configurations of teachers, giving a total of eighteen. The most common of these additional members were Nandimitra (the putative subject of the text in which the protectors are first mentioned by name) and Pindola Bhāradvāja (another transcription of the arhat who already appears on the list), although Mahākāsyapa also frequently appears. The Tibetan tradition adds still other figures. In a standard form of the Tibetan ritual, the sixteen elders are listed as Angaja, Ajita, Vanavāsin, Kālika, Vajraputra, Bhadra, Kanakavatsa, Kanaka Bhāradvāja, Bakkula, Rāhula, Cudapanthaka, Pindola Bhāradvāja, Panthaka, Nāgasena, GOPAKA (Sbed byed), and Abheda (Mi phyed pa). They are visualized together with sākyamuni Buddha whose teaching they have been entrusted to protect, their benefactor the layman (UPĀSAKA) Dharmatāla [alt. Dharmatāra, Dharmatrāta], and the four great kings (CATURMAHĀRĀJA) VAIsRAVAnA [alt. Kubera], DHṚTARĀstRA, VIRudHAKA, and VIRuPĀKsA. Each of the elders is described as having a particular scroll, begging bowl, staff, and so on, and in a particular posture with a set number of arhats. They come miraculously from their different sacred abodes, assemble, are praised, and worshipped with the recitation of the bodhisattva SAMANTABHADRA's ten vows in the BHADRACARĪPRAnIDHĀNA. Then, with solemn requests to protect the dispensation by watching over the lives of the gurus, they are requested to return to their respective homelands. In other rituals, one finds BUDAI heshang (Cloth-Bag Monk, viz., AnGAJA), the Buddha's mother, Queen MĀYĀ, and his successor, Maitreya; or the two ancient Indian Buddhist sages "Subduer of Dragons" (C. Xianglong) and "Subduer of Lions" (C. Fuhu). See also LUOHAN; and individual entries on each of the sixteen arhats/sthaviras.
Such symbols as the cross, the svastika, and the serpent may serve as talismans, for a true symbol is more than a mere arbitrary sign and actually plays its part in the evocation of certain influences — but only when intense faith is conjoined in the production of magical effects. Talismans are utterly useless and foolish unless intense faith operates because all such talismanic emblems depend for their efficacy upon the faith of the possessor of them. When a person believes beyond any shadow of doubt and is thoroughly worked up in such conviction, his will power through such faith when concentrated upon a talisman or similar object can actually bring about the functioning of a potent creative power. This is the root of all genuinely magical operations; but the true magician has no need for such exoteric paraphernalia or adventitious aids. He produces his effects through the sole power of his will combined with his wide knowledge of nature and natural laws.
tathāgatagarbha. (T. de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po; C. rulaizang; J. nyoraizo; K. yoraejang 如來藏). In Sanskrit, variously translated as "womb of the TATHĀGATAs," "matrix of the tathāgatas," "embryo of the tathāgatas," "essence of the tathāgatas"; the term probably means "containing a tathāgatha." It is more imprecisely interpreted as the "buddha-nature," viz., the potential to achieve buddhahood that, according to some MAHĀYĀNA schools, is inherent in all sentient beings. The tathāgatagarbha is the topic of several important Mahāyāna sutras, including the TATHĀGATAGARBHASuTRA (with its famous nine similes about the state), the sRĪMĀLĀDEVĪSIMHANĀDASuTRA, the MAHĀPARINIRVĀnASuTRA, and the LAnKĀVATĀRASuTRA (where it is identified with the ĀLAYAVIJNĀNA), as well as the important Indian sĀSTRA, the RATNAGOTRAVIBHĀGA (also known as the Uttaratantra), with a commentary by ASAnGA. The concept is also central to such East Asian apocryphal scriptures as the DASHENG QIXIN LUN and the KŬMGANG SAMMAE KYoNG. The concept of tathāgatagarbha seems to have evolved from a relatively straightforward inspiration that all beings are capable of achieving buddhahood to a more complex doctrine of an almost genetic determination that all beings would eventually become buddhas; the Lankāvatāra goes so far as to describe the tathāgatagarbha itself as possessing the thirty-two marks of a superman (MAHĀPURUsALAKsAnA). Tathāgatagarbha thought seeks to answer the question of why ignorant beings are able to become enlightened by suggesting that this capacity is something innate in the minds of all sentient beings, which has become concealed by adventitious afflictions (ĀGANTUKAKLEsA) that are extrinsic to the mind. "Concealment" (S. saMdhi/abhisaMdhi; C. yinfu) here suggests that the tathāgatagarbha by the presence of the afflictions; or, second, it is an active agent of liberation, which secrets itself away inside the minds of sentient beings so as to inspire them toward enlightenment. The former passive sense is more common in Indian materials; the latter sense of tathāgatagarbha as an active soteriological potency is more typical of East Asian presentations of the concept. Tathāgatagarbha thought could thus claim that enlightenment need involve nothing more rigorous than simply relinquishing the mistaken notion that one is deluded and accepting the fact of one's inherent enlightenment (see also BENJUE; HONGAKU). The notion of tathāgatagarbha was a topic of extensive commentary and debate in India, Tibet, and East Asia. It was not the case, for example, that all Mahāyāna exegetes asserted that all sentient beings possess the tathāgatagarbha and thus the capacity for enlightenment; indeed, the FAXIANG ZONG, an East Asian strand of YOGĀCĀRA, famously asserted that some beings could so completely lose all aspiration for enlightenment that they would become "incorrigible" (ICCHANTIKA) and thus be forever incapable of liberation. There was also substantial debate as to the precise nature of the tathāgathagarbha, especially because some of its descriptions made it seem similar to the notion of a perduring self (ĀTMAN), a doctrine that is anathema to most schools of Buddhism. The srīmālādevīsiMhanāda, for example, described the tathāgatagarbha as endowed with four "perfect qualities" (GUnAPĀRAMITĀ): permanence, purity, bliss, and self, but states that this "self" is different from the "self" (ĀTMAN) propounded by the non-Buddhists. In an effort to avoid any such associations, CANDRAKĪRTI explains that the tathāgatagarbha is not to be understood as an independent quality but rather refers to the emptiness (suNYATĀ) of the mind; it is this emptiness, with which all beings are endowed, that serves as the potential for achieving buddhahood. In Tibet, Candrakīrti's view was taken up by the DGE LUGS sect, while the more literal view of the tathāgatagarbha as an ultimately real nature obscured by conventional contaminants was asserted most famously by the JO NANG. Both the extensive influence of the doctrine and the controversy it provoked points to an ongoing tension in the Mahāyāna between the more apophatic discourse on emptiness, found especially in the PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ sutras, and the more substantialist descriptions of the ultimate reality implied by such terms as tathāgatagarbha, DHARMADHĀTU, and DHARMAKĀYA. The term is also central to the larger question of whether enlightenment is something to be achieved through a sequence of practices or something to be revealed in a flash of insight (see DUNWU). See also HIHAN BUKKYo.
temerarious ::: a. --> Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless.
thelema ::: Thelema Thelema, from the Greek, meaning 'will', is the embodiment of Aleister Crowley's doctrine of 'True Will', after Franois Rabelais (c 1494 - 1553), the French Catholic monk who envisioned an 'Abbey of Thelema' in his Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel. In 1920, Crowley, along with Leah Hirsig (the Scarlet Woman), founded the Abbey of Thelema in Cefal, Sicily. Followers of Crowley are called Thelemites.
The meanings of transmigration, metempsychosis, metensomatosis, the Hebrew gilgulim, etc., are not synonymous. Each one of these words has its own particular significance, although many of these different words overlap to a certain extent. Thus a being who reincarnates on earth — takes up a body of flesh — likewise transmigrates in the sense of passing over from one condition of life to another, followed by a third and yet others; and that during this process there is a certain change of the condition of the soul or migrating entity which is the particular meaning of metempsychosis; and furthermore, the assumption of a new physical body which is part of the meaning of reincarnation appears in the specific term metensomatosis, and yet again the phase of rebirth is likewise involved. Each one of these different terms, and others, sets forth one particular aspect of the destiny and adventures of the peregrinating entity.
The mystical and mythologic teachings concerning Amenti were all more or less symbolic descriptions of the series of afterdeath states and adventures experienced by the excarnate entity. Thus kama-loka, devachan, and the postmortem peregrinations of the excarnate monad are all combined under the one term Amenti.
The “second advent,” referring to a second coming of Christ, was considered imminent by some early Christian sects, and is still expected by certain sects today. This echoes the archaic teaching concerning the advent of Maitreya-Buddha — the next great Buddha to appear in the long line of Buddha-succession — as well as the second coming of Elijah among the Jews, and the coming of the Kalki-avatara among the Hindus.
The story of Mel, a Real Programmer "programming, person" A 1983 article by Ed Nather about {hacker} {Mel Kaye}. The full text follows. A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement, "Real Programmers write in FORTRAN". Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators and "user-friendly" software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term "software" sounded funny and Real Computers were made out of {drums} and {vacuum tubes}, Real Programmers wrote in {machine code} - not {Fortran}, not {RATFOR}, not even {assembly language} - {Machine Code}, raw, unadorned, inscrutable {hexadecimal} numbers, directly. Lest a whole new generation of programmers grow up in ignorance of this glorious past, I feel duty-bound to describe, as best I can through the generation gap, how a Real Programmer wrote code. I'll call him Mel, because that was his name. I first met Mel when I went to work for {Royal McBee Computer Corporation}, a now-defunct subsidiary of the typewriter company. The firm manufactured the {LGP-30}, a small, cheap (by the standards of the day) {drum}-memory computer, and had just started to manufacture the RPC-4000, a much-improved, bigger, better, faster -- drum-memory computer. Cores cost too much, and weren't here to stay, anyway. (That's why you haven't heard of the company, or the computer.) I had been hired to write a {Fortran} compiler for this new marvel and Mel was my guide to its wonders. Mel didn't approve of compilers. "If a program can't rewrite its own code," he asked, "what good is it?" Mel had written, in {hexadecimal}, the most popular computer program the company owned. It ran on the {LGP-30} and played blackjack with potential customers at computer shows. Its effect was always dramatic. The LGP-30 booth was packed at every show, and the IBM salesmen stood around talking to each other. Whether or not this actually sold computers was a question we never discussed. Mel's job was to re-write the blackjack program for the {RPC-4000}. ({Port}? What does that mean?) The new computer had a one-plus-one addressing scheme, in which each machine instruction, in addition to the {operation code} and the address of the needed {operand}, had a second address that indicated where, on the revolving drum, the next instruction was located. In modern parlance, every single instruction was followed by a {GO TO}! Put *that* in {Pascal}'s pipe and smoke it. Mel loved the RPC-4000 because he could optimize his code: that is, locate instructions on the drum so that just as one finished its job, the next would be just arriving at the "read head" and available for immediate execution. There was a program to do that job, an "optimizing assembler", but Mel refused to use it. "You never know where its going to put things", he explained, "so you'd have to use separate constants". It was a long time before I understood that remark. Since Mel knew the numerical value of every operation code, and assigned his own drum addresses, every instruction he wrote could also be considered a numerical constant. He could pick up an earlier "add" instruction, say, and multiply by it, if it had the right numeric value. His code was not easy for someone else to modify. I compared Mel's hand-optimised programs with the same code massaged by the optimizing assembler program, and Mel's always ran faster. That was because the "{top-down}" method of program design hadn't been invented yet, and Mel wouldn't have used it anyway. He wrote the innermost parts of his program loops first, so they would get first choice of the optimum address locations on the drum. The optimizing assembler wasn't smart enough to do it that way. Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either, even when the balky {Flexowriter} required a delay between output characters to work right. He just located instructions on the drum so each successive one was just *past* the read head when it was needed; the drum had to execute another complete revolution to find the next instruction. He coined an unforgettable term for this procedure. Although "optimum" is an absolute term, like "unique", it became common verbal practice to make it relative: "not quite optimum" or "less optimum" or "not very optimum". Mel called the maximum time-delay locations the "most pessimum". After he finished the blackjack program and got it to run, ("Even the initialiser is optimised", he said proudly) he got a Change Request from the sales department. The program used an elegant (optimised) {random number generator} to shuffle the "cards" and deal from the "deck", and some of the salesmen felt it was too fair, since sometimes the customers lost. They wanted Mel to modify the program so, at the setting of a sense switch on the console, they could change the odds and let the customer win. Mel balked. He felt this was patently dishonest, which it was, and that it impinged on his personal integrity as a programmer, which it did, so he refused to do it. The Head Salesman talked to Mel, as did the Big Boss and, at the boss's urging, a few Fellow Programmers. Mel finally gave in and wrote the code, but he got the test backward, and, when the sense switch was turned on, the program would cheat, winning every time. Mel was delighted with this, claiming his subconscious was uncontrollably ethical, and adamantly refused to fix it. After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it. Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real adventure. I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius. Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had no test in it. No test. *None*. Common sense said it had to be a closed loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side. It took me two weeks to figure it out. The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an {index register}. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment the index register each time through. Mel never used it. Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head, ready to go. But the loop had no test in it. The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word, was turned on-- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me. He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough, the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the program went happily on its way. I haven't kept in touch with Mel, so I don't know if he ever gave in to the flood of change that has washed over programming techniques since those long-gone days. I like to think he didn't. In any event, I was impressed enough that I quit looking for the offending test, telling the Big Boss I couldn't find it. He didn't seem surprised. When I left the company, the blackjack program would still cheat if you turned on the right sense switch, and I think that's how it should be. I didn't feel comfortable hacking up the code of a Real Programmer." [Posted to {Usenet} by its author, Ed Nather "utastro!nather", on 1983-05-21]. {Jargon File (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html)}. [{On the trail of a Real Programmer (http://www.jamtronix.com/blog/2011/03/25/on-the-trail-of-a-real-programmer/)}, 2011-03-25 blog post by "jonno" at Jamtronix] [When did it happen? Did Mel use hexadecimal or octal?] (2003-09-12)
The story of Mel, a Real Programmer ::: (programming, person) An article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement, Real Programmers write in Fortran. language - Machine Code. Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers, directly.Lest a whole new generation of programmers grow up in ignorance of this glorious past, I feel duty-bound to describe, as best I can through the generation gap, how a Real Programmer wrote code. I'll call him Mel, because that was his name.I first met Mel when I went to work for Royal McBee Computer Corporation, a now-defunct subsidiary of the typewriter company. The firm manufactured the faster -- drum-memory computer. Cores cost too much, and weren't here to stay, anyway. (That's why you haven't heard of the company, or the computer.)I had been hired to write a Fortran compiler for this new marvel and Mel was my guide to its wonders. Mel didn't approve of compilers.If a program can't rewrite its own code, he asked, what good is it?Mel had written, in hexadecimal, the most popular computer program the company owned. It ran on the LGP-30 and played blackjack with potential customers at every show, and the IBM salesmen stood around talking to each other. Whether or not this actually sold computers was a question we never discussed.Mel's job was to re-write the blackjack program for the RPC-4000. (Port? What does that mean?) The new computer had a one-plus-one addressing scheme, in which drum, the next instruction was located. In modern parlance, every single instruction was followed by a GO TO! Put *that* in Pascal's pipe and smoke it.Mel loved the RPC-4000 because he could optimize his code: that is, locate instructions on the drum so that just as one finished its job, the next would be was a program to do that job, an optimizing assembler, but Mel refused to use it.You never know where its going to put things, he explained, so you'd have to use separate constants.It was a long time before I understood that remark. Since Mel knew the numerical value of every operation code, and assigned his own drum addresses, every pick up an earlier add instruction, say, and multiply by it, if it had the right numeric value. His code was not easy for someone else to modify.I compared Mel's hand-optimised programs with the same code massaged by the optimizing assembler program, and Mel's always ran faster. That was because the they would get first choice of the optimum address locations on the drum. The optimizing assembler wasn't smart enough to do it that way.Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either, even when the balky Flexowriter required a delay between output characters to work right. He just located practice to make it relative: not quite optimum or less optimum or not very optimum. Mel called the maximum time-delay locations the most pessimum.After he finished the blackjack program and got it to run, (Even the initialiser is optimised, he said proudly) he got a Change Request from the Mel to modify the program so, at the setting of a sense switch on the console, they could change the odds and let the customer win.Mel balked. He felt this was patently dishonest, which it was, and that it impinged on his personal integrity as a programmer, which it did, so he refused program would cheat, winning every time. Mel was delighted with this, claiming his subconscious was uncontrollably ethical, and adamantly refused to fix it.After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it. Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real adventure.I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are lovely gems and reading through his code, even in hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had no test in it. No test. *None*. Common sense said it had to be a closed loop, where the it, however, and safely out the other side. It took me two weeks to figure it out.The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used an indexed instruction address of that instruction, so it would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment the index register each time through. Mel never used it.Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified instruction right taken into account -- just as this instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head, ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word, was turned on-- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last datum was instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough, the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the program went happily on its way.I haven't kept in touch with Mel, so I don't know if he ever gave in to the flood of change that has washed over programming techniques since those that I quit looking for the offending test, telling the Big Boss I couldn't find it. He didn't seem surprised.When I left the company, the blackjack program would still cheat if you turned on the right sense switch, and I think that's how it should be. I didn't feel comfortable hacking up the code of a Real Programmer.[Posted to USENET by its author, Ed Nather utastro!nather>, on 1983-05-21]. .[When did it happen? Did Mel use hexadecimal or octal?](2003-09-12)
The three kingdoms of elementals actually build and form every new planet or world, beginning in serial order with the lowest of the three kingdoms, preparing the globe for the advent of the mineral kingdom, to be followed in turn by the vegetable and higher kingdoms in regular succession. The elementals are not only the matters of nature, but when acting together and used by higher intelligences become the forces or energies of nature, such as electricity, magnetism, light, vitality, etc. Unconsciously, human and other beings use them in the carrying on of all their bodily functions. For example, our bodies cohere through the automatic aid of the elementals of earth; and the elementals of fire give us our bodily heat.
trikāya. (T. sku gsum; C. sanshen; J. sanshin; K. samsin 三身). In Sanskrit, lit. "three bodies"; one of the central doctrines of MAHĀYĀNA buddhology. The three bodies refer specifically to three distinct bodies or aspects of a buddha: DHARMAKĀYA, the "dharma body" or "truth body"; SAMBHOGAKĀYA, the "enjoyment body" or "reward body"; and NIRMĀnAKĀYA, "emanation body" or "transformation body." The issue of what actually constituted the Buddha's body arose among the MAINSTREAM BUDDHIST SCHOOLS over such questions as the body he used on miraculous journeys, such as the one that he took to TRĀYASTRIMsA heaven to teach his mother MĀYĀ; the conclusion was that he had used a "mind-made body" (MANOMAYAKĀYA), also called a nirmānakāya, to make the trip. The notion of different buddha bodies was also deployed to respond to the question of the nature of the Buddha jewel (buddharatna), one of the three jewels (RATNATRAYA) or three refuges (TRIsARAnA) of Buddhism. Since the physical body of the Buddha was subject to decay and death, was it a suitable object of refuge? In response to this question, it was concluded that the Buddha jewel was in fact a body or group (kāya) of qualities (dharma), such as the eighteen unique qualities of a buddha (ĀVEnIKA[BUDDHA]DHARMA). This "body of qualities," the original meaning of dharmakāya, was sometimes contrasted with the physical body of the Buddha, called the RuPAKĀYA ("material body") or the vipākakāya, the "fruition body," which was the result of past action (KARMAN). With the development of Mahāyāna thought, the notion of dharmakāya evolved into a kind of transcendent principle in which all buddhas partook, and it is in this sense that the term is translated as "truth body." In the later Mahāyāna scholastic tradition, the dharmakāya was said to have two aspects. The first is the SVABHĀVIKAKĀYA, or "nature body," which is the ultimate nature of a buddha's mind that is free from all adventitious defilements (āgantukamala). The second is the jNānakāya, or "wisdom body," a buddha's omniscient consciousness. The dharmakāya was the source of the two other bodies, both varieties of the rupakāya: the saMbhogakāya and the nirmānakāya. The former, traditionally glossed as "the body for the enjoyment of others," is a resplendent form of the Buddha adorned with the thirty-two major and eighty minor marks (MAHĀPURUsALAKsAnA), which appears only in buddha fields (BUDDHAKsETRA) to teach the Mahāyāna to advanced bodhisattvas. Some sāstras, such as the BUDDHABHuMIsĀSTRA (Fodijing lun) and CHENG WEISHI LUN, distinguish between a "body intended for others' enjoyment" (PARASAMBHOGAKĀYA) and a "body intended for personal enjoyment" (SVASAMBHOGAKĀYA). In the trikāya system, the nirmānakāya is no longer a special body conjured up for magical travel, but the body of the Buddha that manifests itself variously in the world of sentient beings in order to teach the dharma to them. It also has different varieties: the form that manifests in the mundane world as the Buddha adorned with the major and minor marks is called the UTTAMANIRMĀnAKĀYA, or "supreme emanation body"; the nonhuman or inanimate forms a buddha assumes in order to help others overcome their afflictions are called the JANMANIRMĀnAKĀYA, or "created emanation body."
unfortunate ::: a. --> Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business. ::: n. --> An unfortunate person.
unlucky ::: a. --> Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag.
Usenet "messaging" /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ (Or "Usenet news", from "Users' Network") A distributed {bulletin board} system and the people who post and read articles thereon. Originally implemented in 1979 - 1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott and Steve Daniel at Duke University, and supported mainly by {Unix} machines, it swiftly grew to become international in scope and, before the advent of the {web}, probably the largest decentralised information utility in existence. Usenet encompassed government agencies, universities, high schools, businesses of all sizes and home computers of all descriptions. As of early 1993, it hosted over 1200 {newsgroups} ("groups" for short) and an average of 40 megabytes (the equivalent of several thousand paper pages) of new technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and {flamage} every day. By November 1999, the number of groups had grown to over 37,000. To join in, you need a {Usenet provider (https://www.usenetstorm.com)}. Originally you needed a {news reader} program but there are now several web gateways, cheifly {Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/)} (originally {Deja News}). Some {web browsers} used to include news readers and {URLs} beginning "news:" referred to Usenet newsgroups. {Network News Transfer Protocol} is a {protocol} used to transfer news articles between a news {server} and a {news reader}. In the beginning, not all Usenet hosts were on the Internet. The {uucp} {protocol} was sometimes used to transfer articles between servers, though this became increasingly rare with the spread of the {Internet}. [Gene Spafford "spaf@cs.purdue.edu", "What is Usenet?", regular posting to {news:news.announce.newusers}]. (2017-09-26)
Usenet ::: (messaging) /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ (Or Usenet news, from Users' Network) A distributed bulletin board system and the people who post and read the advent of the World-Wide Web, probably the largest decentralised information utility in existence.Usenet encompasses government agencies, universities, high schools, businesses of all sizes, and home computers of all descriptions. In the beginning, not all chatter, and flamage every day. By November 1999, the number of groups had grown to over 37,000.To join in you originally needed a news reader program but there are now several web gateways such as . Several web browsers include news readers and URLs beginning news: refer to Usenet newsgroups.Network News Transfer Protocol is a protocol used to transfer news articles between a news server and a news reader. The uucp protocol was sometimes used to transfer articles between servers, though this is probably rare now that most sites are on the Internet.Stanford University runs a service to send news articles by electronic mail. Send electronic mail to with help in the message body. [Still? URL?] . .[Gene Spafford (1999-12-17)
vadding "games" /vad'ing/ (From VAD, a permutation of ADV, i.e. {ADVENT}, used to avoid a particular {admin}'s continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game) A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration of the "secret" parts of large buildings - basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels, and the like. A few go so far as to learn locksmithing in order to synthesise vadding keys. The verb is "to vad" (compare {phreaking}; see also {hack}, sense 9). This term dates from the late 1970s, before which such activity was simply called "hacking"; the older usage is still prevalent at {MIT}. Vadding (pronounced /vay'ding/) was also popular {CMU}, at least as early as 1986. People who did it every night were called the "vaders," possibly after "elevator," which was one of the things they played with, or "invader," or "Darth Vader". This game was usually played along with no-holds-barred hide-and-seek. CMU grad students were the known to pry open the inner doors of elevators between floors to see the graffiti on the inside of the outer doors. The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is "elevator rodeo", also known as "elevator surfing", a sport played by wrasslin' down a thousand-pound elevator car with a 3-foot piece of string, and then exploiting this mastery in various stimulating ways (such as elevator hopping, shaft exploration, rat-racing, and the ever-popular drop experiments). Kids, don't try this at home! See also {hobbit}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-01-07)
vadding ::: (games) /vad'ing/ (From VAD, a permutation of ADV, i.e. ADVENT, used to avoid a particular admin's continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game) A which such activity was simply called hacking; the older usage is still prevalent at MIT.Vadding (pronounced /vay'ding/) was also popular CMU, at least as early as 1986. People who did it every night were called the vaders, possibly after hide-and-seek. CMU grad students were the known to pry open the inner doors of elevators between floors to see the graffiti on the inside of the outer doors.The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is elevator rodeo, also known as elevator surfing, a sport played by wrasslin' down a thousand-pound rat-racing, and the ever-popular drop experiments). Kids, don't try this at home!See also hobbit.[Jargon File] (1996-01-07)
Vajraputra. [alt. Vajrīputra] (T. Rdo rje mo'i bu; C. Fasheluofuduoluo; J. Batsujarahotsutara; K. Polsarabultara 伐闍羅弗多羅). The Sanskrit name of the eighth of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who were charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. He resides in Bolanu zhou (the Sanskrit transcription of a region said to translate into Chinese as "reverence"), with 1,100 disciples. In the Chinese tradition, Vajraputra is said to have been a hunter who kept the precept against killing after he was ordained. Once he attained arhatship, two lion cubs came to him in appreciation for his efforts to stop the killing of animals. Vajraputra constantly brought the two cubs with him wherever he went after that, thus earning the nickname "Laughing Lions Arhat." Not long after the Buddha's PARINIRVĀnA, Vajraputra is said to have attended a sermon ĀNANDA was delivering to some local villagers. As he listened to Ānanda speak, Vajraputra realized that Ānanda was not yet enlightened, and encouraged him to continue with his meditation deep in the forest. This goad was said to have been vital to Ānanda's spiritual growth. In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Vajraputra is portrayed with aquiline nose and deep-set eyes, sitting on a rock, his upper body bare, with both arms crossing over his left knee, and palms hanging down. He sits leaning slightly to the right, as if reading a sutra that sits next to him on the rock.
Vanavāsin. (P. Vanavāsī; T. Nags na gnas; C. Fanaposi zunzhe; J. Batsunabashi sonja; K. Pollabasa chonja 伐那婆斯尊者). Sanskrit proper name of the fourteenth of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who were charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. He abides on Habitable Mountain (C. Kezhushan) with 1,400 disciples. In the Chinese tradition, he was said to have been born during a heavy downpour, which made a racket as the raindrops hit the plantain leaves. After ordaining, he also often diligently studied under the plantain trees, thus earning him the nickname "Plantain Arhat" (Bajiao Luohan). In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Vanavāsin sits in meditation in a cave, with his eyes closed, wearing a robe across his shoulders with both hands hidden in the sleeves. East Asian images also portray him seated next to a vase, his hands together in ANJALIMUDRĀ. In Tibetan iconography, he holds a chowrie (VĀLAVYAJANA).
venturer ::: n. --> One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer.
A strumpet; a prostitute.
venturesome ::: a. --> Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act.
visuddhi. [alt. visuddha] (P. visuddhi; T. rnam par dag pa; C. qingjing; J. shojo; K. ch'ongjong 清淨). In Sanskrit, "purity"; of which two types are enumerated: innate purity (prakṛti or svabhāvavisuddhi) and purity free of temporary or adventitious stains (āgantukamalavisuddhi). The former is the natural state of the mind (see PRABHĀSVARA) as in the Pāli AnGUTTARANIKĀYA: "The mind, O monks, is luminous (P. pabhassara), but is defiled by adventitious defilements" (pabhassaraM idaM bhikkhave cittaM, taN ca kho āgantukehi upakkilesehi upakkilitthaM). The latter is the mind when the path (MĀRGA) has cleansed it of hindrances (see NĪVARAnA; ĀVARAnA). In Pāli, there are seven purities (visuddhi) that must be developed along the path leading to liberation. The list of seven purities is first enumerated in the MAJJHIMANIKĀYA and forms the outline for both BUDDHAGHOSA's VISUDDHIMAGGA and Upatissa's earlier *VIMUTTIMAGGA. The seven purities are likened to seven carriages that one takes in sequence to reach seven progressive goals. Thus, (1) the purity of morality (P. sīlavisuddhi; see S. sĪLAVIsUDDHI) leads to its goal of (2) the purity of mind (CITTAVISUDDHI), and the purity of mind leads to its goal of (3) purity of understanding or views (DIttHIVISUDDHI). The purity of understanding leads to its goal of (4) purity of overcoming doubt (KAnKHĀVITARAnAVISUDDHI), and the purity of overcoming doubt leads to its goal of (5) the purity of knowledge and vision of what is and is not the path (MAGGĀMAGGANĀnADASSANAVISUDDHI). The purity of knowledge and vision of what is and is not the path leads to its goal of (6) knowledge and vision of progress along the path (PAtIPADĀNĀnADASSANAVISUDDHI), and knowledge and vision of progress along the path leads to its goal of (7) the purity of knowledge and vision (NĀnADASSANAVISUDDHI). The goal of this last purity is liberation through the attainment of any of the four supramundane paths (P. ariyamagga; S. ĀRYAMĀRGA).
wage ::: v. t. --> To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
To expose one&
wannabee /won'*-bee/ (Or, more plausibly, spelled "wannabe") [Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; probably originally from biker slang] A would-be {hacker}. The connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age and exposure of the subject. Used of a person who is in or might be entering {larval stage}, it is semi-approving; such wannabees can be annoying but most hackers remember that they, too, were once such creatures. When used of any professional programmer, CS academic, writer, or {suit}, it is derogatory, implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of understanding what it is all about. Overuse of hacker terms is often an indication of the {wannabee} nature. Compare {newbie}. Historical note: The wannabee phenomenon has a slightly different flavour now (1993) than it did ten or fifteen years ago. When the people who are now hackerdom's tribal elders were in {larval stage}, the process of becoming a hacker was largely unconscious and unaffected by models known in popular culture - communities formed spontaneously around people who, *as individuals*, felt irresistibly drawn to do hackerly things, and what wannabees experienced was a fairly pure, skill-focussed desire to become similarly wizardly. Those days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously set out to *be hackers* and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular image of hackers. Fortunately, to do this really well, one has to actually become a wizard. Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the change; among other things, it gives them mixed feelings about the effects of public compendia of lore like this one. [{Jargon File}]
weikza. [alt. weikza-do]. In Burmese, a "wizard," deriving from the Pāli vijjādhara (S. VIDYĀDHARA). In Burmese popular religion, the weikza is portrayed as a powerful thaumaturge possessed of extraordinarily long life, whose abilities derive from a mastery of tranquillity meditation (P. samatha; S. sAMATHA) and a variety of occult sciences such as alchemy (B. ekiya), incantations (P. manta; S. MANTRA), and runes (B. ing, aing). Collectively, these disciplines are called weikza-lam or "the path of the wizard." Training in this path is esoteric, requiring initiation by a master (B. saya), and votaries typically are organized into semisecret societies called weikza-gaing (P. vijjāgana). Although concerned with the acquisition of supernatural powers and an invulnerable body, these attributes are ultimately dedicated to the altruistic purpose of assisting good people in times of need and protecting the Buddha's religion from evil forces. In this regard, weikza practitioners often act as healers and exorcists, and in the modern era weikza-sayas with large followings are among the country's notables, who have built monumental pagodas and restored national shrines. The perfected weikza has the ability to live until the advent of the future buddha Metteya (S. MAITREYA), at which time he can choose to pass into nibbāna (S. NIRVĀnA) as an enlightened disciple (P. sāvaka arahant; S. sRĀVAKA ARHAT), vow to become himself a solitary buddha (P. paccekabuddha; S. PRATYEKABUDDHA) or a perfect buddha (P. sammāsambuddha; S. SAMYAKSAMBUDDHA), or simply continue living as a weikza. Weikza practitioners typically eschew the practice of insight meditation (P. VIPASSANĀ; S. VIPAsYANĀ) on the grounds that this might cause them to attain nibbāna too quickly. Although largely domesticated to the prevailing worldview of Burmese THERAVĀDA orthodoxy, weikza practice and orientation ultimately derive from outside the Pāli textual tradition and show striking similarities to the Buddhist MAHĀSIDDHA tradition of medieval Bengal.
Whitehead, Alfred North: British philosopher. Born in 1861. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1911-14. Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at University College, London, 1914-24. Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. From 1924 until retirement in 1938, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. Among his most important philosophical works are the Principia Mathematica, 3 vols. (1910-13) (with Bertrand Russell; An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919); The Concept of Nature (1920); Science and the Modern World (1926); Religion tn the Making (1926); Symbolism (1928); Process and Reality (1929); and Adventures of Ideas (1933). The principle of relativity in physics is the key to the understanding of metaphysics. Whitehead opposes the current philosophy of static substance having qualities which he holds to be based on the simply located material bodies of Newtonian physics and the "pure sensations" of Hume. This 17th century philosophy depends upon a "bifurcation of nature" into two unequal systems of reality on the Cartesian model of mind and matter. The high abstractions of science must not be mistaken for concrete realities. Instead, Whitehead argues that there is only one reality, what appears, whatever is given in perception, is real. There is nothing existing beyond what is present in the experience of subjects, understanding by subject any actual entity. There are neither static concepts nor substances in the world; only a network of events. All such events are actual extensions or spatio-temporal unities. The philosophy of organism, as Whitehead terms his work, is based upon the patterned process of events. All things or events are sensitive to the existence of all others; the relations between them consisting in a kind of feeling. Every actual entity is then a "prehensive occasion", that is, it consists of all those active relations with other things into which it enters. An actual entity is further determined by "negative prehension", the exclusion of all that which it is not. Thus every feeling is a positive prehension, every abstraction a negative one. Every actual entity is lost as an individual when it perishes, but is preserved through its relations with other entities in the framework of the world. Also, whatever has happened must remain an absolute fact. In this sense, past events have achieved "objective immortality". Except for this, the actual entities are involved in flux, into which there is the ingression of eternal objects from the realm of possibilities. The eternal objects are universals whose selection is necessary to the actual entities. Thus the actual world is a certain selection of eternal objects. God is the principles of concretion which determines the selection. "Creativity" is the primal cause whereby possibilities are selected in the advance of actuality toward novelty. This movement is termed the consequent nature of God. The pure possibility of the eternal objects themsehes is termed his primordial nature. -- J.K.F.
Widow’s Son “A name given to the French Masons, because the Masonic ceremonies are principally based on the adventures and death of Hiram Abif, ‘the widow’s son,’ who is supposed to have helped to build the mythical Solomon’s Temple” (TG 369). See also HIRAM ABIF
Will to Believe: A phrase made famous by William James (1842-1910) in an essay by that title (1896). In general, the phrase characterizes much of James's philosophic ideas: a defence of the right and even the necessity to believe where evidence is not complete, the adventurous spirit by which men must live, the heroic character of all creative thinking, the open-mind to possibilities, the repudiation of the stubborn spirit and the will-not-to-know, the primacy of the will in successful living, the reasonableness of the whole man acting upon presented data, the active pragmatic disposition in general. This will to believe does not imply indiscriminative faith; it implies a genuine option, one which presents an issue that is lively, momentous and forced. Acts of indecision may be negative decisions. -- V.F.
With the advent of each root-race a new cosmic element comes into proportionate manifestation, and a new physical sense apparatus appears: thus humanity in the sixth root-race will develop what is meant by a sixth sense. The fifth cosmic element (often named aether or akasa-tattva) will reach a development proportionate to the evolution of mankind during the fifth root-race in this fourth round; and after the same manner, a sixth cosmic element will make its appearance during the course of human evolution during the sixth root-race. Furthermore, just as a manushya-buddha comes to lead mankind in each root-race, so will one appear during the sixth root-race of the future.
woad-waxen ::: n. --> A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer&
world ::: 1. Everything that exists; the universe; the macrocosm. 2. The earth with its inhabitants. 3. Any sphere, realm, or domain, with all pertaining to it. 4. Any period, state, or sphere of existence. world"s, worlds, wonder-world, wonder-worlds, world-adventure, world-adventure"s, world-being"s, World-Bliss, world-cloak, world-conjecture"s, world-creating, world-creators, world-delight, World-Delight, world-destiny, world-destroying, world-disillusion"s, world-dream, world-drowse, world-egos, world-energies, world-energy, World-Energy, world-force, world-experience, world-fact, world-failure"s, world-fate, World-Force, world-forces, World-free, World-Geometer"s, world-heart, world-idea, world-ignorance, World-Ignorance, World-maker"s, world-indifference, world-interpreting, world-kindergarten, world-knowledge, world-law, world-laws, world-libido"s, world-making"s, World-Matter"s, World-naked, world-need, world-ocean"s, world-outline, world-pain, world-passion, World-personality, world-pile, world-plan, world-power, World-Power, World-Power"s, World-Puissance, world-rapture, world-redeemer"s, world-rhyme, world-rhythms, world-scene, world-scheme, world-sea, World-Self, world-shape, world-shapes, world-space, world-stuff, world-symbol, World-symbols, World-task, world-time, World-Time‘s, world-tree, world-ways, world-whim, dream-world, heaven-world, mid-world.
xyzzy "games" The {canonical} "magic word" from the {ADVENT} adventure game, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there. If you type "xyzzy" at the appropriate time, you can move instantly between two otherwise distant points. If, therefore, you encounter some bit of {magic}, you might remark on this quite succinctly by saying simply "Xyzzy!" "Ordinarily you can't look at someone else's screen if he has protected it, but if you type quadruple-bucky-clear the system will let you do it anyway." "Xyzzy!" Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op command on several OSes; in Data General's AOS/VS, for example, it would typically respond "Nothing happens", just as {ADVENT} did if the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word. In more recent 32 bit versions, by the way, AOS/VS responds "Twice as much happens". See also {plugh}. [{Jargon File}]
xyzzy ::: (games) The canonical magic word from the ADVENT adventure game, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect word. In more recent 32 bit versions, by the way, AOS/VS responds Twice as much happens. See also plugh.[Jargon File]
Yum bu bla sgang. (Yumbu Lagang). A palace and adjacent tower purported to be Tibet's oldest building, established according to legend by the first Tibetan king Gnya' khri btsan po (Nyatri Tsenpo) in central Tibet's Yar klungs (Yarlung) Valley. It may have served as the residence for the earliest Tibetan rulers and was likely renovated by the twenty-eighth king, Lha Tho tho ri gnyan btsan (Lha Tothori Nyentsen, b. 433) during the mid-fifth century. Legends state that this king received the first Buddhist scriptures while residing at the Yum bu bla sgang as they miraculously descended from the sky, heralding the eventual religious conversion of the country. According to one early Tibetan historian, however, the texts were actually transported by the Indian cleric Buddharaksita; the king, unable to read the Indic script, declared their miraculous descent in order to keep secret their foreign origins. The texts were therefore called the gnyan po gsang ba, "the sacred secret," and indeed remained a secret until the advent of king SRONG BTSAN SGAM PO in the seventh century.
ZIL "games" Zork Implementation Language. Language used by {Infocom}'s Interactive Fiction adventure games. Interpreted by the {zmachine}, for {Unix} and {Amiga}. {(ftp://plains.nodak.edu/Minix/st.contrib.Infocom.tar.Z)}.
ZIL ::: (games) Zork Implementation Language. Language used by Infocom's Interactive Fiction adventure games. Interpreted by the zmachine, for Unix and Amiga. .
Zork ::: (games) /zork/ The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming; see ADVENT. Zork was originally written on MIT-DM during the Infocom. The Fortran source was later rewritten for portability and released to Usenet under the name Dungeon.Both Fortran Dungeon and translated C versions are available from many FTP archives.[Jargon File] (1998-09-21)
Zork "games" /zork/ The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming; see {ADVENT}. Zork was originally written on {MIT-DM} during the late 1970s, later distributed with {BSD Unix} as a patched, sourceless {RT-11} {Fortran} binary (see {retrocomputing}) and commercialised as "The Zork Trilogy" by {Infocom}. The Fortran source was later rewritten for portability and released to {Usenet} under the name "Dungeon". Both Fortran "Dungeon" and translated {C} versions are available from many {FTP archives}. [{Jargon File}] (1998-09-21)
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1:The virtuous cannot but take care of the body, the temple of the soul in which God has manifested, blessed by God's advent. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
2:A spiritual idea is a power, but only when it is both inwardly and outwardly creative. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #KEYS
3:The holding of an ideal becomes almost an excuse for not living according to the ideal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #KEYS
4:Waiting the advent of a larger ray
And rescue of the lost herds of the Sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
5:A society that lives not by its men but by its institutions, is not a collective soul, but a machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #KEYS
6:A spiritual symbol is only a meaningless ticket, unless the thing symbolised is realised in the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #KEYS
7:The nature of the Spirit is a spacious inner freedom and a large unity into which each man must be allowed to grow according to his own nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #KEYS
8:Then Spring, an ardent lover, leaped through leaves
And caught the earth-bride in his eager clasp;
His advent was a fire of irised hues,
His arms were a circle of the arrival of joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
9:We do not fight against any creed, any religion. We do not fight against any form of government. We do not fight against any caste, any social class. We do not fight against any nation or civilisation. We are fighting division, unconsciousness, ignorance, inertia and falsehood. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousness, truth; and we fight whatever opposes the advent of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truth and Love. ~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 6, Satprem, #KEYS
10:All manifest things are born from that which is unmanifest at the coming of the day, and when the night arrives they dissolve into the unmanifest; thus all this host of beings continually come into existence and they disappear at the advent of the night and are born with the approach of the day. But beyond the non-manifestation of things there is another and greater unmanifest state of being which is supreme and eternal, and when all existences perish, that does not perish. ~ Bhagavad Gita, VIII. 18, 20, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
11:Therefore the coming of a spiritual age must be preceded by the appearance of an increasing number of individuals who are no longer satisfied with the normal intellectual, vital and physical existence of man, but perceive that a greater evolution is the real goal of humanity and attempt to effect it in themselves, to lead others to it and to make it the recognised goal of the race. In proportion as they succeed and to the degree to which they carry this evolution, the yet unrealised potentiality which they represent will become an actual possibility of the future.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, 263,#KEYS
12:The fourth condition is study. One must cultivate the mind, know what others have thought, open the mental being to this impact of the higher vibrations of knowledge. A mental knowledge is not tantamount to realization, it is true, but still one must know mentally where one is going, what has happened to others, how they have achieved, what are the hindrances and the helping points. This education of oneself by study, study of spiritual writings, suddhydya as it is called, a disciplined reading and incorporation of the knowledge contained in scriptures and authentic texts - that is a very important part. Even when you don't understand a text, still if you persist at it, the force that is in that book creates certain new grooves in your brain and the second or the third time when you read it, it begins to make some meaning. This is the meaning of studying, of exposing your mind to the constant vibrations of higher levels of knowledge. Incidentally, the mind gets developed, a mental climate is created, a climate of spiritual culture.
~ M P Pandit, The Advent 1981, 30,#KEYS
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1:We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 2:With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 3:Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 4:At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 5:Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 6:The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 7:Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 8:Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 9:With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 10:Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 11:It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished. . . . The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 12:Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich ... There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest,or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together - or unilateraly, if necessary - to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 13:Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle... . which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Einer Gesegneten Im Advent
~ Anton Wildgans,#NFDB
2:Advent creates people, new people. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
3:Typography has suffered from the advent of technology, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
4:Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
5:Today, ponder how you might make this Advent a time of quiet preparation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
6:Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
7:Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
8:Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. ~ Book of Common Prayer, collect for the Second Sunday in Advent., #NFDB
9:With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
10:I used to have a lot of faith in humanity before the advent of the website "comment" section. ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
11:Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. ~ Stanley Hauerwas, #NFDB
12:We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
13:Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
14:I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution. ~ Robert Barron, #NFDB
15:With the advent of recorded music in 1878, the nature of the places in which music was heard changed. ~ David Byrne, #NFDB
16:training of the eye of the soul is even more necessary, because it can anticipate the advent of temptation. ~ F B Meyer, #NFDB
17:The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. ~ Sun Myung Moon, #NFDB
18:No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely. ~ Sun Myung Moon, #NFDB
19:With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. ~ Dee Hock, #NFDB
20:In America, the advent of the modern serial killer coincided absolutely with the coming of the automobile. ~ Harold Schechter, #NFDB
21:It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom. ~ Colin MacInnes, #NFDB
22:For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
23:It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
24:The advent of militant atheism marks a reaction—a lurid but natural reaction—to the violence of the Islamic world. ~ David Berlinski, #NFDB
25:Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. ~ Ninon de L Enclos, #NFDB
26:In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. ~ Marilyn Manson, #NFDB
27:With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
28:They rest in us and we in them. Our heart contains all others. One heart, one life, on the advent of a mayfly's final flight ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
29:The advent of do-it-yourself artists in the digital age may have grown music’s long tail, but its fat head keeps getting fatter. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
30:Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
31:The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy. ~ Paddy Ashdown, #NFDB
32:The new and crucial ingredient was not the availability of capital, but the advent of market-tested, consumer-driven innovation. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
33:The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. ~ George Crumb, #NFDB
34:For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself. ~ Joseph A Schumpeter, #NFDB
35:He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That’s the meaning of Advent. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
36:we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the true Darkness. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
37:When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
38:God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it? ~ Walter Wangerin, #NFDB
39:With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime. ~ Kamala Harris, #NFDB
40:But it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modern communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world ~ Mortimer J Adler, #NFDB
41:It is a duet, and like most duets moreover in that one listens attentively only for the signal which announces the advent of one's own voice. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
42:Waiting the advent of a larger ray
And rescue of the lost herds of the Sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
43:The glory of Advent and Christmas is camouflaged by humility, anonymity and even foolishness, for our God likes to hide himself beneath his opposite. ~ Chad Bird, #NFDB
44:Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
45:More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power. ~ Jimmy Hoffa, #NFDB
46:Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB
47:A spiritual idea is a power, but only when it is both inwardly and outwardly creative. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #NFDB
48:The holding of an ideal becomes almost an excuse for not living according to the ideal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #NFDB
49:Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate. ~ Charles Mackay, #NFDB
50:There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
51:At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
52:The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
53:The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
54:I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
55:Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
56:I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media. ~ Helen Fielding, #NFDB
57:No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The ~ William L Shirer, #NFDB
58:Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later. ~ Stuart Rose, #NFDB
59:The art of writing was independently born in these four regions and I do not think it a coincidence that the advent of the written word was nourished by river water. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
60:A society that lives not by its men but by its institutions, is not a collective soul, but a machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #NFDB
61:There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
62:Existence might well have had some attraction before the advent of noise — let us say, before the neolithic age. When will he come, the man who can rid us of all men? ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
63:A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again. ~ Dean F Wilson, #NFDB
64:A spiritual symbol is only a meaningless ticket, unless the thing symbolised is realised in the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #NFDB
65:Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness. ~ Terry Eagleton, #NFDB
66:With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes. ~ Islom Karimov, #NFDB
67:Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. ~ Karl Rahner, #NFDB
68:One expected the advent of children to rearrange one’s future. No one had told Jole that they could also rearrange one’s past. It seemed an extraordinary reach to have, ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
69:A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
70:Faith must precede all effort to understand. Reflection upon revealed truth naturally follows the advent of faith, but faith comes first to the hearing ear, not to the cogitating mind. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
71:The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
72:Yale was founded before the advent of the fraternity system, so the white men of generations past had to make up their own structures for sub-erotic bonding and pointless tribalism. ~ John Hodgman, #NFDB
73:Advent . . . leads to a growing inner stillness and joy allowing me to realize that the One for whom I am waiting has already arrived and speaks to me in the silence of my heart. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
74:and I had spent a few days debating whether or not Michael was actually gay or just English. With the advent of metrosexuals and Europeans running around Manhattan, one never knows. ~ Polly Courtney, #NFDB
75:The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
76:Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
77:I am determined to enjoy each da tot he fullest. I don't want to wish away Christmas. I want to enjoy these last moments of Advent and look forward to Jesus's birth with anticipation. ~ Shelley Shepard Gray, #NFDB
78:After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
79:It really is possible to live in a state of Advent schizophrenia, where you celebrate the birth of the Messiah while actively denying your need for his birth, life, death, and resurrection. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
80:The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty. ~ Gene Weingarten, #NFDB
81:A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes . . . and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
82:It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor. ~ Thomas Rowe Price Jr, #NFDB
83:With the advent of Trump Tower Live, the campaign`s new nightly broadcast, streamed over Facebook, rumors are once again, swirling of a potential Trump media empire to be launched after the election. ~ Chris Hayes, #NFDB
84:The Advent season is a season of waiting, but our whole life is an Advent season, that is, a season of waiting for the last Advent, for the time when there will be a new heaven and a new earth. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
85:With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone. ~ Erik Qualman, #NFDB
86:If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not have the slightest fear or trembling even with the advent of innumerable impending calamities. ~ Torii Mototada, #NFDB
87:some have speculated that Moses was influenced by Atenism, or was perhaps even a believer. Thus, in the middle of the second millennium, the Egypt/Sinai area saw the advent of Western monotheism, ~ William J Bernstein, #NFDB
88:No mention is made in government records of man-eaters prior to the year 1905 and it would appear that until the advent of the Champawat tiger and the Panar leopard, man-eaters were unknown in Kumaon. When ~ Jim Corbett, #NFDB
89:Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never be in chains. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization. ~ Murray Rothbard, #NFDB
90:After the advent of laser surgery but before puberty, before self-consciousness, before secondary school, before money, time or gender got their teeth in. Before language was a trap, when it was a maze. Before ~ Max Porter, #NFDB
91:The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we had an obligation to do what we could to make real the Constitution of the United States of America. ~ John Lewis, #NFDB
92:The nature of the Spirit is a spacious inner freedom and a large unity into which each man must be allowed to grow according to his own nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #NFDB
93:Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
94:Often we're terrified of the little deaths that precede transformation, because they feel like the advent of physical death. As one older woman put it, --Every time I'm in for a major change I think I'm dying. ~ Jane R. Pretat, #NFDB
95:I don’t really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. It’s become very franchise driven and superhero driven. ~ Peter Jackson, #NFDB
96:The problem is solved. Now go and utterly enjoy all remaining days. Not only is it “Always Advent,” but every day can now be Christmas because the one we thought we were just waiting for has come once and for all. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
97:With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
98:Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other - things that are really of no consequence – the door is shut, and can be opened only from the outside. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
99:Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end. ~ George H W Bush, #NFDB
100:Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
101:Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost. ~ Edward Felten, #NFDB
102:Everywhere the air had become a vibrant yellow drum. A heavy sunlight freighted the foliage of the trees. Each leaf was a shutter about to swing back and reveal a miniature sun, one window in the immense advent calendar of nature. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
103:Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground. ~ Nestor Carbonell, #NFDB
104:Say to the next generation again and again: God is truthful; God keeps his word; God does not lie; God can be trusted! That’s one blessing of Advent. Receive it as a wonderful Christmas gift, and give it to as many people as you can. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
105:He wouldn't perform without a recording now, she was certain, like a poet working in the oral tradition who had been contaminated by the advent of the recording device and so insisted that all improvisations be saved for posterity. ~ David Cronenberg, #NFDB
106:Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
107:Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom. ~ Eric Alterman, #NFDB
108:Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, #NFDB
109:As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
110:Then Spring, an ardent lover, leaped through leaves
And caught the earth-bride in his eager clasp;
His advent was a fire of irised hues,
His arms were a circle of the arrival of joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
111:My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. ~ Gunter Grass, #NFDB
112:The advent of the bicycle stirred sudden and profound changes in the social life of England. It was unprecedented that a person of modest means could travel substantial distances, quickly, cheaply and without being limited to railway schedules. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
113:Do we think that peace on earth comes from Caesar or Christ? Do we think it comes through violent victory or nonviolent justice? Advent, like Lent, is about a choice of how to live personally and individually, nationally and internationally. ~ Marcus J Borg, #NFDB
114:We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it. ~ John Oliver, #NFDB
115:The advent of the written word around 3300 BC lifted history's curtain and revealed an already well-established pattern of long-distance trade, not only in luxury and strategic goods, but in bulk staples such as grain and timber as well. ~ William J Bernstein, #NFDB
116:Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life. ~ Caryll Houselander, #NFDB
117:There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We've just be confused by the storm. Science and psychology have played a great part to say nothing of sex. ~ Mark Tobey, #NFDB
118:During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues—for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
119:Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety. —Roger Sperry1 ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
120:No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. ~ William L Shirer, #NFDB
121:the increase in very high incomes and very high salaries primarily reflects the advent of “supermanagers,” that is, top executives of large firms who have managed to obtain extremely high, historically unprecedented compensation packages for their labor. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
122:why, when its causes today seem so numerous and so obvious, were contemporaries so oblivious of Armageddon until just days before its advent? One possible answer is that their vision was blurred by a mixture of abundant liquidity and the passage of time. ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
123:10,000 years of fitful advance from primitive agriculture to medieval windmills and 16th-century astrolabes, the modern world suddenly experienced relentless technological progress from the advent of the steam engine in the 1760s all the way up to about 1970. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
124:The advent of postmodernism, the enshrinement of Darwinian orthodoxy in the educational systems of Western society, and the rise of blatant humanism as the religion-by-default of large subcultures have brought no end of new challenges to biblical sufficiency. ~ James R White, #NFDB
125:If there is any truth in Scripture at all, this is true—that those who stubbornly refuse to submit to the gospel, and to love and obey Jesus Christ, incur at the Last Advent an infinite and irreparable loss. They will pass into a night on which no morning dawns. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
126:Glenn and I were listening to a radio show in the car, and he said, "Glass Eye Pix should do radio plays." I loved the idea of working in a different medium. We've made comics, books, movies, video games, models, advent calendars, why wouldn't we try audio plays? ~ Larry Fessenden, #NFDB
127:Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution. ~ Barbara Marx Hubbard, #NFDB
128:During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be like, or, to put it another way, what it means to be saved--which, if we are to believe Jesus or Gandhi, specifically means to see everyone on earth as family. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
129:The hungry Judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine; The merchant from th' Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the Toilet cease. Belinda now, whom thirst of fame invites, 25 Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights, ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
130:There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness. ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
131:I had fallen in love with a young man... and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery... ~ Gertrude B Elion, #NFDB
132:You know it with startling clarity in that moment—how there’s only a singular cord in this knotted mess of a world worth reaching for. It’s dangling right there from our impossible tangle, and it’s the one hope you need to reach for this Advent. That scarlet lifeline of Christ. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
133:Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
134:The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true. ~ Ursula Goodenough, #NFDB
135:But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how great shall that be which shall follow His glorious advent! For He shall come on the clouds as the Son of man, so Daniel foretold, and His angels shall come with Him. ~ Justin Martyr, #NFDB
136:I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived. ~ Wilbur Smith, #NFDB
137:MASTERING MONEY With the advent of derivatives and an increasingly complex economy, mastering money has become essential to surviving in the world economy. With low interest rates and an uncertain stock market, the old adages of saving and investing for the long term make no sense. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
138:During Advent, we spend four weeks trying to balance ourselves. Like standing in the middle of a seesaw, we often have one foot in the materialistic world of gifts, decorating and parties, while the other foot is in the spiritual world of prayerfully expecting the miracle of Christ’s birth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
139:Wade tried to imagine Florida before the advent of man, but couldn't. The landscape seemed too thoroughly colonized -- the trailers, factory outlets, and cocktail shacks of the world below. He decided that if human beings took over the moon, they'd probably just turn it into Florida. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
140:With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
141:Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. The sun should have sulked at the appearance of the first insect, and gone out altogether with the advent of the chimpanzee. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
142:However, with the advent of the printing press, more people could read the Bible for themselves and a more sophisticated understanding grew in the public while religious control waned, especially in highly developed nations. Today, the favored control mechanism is through the lending of money. ~ Jim Marrs, #NFDB
143:The advent of strong AI is the most important transformation this century will see. Indeed, it’s comparable in importance to the advent of biology itself. It will mean that a creation of biology has finally mastered its own intelligence and discovered means to overcome its limitations. Once ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
144:In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing. ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
145:Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
146:Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world’s unhappiness on the advent of calculators. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
147:Ooh, let me see my one,” Megan cries, grabbing the camera from him and pressing at it wildly. My whole body tenses. Normally, I don’t mind sharing things—I even give half my advent-calendar chocolates to my brother, Tom—but my camera is different. It’s my most prized possession. It’s my safety net. ~ Zoe Sugg, #NFDB
148:I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels. ~ Mithun Chakraborty, #NFDB
149:With the advent of literacy and other skills for acquiring, retaining, and sharing information, knowledge is now far more evenly distributed and widely available. It’s time we stopped behaving like submissive prehistoric tribe members and started questioning some of the things our leaders say. ~ Vishen Lakhiani, #NFDB
150:The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people. ~ Lynne Truss, #NFDB
151:The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
152:Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as a reformer of not only Hinduism but also the world, who has given all of us a new world view and vision which is critical for the survival of all of us and the entire world. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
153:The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
154:Remember Advent calendars?” “Can’t place it.” “That means you weren’t Catholic,” said Serge. “We’d get these cool cardboard calendars that marked off the days to Christmas, and each day you’d open a little perforated window and get a piece of chocolate. There was a lot of bribery in the Catholic Church. ~ Tim Dorsey, #NFDB
155:In short, the advent of super-intelligent AI would be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A super-intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours we’re in trouble. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
156:The advent of Google+ and the emergence of the personalized web means this is more true than ever. Brands, and their advertising partners, must wake up to this challenge and define themselves with clarity, consistency and authenticity. Otherwise they just might find themselves shouting in a ghost town. ~ Simon Mainwaring, #NFDB
157:The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of ten thousand years, when the chanting of the holy names of God would completely nullify all the degradations of the modern age, and real spiritual peace would come to this planet. ~ Mukunda Goswami, #NFDB
158:As long as there are people, Christ will walk the earth as your neighbor, as the one through whom God calls you, speaks to you, makes demands on you. That is the great seriousness and great blessedness of the Advent message. Christ is standing at the door; he lives in the form of a human being among us. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
159:Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, predicted that “with the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of expenditures” would be easier than ever. This, he suggested, would prevent corruption because “citizens can see whether elected officials are ‘in the pocket’ of so-called moneyed interests. ~ Jane Mayer, #NFDB
160:Macbeth is a play that points to the advent, much like the turbulent last century of the Middle Ages, of a modern age gradually deracinated from its Christian grounding and increasingly enamored of a neopagan notion of virtu, of potentially infinite human achievement severed from metaphysical considerations. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
161:It’s a season for cherishing and worshiping this characteristic of God—that he is a searching and saving God, that he is a God on a mission, that he is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That’s the meaning of Advent. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
162:The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city or empire became there was always another "them" to go out and kill. And when organized religion really got going... well, there's a fantastic excuse to murder people in bunches. ~ Gene Doucette, #NFDB
163:The New Jim Crow shatters this silence. Once you read it, you have crossed the Rubicon and there is no return to sleepwalking. You are now awakened to a dark and ugly reality that has been in place for decades and that is continuous with the racist underside of American history from the advent of slavery onward. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
164:Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services. ~ Douglas Rushkoff, #NFDB
165:I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
166:It was on the fourth day that the stewardess finally urged me up on deck. Under the impression that I should die quicker below, I had steadfastly refused to leave my bunk. She now tempted me with the advent of Madeira. Hope rose in my breast. I could leave the boat and go ashore and be a parlourmaid there. Anything for dry land. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
167:The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn't actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies ~ Teresa Nielsen Hayden, #NFDB
168:I'm old enough to remember the advent of CD. You thought, "What's this piece of space age technology that's in front of me?" Now I ask, "When's the last time you bought a CD?" You see things come and you see things go, and you have to be on your toes and be nimble and stay with it, or you die. It's exciting. I love technology. ~ Joseph McGinty Nichol, #NFDB
169:Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods. ~ Harold Speed, #NFDB
170:With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories. ~ John Dykstra, #NFDB
171:THE MISCONCEPTION: With the advent of mass media, you understand how the world works based on statistics and facts culled from many examples. THE TRUTH: You are far more likely to believe something is commonplace if you can find just one example of it, and you are far less likely to believe in something you’ve never seen or heard of before. ~ David McRaney, #NFDB
172:before the advent of any particular cultural, religious, or philosophical ethics, ethics has existed. Not as a unified, normative body of maxims, obligations, duties, or categorical imperatives,6 but as a set of recurring quandaries and questions, a sense of ethical anxiety or disquiet about the very possibility of achieving a good life, ~ Michael D Jackson, #NFDB
173:In the beginning was the Topos. Before – long before – the advent of the Logos, in the chiaroscuro realm of primitive life, lived experience already possessed its internal rationality; this experience was producing long before thought space, and spatial thought, began reproducing the projection, explosion, image and orientation of the body. ~ Henri Lefebvre, #NFDB
174:Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
175:The advent of agriculture and civilization caused life expectancy to drop significantly, reaching a low of 18 during the Bronze Age of 3,300 B.C. to 1,200 B.C.. Life expectancy remained low (between 20 and 30) through 1500 A.D. and then climbed only gradually, reaching ~ Mark Sisson30 in 1800 and ~ Mark Sisson40-50 in 1900 in the USA and Europe. ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
176:I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
177:Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than a cloud, there is something of the meteor. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
178:To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
179:Give yourself time and quietness in this Advent season and seek this experience. Pray for yourself the prayer of Paul in Ephesians 3:14–19—“that you may be filled with all the fullness of God”—that you may have power “to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
180:I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?' ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
181:In this day, this season, miracles will grow within, unfurl, bear fruit. And the heart that makes time and space for Him to come will be a glorious place. A place of sheer, radiant defiance in the face of a world careening mad and stressed. Because each day of Advent, we will actively wait. We will wait knowing that the remaking of everything has already begun. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
182:It would have been good to be the girl who helped solved the Katharina Linden case, instead of the girl whose grandmother had exploded at the family Advent dinner. I wasn't greedy; it needn't have been Katharina's actual corpse that we found; a severed head - a finger - even a piece of her clothing would have been enough; the little red bow from her hair, perhaps. ~ Helen Grant, #NFDB
183:Thus, it is suggested, a deeper understanding of the conditions affecting the speed and ultimate extent of an innovation's diffusion is to be obtained only by explicitly analyzing the specific choice of technique problem
which its advent would have presented to objectively dissimilar members of the relevant (historical) population of potential adopters. ~ Deirdre N McCloskey,#NFDB
184:We face a similar choice each Christmas, and so each Advent is a time of repentance for the past and change for the future. Do we think that peace on earth comes from Caesar or Christ? Do we think it comes through violent victory or nonviolent justice? Advent, like Lent, is about a choice of how to live personally and individually, nationally and internationally. ~ Marcus J Borg, #NFDB
185:Boxing is not coming back. There's not going to be a new Ali or a new Tyson. What's happened to movies is happening to boxing-that is, too much availability of alternative, similar entertainment. Movies started to become diluted with the advent of television; that has been mirrored by the dilution of boxing, with kickboxing and absolute, extreme homicidal fighting. ~ James Toback, #NFDB
186:Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
187:In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
188:Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close. ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
189:Although I’m not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close. ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
190:By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world. ~ Caryll Houselander, #NFDB
191:With the advent of this kind of TMZ culture, it sadly seems to have infiltrated the vanguard of film commentary. I see these reviews sometimes where I think, well, you have a right to say whatever you want about my work, and I will listen whether it's good or bad and see if there's something that I might work with, but personal issues don't have a place in film commentary. ~ Nicolas Cage, #NFDB
192:Then, after 10,000 years of fitful advance from primitive agriculture to medieval windmills and 16th-century astrolabes, the modern world suddenly experienced relentless technological progress from the advent of the steam engine in the 1760s all the way up to about 1970. As a result, we have inherited a richer society than any previous generation would have been able to imagine. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
193:It was all very well being a modern society, but the advent of prosperity and the growth of the towns was a poisoned cup from which one should drink with the greatest caution. One might have all the things which the modern world offered, but what was the use of these if they destroyed all that which gave you strength and courage and pride in yourself and your country? ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
194:Camille, what happened to you must surely have been the very best thing that could possibly have happened.
... I wonder if the advent of Anna into your life was in its way as much of a blessing as her advent into mine has been.
Two very different men, saying essentially the same thing—that the greatest catastrophe of her life was perhaps also its greatest blessing. ~ Mary Balogh,#NFDB
195:When I first arrived to Congress in 1975, I would spend several hours every week with Republicans - having lunch, drinking a beer. But by the time I left last year, that was a rarity. Every moment of free time is eaten up by fundraising. And the advent of all these groups that can threaten passage of this or that with an avalanche of money or a primary opponent has poisoned our politics. ~ Tom Harkin, #NFDB
196:The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
197:With the advent of this something-not-known (which he scarcely dares consider lest it vanish), the metastasizing animosities among the witness bearers are dissolving, as if the Dancing were sealing their acceptance of all woebegone humankind in all its greed and cruelties as the only creature capable of evil and the only one - surely those two are connected - aware that it must die. ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
198:Along with reading as much as I could about Andy, several of the real folks came in besides Andy [Hertzfeld] - Joanna Hoffman and John Sculley and Steve Wozniak all came in and spoke with us - so we had the advent of being around the real people and feeling their spirit, in talking to them about what Steve was like, what their relationship was like, and how they felt about each other. ~ Michael Stuhlbarg, #NFDB
199:So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bread for us near starved. For the Savior in swaddlings who makes Himself the robe of righteousness for us worn out. For Jesus, who makes precisely what none of us can but all of us want: Christmas. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
200:Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They didn’t want to merely win elections; they wanted to change how Americans thought. Their ambitions were grandiose—to “save” America as they saw it, at every level, by turning the clock back to the Gilded Age before the advent of the Progressive Era. ~ Jane Mayer, #NFDB
201:Fascism wants to establish the advent of the Nietzschean superman.
It immediately discovers that God, if He exists, may well be this or that, but He is primarily the master of
death. If man wants to become God, he arrogates to himself the power of life or death over others.
Manufacturer of corpses and of sub-men, he is a sub-man himself and not God, but the ignoble servant of
death ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
202:The advent of computers had turned redistricting into an expensive, cynical, and highly precise science. Hofeller, the foremost practitioner on the Republican side, had professionalized the vast ideological sorting of the country into warring partisan camps. On his laptop was a program called Maptitude that contained the population details of every neighborhood, including the residents’ racial makeup. ~ Jane Mayer, #NFDB
203:Jesus, the Sinner's Friend, walks in the avenues of Scripture as once He traversed the plains and hills of Palestine: you can see Him still, if you have opened eyes, in the ancient prophecies; you can behold Him more clearly in the devout evangelists; He opens and lays bare His inmost soul to you in the epistles, and makes you hear the footsteps of His approaching advent in the symbols of the Apocalypse. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
204:Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
205:Afghanistan, believed by anthropologists to be one of the original historical meeting places between the East and the West, has in fact seen and often tolerated most known religions as well as an influx of believers in such faiths as Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Christianity. Even with the advent and dominance of Islam, other religions were still practiced freely by minorities in Kabul up until the 1980s. ~ Jenny Nordberg, #NFDB
206:He may be doing it for you in this Advent season—graciously and tenderly frustrating you with life that is not centered on Christ and filling you with longings and desires that can’t find their satisfaction in what this world offers, but only in the God-man. What a Christmas gift that might be! Let all your frustrations with this world throw you onto the Word of God. It will become sweet—like walking into paradise. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
207:If we want to participate in this Advent and Christmas event, we cannot simply sit there like spectators in a theater and enjoy all the friendly pictures. Rather, we must join in the action that is taking place and be drawn into this reversal of all things ourselves. Here we too must act on the stage, for here the spectator is always a person acting in the drama. We cannot remove ourselves from the action. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
208:The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit for carry, whereas it was quickly apparent that the Haskell lent itself to an enormous run. I hold the firm opinion that from this date the essential attitude towards accuracy was completely lost sight of. This was the start of the craze for length and still more length. ~ Harry Vardon, #NFDB
209:I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure (schole) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries. ~ Ivan Illich, #NFDB
210:Sociologist James Evan reviewed citations in more than thirty-four million articles published in academic journals and noted how the number of different citations declined after the advent of search engines. These information-filtering tools, he observed, “serve as amplifiers of popularity, quickly establishing and then continually reinforcing a consensus about what information is important and what isn’t.”36 ~ Margaret J Wheatley, #NFDB
211:Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle. ~ Sandra Tsing Loh, #NFDB
212:Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence. ~ Dorothy Day, #NFDB
213:Ten thousand grateful people jammed Sunday’s enormous tabernacle to hear him announce the death of liquor and reveal the advent of an earthly paradise. “The reign of tears is over,” Sunday proclaimed. “The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent. ~ Daniel Okrent, #NFDB
214:The biggest revolution of the past 50,000 years of human history was not the advent of the Internet, the growth of the industrial age out of the seeds of the Enlightenment, or the development of modern methods of long-distance navigation. Rather, it was when a few people living in several locations around the world decided to stop gathering from the land, abiding by limits set in place by nature, and started growing their food. ~ Spencer Wells, #NFDB
215:The Victory
Over a pier, the first beacon inflamed -The vanguard of other sea-rangers;
The mariner cried and bared his head;
He sailed with death beside and ahead
In seas, packed with furious dangers.
By our doors Great Victory stays ...
But how we'll glory her advent?
Let women lift higher the children! They blessed
With life mid a thousand thousands deaths -Thus will be the dearest answered.
~ Anna Akhmatova,#NFDB
216:In the era of modern technology, people could just vote on their phones for who they want to be judges. We could amend all of the ways in which we select our leaders, with the advent of modern technology. We haven't done so. It's actually served us fairly well. Ours is the longest enduring constitutional, written constitution in the world. At the moment, I think it's strained. It's showing the strains of politics and a frustration. ~ Martha Minow, #NFDB
217:The rapid rise of communication and collaboration technologies has transformed many other formerly local markets into a similarly universal bazaar. The small company looking for a computer programmer or public relations consultant now has access to an international marketplace of talent in the same way that the advent of the record store allowed the small-town music fan to bypass local musicians to buy albums from the world’s best bands. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
218:The world is too complex, Simon argued, for our limited intelligence to understand fully. This means that very often the main problem we face in making a good decision is not the lack of information but our limited capability to process that information – a point nicely illustrated by the fact that the celebrated advent of the internet age does not seem to have improved the quality of our decisions, judging by the mess we are in today. ~ Ha Joon Chang, #NFDB
219:The militarization of the police leads us to think about Israel and the militarization of the police there—if only the images of the police and not of the demonstrators had been shown, one might have assumed that Ferguson was Gaza. I think that it is important to recognize the extent to which, in the aftermath of the advent of the war on terror, police departments all over the US have been equipped with the means to allegedly “fight terror. ~ Angela Y Davis, #NFDB
220:Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin. ~ Uri Avnery, #NFDB
221:Until the advent of modern physics it was generally thought that all knowledge of the world could be obtained through direct observation, that things are what they seem, as perceived through our senses. But the spectacular success of modern physics, which is based upon concepts such as Feynman’s that clash with everyday experience, has shown that that is not the case. The naive view of reality therefore is not compatible with modern physics. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
222:Advent Of Spring
The city has fallen: only the hills and rivers remain.
In Spring the streets were green with grass and trees.
Sorrowing over the times, the flowers are weeping.
The birds startled my heart in fear of departing.
The beacon fires were burning for three months,
A letter from home was worth ten thousand pieces of gold.
I scratch the scant hairs on my white head,
And vainly attempt to secure them with a hairpin.
~ Du Fu,#NFDB
223:Gabriel Feldman, M.D., director of the prostate and colorectal cancer programs for the American Cancer Society, admits, “We don’t need years of research. If people would implement what we know today, cancer rates would drop. It’s that simple.” Dr. Max Gerson was correct in his medical/nutritional literary presentation of 1958 before the advent of fast food restaurants and supermarket convenience foods, and his intuitions are even more accurate today. ~ Charlotte Gerson, #NFDB
224:Perhaps everything in life is the degeneration of something else. Perhaps existence is always an approximation – an advent, or surroundings. Just as Christianity was but the prophetic degeneration of a debased Neo-Platonism, the Romanization of Hellenism through Judaism,* so our age – senile and carcinogenic* – is the multiple deviation of all great goals, concordant or conflicting, whose defeat gave rise to all the negations we use to affirm ourselves.* ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
225:My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet. ~ Sara Gruen, #NFDB
226:Before the advent of Islam, the Arab peoples constituted a cultural backwater. With the exception of poetry, they contributed virtually nothing to world civilization, unlike their neighbors—the Egyptians, the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Persians. Islam changed all that. Shortly after its advent, the Arabs excelled in fields from astronomy to medicine to philosophy. The Muslim golden age stretched from Morocco to Persia and spanned many centuries. Likewise, ~ Eric Weiner, #NFDB
227:Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon. ~ Saint Maximus the Confessor, #NFDB
228:The ancient Egyptian-Jewish Entrance of the spiritual entity at the Vernal Equinox was substituted (by the Roman-Christian) with the from-the-Semites-plagiarized narrative of Mary's Conception. And the ancient Egyptian-Jewish entrance of the High Priest into the Holy of Holies was substituted (by the Roman-Christian) with Elizabeth's Conception. The latter prepared the stage for the baptismal flooding of the Nile, and the former heralded the advent of the Messiah. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
229:Uh,” said Ash from the door, “are you—all right?”
“Fine!” Kami said. She typed out: “With the advent of sperm banks, women realized the sheer uselessness of men, and by the year 2100 they were largely extinct” with extreme force. “Absolutely fine, never better! Why do you ask?”
“Er, because I heard you and Jared had a screaming fight. Also, you are typing like a maddened weasel taped to a keyboard.”
Kami stopped typing. “You may have a point. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan,#NFDB
230:His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
231:Advent and Christmas are about a new world. They are thus intrinsically about eschatology. Recall what we said about this word in Chapter 3: eschatology is about the divine transformation of our earth. It is not about some mass immigration from a doomed world to a blessed heaven. Rather, it is about the end of this era of war and violence, injustice, and oppression. It is about the earth’s transformation, not about its devastation. It is about a world of justice and peace. ~ Marcus J Borg, #NFDB
232:For us today, it is still difficult to imagine a future society in which paid labor is not the be-all and end-all of our existence. But the inability to imagine a world in which things are different is evidence only of a poor imagination, not of the impossibility of change. In the 1950s we couldn’t conceive that the advent of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, and, above all, washing machines would help prompt women to enter the workplace in record numbers, and yet they did. ~ Rutger Bregman, #NFDB
233:Conformity is one of the nihilistic temptations of rebellion which dominate a large part of our intellectual history. It demonstrates how the rebel who takes to action is tempted to succumb, if he forgets his origins, to the most absolute conformity. And so it explains the twentieth century. Lautreamont, who is usually hailed as the bard of pure rebellion, on the contrary proclaims the advent of the taste for intellectual servitude which flourishes in the contemporary world. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
234:We do not fight against any creed, any religion. We do not fight against any form of government. We do not fight against any caste, any social class. We do not fight against any nation or civilisation. We are fighting division, unconsciousness, ignorance, inertia and falsehood. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousness, truth; and we fight whatever opposes the advent of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truth and Love. ~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 6, Satprem, #NFDB
235:I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
236:All manifest things are born from that which is unmanifest at the coming of the day, and when the night arrives they dissolve into the unmanifest; thus all this host of beings continually come into existence and they disappear at the advent of the night and are born with the approach of the day. But beyond the non-manifestation of things there is another and greater unmanifest state of being which is supreme and eternal, and when all existences perish, that does not perish. ~ Bhagavad Gita, VIII. 18, 20, #NFDB
237:We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions. ~ John Ambrose Fleming, #NFDB
238:Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of humanity. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
239:When I lived in California, 1984 to '87, it was a Republican state. Sacramento where I lived was 73% Democrat voter registration, when I got there. It was in the sixties when I left. We had amazing success in converting Democrats in Sacramento. But Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan, all people elected governors and so forth, it's only been with the advent of the 1986 immigration bill that we lost California, if I might say, and now it's just gone so far left they're seriously talking about seceding. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
240:Twilight never lasts long in India, but its advent was like opening time at the pubs our rulers had left behind. The shadows fell and spirits rose; the sharp odour of quinine tonic, invented by lonely planters to drown and justify their solitary gins, mingled with the scent of frangipani from their leafy, insect-ridden gardens, and the soothing clink of ice against glass was only disturbed by the occasional slap of a frustrated palm against a reddening spot just vacated by an anglovorous mosquito. ~ Shashi Tharoor, #NFDB
241:Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
242:The left-hand path would have existed in Europe without the advent of Christianity (as was, and still is, the case in India). But when Christianity did arrive, it labeled not only the indigenous left-hand-path practices of the heathens as diabolical, but the right-hand-path ones as well. It was, however, only the left-hand-path practitioners who were insightful enough (and perhaps courageous enough) to identify in some degree their ways with those of the adversary of the right-hand-path Christians. ~ Stephen E Flowers, #NFDB
243:Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations. Any analysis of the real cost would have to look at such things as the rise in food-borne illnesses, the advent of new pathogens, antibiotic resistance from the overuse of drugs in animal feed, extensive water pollution from intensive agricultural systems and many other factors. These costs are not reflected in the price of fast food. ~ Prince Charles, #NFDB
244:When filmmakers are kept from making films, there's a lot of different reasons why. Sometimes you work on a film and cast it and do all the work and can be just a month away from shooting, and all of a sudden, the whole thing goes up in smoke. But I do think the advent of a digital revolution is going to provide people with opportunities to make films that they never would have had before. I think you can do some pretty credible stuff now with very, very little money. Which I think is great for young filmmakers. ~ Joe Dante, #NFDB
245:If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent of God revealed to us because of our dispassion. For 'I will sing a psalm and in a pure path I will understand when Thou wilt come to me' (cf. Ps. 101:1-2). The psalm stands for virtuous conduct; understanding indicates the spiritual knowledge, gained through virtue, by means of which we perceive God's advent, when we wait for the Lord vigilant in the virtues. ~ Saint Maximus the Confessor, #NFDB
246:So at midnight, the heart of the metropolis of modern civilization was secretly trod by this jaunty barbarian in broadcloth; a sort of prophetical ghost, glimmering in anticipation upon the advent of those tragic scenes of the French Revolution which levelled the exquisite refinement of Paris with the bloodthirsty ferocity of Borneo; showing that broaches and finger-rings, not less than nose-rings and tattooing, are tokens of the primeval savageness which ever slumbers in human kind, civilized or uncivilized. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
247:Christmas is about the coming of the Son of Man who “came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” These words in Mark 10:45, as a brief expression of Christmas, are what I hope God will fix in your mind and heart this Advent. Open your heart to receive the best present imaginable: Jesus giving himself to die for you and to serve you all the rest of eternity. Receive this. Turn away from self-help and sin. Become like little children. Trust him. Trust him. Trust him with your life. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
248:The Anthropocene represents a braiding together of these into one inseparable narrative. This is “the end of history,” and of biology and geology—at least as separate stories. Have they become irreversibly entwined? It’s conceivable that there may never again be geological change without human influence. We are witnessing, and manifesting, something unprecedented and still completely unpredictable: the advent of self-aware geological change. As an astrobiologist, I study the possible evolutionary relationships ~ David Grinspoon, #NFDB
249:Look into your own existence. Count the significant events, the technological changes, and the inventions that have taken place in our environment since you were born and compare them to what was expected before their advent. How many of them came on a schedule? Look into your own personal life, to your choice of profession, say, or meeting your mate, your exile from your country of origin, the betrayals you faced, your sudden enrichment or impoverishment. How often did these things occur according to plan? ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
250:Neil Postman reminded us that the advent of the telegraph, with its radically truncated economy of prose, created a whole new language—that of headlines: “sensational, fragmented, impersonal.” Postman blamed the telegraph for introducing us to this choppy, discontinuous method of learning that things happen, often far away, with no clear way of making sense of them or weighing their relative importance to our lives or future. “To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them. ~ Siva Vaidhyanathan, #NFDB
251:Advent is a season for thinking about the mission of God to seek and to save lost people from the wrath to come. God raised him from the dead, “Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:10). It’s a season for cherishing and worshiping this characteristic of God—that he is a searching and saving God, that he is a God on a mission, that he is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That’s the meaning of Advent. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
252:Jesus stands at the door knocking (Rev. 3:20). In total reality, he comes in the form of the beggar, of the dissolute human child in ragged clothes, asking for help. He confronts you in every person that you meet. As long as there are people, Christ will walk the earth as your neighbor, as the one through whom God calls you, speaks to you, makes demands on you. That is the great seriousness and great blessedness of the Advent message. Christ is standing at the door; he lives in the form of a human being among us. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
253:In the 1880s Chicago was experiencing explosive growth that propelled land values to levels no one could have imagined, especially within the downtown “Loop,” named for the turn-around loops of streetcar lines. As land values rose, landowners sought ways of improving the return on their investments. The sky beckoned. The most fundamental obstacle to height was man’s capacity to walk stairs, especially after the kinds of meals men ate in the nineteenth century, but this obstacle had been removed by the advent of the elevator ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
254:Wolf was taken aback. This was the 1950s, years before the advent of cholesterol-lowering drugs and aggressive measures to prevent heart disease. Heart attacks were an epidemic in the United States. They were the leading cause of death in men under the age of sixty-five. It was impossible to be a doctor, common sense said, and not see heart disease. Wolf decided to investigate. He enlisted the support of some of his students and colleagues from Oklahoma. They gathered together the death certificates from residents of the ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
255:Christians had lost, their scriptures not having remained free from corruption, and many which were to be met with in their books but which they did not act upon. Some of these which were of permanent value were revealed in the Holy Qur’an, but others — referred to in passing over much — had been given to them to suit only the requirements of the time when they were given and were not now needed. Or, the reference may be to the prophecies of the advent of the Holy Prophet, for the Qur’an refers to only very few of them. 15b. Two ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
256:It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing makes me happy. The fact that people, in pursuit of a superficial look of health, give themselves a fatal disease. I love it when 'reasoning' human beings think they have figured out how to beat something and it comes right back and kicks them in the nuts. God bless the law of unintended consequences. And the irony is impressive: Healthy people, trying to look healthier, make themselves sick. Good! ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
257:Thus says the Lord: the meaning of Christmas is that what is good and precious in your life need never be lost, and what is evil and undesirable in your life can be changed. The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can’t be changed—these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy. It is God’s message of hope this Advent that what is good need never be lost and what is bad can be changed. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
258:I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
259:One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
260:It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished. . . . The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
261:The pressure to plead guilty to crimes has increased exponentially since the advent of the War on Drugs. In 1986, Congress passed The Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which established extremely long mandatory minimum prison terms for low-level drug dealing and possession of crack cocaine. The typical mandatory sentence for a first-time drug offense in federal court is five or ten years. By contrast, in other developed countries around the world, a first-time drug offense would merit no more than six months in jail, if jail time is imposed at all. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
262:Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich ... There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest,or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together - or unilateraly, if necessary - to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
263:I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent. ~ Benoit Mandelbrot, #NFDB
264:The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on the hypnotized viewer. Those who have spent their lives protesting about 'false and misleading ad copy' are godsends to advertisers, as teetotalers are to brewers, and moral censors are to books and films. The protesters are the best acclaimers and accelerators. Since the advent of pictures, the job of the ad copy is as incidental and latent as the 'meaning' of a poem is to a poem, or the words of a song are to a song. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
265:I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
266:Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has needed a tactical enemy that it can go out and fight in the field in a shooting war. Since 1945, these enemies have been created and appeared as North Korea, North Vietnam, Grenada, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq and now Colombia. On another level, however, the US needs a strategic enemy that will justify outrageous expenditures of capital for strategic weapon systems like ICBMs, Trident submarines and "Star Wars" missile defence systems. ~ Michael Ruppert, #NFDB
267:Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls to Christ (cf. Gal. 3:24), so the glorified incarnate Logos of God is Himself a harbinger of His spiritual advent, leading our souls forward by His own teachings to receive His divine and manifest advent. He does this ceaselessly, by means of the virtues converting those found worthy from the flesh to the spirit. And He will do it at the end of the age, making manifest what has hitherto been hidden from men. ~ Saint Maximus the Confessor, #NFDB
268:She lives in the feminist "wishful-thinking world," as the Village Voice called it, dreamed up by creator Amy Sherman Palladino, where single moms raise brilliant daughters and men are nothing more than trifling distractions. I live in a post-feminist world that kicked in after the advent of Gilmore Girls, a place where Maureen Dowd asks Are Men Necessary? and we answer, "Not really." Modern girls may not talk as fast as the Gilmore girls or engage in witty repartee with colorful townsfolk, but as far as female empowerment goes, we're catching up fast. ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
269:Eid is a time of joy, after a season of fasting and prayer and reflection. Each year, the end of Ramadan means celebration and thanksgiving for millions of Americans. And your joy during this season enriches the life of our great country. This year, Eid is celebrated at the same time as Hanukkah and Advent. So it's a good time for people of these great faiths, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, to remember how much we have in common: devotion to family, a commitment to care for those in need, a belief in God and His justice, and the hope for peace on earth. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
270:I've always thought of characters like advent calendars. You have Christmas and you have all the little doors over the windows and every day you're allowed to open one more as it gets towards Christmas and you see more and more about what's inside that house.I remember as a kid being fascinated by that and I've always thought of my character as a little bit like that. I like to have secrets and slowly let those secrets out to the audience, sometimes never let them out, but let them see as you open the shutters, open and see a little bit more of a character. ~ Jeremy Irons, #NFDB
271:Despots, it turns out, are learning to practice what journalist Rebecca MacKinnon calls “networked authoritarianism”—the use of the Internet to consolidate power. Rather than simply ban all digital communications, they realize, why not leave it partially open? Then dissidents will engage in public thinking and networking, which is a great way to keep tabs on them. “Before the advent of social media, it took a lot of effort for repressive governments to learn about the people dissidents are associated with,” as the writer Evgeny Morozov notes in The Net Delusion. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
272:I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
273:It is one of the great examples,” as Friedrich Meinecke, the eminent German historian, said, “of the singular and incalculable power of personality in historical life.”10 To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had—or would shortly assume—the aura of a truly charismatic leader. They were to follow him blindly, as if he possessed a divine judgment, for the next twelve tempestuous years. THE ADVENT OF ADOLF HITLER Considering his origins and his early life, ~ William L Shirer, #NFDB
274:The need to acquire physical objects, such as food and other supplies that aid our survival, is part of our brain’s operating system. But where we once hunted for food, today we hunt for other things. In modern society, food can be bought with cash, and more recently by extension, information translates into money. Rewards of the hunt existed long before the advent of computers. But today we find numerous examples of variable rewards associated with the pursuit of resources and information that compel us with the same determination as the San hunter chasing his prey. ~ Nir Eyal, #NFDB
275:Today is Remembrance sunday. Will you have a memorial service for B. Riemer? It would be nice, but difficult. Then comes Advent, with all its happy memories for us. It was you who really opened up to me the world of music-making that we have carried on during the weeks of Advent. Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent: one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other—things that are really of no consequence—the door is shut, and can only be opened from the outside.6 Letter from Bonhoeffer at Tegel prison to Eberhard Bethge, November 21, 1943 ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
276:Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
277:The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore. ~ Smokey Robinson, #NFDB
278:Thus even though Christians are already saved, they still await the fullness of their salvation. Paul sees our salvation as both present and future, as both a now and a not-yet experience. In short, whatever blessings we have here and now will multiply when the fullness of time finally arrives and God brings the plan (mystery, verses 9, 10) that He developed “before the foundation of the world” (verse 4) to its climax. The problems that we face as Christians here on earth will not always be. No wonder Paul refers to the Second Advent as the “blessed hope” (Titus 2:13). ~ George R Knight, #NFDB
279:15a. There were many truths which the Jews and the Christians had lost, their scriptures not having remained free from corruption, and many which were to be met with in their books but which they did not act upon. Some of these which were of permanent value were revealed in the Holy Qur’an, but others — referred to in passing over much — had been given to them to suit only the requirements of the time when they were given and were not now needed. Or, the reference may be to the prophecies of the advent of the Holy Prophet, for the Qur’an refers to only very few of them. 15b. Two ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
280:The four-week period of Advent before Christmas—and the six-week period of Lent before Easter—are times of penance and life change for Christians. In our book The Last Week, we suggested that Lent was a penance time for having been in the wrong procession and a preparation time for moving over to the right one by Palm Sunday. That day’s violent procession of the horse-mounted Pilate and his soldiers was contrasted with the nonviolent procession of the donkey-mounted Jesus and his companions. We asked: in which procession would we have walked then and in which do we walk now? ~ Marcus J Borg, #NFDB
281:There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds that get inside the head, the heart is convinced that it is existing in rhythm to a kind of unheard music, familiar but forgotten because long ago it was interrupted and only now has suddenly resumed playing. The silent melodies pass through the fabric of the consciousness like the wind through the meshes of a net, without moving it, but at the same time unmistakably there, all around it. For one who has never lived such a morning, its advent can be a paralyzing experience. ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB
282:Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first. ~ Julius Evola, #NFDB
283:According to the Islamic law of international treaties, Muslims could make treaties of peace and live at peace with countries outside of dār al-islām if they themselves were not threatened by them. The best example of such a situation is the friendly relations the Prophet himself had with then Christian Abyssinians, who had in fact given refuge to some of the Muslims from Mecca shortly after the advent of the Quranic revelation. Many instances of such peaceful coexistence are also to be seen between Muslim and Christian kingdoms in Spain and Hindu and Muslim states in India. In ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr, #NFDB
284:For one great example, according to the story, the Christmas wreath custom did not come from paganism, but from a remarkable defeat of paganism. Boniface (A.D. 680–754), missionary to the Germans, had chopped down a great oak, sacred to Thor. Three days later, on the first Sunday of Advent, he prevented a human sacrifice and used the sacrificial knife of the Druid priest to cut fir boughs for the people to take home as a reminder of Calvary. And for a second example, the inventor of Christmas tree lights (non-electric) was Martin Luther. This is because Jesus is the light of the world. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
285:THROUGH NEW TECHNOLOGIES, human history has repeatedly changed directions, and with unimaginable consequences. The Agricultural Revolution of the Neolithic era marked the advent of a way of life that enabled dense, settled populations to feed themselves and opened the way for the rise of civilization. The Industrial Revolution launched an explosive wave of physical products that brought with it the modern world. The Information Revolution, still unfolding today, has rewoven the fabric of knowledge, commerce, and society, setting the stage for a future whose outlines are still beyond knowing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
286:For our ancestors music was something that you sat down to listen to, or which you made for yourself. It was a ceremonial event, in which you participated, either as a passive listener or as an active performer. Either way you were giving and receiving life, sharing in something of great social significance.
With the advent of the gramophone, the radio and now the iPod, music is no longer something that you must make for yourself, nor is it something that you sit down to listen to. It follows you about wherever you go, and you switch it on as a background. It is not so much listened to as overheard. ~ Roger Scruton,#NFDB
287:Muslim fundamentalists have toppled governments and either assassinated or threatened the enemies of Islam with the death penalty. Similarly, Jewish fundamentalists have settled in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with the avowed intention of driving out the Arab inhabitants, using force if necessary. Thus they believe that they are paving a way for the advent of the Messiah, which is at hand. In all its forms, fundamentalism is a fiercely reductive faith. Thus Rabbi Meir Kahane, the most extreme member of Israel’s Far Right until his assassination in New York in 1990: There ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
288:In this techscape, new values also emerge—often made up of old words with new connotations: automatic, digital, mobile, wireless, frictionless, smart—and new technology adapts to those values. The current meaning of the word wilderness, one could argue, emerged directly from the techscape of industrialism, just as the current meaning of the word network emerged from the world of telecommunications. With the advent of industrial technology we began to see wilderness less as a landscape devoid of agriculture and more as a landscape free from technology—and thus the wild went from being a wasteland to a refuge. ~ Robert Moor, #NFDB
289:During the Cambrian explosion, major paradigm shifts took only tens of millions of years. Later, humanoids developed over a period of millions of years, and Homo sapiens over a period of only hundreds of thousands of years. With the advent of a technology-creating species the exponential pace became too fast for evolution through DNA-guided protein synthesis, and evolution moved on to human-created technology. This does not imply that biological (genetic) evolution is not continuing, just that it is no longer leading the pace in terms of improving order (or of the effectiveness and efficiency of computation). ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
290:God owns and controls all things. And there is nothing that he could give you for Christmas this year that would suit your needs and your longings better than the consolation of Israel and the redemption of Jerusalem, restoration for past losses and liberation from future enemies, forgiveness and freedom, pardon and power, healing the past and sealing the future. If there is a longing in your heart this Advent for something that the world has not been able to satisfy, might not this longing be God’s Christmas gift preparing you to see Christ as consolation and redemption and to receive him for who he really is? ~ John Piper, #NFDB
291:That is the answer to the question which is always being asked: why has
the revolutionary movement identified itself with materialism rather than with idealism? Because to
conquer God, to make Him a slave, amounts to abolishing the transcendence that kept the former masters
in power and to preparing, with the ascendancy of the new tyrants, the advent of the man-king. When
poverty is abolished, when the contradictions of history are resolved, "the real god, the human god, will
be the State." Then homo homini lupus becomes homo homini deus. This concept is at the root of the
contemporary world. ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
292:Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are to black people. American definitions of race allow for a white woman to give birth to black children, which should serve as a reminder that white people are not a family. What binds us is that we share a system of social advantages that can be traced back to the advent of slavery in the colonies that became the United States. 'There is, in fact, no white community,' as Baldwin writes. Whiteness is not who you are. Which is why it is entirely possible to despise whiteness without disliking yourself. ~ Eula Biss, #NFDB
293:The man who no longer expects miraculous changes either from a revolution or from an economic plan is not obliged to resign himself to the unjustifiable. It is because he likes individual human beings, participates in communities, and respects the truth, that he refuses to surrender his soul to an abstract ideal of humanity, a tyrannical party, and an absurd scholasticism. . . . If tolerance is born of doubt, let us teach everyone to doubt all the models and utopias, to challenge all the prophets of redemption and the heralds of catastrophe.
If they can abolish fanaticism, let us pray for the advent of the sceptics. ~ Raymond Aron,#NFDB
294:Therefore the coming of a spiritual age must be preceded by the appearance of an increasing number of individuals who are no longer satisfied with the normal intellectual, vital and physical existence of man, but perceive that a greater evolution is the real goal of humanity and attempt to effect it in themselves, to lead others to it and to make it the recognised goal of the race. In proportion as they succeed and to the degree to which they carry this evolution, the yet unrealised potentiality which they represent will become an actual possibility of the future.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, 263,#NFDB
295:Psalm 24 doesn’t ask us any questions to which it doesn’t give us the answers: “Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place?” The answer: the person with clean hands, a pure heart, a true soul and honest speech. And that puts us in a bind. For in one way or another, we all have dirtied our hands and muddied our souls in a selfish life. So who’s going to ascend this hill? Stand in God’s holy place? The King of Glory, that’s who. The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle! The Lord of Advent stayed clean to make us clean. And he became unclean with our evil on the cross to strip it away from us. ~ Chad Bird, #NFDB
296:Thus says the Lord: the meaning of Christmas is that what is good and precious in your life need never be lost, and what is evil and undesirable in your life can be changed. The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can’t be changed—these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy. It is God’s message of hope this Advent that what is good need never be lost and what is bad can be changed. The Devil works to take the good and bring the bad. And Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
297:In many ways, it took ten thousand years of gradual change to mold us in the shape we are in today. We like to fault modern industrial agriculture and everything that goes with it—overpopulation, a hyperindustrialized food chain, and sedentary living—as underlying the epidemic sweep of diseases of civilization. But the fact is, these all began millennia ago, when humans first domesticated grain. This is a bedrock belief among anthropologists. The effects of the Industrial Revolution and the Information Age pale in comparison with the effects of the advent of agriculture, the single greatest change in two million years of hominid history. ~ John J Ratey, #NFDB
298:At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
299:The rapid rise of communication and collaboration technologies has transformed many other formerly local markets into a similarly universal bazaar. The small company looking for a computer programmer or public relations consultant now has access to an international marketplace of talent in the same way that the advent of the record store allowed the small-town music fan to bypass local musicians to buy albums from the world’s best bands. The superstar effect, in other words, has a broader application today than Rosen could have predicted thirty years ago. An increasing number of individuals in our economy are now competing with the rock stars of their sectors. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
300:For more than half a million years, our recent hominid ancestors lived nomadic lives of extreme duress on the plains of East Africa, but the advent of agriculture changed that about 10,000 years ago. That is only 400 generations—not enough to adapt, genetically, to the changes in diet and society that ensued. Privately worked land and the accumulation of capital made humans less oriented toward group welfare, and the Industrial Revolution pushed society further in that direction. No one knows how the so-called Information Age will affect us, but there's a good chance that home technology and the Internet will only intensify our drift toward solipsism and alienation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
301:The fact that the descent of the Quran led not only to the foundation of one of the world’s great civilizations, but also to the creation of one of the major scientific, philosophical, and artistic traditions in global history was not accidental. Without the advent of the Quran, there would have been no Islamic sciences as we know them, sciences that were brought later to the West and we therefore would not have words such as “algebra,” “algorithm,” and many other scientific terms of Arabic origin in English. Nor would there be the Summas of St. Thomas Aquinas, at least in their existing form, since these Summas contain so many ideas drawn from Islamic sources. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr, #NFDB
302:From the advent of man difficulties appear. We cannot fail to be aware of the extreme confusion which prevails concerning the significance and the distribution of the extremely varied groups into which mankind divides up under our very eyes—races, nations, states, countries, cultures, etc. In these diverse and constantly shifting categories, people as a rule only care to see heterogeneous units—some natural (race), others artificial (nations)—overlapping irregularly on different planes. It is an unpleasing and unnecessary irregularity, and one which vanishes as soon as we give its proper place to the within as well as the without of things. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, #NFDB
303:when she asked where Miss Mavis might be answered that he hadn’t the least idea. I sat with my friend at her particular request: she told me she knew that if I didn’t Mrs. Peck and Mrs. Gotch would make their approach, so that I must act as a watch-dog. She was flurried and fatigued with her migration, and I think that Grace Mavis’s choosing this occasion for retirement suggested to her a little that she had been made a fool of. She remarked that the girl’s not being there showed her for the barbarian she only could be, and that she herself was really very good so to have put herself out; her charge was a mere bore: that was the end of it. I could see that my companion’s advent ~ Henry James, #NFDB
304:To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. Nor can I imagine anything that would do humanity more good than the advent of a race of Supermen, for them to fight like dragons. If the Superman is better than we, of course we need not fight him; but in that case, why not call him a Saint? But if he is merely stronger (whether physically, mentally, or morally stronger, I do not care a farthing), then he ought to have to reckon with us at least for all the strength we have. If we are weaker than he, that is no reason why we should be weaker than ourselves. If we are not tall enough to touch the giant's knees, that is no reason why we should become shorter by falling on our own. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
305:The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to stay the advent of the New, in whatever form or period the latter may have asserted itself. Nor need we retrace our steps into the distant past to realize the enormity of opposition, difficulties, and hardships placed in the path of every progressive idea. The rack, the thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us; so are the convict’s garb and the social wrath, all conspiring against the spirit that is serenely marching on. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
306:I have no problem believing the Scriptures are inspired by God, or that many inspired writings exist outside the twenty-seven books of the New Testament and thirty-nine in the old. But it is important for any serious Christian intent on studying the Bible to understand how it has been passed down through the centuries. With the advent of the printing press, the number of errors entering the text of has fallen significantly. These days the scribe has been cut out of the equation. But his role was a very human one. God created humans with an incredible capacity for intellectual thought, and it’s a shame when people fail to use that capacity to foster their own faith and better understand their creator. ~ Dan Eaton, #NFDB
307:If you look at your average contemporary person, the potential for tragedy is immense. The people and things we love and value are strewn across the globe. Any number of health disasters can befall you or them.
The truth is depressing. We are going to die, most likely after illness; all our friends will likewise die; we are tiny insignificant dots on a tiny planet. Perhaps with the advent of broad intelligence and foresight comes the need for confabulation and self-deception to keep depression and its consequent lethargy at bay. There needs to be a basic denial of our finitude and insignificance in the larger scene. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah just to get out of bed in the morning. ~ William Hirstein,#NFDB
308:The Thirties had seen the first generation of American industrial designers; until the Thirties, all pencil sharpeners looked like pencil sharpeners—your basic Victorian mechanism, perhaps with a curlicue of decorative trim. After the advent of the designers, some pencil sharpeners looked as though they’d been put together in wind tunnels. For the most part, the change was only skin-deep; under the streamlined chrome shell, you’d find the same Victorian mechanism. Which made a certain kind of sense, because the most successful American designers had been recruited from the ranks of Broadway theater designers. It was all a stage set, a series of elaborate props for playing at living in the future. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
309:Here’s an Advent illustration for kids — and those of us who used to be kids and remember what it was like. Suppose you and your mom get separated in the grocery store, and you start to get scared and panic and don’t know which way to go, and you run to the end of an aisle, and just before you start to cry, you see a shadow on the floor at the end of the aisle that looks just like your mom. It makes you really happy and you feel hope. But which is better? The happiness of seeing the shadow, or having your mom step around the corner and it’s really her?
That’s the way it is when Jesus comes to be our High Priest. That’s what Christmas is. Christmas is the replacement of shadows with the real thing. ~ John Piper,#NFDB
310:Advent Prayer
In our secret yearnings
we wait for your coming,
and in our grinding despair
we doubt that you will.
And in this privileged place
we are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do we
and by those who despair more deeply than do we.
Look upon your church and its pastors
in this season of hope
which runs so quickly to fatigue
and in this season of yearning
which becomes so easily quarrelsome.
Give us the grace and the impatience
to wait for your coming to the bottom of our toes,
to the edges of our fingertips.
We do not want our several worlds to end.
Come in your power
and come in your weakness
in any case
and make all things new.
Amen. ~ Walter Brueggemann,#NFDB
311:The Sinic [Chinese] Civilization originated in the Yellow River Valley. The nature of the challenge which started it is unknown but it is clear that the conditions were severe rather than easy.
The Mayan Civilization originated from the challenge of a tropical fores; the Andean from that of a bleak plateau....
The Indic Civilization in Ceylon flourished in the rainless half of the island.....
New England, whose European colonists have played a predominant part in the history of North America, is one of the bleakest and most barren parts of the continent....
The natives of Nyasaland, where life is easy, remained primitive savages down to the advent of invaders from a distant and inclement Europe. ~ Arnold Joseph Toynbee,#NFDB
312:Nor need I dwell at any length upon the personal communication which passed between Doctor Bataille, Albert Pike, Gallatin Mackey, Sophia Walder, Chambers, Webber, and the rest of the Charleston luminaries. Miss Walder explained to him the great hope of the Order concerning the speedy advent of anti-Christ, the abolition of the papacy, and the destruction of the Christian religion. She also related many of her private experiences with the infernal monarchy, being acquainted with the exact number of demons in the descending hierarchy, and with all their classes and legions. She confidently expected to be the great grandmother of anti-Christ, and in the meantime possessed the transcendental faculty of becoming fluidic at will. Mr ~ Arthur Edward Waite, #NFDB
313:Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, selfish hearts; it is a hybrid, egotistical pain at hearing of woes, crossed with ignorant contempt for those who have endured them. But that is not your pity, Jane; it is not the feeling of which your whole face is full at this moment—with which your eyes are now almost overflowing—with which your heart is heaving—with which your hand is trembling in mine. Your pity, my darling, is the suffering mother of love: its anguish is the very natal pang of the divine passion. I accept it, Jane; let the daughter have free advent—my arms wait to receive her. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
314:Belial said, “Let us stop wasting time, Nazarene. I know who you are. I saw the entire circus show in the desert. The dreadfully smelly and theatrical Baptizer, the Holy Spirit descending like a vulture, Yahweh blathering from heaven, blah, blah, blah.” Jesus drifted off in his memory to a mere month ago, where he had been baptized in the Jordan River not too far from this hellish wasteland. John the Baptizer had left the communal sect of Qumran by the Dead Sea to become a lone voice crying in the wilderness to prepare the way for Messiah’s advent. He was baptizing people in preparation for that arrival. But when he saw Jesus, he protested that he was not worthy to tie the thong of Jesus’s sandal, and that it should be Jesus who baptized John instead. ~ Brian Godawa, #NFDB
315:Years ago, before the advent of modern food manufacturing, most available foods were nutritious, farm-grown or farm-raised foods that sent messages to our weight regulation system. Our body read those signals, driving us to get calories in proportion to our needs. However, modern food processing has changed that. Today, the cheap calories found in the saturated fats, trans fats, and high-glycemic carbohydrates common in today’s “industrial diet” don’t register as strongly in our weight regulation system and don’t turn off our hunger drive, thus pushing many of us to eat more despite getting sufficient calories. It is not surprising that much epidemiologic research shows a strong relationship between consumption of low-cost, processed foods and weight.231 ~ Linda Bacon, #NFDB
316:This spirit of humanity breathes in Cicero and Virgil. Hence the veneration paid to the poet of the Aeneid by the fathers and throughout the middle ages. Augustine calls him the noblest of poets, and Dante, "the glory and light of other poets," and "his master," who guided him through the regions of hell and purgatory to the very gates of Paradise. It was believed that in his fourth Eclogue he had prophesied the advent of Christ. This interpretation is erroneous; but "there is in Virgil," says an accomplished scholar,84 "a vein of thought and sentiment more devout, more humane, more akin to the Christian than is to be found in any other ancient poet, whether Greek or Roman. He was a spirit prepared and waiting, though he knew it not, for some better thing to be revealed. ~ Philip Schaff, #NFDB
317:wedding rings’, a safe adventure that united all newcomers. These were young families no longer fearful of getting into debt: avid consumers since they possessed almost nothing; children of poor Irish, Italian, Jewish and other immigrants convinced that all their dreams for the future were about to come true. Levittown and communities like it nurtured a social change that was to turn traditional America on its head: the start of the move to the suburbs, the end of the old city and the old countryside. Another beginning, an elderly American once told me, was the advent of new cars. For him it all started with the cars, or rather their colours. He traced it back to the autumn of 1954, when he noticed people thronging in front of local car showrooms. Something extraordinary was ~ Geert Mak, #NFDB
318:One thing that distinguishes human beings from other animals is that we are evaluative creatures. We can take a critical stance toward our own activities, and aspire to direct ourselves toward objects and projects that we judge to be more worthy than others that may be more immediately gratifying. Animals are guided by appetites that are fixed, and so are we, but we can also form a second-order desire, “a desire for a desire,” when we entertain some picture of the sort of person we would like to be—a person who is better not because she has more self-control, but because she is moved by worthier desires. Acquiring the tastes of a serious person is what we call education. Does it have a future? The advent of engineered, hyperpalatable mental stimuli compels us to ask the question. ~ Matthew B Crawford, #NFDB
319:They were proclaiming the end of the world, redemption through penitence, the visions of the seventh day, the advent of the angel, cosmic collisions, the death of the sun, the tribal spirit, the sap of the mandrake, tiger ointment, the virtue of the sign, the discipline of the wind, the perfume of the moon, the revindication of darkness, the power of exorcism, the sign of the heel, the crucifixion of the rose, the purity of the lymph, the blood of the black cat, the sleep of the shadow, the rising of the seas, the logic of anthropophagy, painless castration, divine tattoos, voluntary blindness, convex thoughts, or concave, or horizontal or vertical, or sloping, or concentrated, or dispersed, or fleetin, the weakening of the vocal cords, the death of the word. Here, nobody is speaking of organisation. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
320:It is often said that Islam is an egalitarian religion. There is much truth in this assertion. If we compare Islam at the time of its advent with the societies that surrounded it—the stratified feudalism of Iran and the caste system of India to the east, the privileged aristocracies of both Byzantine and Latin Europe to the west—the Islamic dispensation does indeed bring a message of equality. Not only does Islam not endorse such systems of social differentiation; it explicitly and resolutely rejects them. The actions and utterances of the Prophet, the honored precedents of the early rulers of Islam as preserved by tradition, are overwhelmingly against privilege by descent, by birth, by status, by wealth, or even by race, and insist that rank and honor are determined only by piety and merit in Islam. ~ Bernard Lewis, #NFDB
321:when technology predominantly was composed of prosthetic devices (functional additions to the mechanical abilities of the human body), it could always be argued that humans are unique by virtue of their intellectual faculties; no prosthetic device could emulate a human’s ability to reason, know, and understand. The work of AI, however, attempts to develop a technology that emulates action and performance previously accredited to unique human intellectual abilities. Consequently, the advent of computers, and of AI in particular, has raised questions about the uniqueness of man in a slightly different form. For example, in some discussions, emotion is now invoked as the category of attributes that testify to man’s uniqueness, just as intellect was invoked when the debate focused on prosthetic technologies. ~ Wiebe E Bijker, #NFDB
322:I look into the chocolaterie. It looks warm in there, almost intimate. Candles are burning on the tables; the Advent window is lit with a rose glow. It smells of orange and clove from the pomander hanging above the door; of pine from the tree; of the mulled wine that we are serving alongside our spiced hot chocolate; and of fresh gingerbread straight out of the oven. It draws them in- three or four at a time- regulars and strangers and tourists alike. They stop at the window, catch the scent, and in they come, looking a little dazed, perhaps, at the many scents and colors and all their favorites in their little glass boxes- bitter orange cracknel; mendiants du roi; hot chili squares; peach brandy truffle; white chocolate angel; lavender brittle- all whispering inaudibly-
Try me. Taste me. Test me. ~ Joanne Harris,#NFDB
323:I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers at the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the beginning from the shape of later events. How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not only memories that hover on the border. There are all sorts of phantasmagoria that inhabit that realm. The nightmares of a lonely child. Fairy tales appropriated by a mind hungry for story. The fantasies of an imaginative little girl anxious to explain to herself the inexplicable. Whatever story I may have discovered on the frontier of forgetting, I do not pretend to myself that it is the truth. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
324:It is clear today that America cannot take comfort in an imagined future for the Middle East, and cannot force the realization of that future. Such an approach guided the path to war in Iraq and has proven to be unworkable. The lesson of Iraq is that trying to force a future of its liking will hasten the advent of those outcomes that the United States most wishes to avoid. Through occupation of Iraq, America has actually made the case for radical Islam—that ours is a war on Islam—encouraging anti-Americanism and fueling extremism and terrorism. The reality that will shape the future of the Middle East is not the debates over democracy or globalization that the Iraq war was supposed to have jump-started but the conflicts between Shias and Sunnis that it precipitated. In time we will come to see this as a central legacy of the Iraq war. ~ Vali Nasr, #NFDB
325:On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date heralded the “happy 90’s,” the Francis Fukuyama dream of the “end of history” –the belief that liberal democracy had, in principle, won; that the search was over; that the advent of a global, liberal world community lurked just around the corner; that the obstacles to this ultra-Hollywood happy ending were merely empirical and contingent (local pockets of resistance were the leaders did not yet grasp that their time was up). In contrast, 9/11 is the main symbol of the Clintonite happy 90’s. This is the era in which new walls emerge everywhere, between Israel and the West Bank, around the European union, on the U.S.-Mexico border. The rise of the populist New Right is just the most prominent example of the urge to raise new walls. ~ Slavoj i ek, #NFDB
326:I fear for the world the Internet is creating. Before the advent of the web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the mountains, or move from one badly furnished room to another in a series of safe houses. Physical reality—the discomfort and difficulty of abandoning one’s normal life—put a natural break on the formation of cults, separatist colonies, underground groups, apocalyptic churches, and extreme political parties.
But now, without leaving home, from the comfort of your easy chair, you can divorce yourself from the consensus on what constitutes “truth.” Each person can live in a private thought bubble, reading only those websites that reinforce his or her desired beliefs, joining only those online groups that give sustenance when the believer’s courage flags. ~ Ellen Ullman,#NFDB
327:That autumn, I kept coming back to Hopper’s images, drawn to them as if they were blueprints and I was a prisoner; as if they contained some vital clue about my state. Though I went with my eyes over dozens of rooms, I always returned to the same place: to the New York diner of Nighthawks, a painting that Joyce Carol Oates once described as “our most poignant, ceaselessly replicated romantic image of American loneliness”...
Green shadows were falling in spikes and diamonds on the sidewalk. There is no colour in existence that so powerfully communicates urban alienation, the atomisation of human beings inside the edifices they create, as this noxious pallid green, which only came into being with the advent of electricity, and which is inextricably associated with the nocturnal city, the city of glass towers, of empty illuminated offices and neon signs. ~ Olivia Laing,#NFDB
328:The possibility that our grandchildren could be living forever among the ruins of a much wealthier and more peaceful world seems almost inconceivable from the vantage of the present day, so much do we still live within the propaganda of human progress and generational improvement. But of course it was a relatively common feature of human history before the advent of industrialization. It was the experience of the Egyptians after the invasion of the Sea Peoples and the Incas after Pizarro, the Mesopotamians after the Akkadian Empire, and the Chinese after the Tang Dynasty. It was—so famously that it grew into caricature, which then spawned decades of rhetorical critique—the experience of Europeans after the fall of Rome. But in this case, the dark ages would arrive within one generation of the light—close enough to touch, and share stories, and blame. ~ David Wallace Wells, #NFDB
329:Swinburne also straightened. “To monotheism, perhaps. A yearning for the advent of a new paganism. How I rue the One who casts his veil of grey over us, Richard; who bids us contemplate death when all around us are the bright colours and vibrancies of glorious life. We have allowed ourselves to be crushed by a despotic deity who demands of us a lifetime of toil and service and promises in return a harsh judgement for most, and ambiguous rewards only for those who enforce His rule. I place all my hopes in Darwin. His wonderful insight can teach a far greater satisfaction and reassurance than blind faith can offer—a simple pleasure gained from the sheer exuberance and tenacity of existence. The human species should revel in a permanent state of delighted astonishment at this world, but instead we allow ourselves to be yoked to a tiresome and unyielding fear of it. ~ Mark Hodder, #NFDB
330:The house lights go off and the footlights come on. Even the chattiest stop chattering as they wait in darkness for the curtain to rise. In the orchestra pit, the violin bows are poised. The conductor has raised his baton. In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is far off in the deeps of it somewhere a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You walk up the steps to the front door. The empty windows at either side of it tell you nothing, or almost nothing. For a second you catch a whiff of some fragrance that reminds you of a place you’ve never been and a time you have no words for. You are aware of the beating of your heart…The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
331:I believe deeply that God does his best work in our lives during times of great heartbreak and loss, and I believe that much of that rich work is done by the hands of people who love us, who dive into the wreckage with us and show us who God is, over and over and over. There are years when the Christmas spirit is hard to come by, and it’s in those seasons when I’m so thankful for Advent. Consider it a less flashy but still very beautiful way of being present to this season. Give up for a while your false and failing attempts at merriment, and thank God for thin places, and for Advent, for a season that understands longing and loneliness and long nights. Let yourself fall open to Advent, to anticipation, to the belief that what is empty will be filled, what is broken will be repaired, and what is lost can always be found, no matter how many times it’s been lost. ~ Shauna Niequist, #NFDB
332:The holy dark over the manger gives way to the heinous dark over the Messiah and the slamming hammer and the tearing vein and the piercing thorn—the created murdering the Creator. The Cross stands as the epitome of evil. And God takes the greatest evil ever known to humanity and turns it into the greatest Gift you have ever known. “If the worst things work for good to a believer, what shall the best things?” writes Puritan Thomas Watson. “Nothing hurts the godly . . . all things . . . shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings.”[11] If God can transfigure the greatest evil into the greatest Gift, then He intends to turn whatever you’re experiencing now into a gift. You cannot be undone. Somewhere, Advent can storm and howl. And the world robed for Christmas can spin on. You, there on the edge, whispering it, defiant through the torn places: “All is grace. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
333:The progress of the sciences toward theories of fundamental unity, cosmic symmetry (as in the unified field theory)—how do such theories differ, in the end, from that unity which Plato called “unspeakable” and “indiscribable,” the holistic knowledge shared by so many peoples of the earth, Christians included, before the advent of the industrial revolution made new barbarians of the peoples of the West? In the United States, before spiritualist foolishness at the end of the last century confused mysticism with “the occult” and tarnished both, William James wrote a master work of metaphysics; Emerson spoke of “the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One . . .”; Melville referred to “that profound silence, that only voice of God”; Walt Whitman celebrated the most ancient secret, that no God could be found “more divine than yourself. ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
334:By 1914 the world wised up. And you know what we got out of it? Do you know what thousands of years of military uniforms have delivered us? Camouflage. With the advent of camouflage came the inability to distinguish between armies. More soldiers died of friendly fire than at any point in military history. It was like a fun house out there, soldiers facing distorted images of themselves, firing half out of fright. It’d become a matter of hiding, surprise, not unlike using a deer blind to hunt. Surprise was the word of the day. And rightfully so. Everything was an ambush. Can you imagine meeting another army across an open battlefield today? Can you imagine waiting for our generals to formally inaugurate that battle? Shaking hands?! No. Now we hide. We hide because they hide, and they hide because we hide, and everybody’s hiding because nobody wants to be out in the open anymore. The End of Bright Colors. ~ Josh Malerman, #NFDB
335:Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul Qadr, the holiest night in Ramadan, drifts--its precise date is unknown. The iconclasm laid down by Muhammed was absolute: you must resist attachment not only to painted images, but to natural ones. Ramadan, Muharram, the Eids; you associate no religious event with the tang of snow in the air, or spring thaw, or the advent of summer. God permeates these things--as the saying goes, Allah is beautiful, and He loves beauty--but they are transient. Forced to concentrate on the eternal, you begin to see, or think you see, the bones and sinews of the world beneath its seasonal flesh. The sun and moon become formidable clockwork. They are transient also, but hint at the dark planes that stretch beyond the earth in every direction, full of stars and dust, toward a retreating, incomprehensible edge ~ G Willow Wilson, #NFDB
336:It took one long, desperate week to prove just how wrong was my prophecy.
“The revolution is not over,” Branaric said seriously some ten days later.
But even this--after a long, horrible day of real fighting, a desperate run back into the familiar hills of Tlanth, and the advent of rain beating on the tent over our heads--failed to keep Branaric serious for long. His mouth curved wryly as he added, “And today’s action was not a rout, it was a retreat.”
“So we will say outside this tent.” Khesot paused to tap his pipeweed more deeply into the worn bowl of his pipe, then he looked up, his white eyebrows quirked. “But it was a rout.”
I said indignantly, “Our people fought well!”
Khesot gave a stately, measured nod in my direction, without moving from his cushion. “Valiantly, Lady Meliara, valiantly. But courage is not enough when we are so grossly outnumbered. More so now that they have an equally able commander. ~ Sherwood Smith,#NFDB
337:With the advent of medieval Scholasticism, … we find a clear distinction between theologia and philosophia. Theology became conscious of its autonomy qua supreme science, which philosophy was emptied of its spiritual exercises, which, from now on, were relegated to Christian mysticism and ethics. Reduced to the rank of a “handmaid of theology,” philosophy’s role was henceforth to furnish theology with conceptual—and hence purely theoretical—material. When, in the modern age, philosophy regained its autonomy, it still retained many features inherited from this medieval conception. In particular, it maintained its purely theoretical character, which even evolved in the direction of a more and more thorough systemization. Not until Nietzsche, Bergson, and existentialism does philosophy consciously return to being a concrete attitude, a way of life and of seeing the world. ~ Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life, trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 107., #NFDB
338:How rapid will be the development toward this higher phase of Communism when each shall receive according to
his needs? "That, we do not and cannot know. . . . We have no data that allow us to solve these questions." "For the
sake of greater clarity," Lenin affirms with his customary arbitrariness, "it has never been vouchsafed to any
socialist to guarantee the advent of the higher phase of Communism." It can be said that at this point freedom
definitely dies. From the rule of the masses and the concept of the proletarian revolution we first pass on to the idea
of a revolution made and directed by professional agents. The relentless criticism of the State is then reconciled with
the necessary, but provisional, dictatorship of the proletariat, embodied in its leaders. Finally, it is announced that
the end of this provisional condition cannot be foreseen and that, what is more, no one has ever presumed to promise
that there will be an end. ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
339:however, as to whether he could read or write after revelation. Without entering into the details of this controversy I may remark that, while there is ground for believing that he could read, he still had his letters written by others; see 29:48a. 157b. There are many prophecies regarding the advent of the Holy Prophet both in the Old and the New Testament. The Torah and the Gospel are specially mentioned here because Moses and Jesus were respectively the first and the last of the Israelite prophets. Deut. 18:15–18 speaks very clearly of the raising of a prophet (who shall be the like of Moses) from among the brethren of the Israelites, i.e. the Ishmaelites or the Arabs, while Deut. 33:2 speaks of the shining forth of the manifestation of the Lord, i.e. his coming in full glory “from Mount Paran”. The Gospel is full of the prophecies of the advent of the Holy Prophet; Matt. 21:33–44, Mark 12:1–11, Luke 20:9–18, where the Lord of the vineyard comes after the son (i.e. Jesus) is maltreated, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
340:Apart from a few sectarian movements, the entire Christian church from the first century until the 1850s agreed that only men could be pastors and elders, and the vast majority agreed that only men could do public Bible teaching of both men and women.20 From the 1850s until the 1950s in the United States, women pastors were a tiny minority, but over 98 percent of evangelical churches (over 99 percent of the broader Christian church if Roman Catholic and Orthodox groups are included) had only men as pastors.21 Allowing women to be ordained in significant numbers began with some liberal Protestant denominations in the 1950s and spread to a number of evangelical groups under the influence of evangelical feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. Before the advent of evangelical feminist writings in the 1970s, today’s “disputed passages” on women in ministry were not thought to be unclear. Therefore this matter is much different from disputes over the end times or baptism or Calvinism and Arminianism. ~ Wayne Grudem, #NFDB
341:Boehm’s claim is that at some point during the last half-million years, well after the advent of language, our ancestors created the first true moral communities.32 In these communities, people used gossip to identify behavior they didn’t like, particularly the aggressive, dominating behaviors of would-be alpha males. On the rare occasions when gossip wasn’t enough to bring them into line, they had the ability to use weapons to take them down. Boehm quotes a dramatic account of such a community in action among the !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert: A man named Twi had killed three other people, when the community, in a rare move of unanimity, ambushed and fatally wounded him in full daylight. As he lay dying, all of the men fired at him with poisoned arrows until, in the words of one informant, “he looked like a porcupine.” Then, after he was dead, all the women as well as the men approached his body and stabbed him with spears, symbolically sharing the responsibility for his death.33 ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
342:Perhaps Cardano's curious combination of a mystical and a scientifically rational personality allowed him to catch these first glimmerings of what developed to be one of the most powerful of mathematical conceptions. In later years, through the work of Bombelli, Coates, Euler, Wessel, Argand, Gauss, Cauchy, Weierstrass, Riemann, Levi, Lewy, and many others, the theory of complex numbers has flowered into one of the most elegant and universally applicable of mathematical structures. But not until the advent of the quantum theory, in the first quarter of this century, was a strange and all-pervasive role for complex numbers revealed at the very foundational structure of the actual physical world in which we live-nor had their profound link with probabilities been perceived before this. Even Cardano could have had no inkling of a mysterious underlying connection between his two greatest contributions to mathematics-a link that forms the very basis of the material universe at its smallest scales. ~ Roger Penrose, #NFDB
343:If we want to participate in this Advent and Christmas event, we cannot simply sit there like spectators in a theater and enjoy all the friendly pictures. Rather, we must join in the action that is taking place and be drawn into this reversal of all things ourselves. Here we too must act on the stage, for here the spectator is always a person acting in the drama. We cannot remove ourselves from the action. With whom, then, are we acting? Pious shepherds who are on their knees? Kings who bring their gifts? What is going on here, where Mary becomes the mother of God, where God comes into the world in the lowliness of the manger? World judgment and world redemption—that is what’s happening here. And it is the Christ child in the manger himself who holds world judgment and world redemption. He pushes back the high and mighty; he overturns the thrones of the powerful; he humbles the haughty; his arm exercises power over all the high and mighty; he lifts what is lowly, and makes it great and glorious in his mercy. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
344:The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale before a splendour in the east, and the advent of the dawn declared itself in the newborn blue of heaven. Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as in our tempestuous life the transitory wreaths of sleep brook upon a pain-racked soul, causing it to forget its sorrow. From the east to the west sped those angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light from breast and wing. On they sped out of the darkness, perfect, glorious; on, over the quiet sea, over the low coast-line, and the swamps beyond, and the mountains above them; over those who slept in peace and those who woke in sorrow; over the evil and the good; over the living and the dead; over the wide world and all that breathes or as breathed thereon. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
345:Edith Conant
We stand about this place -- we, the memories;
And shade our eyes because we dread to read:
"June 17th, 1884, aged 21 years and 3 days."
And all things are changed.
And we -- we, the memories, stand here for ourselves alone,
For no eye marks us, or would know why we are here.
Your husband is dead, your sister lives far away,
Your father is bent with age;
He has forgotten you, he scarcely leaves the house
Any more.
No one remembers your exquisite face,
Your lyric voice!
How you sang, even on the morning you were stricken,
With piercing sweetness, with thrilling sorrow,
Before the advent of the child which died with you.
It is all forgotten, save by us, the memories,
Who are forgotten by the world.
All is changed, save the river and the hill -Even they are changed.
Only the burning sun and the quiet stars are the same.
And we -- we, the memories, stand here in awe,
Our eyes closed with the weariness of tears -In immeasurable weariness!
~ Edgar Lee Masters,#NFDB
346:Tom has been having a difficult patch, and we meet at the church of IKEA as often as possible, because it is equidistant from our houses and always cheers us up. Yesterday I asked, 'In your depression, and with so many people having such a hard time, where is Advent?' He tried to wiggle out of it by saying, 'You Protestants and your little questions!' Then, when pushed, he said: 'Faith is a decision. Do we believe we are ultimately doomed and fucked and there's no way out? Or that God and goodness make a difference? There is heaven, community, and hope - and hope that there is life beyond the grave.'
'But Tom, at the same time, the grave is very real, dark and cold and lonely.' 'Advent is not for the naive. Because in spite of the dark and cold, we see light - you look up, or you make light, with candles, or with strands of lightbulbs on trees. And you give light. Beauty helps, in art and nature and faces. Friends help. Solidarity helps. If you ask me, when people return phone calls, it's about as good as it gets. And who knows beyond that. ~ Anne Lamott,#NFDB
347:The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using the word 'trinity.' The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or Second Coming, or Original Sin. If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence, Supernatural,Transcendence, Afterlife, Deity, Divinity, Theology, Monotheism, Missionary, Immaculate Conception, Christmas, Christianity, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Methodist, Catholic, Pope, Cardinal, Catechism, Purgatory, Penance, Transubstantiation, Excommunication, Dogma, Chastity, Unpardonable Sin, Infallibility, Inerrancy, Incarnation, Epiphany, Sermon, Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer, Good Friday, Doubting Thomas, Advent, Sunday School, Dead Sea, Golden Rule, Moral, Morality, Ethics, Patriotism, Education, Atheism, Apostasy, Conservative (Liberal is in), Capital Punishment, Monogamy, Abortion, Pornography, Homosexual, Lesbian, Fairness, Logic, Republic, Democracy, Capitalism, Funeral, Decalogue, or Bible. ~ Dan Barker, #NFDB
348:The fourth condition is study. One must cultivate the mind, know what others have thought, open the mental being to this impact of the higher vibrations of knowledge. A mental knowledge is not tantamount to realization, it is true, but still one must know mentally where one is going, what has happened to others, how they have achieved, what are the hindrances and the helping points. This education of oneself by study, study of spiritual writings, suddhydya as it is called, a disciplined reading and incorporation of the knowledge contained in scriptures and authentic texts - that is a very important part. Even when you don't understand a text, still if you persist at it, the force that is in that book creates certain new grooves in your brain and the second or the third time when you read it, it begins to make some meaning. This is the meaning of studying, of exposing your mind to the constant vibrations of higher levels of knowledge. Incidentally, the mind gets developed, a mental climate is created, a climate of spiritual culture.
~ M P Pandit, The Advent 1981, 30,#NFDB
349:Offer me?" A shrill note of indignation entered her voice. "Young man, there are three things that make Britain great. The first is our inability at playing sports."
How does that make Britain great?"
"Despite the certainty of loss, we try anyway with the absolute conviction that this year will be the one, regardless of all evidence to the contrary!"
I raised my eyebrows, but that simply meant I could see my blood more clearly, so looked away and said nothing.
"The second," she went on, "is the BBC. It may be erratic, tabloid, under-funded and unreliable, but without the World Service, obscure Dickens adaptions, the Today Program and Doctor Who, I honestly believe that the cultural and communal capacity of this country would have declined to the level of the apeman, largely owing to the advent of the mobile phone!"
"Oh," I said, feeling that something was expected. "Oh" was enough.
"And lastly, we have the NHS!"
"This is an NHS service?" I asked incredulously.
"I didn't say that, I merely pointed out that the NHS makes Britain great. Now lie still. ~ Kate Griffin,#NFDB
350:THURSDAY 1 Thessalonians 3:9–13 REFLECTION On the First Sunday of Advent many congregations light the hope candle. A vision of “the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints” can encourage hope, regardless of how or when it occurs, whether the hearer conceives of this coming literally in history or metaphorically in the experiences of individuals and communities. To be ready for the “coming of our Lord Jesus” is a faithful way of living not dependent on predictions as to when. Endings and beginnings abound. Personal tragedy or world calamity can intrude at any time. Faithful preparation and expectant living can help us face whatever comes. Paul’s words of assurance that were intended to “restore whatever is lacking” in the faith of the Thessalonians can bolster the faith of contemporary hearers as well and can be the impetus for all to “increase and abound in love.” PHILIP E. CAMPBELL RESPONSE What is lacking in your faith that needs to be restored in this Advent season of waiting and preparation? PRAYER God of hope, I wait with hope for your advent in my life. Amen. ~ Kathleen Long Bostrom, #NFDB
351:Holidays: Imagine if the great holidays and seasons of the Christian year were redesigned to emphasize love. Advent would be the season of preparing our hearts to receive God’s love. Epiphany would train us to keep our eyes open for expressions of compassion in our daily lives. Lent would be an honest self-examination of our maturity in love and a renewal of our commitment to grow in it. Instead of giving up chocolate or coffee for Lent, we would stop criticizing or gossiping about or interrupting others. Maundy Thursday would refocus us on the great and new commandment; Good Friday would present the suffering of crucifixion as the suffering of love; Holy Saturday would allow us to lament and grieve the lack of love in our lives and world; and Easter would celebrate the revolutionary power of death-defying love. Pentecost could be an “altar call” to be filled with the Spirit of love, and “ordinary time” could be “extraordinary time” if it involved challenges to celebrate and express love in new ways—to new people, to ourselves, to the earth, and to God—including time to tell stories about our experiences of doing so. ~ Brian D McLaren, #NFDB
352:The True Foundation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church What then is our foundation? Here’s the answer: The scripture which above all others had been both the foundation and central pillar of the Advent faith was the declaration, “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed” (GC, 409). Thus “the foundation” of our “Advent faith” is Daniel 8:14, not Leviticus 26. What about “the platform”? God is leading out a people and establishing them upon the one great platform of faith, the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus (3T, 447). These “people” are Seventh-day Adventists, and based on the above quote, that “one great platform of faith” is the message of the third angel. Ultimately, “Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:11. “Upon this rock,” said Jesus, “I will build My church.” ... That Rock is Himself,—His own body, for us broken and bruised. Against the church built upon this foundation, the gates of hell shall not prevail (DA, 413). Thus the primary foundation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Himself, not a chart. ~ Steve Wohlberg, #NFDB
353:Until the advent of modern physics it was generally thought that all knowledge of the world could be obtained through direct observation, that things are what they seem, as perceived through our senses. But the spectacular success of modern physics, which is based upon concepts such as Feynman’s that clash with everyday experience, has shown that that is not the case. The naive view of reality therefore is not compatible with modern physics. To deal with such paradoxes we shall adopt an approach that we call model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth. But there may be different ways in which one could model the same physical situation, with each employing different fundamental elements and concepts. If two such physical theories or models accurately predict the same events, one cannot be said to be more real than the other; rather, we are free to use whichever model is most convenient. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
354:Then, like magic, the rain came, or we knew intuitively where to go and find a clear stream, or the hickory branch told us where to dig for water. Some wise men and women found that prolonged and frenzied dancing, enthusiastic drumming, intoxication and, especially ecstatic lovemaking worked to dissolve our small wills (and in a much more joyful and exuberant manner than the ascetic methods of fasting, and suffering which later became popular with the advent of the modem religion Christianity.) D.H. Lawrence, a fairly modem writer who worked towards stripping sex of its "bad reputation," said "in pure, fierce, passion of sensuality I am burned into essentiality." The essentiality which Lawrence speaks of is the "True Will" which is at once our own, yet also the Will of Everything. A Hermetic philosopher described this experience as an encounter with God whose "center is everywhere and circumference nowhere found." The Dionysians, one of the most popular of the Sexcentric religions, practiced the art of excess to "remove" the small will and join with the Universe. "Enough! or Too Much!" was their cry; prudence was a quality which their gods did not ~ Christopher S Hyatt, #NFDB
355:How do we know that the creation of worlds is not determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision for the mind. There are marvelous relations between beings and things; in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despise the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. All birds that fly have round their the thread of the infinite. Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where telescopes end, the microscopes begin. Which of the two possesses the larger field of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant hill of stars. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
356:If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, without whom thou canst do nothing; and if thou dost live in close communion with Christ, there will be no fear of thy having a dry heart. He who lives without prayer—he who lives with little prayer—he who seldom reads the Word—he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence from on high—he will be the man whose heart will become dry and barren; but he who calls in secret on his God—who spends much time in holy retirement—who delights to meditate on the words of the Most High—whose soul is given up to Christ—who delights in his fullness, rejoices in his all-sufficiency, prays for his second coming, and delights in the thought of his glorious advent—such a man, I say, must have an overflowing heart; and as his heart is, such will his life be. It will be a full life; it will be a life that will speak from the sepulcher, and wake the echoes of the future. "Keep thine heart with all diligence," and entreat the Holy Spirit to keep it full; for, otherwise, the issues of thy life will be feeble, shallow, and superficial; and thou mayest as well not have lived at all. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
357:An Invective Against Gold
OF all the Poisons that the fruitful Earth
E'er yet brought forth, or Monsters she gave Birth,
Nought to Mankind has e'er so fatal been,
As thou, accursed Gold, their Care and Sin.
Methinks I the Advent'rous Merchant see,
Ploughing the faithless Seas, in search of thee,
His dearest Wife and Children left behind,
(His real Wealth) while he, a Slave to th' Wind,
Sometimes becalm'd, the Shore with longing Eyes
Wishes to see, and what he wishes, Spies:
For a rude Tempest wakes him from his Dream,
And Strands his Bark by a more sad Extream.
Thus, hopless Wretch, is his whole Life-time spent,
And though thrice Wreck't, 's no Wiser than he went.
Again, I see, the Heavenly Fair despis'd,
A Hagg like Hell, with Gold, more highly priz'd;
Mens Faith betray'd, their Prince and Country Sold,
Their God deny'd, all for the Idol Gold.
Unhappy Wretch, who first found out the Oar,
What kind of Vengeance rests for thee in store?
If Nebats Son, that Israel led astray,
Meet a severe Reward at the last Day?
Some strange unheard-of Judgement thou wilt find,
Who thus hast caus'd to Sin all Humane Kind.
~ Anne Killigrew,#NFDB
358:Every individual is multicultural; cultures are not monolithic islands but criss-crossed alluvial plains. Individual identity stems from the encounter of multiple collective identities within one and the same person; each of our various affiliations contributes to the formation of the unique creature that we are. Human beings are not all similar, or entirely different; they are all plural within themselves, and share their constitutive traits with very varied groups, combining them in an individual way. The cohabitation of different types of belonging within each one of us does not in general cause any problems- and this ought , in turn, to arouse admiration: like a juggler, we keep all the balls of our identity in the air at once, with the greatest ease!
Individual identity results from the interweaving of several collective identities; it is not alone in this respect. What is the origin of the culture of a human group? The reply- paradoxically- is that it comes from previous cultures. A new culture arises from the encounter between several smaller cultures, or from the decomposition of a bigger culture, or from interaction with neighboring culture. There is never a human life prior to the advent of culture. ~ Tzvetan Todorov,#NFDB
359:the advent of Christianity as a process of unprecedented decline. The Christian ideal of a religion open to everyone irrespective of race, tradition and caste was a solvent of Roman order and hierarchy. By positing mere faith over heroic and initiatory spiritual growth, Christianity appealed to the plebeian mentality with promises of salvation from subjection, the world and even death. Christian egalitarianism, based on principles of brotherhood, love and collectivism, militated against all Roman ideas of duty, honor and command. The Christian God was not the god of the patricians, invoked while standing erect and carried in front of the legions, but a crucified god-man, to whom one prayed in the sense of sin and atonement. The spread of Christianity marked a shift from the masculine to the feminine, from the solar to the tellurian, from martial aristocratic values to mystical plebeian sentiment. Evola detected the revival of female, lunar spirituality in its myths of a sacrificed and regenerated (agricultural) god and the Virgin birth, and its iconography of Mother and Child. Nevertheless, Christianity was only a symptom of decline, as Evola believed the Roman heroic cycle was already exhausted in “ethnic chaos and cosmopolitan disintegration. ~ Nicholas Goodrick Clarke, #NFDB
360:The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapers, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology. Heretics were tortured and burnt not in anger but in sorrow , for the good of their immortal souls. Tribal warfare was waged in the purported interest of the tribe, not of the individual. Wars of religion were fought to decide some fine point in theology or semantics. Wars of succession, dynastic wars, national wars, civil wars, were fought to decide issues equally remote from the personal self-interest of the combatants. The Communist purges, as the word 'purge' indicates, were understood as operations of social hygiene, to prepare mankind for the golden age of the classless society. The gas chambers and crematoria worked for the advent of a different version of the millennium. Heinrich Eichmann (as Hannah Ahrendt, reporting on his trial, has pointed out) was not a monster or a sadist, but a conscientious bureaucrat, who considered it his duty to carry out his orders and believed in obedience as the supreme virtue; far from being a sadist, he felt physically sick on the only occasion when he watched the Zircon gas at work. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
361:Before his and Pushkin's advent Russian literature was purblind. What form it perceived was an outline directed by reason: it did not see color for itself but merely used the hackneyed combinations of blind noun and dog-like adjective that Europe had inherited from the ancients. The sky was blue, the dawn red, the foliage green, the eyes of beauty black, the clouds grey, and so on. It was Gogol (and after him Lermontov and Tolstoy) who first saw yellow and violet at all. That the sky could be pale green at sunrise, or the snow a rich blue on a cloudless day, would have sounded like heretical nonsense to your so-called "classical" writer, accustomed as he was to the rigid conventional color-schemes of the Eighteenth Century French school of literature. Thus the development of the art of description throughout the centuries may be profitably treated in terms of vision, the faceted eye becoming a unified and prodigiously complex organ and the dead dim "accepted colors" (in the sense of "idées reçues") yielding gradually their subtle shades and allowing new wonders of application. I doubt whether any writer, and certainly not in Russia, had ever noticed before, to give the most striking instance, the moving pattern of light and shade on the ground under trees or the tricks of color played by sunlight with leaves. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
362:There had been a time in high school, see, when I wrestled with the possibility that I might be gay, a torturous six-month culmination of years of unpopularity and girllessness. At night I lay in bed and cooly informed myself that I was gay and that I had better get used to it. The locker room became a place of torment, full of exposed male genitalia that seemed to taunt me with my failure to avoid glancing at them, for a fraction of a second that might have seemed accidental but was, I recognized, a bitter symptom of my perversion. Bursting with typical fourteen-year-old desire, I attempted to focus it in succession on the thought of every boy I knew, hoping to find some outlet for my horniness, even if it had to be perverted, secret, and doomed to disappointment. Without exception these attempts failed to produce anything but bemusement, if not actual disgust.
This crisis of self-esteem had been abruptly dispelled by the advent of Julie Lefkowitz, followed swiftly by her sister Robin, and then Sharon Horne and little Rose Fagan and Jennifer Schaeffer; but I never forgot my period of profound sexual doubt. Once in a while I would meet an enthralling man who shook, dimly but perceptibley, the foundations laid by Julie Lefkowitz, and I would wonder, just for a moment, by what whim of fate I had decided that I was not a homosexual. ~ Michael Chabon,#NFDB
363:Presently Grandmother Jia appeared, seated, in solitary splendour, in a large palanquin carried by eight bearers. Li Wan, Xi-feng and Aunt Xue followed, each in a palanquin with four bearers. After them came Bao-chai and Dai-yu sharing a carriage with a splendid turquoise-coloured canopy trimmed with pearls. The carriage after them, in which Ying-chun, Tan-chun and Xi-chun sat, had vermilion-painted wheels and was shaded with a large embroidered umbrella. After them rode Grandmother Jia’s maids, Faithful, Parrot, Amber and Pearl; after them Lin Dai-yu’s maids, Nightingale, Snowgoose and Delicate; then Bao-chai’s maids, Oriole and Apricot; then Ying-chun’s maids, Chess and Tangerine; then Tan-chun’s maids, Scribe and Ebony; then Xi-chun’s maids, Picture and Landscape; then Aunt Xue’s maids, Providence and Prosper, sharing a carriage with Caltrop and Caltrop’s own maid, Advent; then Li Wan’s maids, Candida and Casta; then Xi-feng’s own maids, Patience, Felicity and Crimson, with two of Lady Wang’s maids, Golden and Suncloud, whom Xi-feng had agreed to take with her, in the carriage behind. In the carriage after them sat another couple of maids and a nurse holding Xi-feng’s little girl. Yet more carriages followed carrying the nannies and old women from the various apartments and the women whose duty it was to act as duennas when the ladies of the household went out of doors. ~ Cao Xueqin, #NFDB
364:Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after century, the large and easy interior rhythms of a year that moves from birth, life, death, resurrection, on to spirit, obedience, faith, and blessing. Without liturgy we lose the rhythms and end up tangled in the jerky, ill-timed, and insensitive interruptions of public-relations campaigns, school openings and closings, sales days, tax deadlines, inventory and elections. Advent is buried under 'shopping days before Christmas.' The joyful disciplines of Lent are exchanged for the anxious penitentials of filling out income tax forms. Liturgy keeps us in touch with the story as it defines and shapes our beginnings and ends our living and dying, our rebirths and blessing in this Holy Spirit, text-formed community visible and invisible.
When Holy Scripture is embraced liturgically, we become aware that a lot is going on all at once, a lot of different people are doing a lot of different things. The community is on its feet, at work for God, listening and responding to the Holy Scriptures. The holy community, in the process of being formed by the Holy Scriptures, is watching, listening to God's revelation taking shape before an din them as they follow Jesus, each person playing his or her part in the Spirit. ~ Eugene H Peterson,#NFDB
365:Causes of the advent of pessimism: The most powerful desires of life have been hitherto the most slandered, so that a curse weighs on life. For we comprehend that these self-same instincts are inseparable from life, and one therefore turns against life. Whereas the mass, which has no feeling at all for this conflict, flourishes, while the conflicted type miscarries and, as a product of degeneration, invites antipathy–that the mediocre, on the other hand, when they pose as the goal and meaning of existence, arouse nausea and indignation. And the individual, faced with this tremendous machinery, loses courage and submits. The herd, the mass, 'society', unlearns modesty and blows up its needs into cosmic and metaphysical values. In this way the whole of existence is vulgarised; and in so far as the mass is dominant it bullies the exceptions, so that they lose faith in themselves and become nihilists.
The question 'for what?', after a painful struggle, even victory. That something is a hundred times more important than the question of whether we feel well or not–and consequently whether others feel well or not. The predominance of suffering over pleasure, or its opposite (hedonism) are already signposts to nihilism. For in both cases no ultimate meaning is posited except the appearance of pleasure or pain. But for any worthy man, the value of life is certainly not measured by the standard of these trifles. A suffering might predominate, and in spite of this, a powerful will might exist, a Yes to life, a need and acceptance of this predominance ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
366:Causes of the advent of pessimism: the most powerful desires of life have been hitherto the most slandered, so that a curse weighs on life. For we comprehend that these self-same instincts are inseparable from life, and one therefore turns against life. Whereas the mass, which has no feeling at all for this conflict, flourishes, while the conflicted type miscarries and, as a product of degeneration, invites antipathy–that the mediocre, on the other hand, when they pose as the goal and meaning of existence, arouse nausea and indignation. And the individual, faced with this tremendous machinery, loses courage and submits. The herd, the mass, 'society', unlearns modesty and blows up its needs into cosmic and metaphysical values. In this way the whole of existence is vulgarised; and in so far as the mass is dominant it bullies the exceptions, so that they lose faith in themselves and become nihilists.
The question 'for what?', after a painful struggle, even victory. That something is a hundred times more important than the question of whether we feel well or not–and consequently whether others feel well or not. The predominance of suffering over pleasure, or its opposite (hedonism) are already signposts to nihilism. For in both cases no ultimate meaning is posited except the appearance of pleasure or pain. But for any worthy man, the value of life is certainly not measured by the standard of these trifles. A suffering might predominate, and in spite of this, a powerful will might exist, a Yes to life, a need and acceptance of this predominance. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
367:(…) it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modern communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world in which we live.(…) Perhaps we know more about the world than we used to, and insofar as knowledge is prerequisite to understanding, that is all to the good. But knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding. (…) One of the reasons for this situation is that the very media we have mentioned are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary (though this is only an appearance). The packaging of intellectual positions and views is one of the
most active enterprises of some of the best minds of our day. The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of magazines, is presented with a whole complex of elements—all the way from ingenious rhetoric to carefully selected data and statistics—to make it easy for him to “make up his own mind” with the minimum of difficulty and effort. But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button and “plays back” the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performer acceptably without having had to think. ~ Mortimer J Adler,#NFDB
368:The excitement of the first Sunday in Advent had hardly died down when the sixth of December came around, one of the most momentous days for all houses where little children lived. On the vigil of this day Saint Nikolaus comes down to earth to visit all the little ones. Saint Nikolaus was a saintly bishop of the fourth century, and being always very kind and helpful to children and young people, God granted that every year on his feastday he might come down to the children. He comes dressed in his Bishop’s vestments, with a mitre on his head and his Bishop’s staff in his hand. He is followed, however, by the Krampus, an ugly, black little devil with a long, red tongue, a pair of horns, and a long tail. When Saint Nikolaus enters a house, he finds the whole family assembled, waiting for him, and the parents greet him devoutly. Then he asks the children questions from their catechism. He has them repeat a prayer or sing a song. He seems to know everything, all the dark spots of the past year, as you can see from his admonishing words. All the good children are given a sack with apples and nuts, prunes and figs, and the most delicious, heavenly sweets. Bad children, however, must promise very hard to change their life. Otherwise, the Krampus will take them along, and he is grunting already and rattling his heavy chain. But the Holy Bishop won’t ever let him touch a child. He believes the tearful eyes and stammered promises, but it may happen that, instead of a sweet bag, you get a switch. That will be put up in a conspicuous place and will look very symbolic of a child’s behavior. ~ Maria Augusta von Trapp, #NFDB
369:Case study: The Zoroastrians Would it really have been so bad if the Muslims had conquered Europe? After all, the Christians would still have been able to practice their religion. They would just have had to put up with a little discrimination, right? Although “a little discrimination” is all that most Islamic apologists will acknowledge about dhimmitude, the long-term effects of the dhimma were much more damaging for non-Muslims. Even centuries after the Muslim conquest of Egypt, the Coptic Christians maintained an overwhelming majority there. Yet today the Copts amount to just 10 percent, or less, of the Egyptian population. It’s the same story with every non-Muslim group that has fallen completely under Islamic rule. The Zoroastrians, or Parsis, are followers of the Persian priest and prophet Zoroaster, or Zarathustra (628–551 B.C.). Before the advent of Islam, Zoroastrianism was for a long period the official religion of Persia (modern-day Iran), and was the dominant religion when the Persian Empire spanned from the Aegean Sea to the Indus River. Zoroastrians were commonly found from Persia to China. But after the Muslim conquest of Persia, Zoroastrians were given dhimmi status and subjected to cruel persecutions, which often included forced conversions. Many fled to India to escape Muslim rule, only to fall prey to the warriors of jihad again when the Muslims started to advance into India. The suffering of the Zoroastrians under Islam was strikingly similar to that of Christians and Jews under Islam farther to the West, and it continued well into modern times (even to this very day under the Iranian mullahocracy). ~ Robert Spencer, #NFDB
370:So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said `no.' I did not think that I had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn of joy."
"Mixed joy," said the Bishop.
"You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there."
"You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a demolition complicated with wrath."
"Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of humanity. ~ Victor Hugo,#NFDB
371:D. CONCLUSION: SILENCING THE MOST RELEVANT VERSES BY SAYING THEY ARE DISPUTED IS ANOTHER STEP TOWARD LIBERALISM I realize that the evangelical feminist authors who say the verses on women in the church are “too hard to decide” do not think they are moving their churches toward liberalism. They may just be overwhelmed with all the literature written on these topics and so they conclude, “I can’t decide this.” But then they do decide it. They decide to adopt an evangelical feminist view, contrary to the sense of those passages that has been plain to millions of readers for centuries. In doing so, they take their churches toward liberalism. The position that says, “We can’t decide these disputed passages, so we will make decisions based on factors other than these passages,” is guaranteed to silence the most important and most relevant passages of Scripture on roles for men and women. When evangelical feminists claim, “Nobody knows what these passages mean,” no further reasoning or argument from these verses can influence their decisions. Their position is: “The verses are too hard to decide. They are confusing. We can’t figure them out. Therefore we won’t consider these verses anymore. They cannot speak to us on this issue.” But to say this on an issue where God has given direct instruction, and where churches have to make decisions every day, and where the whole Christian church has had widespread agreement until the advent of modern feminism, results in silencing the most relevant verses, and thus it is ultimately another way to undermine the authority of the Bible. Saying that such passages are too hard to decide is another dangerous step on the path to liberalism. ~ Wayne Grudem, #NFDB
372:We have noticed that, since man’s advent, there has been a certain slowing down of the passive and somatic transformations of the organism in favour of the conscious and active metamorphoses of the individual absorbed in society. We find the artificial carrying on the work of the natural; and the transmission of an oral or written culture being superimposed on genetic forms of heredity (chromosomes). Without denying the possibility or even probability of a certain prolongation in our limbs, and still more in our nervous system, of the orthogenetic processes of the past, I am inclined to think that their influence, hardly appreciable since the emergence of Homo sapiens, is destined to dwindle still further. As thought regulated by a sort of quantum law, the energies of life seem unable to spread in one region or take on a new form except at the expense of a lowering elsewhere. Since man’s arrival, the evolutionary pressure seems to have dropped in all the non-human branches of the tree of life. And now that man has become an adult and has opened up for himself the field of mental and social transformations, bodies no longer change appreciably; they no longer need to in the human branch; or if they still change, it will only be under our industrious control. It may well be that in its individual capacities and penetration our brain has reached its organic limits. But the movement does not stop there. From west to east, evolution is henceforth occupied elsewhere, in a richer and more complex domain, constructing, with all minds joined together, mind. Beyond all nations and races, the inevitable taking-as-a-whole of mankind has already begun. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, #NFDB
373:In her memoir of living among the Bushmen, The Old Way: A Story of the First People, my friend Liz lovingly invokes an image first coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins: “You are standing beside your mother, holding her hand. She is holding her mother’s hand, who is holding her mother’s hand. . . . ” Eventually the line stretches three hundred miles long and goes back five million years, and the clasping hand of the ancestor looks like that of a chimpanzee. I loved picturing one of Octavia’s arms stretching out to meet one of her mother’s arms, and one of her mother’s mother’s arms, and her mother’s mother’s mother’s. . . . Suckered, elastic arms, reaching back through time: an octopus chorus line stretching not just hundreds, but many thousands of miles long. Back past the Cenozoic, the time when our ancestors descended from the trees; back past the Mesozoic, when dinosaurs ruled the land; back past the Permian and the rise of the ancestors of the mammals; back, past the Carboniferous’s coal-forming swamp forests; back past the Devonian, when amphibians emerged from the water; back past the Silurian, when plants first took root on land—all the way to the Ordovician, to a time before the advent of wings or knees or lungs, before the fishes had bony jaws, before blood pumped from a multichambered heart. More than 500 million years ago, the tides would have been stronger, the days shorter, the year longer, and the air too high in carbon dioxide for mammals or birds to breathe. All the earth’s continents huddled in the Southern Hemisphere. And yet still, the arm of Octavia’s ancestor, sensitive, suckered, and supple, would have been recognizable as one of an octopus. ~ Sy Montgomery, #NFDB
374:We were here
And our memories are as dear to us as every slow motion moment or held breath
So remember every instance before death
Every first kiss, first dance, near miss, last chance, yes, no, maybe so
Let us go the distance once more
Let us remember all the moments that were and were not
Like the point is something we can get and what we can get is what we got
Because all we have are the times between the moments we connect each dot
So live and remember
Burn like an ember capable of starting fires
Like each moment inspires the next
Like memories are the context we put ourselves in
So that life becomes the next of kin we need to notify in case of a big bang or Extinction level event
Let now be our advent
Let us live like we meant it
Let us burn like we mean it
Because this world doesn't give a shit if we end in a train wreck or a car crash
If our story ends with a dot or dash
If we were dust or ash
Because all we were is all we’ll be
And all we are is the in-between of so far, so good
So forget every would, could, or should not
Forget remembering how we forgot
Live like a plot twist exists now and in memory
Because we burn bright
Our light leaves scars on the sun
Let no one say we will be undone by time's passing
The memories we are amassing will stand as testament
That somehow we bent minds around the concept
That we see others within ourselves
That self-knowledge can't be found on bookshelves
So who we are has no bearing on how we appear
Look directly into every mirror
Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story
And our story starts:
"We were here." ~ Shane L Koyczan,#NFDB
375:Advent Hymn
Another mile—a year
Pass'd by for ever! And the warnings swell
From upper heaven to darkest depths of hell,—
O we are drawing near!
All through the waiting lands
Dim signs and tokens, if unheeded, throng;
We feel them thickening as we pass along,
Holding out fearful hands.
Light! which in love sent down
That tender gleam on Eden's darken'd bowers,
When sin had breathed the blight upon the flowers
Whereof death made his crown:—
Light! which did deign to stamp
The tables on that Arab mountain-crest;—
Light! which, in shrouded glory, once did rest
On Israelitish camp:—
O day! whose dawn was spread,
Golden and clear, on Judaea's terraced hills,—
O shining noon! whose waxèd beauty thrills
Earth and her quick and dead:—
Come to our hearts, we pray!
Through open doors let gracious gleams come in;
Fill us with light and life, and let the sin
And darkness pass away.
Lord, waken us who sleep,
Strengthen the feeble knees and weak hands now;
Teach us, with prayer and work, to measure how
The stealthy minutes creep.
Let not our lamp be dim
When in the night we hear the footsteps fall
Upon our threshold,—let death find us all
Watching in peace for him.
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Let us lie down to rest
In surest hope of endless life in store,
With happy reverent hands, that strive no more,
Folded across our breast.
And when the angels come,
And the sharp echo of the herald's cry
Pierces the dark and stillness where we lie
Cold in our sleep, and dumb,—
May we arise, O King!
In bridal garments, beautiful and white;
And do Thou, coming in Thy godly might,
Our crown of glory bring.
~ Ada Cambridge,#NFDB
376:In Memoriam A. H. H.: 6. One Writes, That Other
Friends Rem
One writes, that "Other friends remain,"
That "Loss is common to the race"-And common is the commonplace,
And vacant chaff well meant for grain.
That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more.
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.
O father, wheresoe'er thou be,
Who pledgest now thy gallant son,
A shot, ere half thy draught be done,
Hath still'd the life that beat from thee.
O mother, praying God will save
Thy sailor,--while thy head is bow'd,
His heavy-shotted hammock-shroud
Drops in his vast and wandering grave.
Ye know no more than I who wrought
At that last hour to please him well;
Who mused on all I had to tell,
And something written, something thought;
Expecting still his advent home;
And ever met him on his way
With wishes, thinking, "here to-day,"
Or "here to-morrow will he come."
O somewhere, meek, unconscious dove,
That sitteth ranging golden hair;
And glad to find thyself so fair,
Poor child, that waiteth for thy love!
For now her father's chimney glows
In expectation of a guest;
And thinking "this will please him best,"
She takes a riband or a rose;
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For he will see them on to-night;
And with the thought her colour burns;
And, having left the glass, she turns
Once more to set a ringlet right;
And, even when she turn'd, the curse
Had fallen, and her future Lord
Was drown'd in passing thro' the ford,
Or kill'd in falling from his horse.
O what to her shall be the end?
And what to me remains of good?
To her, perpetual maidenhood,
And unto me no second friend.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,#NFDB
377:Some of the greatest minds in the history of science, including Kepler, Halley, and Euler, had speculated as to the existence of a so-called “hollow Earth.” One day, it was hoped, the technique of intra-planetary “short-cutting” about to be exercised by the boys would become routine, as useful in its way as the Suez or the Panama Canal had proved to surface shipping. At the time we speak of, however, there still remained to our little crew occasion for stunned amazement, as the Inconvenience left the South Indian Ocean’s realm of sunlight, crossed the edge of the Antarctic continent, and began to traverse an immense sweep of whiteness broken by towering black ranges, toward the vast and tenebrous interior which breathed hugely miles ahead of them. Something did seem odd, however. “The navigation’s not as easy this time,” Randolph mused, bent over the chart table in some perplexity. “Noseworth, you can remember the old days. We knew for hours ahead of time.” Skyfarers here had been used to seeing flocks of the regional birds spilling away in long helical curves, as if to escape being drawn into some vortex inside the planet sensible only to themselves, as well as the withdrawal, before the advent of the more temperate climate within, of the eternal snows, to be replaced first by tundra, then grassland, trees, plantation, even at last a settlement or two, just at the Rim, like border towns, which in former times had been the sites of yearly markets, as dwellers in the interior came out to trade luminous fish, giant crystals with geomantic properties, unrefined ores of various useful metals, and mushrooms unknown to the fungologists of the surface world, who had once journeyed regularly hither in high expectation of discovering new species with new properties of visionary enhancement. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
378:Keynesian argument that wage earners consume a greater proportion of their income than landlords or entrepreneurs, and therefore that a decreased total wage bill is a calamity because consumption will decline and savings increase. In the first place, this is not always accurate. It assumes (1) that the laborers are the relatively “poor” and the nonlaborers the relative “rich,” and (2) that the poor consume a greater proportion of their income than the rich. The first assumption is not necessarily correct. The President of General Motors is, after all, a “laborer,” and so also is Mickey Mantle; on the other hand, there are a great many poor landlords, farmers, and retailers. Manipulating relations between wage earners and others is a very clumsy and ineffective way of manipulating relations between poor and rich (provided we desire any manipulation at all). The second assumption is often, but not necessarily, true, as we have seen above. As we have also seen, however, the empirical study of Lubell indicates that a redistribution of income between rich and poor may not appreciably affect the social consumption–saving proportions. But suppose that all these objections are waved aside for the moment, and we concede for the sake of argument that a fall in total payroll will shift the social proportion against consumption and in favor of saving. What then? But this is precisely an effect that we should highly prize. For, as we have seen, any shift in social time preferences in favor of saving and against consumption will speed the advent of recovery, and decrease the need for a lengthy period of depression readjustment. Any such shift from consumption to savings will foster recovery. To the extent that this dreaded fall in consumption does result from a cut in wage rates, then, the depression will be cured that much more rapidly. ~ Murray N Rothbard, #NFDB
379:If you happened to find yourself at the foot of the stairs in the White House on a typical afternoon sometime around 1804 or 1805, you might have noticed a perky bird in a pearl-gray coat ascending the steps behind Thomas Jefferson, hop by hop, as the president retired to his chambers for a siesta. This was Dick. Although the president didn’t dignify his pet mockingbird with one of the fancy Celtic or Gallic names he gave his horses and sheepdogs—Cucullin, Fingal, Bergère—still it was a favorite pet. “I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the Mocking bird,” Jefferson wrote to his son-in-law, who had informed him of the advent of the first resident mockingbird. “Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird.” Dick may well have been one of the two mockingbirds Jefferson bought in 1803. These were pricier than most pet birds ($10 or $15 then—around $125 now) because their serenades included not only renditions of all the birds of the local woods, but also popular American, Scottish, and French songs. Not everyone would pick this bird for a friend. Wordsworth called him the “merry mockingbird.” Brash, yes. Saucy and animated. But merry? His most common call is a bruising tschak!—a kind of unlovely avian expletive that one naturalist described as a cross between a snort of disgust and a hawking of phlegm. But Jefferson adored Dick for his uncommon intelligence, his musicality, and his remarkable ability to mimic. As the president’s friend Margaret Bayard Smith wrote, “Whenever he was alone he opened the cage and let the bird fly about the room. After flitting for a while from one object to another, it would alight on his table and regale him with its sweetest notes, or perch on his shoulder and take its food from his lips.” When the president napped, Dick would sit on his couch and serenade him with both bird and human tunes. ~ Jennifer Ackerman, #NFDB
380:April 13 MORNING “A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.” — Song of Solomon 1:13 MYRRH may well be chosen as the type of Jesus on account of its preciousness, its perfume, its pleasantness, its healing, preserving, disinfecting qualities, and its connection with sacrifice. But why is He compared to “a bundle of myrrh”? First, for plenty. He is not a drop of it, He is a casket full. He is not a sprig or flower of it, but a whole bundle. There is enough in Christ for all my necessities; let me not be slow to avail myself of Him. Our well-beloved is compared to a “bundle” again, for variety: for there is in Christ not only the one thing needful, but in “Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,” everything needful is in Him. Take Jesus in His different characters, and you will see a marvellous variety — Prophet, Priest, King, Husband, Friend, Shepherd. Consider Him in His life, death, resurrection, ascension, second advent; view Him in His virtue, gentleness, courage, self-denial, love, faithfulness, truth, righteousness — everywhere He is a bundle of preciousness. He is a “bundle of myrrh” for preservation — not loose myrrh tied up, myrrh to be stored in a casket. We must value Him as our best treasure; we must prize His words and His ordinances; and we must keep our thoughts of Him and knowledge of Him as under lock and key, lest the devil should steal anything from us. Moreover, Jesus is a “bundle of myrrh” for speciality. The emblem suggests the idea of distinguishing, discriminating grace. From before the foundation of the world, He was set apart for His people; and He gives forth His perfume only to those who understand how to enter into communion with Him, to have close dealings with Him. Oh! blessed people whom the Lord hath admitted into His secrets, and for whom He sets Himself apart. Oh! choice and happy who are thus made to say, “A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
381:April 21 MORNING “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” — Job 19:25 THE marrow of Job’s comfort lies in that little word “My” — “My Redeemer,” and in the fact that the Redeemer lives. Oh! to get hold of a living Christ. We must get a property in Him before we can enjoy Him. What is gold in the mine to me? Men are beggars in Peru, and beg their bread in California. It is gold in my purse which will satisfy my necessities, by purchasing the bread I need. So a Redeemer who does not redeem me, an avenger who will never stand up for my blood, of what avail were such? Rest not content until by faith you can say “Yes, I cast myself upon my living Lord; and He is mine.” It may be you hold Him with a feeble hand; you half think it presumption to say, “He lives as my Redeemer;” yet, remember if you have but faith as a grain of mustard seed, that little faith entitles you to say it. But there is also another word here, expressive of Job’s strong confidence, “I know.” To say, “I hope so, I trust so” is comfortable; and there are thousands in the fold of Jesus who hardly ever get much further. But to reach the essence of consolation you must say, “I know.” Ifs, buts, and perhapses, are sure murderers of peace and comfort. Doubts are dreary things in times of sorrow. Like wasps they sting the soul! If I have any suspicion that Christ is not mine, then there is vinegar mingled with the gall of death; but if I know that Jesus lives for me, then darkness is not dark: even the night is light about me. Surely if Job, in those ages before the coming and advent of Christ, could say, “I know,” we should not speak less positively. God forbid that our positiveness should be presumption. Let us see that our evidences are right, lest we build upon an ungrounded hope; and then let us not be satisfied with the mere foundation, for it is from the upper rooms that we get the widest prospect. A living Redeemer, truly mine, is joy unspeakable. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
382:A Jaynesian understanding of consciousness and its implications for rhetoric also helps explain the deep distrust of rhetoric that emerges at the same time rhetoric itself does. From the first writings overtly discussing persuasion as a civic art, we also see attacks on rhetoric as a practice that disregards the truth, can make what is bad seem good, and has an uncanny power to enrapture an audience. One of the best examples of this sort of skepticism is in Plato's dialog The Menexenus, in which Socrates describes the effects of hearing a speech praising the virtues of Athens. Although he knows that much of what the speaker says is exaggeration and distortion, Socrates says he felt himself transported to another realm — an "out of body" experience that affects his very perception of the world around him. The usual understanding of this sort of allegation about rhetoric's spellbinding power over an audience is that it is simply a poetic description of the sensation that we all experience today: the ability of powerful words to move us in unexpected ways, ways that often go beyond the logical or didactic. But I suggest that if Jaynes is right about the time frame for the development of consciousness, such descriptions by rhetoric's critics may be less poetic than usually thought, and much closer to the actual experience of early audiences of the relatively new art of rhetoric. If full consciousness in Greece emerged only after the Homeric era, would we not expect that for several generations after its advent, the power of language would indeed seem mysterious, almost mystical? Wouldn’t there continue to be a collective social memory of language as something that came from the gods? I suggest that the early apprehension about rhetoric’s near magical powers are not simply metaphorical amplifications, but descriptions of how audiences, only lately emerging from a bicameral world, would have experienced hearing an orator with the ability to artfully use language to move them. ~ Marcel Kuijsten, #NFDB
383:A widely quoted study from the Oxford Martin School predicts that technology threatens to replace 47 percent of all US jobs within 20 years. One of Pew experts even foresees the advent of “robotic sex partners.’’ The world’s oldest profession may be no more. When all this happens, what, exactly, will people do? Half of those in the Pew report are relatively unconcerned, believing — as has happened in the past — that even as technology destroys jobs, it creates more new ones. But half are deeply worried, fearing burgeoning unemployment, a growing schism between the highly educated and everyone else, and potentially massive social dislocation. (The fact that Pew’s experts are evenly split also exposes one of the truths of prognostication: A coin flip might work just as well.) Much of this debate over more or fewer jobs misses a key element, one brought up by some of those surveyed by Pew: These are primarily political issues; what happens is up to us. If lower-skilled jobs are no more, the solution, quite obviously, is training and education. Moreover, the coming world of increasingly ubiquitous robotics has the potential for significant increases in productivity. Picture, for instance, an entirely automated farm, with self-replicating and self-repairing machines planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and delivering. Food wouldn’t be free, but it could become so cheap that, like water (Detroit excepted), it’s essentially available to everyone for an almost nominal cost. It’s a welfare state, of course, but at some point, with machines able to produce the basic necessities of life, why not? We’d have a world of less drudgery and more leisure. People would spend more time doing what they want to do rather than what they have to do. It might even cause us to rethink what it means to be human. Robots will allow us to use our “intelligence in new ways, freeing us up from menial tasks,’’ says Tiffany Shlain, host of AOL’s “The Future Starts Here.’’ Just as Lennon hoped and Star Trek predicted. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
384:FLEISCHMANN: Since the days of Sigmund Freud and the advent of psychoanalysis the interpretation of dreams has played a big role in Austria[n life]. What is your attitude to all that?
BERNHARD: I’ve never spent enough time reading Freud to say anything intelligent about him. Freud has had no effect whatsoever on dreams, or on the interpretation of dreams. Of course psychoanalysis is nothing new. Freud didn’t discover it; it had of course always been around before. It just wasn’t practiced on such a fashionably huge scale, and in such million-fold, money-grubbing forms, as it has been now for decades, and as it won’t be for much longer. Because even in America, as I know, it’s fallen so far out of fashion that they just lay people out on the celebrated couch and scoop their psychological guts out with a spoon.
FLEISCHMANN: I take it then that psychoanalysis is not a means gaining knowledge for you?
BERNHARD: Well, no; for me it’s never been that kind of thing. I think of Freud simply as a good writer, and whenever I’ve read something of his, I’ve always gotten the feeling of having read the work of an extraordinary, magnificent writer. I’m no competent judge of his medical qualifications, and as for what’s known as psychoanalysis, I’ve personally always tended to think of it as nonsense or as a middle-aged man’s hobby-horse that turned into an old man’s hobby-horse. But Freud’s fame is well-deserved, because of course he was a genuinely great, extraordinary personality. There’s no denying that. One of the few great personalities who had a beard and was great despite his beardiness.
FLEISCHMANN: Do you have something against beards?
BERNHARD: No. But the majority of people call people who have a long beard or the longest possible beard great personalities and suppose that the longer one’s beard is, the greater the personality one is. Freud’s beard was relatively long, but too pointy; that was typical of him. Perhaps it was the typical Freudian trait, the pointy beard. It’s possible. ~ Thomas Bernhard,#NFDB
385:Advent
This Advent moon shines cold and clear,
These Advent nights are long;
Our lamps have burned year after year
And still their flame is strong.
'Watchman, what of the night?' we cry,
Heart-sick with hope deferred:
'No speaking signs are in the sky,'
Is still the watchman's word.
The Porter watches at the gate,
The servants watch within;
The watch is long betimes and late,
The prize is slow to win.
'Watchman, what of the night?' But still
His answer sounds the same:
'No daybreak tops the utmost hill,
Nor pale our lamps of flame.'
One to another hear them speak
The patient virgins wise:
'Surely He is not far to seek'—
'All night we watch and rise.'
'The days are evil looking back,
The coming days are dim;
Yet count we not His promise slack,
But watch and wait for Him.'
One with another, soul with soul,
They kindle fire from fire:
'Friends watch us who have touched the goal.'
'They urge us, come up higher.'
'With them shall rest our waysore feet,
With them is built our home,
With Christ.'—'They sweet, but He most sweet,
Sweeter than honeycomb.'
There no more parting, no more pain,
The distant ones brought near,
The lost so long are found again,
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Long lost but longer dear:
Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard,
Nor heart conceived that rest,
With them our good things long deferred,
With Jesus Christ our Best.
We weep because the night is long,
We laugh for day shall rise,
We sing a slow contented song
And knock at Paradise.
Weeping we hold Him fast, Who wept
For us, we hold Him fast;
And will not let Him go except
He bless us first or last.
Weeping we hold Him fast to-night;
We will not let Him go
Till daybreak smite our wearied sight
And summer smite the snow:
Then figs shall bud, and dove with dove
Shall coo the livelong day;
Then He shall say, 'Arise, My love,
My fair one, come away.'
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti,#NFDB
386:MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden;
Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me,
Pledging me to patience and to courage,
In the haven.
And they spoke thus with impatience twofold:
"Gladly pray we for thy rapid passage,
Gladly for thy happy voyage; fortune
In the distant world is waiting for thee,
In our arms thoult find thy prize, and love too,
When returning."
And when morning came, arose an uproar,
And the sailors' joyous shouts awoke us;
All was stirring, all was living, moving,
Bent on sailing with the first kind zephyr.
And the sails soon in the breeze are swelling,
And the sun with fiery love invites us;
Fill'd the sails are, clouds on high are floating,
On the shore each friend exulting raises
Songs of hope, in giddy joy expecting
Joy the voyage through, as on the morn of sailing,
And the earliest starry nights so radiant.
But by God-sent changing winds ere long he's driven
Sideways from the course he had intended,
And he feigns as though he would surrender,
While he gently striveth to outwit them,
To his goal, e'en when thus press'd, still faithful.
But from out the damp grey distance rising,
Softly now the storm proclaims its advent,
Presseth down each bird upon the waters,
Presseth down the throbbing hearts of mortals.
And it cometh. At its stubborn fury,
Wisely ev'ry sail the seaman striketh;
With the anguish-laden ball are sporting
Wind and water.
And on yonder shore are gather'd standing,
Friends and lovers, trembling for the bold one:
"Why, alas, remain'd he here not with us!
Ah, the tempest! Cast away by fortune!
Must the good one perish in this fashion?
Might not he perchance.... Ye great immortals!"
Yet he, like a man, stands by his rudder;
With the bark are sporting wind and water,
Wind and water sport not with his bosom:
On the fierce deep looks he, as a master,--
In his gods, or shipwreck'd, or safe landed,
Trusting ever.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sea-Voyage
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387:DEATH:
For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave,
I come, care-worn tenant of life, from the grave,
Where Innocence sleeps 'neath the peace-giving sod,
And the good cease to tremble at Tyranny's nod;
I offer a calm habitation to thee,--
Say, victim of grief, wilt thou slumber with me?
My mansion is damp, cold silence is there,
But it lulls in oblivion the fiends of despair;
Not a groan of regret, not a sigh, not a breath,
Dares dispute with grim Silence the empire of Death.
I offer a calm habitation to thee,--
Say, victim of grief, wilt thou slumber with me?
MORTAL:
Mine eyelids are heavy; my soul seeks repose,
It longs in thy cells to embosom its woes,
It longs in thy cells to deposit its load,
Where no longer the scorpions of Perfidy goad,--
Where the phantoms of Prejudice vanish away,
And Bigotry's bloodhounds lose scent of their prey.
Yet tell me, dark Death, when thine empire is o'er,
What awaits on Futurity's mist-covered shore?
DEATH:
Cease, cease, wayward Mortal! I dare not unveil
The shadows that float o'er Eternity's vale;
Nought waits for the good but a spirit of Love,
That will hail their blest advent to regions above.
For Love, Mortal, gleams through the gloom of my sway,
And the shades which surround me fly fast at its ray.
Hast thou loved?--Then depart from these regions of hate,
And in slumber with me blunt the arrows of fate.
I offer a calm habitation to thee.--
Say, victim of grief, wilt thou slumber with me?
MORTAL:
Oh! sweet is thy slumber! oh! sweet is the ray
Which after thy night introduces the day;
How concealed, how persuasive, self-interests breath,
Though it floats to mine ear from the bosom of Death!
I hoped that I quite was forgotten by all,
Yet a lingering friend might be grieved at my fall,
And duty forbids, though I languish to die,
When departure might heave Virtues breast with a sigh.
O Death! O my friend! snatch this form to thy shrine,
And I fear, dear destroyer, I shall not repine.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Dialogue
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388:We live in an extraordinary age. These are times of stunning changes in social organization, economic well-being, moral and ethical precepts, philosophical and religious perspectives, and human self-knowledge, as well as in our understanding of that vast universe in which we are imbedded like a grain of sand in a cosmic ocean. As long as there have been human beings, we have posed the deep and fundamental questions, which evoke wonder and stir us into at least a tentative and trembling awareness, questions on the origins of consciousness; life on our planet; the beginnings of the Earth; the formation of the Sun; the possibility of intelligent beings somewhere up there in the depths of the sky; as well as, the grandest inquiry of all - on the advent, nature and ultimate destiny of the universe. For all but the last instant of human history these issues have been the exclusive province of philosophers and poets, shamans and theologians. The diverse and mutually contradictory answers offered demonstrate that few of the proposed solutions have been correct. But today, as a result of knowledge painfully extracted from nature, through generations of careful thinking, observing, and experimenting, we are on the verge of glimpsing at least preliminary answers to many of these questions.
...If we do not destroy ourselves, most of us will be around for the answers. Had we been born fifty years earlier, we could have wondered, pondered, speculated about these issues, but we could have done nothing about them. Had we been born fifty years later, the answers would, I think, already have been in. Our children will have been taught the answers before most of them will have had the opportunity to even formulate the questions. By far the most exciting, satisfying and exhilarating time to be alive is the time in which we pass from ignorance to knowledge on these fundamental issues; the age where we begin in wonder and end in understanding. In all of the four-billion-year history of the human family, there is only one generation priveleged to live through that unique transitional moment: that generation is ours. ~ Carl Sagan,#NFDB
389:Every time he moved, with every breath he took, it seemed the man was carried along by iridescent orange and black wings.
She tried to convey how it was like travelling through the inside of a living body at times, the joints and folds of the earth, the liver-smooth flowstone, the helictites threading upward like synapses in search of a connection. She found it beautiful. Surely God would not have invented such a place as His spiritual gulag.
It took Ali’s breath away. Sometimes, once men found out she was a nun, they would dare her in some way. What made Ike different was his abandon. He had a carelessness in his manner that was not reckless, but was full of risk. Winged. He was pursuing her, but not faster than she was pursuing him, and it made them like two ghosts circling.
She ran her fingers along his back, and the bone and the muscle and hadal ink and scar tissue and the callouses from his pack straps astonished her. This was the body of a slave.
Down from the Egypt, eye of the sun, in front of the Sinai, away from their skies like a sea inside out, their stars and planets spearing your soul, their cities like insects, all shell and mechanism, their blindness with eyes, their vertiginous plains and mind-crushing mountains. Down from the billions who had made the world in their own image. Their signature could be a thing of beauty. But it was a thing of death.
Ali got one good look, then closed her eyes to the heat. In her mind, she imagined Ike sitting in the raft across from her wearing a vast grin while the pyre reflected off the lenses of his glacier glasses. That put a smile on her face. In death, he had become the light.
There comes a time on every big mountain when you descend the snows and cross a border back to life. It is a first patch of green grass by the trail, or a waft of the forests far below, or the trickle of snowmelt braiding into a stream. Always before, whether he had been gone an hour or a week or much longer – and no matter how many mountains he had left behind – it was, for Ike, an instant that registered in his whole being. Ike was swept with a sense not of departure, but of advent. Not of survival. But of grace. ~ Jeff Long,#NFDB
390:Religious intolerance is an idea that found its earliest expression in the Old Testament, where the Hebrew tribe depicts itself waging a campaign of genocide on the Palestinian peoples to steal their land. They justified this heinous behavior on the grounds that people not chosen by their god were wicked and therefore did not deserve to live or keep their land. In effect, the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian peoples, eradicating their race with the Jew's own Final Solution, was the direct result of a policy of religious superiority and divine right. Joshua 6-11 tells the sad tale, and one needs only read it and consider the point of view of the Palestinians who were simply defending their wives and children and the homes they had built and the fields they had labored for. The actions of the Hebrews can easily be compared with the American genocide of its native peoples - or even, ironically, the Nazi Holocaust.
With the radical advent of Christianity, this self-righteous intolerance was borrowed from the Jews, and a new twist was added. The conversion of infidels by any means possible became the newfound calling card of religious fervor, and this new experiment in human culture spread like wildfire. By its very nature, how could it not have? Islam followed suit, conquering half the world in brutal warfare and, much like its Christian counterpart, it developed a new and convenient survival characteristic: the destruction of all images and practices attributed to other religions. Muslims destroyed millions of statues and paintings in India and Africa, and forced conversion under pain of death (or by more subtle tricks: like taxing only non-Muslims), while the Catholic Church busily burned books along with pagans, shattering statues and defacing or destroying pagan art - or converting it to Christian use. Laws against pagan practices and heretics were in full force throughrout Europe by the sixth century, and as long as those laws were in place it was impossible for anyone to refuse the tenets of Christianity and expect to keep their property or their life. Similar persecution and harassment continues in Islamic countries even to this day, officially and unofficially. ~ Richard C Carrier,#NFDB
391:To The Comet Of 1843
Thy purpose, heavenly stranger, who may tell
But Him, who linked thee to the starry whole?
Wherefore, in this our darkness, be it ours
To must upon thee in thy high career,
As of some wandering symphony from amidst
Those highest stellar harmonies that track
Through infinite space and the great rounds of time
The mighty marches of creation.
Behold, how high thou travellest in heaven!
Myriads of wondering human spirits here,
Duly each night with upturned looks seek out
The mystery of thy advent.
In thy last
Bright visitation, even thus thou saw’st
The young, the lovely, and the wise of earth—
A buried generation—crowding out,
With looks upturned, to see thee passing forth
Beyond the signs of time—and then to know,
In all the awful vastness of the heaven,
Thy place no more! And when the flaming steps
Of thy unspeakable speed, which of itself
Blows back the long strands of thy burning hair
Through half the arch of night, shall lead thee forth
Into the dim of the inane, beyond
Our utmost vision; all the eloquent eyes
Now opened wide with welcome and with wonder—
Eyes tender as the turtle’s, or that speak
The fervent soul and the majestic mind;
All these, alas!—all these, ere thou once more
Shalt drive thus fulgently around the sun
Thy chariot of fire, fast closed in dust
And mortal darkness, shall have given for aye
Their lustre to the grave.
But human eyes
As many and beautiful—yea, more sublime
And radiant in their passion, from a more
Enlarged communion with the spirit of truth,—
Shall welcome thee instead, mysterious stranger,
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When thou return’st anew.
And thus to think
Consoles us, even while we watch thee pass
Out of our times for ever; yea, although
Some selfish entertainment of a truth
At all times mournful, whisper us the while:
So shall it be indeed, for God abides,
And nature, born of His eternal power,
Must share its dateless energy as well.
Yea, all that flows from the Eternal must,
If from divine necessity alone,
Work with its cause for ever—still, alas!
Though thence derived, how fugitive and swift,
How vague and shadow-like, this life of Man!
~ Charles Harpur,#NFDB
392:The last night of his sojourn in Paris is given up to "the fucking business." He has had a full program all day---conferences, cablegrams, interviews, photographs for the newspapers, affectionate farewells, advice to the faithful, etc., etc. At dinner time, he decides to lay aside his troubles. He orders champagne with the meal, he snaps his fingers at the garcon and behaves in general like the boorish little peasant that he is. And since he has had a bellyful of all the good places he suggests now that I show him something more primitive. He would like to go to a very cheap place, order two or three girls at once. I steer him along the Boulevard de la Chapelle, warning him all the while to be careful of his pocketbook. Around Aubervilliers we duck into a cheap dive and immediately we've got a flock of them on our hands. In a few minutes, he's dancing with a naked wench, a huge blonde with creases in her jowls. I can see her ass reflected a dozen times in the mirrors that line the room---and those dark, bony fingers of his clutching her tenaciously. The table is full of beer glasses, the mechanical piano is wheezing and gasping. The girls who are unoccupied are sitting placidly on leather benches, scratching themselves peacefully just like a family of chimpanzees. There is a sort of subdued pandemonium in the air, a note of repressed violence, as if the awaited explosion required the advent of some utterly minute detail, something microscopic but thoroughly unpremeditated, completely unexpected. In that sort of half-reverie which permits one to participate in an event and yet remain quite aloof, the little detail which was lacking began obscurely but insistently to coagulate, to assume a freakish, crystalline form, like the frost which gathers on the windowpane. And like those frost patterns which seem so bizarre, so utterly free and fantastic in design, but which are nevertheless determined by the most rigid laws, so this sensation which commenced to take form inside me seemed also to be giving obedience to ineluctable laws. My whole being was responding to the dictates of an ambiance which it had never before experienced; that which I could call myself seemed to be contracting, condensing, shrinking from the stale, customary boundaries of the flesh whose perimeter knew only the modulations of the nerve ends. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
393:The Open Secret
The Heavens repeat no other Song,
And, plainly or in parable,
The Angels trust, in each man's to gue,
The Treasure's safety to its size.
In shameful Hell
The Lily in last corruption lies,
Where known 'tis, rotten-lily-wise,
By the strange foulness of the smell.
Earth, that, in this arcanum, spies
Proof of high kinship unconceiv'd,
By all desired and disbeliev'd,
Shews fancies, in each thing that is,
Which nothing mean, not meaning this,
Yea, does from her own law, to hint it, err,
As 'twere a trust too huge for her.
Maiden and Youth pipe wondrous clear
The tune they are the last to hear.
'Tis the strange gem in Pleasure's cup.
Physician and Philosopher,
In search of acorns, plough it up,
But count it nothing 'mong their gains,
Nay, call it pearl, they'd answer, ‘Lo,
Blest Land where pearls as large as pumpkins grow!’
And would not even rend you for your pains.
To tell men truth, yet keep them dark
And shooting still beside the mark,
God, as in jest, gave to their wish,
The Sign of Jonah and the Fish.
'Tis the name new, on the white stone,
To none but them that have it known;
And even these can scarce believe, but cry,
‘When turn'd was Sion's captivity,
Then were we, yea, and yet we seem
Like them that dream!’
In Spirit 'tis a punctual ray
Of peace that sheds more light than day;
In Will and Mind
'Tis the easy path so hard to find;
In Heart, a pain not to be told,
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Were words mere honey, milk, and gold;
I' the Body 'tis the bag of the bee;
In all, the present, thousandfold amends
Made to the sad, astonish'd life
Of him that leaves house, child, and wife,
And on God's 'hest, almost despairing, wends,
As little guessing as the herd
What a strange Phœnix of a bird
Builds in this tree,
But only intending all that He intends.
To this, the Life of them that live,
If God would not, thus far, give tongue,
Ah, why did He his secret give
To one that has the gift of song?
But all He does He doubtless means,
And, if the Mystery that smites Prophets dumb
Here, to the grace-couch'd eyes of some,
Shapes to its living face the clinging shroud,
Perchance the Skies grow tired of screens,
And 'tis His Advent in the Cloud.
~ Coventry Patmore,#NFDB
394:Algebra applies to the clouds, the radiance of the star benefits the rose--no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who could ever calculate the path of a molecule? How do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by falling grains of sand? Who can understand the reciprocal ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abyss of being and the avalanches of creation? A mite has value; the small is great, the great is small. All is balanced in necessity; frightening vision for the mind. There are marvelous relations between beings and things, in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to grub, there is no scorn, each needs the other. Light does not carry terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths without knowing what it does with them; night distributes the stellar essence to the sleeping plants. Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's beak breaking the egg, and it guides the birth of the earthworm, and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a greater view? Choose. A bit of mold is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an anthill of stars. The same promiscuity, and still more wonderful, between the things of the intellect and material things. Elements and principles are mingled, combined, espoused, multiplied one by another, to the point that the material world, and the moral world are brought into the same light. Phenomena are perpetually folded back on themselves. In the vast cosmic changes, universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, rolling everything up in the invisible mystery of the emanations, using everything, losing no dream from any single sleep, sowing a microscopic animal here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and gyrating, making a force of light, and an element of thought, disseminated and indivisible dissolving all, that geometric point, the self; reducing everything to the soul-atom; making everything blossom into God; entangling from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, linking the flight of an insect to the movement of the earth, subordinating--who knows, if only by the identity of the law--the evolutions of the comet in the firmament to the circling of the protozoa in the drop of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last is the zodiac. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
395:What cannot be resolved inside the psyche,” put in the Expedition alienist, Otto Ghloix, “must enter the outside world and become physically, objectively ‘real.’ For example, one who cannot come to terms with the, one must say sinister unknowability of Light, projects an Æther, real in every way, except for its being detectable.” “Seems like an important property to be missing, don’t you think? Puts it in the same class as God, the soul—” “Fairies under mushrooms,” from a heckler somewhere in the group, whom nobody, strangely, seemed quite able to locate. Icelanders, however, had a long tradition of ghostliness that made the Brits appear models of rationalism. Earlier members of the Expedition had visited the great Library of Iceland behind the translucent green walls facing the sunlit sea. Some of these spaces were workshops or mess-halls, some centers of operation, stacked to the top of the great cliff, easily a dozen levels, probably more. Among the library shelves could be found The Book of Iceland Spar, commonly described as “like the Ynglingasaga only different,” containing family histories going back to the first discovery and exploitation of the eponymic mineral up to the present, including a record of each day of this very Expedition now in progress, even of days not yet transpired. “Fortune-telling! Impossible!” “Unless we can allow that certain texts are—” “Outside of time,” suggested one of the Librarians. “Holy Scripture and so forth.” “In a different relation to time anyhow. Perhaps even to be read through, mediated by, a lens of the very sort of calcite which according to rumor you people are up here seeking.” “Another Quest for another damned Magic Crystal. Horsefeathers, I say. Wish I’d known before I signed on. Say, you aren’t one of these Sentient Rocksters, are you?” Mineral consciousness figured even back in that day as a source of jocularity—had they known what was waiting in that category . . . waiting to move against them, grins would have frozen and chuckles turned to dry-throated coughing. “Of course,” said the Librarian, “you’ll find Iceland spar everywhere in the world, often in the neighborhood of zinc, or silver, some of it perfectly good for optical instruments. But up here it’s of the essence, found in no other company but its own. It’s the genuine article, and the sub-structure of reality. The doubling of the Creation, each image clear and believable. . . . And you being mathematical gentlemen, it can hardly have escaped your attention that its curious advent into the world occurred within only a few years of the discovery of Imaginary Numbers, which also provided a doubling of the mathematical Creation. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
396:By 2008, storm clouds were gathering over Microsoft. PC shipments, the financial lifeblood of Microsoft, had leveled off. Meanwhile sales of Apple and Google smartphones and tablets were on the rise, producing growing revenues from search and online advertising that Microsoft hadn’t matched. Meanwhile, Amazon had quietly launched Amazon Web Services (AWS), establishing itself for years to come as a leader in the lucrative, rapidly growing cloud services business. The logic behind the advent of the cloud was simple and compelling. The PC Revolution of the 1980s, led by Microsoft, Intel, Apple, and others, had made computing accessible to homes and offices around the world. The 1990s had ushered in the client/server era to meet the needs of millions of users who wanted to share data over networks rather than on floppy disks. But the cost of maintaining servers in an ever-growing sea of data—and the advent of businesses like Amazon, Office 365, Google, and Facebook—simply outpaced the ability for servers to keep up. The emergence of cloud services fundamentally shifted the economics of computing. It standardized and pooled computing resources and automated maintenance tasks once done manually. It allowed for elastic scaling up or down on a self-service, pay-as-you-go basis. Cloud providers invested in enormous data centers around the world and then rented them out at a lower cost per user. This was the Cloud Revolution. Amazon was one of the first to cash in with AWS. They figured out early on that the same cloud infrastructure they used to sell books, movies, and other retail items could be rented, like a time-share, to other businesses and startups at a much lower price than it would take for each company to build its own cloud. By June 2008, Amazon already had 180,000 developers building applications and services for their cloud platform. Microsoft did not yet have a commercially viable cloud platform. All of this spelled trouble for Microsoft. Even before the Great Recession of 2008, our stock had begun a downward slide. In a long-planned move, Bill Gates left the company that year to focus on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But others were leaving, too. Among them, Kevin Johnson, president of the Windows and online services business, announced he would leave to become CEO of Juniper Networks. In their letter to shareholders that year, Bill and Steve Ballmer noted that Ray Ozzie, creator of Lotus Notes, had been named the company’s new Chief Software Architect (Bill’s old title), reflecting the fact that a new generation of leaders was stepping up in areas like online advertising and search. There was no mention of the cloud in that year’s shareholder letter, but, to his credit, Steve had a game plan and a wider view of the playing field. ~ Satya Nadella, #NFDB
397:The Shepherd And The Calm
Soothing his Passions with a warb'ling Sound,
A Shepherd-Swain lay stretch'd upon the Ground;
Whilst all were mov'd, who their Attention lent,
Or with the Harmony in Chorus went,
To something less than Joy, yet more than dull Content.
(Between which two Extreams true Pleasure lies,
O'er-run by Fools, unreach'd-at by the Wise )
But yet, a fatal Prospect to the Sea
Wou'd often draw his greedy Sight away.
He saw the Barques unlading on the Shore,
And guess'd their Wealth, then scorn'd his little Store.
Then wou'd that Little lose, or else wou'd make it more.
To Merchandize converted is the Fold,
The Bag, the Bottle, and the Hurdles sold;
The Dog was chang'd away, the pretty Skell
Whom he had fed, and taught, and lov'd so well.
In vain the Phillis wept, which heretofore
Receiv'd his Presents, and his Garlands wore.
False and upbraided, he forsakes the Downs,
Nor courts her Smiles, nor fears the Ocean's Frowns.
For smooth it lay, as if one single Wave
Made all the Sea, nor Winds that Sea cou'd heave;
Which blew no more than might his Sails supply:
Clear was the Air below, and Phoebus laugh'd on high.
With this Advent'rer ev'ry thing combines,
And Gold to Gold his happy Voyage joins;
But not so prosp'rous was the next Essay,
For rugged Blasts encounter'd on the way,
Scarce cou'd the Men escape, the Deep had all their Prey.
Our broken Merchant in the Wreck was thrown
Upon those Lands, which once had been his own;
Where other Flocks now pastur'd on the Grass,
And other Corydons had woo'd his Lass.
A Servant, for small Profits, there he turns,
Yet thrives again, and less and less he mourns;
Re-purchases in time th'abandon'd Sheep,
Which sad Experience taught him now to keep.
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When from that very Bank, one Halcyon Day,
On which he lean'd, when tempted to the Sea,
He notes a Calm; the Winds and Waves were still,
And promis'd what the Winds nor Waves fulfill,
A settl'd Quiet, and Conveyance sure,
To him that Wealth, by Traffick, wou'd procure.
But the rough part the Shepherd now performs,
Reviles the Cheat, and at the Flatt'ry storms.
Ev'n thus (quoth he) you seem'd all Rest and Ease,
You sleeping Tempests, you untroubl'd Seas,
That ne'er to be forgot, that luckless Hour,
In which I put my Fortunes in your Pow'r;
Quitting my slender, but secure Estate,
My undisturb'd Repose, my sweet Retreat,
For Treasures which you ravish'd in a Day,
But swept my Folly, with my Goods, away.
Then smile no more, nor these false Shews employ,
Thou momentary Calm, thou fleeting Joy;
No more on me shall these fair Signs prevail,
Some other Novice may be won to Sail,
Give me a certain Fate in the obscurest Vale.
~ Anne Kingsmill Finch,#NFDB
398:The Critick And The Writer Of Fables
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way,
Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray;
To Fable I descend with soft Delight,
Pleas'd to Translate, or easily Endite:
Whilst aery Fictions hastily repair
To fill my Page, and rid my Thoughts of Care,
As they to Birds and Beasts new Gifts impart,
And Teach, as Poets shou'd, whilst they Divert.
But here, the Critick bids me check this Vein.
Fable, he crys, tho' grown th' affected Strain,
But dies, as it was born, without Regard or Pain.
Whilst of his Aim the lazy Trifler fails,
Who seeks to purchase Fame by childish Tales.
Then, let my Verse, once more attempt the Skies,
The easily persuaded Poet cries,
Since meaner Works you Men of Taste despise.
The Walls of Troy shall be our loftier Stage,
Our mighty Theme the fierce Achilles Rage.
The Strength of Hector, and Ulysses Arts
Shall boast such Language, to adorn their Parts,
As neither Hobbes, nor Chapman cou'd bestow,
Or did from Congreve, or from Dryden flow.
Amidst her Towers, the dedicated Horse
Shall be receiv'd, big with destructive Force;
Till Men shall say, when Flames have brought her down.
" Troy is no more, and Ilium was a Town.
Is this the way to please the Men of Taste,
The Interrupter cries, this old Bombast?
I'm sick of Troy, and in as great a Fright,
When some dull Pedant wou'd her Wars recite,
As was soft Paris, when compell'd to Fight.
To Shades and Springs shall we awhile repair,
The Muse demands, and in that milder Air
Describe some gentle Swain's unhappy Smart
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Whose folded Arms still press upon his Heart,
And deeper drive the too far enter'd Dart?
Whilst Phillis with a careless pleasure reigns
The Joy, the Grief, the Envy of the Plains;
Heightens the Beauty of the verdant Woods,
And softens all the Murmurs of the Floods.
Oh! stun me not with these insipid Dreams,
Th' Eternal Hush, the Lullaby of Streams.
Which still, he cries, their even Measures keep,
Till both the Writers, and the Readers sleep.
But urge thy Pen, if thou wouldst move our Thoughts,
To shew us private, or the publick Faults.
Display the Times, High-Church or Low provoke;
We'll praise the Weapon, as we like the Stroke,
And warmly sympathizing with the Spite
Apply to Thousands, what of One you write.
Then, must that single Stream the Town supply,
The harmless Fable-writer do's reply,
And all the Rest of Helicon be dry ?
And when so many choice Productions swarm,
Must only Satire keep your Fancies warm?
Whilst even there, you praise with such Reserve,
As if you'd in the midst of Plenty starve,
Tho' ne'er so liberally we Authors carve.
Happy the Men, whom we divert with Ease,
Whom Opera's and Panegyricks please.
~ Anne Kingsmill Finch,#NFDB
399:Wordsworth
LOFTY and strenuous of sentiment
But narrow and partial in its scope and bent,
And thence the bigot of a local set
Of habitudes, meshed round him like a net.
Hence too his intellect, though large it be
By nature, hath one prime deficiency,—
Of moral difference that broad view which leads
The steps of thought beyond the snares of creeds
And circles of opinion, whether they
Be of the Old Time or of yesterday.
Hence too his narrow bias, I suspect,
Even in poesy to attempt a sect.
Still as a Poet he is great and rare,
A King of Thought upon the peak of bare
And rigid majesty, for power immense
Enthroned for ever! And in spirit thence,—
Thence let him waft us on a white-wing’d dream
Within the murmur of some profluent stream,
And there, just whither a dim line of brakes
In the remotest haze of distance shakes,
On his lone rounds let Peter Bell be seen,—
Seen o’er the White Doe on the herbage green
Heard breathing where she lies, and near her there
“The oldest seeming man that ever wore grey hair.”
Then shall we find him verily a Seer
Of Nature’s myst’ries, simple and severe.
With what a plenitude of pure delight
He triumphs on the mountain’s cloudy height,
With what a gleeful harmony of joy
He wanders down the vale “as happy as a boy!”
How in his verse, each picture-pregnant phrase
Full to the eye some given shape conveys,
And thus though in the jarring city pent
Through him we reach the country and content.
Fond Memory apprehends with gladdened eyes
All that is richest in each wilding’s dyes
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As blending with the beauty and the grace
Of some bright advent of our happier days—
Hears through the sway of greenest boughs, as heard
Even then, the far voice of some favourite bird,
The murmurous industry of bees, the low
Responsive throbs of Echo throbbing slow
Out of some lonely dell, as to the tread
Of our own feet in days for ever fled!
Then of some brook that gushes in his lines
Glad Fancy drinks or on the bank reclines,
While of far cloud, grey rock and ancient tree
The dusky shadows on the page we see:
Yea, the air sweetens as the spells prevail
And our locks seem to wave as in a mountain gale!
Still there remains to tell the charm serene
Wherewith this Bard most sanctifies the scene:
’Tis that with eyes of love he’s quick to find
In all its forms meet ministers of Mind
And that with the rare wealth of his own heart
As with a golden chain he interlinks each part.
But vainly the fond spirit of youth may look
For its peculiar food in Wordsworth’s book,
Where Passion is but introduced to wear
A vestal’s tenderness, demure as fair:
Not as to see it the new soul desires,
In all the splendour of its tragic fires,
Or, at the least, in all the bright distress
And rosy beauty of its wilfulness!
~ Charles Harpur,#NFDB
400:Only A Curl.
I.
FRIENDS of faces unknown and a land
Unvisited over the sea,
Who tell me how lonely you stand
With a single gold curl in the hand
Held up to be looked at by me, --
II.
While you ask me to ponder and say
What a father and mother can do,
With the bright fellow-locks put away
Out of reach, beyond kiss, in the clay
Where the violets press nearer than you.
III.
Shall I speak like a poet, or run
Into weak woman's tears for relief ?
Oh, children ! -- I never lost one, -Yet my arm 's round my own little son,
And Love knows the secret of Grief.
IV.
And I feel what it must be and is,
When God draws a new angel so
Through the house of a man up to His,
With a murmur of music, you miss,
And a rapture of light, you forgo.
V.
How you think, staring on at the door,
Where the face of your angel flashed in,
That its brightness, familiar before,
Burns off from you ever the more
For the dark of your sorrow and sin.
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VI.
`God lent him and takes him,' you sigh ;
-- Nay, there let me break with your pain :
God 's generous in giving, say I, -And the thing which He gives, I deny
That He ever can take back again.
VII.
He gives what He gives. I appeal
To all who bear babes -- in the hour
When the veil of the body we feel
Rent round us, -- while torments reveal
The motherhood's advent in power,
VIII.
And the babe cries ! -- has each of us known
By apocalypse (God being there
Full in nature) the child is our own,
Life of life, love of love, moan of moan,
Through all changes, all times, everywhere.
IX.
He 's ours and for ever. Believe,
O father ! -- O mother, look back
To the first love's assurance. To give
Means with God not to tempt or deceive
With a cup thrust in Benjamin's sack.
X.
He gives what He gives. Be content !
He resumes nothing given, -- be sure !
God lend ? Where the usurers lent
In His temple, indignant He went
And scourged away all those impure.
XI.
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He lends not ; but gives to the end,
As He loves to the end. If it seem
That He draws back a gift, comprehend
'Tis to add to it rather, -- amend,
And finish it up to your dream, --
XII.
Or keep, -- as a mother will toys
Too costly, though given by herself,
Till the room shall be stiller from noise,
And the children more fit for such joys,
Kept over their heads on the shelf.
XIII.
So look up, friends ! you, who indeed
Have possessed in your house a sweet piece
Of the Heaven which men strive for, must need
Be more earnest than others are,--speed
Where they loiter, persist where they cease.
XIV.
You know how one angel smiles there.
Then weep not. 'Tis easy for you
To be drawn by a single gold hair
Of that curl, from earth's storm and despair,
To the safe place above us. Adieu.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning,#NFDB
401:It took one long, desperate week to prove just how wrong was my prophecy.
“The revolution is not over,” Branaric said seriously some ten days later.
But even this--after a long, horrible day of real fighting, a desperate run back into the familiar hills of Tlanth, and the advent of rain beating on the tent over our heads--failed to keep Branaric serious for long. His mouth curved wryly as he added, “And today’s action was not a rout, it was a retreat.”
“So we will say outside this tent.” Khesot paused to tap his pipeweed more deeply into the worn bowl of his pipe, then he looked up, his white eyebrows quirked. “But it was a rout.”
I said indignantly, “Our people fought well!”
Khesot gave a stately, measured nod in my direction, without moving from his cushion. “Valiantly, Lady Meliara, valiantly. But courage is not enough when we are so grossly outnumbered. More so now that they have an equally able commander.”
Bran sighed. “Why haven’t we heard anything from Gharivar of Mnend, or Chamadis from Turlee, on the border? I know they both hate Galdran as much as we do, and they as much as promised to help.”
“Perhaps they have been cut off from joining us, Lord Branaric,” Khesot said, nodding politely this time to Bran.
“Cut off by cowardice,” I muttered. My clothes were clammy, my skin cold; I longed to change into my one other outfit, but we had to finish our own war council before facing the riding leaders. So I perched on the hard camp cushion, arms clasped tightly around my legs.
Bran turned to me, frowning. “You think they lied to me, then?”
“I just think you’re better off not counting on those Court fools. Remember, Papa always said they are experts at lying with a smile, and their treaties don’t last as long as the wine haze after the signing.”
Bran’s eyes went serious again under his straight brows. “I know, Mel,” he said, plainly unhappy as he picked absently at a threadbare patch on his cushion. “But if we don’t get help…Well, we’re just not enough.”
Leaving us staring at the grinning skull of defeat. I shook my head, shivering when my wet clothes shifted on my back and sent a chill down my flesh. Now Bran looked worn, tired--and defeated--and I was angry with myself for having spoken. “Khesot has the right of it,” I said. “Perhaps they really were cut off.”
I looked up, caught a glance of approval in Khesot’s mild brown eyes. Heartened, I said, “Look. We aren’t lying to our people when we say this is a retreat. Because even if we have been routed, we’re still in our own territory, hills we know better than anyone. Meanwhile we’ve evaded Greedy Galdran’s mighty army nearly all winter. A long time! Didn’t Azmus say Galdran promised the Court our heads on poles after two days?”
“So Debegri swore,” Bran said, smiling a little.
“That means we’ve held out all these weeks despite the enormous odds against us, and word of this has to be reaching the rest of the kingdom. Maybe those eastern Counts will decide to join us--and some of the other grass-backed vacillators as well,” I finished stoutly.
Bran grinned. “Maybe so,” he said. ~ Sherwood Smith,#NFDB
402:The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all the principal characters. But mostly the 'portrait of a truly beautiful person' that dostoevsky supposedly set out to write in that book. And I remember how Myshkin seemed so simple when I began the book, but by the end, I realized how I didn't understand him at all. the things he did. Maybe when I read it again it will be different. But the plot of these dostoevsky books can hold such twists and turns for the first-time reader-- I guess that's b/c he was writing most of these books as serials that had to have cliffhangers and such.
But I make marks in my books, mostly at parts where I see the author's philosophical points standing in the most stark relief. My copy of Moby Dick is positively full of these marks. The Idiot, I find has a few...
Part 3, Section 5. The sickly Ippolit is reading from his 'Explanation' or whatever its called. He says his convictions are not tied to him being condemned to death. It's important for him to describe, of happiness: "you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it." That it's the process of life--not the end or accomplished goals in it--that matter. Well. Easier said than lived!
Part 3, Section 6. more of Ippolit talking--about a christian mindset. He references Jesus's parable of The Word as seeds that grow in men, couched in a description of how people are interrelated over time; its a picture of a multiplicity.
Later in this section, he relates looking at a painting of Christ being taken down from the cross, at Rogozhin's house. The painting produced in him an intricate metaphor of despair over death "in the form of a huge machine of the most modern construction which, dull and insensible, has aimlessly clutched, crushed, and swallowed up a great priceless Being, a Being worth all nature and its laws, worth the whole earth, which was created perhaps solely for the sake of the advent of this Being." The way Ippolit's ideas are configured, here, reminds me of the writings of Gilles Deleuze. And the phrasing just sort of remidns me of the way everyone feels--many people feel crushed by the incomprehensible machine, in life. Many people feel martyred in their very minor ways. And it makes me think of the concept that a narrative religion like Christianity uniquely allows for a kind of socialized or externalized, shared experience of subjectivity. Like, we all know the story of this man--and it feels like our own stories at the same time.
Part 4, Section 7. Myshkin's excitement (leading to a seizure) among the Epanchin's dignitary guests when he talks about what the nobility needs to become ("servants in order to be leaders"). I'm drawn to things like this because it's affirming, I guess, for me: "it really is true that we're absurd, that we're shallow, have bad habits, that we're bored, that we don't know how to look at things, that we can't understand; we're all like that." And of course he finds a way to make that into a good thing. which, it's pointed out by scholars, is very important to Dostoevsky philosophy--don't deny the earthly passions and problems in yourself, but accept them and incorporate them into your whole person. Me, I'm still working on that one. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,#NFDB
403:Waiting On The Mayflower
i. august 1619
arrived in a boat, named
and unnamed, twenty, pirated
away from a portuguese
slaver, traded for victuals.
drowned in this land of fresh,
volatile clearings and folk
with skin like melted
cowrie shells. soon shedding
servitude. soon reaping
talents sown on african soil.
after indenture, christians,
colonists. not english, but
not yet not-white. antoney
and isabella, whose marriage
stretched the short shadows
of america's early afternoon
into the dusky reaches of evening,
whose conjugal coitus spent
first the choice coin of africa
on rough virginian citizenship,
baptized their son, william,
into the church of england.
ii. december 1638
fear must have shuddered
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into boston on the backs
of true believers—men and
women of an unadorned god—
deep in the heavy black fabric
of their coats and dresses like
a stench. black a mark of
pride they wore as if branded,
never dreaming they could
take it off. envy anticipated
their advent. glittered at them,
settling in, from the knife
blades of the massachusetts.
seeped like low-pitched
humming from the fur
lining the natives' warm
blankets. but desire docked
in 1638. in from the harbor
flocked a people whose eyes
sparked like stars, even near
death. whose hair promised
a mixture of cotton and river
water and vines, a texture
the fingers ached for. who
wholly inhabited a skin the
midnight color of grace
that clarified the hue of the
pilgrims' woolen weeds. fear
and envy claimed pride of place,
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put desire's cargo to good use.
iii. march 1770
that night, crispus attucks
dreamed. how he'd attacked
his would-be master and fled
in wild-eyed search of selfdetermination. discarded
virginia on the run and ran
out of breath in salt-scented
boston. found there, if not
freedom, fearlessness. a belief
in himself that rocked things
with the uncontrolled power
of the muscular atlantic, power
to cradle, to capsize. awoke
angry again at the planter
who'd taken him for a mule
or a machine. had shouldered
a chip the size of concord
by the time the redcoat dared
to dare him. died wishing he'd
amassed such revolutionary
ire in virginia. died dreaming
great britain was the enemy.
iv. july 4th: last
but not least
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17-, 18-, 19-76 and still
this celebration's shamed
with gunpowder and words
that lie like martyrs in cold
blood. africa's descendents,
planting here year after year
the seeds of labor, sweating
bullets in this nation's warts,
have harvested the rope,
the rape, the ghetto, the cell,
the fire, the flood, and the
blame for you-name-it. so
today black folks barbeque
ribs and smother the echoes
of billie's strange song in
sauces. drink gin. gladly
holiday to heckle speeches
on tv. pretend to parade.
turn out in droves for distant
detonations, chaos, controlled
as always, but directed
away from us tonight. stare
into the mirror of the sky
at our growing reflection,
boggled by how america
gawks at the passing pinpoints
of flame, but overlooks the vast,
ebony palm giving them shape.
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404:To “Who would not be a poet?” thus I read
In thy proud sonnet, my poetic friend;
And unto this my full assent was given:
“There is not, cannot be, under all heaven,
Aught happier in itself than the witch, poetry.”
But “Who’d not be a poet?” here I pause
Forebodingly, my poet-friend,—because
“To see all beauty with his gifted sight,”
To love, like him, with all the soul,
To be, when life is morning-bright
The very creature of delight,—
Delight beyond control,—
Is still to be, in like degree,
Too sensible of misery
And loss and slight, and all the weeping shapes of dole.
And this is truth too, that with saddened heart
Oft must he from his fellows live apart;
For how can men whose every breath of life
Is drawn in the hot air, and mid the strife
Of pettiest interest, have a kindred heart
With him who hath built heavenward and apart
The structures of his mind, and looking thence
Over this world-thronged universe immense,
Is wont all such embroilments to deplore
As light-obscuring vapours—nothing more?
What ladder of experience can they build,
To mount with—up, into a nature filled
With beauty, or by mighty truths inspired,
Or one even with a bold ambition fired?
But least of all in such men can there be
Devotions chiming into sympathy
With some pure soul, unsuccoured and alone,
Struggled in weariness unwearied on—
Unwearied, day and night, and night and day,
Towards the far Mecca of its faith always.
Yet thus the poet, armed only with the right,
To life’s dishonest battle oft must come,
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To front instead of valour, mean despite,
With envy aye in emulation’s room,
Blotting heaven’s sacred light!
To see unblushing fortune’s minions doom
To obloguy, through some repute unholy,
Or to some vile and miserable estate,
All such as would not trample on the lowly,
And basely glorify the falsely great.
Yet if a thought like this
Should mar at times they tuneful bliss,
Stronger within thine earnest will
Be the spirit of sone, that still
Thou mayest sing of eloquent eyes
That are of sunny thoughts the every sunny skies;
Sweet dreams that swarm round honeyed lips,
Like honey-loving bees;
Glad birds, fresh flowers, clear streams, and trees
All starry bright with golden pips;
Or with a loud bold chime,
Sing of that braver time,
When world-wide justice from her Alpine chair
Shall read at length in the rich reddening skies
The gospel of her advent, and declare
The sacred sign of her epiphany there,
Amid the purple dyes;
While all true men, the bravely wise,
Shall seek her there with fearless feet and free
Where the prophet-peaks arise
Out of the shattering mist, the phantom sea
Of old iniquity!
Through dense and rare, shall seek her there,
Breathing with lion-lungs the clear keen mountain air
Of a supreme up-climbing, God-great liberty.
Then envy not the splendid wretchedness
Of Mammon’s dupes! Sing thy great rhymes
For those diviner spiritual times
Our country yet shall know, and, wisely knowing, bless.
Downward, through the blooming roofage
Of a lonely forest bower,
Come the yellow sunbeams,—falling
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Like a burning shower:
So through heaven’s starry ceiling
To the hermit soul’s abode,
Comes the Holy Spirit,—earthward
Raying down from God.
~ Charles Harpur,#NFDB
405:The Doors music has been included in movies and their career has inspired feature films. Chapter 8 - The Doors at The Movies Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison were film students at UCLA when they met. They both had an abiding interest in film and the past masters as well as creating a new cinema. Through The Doors they did create cinema. At first, one strictly of The Doors, but as their influence and legend spread through culture they, in turn, inspired those that were creating movies. The Doors Film Feast of Friends Late in March 1968 (the exact date is unknown) The Doors decided to film a documentary of their forthcoming tour. The idea may have come about because Bobby Neuwirth, who was hired to hang out with Jim and try to direct his energies to more productive pursuits than drinking, produced a film Not to Touch the Earth that utilized behind the scenes film of The Doors. The band set up an initial budget of $20,000 for the project. Former UCLA film students Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek hired film school friends Paul Ferrara as director of photography, Frank Lisciandro as editor, and Morrison friend Babe Hill as the sound recorder. The first show shot, for what would be later named Feast of Friends, was the April 13th performance at the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds. Overall shooting of the film lasted for five months between March and September, and captured the riots in Cleveland and the Singer Bowl. Filming culminated in Saratoga Springs, New York, where backstage Morrison goofed around on a warm up piano and improvised a hilarious ode to Frederick Nietzsche. After filming started, the concept grew and Feast of Friends was to incorporate fictional scenes (some version of HWY?). But problems started to arise. The live sound, in parts, was unusable so the decision was made to use the album cuts of Doors songs. The budget grew by another $10,000 and the film still wasn’t finished. A decision was made by Ray, Robby and John to pull the plug on the film, but Paul Ferrara appealed to Jim and a compromise was worked out. The fictional scenes would be dropped and another $4,000 was added to the budget to complete the editing. The completed film runs to about thirty-eight minutes and is mostly images taken from different shows, or the band prior to a show. It has some footage of the Singer Bowl riot, which shows the riot in full flower, the stage crowded with policemen and fans. Occasionally, Morrison comes out of nowhere to encourage it all. The centerpiece of the film is The End from the Hollywood Bowl show. The film suffers a bit from not using live sound, the superimposition of album cuts of songs (except the Hollywood Bowl footage) removes the viewer from the immediacy and impact of The Doors. Feast of Friends was later accepted at five major film festivals, including the Atlanta International Film Festival that Frank Lisciandro describes in An Hour For Magic. In later years Feast of Friends was shelved, missing the late 70’s midnight movie circuit showing rock films. In the 80’s with the advent of MTV, Ray Manzarek started producing videos of Doors songs for showing on MTV and they relied heavily on the Feast of Friends footage. Chances are that even if you haven’t seen Feast of Friends you’ve seen a lot of the footage. Jim Morrison Films HWY The Doors had laid low for just over a month. On March 1, 1969, the ‘Miami Incident’ had occurred, at first with no reaction more than any other Doors show, and the band went off on a prearranged Jamaican vacation in anticipation ~ Jim Cherry, #NFDB
406:There is a sort of subdued pandemonium in the air, a note of repressed violence, as if the awaited explosion required the advent of some utterly minute detail, something microscopic but thoroughly unpremeditated, completely unexpected. In that sort of half-reverie which permits one to participate in an event and yet remain quite aloof, the little detail which was lacking began obscurely but insistently to coagulate, to assume a freakish, crystalline form, like the frost which gathers on the windowpane. And like those frost patterns which seem so bizarre, so utterly free and fantastic in design, but which are nevertheless determined by the most rigid laws, so this sensation which commenced to take form inside me seemed also to be giving obedience to ineluctable laws. My whole being was responding to the dictates of an ambience which it had never before experienced; that which I could call myself seemed to be contracting, condensing, shrinking from the stale, customary boundaries of the flesh whose perimeter knew only the modulations of the nerve ends.
And the more substantial, the more solid the core of me became, the more delicate and extravagant appeared the close, palpable reality out of which I was being squeezed. In the measure that I became more and more metallic, in the same measure the scene before my eyes became inflated. The state of tension was so finely drawn now that the introduction of a single foreign particle, even a microscopic particle, as I say, would have shattered everything. For the fraction of a second perhaps I experienced that utter clarity which the epileptic, it is
said, is given to know. In that moment I lost completely the illusion of time and space: the world unfurled its drama simultaneously along a meridian which had no axis. In this sort of hair-trigger eternity I felt that everything was justified, supremely justified; I felt the wars inside me that had left behind this pulp and wrack; I felt the crimes that were seething here to emerge tomorrow in blatant screamers; I felt the misery that was grinding itself out with pestle and mortar, the long dull misery that dribbles away in dirty handkerchiefs.
On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. If at any moment anywhere one comes face to face with the absolute, that great sympathy which makes men like Gautama and Jesus seem divine freezes away; the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured – disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui – in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in there and shut it off. All the while someone is eating the bread of life and drinking the wine, some dirty fat cockroach of a priest who hides away in the cellar guzzling it, while up above in the light of the street a
phantom host touches the lips and the blood is pale as water. And out of the endless torment and misery no miracle comes forth, no microscopic vestige of relief. Only ideas, pale, attenuated ideas which have to be fattened by slaughter; ideas which come forth like bile, like the guts of a pig when the carcass is ripped open. ~ Henry Miller,#NFDB
407:An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From
Ireland
The forward youth that would appear
Must now forsake his Muses dear,
Nor in the shadows sing
His numbers languishing.
'Tis time to leave the books in dust,
And oil th' unused armour's rust,
Removing from the wall
The corslet of the hall.
So restless Cromwell could not cease
In the inglorious arts of peace,
But through advent'rous war
Urged his active star:
And, like the three-forked lightning, first
Breaking the clouds where it was nursed,
Did thorough his own side
His fiery way divide.
For 'tis all one to courage high,
The emulous or enemy;
And with such, to enclose
Is more than to oppose.
Then burning through the air he went,
And palaces and temples rent;
And Caesar's head at last
Did through his laurels blast.
'Tis madness to resist or blame
The force of angry Heaven's flame;
And, if we would speak true,
Much to the man is due,
Who, from his private gardens, where
He lived reserved and austere,
As if his highest plot
To plant the bergamot,
Could by industrious valour climb
To ruin the great work of time,
And cast the Kingdom old
Into another mould.
Though Justice against Fate complain,
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And plead the ancient Rights in vain:
But those do hold or break
As men are strong or weak.
Nature, that hateth emptiness,
Allows of penetration less;
And therefore must make room
Where greater spirits come.
What field of all the Civil Wars
Where his were not the deepest scars?
And Hampton shows what part
He had of wiser art;
Where, twining subtle fears with hope,
He wove a net of such a scope
That Charles himself might chase
To Carisbrook's narrow case;
That thence the Royal Actor borne
The tragic scaffold might adorn:
While round the armed bands
Did clap their bloody hands.
He nothing common did or mean
Upon that memorable scene,
But with his keener eye
The axe's edge did try;
Nor called the Gods with vulgar spite
To vindicate his helpless right;
But bowed his comely head
Down as upon a bed.
This was that memorable hour
Which first assured the forced pow'r.
So when they did design
The Capitol's first line,
A Bleeding Head, where they begun,
Did fright the architects to run;
And yet in that the State
Foresaw its happy fate.
And now the Irish are ashamed
To see themselves in one year tamed:
So much one man can do,
That does both act and know.
They can affirm his praises best,
And have, though overcome, confessed
How good he is, how just,
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And fit for highest trust;
Nor yet grown stiffer with command,
But still in the Republic's hand:
How fit he is to sway
That can so well obey!
He to the Commons' feet presents
A kingdom for his first year's rents:
And, what he may, forbears
His fame to make it theirs:
And has his sword and spoils ungirt,
To lay them at the Public's skirt.
So when the falcon high
Falls heavy from the sky,
She, having killed, no more does search,
But on the next green bough to perch,
Where, when he first does lure,
The falcon'r has her sure.
What may not then our Isle presume
While victory his crest does plume!
What may not others fear
If thus he crown each year!
A Caesar he ere long to Gaul,
To Italy an Hannibal,
And to all states not free
Shall climacteric be.
The Pict no shelter now shall find
Within his parti-coloured mind;
But from this valour sad
Shrink underneath the plaid:
Happy if in the tufted brake
The English hunter him mistake,
Nor lay his hounds in near
The Caledonian deer.
But thou, the War's and Fortune's son,
March indefatigably on;
And for the last effect
Still keep thy sword erect:
Besides the force it has to fright
The spirits of the shady night,
The same arts that did gain
A pow'r must it maintain.
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~ Andrew Marvell,#NFDB
408:Slickens
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
HAYSEED _a Granger_
NOZZLE _a Miner_
RINGDIVVY _a Statesman_
FEEGOBBLE _a Lawyer_
JUNKET _a Committee_
_Scene_-Yuba Dam.
_Feegobble, Ringdivvy, Nozzle_.
NOZZLE:
My friends, since '51 I have pursued
The evil tenor of my watery way,
Removing hills as by an act of faith
RINGDIVVY:
Just so; the steadfast faith of those who hold,
In foreign lands beyond the Eastern sea,
The shares in your concern-a simple, blind,
Unreasoning belief in dividends,
Still stimulated by assessments which,
When the skies fall, ensnaring all the larks,
Will bring, no doubt, a very great return.
ALL (_singing_):
O the beautiful assessment,
The exquisite assessment,
The regular assessment,
That makes the water flow.
RINGDIVVY:
The rascally-assessment!
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FEEGOBBLE:
The murderous assessment!
NOZZLE:
The glorious assessment
That makes my mare to go!
FEEGOBBLE:
But, Nozzle, you, I think, were on the point
Of making a remark about some rightsSome certain vested rights you have acquired
By long immunity; for still the law
Holds that if one do evil undisturbed
His right to do so ripens with the years;
And one may be a villain long enough
To make himself an honest gentleman.
ALL (_singing_):
Hail, holy law,
The soul with awe
Bows to thy dispensation.
NOZZLE:
It breaks my jaw!
RINGDIVVY:
It qualms my maw!
FEEGOBBLE:
It feeds my jaw,
It crams my maw,
It is my soul's salvation!
NOZZLE:
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Why, yes, I've floated mountains to the sea
For lo! these many years; though some, they say,
Do strand themselves along the bottom lands
And cover up a village here and there,
And here and there a ranch. 'Tis said, indeed,
The granger with his female and his young
Do not infrequently go to the dickens
By premature burial in slickens.
ALL (_singing_):
Could slickens forever
Choke up the river,
And slime's endeavor
Be tried on grain,
How small the measure
Of granger's treasure,
How keen his pain!
RINGDIVVY:
'A consummation devoutly to be wished!'
These rascal grangers would long since have been
Submerged in slimes, to the last man of them,
But for the fact that all their wicked tribes
Affect our legislation with their bribes.
ALL (_singing_):
O bribery's great'Tis a pillar of State,
And the people they are free.
FEEGOBBLE:
It smashes my slate!
NOZZLE:
It is thievery straight!
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RINGDIVVY:
But it's been the making of me!
NOZZLE:
I judge by certain shrewd sensations here
In these callosities I call my thumbs
thrilling sense as of ten thousand pins,
Red-hot and penetrant, transpiercing all
The cuticle and tickling through the nerves
That some malign and awful thing draws near.
(_Enter Hayseed._)
Good Lord! here are the ghosts and spooks of all
The grangers I have decently interred,
Rolled into one!
FEEGOBBLE:
Plead, phantom.
RINGDIVVY:
You've the floor.
HAYSEED:
From the margin of the river
(Bitter Creek, they sometimes call it)
Where I cherished once the pumpkin,
And the summer squash promoted,
Harvested the sweet potato,
Dallied with the fatal melon
And subdued the fierce cucumber,
I've been driven by the slickens,
Driven by the slimes and tailings!
All my family-my Polly
Ann and all my sons and daughters,
Dog and baby both included
All were swamped in seas of slickens,
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Buried fifty fathoms under,
Where they lie, prepared to play their
Gentle prank on geologic
Gents that shall exhume them later,
In the dim and distant future,
Taking them for melancholy
Relics antedating Adam.
I alone got up and dusted.
NOZZLE:
Avaunt! you horrid and infernal cuss!
What dire distress have you prepared for us?
RINGDIVVY:
Were I a buzzard stooping from the sky
My craw with filth to fill,
Into your honorable body I
Would introduce a bill.
FEEGOBBLE:
Defendant, hence, or, by the gods, I'll brain thee!Unless you saved some turneps to retain me.
HAYSEED:
As I was saying, I got up and dusted,
My ranch a graveyard and my business busted!
But hearing that a fellow from the City,
Who calls himself a Citizens' Committee,
Was coming up to play the very dickens,
With those who cover up our farms with slickens,
And make himself-unless I am in error
To all such miscreants a holy terror,
I thought if I would join the dialogue
I maybe might get payment for my dog.
ALL (_Singing_):
O the dog is the head of Creation,
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Prime work of the Master's hand;
He hasn't a known occupation,
Yet lives on the fat of the land.
Adipose, indolent, sleek and orbicular,
Sun-soaken, door matted, cross and particular,
Men, women, children, all coddle and wait on him,
Then, accidentally shutting the gate on him,
Miss from their calves, ever after, the rifted out
Mouthful of tendons that doggy has lifted out!
(_Enter Junket_.)
JUNKET:
Well met, my hearties! I must trouble you
Jointly and severally to provide
A comfortable carriage, with relays
Of hardy horses. This Committee means
To move in state about the country here.
I shall expect at every place I stop
Good beds, of course, and everything that's nice,
With bountiful repast of meat and wine.
For this Committee comes to sea and mark
And inwardly digest.
HAYSEED:
Digest my dog!
NOZZLE:
First square my claim for damages: the gold
Escaping with the slickens keeps me poor!
RINGDIVVY:
I merely would remark that if you'd grease
My itching palm it would more glibly glide
Into the public pocket.
FEEGOBBLE:
Sir, the wheels
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Of justice move but slowly till they're oiled.
I have some certain writs and warrants here,
Prepared against your advent. You recall
The tale of Zaccheus, who did climb a tree,
And Jesus said: 'Come down'?
JUNKET:
Why, bless your souls!
I've got no money; I but came to see
What all this noisy babble is about,
Make a report and file the same away.
NOZZLE, RINGDIVVY, FEEGOBBLE, HAYSEED:
How'll that help _us_? Reports are not our style
Of provender!
JUNKET:
Well, you can gnaw the file.
~ Ambrose Bierce,#NFDB
409:The Rape Of The Lock: Canto 2
Not with more glories, in th' etherial plain,
The sun first rises o'er the purpled main,
Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams
Launch'd on the bosom of the silver Thames.
Fair nymphs, and well-dress'd youths around her shone,
But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone.
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.
Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose,
Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those:
Favours to none, to all she smiles extends;
Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride,
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
This nymph, to the destruction of mankind,
Nourish'd two locks, which graceful hung behind
In equal curls, and well conspir'd to deck
With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck.
Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains,
And mighty hearts are held in slender chains.
With hairy springes we the birds betray,
Slight lines of hair surprise the finney prey,
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Th' advent'rous baron the bright locks admir'd;
He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd.
Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way,
By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
For when success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
For this, ere Phœbus rose, he had implor'd
Propitious Heav'n, and ev'ry pow'r ador'd,
But chiefly love--to love an altar built,
Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt.
There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves;
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And all the trophies of his former loves;
With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre,
And breathes three am'rous sighs to raise the fire.
Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes
Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize:
The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r,
The rest, the winds dispers'd in empty air.
But now secure the painted vessel glides,
The sun-beams trembling on the floating tides,
While melting music steals upon the sky,
And soften'd sounds along the waters die.
Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play,
Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay.
All but the Sylph--with careful thoughts opprest,
Th' impending woe sat heavy on his breast.
He summons strait his denizens of air;
The lucid squadrons round the sails repair:
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe,
That seem'd but zephyrs to the train beneath.
Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold,
Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold.
Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight,
Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light,
Loose to the wind their airy garments flew,
Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew;
Dipp'd in the richest tincture of the skies,
Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes,
While ev'ry beam new transient colours flings,
Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
Amid the circle, on the gilded mast,
Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd;
His purple pinions op'ning to the sun,
He rais'd his azure wand, and thus begun.
"Ye Sylphs and Sylphids, to your chief give ear!
Fays, Fairies, Genii, Elves, and Dæmons, hear!
Ye know the spheres and various tasks assign'd
By laws eternal to th' aerial kind.
Some in the fields of purest æther play,
And bask and whiten in the blaze of day.
Some guide the course of wand'ring orbs on high,
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Or roll the planets through the boundless sky.
Some less refin'd, beneath the moon's pale light
Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night,
Or suck the mists in grosser air below,
Or dip their pinions in the painted bow,
Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main,
Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain.
Others on earth o'er human race preside,
Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide:
Of these the chief the care of nations own,
And guard with arms divine the British throne.
"Our humbler province is to tend the fair,
Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care.
To save the powder from too rude a gale,
Nor let th' imprison'd essences exhale,
To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs,
To steal from rainbows e'er they drop in show'rs
A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs,
Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs;
Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow,
To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
"This day, black omens threat the brightest fair
That e'er deserv'd a watchful spirit's care;
Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight,
But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night.
Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law,
Or some frail china jar receive a flaw;
Or stain her honour, or her new brocade,
Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade;
Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball;
Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Haste, then, ye spirits! to your charge repair:
The flutt'ring fan be Zephyretta's care;
The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign;
And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine;
Do thou, Crispissa, tend her fav'rite lock;
Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock.
"To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note,
We trust th' important charge, the petticoat:
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Oft have we known that sev'n-fold fence to fail,
Though stiff with hoops, and arm'd with ribs of whale.
Form a strong line about the silver bound,
And guard the wide circumference around.
"Whatever spirit, careless of his charge,
His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large,
Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins,
Be stopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins;
Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie,
Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye:
Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain,
While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain;
Or alum styptics with contracting pow'r
Shrink his thin essence like a rivell'd flow'r.
Or, as Ixion fix'd, the wretch shall feel
The giddy motion of the whirling mill,
In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow,
And tremble at the sea that froths below!"
He spoke; the spirits from the sails descend;
Some, orb in orb, around the nymph extend,
Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair,
Some hang upon the pendants of her ear;
With beating hearts the dire event they wait,
Anxious, and trembling for the birth of fate.
~ Alexander Pope,#NFDB
410:From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she
should esteem all as Enemies,
who should talk to her of LOVE.
THEN, to the snowy Ewe, in thy esteem,
The Father of the Flock a Foe must seem,
The faithful Turtles to their yielding Mates.
The cheerful Spring, which Love and Joy creates,
That reconciles the World by soft Desires,
And tender Thoughts in ev'ry Breast inspires,
To you a hateful Season must appear,
Whilst Love prevails, and all are Lovers here.
Observe the gentle Murmurs of that Dove,
And see, how billing she confirms her Love!
For this, the Nightingale displays her Throat,
And Love, Love, Love, is all her Ev'ning Note.
The very Tygers have their tender Hours,
And prouder Lyons bow beneath Love's Pow'rs.
Thou, prouder yet than that imperious Beast,
Alone deny'st him Shelter in thy Breast.
But why should I the Creatures only name
That Sense partake, as Owners of this Flame?
Love farther goes, nor stops his Course at these:
The Plants he moves, and gently bends the Trees.
See how those Willows mix their am'rous Boughs;
And, how that Vine clasps her supporting Spouse!
The silver Firr dotes on the stately Pine;
By Love those Elms, by Love those Beeches join.
But view that Oak; behold his rugged Side:
Yet that rough Bark the melting Flame do's hide.
All, by their trembling Leaves, in Sighs declare
And tell their Passions to the gath'ring Air.
Which, had but Love o'er Thee the least Command,
Thou, by their Motions, too might'st understand.
AMINTOR, being ask'd by THIRSIS
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Who is the Object of his Love?
speaks as follows.
Amint. THIRSIS! to Thee I mean that Name to show,
Which, only yet our Groves, and Fountains know:
That, when my Death shall through the Plains be told,
Thou with the wretched Cause may'st that unfold
To every-one, who shall my Story find
Carv'd by thy Hand, in some fair Beeches rind;
Beneath whose Shade the bleeding Body lay:
That, when by chance she shall be led that way,
O'er my sad Grave the haughty Nymph may go,
And the proud Triumph of her Beauty shew
To all the Swains, to Strangers as they pass;
And yet at length she may (but Oh! alas!
I fear, too high my flatt'ring Hopes do soar)
Yet she at length may my sad Fate deplore;
May weep me Dead, may o'er my Tomb recline,
And sighing, wish were he alive and Mine!
But mark me to the End–
Thir. Go on; for well I do thy Speech attend,
Perhaps to better Ends, than yet thou know'st.
Amint. Being now a Child, or but a Youth at most,
When scarce to reach the blushing Fruit I knew,
Which on the lowest bending Branches grew;
Still with the dearest, sweetest, kindest Maid
Young as myself, at childish Sports I play'd.
The Fairest, sure, of all that Lovely Kind,
Who spread their golden Tresses to the Wind;
Cydippe's Daughter, and Montano's Heir,
Whose Flocks and Herds so num'rous do appear;
The beauteous Sylvia; She, 'tis She I love,
Warmth of all Hearts, and Pride of ev'ry Grove.
With Her I liv'd, no Turtles e'er so fond.
Our Houses met, but more our Souls were join'd.
Together Nets for Fish, and Fowl we laid;
Together through the spacious Forest stray'd;
Pursu'd with equal Speed the flying Deer,
And of the Spoils there no Divisions were.
But whilst I from the Beasts their Freedom won,
Alas! I know not how, my Own was gone.
By unperceiv'd Degrees the Fire encreas'd,
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Which fill'd, at last, each corner of my Breast;
As from a Root, tho' scarce discern'd so small,
A Plant may rise, that grows amazing tall.
From Sylvia's Presence now I could not move,
And from her Eyes took in full Draughts of Love,
Which sweetly thro' my ravish'd Mind distill'd;
Yet in the end such Bitterness wou'd yield,
That oft I sigh'd, ere yet I knew the cause,
And was a Lover, ere I dream'd I was.
But Oh! at last, too well my State I knew;
And now, will shew thee how this Passion grew.
Then listen, while the pleasing Tale I tell.
THIRSIS persuades AMINTOR not to despair upon the
redictions of Mopsus discov'ring him to be an Impostor.
Thirsis. Why dost thou still give way to such Despair!
Amintor. Too just, alas! the weighty Causes are.
Mopsus, wise Mopsus, who in Art excels,
And of all Plants the secret Vertue tells,
Knows, with what healing Gifts our Springs abound,
And of each Bird explains the mystick Sound;
'Twas He, ev'n He! my wretched Fate foretold.
Thir. Dost thou this Speech then of that Mopsus hold,
Who, whilst his Smiles attract the easy View,
Drops flatt'ring Words, soft as the falling Dew;
Whose outward Form all friendly still appears,
Tho' Fraud and Daggers in his Thoughts he wears,
And the unwary Labours to surprize
With Looks affected, and with riddling Lyes.
If He it is, that bids thy Love despair,
I hope the happier End of all thy Care.
So far from Truth his vain Predictions fall.
Amint. If ought thou know'st, that may my Hopes recall,
Conceal it not; for great I've heard his Fame,
And fear'd his Words–
Thir. –When hither first I came,
And in these Shades the false Imposter met,
Like Thee I priz'd, and thought his Judgment great;
On all his study'd Speeches still rely'd,
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Nor fear'd to err, whilst led by such a Guide:
When on a Day, that Bus'ness and Delight
My Steps did to the Neighb'ring Town invite,
Which stands upon that rising Mountain's side,
And from our Plains this River do's divide,
He check'd me thus–Be warn'd in time, My Son,
And that new World of painted Mischiefs shun,
Whose gay Inhabitants thou shalt behold
Plum'd like our Birds, and sparkling all in Gold;
Courtiers, that will thy rustick Garb despise,
And mock thy Plainness with disdainful Eyes.
But above all, that Structure see thou fly,
Where hoarded Vanities and Witchcrafts lie;
To shun that Path be thy peculiar Care.
I ask, what of that Place the Dangers are:
To which he soon replies, there shalt thou meet
Of soft Enchantresses th' Enchantments sweet,
Who subt'ly will thy solid Sense bereave,
And a false Gloss to ev'ry Object give.
Brass to thy Sight as polish'd Gold shall seem,
And Glass thou as the Diamond shalt esteem.
Huge Heaps of Silver to thee shall appear,
Which if approach'd, will prove but shining Air.
The very Walls by Magick Art are wrought,
And Repitition to all Speakers taught:
Not such, as from our Ecchoes we obtain,
Which only our last Words return again;
But Speech for Speech entirely there they give,
And often add, beyond what they receive.
There downy Couches to false Rest invite,
The Lawn is charm'd, that faintly bars the Light.
No gilded Seat, no iv'ry Board is there,
But what thou may'st for some Delusion fear:
Whilst, farther to abuse thy wond'ring Eyes,
Strange antick Shapes before them shall arise;
Fantastick Fiends, that will about thee flock,
And all they see, with Imitation mock.
Nor are these Ills the worst. Thyself may'st be
Transform'd into a Flame, a Stream, a Tree;
A Tear, congeal'd by Art, thou may'st remain,
'Till by a burning Sigh dissolv'd again.
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Thus spake the Wretch; but cou'd not shake my Mind.
My way I take, and soon the City find,
Where above all that lofty Fabrick stands,
Which, with one View, the Town and Plains commands.
Here was I stopt, for who cou'd quit the Ground,
That heard such Musick from those Roofs resound!
Musick! beyond th' enticing Syrene's Note;
Musick! beyond the Swan's expiring Throat;
Beyond the softest Voice, that charms the Grove,
And equal'd only by the Spheres above.
My Ear I thought too narrow for the Art,
Nor fast enough convey'd it to my Heart:
When in the Entrance of the Gate I saw
A Man Majestick, and commanding Awe;
Yet temper'd with a Carriage, so refin'd
That undetermin'd was my doubtful Mind,
Whether for Love, or War, that Form was most design'd.
With such a Brow, as did at once declare
A gentle Nature, and a Wit severe;
To view that Palace me he ask'd to go,
Tho' Royal He, and I Obscure and Low.
But the Delights my Senses there did meet,
No rural Tongue, no Swain can e'er repeat.
Celestial Goddesses, or Nymphs as Fair,
In unveil'd Beauties, to all Eyes appear
Sprinkl'd with Gold, as glorious to the View,
As young Aurora, deck'd with pearly Dew;
Bright Rays dispensing, as along they pass'd,
And with new Light the shining Palace grac'd.
Phoebus was there by all the Muses met,
And at his Feet was our Elpino set.
Ev'n humble Me their Harmony inspir'd,
My Breast expanded, and my Spirits fir'd.
Rude Past'ral now, no longer I rehearse,
But Heroes crown with my exalted Verse.
Of Arms I sung, of bold advent'rous Wars;
And tho' brought back by my too envious Stars,
Yet kept my Voice and Reed those lofty Strains,
And sent loud Musick through the wond'ring Plains:
Which Mopsus hearing, secretly malign'd,
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And now to ruin Both at once design'd.
Which by his Sorceries he soon brought to pass;
And suddenly so clogg'd, and hoarse I was,
That all our Shepherds, at the Change amaz'd,
Believ'd, I on some Ev'ning-Wolf had gaz'd:
When He it was, my luckless Path had crost,
By whose dire Look, my Skill awhile was lost.
This have I told, to raise thy Hopes again,
And render, by distrust, his Malice vain.
From the AMINTA of TASSO.
THO' we, of small Proportion see
And slight the armed Golden Bee;
Yet if her Sting behind she leaves,
No Ease th' envenom'd Flesh receives.
Love, less to Sight than is this Fly,
In a soft Curl conceal'd can lie;
Under an Eyelid's lovely Shade,
Can form a dreadful Ambuscade;
Can the most subtil Sight beguile
Hid in the Dimples of a Smile.
But if from thence a Dart he throw,
How sure, how mortal is the Blow!
How helpless all the Pow'r of Art
To bind, or to restore the Heart!
From the AMINTA of TASSO.
Part of the Description of the Golden Age.
THEN, by some Fountains flow'ry side
The Loves unarm'd, did still abide.
Then, the loos'd Quiver careless hung,
The Torch extinct, the Bow unstrung.
Then, by the Nymphs no Charms were worn,
But such as with the Nymphs were born.
The Shepherd cou'd not, then, complain,
Nor told his am'rous Tale in vain.
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No Veil the Beauteous Face did hide,
Nor harmless Freedom was deny'd.
Then, Innocence and Virtue reign'd
Pure, unaffected, unconstrain'd.
Love was their Pleasure, and their Praise,
The soft Employment of their Days.
~ Anne Kingsmill Finch,#NFDB
411:Alma Venus! [excerpt]
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,
Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.
Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,
Or grave stars cluster for their midnight dance 1
Bringer of fire, from what far fane despoiled?
Potter of grace, by what fell finger soiled?
In temple throned of old, or here in shame
Lurking, to Deathless YOU, of many a namePaphia, Freya, Aphrodite, Fand,
Cabiri vague, or in the fairy band
Titania, Niamh, or that Morgan fay
Our simpler eyes in. Sicily to-day
Catch at her sorcery-to YOU, whose breath
To a rippling rapture stirs the pool of Death,
I bring this coronal of rose and rue,
With golden wattle twined-and she-oak too.
The living wheels we call Creation roll
Whither and while You lead. Who are their soul!
Wheels within wheels, and whose the whirl of eyes
But Love's, Who was. Who is. Who never dies?
Wheels within wheels, but ever at the nave
Venus Pandemos, She for Whom we crave!
Wheels within wheels, but glowing from the tires
Venus Immaculate's Uranian fires!
If lovelight played not round the misty bourn
Could Life her marshy perils thread unworn?
Were Heaven's many mansions built to hold
Women and men seraphically cold?
Or does annihilation mean but this'Tristram no more desires Isolda's kiss'?
Fountains of Art that keep this old Earth fresh
Ascend to God from cisterns of the flesh:
Angel and phoenix flowered from the fires
Of virgin Ishtar's ravenous desires:
In good Nile mud incestuous Isis set
Many a tree of knowledge bearing yet:
Austere Mohammed meets at Heaven's door
Fond phantoms of his desert dreams of yore:
The shrine, the song, the picture and the bust
Are diamonds doubles of the charcoal, lust. . .
Your ruby billows floated to our ken
Many a rite that soothes the souls of men;
Swastik of Ind as once Egyptian Tau
In shining symbol utters yet Your law:
And coldest fanes for eunuch gods designed
Reveal Your girdle with their chaplets twined.
Around the Maypole, aeon-old, they dance,
Maiden and youth of Britain and of France,
Obedient to the law, forgot to-day,
That fertile gods, unshackled by their play,
From winter death will duly be reborn
And with their foison fill the ears of corn:
Or where, horizonward, Australian sand
Billows monotonous, behold Your band
Of leaf-clad lubras, swaying to the hum
Of droning wizard and barbaric drum,
In strange Unthippa dance to conjure there,
With warm wild posturing and coy despair,
Some dream-time god of golden ages dim,
That with the drama of their love for him
The waste in sympathy will fertile grow,
Emu be plentiful, the dry creeks flow,
And all the wild be rich with nut and plant,
Witchetty grub and root and honey-ant:
Virgins and boys, who with the bridal pair
And hymeneal chant through Athens bear
That casket strange, unknowing that inside
The mysteries of Aphrodite hide,
Ye will acknowledge too, in turn, ere long,
Omnipotent the goddess of my song:
And, childless ones of Ind, with prayer ye pour
Oil on that shrine to-day, as wives of yore
On wayside Jahv or god of boundary,
For benison of grudged fertility. . . .
Let pale usurpers of Your old domain
In crumbling book and vapid hymn maintain
That You, great Queen, are dead, that nevermore
Shall devotee Your majesty adore,
Or sad Meander wail as long ago
For torn Adonis and Your helpless woe:
We hear in beating hearts another rune,
In hymn of man and maid another tune:
On every road Your living creatures draw,
Whither You list, the Tables of Your Law:
Wherever tree hath sap or being breath,
Ubiquitous, You bruise the head of Death:
Here, pallid cuckoo's great crescendos call
His coy companion to Your festival:
There, magpie warbles to the morning star
The advent of the rapture that You are:
And desolate the spirit unaware
Of quivering enchantment in the air
When August struggles from his gaoler's power,
And gleaming envoys from each wooing flower
Cajole the bees to waft his tender dues
To some dear tabernacle's secret cruse;
When listening almonds weary of the night
Hearing You coming blossom into white;
When wattle waking from her torpor cold
Knowing You near her trembles into gold;
When, ancient symbols realizing here,
Gabriel Spring announces every year
To expectant Nature's myriad maidenhood,
In rolling plain or solitary wood,
The miracle that maketh Life complete,
The brooding Presence of the Paraclete.
*
Magi profounder than the Eastern Three
Followed the Star of Your Epiphany:
Isis had hidden with a sullen pall
The secret of the Universe from all,
Until Lucretius wondering found a fold,
It swayed to Goethe's eyes, and, growing bold,
Darwin stooped down and groping patiently
Out of the dust lifted the hem, till we
Staggering saw against the eternal blue
The secret Builder of Creation-You I ...
'When Love was driven from the world by stark
And sexless mattoids of the Ages Dark,
Disgusted lore to Moorish havens fled,
The Muses nine with eunuch monks were wed:
Primordial terror to the day returned,
The witch in hordes and great Servetus burned:
Celibate piety with thumb uncouth
Plastered a fig-leaf over Plato's truth:
Aquinas thinned, to make a draught divine,
With holy water, Aristotle's wine;
Round every comer eft or devil stares,
And very Dante mumbles craven prayers;
The childish painter daubs his maudlin fears,
And song forgets to sing a thousand years.
Yet You had lingered cunningly concealed
Now in an altar-piece, now in a field
With shards of pillared grandeur buried deep,
Until the nightmare passed. Yea, did You peep
A moment now and then, ere rose the sun,
Under the hood of a rose-hearted nun
At Abelard, or told the tale so well
Of Launcelot that even glowering hell
Drove not Francesca from her lover's wraith;
Yea, visored chivalry unhorsed his faith,
And far Jerusalem and Paynim tryst
Forgot, for victory in a gender list
Where with the provocation of a smile
Your ambushed omnipresence would beguile
Crusader sullen to a softer creed,
Knight errant to an errant knight indeed....
As what strange god did You entice the King
Through brave Uriah's comely wife to fling
Harp and the psaltery aside to plan
As mean a deed as had polluted man
Till Sextus lusted, or her father's knife
Rescued Virginia from the hell of life?
Yea, there is that in You man dare not face:
A dark star dogs Your limpid planet's grace:
Jetsam from old pollution stales Your shore:
Lewd gargoyles grin above Your temple door. ...
Wormwood is waiter at Your choicest feast,
Your Beauty shadowed ever by the Beast.
Yon feudal lord of mediaeval France,
Your devotee of many a Rose Romance,
Hath on his peasants' daughters' bridal nights
Exacted to the full his shameful rights:
Your cuckoo calling Spring into the wood
Was stark nest-brother to a robin's brood:
And, tragi-comedy of humble life,
That doting husband of the buxom wife
Is fondling (while You laugh) the child she gave
At Your still altar to some passing knave. . ..
Was it a glimpse of phases fell that mar
The radiant round of Your auspicious star,
That drove the hermit to the wilderness
From demons lurking in Your least caress,
And bade the nun, as once the vestal too,
Renounce Your works and all Your pomps-and You?
Yea, those whose eyes can pierce the dazzling veil
Of Light that is Your mask have told a tale
Of how we in the world were once expelled
From Paradise, and now, in prison held,
On moaning treadmills of repeated lives
Work out our crimes, until the hour arrives
For life to cease on earth and You to fade
With all the woe Your temptress wiles have made.
You are the gaoler of that prison, Who
(For so they say) inveigle all to woo,
Be won, that so by our own ardours we
Keep lit Your hell, yea, for eternity,
Unless, until, ignoring all You say,
As monk, as nun, we dare to disobey.
If so it be, then were the barren one
Blest of all women underneath the sun,
An angel of the Lord sent here to ray
The midnight of the soul with coming day;
The tower impregnable that masters Fate
Is not the Caesar but the celibate;
And he at whom no woman ever smiled
Is everlasting Heaven's favoured child
Ordained (who knows?) in what benignant star
As Baptist of some glorious Avatar,
Whose Word shall cause all flesh to cease to be
And man be one again with Deity!. . .
Or when the veil we call Reality
Rifts, and the meaning of it all we see,
Will Good and Evil kiss and understand?
God walk with brother Satan hand in hand?
The cool-haired Night repose beside the Sun?
Pandemos prove with Love Uranian one?
The Tree of Life mature its golden fruits
From bark so sinister and those wan roots?
Slowly our interrogating eyes
Sobered with long deception recognize,
'Mid older clues dissolved to flecks, at last
One signal flashing from the Outer Vast,
Fell or benign (as falls or rises faith),
Comet or guiding star-Your rosy wraith!
Your rosy wraith that both in man and weed
'Writes deep and undeniable Your creed'Beget or hear, though ye to-morrow die,
Beget or bear, nor ask the reason why 1
Though sun and earth shall duly pass away,
Though all the gods shall ripen and decay,
It is Their Will Who bade the world exist:
And woe to him or her who doth not list
The sole clear mandate from the Otherwhere
Flushed through the Universe-Beget or bear 1'
Love we or dread we may not all ignore
The single beacon on the circling shore
Where Being laps upon the caverned steep
Wherefrom we drifted and whereto we creep.
Beacon 1 although You lead us but to gloom!
A guiding star, it may be, to the tomb!
Comet flung from the Void through trackless Light!
Yet is Your rosy flame in ion mite
And great pathetic man the only trace
Of something more than chance in Time and Space,
That purpose dimly threads the crazy web,
That tides of anguish ultimately ebb,
That green hope signals underground a Nile,
That faith is wiser than an ostrich wile,
That there is something in us will elude
The withering fingers of vicissitude,
And man's ripe earth by a guttering sun betrayed
Will not in cold and useless ruin fade.
Question the sibyl grottoes near or far
Whither or whence we sail or why we are!
Listen at Nature's beating heart for clue,
And every oracle we know or knew!
From Zodiac round of older destiny,
From tiny orbit of an atomy,
From Pythoness or oak or Magian fire,
Augur antique or wizard new inquire,
Austral churinga or the crystal ball,
'Wherefore does anything exist at all?'
Of star or fungus seek, of life or death,
Whence Being came and whither wandereth!
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Ask of the gloom that locks the secret in,
Ask of the light that saw the world begin!
The day, the night, and death and life are dumb:
From fungus, star or ball no answers come:
Silent, churinga, table, passing bird:
From fire or Druid oak no guiding word:
The Pythoness ambiguously sighs:
Orbit minute nor Zodiac house replies:
But dim the beating heart amid its sobs
With 'Alma Venus!' 'Alma Venus!' throbs;
While on two sibyl leaves, by a world-wind strange
Blown to our shore across the gulf of Change,
'Increase and multiply' on one is scrolled
In ochre crude, on one, in glowing gold
Around the pearly nimbus of a dove,
The script imperishable-'God is Love.'
~ Bernard O'Dowd,#NFDB
412:The Princess (Part 3)
Morn in the wake of the morning star
Came furrowing all the orient into gold.
We rose, and each by other drest with care
Descended to the court that lay three parts
In shadow, but the Muses' heads were touched
Above the darkness from their native East.
There while we stood beside the fount, and watched
Or seemed to watch the dancing bubble, approached
Melissa, tinged with wan from lack of sleep,
Or grief, and glowing round her dewy eyes
The circled Iris of a night of tears;
'And fly,' she cried, 'O fly, while yet you may!
My mother knows:' and when I asked her 'how,'
'My fault' she wept 'my fault! and yet not mine;
Yet mine in part. O hear me, pardon me.
My mother, 'tis her wont from night to night
To rail at Lady Psyche and her side.
She says the Princess should have been the Head,
Herself and Lady Psyche the two arms;
And so it was agreed when first they came;
But Lady Psyche was the right hand now,
And the left, or not, or seldom used;
Hers more than half the students, all the love.
And so last night she fell to canvass you:
~Her~ countrywomen! she did not envy her.
"Who ever saw such wild barbarians?
Girls?--more like men!" and at these words the snake,
My secret, seemed to stir within my breast;
And oh, Sirs, could I help it, but my cheek
Began to burn and burn, and her lynx eye
To fix and make me hotter, till she laughed:
"O marvellously modest maiden, you!
Men! girls, like men! why, if they had been men
You need not set your thoughts in rubric thus
For wholesale comment." Pardon, I am shamed
That I must needs repeat for my excuse
What looks so little graceful: "men" (for still
My mother went revolving on the word)
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"And so they are,--very like men indeed-And with that woman closeted for hours!"
Then came these dreadful words out one by one,
"Why--these--~are~--men:" I shuddered: "and you know it."
"O ask me nothing," I said: "And she knows too,
And she conceals it." So my mother clutched
The truth at once, but with no word from me;
And now thus early risen she goes to inform
The Princess: Lady Psyche will be crushed;
But you may yet be saved, and therefore fly;
But heal me with your pardon ere you go.'
'What pardon, sweet Melissa, for a blush?'
Said Cyril: 'Pale one, blush again: than wear
Those lilies, better blush our lives away.
Yet let us breathe for one hour more in Heaven'
He added, 'lest some classic Angel speak
In scorn of us, "They mounted, Ganymedes,
To tumble, Vulcans, on the second morn."
But I will melt this marble into wax
To yield us farther furlough:' and he went.
Melissa shook her doubtful curls, and thought
He scarce would prosper. 'Tell us,' Florian asked,
'How grew this feud betwixt the right and left.'
'O long ago,' she said, 'betwixt these two
Division smoulders hidden; 'tis my mother,
Too jealous, often fretful as the wind
Pent in a crevice: much I bear with her:
I never knew my father, but she says
(God help her) she was wedded to a fool;
And still she railed against the state of things.
She had the care of Lady Ida's youth,
And from the Queen's decease she brought her up.
But when your sister came she won the heart
Of Ida: they were still together, grew
(For so they said themselves) inosculated;
Consonant chords that shiver to one note;
One mind in all things: yet my mother still
Affirms your Psyche thieved her theories,
And angled with them for her pupil's love:
She calls her plagiarist; I know not what:
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But I must go: I dare not tarry,' and light,
As flies the shadow of a bird, she fled.
Then murmured Florian gazing after her,
'An open-hearted maiden, true and pure.
If I could love, why this were she: how pretty
Her blushing was, and how she blushed again,
As if to close with Cyril's random wish:
Not like your Princess crammed with erring pride,
Nor like poor Psyche whom she drags in tow.'
'The crane,' I said, 'may chatter of the crane,
The dove may murmur of the dove, but I
An eagle clang an eagle to the sphere.
My princess, O my princess! true she errs,
But in her own grand way: being herself
Three times more noble than three score of men,
She sees herself in every woman else,
And so she wears her error like a crown
To blind the truth and me: for her, and her,
Hebes are they to hand ambrosia, mix
The nectar; but--ah she--whene'er she moves
The Samian Herè rises and she speaks
A Memnon smitten with the morning Sun.'
So saying from the court we paced, and gained
The terrace ranged along the Northern front,
And leaning there on those balusters, high
Above the empurpled champaign, drank the gale
That blown about the foliage underneath,
And sated with the innumerable rose,
Beat balm upon our eyelids. Hither came
Cyril, and yawning 'O hard task,' he cried;
'No fighting shadows here! I forced a way
Through opposition crabbed and gnarled.
Better to clear prime forests, heave and thump
A league of street in summer solstice down,
Than hammer at this reverend gentlewoman.
I knocked and, bidden, entered; found her there
At point to move, and settled in her eyes
The green malignant light of coming storm.
Sir, I was courteous, every phrase well-oiled,
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As man's could be; yet maiden-meek I prayed
Concealment: she demanded who we were,
And why we came? I fabled nothing fair,
But, your example pilot, told her all.
Up went the hushed amaze of hand and eye.
But when I dwelt upon your old affiance,
She answered sharply that I talked astray.
I urged the fierce inscription on the gate,
And our three lives. True--we had limed ourselves
With open eyes, and we must take the chance.
But such extremes, I told her, well might harm
The woman's cause. "Not more than now," she said,
"So puddled as it is with favouritism."
I tried the mother's heart. Shame might befall
Melissa, knowing, saying not she knew:
Her answer was "Leave me to deal with that."
I spoke of war to come and many deaths,
And she replied, her duty was to speak,
And duty duty, clear of consequences.
I grew discouraged, Sir; but since I knew
No rock so hard but that a little wave
May beat admission in a thousand years,
I recommenced; "Decide not ere you pause.
I find you here but in the second place,
Some say the third--the authentic foundress you.
I offer boldly: we will seat you highest:
Wink at our advent: help my prince to gain
His rightful bride, and here I promise you
Some palace in our land, where you shall reign
The head and heart of all our fair she-world,
And your great name flow on with broadening time
For ever." Well, she balanced this a little,
And told me she would answer us today,
meantime be mute: thus much, nor more I gained.'
He ceasing, came a message from the Head.
'That afternoon the Princess rode to take
The dip of certain strata to the North.
Would we go with her? we should find the land
Worth seeing; and the river made a fall
Out yonder:' then she pointed on to where
A double hill ran up his furrowy forks
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Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.
Agreed to, this, the day fled on through all
Its range of duties to the appointed hour.
Then summoned to the porch we went. She stood
Among her maidens, higher by the head,
Her back against a pillar, her foot on one
Of those tame leopards. Kittenlike he rolled
And pawed about her sandal. I drew near;
I gazed. On a sudden my strange seizure came
Upon me, the weird vision of our house:
The Princess Ida seemed a hollow show,
Her gay-furred cats a painted fantasy,
Her college and her maidens, empty masks,
And I myself the shadow of a dream,
For all things were and were not. Yet I felt
My heart beat thick with passion and with awe;
Then from my breast the involuntary sigh
Brake, as she smote me with the light of eyes
That lent my knee desire to kneel, and shook
My pulses, till to horse we got, and so
Went forth in long retinue following up
The river as it narrowed to the hills.
I rode beside her and to me she said:
'O friend, we trust that you esteemed us not
Too harsh to your companion yestermorn;
Unwillingly we spake.' 'No--not to her,'
I answered, 'but to one of whom we spake
Your Highness might have seemed the thing you say.'
'Again?' she cried, 'are you ambassadresses
From him to me? we give you, being strange,
A license: speak, and let the topic die.'
I stammered that I knew him--could have wished-'Our king expects--was there no precontract?
There is no truer-hearted--ah, you seem
All he prefigured, and he could not see
The bird of passage flying south but longed
To follow: surely, if your Highness keep
Your purport, you will shock him even to death,
Or baser courses, children of despair.'
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'Poor boy,' she said, 'can he not read--no books?
Quoit, tennis, ball--no games? nor deals in that
Which men delight in, martial exercise?
To nurse a blind ideal like a girl,
Methinks he seems no better than a girl;
As girls were once, as we ourself have been:
We had our dreams; perhaps he mixt with them:
We touch on our dead self, nor shun to do it,
Being other--since we learnt our meaning here,
To lift the woman's fallen divinity
Upon an even pedestal with man.'
She paused, and added with a haughtier smile
'And as to precontracts, we move, my friend,
At no man's beck, but know ourself and thee,
O Vashti, noble Vashti! Summoned out
She kept her state, and left the drunken king
To brawl at Shushan underneath the palms.'
'Alas your Highness breathes full East,' I said,
'On that which leans to you. I know the Prince,
I prize his truth: and then how vast a work
To assail this gray preëminence of man!
You grant me license; might I use it? think;
Ere half be done perchance your life may fail;
Then comes the feebler heiress of your plan,
And takes and ruins all; and thus your pains
May only make that footprint upon sand
Which old-recurring waves of prejudice
Resmooth to nothing: might I dread that you,
With only Fame for spouse and your great deeds
For issue, yet may live in vain, and miss,
Meanwhile, what every woman counts her due,
Love, children, happiness?'
And she exclaimed,
'Peace, you young savage of the Northern wild!
What! though your Prince's love were like a God's,
Have we not made ourself the sacrifice?
You are bold indeed: we are not talked to thus:
Yet will we say for children, would they grew
Like field-flowers everywhere! we like them well:
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But children die; and let me tell you, girl,
Howe'er you babble, great deeds cannot die;
They with the sun and moon renew their light
For ever, blessing those that look on them.
Children--that men may pluck them from our hearts,
Kill us with pity, break us with ourselves-O--children--there is nothing upon earth
More miserable than she that has a son
And sees him err: nor would we work for fame;
Though she perhaps might reap the applause of Great,
Who earns the one POU STO whence after-hands
May move the world, though she herself effect
But little: wherefore up and act, nor shrink
For fear our solid aim be dissipated
By frail successors. Would, indeed, we had been,
In lieu of many mortal flies, a race
Of giants living, each, a thousand years,
That we might see our own work out, and watch
The sandy footprint harden into stone.'
I answered nothing, doubtful in myself
If that strange Poet-princess with her grand
Imaginations might at all be won.
And she broke out interpreting my thoughts:
'No doubt we seem a kind of monster to you;
We are used to that: for women, up till this
Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo,
Dwarfs of the gynæceum, fail so far
In high desire, they know not, cannot guess
How much their welfare is a passion to us.
If we could give them surer, quicker proof-Oh if our end were less achievable
By slow approaches, than by single act
Of immolation, any phase of death,
We were as prompt to spring against the pikes,
Or down the fiery gulf as talk of it,
To compass our dear sisters' liberties.'
She bowed as if to veil a noble tear;
And up we came to where the river sloped
To plunge in cataract, shattering on black blocks
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A breadth of thunder. O'er it shook the woods,
And danced the colour, and, below, stuck out
The bones of some vast bulk that lived and roared
Before man was. She gazed awhile and said,
'As these rude bones to us, are we to her
That will be.' 'Dare we dream of that,' I asked,
'Which wrought us, as the workman and his work,
That practice betters?' 'How,' she cried, 'you love
The metaphysics! read and earn our prize,
A golden brooch: beneath an emerald plane
Sits Diotima, teaching him that died
Of hemlock; our device; wrought to the life;
She rapt upon her subject, he on her:
For there are schools for all.' 'And yet' I said
'Methinks I have not found among them all
One anatomic.' 'Nay, we thought of that,'
She answered, 'but it pleased us not: in truth
We shudder but to dream our maids should ape
Those monstrous males that carve the living hound,
And cram him with the fragments of the grave,
Or in the dark dissolving human heart,
And holy secrets of this microcosm,
Dabbling a shameless hand with shameful jest,
Encarnalize their spirits: yet we know
Knowledge is knowledge, and this matter hangs:
Howbeit ourself, foreseeing casualty,
Nor willing men should come among us, learnt,
For many weary moons before we came,
This craft of healing. Were you sick, ourself
Would tend upon you. To your question now,
Which touches on the workman and his work.
Let there be light and there was light: 'tis so:
For was, and is, and will be, are but is;
And all creation is one act at once,
The birth of light: but we that are not all,
As parts, can see but parts, now this, now that,
And live, perforce, from thought to thought, and make
One act a phantom of succession: thus
Our weakness somehow shapes the shadow, Time;
But in the shadow will we work, and mould
The woman to the fuller day.'
She spake
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With kindled eyes; we rode a league beyond,
And, o'er a bridge of pinewood crossing, came
On flowery levels underneath the crag,
Full of all beauty. 'O how sweet' I said
(For I was half-oblivious of my mask)
'To linger here with one that loved us.' 'Yea,'
She answered, 'or with fair philosophies
That lift the fancy; for indeed these fields
Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns,
Where paced the Demigods of old, and saw
The soft white vapour streak the crownèd towers
Built to the Sun:' then, turning to her maids,
'Pitch our pavilion here upon the sward;
Lay out the viands.' At the word, they raised
A tent of satin, elaborately wrought
With fair Corinna's triumph; here she stood,
Engirt with many a florid maiden-cheek,
The woman-conqueror; woman-conquered there
The bearded Victor of ten-thousand hymns,
And all the men mourned at his side: but we
Set forth to climb; then, climbing, Cyril kept
With Psyche, with Melissa Florian, I
With mine affianced. Many a little hand
Glanced like a touch of sunshine on the rocks,
Many a light foot shone like a jewel set
In the dark crag: and then we turned, we wound
About the cliffs, the copses, out and in,
Hammering and clinking, chattering stony names
Of shales and hornblende, rag and trap and tuff,
Amygdaloid and trachyte, till the Sun
Grew broader toward his death and fell, and all
The rosy heights came out above the lawns.
The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
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And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,#NFDB
413:Raschi In Prague
Raschi of Troyes, the Moon of Israel,
The authoritative Talmudist, returned
From his wide wanderings under many skies,
To all the synagogues of the Orient,
Through Spain and Italy, the isles of Greece,
Beautiful, dolorous, sacred Palestine,
Dead, obelisked Egypt, floral, musk-breathed Persia,
Laughing with bloom, across the Caucasus,
The interminable sameness of bare steppes,
Through dark luxuriance of Bohemian woods,
And issuing on the broad, bright Moldau vale,
Entered the gates of Prague. Here, too, his fame,
Being winged, preceded him. His people swarmed
Like bees to gather the rich honey-dew
Of learning from his lips. Amazement filled
All eyes beholding him. No hoary sage,
He who had sat in Egypt at the feet
Of Moses ben-Maimuni, called him friend;
Raschi the scholiast, poet, and physician,
Who bore the ponderous Bible's storied wisdom,
The Mischna's tangled lore at tip of tongue,
Light as a garland on a lance, appeared
In the just-ripened glory of a man.
From his clear eye youth flamed magnificent;
Force, masked by grace, moved in his balanced frame;
An intellectual, virile beauty reigned
Dominant on domed brow, on fine, firm lips,
An eagle profile cut in gilded bronze,
Strong, delicate as a head upon a coin,
While, as an aureole crowns a burning lamp,
Above all beauty of the body and brain
Shone beauty of a soul benign with love.
Even as a tawny flock of huddled sheep,
Grazing each other's heels, urged by one will,
With bleat and baa following the wether's lead,
Or the wise shepherd, so o'er the Moldau bridge
Trotted the throng of yellow-caftaned Jews,
Chattering, hustling, shuffling. At their head
Marched Rabbi Jochanan ben-Eleazar,
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High priest in Prague, oldest and most revered,
To greet the star of Israel. As a father
Yearns toward his son, so toward the noble Raschi
Leapt at first sight the patriarch's fresh old heart.
'My home be thine in Prague! Be thou my son,
Who have no offspring save one simple girl.
See, glorious youth, who dost renew the days
Of David and of Samuel, early graced
With God's anointing oil, how Israel
Delights to honor who hath honored him.'
Then Raschi, though he felt a ball of fire
Globe itself in his throat, maintained his calm,
His cheek's opaque, swart pallor while he kissed
Silent the Rabbi's withered hand, and bowed
Divinely humble, his exalted head
Craving the benison.
For each who asked
He had the word of counsel, comfort, help;
For all, rich eloquence of thanks. His voice,
Even and grave, thrilled secret chords and set
Plain speech to music. Certain folk were there
Sick in the body, dragging painful limbs,
To the physician. These he solaced first,
With healing touch, with simples from his pouch,
Warming and lulling, best with promises
Of constant service till their ills were cured.
And some, gray-bearded, bald, and curved with age,
Blear-eyed from poring over lines obscure
And knotty riddles of the Talmud, brought
Their problems to this youth, who cleared and solved,
Yielding prompt answer to a lifetime's search.
Then, followed, pushed by his obsequious tribe,
Who fain had pedestaled him on their backs,
Hemming his steps, choking the airs of heaven
With their oppressive honors, he advanced,
Midst shouts, tumultuous welcomes, kisses showered
Upon his road-stained garments, through Prague's streets,
Gaped at by Gentiles, hissed at and reviled,
But no whit altering his majestic mien
For overwhelming plaudits or contempt.
Glad tidings Raschi brought from West and East
Of thriving synagogues, of famous men,
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And flourishing academies. In Rome
The Papal treasurer was a pious Jew,
Rabbi Jehiel, neath whose patronage
Prospered a noble school. Two hundred Jews
Dwelt free and paid no tributary mark.
Three hundred lived in peace at Capua,
Shepherded by the learned Rabbi David,
A prince of Israel. In Babylon
The Jews established their Academy.
Another still in Bagdad, from whose chair
Preached the great rabbi, Samuel Ha-levi,
Versed in the written and the oral law,
Who blindfold could repeat the whole vast text
Of Mischna and Gemara. On the banks
Of Eden-born Euphrates, one day's ride
From Bagdad, Raschi found in the wilderness,
Which once was Babylon, Ezekiel's tomb.
Thrice ten perpetual lamps starred the dim shrine,
Two hundred sentinels held the sleepless vigil,
Receiving offerings. At the Feast of Booths
Here crowded Jews by thousands, out of Persia,
From all the neighboring lands, to celebrate
The glorious memories of the golden days.
Ten thousand Jews with their Academy
Damascus boasted, while in Cairo shone
The pearl, the crown of Israel, ben-Maimuni,
Physician at the Court of Saladin,
The second Moses, gathering at his feet
Sages from all the world.
As Raschi spake,
Forgetting or ignoring the chief shrine,
The Exile's Home, whereunto yearned all hearts,
All ears were strained for tidings. Some one asked:
'What of Jerusalem? Speak to us of Zion.'
The light died from his eyes. From depths profound
Issued his grave, great voice: 'Alas for Zion!
Verily is she fallen! Where our race
Dictated to the nations, not a handful,
Nay, not a score, not ten, not two abide!
One, only one, one solitary Jew,
The Rabbi Abraham Haceba, flits
Ghostlike amid the ruins; every year
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Beggars himself to pay the idolaters
The costly tax for leave to hold a-gape
His heart's live wound; to weep, a mendicant,
Amidst the crumbled stones of palaces
Where reigned his ancestors, upon the graves
Where sleep the priests, the prophets, and the kings
Who were his forefathers. Ask me no more!'
Now, when the French Jew's advent was proclaimed,
And his tumultuous greeting, envious growls
And ominous eyebeams threatened storm in Prague.
'Who may this miracle of learning be?
The Anti-Christ! The century-long-awaited,
The hourly-hoped Messiah, come at last!
Else dared they never wax so arrogant,
Flaunting their monstrous joy in Christian eyes,
And strutting peacock-like, with hideous screams,
Who are wont to crawl, mute reptiles underfoot.'
A stone or two flung at some servile form,
Liveried in the yellow gaberdine
(With secret happiness but half suppressed
On features cast for misery), served at first
For chance expression of the rabble's hate;
But, swelling like a snow-ball rolled along
By mischief-plotting boys, the rage increased,
Grew to a mighty mass, until it reached
The palace of Duke Vladislaw. He heard
With righteous wrath his injured subjects' charge
Against presumptuous aliens: how these blocked
His avenues, his bridges; bared to the sun
The canker-taint of Prague's obscurest coigne;
Paraded past the churches of the Lord
One who denied Him, one by them hailed Christ.
Enough! This cloud, no bigger than one's hand,
Gains overweening bulk. Prague harbored, first,
Out of contemptuous ruth, a wretched band
Of outcast paupers, gave them leave to ply
Their money-lending trade, and leased them land
On all too facile terms. Behold! to-day,
Like leeches bloated with the people's blood,
They batten on Bohemia's poverty;
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They breed and grow; like adders, spit back hate
And venomed perfidy for Christian love.
Thereat the Duke, urged by wise counsellorsNarzerad the statesman (half whose wealth was pledged
To the usurers), abetted by the priest,
Bishop of Olmutz, who had visited
The Holy Sepulchre, whose long, full life
Was one clean record of pure pietyThe Duke, I say, by these persuasive tongues,
Coaxed to his darling aim, forbade his guards
To hinder the just anger of his town,
And ordered to be led in chains to him
The pilgrim and his host.
At noontide meal
Raschi sat, full of peace, with Jochanan,
And the sole daughter of the house, Rebekah,
Young, beautiful as her namesake when she brought
Her firm, frail pitcher balanced on her neck
Unto the well, and gave the stranger drink,
And gave his camels drink. The servant set
The sparkling jar's refreshment from his lips,
And saw the virgin's face, bright as the moon,
Beam from the curled luxuriance of black locks,
And cast-back linen veil's soft-folded cloud,
Then put the golden ear-ring by her cheek,
The bracelets on her hands, his master's pledge,
Isaac's betrothal gift, whom she should wed,
And be the mother of millions-one whose seed
Dwells in the gates of those which hate them.
So
Yearned Raschi to adorn the radiant girl
Who sat at board before him, nor dared lift
Shy, heavy lids from pupils black as grapes
That dart the imprisoned sunshine from their core.
But in her ears keen sense was born to catch,
And in her heart strange power to hold, each tone
O' the low-keyed, vibrant voice, each syllable
O' the eloquent discourse, enriched with tales
Of venturous travel, brilliant with fine points
Of delicate humor, or illustrated
With living portraits of world-famoused men,
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Jews, Saracens, Crusaders, Islamites,
Whose hand he had grasped-the iron warrior,
Godfrey of Bouillon, the wise infidel
Who in all strength, wit, courtesy excelled
The kings his foes-imperial Saladin.
But even as Raschi spake an abrupt noise
Of angry shouts, of battering staves that shook
The oaken portal, stopped the enchanted voice,
The uplifted wine spilled from the nerveless hand
Of Rabbi Jochanan. 'God pity us!
Our enemies are upon us once again.
Hie thee, Rebekah, to the inmost chamber,
Far from their wanton eyes' polluting gaze,
Their desecrating touch! Kiss me! Begone!
Raschi, my guest, my son'-But no word more
Uttered the reverend man. With one huge crash
The strong doors split asunder, pouring in
A stream of soldiers, ruffians, armed with pikes,
Lances, and clubs-the unchained beast, the mob.
'Behold the town's new guest!' jeered one who tossed
The half-filled golden wine-cup's contents straight
In the noble pure young face. 'What, master Jew!
Must your good friends of Prague break bolts and bars
To gain a peep at this prodigious pearl
You bury in your shell? Forth to the day!
Our Duke himself claims share of your new wealth;
Summons to court the Jew philosopher!'
Then, while some stuffed their pokes with baubles snatched
From board and shelf, or with malignant sword
Slashed the rich Orient rugs, the pictured woof
That clothed the wall; others had seized and bound,
And gagged from speech, the helpless, aged man;
Still others outraged, with coarse, violent hands,
The marble-pale, rigid as stone, strange youth,
Whose eye like struck flint flashed, whose nether lip
Was threaded with a scarlet line of blood,
Where the compressed teeth fixed it to forced calm.
He struggled not while his free limbs were tied,
His beard plucked, torn and spat upon his robeSeemed scarce to know these insults were for him;
But never swerved his gaze from Jochanan.
Then, in God's language, sealed from these dumb brutes,
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Swiftly and low he spake: 'Be of good cheer,
Reverend old man. I deign not treat with these.
If one dare offer bodily hurt to thee,
By the ineffable Name! I snap my chains
Like gossamer, and in his blood, to the hilt,
Bathe the prompt knife hid in my girdle's folds.
The Duke shall hear me. Patience. Trust in me.'
Somewhat the authoritative voice abashed,
Even hoarse and changed, the miscreants, who feared
Some strong curse lurked in this mysterious tongue,
Armed with this evil eye. But brief the spell.
With gibe and scoff they dragged their victims forth,
The abused old man, the proud, insulted youth,
O'er the late path of his triumphal march,
Befouled with mud, with raiment torn, wild hair
And ragged beard, to Vladislaw. He sat
Expectant in his cabinet. On one side
His secular adviser, Narzerad,
Quick-eyed, sharp-nosed, red-whiskered as a fox;
On the other hand his spiritual guide,
Bishop of Olmutz, unctuous, large, and bland.
'So these twain are chief culprits!' sneered the Duke,
Measuring with the noble's ignorant scorn
His masters of a lesser caste. 'Stand forth!
Rash, stubborn, vain old man, whose impudence
Hath choked the public highways with thy brood
Of nasty vermin, by our sufferance hid
In lanes obscure, who hailed this charlatan
With sky-flung caps, bent knees, and echoing shouts,
Due to ourselves alone in Prague; yea, worse,
Who offered worship even ourselves disclaim,
Our Lord Christ's meed, to this blaspheming JewThy crimes have murdered patience. Thou hast wrecked
Thy people's fortune with thy own. But first
(For even in anger we are just) recount
With how great compensation from thy store
Of hoarded gold and jewels thou wilt buy
Remission of the penalty. Be wise.
Hark how my subjects, storming through the streets,
Vent on thy tribe accursed their well-based wrath.'
And, truly, through closed casements roared the noise
Of mighty surging crowds, derisive cries,
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And victims' screams of anguish and affright.
Then Raschi, royal in his rags, began:
'Hear me, my liege!' At that commanding voice,
The Bishop, who with dazed eyes had perused
The grieved, wise, beautiful, pale face, sprang up,
Quick recognition in his glance, warm joy
Aflame on his broad cheeks. 'No more! No more!
Thou art the man! Give me the hand to kiss
That raised me from the shadow of the grave
In Jaffa's lazar-house! Listen, my liege!
During my pilgrimage to Palestine
I, sickened with the plague and nigh to death,
Languished 'midst strangers, all my crumbling flesh
One rotten mass of sores, a thing for dogs
To shy from, shunned by Christian as by Turk,
When lo! this clean-breathed, pure-souled, blessed youth,
Whom I, not knowing for an infidel,
Seeing featured like the Christ, believed a saint,
Sat by my pillow, charmed the sting from pain,
Quenched the fierce fever's heat, defeated Death;
And when I was made whole, had disappeared,
No man knew whither, leaving no more trace
Than a re-risen angel. This is he!'
Then Raschi, who had stood erect, nor quailed
From glances of hot hate or crazy wrath,
Now sank his eagle gaze, stooped his high head,
Veiling his glowing brow, returned the kiss
Of brother-love upon the Christian's hand,
And dropping on his knees implored the three,
'Grace for my tribe! They are what ye have made.
If any be among them fawning, false,
Insatiable, revengeful, ignorant, meanAnd there are many such-ask your own hearts
What virtues ye would yield for planted hate,
Ribald contempt, forced, menial servitude,
Slow centuries of vengeance for a crime
Ye never did commit? Mercy for these!
Who bear on back and breast the scathing brand
Of scarlet degradation, who are clothed
In ignominious livery, whose bowed necks
Are broken with the yoke. Change these to men!
That were a noble witchcraft simply wrought,
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God's alchemy transforming clods to gold.
If there be one among them strong and wise,
Whose lips anoint breathe poetry and love,
Whose brain and heart served ever Christian needAnd there are many such-for his dear sake,
Lest ye chance murder one of God's high priests,
Spare his thrice-wretched tribe! Believe me, sirs,
Who have seen various lands, searched various hearts,
I have yet to touch that undiscovered shore,
Have yet to fathom that impossible soul,
Where a true benefit's forgot; where one
Slight deed of common kindness sown yields not
As now, as here, abundant crop of love.
Every good act of man, our Talmud says,
Creates an angel, hovering by his side.
Oh! what a shining host, great Duke, shall guard
Thy consecrated throne, for all the lives
Thy mercy spares, for all the tears thy ruth
Stops at the source. Behold this poor old man,
Last of a line of princes, stricken in years,
As thy dead father would have been to-day.
Was that white beard a rag for obscene hands
To tear? a weed for lumpish clowns to pluck?
Was that benignant, venerable face
Fit target for their foul throats' voided rheum?
That wrinkled flesh made to be pulled and pricked,
Wounded by flinty pebbles and keen steel?
Behold the prostrate, patriarchal form,
Bruised, silent, chained. Duke, such is Israel!'
'Unbind these men!' commanded Vladislaw.
'Go forth and still the tumult of my town.
Let no Jew suffer violence. Raschi, rise!
Thou who hast served the Christ-with this priest's life,
Who is my spirit's counselor-Christ serves thee.
Return among thy people with my seal,
The talisman of safety. Let them know
The Duke's their friend. Go, publish the glad news!'
Raschi the Saviour, Raschi the Messiah,
Back to the Jewry carried peace and love.
But Narzerad fed his venomed heart with gall,
Vowing to give his fatal hatred vent,
Despite a world of weak fantastic Dukes
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And heretic bishops. He fulfilled his vow.
~ Emma Lazarus,#NFDB
414:Hesperus: A Legend Of The Stars
PRELUDE.
The Stars are heaven's ministers;
Right royally they teach
God's glory and omnipotence,
In wondrous lowly speech.
All eloquent with music as
The tremblings of a lyre,
To him that hath an ear to hear
They speak in words of fire.
Not to learned sagas only
Their whisperings come down;
The monarch is not glorified
Because he wears a crown.
The humblest soldier in the camp
Can win the smile of Mars,
And 'tis the lowliest spirits hold
Communion with the stars.
Thoughts too refined for utterance,
Ethereal as the air,
Crowd through the brain's dim labyrinths,
And leave their impress there;
As far along the gleaming void
Man's tender glances roll,
Wonder usurps the throne of speech,
But vivifies the soul.
Oh, heaven-cradled mysteries,
What sacred paths ye've trodBright, jewelled scintillations from
The chariot-wheels of God!
When in the spirit He rode forth,
With vast creative aim,
These were His footprints left behind,
To magnify His name!
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--We gazed on the Evening Star,
Mary and I,
As it shone
On its throne
Afar,
In the blue sky;
Shone like a ransomed soul
In the depths of that quiet heaven;
Like a pearly tear,
Trembling with fear
On the pallid cheek of Even.
And I thought of the myriad souls
Gazing with human eyes
On the light of that star,
Shining afar,
In the quiet evening skies;
Some with winged hope,
Clearing the cope
Of heaven as swift as light,
Others, with souls
Blind as the moles,
Sinking in rayless night.
Dreams such as dreamers dream
Flitted before our eyes;
Beautiful visions!Angelo's, Titian's,
Had never more gorgeous dyes:
We soared with the angels
Through vistas of glory,
We heard the evangels
Relate the glad story
Of the beautiful star,
Shining afar
In the quiet evening skies.
And we gazed and dreamed,
Till our spirits seemed
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Absorbed in the stellar world;
Sorrow was swallowed up,
Drained was the bitter cup
Of earth to the very lees;
And we sailed over seas
Of white vapour that whirled
Through the skies afar,
Angels our charioteers,
Threading the endless spheres,
And to the chorus of angels
Rehearsed the evangels
The Birth of the Evening Star.
--I.
Far back in the infant ages,
Before the eras stamped their autographs
Upon the stony records of the earth;
Before the burning incense of the sun
Rolled up the interlucent space,
Brightening the blank abyss;
Ere the Recording Angel's tears
Were shed for man's transgressions:
A Seraph, with a face of light,
And hair like heaven's golden atmosphere,
Blue eyes serene in their beatitude,
Godlike in their tranquillity,
Features as perfect as God's dearest work,
And stature worthy of her race,
Lived high exalted in the sacred sphere
That floated in a sea of harmony
Translucent as pure crystal, or the light
That flowed, unceasing, from this higher world
Unto the spheres beneath it. Far below
The extremest regions underneath the Earth
The first spheres rose, of vari-coloured light,
In calm rotation through aerial deep,
Like seas of jasper, blue, and coralline,
Crystal and violet; layers of worlds-
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The robes of ages that had passed away,
Left as memorials of their sojournings.
For nothing passes wholly. All is changed.
The Years but slumber in their sepulchres,
And speak prophetic meanings in their sleep.
FIRST ANGEL.
Oh, how our souls are gladdened,
When we think of that brave old age,
When God's light came down
From heaven, to crown
Each act of the virgin page!
Oh, how our souls are saddened,
At the deeds which were done since then,
By the angel race
In the holy place,
And on earth by the sons of men!
Lo, as the years are fleeting,
With their burden of toil and pain,
We know that the page
Of that primal age
Will be opened up once again.
II.
Progressing still, the bright-faced Seraph rose
From Goodness to Perfection, till she stood
The fairest and the best of all that waked
The tuneful echoes of that lofty world,
Where Lucifer, then the stateliest of the throng
Of Angels, walked majestical, arrayed
In robes of brightness worthy of his place.
And all the intermediate spheres were homes
Of the existences
Of spiritual life.
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Love, the divine arcanum, was the bond
That linked them to each other-heart to heart,
And angel world to world, and soul to soul.
Thus the first ages passed,
Cycles of perfect bliss,
God the acknowledged sovereign of all.
Sphere spake with sphere, and love conversed with love,
From the far centre to sublimest height,
And down the deep, unfathomable space,
To the remotest homes of angel-life,
A viewless chain of being circling all,
And linking every spirit to its God.
ANGEL CHORUS.
Spirits that never falter,
Before God's altar
Rehearse their paeans of unceasing praise;
Their theme the boundless love
By which God rules above,
Mysteriously engrafted
On grace divine, and wafted
Into every soul of man that disobeys.
Not till the wondrous being
Of the All-Seeing
Is manifested to finite man,
Can ye understand the love
By which God rules above,
Evermore extending,
In circles never-ending,
To every atom in the universal plan.
SECOND ANGEL.
Oh, the love beyond computing
Of the high and holy place!
The unseen bond
Circling beyond
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The limits of time and space.
Through earth and her world of beauty
The heavenly links extend,
Man feels its presence,
Imbibes its essence,
But cannot yet comprehend.
THIRD ANGEL.
But the days are fast approaching,
When the Father of Love will send
His interpreter
From the highest sphere,
That man fully may comprehend.
III.
Oh, truest Love, because the truest life!
Oh, blest existence, to exist with Love!
Oh, Love, without which all things else must die
The death that knows no waking unto life!
Oh, Jealousy that saps the heart of Love,
And robs it of its tenderness divine;
And Pride, that tramples with its iron hoof
Upon the flower of love, whose fragrant soul
Exhales itself in sweetness as it dies!
A lofty spirit surfeited with Bliss!
A Prince of Angels cancelling all love,
All due allegiance to his rightful Lord;
Doing dishonour to his high estate;
Turning the truth and wisdom which were his
For ages of supreme felicity,
To thirst for power, and hatred of his God,
Who raised him to such vast preeminence!
SECOND ANGEL CHORUS.
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Woe, woe to the ransomed spirit,
Once freed from the stain of sin,
Whose pride increases
Till all love ceases
To nourish it from within!
Its doom is the darkened regions
Where the rebel angel legions
Live their long night of sorrow;
Where no expectant morrow,
No mercy-tempered ray
From the altar of to-day,
Comes down through the gloom to borrow
One dropp from their cup of sorrow,
Or lighten their cheerless way.
FIRST ANGEL.
But blest be the gentle spirit
Whose love is ever increased
From its own pure soul,
The illumined goal
Where Love holds perpetual feast!
IV.
Ingrate Angel, he,
To purchase Hell, and at so vast a price!
'Tis the old story of celestial strifeRebellion in the palace-halls of GodFalse angels joining the insurgent ranks,
Who suffered dire defeats, and fell at last
From bliss supreme to darkness and despair.
But they, the faithful dwellers in the spheres,
Who kept their souls inviolate, to whom
Heaven's love and truth were truly great rewards:
For these the stars were sown throughout all space,
As fit memorials of their faithfulness.
The wretched lost were banished to the depths
Beneath the lowest spheres. Earth barred the space
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Between them and the Faithful. Then the hills
Rose bald and rugged o'er the wild abyss;
The waters found their places; and the sun,
The bright-haired warder of the golden morn,
Parting the curtains of reposing night,
Rung his first challenge to the dismal shades,
That shrunk back, awed, into Cimmerean gloom;
And the young moon glode through the startled void
With quiet beauty and majestic mien.
SECOND ANGEL.
Slowly rose the daedal Earth,
Through the purple-hued abysm
Glowing like a gorgeous prism,
Heaven exulting o'er its birth,
Still the mighty wonder came,
Through the jasper-coloured sphere,
Ether-winged, and crystal-clear,
Trembling to the loud acclaim,
In a haze of golden rain,
Up the heavens rolled the sun,
Danae-like the earth was won,
Else his love and light were vain.
So the heart and soul of man
Own the light and love of heaven,
Nothing yet in vain was given,
Nature's is a perfect plan.
V.
The glowing Seraph with the brow of light
Was first among the Faithful. When the war
Between heaven's rival armies fiercely waged,
She bore the Will Divine from rank to rank,
The chosen courier of Deity.
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Her presence cheered the combatants for Truth,
And Victory stood up where'er she moved.
And now, in gleaming robe of woven pearl,
Emblazoned with devices of the stars,
And legends of their glory yet to come,
The type of Beauty Intellectual,
The representative of Love and Truth,
She moves first in the innumerable throng
Of angels congregating to behold
The crowning wonder of creative power.
THIRD ANGEL CHORUS,
Oh, joy, that no mortal can fathom,
To rejoice in the smile of God!
To be first in the light
Of His Holy sight,
And freed from His chastening rod.
Faithful, indeed, that soul, to be
The messenger of Deity!
FIRST ANGEL.
This, this is the chosen spirit,
Whose love is ever increased
From its own pare soul,
The illumined goal
Where Love holds perpetual feast.
VI.
With noiseless speed the angel charioteers
In dazzling splendour all triumphant rode;
Through seas of ether painfully serene,
That flashed a golden, phosphorescent spray,
As luminous as the sun's intensest beams,
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Athwart the wide, interminable space.
Legion on legion of the sons of God;
Vast phalanxes of graceful cherubim;
Innumerable multitudes and ranks
Of all the hosts and hierarchs of heaven,
Moved by one universal impulse, urged
Their steeds of swiftness up the arch of light,
From sphere to sphere increasing as they came,
Till world on world was emptied of its race.
Upward, with unimaginable speed,
The myriads, congregating zenith-ward,
Reached the far confines of the utmost sphere,
The home of Truth, the dwelling-place of Love,
Striking celestial symphonies divine
From the resounding sea of melody,
That heaved in swells of soft, mellifluous sound,
To the blest crowds at whose triumphal tread
Its soul of sweetness waked in thrills sublime,
The sun stood poised upon the western verge;
The moon paused, waiting for the march of earth,
That stayed to watch the advent of the stars;
And ocean hushed its very deepest deeps
In grateful expectation.
SECOND ANGEL.
Still through the viewless regions
Of the habitable air,
Through the ether ocean,
In unceasing motion,
Pass the multitudinous legions
Of angels everywhere.
Bearing each new-born spirit
Through the interlucent void
To its starry dwelling,
Angel anthems telling
Every earthly deed of merit
To each flashing asteroid.
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THIRD ANGEL.
Through the realms sidereal,
Clothed with the immaterial,
Far as the fields elysian
In starry bloom extend,
The stretch of angel vision
Can see and comprehend.
VII.
Innumerable as the ocean sands
The angel concourse in due order stood,
In meek anticipation waiting for
The new-created orbs,
Still hidden in the deep
And unseen laboratory, where
Not even angel eyes could penetrate:
A star for each of that angelic host,
Memorials of their faithfulness and love.
The Evening Star, God's bright eternal gift
To the pure Seraph with the brow of light,
And named for her, mild Hesperus,
Came twinkling down the unencumbered blue,
On viewless wings of sweet melodious sound,
Beauty and grace presiding at its birth.
Celestial plaudits sweeping through the skies
Waked resonant paeans, till the concave thrilled
Through its illimitable bounds.
With a sudden burst
Of light, that lit the universal space
As with a flame of crystal,
Rousing the Soul of Joy
That slumbered in the patient sea,
From every point of heaven the hurrying cars
Conveyed the constellations to their thronesThe throbbing planets, and the burning suns,
Erratic comets, and the various grades
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And magnitudes of palpitating stars.
From the far arctic and antarctic zones,
Through all the vast, surrounding infinite,
A wilderness of intermingling orbs,
The gleaming wonders, pulsing earthward, came;
Each to its destined place,
Each in itself a world,
With all its coining myriad life,
Drawing us nearer the Omnipotent,
With hearts of wonder, and with souls of praise:
Astrea, Pallas, strange Aldebaran,
The Pleiads, Arcturus, the ruddy Mars,
Pale Saturn, Ceres and OrionAll as they circle still
Through the enraptured void.
For each young angel born to us from earth,
A new-made star is launched among its peers.
FULL ANGEL CHORUS.
Dreamer in the realms aerial,
Searcher for the true and good,
Hoper for the high, ethereal
Limit of Beatitude,
Lift thy heart to heaven, for there
Is embalmed thy spirit prayer:
Not in words is shrined thy prayer,
But thy Thought awaits thee there.
God loves the silent worshipper.
The grandest hymn
That nature chants-the litany
Of the rejoicing stars-is silent praise.
Their nightly anthems stir
The souls of lofty seraphim
In the remotest heaven. The melody
Descends in throbbings of celestial light
Into the heart of man, whose upward gaze,
And meditative aspect, tell
Of the heart's incense passing up the night.
Above the crystalline height
The theme of thoughtful praise ascends.
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Not from the wildest swell
Of the vexed ocean soars the fullest psalm;
But in the evening calm,
And in the solemn midnight, silence blends
With silence, and to the ear
Attuned to harmony divine
Begets a strain
Whose trance-like stillness wakes delicious pain.
The silent tear
Holds keener anguish in its orb of brine,
Deeper and truer grief
Than the loud wail that brings relief,
As thunder clears the atmosphere.
But the deep, tearless Sorrow,-how profound!
Unspoken to the ear
Of sense, 'tis yet as eloquent a sound
As that which wakes the lyre
Of the rejoicing Day, when
Morn on the mountains lights his urn of fire.
The flowers of the glen
Rejoice in silence; huge pines stand apart
Upon the lofty hills, and sigh
Their woes to every breeze that passeth by;
The willow tells its mournful tale
So tenderly, that e'en the passing gale
Bears not a murmur on its wings
Of what the spirit sings
That breathes its trembling thoughts through all the
drooping strings.
He loves God most who worships most
In the obedient heart.
The thunder's noisome boast,
What is it to the violet lightning thought?
So with the burning passion of the starsCreation's diamond sands,
Strewn along the pearly strands,
And far-extending corridors
Of heaven's blooming shores;
No scintil of their jewelled flame
But wafts the exquisite essence
Of prayer to the Eternal Presence,
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Of praise to the Eternal Name.
The silent prayer unbars
The gates of Paradise, while the too-intimate,
Self-righteous' boast, strikes rudely at the gate
Of heaven, unknowing why it does not open to
Their summons, as they see pale Silence passing through.
VIII.
In grateful admiration, till the Dawn
Withdrew the gleaming curtains of the night,
We watched the whirling systems, until each
Could recognize their own peculiar star;
When, with the swift celerity
Of Fancy-footed Thought,
The light-caparisoned, aerial steeds,
Shod with rare fleetness,
Revisited the farthest of the spheres
Ere the earth's sun had kissed the mountain tops,
Or shook the sea-pearls from his locks of gold.
--Still on the Evening Star
Gazed we with steadfast eyes,
As it shone
On its throne
Afar,
In the blue skies.
No longer the charioteers
Dashed through the gleaming spheres;
No more the evangels
Rehearsed the glad story;
But, in passing, the angels
Left footprints of glory:
For up the starry void
Bright-flashing asteroid,
Pale moon and starry choir,
Aided by Fancy's fire,
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Rung from the glittering lyre
Changes of song and hymn,
Worthy of Seraphim.
Night's shepherdess sat, queenlike, on her throne,
Watching her starry flocks from zone to zone,
While we, like mortals turned to breathing stone,
Intently pondered on the Known Unknown.
~ Charles Sangster,#NFDB
415:Fragments From 'Genius Lost'
Prelude
I SEE the boy-bard neath life’s morning skies,
While hope’s bright cohorts guess not of defeat,
And ardour lightens from his earnest eyes,
And faith’s cherubic wings around his being beat.
Loudly the echo of his soul repeats
Those deathless strains that witched the world of old;
While to the deeds, his high heart proudly beats,
Of names within them, treasured like heroic gold.
To love he lights the ode of vocal fire,
And yearns in song o’er freedom’s sacred throes,
Or pours a pious incense from his lyre,
Wherever o’er the grave a martyre-glory glows.
Or as he wanders waking dreams arise,
And paint new Edens on the future’s scroll,
While on the wings of rapture he outflies
The faltering mood that warns in his prophetic soul.
“All doubt away!” he cries in trustful mood;
“From Time’s unknown the perfect yet shall rise;
And this full heart attests how much of God
Might dwell with man beneath these purple-clouded skies!”
Thus holiest shapes inhabit his desire,
And love’s dream-turtles sing along his way;
Thus faith keeps mounting, like a skylark, higher,
As hope engoldens more the morning of his day.
But ah! Too high that harp-like heart is strung,
To bear the jar of this harsh world’s estate;
And ’tis betrayed by that too fervent tongue
How burns the fire within, that bodes a wayward fate.
Soon on the morning’s wings shall fancy flee,
And world-damps quench love’s spiritual flame,
And his wild powers, now as the wild waves free,
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Be reef-bound by low wants and beaten down by shame.
Now mark him in the city’s weltering crowd
Haggard and pale; and yet, in his distress,
How quick to scorn the vile—defy the pround—
Grim, cold, and distant now—then seized with recklessness.
Yet oft what agony his pride assails,
When life’s first morning faith to thought appears
Lost in the shadowy past, and nought avails
Her calling to the lost—then blood is in his tears.
Henceforth must his sole comrade be despair,
Sole wanderer by his side in ways forlorn;
And as a root-wrenched vine no more may bear,
No more by this dry wood shall fruit be borne.
No more! And every care of life, in woe
And desperation, to the wind is hurled!
He thanks dull wondering pity with a blow,
And leaps, though into hell, out of the cruel world.
First Love
I, even when a child,
Had fondly brooded, with a glowing cheek
And asking heart, with lips apart, and breath
Hushed to such silence as the matron dove
Preserves while warming into life her young,
Over the secretely-disclosing hope
Of finding in the fulness of my youth
Some sweet, congenial one to love, to call
My own. And one has been whose soul
Felt to its depth the influence of mine,
Albeit between us the sweet name of Love
Passed never, to bring blooming to the check
Those rosy shames that burn it on the heart—
Symbol of heaven, sole synonym of God!—
Yet not the less a sympathy that heard,
Through many a whisper, Love’s sweet spirit-self,
Low breathing in the silence of our souls,
Knit us together with a still consent.
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And she was beautiful in outward shape,
As lovely in her mind. Such eyes she had
As burn in the far depths of passionate thought,
While yet the visionary heart of youth
Is lonely in its hope! Cherries were ne’er
More ruby-rich, more delicately full,
Than were her lips; and, when her young heart would,
A smile, ineffably enchanting, played
The unwitting conqueress there.
Her light, round form
Had grace in every impulse, motions fair
As her life’s purity; her being all
Was as harmonious to the mind, as are
Most perfect strains of purest tones prolonged,
To music-loving ears.
But full of dole
Her mortal fate to me! Ere sixteen springs
Had bloomed about her being, a most fell
And secret malady did feel amid
The roses of her cheeks, her lips—but still,
Felon-like, shunned the lustre of her eyes,
That more replendent grew. And so, before
Those glowing orbs had turned their starry light
Upon one human face with other troth
Than a meek daughter or fond sister yields;
Ere her white arms and heaving bosom held
A nestling other than the weary head
Of sickness or a stranger babe, the grass
That whistled dry in the autumnal wind,
Was billowing round her grave.
And yet I live
Within a world that knoweth her no more.
’Tis well when misery’s harassed son
For shelter to the grave doth go,
As to his mountain-hold may run
The hunted roe.
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Yet when, beneath benignant skies,
The angle Grace herself appears
But Death’s born bride, the stoniest eyes
Might break in tears.
Chorus of the Hours
Ah! That Death
Should ever, like a drear, untimely night,
Descent upon the loved, in Love’s despite!
Ah! That a little breath
Expiring from the world, should leave each scene,
Where its warm influence before hath been,
So empty to the heart in its despair
Of all but misery—misery everywhere!
Thus in the morning of my life have I
No happiness rooted in the earth, to hold
My spirit to the actual. All my hopes
Are blown away by adverse chilling winds,
Blown sheer away, out of the world, to seek
Such solace as may be derived from far
And lonely flights of faith. Yet even these
Only divert, not satisfy, my soul;
Still, when her wings refuse them, wearied out
By so wild-will’d an aeronaut as I,
Having no nearer comfort, even as now,
Their foregone influence do I meditate,
Tracing them upward in their heavenward track.
As through an ocean of uprolling mist
Amid the morning Alps, a morning bird
Keeps soaring, trustful of the risen sun—
Who then is turning all the mountain tops
To diamond islets washed by waves of gold,
That shatter as they surge—keeps soaring, till
It shoots at length into the cloudless light,
And gleams a bird of fire; so faith upmounts
Through the earth’s misty tribulations, up
Into the clear of the eternal world,
Unfainting, fervent, till, with happy wings
Outspreading full amid the rays of God
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It glories, gleaming like the Alpine bird.
But wearying in her flight, even faith returns,
As does the bird—returns into the mist
That shutteth down all less adventurous life,
But stronger for the mighty vision left
And for the heavenly warmth upon her wings.
Once,—did I only stand in thought beside
The grave of one who had for freedom died,
Or on some spot made holy by the vow
Of tuneful love, though of an ancient day,—
My very life would thrill—and am I now
Journeying away
From that fraternal interest which cast
Around me then the feeling of the past?
I know not; but my heart no more will leap
Even to the trump of some Homeric lay:
Bad progress is it, if from that I keep
Journeying away!
Misery
As the moaning wild waves ever
Fret around some lonely isle,
There are griefs that no endeavour
Stilleth even for a while,
Beating at my heart for ever,
Beating at it now,
Beating at my heart—and aching
Upward to my brow.
Like the wild clouds flying over
High above all human reach,
There are joys that I their lover
Cannot even scale in speech;
Flying o’er my head for ever
Flying o’er it now;
Flying o’er my head—and shading
With despair my brow.
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Chorus of the Hours
Alas! The veriest human clod
Is happier than he,
On whom the majesty,
And the mystery
Of thought, had fallen like the fire of God!
Ah! Those by nature gifted to pursue
The beautiful and true
Have chiefly in dishonour trod
The regions they redeemed—as even yet they do!
And where are they, to gods upgrown,
Shall drive this darksome doom?
Ye suffering sons of Genius, you
Must dissipate the gloom
That clouds you even as of old
In its mist so deadly cold!
With your own injuries, let stern thought
Of the most desolate deathless of those
Who with the power of darkness fought,
(Each in his age, whereon his spirit rose,
As rises some peculiar star of night
To burn eternally apart,)
Yea, let stern thought of those
Now nerve you to re-urge the lengthened fight;
And for those others,
Your future brothers,
Now follow victory with unflinching heart!
Looking Beyond
Yes, it is well, in this our cold grim earth
To steal an hour for meditation free;
To die in body, and with all the mind
Thus freed, to bridge with might beams of thought
The depth of the Eternal. Even on me
Such mood sometimes descends, the precious gift
Of pitying Urania, then I fly,
Even as a stork mid evening’s purple clouds
In mid-Elysiums—Paradises fair
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Perhaps in stars consummated, whereon
The once earth-treading votaries of Truth
In soul reside, until a period when
Knowledge, advancing them from height to height,
And Love, grown perfect, shall have nurtured forth
Angelic wings for heaven.
But by these
I mean not such as with sour faces boast;
Blind moles of fear, who deem thy honour God
By offering up on outraged human hearts,
As upon blood-stained altars, every gay
And happy feeling, every rose wish
That sweetens human souls: and who, convened
In their dull tabernacles, all at once
Behowl the Diety as dogs the moon,
Or deprecate his wrath with grovelling rites,
And boisterous groans, that from stentorian lungs
Are grunted, swine-like, forth! Oh no! For such
The paradise of fools full wide extends
Her dismal gates!
I speak not thus in scorn;
Scorn is not sweet to me; but when the rights
Of man are trampled on; when villains sit
In the high places of the land, and sport
With what the just hold sacred; when mere wealth
Can win its Nestor’s favour, and the sleek
Regard even of its saints, and when religion
Itself is ever in a bad extreme—
A bloated pomp of mystery and show,
Or a most crude and coarse perversity,
Vile as a beggar’s raiment—then the scorn
Of indignation, then the brave disgust
Of righteous shame and honest hate, put forth
In tones like God’s own thunder burst aboard,
Are things the thin-souled scoundrel never feels.
Enough. The good I deem leave vain disputes
On things that are, and must be from their kind,
Mainly unknown, and still with faithful heed
Have care of those God gave them light to see
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Strewn round their daily being: and of such
Rightfully choosing, and to fitting ends
Well shaping all, upbuild with honest hands
A true and simple life; and in the jars
Of national factions they alway, despite
Of frowning kings and banning priests afford
Their aid to freedom.
Yet will there come a day, though not to me,
When excellence of being shall be sought
Not only thus in vision, but within
The actual round of this diurnal world,—
A day whose light shall chase the clouds that veil
Upon the mountain tops of old repute
The imaginary gods of wrongful power,
And pierce thence downward to the vales of toil,
Healing and blessing all men—the great day
Of knowledge. Then the accident of birth—
That empty imposition! Or the claim
Of wealth—that earthly and most gnomish cheat!
Shall neither arrogate to any, proud
Distinctions as of right, nor qualify
Any by its sole influence for power
Over his fellows, but all men shall stand
Proudly beneath the fair wide roof of heaven,
As God-created equals, each the sire
Of his own worth, and the joint sanctioner
Of all political pertainment, all
Moral and social honour.
Yea, for such
Is Freedom’s charter traced upon the heart
Of our humanity, whene’er ’tis rid
Of the foul scroff of vice, and on the brain
Built godlike, when disclouded by God’s light
Of a too old distemper’s fatal rout,
Of boastful hell-suggested superstitions
And customs born of Error. And let none
Despair of such an advent; for, as when
Some solemn wood’s familiar cadences,
Deepening and deepening all around, portend
The salutary storm, even so the wide
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Pervading instinct of a sure revolt
Against the ancient tyrannies of the earth
Roams on before it in the living stress
Of knowledge, omening the unborn change
By harshening still to the fine ear of thought
The daily jar of customary wrongs.
And let none fear that earthly power, or aught
Less than Omnipotence, can still or stay
The solemn prelude that for ever thus
Keeps deepening round and onward in the front
Of that great victory over wrong, which time
Shall witness—wrong and its abettors, all
Whom lust of sway unsanctioned by the truth
Shall to the last disnature; for the spirit
It first evokes—a mighty will to think—
Doth thenceforth charge it with oracular tones
That may not be mistaken.
Yea, great thoughts
With great thoughts coalescing through the world,
Into the future of all progress pour
Sun-prophecies, there quickening what were else
Nascent too long.
Chorus of the Hours
O why is not this beauteous earth
The Eden men imagine—the fair seat
Of fruitful peace, pure love, and sunny mirth?
And why are its prime souls, though so complete
In apprehension of a Godlike state,
The subjects ever of fraternal hate—
Oppressing or oppressed,
That so the portion is of all, deceit
And fear, and anger, sorrow, and unrest?
There’s not one bright enduring thing
In this great round of nature that appears—
No shining stars, no river murmuring,
No morn-crowned hill, no golden evening scene,
That hath not glimmered and distorted been
Through the dim mist of tears—
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Tears not as blood from some wrung human brain,
Throbbing and aching with unpitied pain!
There is not one green mound, existent long
In any region, nor old wayside stone,
On which some weary child of social wrong
Hath sat not—there, alone,
To bite his pallid lip and heave the unheeded groan!
And such hath been the state of man
Since first the race’s recreancy began;
And thus his piety is scared away
From earth, its proper home,
To seek vague heavens above the source of day;
Or out beyond the gorgeous gloom
Wherewith dusk evening curtains up the west;
There flying, like the psalmist’s dove, to rest
In sinless gardens of perpetual bloom
And islands of the blest.
Ah! My heart
Is like a core of fire within my breast,
And by this agony is all my mind
Shaken away from its tenacious hold
Of time and sensuous things. Now come, thou meek
Religious trust, that sometime to my soul
Fliest friendly, like a heaven-descended dove,
With wings that whisper of the peace of God!
Come, and assure it now, that all thus seen
Of evil, by the patience of the One
Almighty Master of the Universe,
Is but allowed, to dash our vain repose
On Time’s foundations, and all mad belief
In human consequence; that, finally,
Amid the death of expectations fond,—
Discoveries diurnal that the pomps
And pleasures of the world are but bright mists
Concealing, mid its heights of pomp and shame,
Its depths of degradation,—that all weal,
Beauty, and peace, even in their permanence,
Are but the florid riches of a soil
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That crusts the cone of some yet masked volcano,
Whose darling fires but wait the dread command:
“Up, to the work appointed! ”—we at length,
Even thus admonished, thus in hope and heart
Subdued and chastened, might be so constrained
To look between the thunder-bearing clouds
That darken over this mysterious ball s
Blind face, for surer, better things beyond
Its flying scenes of doubtful good, commixed
With evident evil: yea, conclude at last
That wereso in the universe of God
Our better home may be, it is not here;
Then here why build we?
O! Then, farewell,
Fancy and Hope, twin angels of the past!
Thee, Fancy, chiefly of my younger life
The spiritual spouse, farewell! With all
Thy pictured equipage: the shapes sublime
Of universal liberty and right,
Dethroning tyrants and investing worth
Alone with power and honour; and with these
Fair visions that come shining to the heart
Like evening stars from a serener air
Of generosity, in rapture high
At rival excellence; of charity
Living in secret for her own sweet sake;
Of mercy lifting up a fallen foe;
Of pity yearning o’er the child of shame;
Unselfish love, and resolute friendship—all,
Even to common trust—farewell! These lights
May never burn in the grey dome of time
or constellate for me the world again!
No more! No, never more.
The Cemetery
Here, only here
In the dark dwellings of this silent city
Is rest for the world-weary. Slander here,
Disease and poverty, forego their victim;
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The fox of envy and the wolf of scorn
Snarl not within these gates. The enemy
Who comes to triumph o’er the powerless bones
That once he feared, still hates—even as he comes,
By the dismaying silence smitten, stops,
Listening for some far reproachful voice
Heard only through the mystery of his soul,
And, shuddering, asks forgiveness. Slept I here,
And should an enemy so plead, and might
My injured spirit, hovering over, hear—
The boon were granted. O that here, even now,
The sense were frozen to forgetfulness
That I, upon this populous star of God,
This earth that I was born to, and have loved,
Am utterly uncared-for and alone!
Whither?
Alas! These thoughts are storming all my soul
With madness—yea, the madness of despair!
And though my reason lifting up its strength
As desperately confronts them, just as well
Might the poor castaway, who helpless stands
On some bleak rock in the mid ocean, preach
Obedience to the breakers surging round
That perilous point, as I (in this wild gloom)
Strive to o’ercome them—And why should I strive?
No, rather let them howl like midnight wolves
Within my failing brain, and gnaw and tug
At my sick heart, their bitter food, for they
Will help me to my one desire—death.
Be his rest who sleeps below,
Done to death by toil and woe,
Sound and sweet.
So much in fortune did he lack,
So little meet
Of kindness, as with bleeding feet
He journeyed life’s most barren track,
That only hate in its deceit,
Not love, not pity, would entreat
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To have him back.
But he sleeps well where many a bloom
That might not grace his living home
Pranks the raised sod:
Tokening, perhaps, that one who here
Missed the world’s smile, hath met elsewhere
The smile of God.
~ Charles Harpur,#NFDB
416:Lohengrin
THE holy bell, untouched by human hands,
Clanged suddenly, and tolled with solemn knell.
Between the massive, blazoned temple-doors,
Thrown wide, to let the summer morning in,
Sir Lohengrin, the youngest of the knights,
Had paused to taste the sweetness of the air.
All sounds came up the mountain-side to him,
Softened to music,— noise of laboring men,
The cheerful cock-crow and the low of kine,
Bleating of sheep, and twittering of the birds,
Commingled into murmurous harmonies—
When harsh, and near, and clamorous tolled the bell.
He started, with his hand upon his sword;
His face, an instant since serene and fair,
And simple with the beauty of a boy,
Heroic, flushed, expectant all at once.
The lovely valley stretching out beneath
Was now a painted picture,— nothing more;
All music of the mountain or the vale
Rang meaningless to him who heard the bell.
'I stand upon the threshold, and am called,'
His clear, young voice shrilled gladly through the air,
And backward through the sounding corridors.
'And have ye heard the bell, my brother knights,
Untouched by human hands or winds of heaven?
It called me, yea, it called my very name!'
So, breathing still of morning, Lohengrin
Sprang 'midst the gathering circle of the knights,
Eager, exalted. 'Nay, it called us all:
It rang as it hath often rung before,—
Because the good cause, somewhere on the earth,
Requires a champion,' with a serious smile,
An older gravely answered. 'Where to go?
We know not, and we know not whom to serve.'
Then spake Sir Percivale, their holiest knight,
And father of the young Sir Lohengrin:
'All that to us seems old, familiar, stale,
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Unto the boy is vision, miracle.
Cross him not, brethren, in his first desire.
I will dare swear the summons rang to him,
Not sternly solemn, as it tolled to us,
But gracious, sweet, and gay as marriage-bells.'
His pious hands above the young man's head
Wandered in blessing, lightly touching it,
As fondly as a mother. 'Lohengrin,
My son, farewell,— God send thee faith and strength.'
' God send me patience and humility,'
Murmured the boyish knight, from contrite heart,
With head downcast for those anointing hands.
Then raising suddenly wide, innocent eyes,—
'Father, my faith is boundless as God's love.'
Complete in glittering silver armor clad,
With silver maiden-shield, blank of device,
Sir Lohengrin rode down the Montsalvatsch,
With Percivale and Tristram, Frimutelle
And Eliduc, to speed him on his quest.
They fared in silence, for the elder knights
Were filled with grave misgivings, solemn thoughts
Of fate and sorrow, and they heard the bell
Tolling incessant; while Sir Lohengrin,
Buoyant with hope, and dreaming like a girl,
With wild blood dancing in his veins, had made
The journey down the mount unconsciously,
Surprised to find that he had reached the vale.
Distinct and bowered in green the mountain loomed,
Topped with the wondrous temple, with its cross
Smitten to splendor by the eastern sun.
Around them lay the valley beautiful,
Imparadised with flowers and light of June;
And through the valley flowed a willowy stream,
Golden and gray, at this delicious hour,
With purity and sunshine. Here the knights,
Irresolute, gave pause — which path to choose?
'God lead me right!' said meek Sir Lohengrin;
And as he spoke afar upon the stream,
He saw a shining swan approaching them.
Full-breasted, with the current it sailed down,
Dazzling in sun and shadow, air and wave,
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With unseen movement, wings a little spread,
Their downy under-feathers fluttering,
Stirred by its stately progress; in its beak
It held a silver chain, and drew thereby
A dainty carven shallop after it,
Embossed with silver and with ivory.
'Lead ye my charger up the mount again,'
Cried Lohengrin, and leaped unto the ground,
'For I will trust my guidance to the swan.'
' Nay, hold, Sir Lohengrin,' said Eliduc,
' Thou hast not made provision for this quest.'
' God will provide,' the pious knight replied.
Then Percival: 'Be faithful to thy vows;
Bethink thee of thine oath when thou art asked
Thy mission in the temple, or thy race.
Farewell, farewell.' 'Farewell,' cried Lohengrin,
And sprang into the shallop as it passed,
And waved farewells unto his brother knights,
Until they saw the white and silver shine
Of boat and swan and armor less and less,
Till in the willowy distance they were lost.
Skirting the bases of the rolling hills,
He glided on the river hour by hour,
All through the endless summer day. At first
On either side the willows brushed his boat,
Then underneath their sweeping arch he passed,
Into a rich, enchanted wilderness,
Cool, full of mystic shadows and rare lights,
Wherein the very river changed its hue,
Reflecting tender shades of waving green,
And mossy undergrowth of grass and fern.
Here yellow lilies floated 'midst broad leaves,
Upon their reedy stalks, and far below,
Beneath the flags and rushes, coppery bream
Sedately sailed, and flickering perch, and dace
With silvery lustres caught the glancing rays
Of the June sun upon their mottled scales.
'Midst the close sedge the bright-eyed water-mouse
Nibbled its food, while overhead, its kin,
The squirrel, frisked among the trees. The air
Was full of life and sound of restless birds,
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Darting with gayer tints of red and blue
And speckled plumage 'mid gray willow leaves,
And sober alders, and light-foliaged birch.
Unnumbered insects fluttered o'er the banks,
Some dimpling the smooth river's slippery floor,
Leaping from point to point. Then passed the knight
'Twixt broad fields basking in excess of light,
And girt around by range on range of hills,
Green, umber, purple, waving limitless,
Unto the radiant crystal of the sky.
Through unfamiliar solitudes the swan
Still led him, and he saw no living thing
Save creatures of the wood, no human face,
Nor sign of human dwelling. But he sailed,
Holding high thoughts and vowing valorous vows,
Filled with vast wonder and keen happiness,
At the world's very beauty, and his life
Opened in spacious vistas measureless,
As lovely as the stream that bore him on.
So dazzled was the boyish Lohengrin
By all the vital beauty of the real,
And the yet wilder beauty of his dreams,
That he had lost all sense of passing time,
And woke as from a trance of centuries,
To find himself within the heart of hills,
The river widened to an ample lake,
And the swan faring towards a narrow gorge,
That seemed to lead him to the sunset clouds.
Suffused with color were the extremest heights;
The river rippled in a glassy flood,
Glorying in the glory of the sky.
O what a moment for a man to take
Down with him in his memory to the grave!
Life at that hour appeared as infinite
As expectation, sacred, wonderful,
A vision and a privilege. The stream
Lessened to force its way through rocky walls,
Then swerved and flowed, a purple brook, through woods
Dewy with evening, sunless, odorous.
There Lohengrin, with eyes upon the stream,
Now brighter than the earth, saw, deep and clear,
The delicate splendor of the earliest star.
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All night, too full of sweet expectancy,
Too reverent of the loveliness, for sleep,
He watched the rise and setting of the stars..
All things were new upon that magic day,
Suggesting nobler possibilities,
For a life passed in wise serenity,
Confided with sublimely simple faith
Unto the guidance of the higher will.
In the still heavens hung the large round moon,
White on the blue-black ripples glittering,
And rolled soft floods of slumberous, misty light
Over dim fields and colorless, huge hills.
But the pure swan still bore its burden on,
The ivory shallop and the silver knight,
Pale-faced in that white lustre, neither made
For any port, but seemed to float at will
Aimlessly in a strange, unpeopled land.
So passed the short fair night, and morning broke
Upon the river where it flowed through flats
Wide, fresh, and vague in gray, uncertain dawn,
With cool air sweet from leagues of dewy grass.
Then 'midst the flush and beauty of the east,
The risen sun made all the river flow,
Smitten with light, in gold and gray again.
Rightly he judged his voyage but begun,
When the swan loitered by low banks set thick
With cresses, and red berries, and sweet herbs,
That he might pluck and taste thereof; for these
Such wondrous vigor in his frame infused,
They seemed enchanted and ambrosial fruits.
Day waxed and waned and vanished many times,
And many suns still found him journeying;
But when the sixth night darkened hill and wold,
He seemed bewitched as by a wizard's spell,
By this slow, constant progress, and deep sleep
Possessed his spirit, and his head drooped low
On the hard pillow of his silver shield.
Unconscious he was borne through silent hours,
Nor wakened by the dawn of a new day,
But in his dreamless sleep he never lost
The sense of moving forward on a stream.
Now fared the swan through tilled and cultured lands,
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Dappled with sheep and kine on pastures soft,
Sprinkled with trim and pleasant cottages,
With men and women working noiselessly,
As in a picture; nearer then they drew,
And sounds of rural labor, spoken words,
Sir Lohengrin might hear, but still he slept,
Nor saw the shining turrets of a town,
Gardens and castles, domes and cross-topped spires
Fair in the distance, and the flowing stream,
Cleaving its liquid path 'midst many men,
And glittering galleries filled with courtly folk,
Ranged for a tourney-show in open air.
Ah! what a miracle it seemed to these,—
The white bird bearing on the river's breast
That curious, sparkling shallop, and within
The knight in silver armor, with bared head,
And crisp hair blown about his angel face,
Asleep upon his shield! They gazed on him
As on the incarnate spirit of pure faith,
And as the very ministrant of God.
But one great damsel throned beside a king,
With coroneted head and white, wan face,
Flushed suddenly, and clasped her hands in prayer,
And raised large, lucid eyes in thanks to Heaven.
Then, in his dreamless slumber, Lohengrin,
Feeling the steady motion of the boat
Suddenly cease, awoke. Refreshed, alert,
He knew at once that he had reached his port,
And saw that peerless maiden thanking Heaven
For his own advent, and his heart leaped up
Into his throat, and love o'ermastered him.
After the blare of flourished trumpets died,
A herald thus proclaimed the tournament:
'Greetings and glory to the majesty
Of the imperial Henry. By his grace,
This tourney has been granted to the knight,
Frederick of Telramund, who claims the hand
Of Lady Elsie, Duchess of Brabant,
His ward, and stands prepared to prove in arms
His rights against all champions in the lists,
Whom his unwilling mistress may select.
Sir Frederick, Lord of Telramund, is here:
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What champion will espouse the lady's cause?'
Sir Frederick, huge in stature and in bulk,
In gleaming armor terribly equipped,
Advanced defiant, as the herald ceased.
Then Lohengrin, with spear and shield in hand,
Sprang lightly, from his shallop, in the lists.
His beaver raised disclosed his ardent face,
His whole soul shining from inspired eyes.
With cast-back head, sun-smitten silver mail,
Quivering with spirit, light, and life, he stood,
And flung his gauntlet at Sir Frederick's feet,
Crying with shrill, clear voice that rang again,
'Sir Lohengrin adopts the lady's cause.'
Then these with shock of conflict couched their spears
In deadly combat; but their weapons clanged
Harmless against their mail impregnable,
Or else were nimbly foiled by dexterous shields.
Unequal and unjust it seemed at first,—
The slender boy matched with the warrior huge,
Who bore upon him with the skill and strength
Of a tried conqueror; but the stranger knight
Displayed such agile grace in parrying blows,
Such fiery valor dealing his own strokes,
That men looked on in wonder, and his foe
Was hardly put upon it for his life.
Thrice they gave praise, to breathe, and to prepare
For fiercer battle, and the galleries rang
With plaudits, and the names of both the knights.
And they, with spirits whetted by the strife,
Met for the fourth, last time, and fenced and struck,
And the keen lance of Lohengrin made way,
Between the meshes of Sir Frederick's mail,
Through cuirass and through jerkin, to the flesh,
With pain so sharp and sudden that he fell.
Then Henry threw his warder to the ground,
And cried the stranger knight had won the day;
And all the lesser voices, following his,
Called, ' Lohengrin—Sir Lohengrin hath won!'
He, flushed with victory, standing in the lists,
Deafened with clamor of his very name,
Reëchoed to the heavens, felt himself
Alone and alien, and would fain float back
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Unto the temple, had he not recalled
The fair, great damsel throned beside the king.
But lo! the swan had vanished, and the boat
He fancied he descried a tiny star,
Glimmering in the shining distances.
'His Majesty would greet Sir Lohengrin;
And Lady Elsie, Duchess of Brabant,
Would thank him for his prowess.' Thus proclaimed
The herald, while the unknown knight was led
To the imperial throne. Then Elsie spake:
'Thou hast redeemed my life from misery;
How may I worthily reward or thank?
Be thou the nearest to our ducal throne,
The highest knight of Limburg and Brabant,
The greatest gentleman,— unless thy rank,
In truth, be suited to thine own deserts,
And thou, a prince, art called to higher aims.'
'Madam, my thanks are rather due to Fate,
For having chosen so poor an instrument
For such a noble end. A knight am I,
The champion of the helpless and oppressed,
Bound by fast vows to own no other name
Than Lohengrin, the Stranger, in this land,
And to depart when asked my race or rank.
Trusting in God I came, and, trusting Him,
I must remain, for all my fate hath changed,
All my desires and hopes, since I am here.'
So ended that great joust, and in the days
Thereafter Elsie and Sir Lohengrin,
United by a circumstance so strange,
Loved and were wedded. A more courteous duke,
A braver chevalier, Brabant ne'er saw.
Such grace breathed from his person and his deeds,
Such simple innocence and faith looked forth
From eyes well-nigh too beautiful for man,
That whom he met, departed as his friend.
But Elsie, bound to him by every bond
Of love and honor and vast gratitude,
Being of lesser faith and confidence,
Tortured herself with envious jealousies,
Misdoubting her own beauty, and her power
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To win and to retain so great a heart.
Each year Sir Lohengrin proclaimed a joust
In memory of the tourney where he won
His lovely Duchess, and his lance prevailed
Against all lesser knights. When his twain sons,
Loyal and brave and gentle as their sire,
Had grown to stalwart men, and his one girl,
Eyed like himself and as his Duchess fair,
Floramie, grew to gracious maidenhood,
He gave a noble tourney, and o'erthrew
The terrible and potent Duke of Cleves.
'Ha!' sneered the Dame of Cleves, 'this Lohengrin
May be a knight adroit and valorous,
But who knows whence he sprang?' and lightly laughed,
Seeing the hot blood kindle Elsie's cheek.
That night Sir Lohengrin sought rest betimes,
By hours of crowded action quite forespent,
And found the Duchess Elsie on her couch,
Staining the silken broideries with her tears.
'Why dost thou weep?' he questioned tenderly,
Kissing her delicate hands, and parting back
Her heavy yellow hair from brow and face.
'The Duchess Anne of Cleves hath wounded me.'
'Sweet, am not I at hand to comfort thee?'
And he caressed her as an ailing child,
Until she smiled and slept. But the next night
He found her weeping, and he questioned her,
With the same answer, and again she slept;
Then the third night he asked her why she grieved
And she uprising, white, with eager eyes,
Cried, 'Lohengrin, my lord, my only love,
For our sons' sake, who know not whence they spring,
Our daughter who remains a virgin yet,
Let me not hear folk girding at thy race.
I know thy blood is royal, I have faith;
But tell me all, that I may publish it
Unto our dukedom.' Hurt and wondering,
He answered simply, 'I am Lohengrin,
Son to Sir Percivale, and ministrant
Within the holy temple of the Grail.
I would thy faith were greater, this is all.
Now must I bid farewell.' ' O Lohengrin,
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What have I done?' She clung about his neck,
And moistened all his beard with streaming tears;
But he with one long kiss relaxed her arms
Calmly from his embrace, and stood alone.
' Blame not thy nature now with vain reproofs.
This also is our fate: in all things else.
We have submitted,—let us yield in this,
With no less grace now that God tries our hearts,
Than when He sent us victory and love.'
' Yea, go, — you never loved me,' faltered she;
' I will not blame my nature, but your own.
Through all our wedded years I doubted you;
Your eyes have never brightened meeting mine
As I have seen them in religious zeal,
Or in exalted hours of victory.'
A look of perfect weariness, unmixed
With wrath or grief, o'erspread the knight's pale face;
But with the pity that a god might show
Towards one with ills impossible to him,
He drew anear, caressing her, and sighed:
' Through all our wedded years you doubted me?
Poor child, poor child! and it has come to this.
Thank Heaven, I gave no cause for your mistrust,
Desiring never an ideal more fair
Of womanhood than was my chosen wife.'
She, broken, sobbing, leaned her delicate head
On his great shoulder, and remorseful cried,
' O loyal, honest, simple Lohengrin,
Thy wife has been unworthy: this is why
Thou sayest farewell in accents cold and strange,
With alien eyes that even now behold
Things fairer, better, than her mournful face.'
But he with large allowance answered her:
'If this be truth, it is because I feel
That I belong no more unto myself,
Neither to thee, for God withdraws my soul
Beyond all earthly passions unto Him.
Now that we know our doom, with serious calm,
Beside thee I will sit, till break of day,
Thus holding thy chill hand and tell thee all.
This will resign thee, for I cannot think
How any human soul that hath beheld
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Life's compensations and its miracles,
Can fail to trust in what is yet to come.'
Then he began from that auroral hour
When he first heard the temple bell, and told
The wonder of the swan that came for him,
His journey down the stream, the tournament,
His strength unwonted, combating the knight
Who towered above him with superior force
Of flesh and sinew,— how he prayed through all,
Imploring God to let the just cause win,
Unconscious of the close-thronged galleries,
Feeling two eyes alone that burned his soul.
She knew the rest. Therewith he kissed her brow
And ended,—' Now the knights will take me back
Into the temple; all who keep their vows,
Are welcomed there again to peace and rest.
There will my years fall from me like a cloak,
And I will stand again at manhood's prime.
Then when all errors of the flesh are purged
From these I loved here, they may follow me,
Unto perpetual worship and to peace.'
She lay quite calm, and smiling heard his voice,
Already grown to her remote and changed,
And when he ceased, arose and gazed in awe
On his transfigured face and kissed his brow,
And understood, accepting all her fate.
Anon he called his children, and to these:
'Farewell, sweet Florance and dear Percivale;
Here is my horn, and here mine ancient sword,—
Guard them with care and win with them repute.
Here, Elsie, is the ring my mother gave,—
Part with it never; and thou, Floramie,
Take thou my love,—I have naught else to give;
Be of strong faith in him thou mean'st to wed.'
So these communed together, till the night
Died from the brightening skies, and in the east
The morning star hung in aerial rose,
And the blue deepened; while moist lawn and hedge
Breathed dewy freshness through the windows oped.
Then on the stream, that nigh the palace flowed,
A stainless swan approached them; in its beak
It held a silver chain, and drew thereby
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A dainty, carven shallop after it,
Embossed with silver and with ivory.
Followed by waved farewells and streaming eyes,
Sir Lohengrin embarked and floated forth
Unto perpetual worship and to peace.
~ Emma Lazarus,#NFDB
417: Book IX
Meanwhile moved by their unseen spirits, led by the immortal
Phalanxes, who of our hopes and our fears are the reins and the drivers,
Minds they use as if steam and our bodies like power-driven engines,
Leading our lives towards the goal that the gods have prepared for our striving,
Men upon earth fulfilled their harsh ephemeral labour.
But in the Troad the armies clashed on the plain of the Xanthus.
Swift from their ships the Argives marched,more swiftly through Xanthus
Driving their chariots the Trojans came and Penthesilea
Led and Anchises son and Deiphobus the Priamid hero.
Now ere the armies met, ere their spears were nearer, Apollo
Sent a thought for his bale to the heart of Zethus the Hellene.
He to Achilles car drew close and cried to the hero:
Didst thou not promise a boon to me, son of Peleus and Thetis,
Then when I guarded thy life-breath in Memnons battle from Hades?
Therefore I claim the proudest of boons, one worthy a Hellene.
Here in the front I will fight against dangerous Penthesilea.
Thou on our left make war with the beauty and cunning of Paris.
But from his heart dismayed Achilles made answer to Zethus:
What hast thou said, O Zethus, betrayed by some Power that is hostile?
Art thou then hired by the gods for the bale and the slaughter of Hellas?
Zethus answered him, Alone art thou mighty, Achilles, in Phthia?
Tyrant art thou of this fight and keepst for thee all of its glory
We are but wheels of thy chariot, reins of thy courser, Achilles.
What though dire be thy lust, yet here thou canst gather not glory,
Only thy shame and the Greeks, if a girl must be matched with Achilles!
Zethus, evil thy word and from death are the wings of its folly.
Even a god might hesitate fronting the formidable virgin.
Many the shafts that, borne in her chariot, thirst for the blood-draught.
Pages ride in her car behind and hand to her swiftly
Death in the rapid spears and she hurls them and drives and she stays not.
Forty wind-footed men of the mountains race with her chariot
Shielded and armed and bring back the spears from their hearts whom she slaughters.
So like the lightning she moves incessantly flashing and slaying,
Not like mens warring her fight who battle for glory and plunder.
Never she pauses to pluck back her point nor to strip off the armour.
Only to slay she cares and only the legions to shatter.
Come thou not near to her wheels; preserve thy life for thy father.
Pity Arithoas heart who shall wait in vain for her children.
Wroth at Pelides scorn made answer Zethus the Hellene,
Give me my boon I have chosen and thou fight far from my battle
Lest it be said that Achilles was near and therefore she perished.
Cycnus and I []1 will strike down the terror of Argos.
Moved the mighty Achilles answered him, Zethus and Cycnus,
Granted your will; I am bound by my truth, as are you now by Hades.
So he spoke and cried to his steeds, who the wings of the southwind
Racing outvied to the left where from Xanthus galloping swiftly
Came in a mass the Ilian chariots loud towards the Hellenes.
Phoces was with him and Echemus drove and Drus and Thretaon,
They were like rays of the sun, but nighest him, close to his shadow
Ascanus, Phrinix son, who fought ever near to his war-car.
And from the Trojan battle gleaming in arms like the sungod
Paris beheld that dangerous spear and he cried to the heroes:
See now where death on the Trojans comes in the speed of that war-car.
Warriors, fight not [.] Achilles
But where you see him guiding his spear or turning his coursers,
Menace his days and shield the Trojan life that he threatens.
Fighting together hide with your spear-rain his head from the heavens.
Zeus perhaps shall, blinded, forget to cover the hero.
So as he spoke, the armies neared and they clashed in the mellay.
Who first shed the blood [.] that fell in that combat
Thick with the fall of the mighty, last of the battles of Troya?
Helenus first, King Priams son, smote down in that battle
Phoces, Amarus son, who fought in the front of Pelides.
He by the point twixt his brows surprised left the spear he had lifted;
Down he clanged from his car with his armour sounding upon him.
Echemus wroth let drive at Helenus, grieved for his comrade.
Him he missed but Ahites slew who was Helenus henchman.
Helenus wroth in his turn at Echemus aimed and his spear-point
Bit through the shield and quivering paused,by Ananke arrested.
Back avoiding death the Hellene shrank from the forefront.
Nor had Achilles mingled yet his strength with the fighters.
But like a falconer on a hillock lone in his war-car
Shouting his dreadful cry in the pause ere the shock he had lingered
Wheeling slowly his gaze for the choice of a prey or a victim
For with his host was his heart [.] behind Zethus
Herding in shepherded [.]
Ill at ease was his heart [..] or lying
Slain on the Trojan [..] Ares.
Forward [..] towards the Trojans
[.] helmet.
Helenus [] his shield from the death-blow.
But oer his [] Apollo extended.
And from the left and the right the heroes of Ilion gathered.
Dyus and Polites came and Eumachus threatened Achilles.
Paris fatal shafts sang joyously now from the bowstring.
Fast from the Hellene [..]
Ares iron [..]
Neighing [..] of the war-cries.
Nor could the Trojan fighters break through the wall of their foemen,
Nor could the mighty Pelides slay in his war-rage the Trojans.
Ever he fought surrounded or drew back compelled to his legions;
For to each spear of his strength full twenty hissed round his helmet,
Rang on his shield, attempted his cuirass or leaped at his coursers
Or at Automedon ran like living things in their blood-thirst.
Galled the deathless steeds high-neighing pawed in their anger;
Wrathful Achilles wheeled and threatened seeking a victim.
So might a fire on the high-piled altar of sacrifice blazing
Seek for its tongues an offering fit for the gods, but tis answered
Only by spitting rain that a dense cloud sends out of heaven.
Sibilant hiss the drops on the glowing wood and the altar.
Chill a darkness oerhangs and its brief and envious spirits
Rail at the glorious flame desiring an end of its brilliance.
Meanwhile behind by the ranks of the fighters sheltered from Hades
Paris loosed his lethal shafts at the head of the Hellene.
Then upon Helenus wrath from the gods who are noble descended,
Seized on the tongue of the prophet and framed their thoughts in his accents,
Thoughts by men rejected who follow the beast in their reason,
Only advantage seek, and honour and pride are forgotten:
Paris, not thus shalt thou slay Achilles but only thy glory.
Hast thou no heed that the women should mock in the streets of our city
Thee and thy bow and thy numbers, hearing this shame of the Trojans?
Dost thou not fear the gods and their harms? Not so do they combat
Who have the awe of their deeds and follow the way of the mighty.
Paris the Priamid answered his brother: Helenus, wherefore
Care should I have for fame, or the gods and their punishments, heeding
Breath of men when they praise or condemn me? Victory I ask for,
Joy for my living heart, not a dream and a breath for my ashes.
Work I desire and the wish of my heart and the fruit of my labour.
Nay, let my fame be crushed into mire for the ages to spit at,
But let my country live and her foes be slain on her beaches.
So he spoke and fitted another shaft to the bowstring.
Always they fought and were locked in a fierce unyielding combat.
But on the Hellene right stood the brothers stark in their courage
Waiting the Eoan horsehooves that checked at the difficult crossing
Late arrived through field and through pasture. Zethus exultant
Watched their advent stern and encouraged the legions behind him.
Now is the hour of your highest fame, O ye sons of the Hellenes.
These are the iron squadrons, these are the world-famed fighters.
Here is a swifter than Memnon, here is a greater than Hector.
Who would fight with the war-wearied Trojans, the Lycian remnants,
When there are men in the world like these? O Phthians, we conquer
Asias best today. And you, O my brothers, with courage
Reap all the good I have won for our lives this morn from Achilles.
Glad let our fame go before us to our mother Arithoa waiting
Lonely in Phthia, desiring death or the eyes of her children.
Soon will our sails pursue their herald Fame, with our glory
Bellying out and the winds. They shall bear oer the murmurs of Ocean
Heaped up Ilions wealth and the golden bricks of King Priam
And for the halls of our fathers a famous and noble adornment
Severed the beautiful head of the virgin Penthesilea.
So he cried and the Hellenes shouted, a savage rumour,
Proud of their victories past and incredulous grown of disaster.
Now from the Xanthus dripping-wheeled came the Eoan war-cars
Rolling thunder-voiced with the tramp of the runners behind them,
Dust like a flag and dire with the battle-cry, full on the Hellenes.
They to the mid-plain arrived where the might of the Hellene brothers
Waited their coming. Zethus first with his cry of the cascade
Hurrying-footed, headlong that leaps far down to the valley:
Curb, but curb thy advance, O Amazon Penthesilea!
These are not Gnossus ranks and these are not levies from Sparta.
Hellas spears await thee here and the Myrmidon fighters.
But like the northwind high and clear answered Penthesilea,
High like the northwind racing and whistling over the icefields,
Death at its side and snow for its breath in the pitiless winter:
Who art thou biddest to pause the horsehooves of Penthesilea?
Hellene, thou in thy strength who standest forth from thy shielders,
Turn yet, save thy life; for I deem that thou art not Achilles.
Zethus the Hellene I am and Cycnus and Pindus, my brothers,
Stand at my either side, and thou passest no farther, Bellona.
Lioness, turn thou back, for thou canst not here be a hunter.
Zethus and Cycnus and Pindus, little you loved then your mother
Who in this field that is wide must needs all three perish together
Piled on one altar of death by the spear-shafts of Penthesilea.
Empty for ever your halls shall be, childless the age of your father.
High she rose to the spear-cast, poised like a thunderbolt lifted,
Forward swung to the blow and loosed it hissing and ruthless
Straight at the Hellene shield, and it tore through the bronze and groaning
Butted and pushed through the cuirass and split the breast of the hero.
Round in his car he spun, then putting his hands out before him,
Even as a diver who leaps from the shed of the bath to the current,
Launched out so headlong, struggled, sideward collapsed, then was quiet,
Dead on Trojan earth. But dismay and grief on his brothers
Yet alive now seized, then rage came blinding the eyeballs.
Blindly they hurled, yet attained, for Athene guided the spear-shafts;
Death like a forest beast yet played with the might of the virgin.
One on her shield and one on her cuirass rang, but rejected
Fell back like reeds that are thrown at a boulder by boys on the seashore.
She unmoved replied; her shafts in their angry succession
Hardly endured delay between. Like trees the brothers,
Felled, to each side sank prone. So lifeless these strong ones of Hellas
Lay on their couch of the hostile soil reunited in slumber
As in their childhood they lay in Hellas watched by their mother,
Three of them side by side and she dreamed for her darlings their future.
But on the ranks of the Hellenes fear and amazement descended,
Messengers they from Zeus to discourage the pride and the blood-lust.
Back many yards their foremost recoiled in a god-given terror,
As from a snake a traveller scorned for a bough by the wayside,
But it arises puffing its hood and hisses its hatred.
Forward the henchmen ran and plucked back the spears from the corpses;
Onward the Eoan thousands rolled oer the ground that was conquered
Trampling the fallen men into earth with the wheels of their war-cars.
But in her speed like the sea or the stormwind Penthesilea
Drove towards the ranks of the foe and her spear-shafts hastened before her,
Messengers whistling shrilly to Death; he came like a wolfhound
Called by his masters voice and silently fell on the quarry.
Hyrtamus fell, Admetus was wounded, Charmidas slaughtered;
Cirrhes died, though he faced not the blow while he hastened to shelter.
Itylus, bright and beautiful, went down to night and to Hades.
Back, ever back the Hellenes recoiled from the shock of the Virgin,
Slain by her prowess fierce, alarmed by the might of her helpers.
For at her right Surabdas threatened and iron Surenas,
And at her left hill-shouldered Pharatus slaughtered the Hellenes.
Then in the ranks of the Greeks a shouting arose and the leaders
Cried to their hosts and recalled their unstained fame and their valour
Never so lightly conquered before in the onsets of Ares
And of Achilles they spoke and King Peleus waiting in Phthia,
Listening for Troy oerthrown not his hosts overcome by a woman.
And from the right and the left came heroes mighty to succour.
Chiefs of the Dolopes Ar and Aglauron came mid the foremost,
Hillus fair as a drifting moon but fierce as the winter;
Pryas came the Thessalian and Sebes whom Pharsalus honoured,
Victors in countless fights who had stood against Memnon and Hector.
But though their hands were mighty, though fierce their obdurate natures,
Mightier strengths they met and a sterner brood of the war-god.
Light from the hand of the Virgin the spear ran laughing at Sebes,
Crashed through his helmet and left him supine on the pastures of Troya;
Ar to Surabdas fell and the blood-spirting head of Aglauron
Dropped like a fruit from a branch by its weight to the discus of Sambus;
Iron Surenas mace-head shattered the beauty of Hillus;
Pryas by Pharatus slain lay still and had rest from the war-cry.
Back, ever back reeled the Hellene host with the Virgin pursuing.
Storm-shod the Amazon fought and she slew like a god unresisted.
None now dared to confront her burning eyes; the boldest
Shuddered back from her spear and the cry of her tore at their heart-strings.
Fear, the daughter of Zeus, had gripped at the hearts of the Hellenes.
So as their heroes yielded before her, Penthesilea
Lifted with victory cried to her henchman, Aurus of Ellae,
Who had the foot of the wind and its breath that scants not for running,
Hasten, hasten, Aurus; race to the right where unwarring
Valarus leads his host; bid him close with the strength of the Hellenes.
Soon will they scatter like chaff on the threshing-floor blown to the beaches.
But when he sees their flight by Sumalus shepherded seaward,
Swift let him turn like the wind in its paths and follow me, pouring
All in a victor flood on the Myrmidon left and Achilles.
Then shall no Hellene again dare embark in ships for the Troad.
Cursed shall its beaches be to their sons and their sons and for ever.
So she spoke and Aurus ran by the chariots protected.
Then had all Hellas perished indeed on the beaches of Troas,
But from the Argives right where she battled Pallas Athene
Saw and was wroth and she missioned her thought to Automedon speeding.
Splendid it came and found him out mid the hiss of the spear-shafts
Guiding, endangered, Achilles steeds in the thick of the battle.
Shaped like a woman clad in armour and fleeing from battle,
Helmed with the Hellene crest it knocked at the gates of his spirit
Shaking the heros heart with the vision that came to his eyeballs;
Silent he stared aghast and turned his ear to the war-din.
Dost thou not hear to our right, Achilles, these voices of Ares?
High is the sound of Eoan battle, a womans war-cry
Rings in my ears, but faint and sparse come the shouts of our nation.
Far behind is their call and nearer the ships and the beaches.
Great Pelides heard and groaned in the caves of his spirit:
It is the doom that I feared and the fatal madness of Zethus;
Slain are the men of my nation or routed by Penthesilea.
Drive, Automedon, drive, lest shame and defeat upon Hellas
Fasten their seal and her heroes flee from the strength of a woman.
And to the steeds divine Automedon called and they hearkened,
Rose as if seeking their old accustomed paths in the heavens,
Then through the ranks that parted they galloped as gallops the dust-cloud
When the cyclone is abroad and the high trees snap by the wayside,
And from the press of the Hellenes into the plain of the Xanthus
Thundering, neighing came with the war-car borne like a dead leaf
Chased by the blast. Then Athene opened the eyes of Achilles,
Eyes that in all of us sleep, yet can see the near and the distant,
Eyes that the gods in their pity have sealed from the giant confusion,
Sealed from the bale and the grief. He saw like one high on a summit
Near him the Eoans holding the plain and out in the distance
Breaking the Hellene strengths. Like a dream in the night he regarded
High-crested Sumalus fight, Somaranes swift in the onset,
Bull-shouldered Taurons blows and the hero Artavoruxes.
But in the centre fiercest the cry and the death and the fleeing.
There were his chieftains ever reforming vainly resistance,
Even in defeat these were Hellenes and fit to be hosts of Achilles,
But like a doom on them thundered the war-car of Penthesilea,
Pharatus smote and Surabdas and Sambus and iron Surenas.
Down the leaders fell and the armies reeled towards the Ocean.
Wroth he cried to his coursers and fiercely they heard and they hastened;
Swift like a wind oer the grasses galloped the car of Achilles.
Echemus followed, Ascanus drove and Drus and Thretaon:
Phoces alone in the dust of the Troad lay there and moved not.
Yet brought not all of them help to their brothers oppressed in the combat:
For from the forefront forth on the knot of the swift-speeding war-cars
High an Eoan chariot came drawn fast by its coursers
Bearing a mighty chieftain, Valarus son of Supaures.
Fire-footed thundered past him the hooves of the heavenly coursers,
Nor to his challenging shout nor his spear the warlike Pelides
Answered at all, but made haste like a flood to the throng and the mellay.
But twixt the chariots behind and their leader the mighty Eoan
Drove his dark-maned steeds and stood like a cliff to their onset.
Great is your haste, O ye Kings of the Greeks! Abide yet and converse.
Scatheless your leader has fled from me borne by the hooves of his coursers;
Ye, abide! For we meet from far lands on this soil of the Trojans.
All of us meet from afar, but not all shall return to their hearthsides.
Valarus stays you, O Greeks, and this is the point of his greeting.
So as he spoke he launched out his spear as a cloud hurls its storm-flash;
Nor from that fatal hand parted vainly the pitiless envoy,
But of its blood-thirst had right. Riven through and through with the death-stroke
Drus fell prone and tore with dying fingers the grasses.
Sobbing his soul fled out to the night and the chill and the silence.
They like leaves that are suddenly stayed by the fall of a wind-gust
Ceased from their headlong speed. And Echemus poising his spear-shaft:
Sharp are thy greetings, chieftain Eoan. Message for message
Echemus son of Ates, one of the mighty in Hellas,
Thus returns. Let Ares judge twixt the Greek and the Eastern.
Fast sped the spear but Valarus held forth his shield and re butted
Shouting the deadly point that could pierce not his iron refusal.
Echemus, surely thy vaunt has reached me, but unfelt is thy spear-point.
Weak are mens arms, it seems, in Hellas; a boy there Ares
Aims with reeds not spears at pastoral cheeses not iron.
Judge now my strength. Two spears from him ran at the hearts of his foemen.
Crouching Thretaon heard the keen death over him whistle;
Ascanus hurt in the shoulder cried out and paused from his war-lust.
Echemus hurled now again and hurled with him stalwart Thretaon.
Strong Thretaon missed, but Echemus point at the helmet
Bit and fastened as fastens a hound on the ear of the wild-boar
Wroth with the cry and the hunt that gores the pack and his hunters.
Valarus frowning tugged at the heavy steel; yet his right hand
Smote at Echemus. Him he missed but valiant Thretaon
Sat back dead in his seat and the chariot wild with its coursers
Snorting and galloping bore his corpse oer the plains to the Hellenes.
But while yet Valarus strove with the shaft, obscured and encumbered,
Ascanus sprang down swift from his car and armed with his sword-point
Clove the Eoans neck as the lightning springs at an oak-trunk
Seized in the stride of the storm and severs that might with its sharpness.
Slain the hero fell; his mighty limbs the spirit
Mightier released to the gods and it rose to the heavens of the noble.
Ascanus gathered the spear-shafts; loud was his shout as exulting
Back he leaped to the car triumphant oer death and its menace.
Lie there, Valarus, king of the East, with imperial Troya.
Six rich feet of her soil she gives thee for couch of the nuptials.
Rest then! talk not again on the way with the heroes of Hellas.
So delivered they hastened glad to the ranks of their brothers.
After them rolled the Eoan war-cars, Arithon leading,
Loud with the clamour of hooves and the far-rolling gust of the war-cry;
Wroth at their chieftains fall they moved to the help of their nation
Now by the unearthly horses neared and the might of Achilles.
Then from the Hellenes who heard the noise and the cry of their coming,
Lifted eyes dismayed, but saw the familiar war-car,
Saw the heaven-born steeds and the helm unconquered in battle,
Cry was of other hopefulness. Loud as the outbursting thunder
Rises oer lower sounds of the storm, oer the din of the battle
Rose the Hellene shout and rose the name of Achilles.
Here and below some words have been lost as a result of damage to the manuscript.Ed.
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~ Sri Aurobindo, 9 - Book IX
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418:The Princess (Part 4)
'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun,
If that hypothesis of theirs be sound'
Said Ida; 'let us down and rest;' and we
Down from the lean and wrinkled precipices,
By every coppice-feathered chasm and cleft,
Dropt through the ambrosial gloom to where below
No bigger than a glow-worm shone the tent
Lamp-lit from the inner. Once she leaned on me,
Descending; once or twice she lent her hand,
And blissful palpitations in the blood,
Stirring a sudden transport rose and fell.
But when we planted level feet, and dipt
Beneath the satin dome and entered in,
There leaning deep in broidered down we sank
Our elbows: on a tripod in the midst
A fragrant flame rose, and before us glowed
Fruit, blossom, viand, amber wine, and gold.
Then she, 'Let some one sing to us: lightlier move
The minutes fledged with music:' and a maid,
Of those beside her, smote her harp, and sang.
'Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
'Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
'Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
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The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
'Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.'
She ended with such passion that the tear,
She sang of, shook and fell, an erring pearl
Lost in her bosom: but with some disdain
Answered the Princess, 'If indeed there haunt
About the mouldered lodges of the Past
So sweet a voice and vague, fatal to men,
Well needs it we should cram our ears with wool
And so pace by: but thine are fancies hatched
In silken-folded idleness; nor is it
Wiser to weep a true occasion lost,
But trim our sails, and let old bygones be,
While down the streams that float us each and all
To the issue, goes, like glittering bergs of ice,
Throne after throne, and molten on the waste
Becomes a cloud: for all things serve their time
Toward that great year of equal mights and rights,
Nor would I fight with iron laws, in the end
Found golden: let the past be past; let be
Their cancelled Babels: though the rough kex break
The starred mosaic, and the beard-blown goat
Hang on the shaft, and the wild figtree split
Their monstrous idols, care not while we hear
A trumpet in the distance pealing news
Of better, and Hope, a poising eagle, burns
Above the unrisen morrow:' then to me;
'Know you no song of your own land,' she said,
'Not such as moans about the retrospect,
But deals with the other distance and the hues
Of promise; not a death's-head at the wine.'
Then I remembered one myself had made,
What time I watched the swallow winging south
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From mine own land, part made long since, and part
Now while I sang, and maidenlike as far
As I could ape their treble, did I sing.
'O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South,
Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,
And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee.
'O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North.
'O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light
Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill,
And cheep and twitter twenty million loves.
'O were I thou that she might take me in,
And lay me on her bosom, and her heart
Would rock the snowy cradle till I died.
'Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love,
Delaying as the tender ash delays
To clothe herself, when all the woods are green?
'O tell her, Swallow, that thy brood is flown:
Say to her, I do but wanton in the South,
But in the North long since my nest is made.
'O tell her, brief is life but love is long,
And brief the sun of summer in the North,
And brief the moon of beauty in the South.
'O Swallow, flying from the golden woods,
Fly to her, and pipe and woo her, and make her mine,
And tell her, tell her, that I follow thee.'
I ceased, and all the ladies, each at each,
Like the Ithacensian suitors in old time,
Stared with great eyes, and laughed with alien lips,
And knew not what they meant; for still my voice
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Rang false: but smiling 'Not for thee,' she said,
O Bulbul, any rose of Gulistan
Shall burst her veil: marsh-divers, rather, maid,
Shall croak thee sister, or the meadow-crake
Grate her harsh kindred in the grass: and this
A mere love-poem! O for such, my friend,
We hold them slight: they mind us of the time
When we made bricks in Egypt. Knaves are men,
That lute and flute fantastic tenderness,
And dress the victim to the offering up,
And paint the gates of Hell with Paradise,
And play the slave to gain the tyranny.
Poor soul! I had a maid of honour once;
She wept her true eyes blind for such a one,
A rogue of canzonets and serenades.
I loved her. Peace be with her. She is dead.
So they blaspheme the muse! But great is song
Used to great ends: ourself have often tried
Valkyrian hymns, or into rhythm have dashed
The passion of the prophetess; for song
Is duer unto freedom, force and growth
Of spirit than to junketing and love.
Love is it? Would this same mock-love, and this
Mock-Hymen were laid up like winter bats,
Till all men grew to rate us at our worth,
Not vassals to be beat, nor pretty babes
To be dandled, no, but living wills, and sphered
Whole in ourselves and owed to none. Enough!
But now to leaven play with profit, you,
Know you no song, the true growth of your soil,
That gives the manners of your country-women?'
She spoke and turned her sumptuous head with eyes
Of shining expectation fixt on mine.
Then while I dragged my brains for such a song,
Cyril, with whom the bell-mouthed glass had wrought,
Or mastered by the sense of sport, began
To troll a careless, careless tavern-catch
Of Moll and Meg, and strange experiences
Unmeet for ladies. Florian nodded at him,
I frowning; Psyche flushed and wanned and shook;
The lilylike Melissa drooped her brows;
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'Forbear,' the Princess cried; 'Forbear, Sir' I;
And heated through and through with wrath and love,
I smote him on the breast; he started up;
There rose a shriek as of a city sacked;
Melissa clamoured 'Flee the death;' 'To horse'
Said Ida; 'home! to horse!' and fled, as flies
A troop of snowy doves athwart the dusk,
When some one batters at the dovecote-doors,
Disorderly the women. Alone I stood
With Florian, cursing Cyril, vext at heart,
In the pavilion: there like parting hopes
I heard them passing from me: hoof by hoof,
And every hoof a knell to my desires,
Clanged on the bridge; and then another shriek,
'The Head, the Head, the Princess, O the Head!'
For blind with rage she missed the plank, and rolled
In the river. Out I sprang from glow to gloom:
There whirled her white robe like a blossomed branch
Rapt to the horrible fall: a glance I gave,
No more; but woman-vested as I was
Plunged; and the flood drew; yet I caught her; then
Oaring one arm, and bearing in my left
The weight of all the hopes of half the world,
Strove to buffet to land in vain. A tree
Was half-disrooted from his place and stooped
To wrench his dark locks in the gurgling wave
Mid-channel. Right on this we drove and caught,
And grasping down the boughs I gained the shore.
There stood her maidens glimmeringly grouped
In the hollow bank. One reaching forward drew
My burthen from mine arms; they cried 'she lives:'
They bore her back into the tent: but I,
So much a kind of shame within me wrought,
Not yet endured to meet her opening eyes,
Nor found my friends; but pushed alone on foot
(For since her horse was lost I left her mine)
Across the woods, and less from Indian craft
Than beelike instinct hiveward, found at length
The garden portals. Two great statues, Art
And Science, Caryatids, lifted up
A weight of emblem, and betwixt were valves
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Of open-work in which the hunter rued
His rash intrusion, manlike, but his brows
Had sprouted, and the branches thereupon
Spread out at top, and grimly spiked the gates.
A little space was left between the horns,
Through which I clambered o'er at top with pain,
Dropt on the sward, and up the linden walks,
And, tost on thoughts that changed from hue to hue,
Now poring on the glowworm, now the star,
I paced the terrace, till the Bear had wheeled
Through a great arc his seven slow suns.
A step
Of lightest echo, then a loftier form
Than female, moving through the uncertain gloom,
Disturbed me with the doubt 'if this were she,'
But it was Florian. 'Hist O Hist,' he said,
'They seek us: out so late is out of rules.
Moreover "seize the strangers" is the cry.
How came you here?' I told him: 'I' said he,
'Last of the train, a moral leper, I,
To whom none spake, half-sick at heart, returned.
Arriving all confused among the rest
With hooded brows I crept into the hall,
And, couched behind a Judith, underneath
The head of Holofernes peeped and saw.
Girl after girl was called to trial: each
Disclaimed all knowledge of us: last of all,
Melissa: trust me, Sir, I pitied her.
She, questioned if she knew us men, at first
Was silent; closer prest, denied it not:
And then, demanded if her mother knew,
Or Psyche, she affirmed not, or denied:
From whence the Royal mind, familiar with her,
Easily gathered either guilt. She sent
For Psyche, but she was not there; she called
For Psyche's child to cast it from the doors;
She sent for Blanche to accuse her face to face;
And I slipt out: but whither will you now?
And where are Psyche, Cyril? both are fled:
What, if together? that were not so well.
Would rather we had never come! I dread
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His wildness, and the chances of the dark.'
'And yet,' I said, 'you wrong him more than I
That struck him: this is proper to the clown,
Though smocked, or furred and purpled, still the clown,
To harm the thing that trusts him, and to shame
That which he says he loves: for Cyril, howe'er
He deal in frolic, as tonight--the song
Might have been worse and sinned in grosser lips
Beyond all pardon--as it is, I hold
These flashes on the surface are not he.
He has a solid base of temperament:
But as the waterlily starts and slides
Upon the level in little puffs of wind,
Though anchored to the bottom, such is he.'
Scarce had I ceased when from a tamarisk near
Two Proctors leapt upon us, crying, 'Names:'
He, standing still, was clutched; but I began
To thrid the musky-circled mazes, wind
And double in and out the boles, and race
By all the fountains: fleet I was of foot:
Before me showered the rose in flakes; behind
I heard the puffed pursuer; at mine ear
Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not,
And secret laughter tickled all my soul.
At last I hooked my ankle in a vine,
That claspt the feet of a Mnemosyne,
And falling on my face was caught and known.
They haled us to the Princess where she sat
High in the hall: above her drooped a lamp,
And made the single jewel on her brow
Burn like the mystic fire on a mast-head,
Prophet of storm: a handmaid on each side
Bowed toward her, combing out her long black hair
Damp from the river; and close behind her stood
Eight daughters of the plough, stronger than men,
Huge women blowzed with health, and wind, and rain,
And labour. Each was like a Druid rock;
Or like a spire of land that stands apart
Cleft from the main, and wailed about with mews.
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Then, as we came, the crowd dividing clove
An advent to the throne: and therebeside,
Half-naked as if caught at once from bed
And tumbled on the purple footcloth, lay
The lily-shining child; and on the left,
Bowed on her palms and folded up from wrong,
Her round white shoulder shaken with her sobs,
Melissa knelt; but Lady Blanche erect
Stood up and spake, an affluent orator.
'It was not thus, O Princess, in old days:
You prized my counsel, lived upon my lips:
I led you then to all the Castalies;
I fed you with the milk of every Muse;
I loved you like this kneeler, and you me
Your second mother: those were gracious times.
Then came your new friend: you began to change-I saw it and grieved--to slacken and to cool;
Till taken with her seeming openness
You turned your warmer currents all to her,
To me you froze: this was my meed for all.
Yet I bore up in part from ancient love,
And partly that I hoped to win you back,
And partly conscious of my own deserts,
And partly that you were my civil head,
And chiefly you were born for something great,
In which I might your fellow-worker be,
When time should serve; and thus a noble scheme
Grew up from seed we two long since had sown;
In us true growth, in her a Jonah's gourd,
Up in one night and due to sudden sun:
We took this palace; but even from the first
You stood in your own light and darkened mine.
What student came but that you planed her path
To Lady Psyche, younger, not so wise,
A foreigner, and I your countrywoman,
I your old friend and tried, she new in all?
But still her lists were swelled and mine were lean;
Yet I bore up in hope she would be known:
Then came these wolves: ~they~ knew her: ~they~ endured,
Long-closeted with her the yestermorn,
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To tell her what they were, and she to hear:
And me none told: not less to an eye like mine
A lidless watcher of the public weal,
Last night, their mask was patent, and my foot
Was to you: but I thought again: I feared
To meet a cold "We thank you, we shall hear of it
From Lady Psyche:" you had gone to her,
She told, perforce; and winning easy grace
No doubt, for slight delay, remained among us
In our young nursery still unknown, the stem
Less grain than touchwood, while my honest heat
Were all miscounted as malignant haste
To push my rival out of place and power.
But public use required she should be known;
And since my oath was ta'en for public use,
I broke the letter of it to keep the sense.
I spoke not then at first, but watched them well,
Saw that they kept apart, no mischief done;
And yet this day (though you should hate me for it)
I came to tell you; found that you had gone,
Ridden to the hills, she likewise: now, I thought,
That surely she will speak; if not, then I:
Did she? These monsters blazoned what they were,
According to the coarseness of their kind,
For thus I hear; and known at last (my work)
And full of cowardice and guilty shame,
I grant in her some sense of shame, she flies;
And I remain on whom to wreak your rage,
I, that have lent my life to build up yours,
I that have wasted here health, wealth, and time,
And talent, I--you know it--I will not boast:
Dismiss me, and I prophesy your plan,
Divorced from my experience, will be chaff
For every gust of chance, and men will say
We did not know the real light, but chased
The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.'
She ceased: the Princess answered coldly, 'Good:
Your oath is broken: we dismiss you: go.
For this lost lamb (she pointed to the child)
Our mind is changed: we take it to ourself.'
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Thereat the Lady stretched a vulture throat,
And shot from crooked lips a haggard smile.
'The plan was mine. I built the nest' she said
'To hatch the cuckoo. Rise!' and stooped to updrag
Melissa: she, half on her mother propt,
Half-drooping from her, turned her face, and cast
A liquid look on Ida, full of prayer,
Which melted Florian's fancy as she hung,
A Niobëan daughter, one arm out,
Appealing to the bolts of Heaven; and while
We gazed upon her came a little stir
About the doors, and on a sudden rushed
Among us, out of breath as one pursued,
A woman-post in flying raiment. Fear
Stared in her eyes, and chalked her face, and winged
Her transit to the throne, whereby she fell
Delivering sealed dispatches which the Head
Took half-amazed, and in her lion's mood
Tore open, silent we with blind surmise
Regarding, while she read, till over brow
And cheek and bosom brake the wrathful bloom
As of some fire against a stormy cloud,
When the wild peasant rights himself, the rick
Flames, and his anger reddens in the heavens;
For anger most it seemed, while now her breast,
Beaten with some great passion at her heart,
Palpitated, her hand shook, and we heard
In the dead hush the papers that she held
Rustle: at once the lost lamb at her feet
Sent out a bitter bleating for its dam;
The plaintive cry jarred on her ire; she crushed
The scrolls together, made a sudden turn
As if to speak, but, utterance failing her,
She whirled them on to me, as who should say
'Read,' and I read--two letters--one her sire's.
'Fair daughter, when we sent the Prince your way,
We knew not your ungracious laws, which learnt,
We, conscious of what temper you are built,
Came all in haste to hinder wrong, but fell
Into his father's hands, who has this night,
You lying close upon his territory,
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Slipt round and in the dark invested you,
And here he keeps me hostage for his son.'
The second was my father's running thus:
'You have our son: touch not a hair of his head:
Render him up unscathed: give him your hand:
Cleave to your contract: though indeed we hear
You hold the woman is the better man;
A rampant heresy, such as if it spread
Would make all women kick against their Lords
Through all the world, and which might well deserve
That we this night should pluck your palace down;
And we will do it, unless you send us back
Our son, on the instant, whole.'
So far I read;
And then stood up and spoke impetuously.
'O not to pry and peer on your reserve,
But led by golden wishes, and a hope
The child of regal compact, did I break
Your precinct; not a scorner of your sex
But venerator, zealous it should be
All that it might be: hear me, for I bear,
Though man, yet human, whatsoe'er your wrongs,
From the flaxen curl to the gray lock a life
Less mine than yours: my nurse would tell me of you;
I babbled for you, as babies for the moon,
Vague brightness; when a boy, you stooped to me
From all high places, lived in all fair lights,
Came in long breezes rapt from inmost south
And blown to inmost north; at eve and dawn
With Ida, Ida, Ida, rang the woods;
The leader wildswan in among the stars
Would clang it, and lapt in wreaths of glowworm light
The mellow breaker murmured Ida. Now,
Because I would have reached you, had you been
Sphered up with Cassiopëia, or the enthroned
Persephonè in Hades, now at length,
Those winters of abeyance all worn out,
A man I came to see you: but indeed,
Not in this frequence can I lend full tongue,
O noble Ida, to those thoughts that wait
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On you, their centre: let me say but this,
That many a famous man and woman, town
And landskip, have I heard of, after seen
The dwarfs of presage: though when known, there grew
Another kind of beauty in detail
Made them worth knowing; but in your I found
My boyish dream involved and dazzled down
And mastered, while that after-beauty makes
Such head from act to act, from hour to hour,
Within me, that except you slay me here,
According to your bitter statute-book,
I cannot cease to follow you, as they say
The seal does music; who desire you more
Than growing boys their manhood; dying lips,
With many thousand matters left to do,
The breath of life; O more than poor men wealth,
Than sick men health--yours, yours, not mine--but half
Without you; with you, whole; and of those halves
You worthiest; and howe'er you block and bar
Your heart with system out from mine, I hold
That it becomes no man to nurse despair,
But in the teeth of clenched antagonisms
To follow up the worthiest till he die:
Yet that I came not all unauthorized
Behold your father's letter.'
On one knee
Kneeling, I gave it, which she caught, and dashed
Unopened at her feet: a tide of fierce
Invective seemed to wait behind her lips,
As waits a river level with the dam
Ready to burst and flood the world with foam:
And so she would have spoken, but there rose
A hubbub in the court of half the maids
Gathered together: from the illumined hall
Long lanes of splendour slanted o'er a press
Of snowy shoulders, thick as herded ewes,
And rainbow robes, and gems and gemlike eyes,
And gold and golden heads; they to and fro
Fluctuated, as flowers in storm, some red, some pale,
All open-mouthed, all gazing to the light,
Some crying there was an army in the land,
And some that men were in the very walls,
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And some they cared not; till a clamour grew
As of a new-world Babel, woman-built,
And worse-confounded: high above them stood
The placid marble Muses, looking peace.
Not peace she looked, the Head: but rising up
Robed in the long night of her deep hair, so
To the open window moved, remaining there
Fixt like a beacon-tower above the waves
Of tempest, when the crimson-rolling eye
Glares ruin, and the wild birds on the light
Dash themselves dead. She stretched her arms and called
Across the tumult and the tumult fell.
'What fear ye, brawlers? am not I your Head?
On me, me, me, the storm first breaks: ~I~ dare
All these male thunderbolts: what is it ye fear?
Peace! there are those to avenge us and they come:
If not,--myself were like enough, O girls,
To unfurl the maiden banner of our rights,
And clad in iron burst the ranks of war,
Or, falling, promartyr of our cause,
Die: yet I blame you not so much for fear:
Six thousand years of fear have made you that
From which I would redeem you: but for those
That stir this hubbub--you and you--I know
Your faces there in the crowd--tomorrow morn
We hold a great convention: then shall they
That love their voices more than duty, learn
With whom they deal, dismissed in shame to live
No wiser than their mothers, household stuff,
Live chattels, mincers of each other's fame,
Full of weak poison, turnspits for the clown,
The drunkard's football, laughing-stocks of Time,
Whose brains are in their hands and in their heels
But fit to flaunt, to dress, to dance, to thrum,
To tramp, to scream, to burnish, and to scour,
For ever slaves at home and fools abroad.'
She, ending, waved her hands: thereat the crowd
Muttering, dissolved: then with a smile, that looked
A stroke of cruel sunshine on the cliff,
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When all the glens are drowned in azure gloom
Of thunder-shower, she floated to us and said:
'You have done well and like a gentleman,
And like a prince: you have our thanks for all:
And you look well too in your woman's dress:
Well have you done and like a gentleman.
You saved our life: we owe you bitter thanks:
Better have died and spilt our bones in the flood-Then men had said--but now--What hinders me
To take such bloody vengeance on you both?-Yet since our father--Wasps in our good hive,
You would-be quenchers of the light to be,
Barbarians, grosser than your native bears-O would I had his sceptre for one hour!
You that have dared to break our bound, and gulled
Our servants, wronged and lied and thwarted us-~I~ wed with thee! ~I~ bound by precontract
Your bride, our bondslave! not though all the gold
That veins the world were packed to make your crown,
And every spoken tongue should lord you. Sir,
Your falsehood and yourself are hateful to us:
I trample on your offers and on you:
Begone: we will not look upon you more.
Here, push them out at gates.'
In wrath she spake.
Then those eight mighty daughters of the plough
Bent their broad faces toward us and addressed
Their motion: twice I sought to plead my cause,
But on my shoulder hung their heavy hands,
The weight of destiny: so from her face
They pushed us, down the steps, and through the court,
And with grim laughter thrust us out at gates.
We crossed the street and gained a petty mound
Beyond it, whence we saw the lights and heard the voices murmuring. While I
listened, came
On a sudden the weird seizure and the doubt:
I seemed to move among a world of ghosts;
The Princess with her monstrous woman-guard,
The jest and earnest working side by side,
The cataract and the tumult and the kings
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Were shadows; and the long fantastic night
With all its doings had and had not been,
And all things were and were not.
This went by
As strangely as it came, and on my spirits
Settled a gentle cloud of melancholy;
Not long; I shook it off; for spite of doubts
And sudden ghostly shadowings I was one
To whom the touch of all mischance but came
As night to him that sitting on a hill
Sees the midsummer, midnight, Norway sun
Set into sunrise; then we moved away.
Thy voice is heard through rolling drums,
That beat to battle where he stands;
Thy face across his fancy comes,
And gives the battle to his hands:
A moment, while the trumpets blow,
He sees his brood about thy knee;
The next, like fire he meets the foe,
And strikes him dead for thine and thee.
So Lilia sang: we thought her half-possessed,
She struck such warbling fury through the words;
And, after, feigning pique at what she called
The raillery, or grotesque, or false sublime-Like one that wishes at a dance to change
The music--clapt her hands and cried for war,
Or some grand fight to kill and make an end:
And he that next inherited the tale
Half turning to the broken statue, said,
'Sir Ralph has got your colours: if I prove
Your knight, and fight your battle, what for me?'
It chanced, her empty glove upon the tomb
Lay by her like a model of her hand.
She took it and she flung it. 'Fight' she said,
'And make us all we would be, great and good.'
He knightlike in his cap instead of casque,
A cap of Tyrol borrowed from the hall,
Arranged the favour, and assumed the Prince.
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~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,#NFDB
419:The Bush
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,
That like a haze about your silence clings,
Moulding your void until we seem to see
Tangible Presences of Deathless Things,
Patterned but little to our spirits' woof,
Yet from our love or hate not all aloof,
Can. be the matrix where are forming slowly
Troy tales of Old Australia, to refine
Eras to come of ordered melancholy
'Neath lily-pale Perfection's anodyne.
For Troy hath ever been, and Homer sang
Its younger story for a lodging's fee,
While o'er Scamander settlers' axes rang
Amid the Bush where Ilium was to be.
For Cretan Art, dim centuries before,
Minoan Dream-times some Briseis bore.
Sumerian Phoebus by a willowed water
Song-built a Troy for far Chaldea, where
The sons of God, beholding Leda's daughter,
Bartered eternal thrones for love of her.
Across each terraced aeon Time hath sowed
With green tautology of vanished years,
Gaping aghast or webbed with shining lode,
Achilles' anger's earthquake-rift appears.
The towers that Phoebus builds can never fall:
Desire that Helen lights can never pall:
Yea, wounded Love hath still but gods to fly to,
When lust of war inflames Diomedes:
Must some Australian Hector vainly die, too?
Captives in ships? (0 change that omen, Trees!)
Yea, Mother Bush, in your deep dreams abide
Cupids alert for man and maid unborn,
Apprentice Pucks amid your saplings hide,
And wistful gorges wait a Roland horn:
Wallet of Sigurd shall this swag replace,
And centaurs curvet where those brumbies race.
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That drover's tale of love shall greaten duly
Through magic prisms of a myriad years,
Till bums Isolde to Tristram's fervour newly,
Or Launcelot to golden Guinevere's.
The miner cradling washdirt by the creek,
Or pulled through darkness dripping to the plat:
The navvy boring tunnels through the peak:
The farmer grubbing box-trees on the flat:
The hawker camping by the roadside spring:
The hodman on the giddy scaffolding:
Moths that around the fashion windows flutter:
The racecourse spider and the betting fly:
The children romping by the city gutter,
While baby crows to every passer-byFrom these rough blocks strewn o'er our ancient stream
Sculptors shall chisel brownie, fairy, faun,
Any myrmidons of some Homeric dream
From Melbourne mob and Sydney push be drawn.
The humdrum lives that now we tire of, then
Romance shall be, and 'we heroic men
Treading the vestibule of Golden Ages,
The Isthmus of the Land of Heart's Desire:
For lo! the Sybil's final volume's pages
Ope with our Advent, close when we expire.
Forgetful Change in one 'antiquity'
Boreal gleams shall drown, and southern glows;
Out of some singing woman's heart-break plea
Australia's dawn shall flush with Sappho's rose:
Strong Shirlow's hand shall trace Mantegna's line,
And Soma foam from Victor Daley's wine:
Scholars to be our prehistoric drama
From Esson's 'Woman Tamer' shall restore,
Or find in Gilbert's 'Lotus Stream and Lama'
An Austral Nile and Buddhas we adore.
The sunlit Satyrs follow Hugh McCrae,
Quinn spans the ocean with a Celtic ford,
And Williamson the Pan-pipe learns to play
From magpie-songs our schoolboy ears ignored:
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A sweeter woe no keen of Erin gave
Than Kendall sings o'er Araluen's grave:
Tasmanian Wordsworth to his chapel riding
The Burning Bush and Ardath mead shall pass,
Or, from the sea-coast of Bohemia gliding
On craft of dream, behold a shepherd lass.
Jessie Mackay on Southern Highlands sees
The elves deploy in kem and gallowglass:
Our Gilbert Murray writes 'Euripides':
Pirani merges in Pythagoras:
Marsyas plunges into Lethe, flayed,
From Rhadamanthine Stephens' steady blade:
While Benvenuto Morton, drunk with singing,
Sees salamanders in a bush-fire's bed,
And Spencer sails from Alcheringa bringing
Intaglios, totems and Books of the Dead.
On Southern fiords shall Brady's Long Snakes hiss,
Heavy with brides he wins to Viking troth:
O'Reilly's Sydney shall be Sybaris,
While Melbourne's Muses sup their Spartan broth:
Murdoch, Zenobia's counsellor, in time,
Redacts from Burke his book on The Sublime:
By Way was Homer into Greek translated:
And Shakespeare's self is Sophocles so plain
They know the kerb whereon the Furies waited
Outside the Mermaid Inn in Brogan's Lane.
Vane shall divide with Vern Eureka's fame;
Tillett and Mann are Tyler then and Cade:
Dowie's entwines with Cagliostro's name,
And in Tarpeia's, lo, those fair forms fade
Who drug the poor, for social bread and wine,
And lift the furtive latch to Catiline:
There, where the Longmore-featured Gracchi hurry,
And Greek-browed Higinbotham walks, anon,
The 'wealthy lower orders' leap the Murray
Before the stockwhip cracks of Jardine Don.
Cleons in 'Windsor dress at Syracuse
Their thin plebeians' promised meal delay;
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And Archibald begets Australia's Muse
Upon an undine red of Chowder Bay:
Paterson's swan draws Amphitrite's car,
And Sidon learns from Young what purples are:
Rose Scott refutes dogmatic Cyril gaily,
Hypatia turns the anti-suffrage flank,
And Herod's daughter sools her 'morning daily'
On John the Baptist by the Yarra Bank.
Yon regal bustard, fading hence ere long,
Shall seem the guide we followed to the Grail;
This lyre-bird on his dancing-mound of song
Our mystagogue of some Bacchantic vale,
Where feathered Pan guffaws 'Evoe!' above,
And Maenad curlews shriek their midnight love:
That trailing flight of distant swans is bearing
Sarpedon's soul to its eternal joy:
This ibis, from the very Nile, despairing,
Memnon our own would warn from fatal Troy.
Primeval gnomes distilled the golden bribes
That have impregnated your musing waste with men;
But shall the spell of your pathetic tribes
Curl round, in time, our fairer limbs again?
Through that long tunnel of your gloom, I see
Gardens of a metropolis to be!
Out of the depths the mountain ash is soaring
To embryon gods of what unsounded space?
Out of the heights what influence is pouring
Thin desolation on your haunted face?
Many there are who see no higher lot
For all your writhing centuries of toil
Than that the avaricious plough should blot
Their wilding burgeon, and the red brand spoil
Your cyclopean garniture, to sow
The cheap parterres of Europe on your woe.
They weave all sorceries but yours, and borrow
The tinkling spells of alien winds and seas
To drown the chord of purifying sorrow,
Bom ere the world, that pulses through your trees.
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For, save when we, in not o'er-subtle mood,
Hear magpies warbling soft November in,
Or, hand in hand with Love, a dreaming wood
Or bouldered crest of crisper April win,
Your harps, unblurred by glozing strings, intone
The dirges that behind Creation moan'Where, riding reinless billows, new lives dash on
The souring beach of yesterday's decay,
Where Love's chord leaps from mandrake shrieks of passion,
And groping gods mould man from quivering clay.
(Is Nature deaf and blind and dumb? A cruse
Unfilled of wine? Clay for an unbreathed soul?
Alien to man, till his desires transfuse
Their flames through wind and water, leaf and bole,
And each crude fane elaborately fit
With oracles that echo all his wit?
The living wilds of Greece saw death returning
When Pan that men had made fell from his throne:
Till through her sap our very blood is churning
The Bush her lonely alien woe shall moan!
Or is she reticent but to be kind?
Whispers she not beneath her mask of clods'Who asks he shall receive, who seeks shall find,
Who knocks shall open every door of God's?'
Dumb Faith's, blind Hope's eternal consort she,
Gravid with all that is on earth to be;
Corn, wine and oil in hungry granite hiding,
All Beauty under sober wings of clay,
All life beneath her dead heart long abiding,
Yea, all the gods her sons and she obey!)
What sin's wan expiation strewed your Vast
With mounded pillage of what conquering fire?
Slumbering throes of what prodigious Past
Exhale these lingering ghosts of its desire?
Sunshine that bleached corruption out, that glare?
Desolate blue of Purgatory, there?
Flagellant winds through guilty Eden scouring?
Sahara drowning Prester John's domain?
Satumian dam her progeny devouring?
Hath dawn-time Hun these footprints left? Hath Cain?
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Even the human wave, that shall at length
To man's endurance key your strident surge,
Sings in your poignant tones and sombre strength,
And makes, as yet, its own your primal dirge:
A gun-shot startles dawn back from the sky,
And mourning tea-trees echo Gordon's sigh:
Nardoo with Burke's faint sweat is dank for ever:
Spectral a tribe round poisoned rations shrieks:
Till doomday Leichhardt walks die Never Never:
Pensive, of Boake, the circling stock-whip speaks.
The wraiths unseen of roadside crimes unnamed
About that old-time shanty's ruins roam:
This squatter's fenceless acres hide ashamed
The hearth and battered zinc of Naboth's home:
Deserted 'yam-holes' pit your harmonies
With sloughing pock-marks of the gold-disease:
The sludgy creek 'mid hungry rushes rambles,
Where teal once dived and lowan raised her mound:
That tree, with crows, o'erlooks the township shambles:
These paddocks, ordure-smeared, the city bound.
0 yield not all to factory and farm!
For we, who drew a milk no stranger knows
From her scant paps, yearn for the acrid charm
That gossamers the Bush Where No Tree Grows.
And we have ritual moments when we crave
For worship in some messmate-pillared nave,
Where contrite 'bears' for woodland sins are kneeling,
And, 'mid the censers of the mountain musk,
Acolyte bell-birds the Angelus are pealing,
And boobooks moan lone vespers in the dusk,
And you have Children of the Dreaming Star,
Who care but little for the crowded ways
Where meagre spirits' vapid prizes are,
Or for the paddocked ease of dreamless days
And hedges clipped of every sunny growth
That plights the soul to God in daily troth:
Their wayward love prefers your desolation,
Or (where the human trail hath seared its charm)
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The briar-rose on some abandoned 'station',
To all the tilled obedience of the farm.
Vineyards that purblind thrift shall never glean
The weedy waste and thistly gully hold:
No mint shall melt to currency unclean
Yon river-rounded hillock's Cape-broom gold:
The onion-grass upon that dark green slope
Returns our gaze from eyes of heliotrope:
But more we seek your underflowered expanses
Of scrub monotonous, or, where, O Bush,
The craters of your fiery noon's romances,
Like great firm bosoms, through the bare plains push.
As many. Mother, are your moods and forms
As all the sons who love you. Here, you mow
Careering grounds for every brood of storms
The wild sea-mares to desert stallions throw;
Anon, up through a sea of sand you glance
With green ephemeral exuberance,
And then quick seeds dive deep to years of slumber
From hot-hoofed drought's precipitate return:
There, league on league, the snow's cold fingers number
The shrinking nerves of supple-jack and fern.
To other eyes and ears you are a great
Pillared cathedral tremulously green,
An odorous and hospitable gate
To genial mystery, the happy screen
Of truants or of lovers rambling there
'Neath sun-shot boughs o'er miles of maidenhair.
Wee rubies dot the leaflets of the cherries,
The wooing wagtails hop from log to bough,
The bronzewing comes from Queensland for the berries,
The bell-bird by the creek is calling now.
And you can ride, an Eastern queen, they say,
By living creatures sumptuously borne,
With all barbaric equipages gay,
Beneath the torrid blue of Capricorn.
That native lotus is the very womb
That was the Hindoo goddess' earthly tomb.
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The gang-gang screams o'er cactus wildernesses,
Palm trees are there, and swampy widths of rice,
Unguents and odours ooze from green recesses,
The jungles blaze with birds of Paradise.
But I, in city exile, hear you sing
Of saplinged hill and box-tree dotted plain,
Or silver-grass that prays the North Wind's wing
Convey its sigh to the loitering rain:
And Spring is half distraught with wintry gusts,
Summer the daily spoil of tropic lusts
The sun and she too fiercely shared together
Lingering thro' voluptuous Hindoo woods,
But o'er my windless, soft autumnal weather
The peace that passes understanding broods.
When, now, they say 'The Bush!', I see the top
Delicate amber leanings of the gum
Flutter, or flocks of screaming green leeks drop
Silent, where in the shining morning hum
The gleaning bees for honey-scented hours
'Mid labyrinthine leaves and white gum flowers.
Cantering midnight hoofs are nearing, nearing,
The straining bullocks flick the harpy flies,
The 'hatter' weeds his melancholy clearing,
The distant cow-bell tinkles o'er the rise.
You are the brooding comrade of our way,
Whispering rumour of a new Unknown,
Moulding us white ideals to obey,
Steeping whate'er we learn in lore your own,
And freshening with unpolluted light
The squalid city's day and pallid night,
Till we become ourselves distinct, Australian,
(Your native lightning charging blood and nerve),
Stripped to the soul of borrowed garments, alien
To that approaching Shape of God you serve.
Brooding, brooding, your whispers murmur plain
That searching for the clue to mystery
In grottos of decrepitude is vain,
That never shall the eye of prophet see
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In crooked Trade's tumultuous streets the plan
Of templed cities adequate to man.
Brooding, brooding, you make us Brahmins waiting
(While uninspired pass on the hurtling years),
Faithful to dreams your spirit is creating,
Till Great Australia, born of you, appears.
For Great Australia is not yet: She waits
(Where o'er the Bush prophetic auras play)
The passing of these temporary States,
Flaunting their tawdry flags of far decay.
Her aureole above the alien mists
Beacons our filial eyes to mountain trysts:
'Mid homely trees with all ideals fruited,
She shelters us till Trade's Simoom goes by,
And slakes our thirst from cisterns unpolluted .
For ages cold in brooding deeps of sky.
We love our brothers, and to heal their woe
Pluck simples from the known old gardens still:
We love our kindred over seas, and grow
Their symbols tenderly o'er plain and hill;
We feel their blood rebounding in our hearts,
And speak as they would speak our daily parts:
But under all we know, we know that only
A virgin womb unsoiled by ancient fear
Can Saviours bear. So, we, your Brahmins, lonely,
Deaf to the barren tumult, wait your Year.
The Great Year's quivering dawn pencils the Night
To be the morning of our children's prime,
And weave from rays of yet ungathered Light
A richer noon than e'er apparelled Time.
If it must be, as Tuscan wisdom knew,
Babylon's seer, and wistful Egypt too,
That mellow afternoon shall pensive guide us
Down somnolent Decay's ravine to rest,
Then you, reborn, 0 Mother Bush, shall hide us
All the long night at your dream-laden breast.
Australian eyes that heed your lessons know
Another world than older pilgrims may:
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Prometheus chained in Kosciusko's snow
Sees later gods than Zeus in turn decay:
Boundless plateaux expand the spirit's sight,
Resilient gales uphold her steeper flight:
And your close beating heart, 0 savage Mother,
Throbs secret words of joy and starker pain
Than reach the ears all old deceptions smother
In Lebanon, or e'en in Westermain.
We marvel not, who hear your undersong,
And catch a glimpse in rare exalted hours
Of something like a Being gleam along
Festooned arcades of flossie creeper flowers,
Or, toward the mirk, seem privileged to share
The silent rapture of the trees at prayerWe marvel not that seers in other ages,
With eyes unstrained by peering logic, saw
The desolation glow with Koran pages,
Or Sinai stones with Tables of the Law.
Homers are waiting in the gum trees now,
Far driven from the tarnished Cyclades:
More Druids to your green enchantment bow
Than 'neath unfaithful Mona's vanished trees:
A wind hath spirited from ageing France
To our fresh hills the carpet of Romance:
Heroes and maids of old with young blood tingling
In ampler gardens grow their roses new:
And races long apart their manas mingling
Prepare the cradle of an Advent due.
And those who dig the mounded eld for runes
To read Religion's tangled cipher, here,
Where all Illusion haunts the fainting noons
Of days hysteric with the tireless leer
Of ravenous enamoured suns, shall find
How May a flings her mantle o'er the mind,
Till sober sand to shining water changes,
Dodona whispers from the she-oak groves,
Afreets upon the tempest cross the ranges,
And Fafnir through the bunyip marshes roves.
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Once, when Uranian Love appeared to glow
Through that abysmal Night that bounds our reignLove that a man may scarcely feel and know i
Quite the same world as other men againWith earthward-streaming frontier wraiths distraught,
Your oracles, 0 Mother Bush, I sought:
But found, dismayed, that eerie light revealing
Those wraiths already in your depths on sleuth,
Termagant Scorns along your hillsides stealing,
Remorse unbaring slow her barbed tooth.
My own thoughts first from far dispersion flew
Back to their sad creator, with the crops
Of woes in flower and all the harvests due
Till tiring Time the fearful seeding stops:
In pigmy forms of friends and foes, anon
In my own image, they came, stung, were gone:
And then I heard the voice of Him Who Questions,
Knowing the faltered answer ere it came,
Chilling the soul by hovering suggestions
Of wan damnation at a wince of blame.
And all your leaves in symbols were arranged,
Despairs long dead would leap from bough to bough,
A gum-tree buttress to a goblin changed
Grinning the warmth of some old broken vow:
Furtive desires for scarce-remembered maids
Glanced in a fearful bo-peep from your shades:
Till you became a purgatory cleansing
With rosy flakes in form of manikins,
To fiercer shame within my soul condensing,
The dim pollution of forgotten sins.
And She, the human symbol of that Love,
Would, as my cleansed eyes forgot their fear,
Comrade beside me. Comforter above,
With sunny smile ubiquitous appear:
Run on before me to the nooks we knew,
Walk hand in hand as glad young lovers do,
Gravely reprove me toying with temptation,
Show me the eyes and ears in roots and clods,
Bend with me o'er some blossom's revelation,
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Or read from clouds the judgments of the gods.
My old ideals She would tune until
The grating note of self no longer rang:
She drove the birds of gloom and evil will
Out of the cote wherein my poems sang.
Time at Her wand annulled his calendar,
And Space his fallacy of Near and Far,
For through my Bush along with me She glided,
And crowded days of Beauty made more fair,
Though lagging weeks and ocean widths divided
Her mortal casing from Her Presence there.
Her wetted finger oped my shuttered eyes
To boyhood's scership of the Real again:
Upon the Bush descended from the skies
The rapt-up Eden of primordial men:
August Dominions through the vistas strode:
On white-maned clouds the smiling cherubs rode:
Maltreated Faith restored my jangled hearing
Till little seraphs sang from chip and clod:
And prayers were radiant children that, unfearing,
Floated as kisses to the lips of God.
It matters not that for some purpose wise
Myopic Reason censored long ago
The revelations of that Paradise,
When, back of all I feel or will or know,
Its silent angels beacon through the Dark
And point to harbours new my drifted ark.
Nor need we dread the fogs that round us thicken
Questing the Bush for Grails decreed for man,
When Powers our fathers saw unseen still quicken
Eyes that were ours before the world began.
'Twas then I saw the Vision of the Ways,
And 'mid their gloom and glory seemed to live,
Threaded the coverts of the Dark Road's maze,
Toiled up, with tears, the Track Retributive,
And, on the Path of Grace, beheld aglow
The love-lit Nave of all that wheeled below.
And She who flowered, my Mystic Rose, in Heaven,
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And lit the Purging Mount, my Guiding Star,
Trudged o'er the marl, my mate, through Hell's wan levin,
Nor shrank, like lonely Dante's love, afar.
High towered a cloud over one leafy wild,
And to a bridged volcano grew. Above,
A great Greek group of father, mother, child,
Illumed a narrow round with radiant love.
Below, a smoke-pool thick with faces swirled,
The mutinous omen. of an Under-world,
Defeated, plundered, blackened, but preparing,
E'en though that calm, white dominance fell down,
To overflow the rim, and, sunward faring,
Shape myriad perfect groups from slave and clown.
Or thus I read the symbol, though 'twas sent
To hound compunction on my wincing pride,
That dreamed of raceless brotherhood, content
Though all old Charm dissolved and Glory died.
For often signs will yield their deeper signs,
Virginal Bush, in your untrodden shrines,
Than where the craven ages' human clamour
Distorts the boldest oracle with fear,
Or where dissolving wizards dew with glamour
Arden, Broceliande, or Windermere.
Once while my mother by a spreading tree
Our church's sober rubric bade me con,
My vagrant eyes among the boughs would see
Forbidden wings and •wizard aprons on
Father's 'wee people' from their Irish glades
Brighten and darken with your lights and shades.
And I would only read again those stern leaves
For whispered bribe that, when their tale I told,
We would go and look for fairies in the fern-leaves
And red-capped leprechauns with crocks of gold.
Anon, my boyhood saw how Sunbursts flamed
Or filmy hinds lured on a pale Oisin,
Where lithe indignant saplings crowding claimed
The digger's ravage for their plundered queen:
And heard within yon lichened 'mullock-heap'
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Lord Edward's waiting horsemen moan in sleep:
Or flew the fragrant path of swans consoling
Lir's exiled daughter wandering with me,
And traced below the Wattle River rolling
Exuberant and golden toward the sea.
Here, would the •wavering wings of heat uplift
Some promontory till the tree-crowned pile
Above a phantom sea would swooning drift,
St. Brendan's vision of the Winged Isle:
Anon, the isle divides again, again,
Till archipelagos poise o'er the main.
There, lazy fingers of a breeze have scattered
The distant blur of factory chimney smoke
hi poignant groups of all the young lives shattered
To feed the ravin of a piston-stroke!
Or when I read the tale of what you were
Beyond these hungry eyes' home-keeping view,
I peopled petrel rocks with Sirens fair,
In Maid Mirage the Fairy Morgan knew,
Steered Quetzalcoatl's skiff to coral coasts,
On Chambers' Pillar throned the Olympian hosts,
Heard in white sulphur-crested parrots' screeches
Remorseful Peris vent their hopeless rage,
Atlantis' borders traced on sunken beaches,
m Alcheringa found the Golden Age.
Sibyl and Siren, with alternate breaths
You read our foetal nation's boon and bane,
And lure to trysts of orgiastic Deaths
Adventurous love that listens to your strain:
Pelsarts and Vanderdeckens of the world
Circle your charms or at your feet are hurled:
And, Southern witch, whose glamour drew De Quiros
O'er half the earth for one unyielded kiss,
Were yours the arms that healed the scalded Eros
When Psyche's curious lamp darkened their bliss?
Ye, who would challenge when we claim to see
The bush alive with Northern wealth of wings,
Forget that at a common mother's knee
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We learned, with you, the lore of Silent Things.
There is no New that is not older far
Than swirling cradle of the first-born star:
Our youngest hearts prolong the far pulsation
And churn the brine of the primordial sea:
The foetus writes the précis of Creation:
Australia is the whole world's legatee.
Imagination built her throne in us
Before your present bodies saw the sky:
Your myths were counters of our abacus,
And in your brain developed long our eye:
We from the misty folk have also sprung
Who saw the gnomes and heard the Ever Young:
Do Southern skies the fancy disinherit
Of moly flower and Deva-laden breeze?
Do nerves attuned by old defect and merit
Their timbre lose by crossing tropic seas?
All mysteries ye claim as yours alone
Have wafted secrets over oceans here:
Our living soil Antiquity hath sown
With just the corn and tares ye love and fear:
Romance and song enthral us just as you,
Nor change of zenith changes spirit too:
Our necks as yours are sore with feudal halters:
To the Pole ye know our compasses are set;
And shivering years that huddled round your altars
Beneath our stars auspicious tremble yet.
Who fenced the nymphs in European vales?
Or Pan tabooed from all but Oxford dreams?
Warned Shakespeare off from foreign Plutarch's tales?
Or tethered Virgil to Italian themes?
And when the body sailed from your control
Think ye we left behind in bond the soul?
Whate'er was yours is ours in equal measure,
The Temple was not built for you alone,
Altho' 'tis ours to grace the common treasure
With Lares and Penates of our own!
Ye stole yourselves from gardens fragrant long
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The sprouting seed-pods of your choicest blooms,
And wove the splendid garments of your song
From Viking foam on grave Hebraic looms:
'Twas Roman nerve and rich Hellenic lymph
Changed your pale pixie to a nubile nymph:
Yea, breathed at dawn around Atlantis' islands,
Wind-home o'er some Hesperidean road,
The morning clouds on dim Accadian highlands
Spring-fed the Nile that over Hellas flowed!
As large-eyed Greek amid Sicilian dews
Saw Dis, as ne'er before, pursue the Maid,
Or, safe 'neath screening billows, Arethuse
Alpheus' rugged sleuth unsoiled evade:
We shall complete the tale ye left half-told,
Under the ocean lead your fountains old,
To slake our sceptic thirst with haunted water,
And tame our torrents with a wedding kiss,
Shall loose, mayhap, the spell on Ceres' daughter,
And show, unclouded, God in very Dis.
(Yet, there are moods and mornings when I hear,
Above the music of the Bush's breath,
The rush of alien breezes far and near
Drowning her oracles to very death:
Exotic battle-cries the silence mar,
Seductive perfumes drive the gum-scent far;
And organ-tones august a moment show me
Miltonic billows and Homeric gales
Until I feel the older worlds below me,
And all her wonder trembles, thins and fails.)
Yea, you are all that we may be, and yet
In us is all you are to be for aye!
The Giver of the gifts that we shall get?
An empty womb that waits the wedding day?
Thus drifting sense by age-long habit buoyed
Plays round the thought that knows all nature void!
And so, my song alternate would believe her
Idiot Bush and Daughter of the Sun,
A worthless gift apart from the receiver,
An empty womb, but in a Deathless One.
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To shapes we would of Freedom, Truth and Joy
Shall we your willing plasm mould for man:
Afresh rebuild the world, and thus destroy
What only Ragnarok in Europe can:
There is no Light but in your dark blendes sleeps,
Drops from your stars or through your ether leaps:
Yea, you are Nature, Chaos since Creation,
Waiting what human Word to chord in song?
Matrix inert of what auspicious nation?
For what far bees your nectar hiving long?
Exhausted manas of the conquering North
Shall rise refreshed to vivid life again
At your approach, and in your lap pour forth
Grateful the gleanings of his mighty reign:
As, when a tropic heat-king southward crawls,
Blistering the ranges, till he hears the calls
Of some cold high-browed bride, her streaming tresses,
Sprinkled with rose-buds, make his wild eyes thrill
To such desire for her superb caresses
He yields his fiery treasures to her will.
'Where is Australia, singer, do you know?
These sordid farms and joyless factories,
Mephitic mines and lanes of pallid woe?
Those ugly towns and cities such as these
With incense sick to all unworthy power,
And all old sin in full malignant flower?
No! to her bourn her children still are faring:
She is a Temple that we are to build:
For her the ages have been long preparing:
She is a prophecy to be fulfilled!
All that we love in olden lands and lore
Was signal of her coming long ago!
Bacon foresaw her, Campanella, More
And Plato's eyes were with her star aglow!
Who toiled for Truth, whate'er their countries were,
Who fought for Liberty, they yearned for her!
No corsair's gathering ground, or tryst for schemers,
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No chapman Carthage to a huckster Tyre,
She is the Eldorado of old dreamers,
The Sleeping Beauty of the world's desire!
She is the scroll on which we are to write
Mythologies our own and epics new:
She is the port of our propitious flight
From Ur idolatrous and Pharaoh's crew.
She is our own, unstained, if worthy we,
By dream, or god, or star we would not see:
Her crystal beams all but the eagle dazzle;
Her wind-wide ways none but the strong-winged sail:
She is Eutopia, she is Hy-Brasil,
The watchers on the tower of morning hail I
Yet she shall be as we, the Potter, mould:
Altar or tomb, as we aspire, despair:
What wine we bring shall she, the chalice, hold:
What word we write shall she, the script, declare:
Bandage our eyes, she shall be Memphis, Spain:
Barter our souls, she shall be Tyre again:
And if we pour on her the red oblation
All o'er the world shall Asshur's buzzards throng:
Love-lit, her Chaos shall become Creation:
And dewed with dream, her silence flower in song.
~ Bernard O'Dowd,#NFDB
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Ahana
(Ahana, the Dawn of God, descends on the world where amid the strife and trouble of mortality the Hunters of Joy, the
Seekers after Knowledge, the Climbers in the quest of Power are toiling up the slopes or waiting in the valleys. As she stands on the mountains of the East, voices of the Hunters of Joy are the first to greet her.)
Vision delightful alone on the hills whom the silences cover,
Closer yet lean to mortality; human, stoop to thy lover.
Wonderful, gold like a moon in the square of the sun where thou strayest
Glimmers thy face amid crystal purities; mighty thou playest
Sole on the peaks of the world, unafraid of thy loneliness. Glances
Leap from thee down to us, dream-seas and light-falls and magical trances;
Sun-drops flake from thy eyes and the heart's caverns packed are with pleasure
Strange like a song without words or the dance of a measureless measure.
Tread through the edges of dawn, over twilight's grey-lidded margin;
Heal earth's unease with thy feet, O heaven-born delicate virgin.
Children of Time whose spirits came down from eternity, seizing
Joys that escape us, yoked by our hearts to a labour unceasing,
Earth-bound, torn with our longings, our life is a brief incompleteness.
Thou hast the stars to sport with, the winds run like bees to thy sweetness.
Art thou not heaven-bound even as I with the earth? Hast thou ended
All desirable things in a stillness lone and unfriended?
Only is calm so sweet? is our close tranquillity only?
Cold are the rivers of peace and their banks are leafless and lonely.
Heavy is godhead to bear with its mighty sun-burden of lustre.
Art thou not weary of only the stars in their solemn muster,
Sky-hung the chill bare plateaus and peaks where the eagle rejoices
In the inhuman height of his nesting, solitude's voices
Making the heart of the silence lonelier? strong and untiring,
Deaf with the cry of the waterfall, lonely the pine lives aspiring.
Two are the ends of existence, two are the dreams of the Mother:
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Heaven unchanging, earth with her time-beats yearn to each other, -
Earth-souls needing the touch of the heavens peace to recapture,
Heaven needing earth's passion to quiver its peace into rapture.
Marry, O lightning eternal, the passion of a moment-born fire!
Out of thy greatness draw close to the breast of our mortal desire!
Is he thy master, Rudra the mighty, Shiva ascetic?
Has he denied thee his world? In his dance that they tell of, ecstatic,
Slaying, creating, calm in the midst of the movement and madness,
Stole there no rhythm of an earthly joy and a mortal sadness?
Wast thou not made in the shape of a woman? Sweetness and beauty
Move like a song of the gods in thy limbs and to love is thy duty
Graved in thy heart as on tablets of fate; joy's delicate blossom
Sleeps in thy lids of delight; all Nature hides in thy bosom
Claiming her children unborn and the food of her love and her laughter.
Is he the first? was there none then before him? shall none come after?
He who denies and his blows beat down on our hearts like a hammer's,
He whose calm is the silent reply to our passion and clamours!
Is not there deity greater here new-born in a noble
Labour and sorrow and struggle than stilled into rapture immobile?
Earth has beatitudes warmer than heaven's that are bare and undying,
Marvels of Time on the crest of the moments to Infinity flying.
Earth has her godheads; the Tritons sway on the toss of the billows,
Emerald locks of the Nereids stream on their foam-crested pillows,
Dryads peer out from the branches, Naiads glance up from the waters;
High are her flame-points of joy and the gods are ensnared by her daughters.
Artemis calls as she flees through the glades and the breezes pursue her;
Cypris laughs in her isles where the ocean-winds linger to woo her.
Here thou shalt meet amid beauty forgotten the dance of the Graces;
Night shall be haunted for ever with strange and delicate faces.
Music is here of the fife and the flute and the lyre and the timbal,
Wind in the forests, bees in the grove, - spring's ardent cymbal
Thrilling, the cry of the cuckoo; the nightingale sings in the branches,
Human laughter is heard and the cattle low in the ranches.
Frankly and sweetly she gives to her children the bliss of her body,
Breath of her lips and the green of her garments, rain-pourings heady
Tossed from her cloud-carried beaker of tempest, oceans and streamlets,
Dawn and the mountain-air, corn-fields and vineyards, pastures and hamlets,
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Tangles of sunbeams asleep, mooned dream-depths, twilight's shadows,
Taste and scent and the fruits of her trees and the flowers of her meadows,
Life with her wine-cup of longing under the purple of her tenture,
Death as her gate of escape and rebirth and renewal of venture.
Still must they mutter that all here is vision and passing appearance,
Magic of Maya with falsehood and pain for its only inherence.
One is there only, apart in his greatness, the End and Beginning, -
He who has sent through his soul's wide spaces the universe spinning.
One eternal, Time an illusion, life a brief error!
One eternal, Master of heaven - and of hell and its terror!
Spirit of silence and purity rapt and aloof from creation, -
Dreaming through aeons unreal his splendid and empty formation!
Spirit all-wise in omnipotence shaping a world but to break it, -
Pushed by what mood of a moment, the breath of what fancy to make it?
None is there great but the eternal and lonely, the unique and unmated,
Bliss lives alone with the self-pure, the single, the forever-uncreated.
Truths? or thought's structures bridging the vacancy mute and unsounded
Facing the soul when it turns from the stress of the figures around it?
Solely we see here a world self-made by some indwelling Glory
Building with forms and events its strange and magnificent story.
Yet at the last has not all been solved and unwisdom demolished,
Myth cast out and all dreams of the soul, and all worship abolished?
All now is changed, the reverse of the coin has been shown to us; Reason
Waking, detecting the hoax of the spirit, at last has arisen,
Captured the Truth and built round her its bars that she may not skedaddle,
Gallop again with the bit in her teeth and with Fancy in the saddle.
Now have the wise men discovered that all is the craft of a superMagic of Chance and a movement of Void and inconscient Stupor.
Chance by a wonderful accident ever her ripples expanding
Out of a gaseous circle of Nothingness, implacably extending
Freak upon freak, repeating rigidly marvels on marvels,
Making a world out of Nothing, started on the arc of her travels.
Nothingness born into feeling and action dies back to Nothing.
Sea of a vague electricity, romping through space-curves and clothing
Strangely the Void with a semblance of Matter, painfully flowered
Into this giant phenomenon universe. Man who has towered
Out of the plasm and struggled by thought to Divinity's level,
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Man, this miniature second creator of good and of evil,
He too was only a compost of Matter made living, organic,
Forged as her thinking tool by an Energy blind and mechanic.
Once by an accident queer but quite natural, provable, simple,
Out of blind Space-Nought lashed into life, wearing Mind as its wimple,
Dupe of a figment of consciousness, doped with behaviour and feature,
Matter deluded claimed to be spirit and sentient creature.
All the high dreams man has dreamed and his hopes and his deeds, his soul's greatness
Are but a food-seeking animal's acts with the mind for their witness, -
Mind a machine for the flickers of thought, Matter's logic unpremissed, -
Are but a singular fireworks, chemistry lacking the chemist,
Matter's nervous display; the heart's passion, the sorrow and burning
Fire of delight and sweet ecstasy, love and its fathomless yearning,
Boundless spiritual impulses making us one with world-being,
Outbursts of vision opening doors to a limitless seeing,
Gases and glands and the genes and the nerves and the brain-cells have done it,
Brooded out drama and epic, structured the climb of the sonnet,
Studied the stars and discovered the brain and the laws of its thinking,
Sculptured the cave-temple, reared the cathedral, infinity drinking
Wrought manufacturing God and the soul for the uplift of Nature, -
Science, philosophy, head of his mystical chemical stature,
Music and painting revealing the godhead in sound and in colour,
Acts of the hero, thoughts of the thinker, search of the scholar,
All the magnificent planning, all the inquiry and wonder
Only a trick of the atom, its marvellous magical blunder.
Who can believe it? Something or someone, a Force or a Spirit
Conscious, creative, wonderful shaped out a world to inherit
Here for the beings born from its vast universal existence, -
Fields of surprise and adventure, vistas of light-haunted distance,
Play-routes of wisdom and vision and struggle and rapture and sorrow,
Sailing in Time through the straits of today to the sea of tomorrow.
Worlds and their wonders, suns and their flamings, earth and her nations,
Voyages endless of Mind through the surge of its fate-tossed creations,
Star upon star throbbing out in the silence of infinite spaces,
Species on species, bodies on bodies, faces on faces,
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Souls without number crossing through Time towards eternity, aeons
Crowding on aeons, loving and battle, dirges and paeans,
Thoughts ever leaping, hopes ever yearning, lives ever streaming,
Millions and millions on trek through the days with their doings and dreaming,
Herds of the Sun who move on at the cry of the radiant drover, -
Countless, surviving the death of the centuries, lost to recover,
Finished, but only to begin again, who is its tireless creator,
Cause or the force of its driving, its thinker or formless dictator?
Surely no senseless Vacancy made it, surely 'twas fashioned
By an almighty One million-ecstasied, thousand-passioned.
Self-made? then by what self from which thought could arise and emotion,
Waves that well up to the surface, born from what mysteried ocean?
Nature alone is the fountain. But what is she? Is she not only
Figure and name for what none understands, though all feel, or a lonely
Word in which all finds expression, spirit-heights, dumb work of Matter, -
Vague designation filling the gaps of our thought with its clatter?
Power without vision that blunders in man into thinking and sinning?
Rigid, too vast inexhaustible mystery void of a meaning?
Energy blindly devising, unconsciously ranging in order?
Chance in the march of a cosmic Insanity crossing the border
Out of the eternal silence to thought and its strangeness and splendour?
Consciousness born by an accident until an accident end her?
Nought else is she but the power of the Spirit who dwells in her ever,
Witness and cause of her workings, lord of her pauseless endeavour.
All things she knows, though she seems here unseeing; even in her slumber
Wondrous her works are, design and its magic and magic of number,
Plan of her mighty cosmic geometry, balance of forces,
Universe flung beyond universe, law of the stars and their courses,
Cosmos atomic stretched to the scale of the Infinite's measure.
Mute in the trance of the Eternal she sleeps with the stone and the azure.
Now she awakes; for life has just stirred in her, stretching first blindly
Outward for sense and its pleasure and pain and the gifts of the kindly
Mother of all, for her light and her air and the sap from her flowing,
Pleasure of bloom and inconscient beauty, pleasure of growing.
Then into mind she arises; heart's yearning awakes and reflection
Looks out on struggle and harmony, - conscious, her will of selection
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Studies her works and illumines the choice of her way; last, slowly
Inward she turns and stares at the Spirit within her. Holy
Silences brood in her heart and she feels in her ardent recesses
Passions too great for her frame, on her body immortal caresses.
Into the calm of the Greatness beyond her she enters, burning
Now with a light beyond thought's, towards Self and Infinity turning,
Turned to beatitude, turned to eternity, spiritual grandeur,
Power without limit, ecstasy imperishable, shadowless splendour.
Then to her mortals come, flashing, thoughts that are wisdom's fire-kernel;
Leaping her flame-sweeps of might and delight and of vision supernal
Kindle the word and the act, the Divine and humanity fusing,
Illuminations, trance-seeds of silence, flowers of musing, -
Light of our being that yet has to be, its glory and glimmer
Smiting with sunrise the soul of the sage and the heart of the dreamer.
Or is it all but a vain expectation and effort ungrounded,
Wings without body, sight without object, waters unsounded,
Hue of a shimmer that steals through some secret celestial portal,
Glory of a gleam or a dream in an animal brief-lived and mortal?
Are they not radiances native to heaven's more fortunate ether,
Won when we part from this body, this temporal house of a nether
Mystery of life lived in vain? Upon earth is the glory forbidden,
Nature for ever accursed, frustrated, grief-vexed, fate-ridden?
Half of the glory she dreamed of forgotten or lost in earth's darkness,
Half of it mangled and missed as the death-wheels whirl in their starkness,
Cast out from heaven a goddess rebellious with mind for her mirror,
Cursed with desire and self-will and doomed to self-torture and error,
Came she to birth then with God for her enemy? Were we created
He unwilling or sleeping? did someone transgress the fated
Limits he set, outwitting God? In the too hasty vision
Marred of some demiurge filmed there the blur of a fatal misprision,
Making a world that revolves on itself in a circuit of failure,
Aeons of striving, death for a recompense, Time for our tenure?
Out of him rather she came and for him are her cry and her labour;
Deep are her roots in him; topless she climbs, to his greatness a neighbour.
All is himself in her, brooding in darkness, mounting the sun-ways;
Air-flight to him is man's journey with heaven and earth for the runways.
He is the witness and doer, he is the loved and the lover,
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He the eternal Truth that we look in ourselves to discover.
All is his travel in Time; it is he who turns history's pages,
Act and event and result are the trail that he leaves through the ages;
Form and idea are his signs and number and sound are his symbols,
Music and singing, the word and its rhythm are Divinity's cymbals,
Thunder and surge are the drums of his marching. Through us, with urges
Self-ward, form-bound, mute, motionless, slowly inevitably emerges
Vast as the cosmos, minute as the atom, the Spirit eternal.
Often the gusts of his force illumining moments diurnal
Flame into speech and idea; transcendences splendid and subtle
Suddenly shoot through the weft of our lives from a magical shuttle;
Hid in our hearts is his glory; the Spirit works in our members.
Silence is he, with our voices he speaks, in our thoughts he remembers.
Deep in our being inhabits the voiceless invisible Teacher;
Powers of his godhead we live; the Creator dwells in the creature.
Out of his Void we arise to a mighty and shining existence,
Out of Inconscience, tearing the black Mask's giant resistance;
Waves of his consciousness well from him into these bodies in Nature,
Forms are put round him; his oneness, divided by mind's nomenclature,
High on the summits of being ponders immobile and single,
Penetrates atom and cell as the tide drenches sand-grain and shingle.
Oneness unknown to us dwells in these millions of figures and faces,
Wars with itself in our battles, loves in our clinging embraces,
Inly the self and the substance of things and their cause and their mover
Veiled in the depths which the foam of our thoughts and our life's billows cover,
Heaves like the sea in its waves; like heaven with its star-fires it gazes
Watching the world and its works. Interned in the finite's mazes,
Still shall he rise to his vast superconscience, we with him climbing;
Truth of man's thought with the truth of God's spirit faultlessly timing,
That which was mortal shall enter immortality's golden precincts,
Hushed breath of ecstasy, honey of lotus depths where the bee sinks,
Timeless expanses too still for the voice of the hours to inveigle,
Spaces of spirit too vast for the flight of the God-bearing eagle, -
Enter the Splendour that broods now unseen on us, deity invading,
Sight without error, light without shadow, beauty unfading,
Infinite largeness, rapture eternal, love none can sever,
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Life, not this death-play, but a power God-driven and blissful for ever.
"No," cry the wise, "for a circle was traced, there was pyloned a limit
Only we escape through dream's thin passages. None can disclaim it;
All things created are made by their borders, sketched out and coded;
Vain is the passion to divinise manhood, humanise godhead.
None can exceed himself; even to find oneself hard for our search is:
Only we see as in night by a lustre of flickering torches.
To be content with our measure, our space is the law of our living.
All of thyself to thy manhood and Nature and Circumstance giving,
Be what thou must be or be what thou canst be, one hour in an era.
Knowing the truth of thy days, shun the light of ideal and chimera:
Curb heart's impatience, bind thy desires down, pause from self-vexing."
Who is the nomad then? who is the seeker, the gambler risking
All for a dream in a dream, the old and the sure and the stable
Flung as a stake for a prize that was never yet laid on the table?
Always the world is expanding and growing from minute to minute;
Playing the march of the adventure of Time with our lives for her spinet
Maya or Nature, the wonderful Mother, strikes out surprising
Strains of the spirit disprisoned; creation heavenward rising
Wrestles with Time and Space and the Unknown to give form to the Formless.
Bliss is her goal, but her road is through whirlwind and death-blast and storm-race.
All is a wager and danger, all is a chase and a battle.
Vainly man, crouched in his corner of safety, shrinks from the fatal
Lure of the Infinite. Guided by Powers that surround and precede us
Fearful and faltering steps are our perishing efforts that lead us
On through the rooms of the finite till open the limitless spaces
And we can look into all-seeing eyes and imperishable faces.
But we must pass through the aeons; Space is a bar twixt our ankles,
Time is a weight that we drag and the scar of the centuries rankles:
Caught by the moments, held back from the spirit's timelessness, slowly
Wading in shallows we take not the sea-plunge vastly and wholly.
Hard is the way to the Eternal for the mind-born will of the mortal
Bound by the body and life to the gait of the house-burdened turtle.
Here in this world that knows not its morrow, this reason that stumbles
Onward from error to truth and from truth back to error while crumbles
All that it fashioned, after the passion and travail are ended,
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After the sacrifice offered when the will and the strength are expended,
Nothing is done but to have laid down one stone of a road without issue,
Added our quota of evil and good to an ambiguous tissue.
Destiny's lasso, its slip-knot tied by delight and repining,
Draws us through tangles of failure and victory's inextricable twining.
In the hard reckoning made by the grey-robed accountant at even
Pain is the ransom we pay for the smallest foretaste of heaven.
Ignorance darkens, death and inconscience gape to absorb us;
Thick and persistent the Night confronts us, its hunger enormous
Swallowing our work and our lives. Our love and our knowledge squandered
Lie like a treasure refused and trod down on the ways where we wandered;
All we have done is effaced by the thousands behind us arriving.
Trapped in a round fixed for ever circles our thought and our living.
Fiercely the gods in their jealousy strike down the heads that have neighboured
Even for a moment their skies; in the sands our achievements are gravured.
Yet survives bliss in the rhythm of our heart-beats, yet is there wonder,
Beauty's immortal delight, and the seals of the mystery sunder.
Honied a thousand whispers come, in the birds, in the breezes,
Moonlight, the voices of streams; with a hundred marvellous faces
Always he lures us to love him, always he draws us to pleasure
Leaving remembrance and anguish behind for our only treasure.
Passionate we seek for him everywhere, yearn for some sign of him, calling,
Scanning the dust for his footprints, praying and stumbling and falling;
Nothing is found and no answer comes from the masks that are passing.
Memories linger, lines from the past like a half-faded tracing.
He has passed on into silence wearing his luminous mantle.
Out of the melodied distance a laugh rings pure-toned, infantile,
Sole reminder that he is, last signal recalling his presence.
There is a joy behind suffering; pain digs our road to his pleasance.
All things have bliss for their secret; only our consciousness falters
Fearing to offer itself as a victim on ecstasy's altars.
Is not the world his disguise? when that cloak is tossed back from his shoulders,
Beauty looks out like a sun on the hearts of the ravished beholders.
Mortals, your end is beatitude, rapture eternal his meaning:
Joy, which he most now denies, is his purpose: the hedges, the screening
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Were but the rules of his play; his denials came to lure farther.
These too were magic of Maya, smiles of the marvellous Mother.
Oh, but the cruelty! oh, but the empty pain we go rueing!
Edges of opposite sweetness, calls to a closer pursuing.
All that we meet is a symbol and gateway; cryptic intention
Lurks in a common appearance, smiles from a casual mention:
Opposites hide in each other; in the laughter of Nature is danger,
Glory and greatness their embryos form in the womb of her anger.
Why are we terrified? wherefore cry out and draw back from the smiting -
Blows from the hands of a lover to direr exactions exciting,
Fiery points of his play! Was he Rudra only the mighty?
Whose were the whispers of sweetness, whose were the murmurs of pity?
Something opposes our grasp on the light and the sweetness and power,
Something within us, something without us, trap-door or tower,
Nature's gap in our being - or hinge! That device could we vanquish,
Once could we clasp him and hold, his joy we could never relinquish.
Then we could not be denied, for our might would be single and flawless.
Sons of the Eternal, sovereigns of Nature absolute and lawless,
Termlessly our souls would possess as he now enjoys and possesses,
Termlessly probe the delight of his laughter's lurking recesses,
Chasing its trail to the apex of sweetness and secrecy. Treasured
Close to the beats of Eternity's heart in a greatness unmeasured,
Locked into a miracle and mystery of Light we would live in him, - seated
Deep in his core of beatitude ceaselessly by Nature repeated,
Careless of Time, with no fear of an end, with no need for endeavour
Caught by his ecstasy dwell in a rapture enduring for ever.
What was the garden he built when the stars were first set in their places,
Soul and Nature together mid streams and in cloudless spaces
Naked and innocent? Someone offered a fruit of derision,
Knowledge of good and of evil, cleaving in God a division.
Though He who made all said, "It is good; I have fashioned perfection,"
"No, there is evil," someone whispered, "'tis screened from detection."
Wisest he of the beasts of the field, one cunning and creeping;
"See it," he said, "be wise; you shall be as the gods are, unsleeping,
They who know all." And they ate. The roots of our being were shaken;
Hatred and weeping and wrath at once trampled a world overtaken,
Terror and fleeing and anguish and shame and desires unsated;
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Cruelty stalked like a lion; Revenge and her brood were created.
Out to the desert he drove the rebellious. Flaming behind them
Streamed out the sword of his wrath and it followed leaping to find them,
Stabbing at random. The pure and the evil, the strong and the tempted,
All are confounded in punishment; justly is no one exempted.
Virtuous? yes, there are many, but who is there innocent? Toiling
Therefore we seek, but find not that Eden. Planting and spoiling,
"This is the garden," we say, "lo, the trees and this is the river."
Vainly redeemers came, not one has availed to deliver.
Never can Nature go back to her careless and childlike beginning,
Laugh of the babe and the song of the wheel in its delicate spinning,
Smile of the sun upon flowers and earth's beauty, life without labour
Plucking the fruits of the soil and rejoicing in cottage and arbour.
Once we have chosen to be as the gods, we must follow that motion.
Knowledge must grow in us, might like a Titan's, bliss like an ocean,
Calmness and purity born of the spirit's gaze on the Real,
Rapture of his oneness embracing the soul in a clasp hymeneal.
Was it not he once in Brindavan? Woods divine to our yearning,
Memorable always! O flowers, O delight on the tree-tops burning,
Grasses his herds have grazed and crushed by his feet in the dancing,
Yamuna flowing with song, through the greenness always advancing,
You unforgotten remind; for his flute with its sweetness ensnaring
Sounds in our ears in the night and our souls of their teguments baring
Hales us out naked and absolute, out to his woodlands eternal,
Out to his moonlit dances, his dalliance sweet and supernal,
And we go stumbling, maddened and thrilled to his dreadful embraces,
Slaves of his rapture to Brindavan crowded with amorous faces,
Luminous kine in the green glades seated, soft-eyed gazing,
Flowers on the branches distressing us, moonbeams unearthly amazing,
Yamuna flowing before us, laughing low with her voices,
Brindavan arching o'er us where Shyama sports and rejoices.
Inly the miracle trembles repeated; mist-walls are broken
Hiding that country of God and we look on the wonderful token,
Clasp the beautiful body of the Eternal; his flute-call of yearning
Cries in our breast with its blissful anguish for ever returning;
Life flows past us with passionate voices, a heavenly river,
All our being goes back as a bride of his bliss to the Giver.
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Even an hour of the soul can unveil the Unborn, the Everlasting,
Gaze on its mighty Companion; the load of mortality casting,
Mind hushes stilled in eternity; waves of the Infinite wander
Thrilling body and soul and its endless felicity squander;
All world-sorrow is finished, the cry of the parting is over;
Ecstasy laughs in our veins, in our heart is the heart of the Lover.
As when a stream from a highl and plateau green mid the mountains
Draws through broad lakes of delight the gracious sweep of its fountains,
Life from its heaven of desire comes down to the toil of the earth-ways;
Streaming through mire it pours still the mystical joy of its birthplace,
Green of its banks and the green of its trees and the hues of the flower.
Something of child-heart beauty, something of greatness and power,
Dwell with it still in its early torrent laughter and brightness,
Call in the youth of its floods and the voice of the wideness and whiteness.
But in its course are set darkness and fall and the spirit's ordeal.
Hating its narrowness, forced by an ardour to see all and be all,
Dashed on the inconscient rocks and straining through mud, over gravel,
Flows, like an ardent prisoner bound to the scenes of his travail,
Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow
If by her heart's toil a loan-light of joy from the heavens she can borrow.
Out of the sun-rays and moon-rays, the winds' wing-glimmer and revel,
Out of the star-fields of wonder, down to earth's danger and evil
Headlong cast with a stridulant thunder, the doom-ways descending,
Shuddering below into sunless depths, across chasms unending,
Baulked of the might of its waters, a thread in a mountainous vastness,
Parcelled and scanted it hurries as if storming a Titan fastness,
Carving the hills with a sullen and lonely gigantic labour.
Hurled into strangling ravines it escapes with a leap and a quaver,
Breaks from the channels of hiding it grooves out and chisels and twistens,
Angry, afraid, white, foaming. A stony and monstrous resistance
Meets it piling up stubborn limits. Afflicted the river
Treasures a scattered sunbeam, moans for a god to deliver,
Longing to lapse through the plain's green felicity, yearning to widen
Joined to the ocean's shoreless eternity far-off and hidden.
High on the cliffs the Great Ones are watching, the Mighty and Deathless,
Soaring and plunging the roadway of the Gods climbs uplifted and breathless;
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Ever we hear in the heart of the peril a flute go before us,
Luminous beckoning hands in the distance invite and implore us.
Ignorant, circled with death and the abyss, we have dreamed of a human
Paradise made from the mind of a man, from the heart of a woman,
Dreamed of the Isles of the Blest in a light of perpetual summer,
Dreamed of the joy of an earthly life with no pain for incomer.
Never, we said, can these waters from heaven be lost in the marshes,
Cease in the sands of the desert, die where the simoom parches;
Plains are beyond, there are hamlets and fields where the river rejoices
Pacing once more with a quiet step and with amical voices:
Bright amid woodlands red with the berries and cool with the breezes
Glimmer the leaves; all night long the heart of the nightingale eases
Sweetly its burden of pity and sorrow. There amid flowers
We shall take pleasure in arbours delightful, leng thening the hours,
Time for our servitor waiting our fancy through moments unhasting,
Under the cloudless blue of those skies of tranquillity resting,
Lying on beds of lilies, hearing the bells of the cattle
Tinkle, and drink red wine of life and go forth to the battle,
Fight and unwounded return to our beautiful home by the waters,
Fruit of our joy rear tall strong sons and radiant daughters.
Then shall the Virgins of Light come down to us clad in clear raiment
Woven from sunbeam and moonbeam and lightnings, limitless payment
Bring of our toil and our sorrow, carrying life-giving garlands
Plucked by the fountains of Paradise, bring from imperishable star-lands
Hymn-words of wisdom, visions of beauty, heaven-fruit ruddy,
Wine-cups of ecstasy sending the soul like a stream through the body.
Fate shall not know; if her spies come down to our beautiful valley,
They shall grow drunk with its grapes and wander in woodl and and alley.
There leaps the anger of Rudra? there will his lightnings immortal
Circle around with their red eye of cruelty stabbing the portal?
Fearless is there life's play; I shall sport with my dove from his highlands,
Drinking her laughter of bliss like a god in my Grecian islands.
Life in my limbs shall grow deathless, flesh with the God-glory tingle,
Lustre of Paradise, light of the earth-ways marry and mingle.
These are but dreams and the truth shall be greater. Heaven made woman!
Flower of beatitude! living shape of the bliss of the Brahman!
Art thou not she who shall bring into life and time the Eternal?
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Body of the summer of the Gods, a sweetness virginal, vernal,
Breathes from thy soul into Nature; Love sits dreaming in thy bosom,
Wisdom gazes from thy eyes, thy breasts of God-rapture are the blossom.
If but the joy of thy feet once could touch our spaces smiting
Earth with a ray from the Unknown, on the world's heart heaven's script writing,
All then would change into harmony and beauty, Time's doors shudder
Swinging wide on their hinges into Eternity, other
Voices than earth's would be fire in our speech and make deathless our thinking.
One who is hidden in Light would grow visible, multitudes linking,
Lyres of a single ecstasy, throbs of the one heart beating,
Wonderful bodies and souls in the spirit's identity meeting
Even as stars in sky-vastness know their kindred in grandeur.
Yet may it be that although in the hands of our destiny stands sure
Fixed to its hour the Decree of the Advent, still it is fated
Only when kindling earth's bodies a mightier Soul is created.
Far-off the gold and the greatness, the rapture too splendid and dire.
Are not the ages too young? too low in our hearts burns the fire.
Bringest thou only a gleam on the summits, a cry in the distance,
Seen by the eyes that are wakened, heard by a spirit that listens?
Form of the formless All-Beautiful, lodestar of Nature's aspirance,
Music of prelude giving a voice to the ineffable Silence,
First white dawn of the God-Light cast on these creatures that perish,
Word-key of a divine and eternal truth for mortals to cherish,
Come! let thy sweetness and force be a breath in the breast of the future
Making the god-ways alive, immortality's golden-red suture:
Deep in our lives there shall work out a honeyed celestial leaven,
Bliss shall grow native to being and earth be a kin-soil to heaven.
Open the barriers of Time, the world with thy beauty enamour.
Trailing behind thee the purple of thy soul and the dawn-moment's glamour,
Forcing the heart of the Midnight where slumber and secrecy linger,
Guardians of Mystery, touching her bosom with thy luminous finger,
Daughter of Heaven, break through to me moonlike, mystic and gleaming;
Tread through the margins of twilight, cross over borders of dreaming.
Vision delightful alone on the peaks whom the silences cover,
Vision of bliss, stoop down to mortality, lean to thy lover.
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AHANA
Voice of the sensuous mortal, heart of eternal longing,
Thou who hast lived as in walls, thy soul with thy senses wronging!
But I descend at last. Fickle and terrible, sweet and deceiving,
Poison and nectar one has dispensed to thee, luring thee, leaving.
We two together shall capture the flute and the player relentless.
Son of man, thou hast crowned thy life with the flowers that are scentless,
Chased the delights that wound. But I come and midnight shall sunder.
Lo, I come, and behind me Knowledge descends and with thunder
Filling the spaces Strength, the Angel, bears on his bosom
Joy to thy arms. Thou shalt look on her face like a child's or a blossom,
Innocent, free as in Eden of old, not afraid of her playing,
When thy desires I have seized and devoured like a lioness preying.
Thou shalt not suffer always nor cry to me lured and forsaken:
I have a snare for his footsteps, I have a chain for him taken.
Come then to Brindavan, soul of the joyous; faster and faster
Follow the dance I shall teach thee with Shyama for slave and for master.
Follow the notes of the flute with a soul aware and exulting;
Trample Delight that submits and crouch to a sweetness insulting.
Then shalt thou know what the dance meant, fathom the song and the singer,
Hear behind thunder its rhymes, touched by lightning thrill to his finger,
Brindavan's rustle shalt understand and Yamuna's laughter,
Take thy place in the Ras1 and thy share of the ecstasy after.
1 The dance-round of Krishna with the cowherdesses in the moonlit groves of Brindavan, type of the dance of Divine Delight with the souls of men liberated in the world of
Bliss secret within us.
Poems from Manuscripts
Circa 1912 - 1913
~ Sri Aurobindo, - Ahana
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421:Scene. Wrzburg; a garden in the environs. 1512.
Festus, Paracelsus, Michal.
Paracelsus.
Come close to me, dear friends; still closer; thus!
Close to the heart which, though long time roll by
Ere it again beat quicker, pressed to yours,
As now it beatsperchance a long, long time
At least henceforth your memories shall make
Quiet and fragrant as befits their home.
Nor shall my memory want a home in yours
Alas, that it requires too well such free
Forgiving love as shall embalm it there!
For if you would remember me aright,
As I was born to be, you must forget
All fitful strange and moody waywardness
Which e'er confused my better spirit, to dwell
Only on moments such as these, dear friends!
My heart no truer, but my words and ways
More true to it: as Michal, some months hence,
Will say, "this autumn was a pleasant time,"
For some few sunny days; and overlook
Its bleak wind, hankering after pining leaves.
Autumn would fain be sunny; I would look
Liker my nature's truth: and both are frail,
And both beloved, for all our frailty.
Michal.
Aureole!
Paracelsus.
Drop by drop! she is weeping like a child!
Not so! I am contentmore than content;
Nay, autumn wins you best by this its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay:
Look up, sweet Michal, nor esteem the less
Your stained and drooping vines their grapes bow down,
Nor blame those creaking trees bent with their fruit,
That apple-tree with a rare after-birth
Of peeping blooms sprinkled its wealth among!
Then for the windswhat wind that ever raved
Shall vex that ash which overlooks you both,
So proud it wears its berries? Ah, at length,
The old smile meet for her, the lady of this
Sequestered nest!this kingdom, limited
Alone by one old populous green wall
Tenanted by the ever-busy flies,
Grey crickets and shy lizards and quick spiders,
Each family of the silver-threaded moss
Which, look through near, this way, and it appears
A stubble-field or a cane-brake, a marsh
Of bulrush whitening in the sun: laugh now!
Fancy the crickets, each one in his house,
Looking out, wondering at the worldor best,
Yon painted snail with his gay shell of dew,
Travelling to see the glossy balls high up
Hung by the caterpillar, like gold lamps.
Michal.
In truth we have lived carelessly and well.
Paracelsus.
And shall, my perfect pair!each, trust me, born
For the other; nay, your very hair, when mixed,
Is of one hue. For where save in this nook
Shall you two walk, when I am far away,
And wish me prosperous fortune? Stay: that plant
Shall never wave its tangles lightly and softly,
As a queen's languid and imperial arm
Which scatters crowns among her lovers, but you
Shall be reminded to predict to me
Some great success! Ah see, the sun sinks broad
Behind Saint Saviour's: wholly gone, at last!
Festus.
Now, Aureole, stay those wandering eyes awhile!
You are ours to-night, at least; and while you spoke
Of Michal and her tears, I thought that none
Could willing leave what he so seemed to love:
But that last look destroys my dreamthat look
As if, where'er you gazed, there stood a star!
How far was Wrzburg with its church and spire
And garden-walls and all things they contain,
From that look's far alighting?
Paracelsus.
I but spoke
And looked alike from simple joy to see
The beings I love best, shut in so well
From all rude chances like to be my lot,
That, when afar, my weary spirit,disposed
To lose awhile its care in soothing thoughts
Of them, their pleasant features, looks and words,
Needs never hesitate, nor apprehend
Encroaching trouble may have reached them too,
Nor have recourse to fancy's busy aid
And fashion even a wish in their behalf
Beyond what they possess already here;
But, unobstructed, may at once forget
Itself in them, assured how well they fare.
Beside, this Festus knows he holds me one
Whom quiet and its charms arrest in vain,
One scarce aware of all the joys I quit,
Too filled with airy hopes to make account
Of soft delights his own heart garners up:
Whereas behold how much our sense of all
That's beauteous proves alike! When Festus learns
That every common pleasure of the world
Affects me as himself; that I have just
As varied appetite for joy derived
From common things; a stake in life, in short,
Like his; a stake which rash pursuit of aims
That life affords not, would as soon destroy;
He may convince himself that, this in view,
I shall act well advised. And last, because,
Though heaven and earth and all things were at stake,
Sweet Michal must not weep, our parting eve.
Festus.
True: and the eve is deepening, and we sit
As little anxious to begin our talk
As though to-morrow I could hint of it
As we paced arm-in-arm the cheerful town
At sun-dawn; or could whisper it by fits
(Trithemius busied with his class the while)
In that dim chamber where the noon-streaks peer
Half-frightened by the awful tomes around;
Or in some grassy lane unbosom all
From even-blush to midnight: but, to-morrow!
Have I full leave to tell my inmost mind?
We have been brothers, and henceforth the world
Will rise between us:all my freest mind?
'T is the last night, dear Aureole!
Paracelsus.
Oh, say on!
Devise some test of love, some arduous feat
To be performed for you: say on! If night
Be spent the while, the better! Recall how oft
My wondrous plans and dreams and hopes and fears
Havenever wearied you, oh no!as I
Recall, and never vividly as now,
Your true affection, born when Einsiedeln
And its green hills were all the world to us;
And still increasing to this night which ends
My further stay at Wrzburg. Oh, one day
You shall be very proud! Say on, dear friends!
Festus.
In truth? 'T is for my proper peace, indeed,
Rather than yours; for vain all projects seem
To stay your course: I said my latest hope
Is fading even now. A story tells
Of some far embassy despatched to win
The favour of an eastern king, and how
The gifts they offered proved but dazzling dust
Shed from the ore-beds native to his clime.
Just so, the value of repose and love,
I meant should tempt you, better far than I
You seem to comprehend; and yet desist
No whit from projects where repose nor love
Has part.
Paracelsus.
Once more? Alas! As I foretold.
Festus.
A solitary briar the bank puts forth
To save our swan's nest floating out to sea.
Paracelsus.
Dear Festus, hear me. What is it you wish?
That I should lay aside my heart's pursuit,
Abandon the sole ends for which I live,
Reject God's great commission, and so die!
You bid me listen for your true love's sake:
Yet how has grown that love? Even in a long
And patient cherishing of the self-same spirit
It now would quell; as though a mother hoped
To stay the lusty manhood of the child
Once weak upon her knees. I was not born
Informed and fearless from the first, but shrank
From aught which marked me out apart from men:
I would have lived their life, and died their death,
Lost in their ranks, eluding destiny:
But you first guided me through doubt and fear,
Taught me to know mankind and know myself;
And now that I am strong and full of hope,
That, from my soul, I can reject all aims
Save those your earnest words made plain to me,
Now that I touch the brink of my design,
When I would have a triumph in their eyes,
A glad cheer in their voicesMichal weeps,
And Festus ponders gravely!
Festus.
When you deign
To hear my purpose . . .
Paracelsus.
Hear it? I can say
Beforehand all this evening's conference!
'T is this way, Michal, that he uses: first,
Or he declares, or I, the leading points
Of our best scheme of life, what is man's end
And what God's will; no two faiths e'er agreed
As his with mine. Next, each of us allows
Faith should be acted on as best we may;
Accordingly, I venture to submit
My plan, in lack of better, for pursuing
The path which God's will seems to authorize.
Well, he discerns much good in it, avows
This motive worthy, that hope plausible,
A danger here to be avoided, there
An oversight to be repaired: in fine
Our two minds go togetherall the good
Approved by him, I gladly recognize,
All he counts bad, I thankfully discard,
And nought forbids my looking up at last
For some stray comfort in his cautious brow.
When, lo! I learn that, spite of all, there lurks
Some innate and inexplicable germ
Of failure in my scheme; so that at last
It all amounts to thisthe sovereign proof
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were;
A life which, prompted by the sad and blind
Folly of man, Festus abhors the most;
But which these tenets sanctify at once,
Though to less subtle wits it seems the same,
Consider it how they may.
Michal.
Is it so, Festus
He speaks so calmly and kindly: is it so?
Paracelsus.
Reject those glorious visions of God's love
And man's design; laugh loud that God should send
Vast longings to direct us; say how soon
Power satiates these, or lust, or gold; I know
The world's cry well, and how to answer it.
But this ambiguous warfare . . .
Festus.
. . . Wearies so
That you will grant no last leave to your friend
To urge it?for his sake, not yours? I wish
To send my soul in good hopes after you;
Never to sorrow that uncertain words
Erringly apprehended, a new creed
Ill understood, begot rash trust in you,
Had share in your undoing.
Paracelsus.
Choose your side,
Hold or renounce: but meanwhile blame me not
Because I dare to act on your own views,
Nor shrink when they point onward, nor espy
A peril where they most ensure success.
Festus.
Prove that to mebut that! Prove you abide
Within their warrant, nor presumptuous boast
God's labour laid on you; prove, all you covet
A mortal may expect; and, most of all,
Prove the strange course you now affect, will lead
To its attainmentand I bid you speed,
Nay, count the minutes till you venture forth!
You smile; but I had gathered from slow thought
Much musing on the fortunes of my friend
Matter I deemed could not be urged in vain;
But it all leaves me at my need: in shreds
And fragments I must venture what remains.
Michal.
Ask at once, Festus, wherefore he should scorn . . .
Festus.
Stay, Michal: Aureole, I speak guardedly
And gravely, knowing well, whate'er your error,
This is no ill-considered choice of yours,
No sudden fancy of an ardent boy.
Not from your own confiding words alone
Am I aware your passionate heart long since
Gave birth to, nourished and at length matures
This scheme. I will not speak of Einsiedeln,
Where I was born your elder by some years
Only to watch you fully from the first:
In all beside, our mutual tasks were fixed
Even then't was mine to have you in my view
As you had your own soul and those intents
Which filled it when, to crown your dearest wish,
With a tumultuous heart, you left with me
Our childhood's home to join the favoured few
Whom, here, Trithemius condescends to teach
A portion of his lore: and not one youth
Of those so favoured, whom you now despise,
Came earnest as you came, resolved, like you,
To grasp all, and retain all, and deserve
By patient toil a wide renown like his.
Now, this new ardour which supplants the old
I watched, too; 't was significant and strange,
In one matched to his soul's content at length
With rivals in the search for wisdom's prize,
To see the sudden pause, the total change;
From contest, the transition to repose
From pressing onward as his fellows pressed,
To a blank idleness, yet most unlike
The dull stagnation of a soul, content,
Once foiled, to leave betimes a thriveless quest.
That careless bearing, free from all pretence
Even of contempt for what it ceased to seek
Smiling humility, praising much, yet waiving
What it professed to praisethough not so well
Maintained but that rare outbreaks, fierce and brief,
Revealed the hidden scorn, as quickly curbed.
That ostentatious show of past defeat,
That ready acquiescence in contempt,
I deemed no other than the letting go
His shivered sword, of one about to spring
Upon his foe's throat; but it was not thus:
Not that way looked your brooding purpose then.
For after-signs disclosed, what you confirmed,
That you prepared to task to the uttermost
Your strength, in furtherance of a certain aim
Whichwhile it bore the name your rivals gave
Their own most puny effortswas so vast
In scope that it included their best flights,
Combined them, and desired to gain one prize
In place of many,the secret of the world,
Of man, and man's true purpose, path and fate.
That you, not nursing as a mere vague dream
This purpose, with the sages of the past,
Have struck upon a way to this, if all
You trust be true, which following, heart and soul,
You, if a man may, dare aspire to know:
And that this aim shall differ from a host
Of aims alike in character and kind,
Mostly in this,that in itself alone
Shall its reward be, not an alien end
Blending therewith; no hope nor fear nor joy
Nor woe, to elsewhere move you, but this pure
Devotion to sustain you or betray:
Thus you aspire.
Paracelsus.
You shall not state it thus:
I should not differ from the dreamy crew
You speak of. I profess no other share
In the selection of my lot, than this
My ready answer to the will of God
Who summons me to be his organ. All
Whose innate strength supports them shall succeed
No better than the sages.
Festus.
Such the aim, then,
God sets before you; and't is doubtless need
That he appoint no less the way of praise
Than the desire to praise; for, though I hold
With you, the setting forth such praise to be
The natural end and service of a man,
And hold such praise is best attained when man
Attains the general welfare of his kind
Yet this, the end, is not the instrument.
Presume not to serve God apart from such
Appointed channel as he wills shall gather
Imperfect tributes, for that sole obedience
Valued perchance! He seeks not that his altars
Blaze, careless how, so that they do but blaze.
Suppose this, then; that God selected you
To know (heed well your answers, for my faith
Shall meet implicitly what they affirm)
I cannot think you dare annex to such
Selection aught beyond a steadfast will,
An intense hope; nor let your gifts create
Scorn or neglect of ordinary means
Conducive to success, make destiny
Dispense with man's endeavour. Now, dare you search
Your inmost heart, and candidly avow
Whether you have not rather wild desire
For this distinction than security
Of its existence? whether you discern
The path to the fulfilment of your purpose
Clear as that purposeand again, that purpose
Clear as your yearning to be singled out
For its pursuer. Dare you answer this?
Paracelsus
[after a pause].
No, I have nought to fear! Who will may know
The secret'st workings of my soul. What though
It be so?if indeed the strong desire
Eclipse the aim in me?if splendour break
Upon the outset of my path alone,
And duskest shade succeed? What fairer seal
Shall I require to my authentic mission
Than this fierce energy?this instinct striving
Because its nature is to strive?enticed
By the security of no broad course,
Without success forever in its eyes!
How know I else such glorious fate my own,
But in the restless irresistible force
That works within me? Is it for human will
To institute such impulses?still less,
To disregard their promptings! What should I
Do, kept among you all; your loves, your cares,
Your lifeall to be mine? Be sure that God
Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart!
Ask the geier-eagle why she stoops at once
Into the vast and unexplored abyss,
What full-grown power informs her from the first,
Why she not marvels, strenuously beating
The silent boundless regions of the sky!
Be sure they sleep not whom God needs! Nor fear
Their holding light his charge, when every hour
That finds that charge delayed, is a new death.
This for the faith in which I trust; and hence
I can abjure so well the idle arts
These pedants strive to learn and teach; Black Arts,
Great Works, the Secret and Sublime, forsooth
Let others prize: too intimate a tie
Connects me with our God! A sullen fiend
To do my bidding, fallen and hateful sprites
To help mewhat are these, at best, beside
God helping, God directing everywhere,
So that the earth shall yield her secrets up,
And every object there be charged to strike,
Teach, gratify her master God appoints?
And I am young, my Festus, happy and free!
I can devote myself; I have a life
To give; I, singled out for this, the One!
Think, think! the wide East, where all Wisdom sprung;
The bright South, where she dwelt; the hopeful North,
All are passed o'erit lights on me! 'T is time
New hopes should animate the world, new light
Should dawn from new revealings to a race
Weighed down so long, forgotten so long; thus shall
The heaven reserved for us at last receive
Creatures whom no unwonted splendours blind,
But ardent to confront the unclouded blaze.
Whose beams not seldom blessed their pilgrimage,
Not seldom glorified their life below.
Festus.
My words have their old fate and make faint stand
Against your glowing periods. Call this, truth
Why not pursue it in a fast retreat,
Some one of Learning's many palaces,
After approved example?seeking there
Calm converse with the great dead, soul to soul,
Who laid up treasure with the like intent
So lift yourself into their airy place,
And fill out full their unfulfilled careers,
Unravelling the knots their baffled skill
Pronounced inextricable, true!but left
Far less confused. A fresh eye, a fresh hand,
Might do much at their vigour's waning-point;
Succeeding with new-breathed new-hearted force,
As at old games the runner snatched the torch
From runner still: this way success might be.
But you have coupled with your enterprise,
An arbitrary self-repugnant scheme
Of seeking it in strange and untried paths.
What books are in the desert? Writes the sea
The secret of her yearning in vast caves
Where yours will fall the first of human feet?
Has wisdom sat there and recorded aught
You press to read? Why turn aside from her
To visit, where her vesture never glanced,
Nowsolitudes consigned to barrenness
By God's decree, which who shall dare impugn?
Nowruins where she paused but would not stay,
Old ravaged cities that, renouncing her,
She called an endless curse on, so it came:
Or worst of all, nowmen you visit, men,
Ignoblest troops who never heard her voice
Or hate it, men without one gift from Rome
Or Athens,these shall Aureole's teachers be!
Rejecting past example, practice, precept,
Aidless'mid these he thinks to stand alone:
Thick like a glory round the Stagirite
Your rivals throng, the sages: here stand you!
Whatever you may protest, knowledge is not
Paramount in your love; or for her sake
You would collect all help from every source
Rival, assistant, friend, foe, all would merge
In the broad class of those who showed her haunts,
And those who showed them not.
Paracelsus.
What shall I say?
Festus, from childhood I have been possessed
By a fireby a true fire, or faint or fierce,
As from without some master, so it seemed,
Repressed or urged its current: this but ill
Expresses what would I convey: but rather
I will believe an angel ruled me thus,
Than that my soul's own workings, own high nature,
So became manifest. I knew not then
What whispered in the evening, and spoke out
At midnight. If some mortal, born too soon,
Were laid away in some great trancethe ages
Coming and going all the whiletill dawned
His true time's advent; and could then record
The words they spoke who kept watch by his bed,
Then I might tell more of the breath so light
Upon my eyelids, and the fingers light
Among my hair. Youth is confused; yet never
So dull was I but, when that spirit passed,
I turned to him, scarce consciously, as turns
A water-snake when fairies cross his sleep.
And having this within me and about me
While Einsiedeln, its mountains, lakes and woods
Confined mewhat oppressive joy was mine
When life grew plain, and I first viewed the thronged,
The everlasting concourse of mankind!
Believe that ere I joined them, ere I knew
The purpose of the pageant, or the place
Consigned me in its rankswhile, just awake,
Wonder was freshest and delight most pure
'T was then that least supportable appeared
A station with the brightest of the crowd,
A portion with the proudest of them all.
And from the tumult in my breast, this only
Could I collect, that I must thenceforth die
Or elevate myself far, far above
The gorgeous spectacle. I seemed to long
At once to trample on, yet save mankind,
To make some unexampled sacrifice
In their behalf, to wring some wondrous good
From heaven or earth for them, to perish, winning
Eternal weal in the act: as who should dare
Pluck out the angry thunder from its cloud,
That, all its gathered flame discharged on him,
No storm might threaten summer's azure sleep:
Yet never to be mixed with men so much
As to have part even in my own work, share
In my own largess. Once the feat achieved,
I would withdraw from their officious praise,
Would gently put aside their profuse thanks.
Like some knight traversing a wilderness,
Who, on his way, may chance to free a tribe
Of desert-people from their dragon-foe;
When all the swarthy race press round to kiss
His feet, and choose him for their king, and yield
Their poor tents, pitched among the sand-hills, for
His realm: and he points, smiling, to his scarf
Heavy with riveled gold, his burgonet
Gay set with twinkling stonesand to the East,
Where these must be displayed!
Festus.
Good: let us hear
No more about your nature, "which first shrank
"From all that marked you out apart from men!"
Paracelsus.
I touch on that; these words but analyse
The first mad impulse: 't was as brief as fond,
For as I gazed again upon the show,
I soon distinguished here and there a shape
Palm-wreathed and radiant, forehead and full eye.
Well pleased was I their state should thus at once
Interpret my own thoughts:"Behold the clue
"To all," I rashly said, "and what I pine
"To do, these have accomplished: we are peers.
"They know and therefore rule: I, too, will know!"
You were beside me, Festus, as you say;
You saw me plunge in their pursuits whom fame
Is lavish to attest the lords of mind,
Not pausing to make sure the prize in view
Would satiate my cravings when obtained,
But since they strove I strove. Then came a slow
And strangling failure. We aspired alike,
Yet not the meanest plodder, Tritheim counts
A marvel, but was all-sufficient, strong,
Or staggered only at his own vast wits;
While I was restless, nothing satisfied,
Distrustful, most perplexed. I would slur over
That struggle; suffice it, that I loathed myself
As weak compared with them, yet felt somehow
A mighty power was brooding, taking shape
Within me; and this lasted till one night
When, as I sat revolving it and more,
A still voice from without said"Seest thou not,
"Desponding child, whence spring defeat and loss?
"Even from thy strength. Consider: hast thou gazed
"Presumptuously on wisdom's countenance,
"No veil between; and can thy faltering hands,
"Unguided by the brain the sight absorbs,
"Pursue their task as earnest blinkers do
"Whom radiance ne'er distracted? Live their life
"If thou wouldst share their fortune, choose their eyes
"Unfed by splendour. Let each task present
"Its petty good to thee. Waste not thy gifts
"In profitless waiting for the gods' descent,
"But have some idol of thine own to dress
"With their array. Know, not for knowing's sake,
"But to become a star to men for ever;
"Know, for the gain it gets, the praise it brings,
"The wonder it inspires, the love it breeds:
"Look one step onward, and secure that step!"
And I smiled as one never smiles but once,
Then first discovering my own aim's extent,
Which sought to comprehend the works of God,
And God himself, and all God's intercourse
With the human mind; I understood, no less,
My fellows' studies, whose true worth I saw,
But smiled not, well aware who stood by me.
And softer came the voice"There is a way:
"'T is hard for flesh to tread therein, imbued
"With frailtyhopeless, if indulgence first
"Have ripened inborn germs of sin to strength:
"Wilt thou adventure for my sake and man's,
"Apart from all reward?" And last it breathed
"Be happy, my good soldier; I am by thee,
"Be sure, even to the end!"I answered not,
Knowing him. As he spoke, I was endued
With comprehension and a steadfast will;
And when he ceased, my brow was sealed his own.
If there took place no special change in me,
How comes it all things wore a different hue
Thenceforward?pregnant with vast consequence,
Teeming with grand result, loaded with fate?
So that when, quailing at the mighty range
Of secret truths which yearn for birth, I haste
To contemplate undazzled some one truth,
Its bearings and effects aloneat once
What was a speck expands into a star,
Asking a life to pass exploring thus,
Till I near craze. I go to prove my soul!
I see my way as birds their trackless way.
I shall arrive! what time, what circuit first,
I ask not: but unless God send his hail
Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow,
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive:
He guides me and the bird. In his good time!
Michal.
Vex him no further, Festus; it is so!
Festus.
Just thus you help me ever. This would hold
Were it the trackless air, and not a path
Inviting you, distinct with footprints yet
Of many a mighty marcher gone that way.
You may have purer views than theirs, perhaps,
But they were famous in their daythe proofs
Remain. At least accept the light they lend.
Paracelsus.
Their light! the sum of all is briefly this:
They laboured and grew famous, and the fruits
Are best seen in a dark and groaning earth
Given over to a blind and endless strife
With evils, what of all their lore abates?
No; I reject and spurn them utterly
And all they teach. Shall I still sit beside
Their dry wells, with a white lip and filmed eye,
While in the distance heaven is blue above
Mountains where sleep the unsunned tarns?
Festus.
And yet
As strong delusions have prevailed ere now.
Men have set out as gallantly to seek
Their ruin. I have heard of such: yourself
Avow all hitherto have failed and fallen.
Michal.
Nay, Festus, when but as the pilgrims faint
Through the drear way, do you expect to see
Their city dawn amid the clouds afar?
Paracelsus.
Ay, sounds it not like some old well-known tale?
For me, I estimate their works and them
So rightly, that at times I almost dream
I too have spent a life the sages' way,
And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance
I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act, a prayer
For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light let in by death,
That life was blotted outnot so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain,
Dim memories, as now, when once more seems
The goal in sight again. All which, indeed,
Is foolish, and only meansthe flesh I wear,
The earth I tread, are not more clear to me
Than my belief, explained to you or no.
Festus.
And who am I, to challenge and dispute
That clear belief? I will divest all fear.
Michal.
Then Aureole is God's commissary! he shall
Be great and grandand all for us!
Paracelsus.
No, sweet!
Not great and grand. If I can serve mankind
'T is well; but there our intercourse must end:
I never will be served by those I serve.
Festus.
Look well to this; here is a plague-spot, here,
Disguise it how you may! 'T is true, you utter
This scorn while by our side and loving us;
'T is but a spot as yet: but it will break
Into a hideous blotch if overlooked.
How can that course be safe which from the first
Produces carelessness to human love?
It seems you have abjured the helps which men
Who overpass their kind, as you would do,
Have humbly sought; I dare not thoroughly probe
This matter, lest I learn too much. Let be
That popular praise would little instigate
Your efforts, nor particular approval
Reward you; put reward aside; alone
You shall go forth upon your arduous task,
None shall assist you, none partake your toil,
None share your triumph: still you must retain
Some one to cast your glory on, to share
Your rapture with. Were I elect like you,
I would encircle me with love, and raise
A rampart of my fellows; it should seem
Impossible for me to fail, so watched
By gentle friends who made my cause their own.
They should ward off fate's envythe great gift,
Extravagant when claimed by me alone,
Being so a gift to them as well as me.
If danger daunted me or ease seduced,
How calmly their sad eyes should gaze reproach!
Michal.
O Aureole, can I sing when all alone,
Without first calling, in my fancy, both
To listen by my sideeven I! And you?
Do you not feel this? Say that you feel this!
Paracelsus.
I feel't is pleasant that my aims, at length
Allowed their weight, should be supposed to need
A further strengthening in these goodly helps!
My course allures for its own sake, its sole
Intrinsic worth; and ne'er shall boat of mine
Adventure forth for gold and apes at once.
Your sages say, "if human, therefore weak:"
If weak, more need to give myself entire
To my pursuit; and by its side, all else . . .
No matter! I deny myself but little
In waiving all assistance save its own.
Would there were some real sacrifice to make!
Your friends the sages threw their joys away,
While I must be content with keeping mine.
Festus.
But do not cut yourself from human weal!
You cannot thrivea man that dares affect
To spend his life in service to his kind
For no reward of theirs, unbound to them
By any tie; nor do so, Aureole! No
There are strange punishments for such. Give up
(Although no visible good flow thence) some part
Of the glory to another; hiding thus,
Even from yourself, that all is for yourself.
Say, say almost to God"I have done all
"For her, not for myself!"
Paracelsus.
And who but lately
Was to rejoice in my success like you?
Whom should I love but both of you?
Festus.
I know not:
But know this, you, that't is no will of mine
You should abjure the lofty claims you make;
And this the causeI can no longer seek
To overlook the truth, that there would be
A monstrous spectacle upon the earth,
Beneath the pleasant sun, among the trees:
A being knowing not what love is. Hear me!
You are endowed with faculties which bear
Annexed to them as't were a dispensation
To summon meaner spirits to do their will
And gather round them at their need; inspiring
Such with a love themselves can never feel,
Passionless'mid their passionate votaries.
I know not if you joy in this or no,
Or ever dream that common men can live
On objects you prize lightly, but which make
Their heart's sole treasure: the affections seem
Beauteous at most to you, which we must taste
Or die: and this strange quality accords,
I know not how, with you; sits well upon
That luminous brow, though in another it scowls
An eating brand, a shame. I dare not judge you.
The rules of right and wrong thus set aside,
There's no alternativeI own you one
Of higher order, under other laws
Than bind us; therefore, curb not one bold glance!
'T is best aspire. Once mingled with us all . . .
Michal.
Stay with us, Aureole! cast those hopes away,
And stay with us! An angel warns me, too,
Man should be humble; you are very proud:
And God, dethroned, has doleful plagues for such!
Warns me to have in dread no quick repulse,
No slow defeat, but a complete success:
You will find all you seek, and perish so!
Paracelsus
[after a pause].
Are these the barren firstfruits of my quest?
Is love like this the natural lot of all?
How many years of pain might one such hour
O'erbalance? Dearest Michal, dearest Festus,
What shall I say, if not that I desire
To justify your love; and will, dear friends,
In swerving nothing from my first resolves.
See, the great moon! and ere the mottled owls
Were wide awake, I was to go. It seems
You acquiesce at last in all save this
If I am like to compass what I seek
By the untried career I choose; and then,
If that career, making but small account
Of much of life's delight, will yet retain
Sufficient to sustain my soul: for thus
I understand these fond fears just expressed.
And first; the lore you praise and I neglect,
The labours and the precepts of old time,
I have not lightly disesteemed. But, friends,
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fulness; and around,
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
This perfect, clear perceptionwhich is truth.
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
Binds it, and makes all error: and to know
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without. Watch narrowly
The demonstration of a truth, its birth,
And you trace back the effluence to its spring
And source within us; where broods radiance vast,
To be elicited ray by ray, as chance
Shall favour: chancefor hitherto, your sage
Even as he knows not how those beams are born,
As little knows he what unlocks their fount:
And men have oft grown old among their books
To die case-hardened in their ignorance,
Whose careless youth had promised what long years
Of unremitted labour ne'er performed:
While, contrary, it has chanced some idle day,
To autumn loiterers just as fancy-free
As the midges in the sun, gives birth at last
To truthproduced mysteriously as cape
Of cloud grown out of the invisible air.
Hence, may not truth be lodged alike in all,
The lowest as the highest? some slight film
The interposing bar which binds a soul
And makes the idiot, just as makes the sage
Some film removed, the happy outlet whence
Truth issues proudly? See this soul of ours!
How it strives weakly in the child, is loosed
In manhood, clogged by sickness, back compelled
By age and waste, set free at last by death:
Why is it, flesh enthrals it or enthrones?
What is this flesh we have to penetrate?
Oh, not alone when life flows still, do truth
And power emerge, but also when strange chance
Ruffles its current; in unused conjuncture,
When sickness breaks the bodyhunger, watching,
Excess or languoroftenest death's approach,
Peril, deep joy or woe. One man shall crawl
Through life surrounded with all stirring things,
Unmoved; and he goes mad: and from the wreck
Of what he was, by his wild talk alone,
You first collect how great a spirit he hid.
Therefore, set free the soul alike in all,
Discovering the true laws by which the flesh
Accloys the spirit! We may not be doomed
To cope with seraphs, but at least the rest
Shall cope with us. Make no more giants, God,
But elevate the race at once! We ask
To put forth just our strength, our human strength,
All starting fairly, all equipped alike,
Gifted alike, all eagle-eyed, true-hearted
See if we cannot beat thine angels yet!
Such is my task. I go to gather this
The sacred knowledge, here and there dispersed
About the world, long lost or never found.
And why should I be sad or lorn of hope?
Why ever make man's good distinct from God's,
Or, finding they are one, why dare mistrust?
Who shall succeed if not one pledged like me?
Mine is no mad attempt to build a world
Apart from his, like those who set themselves
To find the nature of the spirit they bore,
And, taught betimes that all their gorgeous dreams
Were only born to vanish in this life,
Refused to fit them to its narrow sphere,
But chose to figure forth another world
And other frames meet for their vast desires,
And all a dream! Thus was life scorned; but life
Shall yet be crowned: twine amaranth! I am priest!
And all for yielding with a lively spirit
A poor existence, parting with a youth
Like those who squander every energy
Convertible to good, on painted toys,
Breath-bubbles, gilded dust! And though I spurn
All adventitious aims, from empty praise
To love's award, yet whoso deems such helps
Important, and concerns himself for me,
May know even these will follow with the rest
As in the steady rolling Mayne, asleep
Yonder, is mixed its mass of schistous ore.
My own affections laid to rest awhile,
Will waken purified, subdued alone
By all I have achieved. Till thentill then . . .
Ah, the time-wiling loitering of a page
Through bower and over lawn, till eve shall bring
The stately lady's presence whom he loves
The broken sleep of the fisher whose rough coat
Enwraps the queenly pearlthese are faint types!
See, see, they look on me: I triumph now!
But one thing, Festus, Michal! I have told
All I shall e'er disclose to mortal: say
Do you believe I shall accomplish this?
Festus.
I do believe!
Michal.
I ever did believe!
Paracelsus.
Those words shall never fade from out my brain!
This earnest of the end shall never fade!
Are there not, Festus, are there not, dear Michal,
Two points in the adventure of the diver,
Onewhen, a beggar, he prepares to plunge,
Onewhen, a prince, he rises with his pearl?
Festus, I plunge!
Festus.
We wait you when you rise!
~ Robert Browning, Paracelsus - Part I - Paracelsus Aspires
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422:And the font took them: let our laurels lie!
Braid moonfern now with mystic trifoly
Because once more Goito gets, once more,
Sordello to itself! A dream is o'er,
And the suspended life begins anew;
Quiet those throbbing temples, then, subdue
That cheek's distortion! Nature's strict embrace,
Putting aside the past, shall soon efface
Its print as wellfactitious humours grown
Over the trueloves, hatreds not his own
And turn him pure as some forgotten vest
Woven of painted byssus, silkiest
Tufting the Tyrrhene whelk's pearl-sheeted lip,
Left welter where a trireme let it slip
I' the sea, and vexed a satrap; so the stain
O' the world forsakes Sordello, with its pain,
Its pleasure: how the tinct loosening escapes,
Cloud after cloud! Mantua's familiar shapes
Die, fair and foul die, fading as they flit,
Men, women, and the pathos and the wit,
Wise speech and foolish, deeds to smile or sigh
For, good, bad, seemly or ignoble, die.
The last face glances through the eglantines,
The last voice murmurs, 'twixt the blossomed vines,
Of Men, of that machine supplied by thought
To compass self-perception with, he sought
By forcing half himselfan insane pulse
Of a god's blood, on clay it could convulse,
Never transmuteon human sights and sounds,
To watch the other half with; irksome bounds
It ebbs from to its source, a fountain sealed
Forever. Better sure be unrevealed
Than part revealed: Sordello well or ill
Is finished: then what further use of Will,
Point in the prime idea not realized,
An oversight? inordinately prized,
No less, and pampered with enough of each
Delight to prove the whole above its reach.
"To need become all natures, yet retain
"The law of my own natureto remain
"Myself, yet yearn . . . as if that chestnut, think,
"Should yearn for this first larch-bloom crisp and pink,
"Or those pale fragrant tears where zephyrs stanch
"March wounds along the fretted pine-tree branch!
"Will and the means to show will, great and small,
"Material, spiritual,abjure them all
"Save any so distinct, they may be left
"To amuse, not tempt become! and, thus bereft,
"Just as I first was fashioned would I be!
"Nor, moon, is it Apollo now, but me
"Thou visitest to comfort and befriend!
"Swim thou into my heart, and there an end,
"Since I possess thee!nay, thus shut mine eyes
"And know, quite know, by this heart's fall and rise,
"When thou dost bury thee in clouds, and when
"Out-standest: wherefore practise upon men
"To make that plainer to myself?"
Slide here
Over a sweet and solitary year
Wasted; or simply notice change in him
How eyes, once with exploring bright, grew dim
And satiate with receiving. Some distress
Was caused, too, by a sort of consciousness
Under the imbecility,nought kept
That down; he slept, but was aware he slept,
So, frustrated: as who brainsick made pact
Erst with the overhanging cataract
To deafen him, yet still distinguished plain
His own blood's measured clicking at his brain.
To finish. One declining Autumn day
Few birds about the heaven chill and grey,
No wind that cared trouble the tacit woods
He sauntered home complacently, their moods
According, his and nature's. Every spark
Of Mantua life was trodden out; so dark
The embers, that the Troubadour, who sung
Hundreds of songs, forgot, its trick his tongue,
Its craft his brain, how either brought to pass
Singing at all; that faculty might class
With any of Apollo's now. The year
Began to find its early promise sere
As well. Thus beauty vanishes; thus stone
Outlingers flesh: nature's and his youth gone,
They left the world to you, and wished you joy.
When, stopping his benevolent employ,
A presage shuddered through the welkin; harsh
The earth's remonstrance followed. 'T was the marsh
Gone of a sudden. Mincio, in its place,
Laughed, a broad water, in next morning's face,
And, where the mists broke up immense and white
I' the steady wind, burned like a spilth of light
Out of the crashing of a myriad stars.
And here was nature, bound by the same bars
Of fate with him!
"No! youth once gone is gone:
"Deeds, let escape, are never to be done.
"Leaf-fall and grass-spring for the year; for us
"Oh forfeit I unalterably thus
"My chance? nor two lives wait me, this to spend,
"Learning save that? Nature has time, may mend
"Mistake, she knows occasion will recur;
"Landslip or seabreach, how affects it her
"With her magnificent resources?I
"Must perish once and perish utterly.
"Not any strollings now at even-close
"Down the field-path, Sordello! by thorn-rows
"Alive with lamp-flies, swimming spots of fire
"And dew, outlining the black cypress' spire
"She waits you at, Elys, who heard you first
"Woo her, the snow-month through, but ere she durst
"Answer 't was April. Linden-flower-time-long
"Her eyes were on the ground; 't is July, strong
"Now; and because white dust-clouds overwhelm
"The woodside, here or by the village elm
"That holds the moon, she meets you, somewhat pale,
"But letting you lift up her coarse flax veil
"And whisper (the damp little hand in yours)
"Of love, heart's love, your heart's love that endures
"Till death. Tush! No mad mixing with the rout
"Of haggard ribalds wandering about
"The hot torchlit wine-scented island-house
"Where Friedrich holds his wickedest carouse,
"Parading,to the gay Palermitans,
"Soft Messinese, dusk Saracenic clans
"Nuocera holds,those tall grave dazzling Norse,
"High-cheeked, lank-haired, toothed whiter than the morse,
"Queens of the caves of jet stalactites,
"He sent his barks to fetch through icy seas,
"The blind night seas without a saving star,
"And here in snowy birdskin robes they are,
"Sordello!here, mollitious alcoves gilt
"Superb as Byzant domes that devils built!
"Ah, Byzant, there again! no chance to go
"Ever like august cheery Dandolo,
"Worshipping hearts about him for a wall,
"Conducted, blind eyes, hundred years and all,
"Through vanquished Byzant where friends note for him
"What pillar, marble massive, sardius slim,
"'T were fittest he transport to Venice' Square
"Flattered and promised life to touch them there
"Soon, by those fervid sons of senators!
"No more lifes, deaths, loves, hatreds, peaces, wars!
"Ah, fragments of a whole ordained to be,
"Points in the life I waited! what are ye
"But roundels of a ladder which appeared
"Awhile the very platform it was reared
"To lift me on?that happiness I find
"Proofs of my faith in, even in the blind
"Instinct which bade forego you all unless
"Ye led me past yourselves. Ay, happiness
"Awaited me; the way life should be used
"Was to acquire, and deeds like you conduced
"To teach it by a self-revealment, deemed
"Life's very use, so long! Whatever seemed
"Progress to that, was pleasure; aught that stayed
"My reaching itno pleasure. I have laid
"The ladder down; I climb not; still, aloft
"The platform stretches! Blisses strong and soft,
"I dared not entertain, elude me; yet
"Never of what they promised could I get
"A glimpse till now! The common sort, the crowd,
"Exist, perceive; with Being are endowed,
"However slight, distinct from what they See,
"However bounded; Happiness must be,
"To feed the first by gleanings from the last,
"Attain its qualities, and slow or fast
"Become what they behold; such peace-in-strife,
"By transmutation, is the Use of Life,
"The Alien turning Native to the soul
"Or bodywhich instructs me; I am whole
"There and demand a Palma; had the world
"Been from my soul to a like distance hurled,
"'T were Happiness to make it one with me:
"Whereas I must, ere I begin to Be,
"Include a world, in flesh, I comprehend
"In spirit now; and this done, what 's to blend
"With? Nought is Alien in the worldmy Will
"Owns all already; yet can turn itstill
"LessNative, since my Means to correspond
"With Will are so unworthy, 't was my bond
"To tread the very joys that tantalize
"Most now, into a grave, never to rise.
"I die then! Will the rest agree to die?
"Next Age or no? Shall its Sordello try
"Clue after clue, and catch at last the clue
"I miss?that 's underneath my finger too,
"Twice, thrice a day, perhaps,some yearning traced
"Deeper, some petty consequence embraced
"Closer! Why fled I Mantua, then?complained
"So much my Will was fettered, yet remained
"Content within a tether half the range
"I could assign it?able to exchange
"My ignorance (I felt) for knowledge, and
"Idle because I could thus understand
"Could e'en have penetrated to its core
"Our mortal mystery, yetfoolforbore,
"Preferred elaborating in the dark
"My casual stuff, by any wretched spark
"Born of my predecessors, though one stroke
"Of mine had brought the flame forth! Mantua's yoke,
"My minstrel's-trade, was to behold mankind,
"My own concern was just to bring my mind
"Behold, just extricate, for my acquist,
"Each object suffered stifle in the mist
"Which hazard, custom, blindness interpose
"Betwixt things and myself."
Whereat he rose.
The level wind carried above the firs
Clouds, the irrevocable travellers,
Onward.
"Pushed thus into a drowsy copse,
"Arms twine about my neck, each eyelid drops
"Under a humid finger; while there fleets,
"Outside the screen, a pageant time repeats
"Never again! To be deposed, immured
"Clandestinelystill petted, still assured
"To govern were fatiguing workthe Sight
"Fleeting meanwhile! 'T is noontide: wreak ere night
"Somehow my will upon it, rather! Slake
"This thirst somehow, the poorest impress take
"That serves! A blasted bud displays you, torn,
"Faint rudiments of the full flower unborn;
"But who divines what glory coats o'erclasp
"Of the bulb dormant in the mummy's grasp
"Taurello sent?" . . .
"Taurello? Palma sent
"Your Trouvere," (Naddo interposing leant
Over the lost bard's shoulder)"and, believe,
"You cannot more reluctantly receive
"Than I pronounce her message: we depart
"Together. What avail a poet's heart
"Verona's pomps and gauds? five blades of grass
"Suffice him. News? Why, where your marish was,
"On its mud-banks smoke rises after smoke
"I' the valley, like a spout of hell new-broke.
"Oh, the world's tidings! small your thanks, I guess,
"For them. The father of our Patroness,
"Has played Taurello an astounding trick,
"Parts between Ecelin and Alberic
"His wealth and goes into a convent: both
"Wed Guelfs: the Count and Palma plighted troth
"A week since at Verona: and they want
"You doubtless to contrive the marriage-chant
"Ere Richard storms Ferrara." Then was told
The tale from the beginninghow, made bold
By Salinguerra's absence, Guelfs had burned
And pillaged till he unawares returned
To take revenge: how Azzo and his friend
Were doing their endeavour, how the end
O' the siege was nigh, and how the Count, released
From further care, would with his marriage-feast
Inaugurate a new and better rule,
Absorbing thus Romano.
"Shall I school
"My master," added Naddo, "and suggest
"How you may clothe in a poetic vest
"These doings, at Verona? Your response
"To Palma! Wherefore jest? 'Depart at once?
"A good resolve! In truth, I hardly hoped
"So prompt an acquiescence. Have you groped
"Out wisdom in the wilds here?thoughts may be
"Over-poetical for poetry.
"Pearl-white, you poets liken Palma's neck;
"And yet what spoils an orient like some speck
"Of genuine white, turning its own white grey?
"You take me? Curse the cicala!"
One more day,
One eveappears Verona! Many a group,
(You mind) instructed of the osprey's swoop
On lynx and ounce, was gatheringChristendom
Sure to receive, whate'er the end was, from
The evening's purpose cheer or detriment,
Since Friedrich only waited some event
Like this, of Ghibellins establishing
Themselves within Ferrara, ere, as King
Of Lombardy, he 'd glad descend there, wage
Old warfare with the Pontiff, disengage
His barons from the burghers, and restore
The rule of Charlemagne, broken of yore
By Hildebrand.
I' the palace, each by each,
Sordello sat and Palma: little speech
At first in that dim closet, face with face
(Despite the tumult in the market-place)
Exchanging quick low laughters: now would rush
Word upon word to meet a sudden flush,
A look left off, a shifting lips' surmise
But for the most part their two histories
Ran best thro' the locked fingers and linked arms.
And so the night flew on with its alarms
Till in burst one of Palma's retinue;
"Now, Lady!" gasped he. Then arose the two
And leaned into Verona's air, dead-still.
A balcony lay black beneath until
Out, 'mid a gush of torchfire, grey-haired men
Came on it and harangued the people: then
Sea-like that people surging to and fro
Shouted, "Hale forth the carrochtrumpets, ho,
"A flourish! Run it in the ancient grooves!
"Back from the bell! Hammerthat whom behoves
"May hear the League is up! Peallearn who list,
"Verona means not first of towns break tryst
"To-morrow with the League!"
Enough. Now turn
Over the eastern cypresses: discern!
Is any beacon set a-glimmer?
Rang
The air with shouts that overpowered the clang
Of the incessant carroch, even: "Haste
"The candle 's at the gateway! ere it waste,
"Each soldier stand beside it, armed to march
"With Tiso Sampier through the eastern arch!"
Ferrara's succoured, Palma!
Once again
They sat together; some strange thing in train
To say, so difficult was Palma's place
In taking, with a coy fastidious grace
Like the bird's flutter ere it fix and feed.
But when she felt she held her friend indeed
Safe, she threw back her curls, began implant
Her lessons; telling of another want
Goito's quiet nourished than his own;
Palmato serve himto be served, alone
Importing; Agnes' milk so neutralized
The blood of Ecelin. Nor be surprised
If, while Sordello fain had captive led
Nature, in dream was Palma subjected
To some out-soul, which dawned not though she pined
Delaying, till its advent, heart and mind
Their life. "How dared I let expand the force
"Within me, till some out-soul, whose resource
"It grew for, should direct it? Every law
"Of life, its every fitness, every flaw,
"Must One determine whose corporeal shape
"Would be no other than the prime escape
"And revelation to me of a Will
"Orb-like o'ershrouded and inscrutable
"Above, save at the point which, I should know,
"Shone that myself, my powers, might overflow
"So far, so much; as now it signified
"Which earthly shape it henceforth chose my guide,
"Whose mortal lip selected to declare
"Its oracles, what fleshly garb would wear
"The first of intimations, whom to love;
"The next, how love him. Seemed that orb, above
"The castle-covert and the mountain-close,
"Slow in appearing?if beneath it rose
"Cravings, aversions,did our green precinct
"Take pride in me, at unawares distinct
"With this or that endowment,how, repressed
"At once, such jetting power shrank to the rest!
"Was I to have a chance touch spoil me, leave
"My spirit thence unfitted to receive
"The consummating spell?that spell so near
"Moreover! 'Waits he not the waking year?
"'His almond-blossoms must be honey-ripe
"'By this; to welcome him, fresh runnels stripe
"'The thawed ravines; because of him, the wind
"'Walks like a herald. I shall surely find
"'Him now!'
"And chief, that earnest April morn
"Of Richard's Love-court, was it time, so worn
"And white my cheek, so idly my blood beat,
"Sitting that morn beside the Lady's feet
"And saying as she prompted; till outburst
"One face from all the faces. Not then first
"I knew it; where in maple chamber glooms,
"Crowned with what sanguine-heart pomegranate blooms,
"Advanced it ever? Men's acknowledgment
"Sanctioned my own: 't was taken, Palma's bent,
"Sordello,recognized, accepted.
"Dumb
"Sat she still scheming. Ecelin would come
"Gaunt, scared, 'Cesano baffles me,' he 'd say:
"'Better I fought it out, my father's way!
"'Strangle Ferrara in its drowning flats,
"'And you and your Taurello yonder!what's
"'Romano's business there?' An hour's concern
"To cure the froward Chief!induce return
"As heartened from those overmeaning eyes,
"Wound up to persevere,his enterprise
"Marked out anew, its exigent of wit
"Apportioned,she at liberty to sit
"And scheme against the next emergence, I
"To covet her Taurello-sprite, made fly
"Or fold the wingto con your horoscope
"For leave command those steely shafts shoot ope,
"Or straight assuage their blinding eagerness
"In blank smooth snow What semblance of success
"To any of my plans for making you
"Mine and Romano's? Break the first wall through,
"Tread o'er the ruins of the Chief, supplant
"His sons beside, still, vainest were the vaunt:
"There, Salinguerra would obstruct me sheer,
"And the insuperable Tuscan, here,
"Stay me! But one wild eve that Lady died
"In her lone chamber: only I beside:
"Taurello far at Naples, and my sire
"At Padua, Ecelin away in ire
"With Alberic. She held me thusa clutch
"To make our spirits as our bodies touch
"And so began flinging the past up heaps
"Of uncouth treasure from their sunless sleeps
"Within her soul; deeds rose along with dreams,
"Fragments of many miserable schemes,
"Secrets, more secrets, thenno, not the last
"'Mongst others, like a casual trick o' the past,
"How . . . ay, she told me, gathering up her face,
"All left of it, into one arch-grimace
"To die with . . .
"Friend, 't is gone! but not the fear
"Of that fell laughing, heard as now I hear.
"Nor faltered voice, nor seemed her heart grow weak
"When i' the midst abrupt she ceased to speak
"Dead, as to serve a purpose, mark!for in
"Rushed o' the very instant Ecelin
"(How summoned, who divines?)looking as if
"He understood why Adelaide lay stiff
"Already in my arms; for 'Girl, how must
"'I manage Este in the matter thrust
"'Upon me, how unravel your bad coil?
"'Since' (he declared) ''t is on your browa soil
"'Like hers there!' then in the same breath, 'he lacked
"'No counsel after all, had signed no pact
"'With devils, nor was treason here or there,
"'Goito or Vicenza, his affair:
"'He buried it in Adelaide's deep grave,
"'Would begin life afresh, now,would not slave
"'For any Friedrich's nor Taurello's sake!
"'What booted him to meddle or to make
"'In Lombardy?' And afterward I knew
"The meaning of his promise to undo
"All she had donewhy marriages were made,
"New friendships entered on, old followers paid
"With curses for their pains,new friends' amaze
"At height, when, passing out by Gate St. Blaise,
"He stopped short in Vicenza, bent his head
"Over a friar's neck,'had vowed,' he said,
"'Long since, nigh thirty years, because his wife
"'And child were saved there, to bestow his life
"'On God, his gettings on the Church.'
"Exiled
"Within Goito, still one dream beguiled
"My days and nights; 't was found, the orb I sought
"To serve, those glimpses came of Fomalhaut,
"No other: but how serve it?authorize
"You and Romano mingle destinies?
"And straight Romano's angel stood beside
"Me who had else been Boniface's bride,
"For Salinguerra 't was, with neck low bent,
"And voice lightened to music, (as he meant
"To learn, not teach me,) who withdrew the pall
"From the dead past and straight revived it all,
"Making me see how first Romano waxed,
"Wherefore he waned now, why, if I relaxed
"My grasp (even I!) would drop a thing effete,
"Frayed by itself, unequal to complete
"Its course, and counting every step astray
"A gain so much. Romano, every way
"Stable, a Lombard House nowwhy start back
"Into the very outset of its track?
"This patching principle which late allied
"Our House with other Houseswhat beside
"Concerned the apparition, the first Knight
"Who followed Conrad hither in such plight
"His utmost wealth was summed in his one steed?
"For Ecelo, that prowler, was decreed
"A task, in the beginning hazardous
"To him as ever task can be to us;
"But did the weather-beaten thief despair
"When first our crystal cincture of warm air
"That binds the Trevisan,as its spice-belt
"(Crusaders say) the tract where Jesus dwelt,
"Furtive he pierced, and Este was to face
"Despaired Saponian strength of Lombard grace?
"Tried he at making surer aught made sure,
"Maturing what already was mature?
"No; his heart prompted Ecelo, 'Confront
"'Este, inspect yourself. What 's nature? Wont.
"'Discard three-parts your nature, and adopt
"'The rest as an advantage!' Old strength propped
"The man who first grew Podest among
"The Vicentines, no less than, while there sprung
"His palace up in Padua like a threat,
"Their noblest spied a grace, unnoticed yet
"In Conrad's crew. Thus far the object gained,
"Romano was establishedhas remained
"'For are you not Italian, truly peers
"'With Este? Azzo better soothes our ears
"'Than Alberic? or is this lion's-crine
"'From over-mounts' (this yellow hair of mine)
"'So weak a graft on Agnes Este's stock?'
"(Thus went he on with something of a mock)
"'Wherefore recoil, then, from the very fate
"'Conceded you, refuse to imitate
"'Your model farther? Este long since left
"'Being mere Este: as a blade its heft,
"'Este required the Pope to further him:
"'And you, the Kaiserwhom your father's whim
"'Foregoes or, better, never shall forego
"'If Palma dare pursue what Ecelo
"'Commenced, but Ecelin desists from: just
"'As Adelaide of Susa could intrust
"'Her donative,her Piedmont given the Pope,
"'Her Alpine-pass for him to shut or ope
"''Twixt France and Italy,to the superb
"'Matilda's perfecting,so, lest aught curb
"'Our Adelaide's great counter-project for
"'Giving her Trentine to the Emperor
"'With passage here from Germany,shall you
"'Take it,my slender plodding talent, too!'
"Urged me Taurello with his half-smile
"He
"As Patron of the scattered family
"Conveyed me to his Mantua, kept in bruit
"Azzo's alliances and Richard's suit
"Until, the Kaiser excommunicate,
"'Nothing remains,' Taurello said, 'but wait
"'Some rash procedure: Palma was the link,
"'As Agnes' child, between us, and they shrink
"'From losing Palma: judge if we advance,
"'Your father's method, your inheritance!'
"The day I was betrothed to Boniface
"At Padua by Taurello's self, took place
"The outrage of the Ferrarese: again,
"The day I sought Verona with the train
"Agreed for,by Taurello's policy
"Convicting Richard of the fault, since we
"Were present to annul or to confirm,
"Richard, whose patience had outstayed its term,
"Quitted Verona for the siege.
"And now
"What glory may engird Sordello's brow
"Through this? A month since at Oliero slunk
"All that was Ecelin into a monk;
"But how could Salinguerra so forget
"His liege of thirty years as grudge even yet
"One effort to recover him? He sent
"Forthwith the tidings of this last event
"To Ecelindeclared that he, despite
"The recent folly, recognized his right
"To order Salinguerra: 'Should he wring
"'Its uttermost advantage out, or fling
"'This chance away? Or were his sons now Head
"'O' the House?' Through me Taurello's missive sped;
"My father's answer will by me return.
"Behold! 'For him,' he writes, 'no more concern
"'With strife than, for his children, with fresh plots
"'Of Friedrich. Old engagements out he blots
"'For aye: Taurello shall no more subserve,
"'Nor Ecelin impose.' Lest this unnerve
"Taurello at this juncture, slack his grip
"Of Richard, suffer the occasion slip,
"I, in his sons' default (who, mating with
"Este, forsake Romano as the frith
"Its mainsea for that firmland, sea makes head
"Against) I stand, Romano,in their stead
"Assume the station they desert, and give
"Still, as the Kaiser's representative,
"Taurello licence he demands. Midnight
"Morningby noon to-morrow, making light
"Of the League's issue, we, in some gay weed
"Like yours, disguised together, may precede
"The arbitrators to Ferrara: reach
"Him, let Taurello's noble accents teach
"The rest! Then say if I have misconceived
"Your destiny, too readily believed
"The Kaiser's cause your own!"
And Palma's fled.
Though no affirmative disturbs the head,
A dying lamp-flame sinks and rises o'er,
Like the alighted planet Pollux wore,
Until, morn breaking, he resolves to be
Gate-vein of this heart's blood of Lombardy,
Soul of this bodyto wield this aggregate
Of souls and bodies, and so conquer fate
Though he should livea centre of disgust
Evenapart, core of the outward crust
He vivifies, assimilates. For thus
I bring Sordello to the rapturous
Exclaim at the crowd's cry, because one round
Of life was quite accomplished; and he found
Not only that a soul, whate'er its might,
Is insufficient to its own delight,
Both in corporeal organs and in skill
By means of such to body forth its Will
And, after, insufficient to apprise
Men of that Will, oblige them recognize
The Hid by the Revealedbut that,the last
Nor lightest of the struggles overpast,
Will, he bade abdicate, which would not void
The throne, might sit there, suffer he enjoyed
Mankind, a varied and divine array
Incapable of homage, the first way,
Nor fit to render incidentally
Tribute connived at, taken by the by,
In joys. If thus with warrant to rescind
The ignominious exile of mankind
Whose proper service, ascertained intact
As yet, (to be by him themselves made act,
Not watch Sordello acting each of them)
Was to secureif the true diadem
Seemed imminent while our Sordello drank
The wisdom of that golden Palma,thank
Verona's Lady in her citadel
Founded by Gaulish Brennus, legends tell:
And truly when she left him, the sun reared
A head like the first clamberer's who peered
A-top the Capitol, his face on flame
With triumph, triumphing till Manlius came.
Nor slight too much my rhymesthat spring, dispread,
Dispart, disperse, lingering over head
Like an escape of angels! Rather say,
My transcendental platan! mounting gay
(An archimage so courts a novice-queen)
With tremulous silvered trunk, whence branches sheen
Laugh out, thick-foliaged next, a-shiver soon
With coloured buds, then glowing like the moon
One mild flame,last a pause, a burst, and all
Her ivory limbs are smothered by a fall,
Bloom-flinders and fruit-sparkles and leaf-dust,
Ending the weird work prosecuted just
For her amusement; he decrepit, stark,
Dozes; her uncontrolled delight may mark
Apart
Yet not so, surely never so
Only, as good my soul were suffered go
O'er the lagune: forth fare thee, put aside
Entrance thy synod, as a god may glide
Out of the world he fills, and leave it mute
For myriad ages as we men compute,
Returning into it without a break
O' the consciousness! They sleep, and I awake
O'er the lagune, being at Venice.
Note,
In just such songs as Eglamor (say) wrote
With heart and soul and strength, for he believed
Himself achieving all to be achieved
By singerin such songs you find alone
Completeness, judge the song and singer one,
And either purpose answered, his in it
Or its in him: while from true works (to wit
Sordello's dream-performances that will
Never be more than dreamed) escapes there still
Some proof, the singer's proper life was 'neath
The life his song exhibits, this a sheath
To that; a passion and a knowledge far
Transcending these, majestic as they are,
Smouldered; his lay was but an episode
In the bard's life: which evidence you owed
To some slight weariness, some looking-off
Or start-away. The childish skit or scoff
In "Charlemagne," (his poem, dreamed divine
In every point except one silly line
About the restiff daughters)what may lurk
In that? "My life commenced before this work,"
(So I interpret the significance
Of the bard's start aside and look askance)
"My life continues after: on I fare
"With no more stopping, possibly, no care
"To note the undercurrent, the why and how,
"Where, when, o' the deeper life, as thus just now.
"But, silent, shall I cease to live? Alas
"For you! who sigh, 'When shall it come to pass
"'We read that story? How will he compress
"'The future gains, his life's true business,
"'Into the better lay whichthat one flout,
"'Howe'er inopportune it be, lets out
"'Engrosses him already, though professed
"'To meditate with us eternal rest,
"'And partnership in all his life has found?'"
'T is but a sailor's promise, weather-bound:
"Strike sail, slip cable, here the bark be moored
"For once, the awning stretched, the poles assured!
"Noontide above; except the wave's crisp dash,
"Or buzz of colibri, or tortoise' splash,
"The margin 's silent: out with every spoil
"Made in our tracking, coil by mighty coil,
"This serpent of a river to his head
"I' the midst! Admire each treasure, as we spread
"The bank, to help us tell our history
"Aright: give ear, endeavour to descry
"The groves of giant rushes, how they grew
"Like demons' endlong tresses we sailed through,
"What mountains yawned, forests to give us vent
"Opened, each doleful side, yet on we went
"Till . . . may that beetle (shake your cap) attest
"The springing of a land-wind from the West!"
Wherefore? Ah yes, you frolic it to-day!
To-morrow, and, the pageant moved away
Down to the poorest tent-pole, we and you
Part company: no other may pursue
Eastward your voyage, be informed what fate
Intends, if triumph or decline await
The tempter of the everlasting steppe.
I muse this on a ruined palace-step
At Venice: why should I break off, nor sit
Longer upon my step, exhaust the fit
England gave birth to? Who 's adorable
Enough reclaim a - no Sordello's Will
Alack!be queen to me? That Bassanese
Busied among her smoking fruit-boats? These
Perhaps from our delicious Asolo
Who twinkle, pigeons o'er the portico
Not prettier, bind June lilies into sheaves
To deck the bridge-side chapel, dropping leaves
Soiled by their own loose gold-meal? Ah, beneath
The cool arch stoops she, brownest cheek! Her wreath
Endures a montha half-monthif I make
A queen of her, continue for her sake
Sordello's story? Nay, that Paduan girl
Splashes with barer legs where a live whirl
In the dead black Giudecca proves sea-weed
Drifting has sucked down three, four, all indeed
Save one pale-red striped, pale-blue turbaned post
For gondolas.
You sad dishevelled ghost
That pluck at me and point, are you advised
I breathe? Let stay those girls (e'en her disguised
Jewels i' the locks that love no crownet like
Their native field-buds and the green wheat-spike,
So fair!who left this end of June's turmoil,
Shook off, as might a lily its gold soil,
Pomp, save a foolish gem or two, and free
In dream, came join the peasants o'er the sea.)
Look they too happy, too tricked out? Confess
There is such ****rd stock of happiness
To share, that, do one's uttermost, dear wretch,
One labours ineffectually to stretch
It o'er you so that mother and children, both
May equitably flaunt the sumpter-cloth!
Divide the robe yet farther: be content
With seeing just a score pre-eminent
Through shreds of it, acknowledged happy wights,
Engrossing what should furnish all, by rights!
For, these in evidence, you clearlier claim
A like garb for the rest,grace all, the same
As these my peasants. I ask youth and strength
And health for each of you, not moreat length
Grown wise, who asked at home that the whole race
Might add the spirit's to the body's grace,
And all be dizened out as chiefs and bards.
But in this magic weather one discards
Much old requirement. Venice seems a type
Of Life'twixt blue and blue extends, a stripe,
As Life, the somewhat, hangs 'twixt nought and nought:
'T is Venice, and 't is Lifeas good you sought
To spare me the Piazza's slippery stone
Or keep me to the unchoked canals alone,
As hinder Life the evil with the good
Which make up Living, rightly understood.
Only, do finish something! Peasants, queens,
Take them, made happy by whatever means,
Parade them for the common credit, vouch
That a luckless residue, we send to crouch
In corners out of sight, was just as framed
For happiness, its portion might have claimed
As well, and so, obtaining joy, had stalked
Fastuous as any!such my project, baulked
Already; I hardly venture to adjust
The first rags, when you find me. To mistrust
Me!nor unreasonably. You, no doubt,
Have the true knack of tiring suitors out
With those thin lips on tremble, lashless eyes
Inveterately tear-shot: there, be wise,
Mistress of mine, there, there, as if I meant
You insult!shall your friend (not slave) be shent
For speaking home? Beside, care-bit erased
Broken-up beauties ever took my taste
Supremely; and I love you more, far more
Than her I looked should foot Life's temple-floor.
Years ago, leagues at distance, when and where
A whisper came, "Let others seek!thy care
"Is found, thy life's provision; if thy race
"Should be thy mistress, and into one face
"The many faces crowd?" Ah, had I, judge,
Or no, your secret? Rough apparelgrudge
All ornaments save tag or tassel worn
To hint we are not thoroughly forlorn
Slouch bonnet, unloop mantle, careless go
Alone (that's saddest, but it must be so)
Through Venice, sing now and now glance aside,
Aught desultory or undignified,
Then, ravishingest lady, will you pass
Or not each formidable group, the mass
Before the Basilic (that feast gone by,
God's great day of the Corpus Domini)
And, wistfully foregoing proper men,
Come timid up to me for alms? And then
The luxury to hesitate, feign do
Some unexampled grace!when, whom but you
Dare I bestow your own upon? And hear
Further before you say, it is to sneer
I call you ravishing; for I regret
Little that she, whose early foot was set
Forth as she 'd plant it on a pedestal,
Now, i' the silent city, seems to fall
Toward meno wreath, only a lip's unrest
To quiet, surcharged eyelids to be pressed
Dry of their tears upon my bosom. Strange
Such sad chance should produce in thee such change,
My love! Warped souls and bodies! yet God spoke
Of right-hand, foot and eyeselects our yoke,
Sordello, as your poetship may find!
So, sleep upon my shoulder, child, nor mind
Their foolish talk; we 'll manage reinstate
Your old worth; ask moreover, when they prate
Of evil men past hope, "Don't each contrive,
"Despite the evil you abuse, to live?
"Keeping, each losel, through a maze of lies,
"His own conceit of truth? to which he hies
"By obscure windings, tortuous, if you will,
"But to himself not inaccessible;
"He sees truth, and his lies are for the crowd
"Who cannot see; some fancied right allowed
"His vilest wrong, empowered the losel clutch
"One pleasure from a multitude of such
"Denied him." Then assert, "All men appear
"To think all better than themselves, by here
"Trusting a crowd they wrong; but really," say,
"All men think all men stupider than they,
"Since, save themselves, no other comprehends
"The complicated scheme to make amends
"Evil, the scheme by which, thro' Ignorance,
"Good labours to exist." A slight advance,
Merely to find the sickness you die through,
And nought beside! but if one can't eschew
One's portion in the common lot, at least
One can avoid an ignorance increased
Tenfold by dealing out hint after hint
How nought were like dispensing without stint
The water of lifeso easy to dispense
Beside, when one has probed the centre whence
Commotion 's borncould tell you of it all!
"Meantime, just meditate my madrigal
"O' the mugwort that conceals a dewdrop safe!"
What, dullard? we and you in smothery chafe,
Babes, baldheads, stumbled thus far into Zin
The Horrid, getting neither out nor in,
A hungry sun above us, sands that bung
Our throats,each dromedary lolls a tongue,
Each camel churns a sick and frothy chap,
And you, 'twixt tales of Potiphar's mishap,
And sonnets on the earliest **** that spoke,
Remark, you wonder any one needs choke
With founts about! Potsherd him, Gibeonites!
While awkwardly enough your Moses smites
The rock, though he forego his Promised Land
Thereby, have Satan claim his carcass, and
Figure as Metaphysic Poet . . . ah,
Mark ye the dim first oozings? Meribah!
Then, quaffing at the fount my courage gained,
Recallnot that I prompt yewho explained . . .
"Presumptuous!" interrupts one. You, not I
'T is brother, marvel at and magnify
Such office: "office," quotha? can we get
To the beginning of the office yet?
What do we here? simply experiment
Each on the other's power and its intent
When elsewhere tasked,if this of mine were trucked
For yours to either's good,we watch construct,
In short, an engine: with a finished one,
What it can do, is all,nought, how 't is done.
But this of ours yet in probation, dusk
A kernel of strange wheelwork through its husk
Grows into shape by quarters and by halves;
Remark this tooth's spring, wonder what that valve's
Fall bodes, presume each faculty's device,
Make out each other more or less precise
The scope of the whole engine 's to be proved;
We die: which means to say, the whole 's removed,
Dismounted wheel by wheel, this complex gin,
To be set up anew elsewhere, begin
A task indeed, but with a clearer clime
Than the murk lodgment of our building-time.
And then, I grant you, it behoves forget
How 't is doneall that must amuse us yet
So long: and, while you turn upon your heel,
Pray that I be not busy slitting steel
Or shredding brass, camped on some virgin shore
Under a cluster of fresh stars, before
I name a tithe o' the wheels I trust to do!
So occupied, then, are we: hitherto,
At present, and a weary while to come,
The office of ourselves,nor blind nor dumb,
And seeing somewhat of man's state,has been,
For the worst of us, to say they so have seen;
For the better, what it was they saw; the best
Impart the gift of seeing to the rest:
"So that I glance," says such an one, "around,
"And there 's no face but I can read profound
"Disclosures in; this stands for hope, thatfear,
"And for a speech, a deed in proof, look here!
"'Stoop, else the strings of blossom, where the nuts
"'O'erarch, will blind thee! Said I not? She shuts
"'Both eyes this time, so close the hazels meet!
"'Thus, prisoned in the Piombi, I repeat
"'Events one rove occasioned, o'er and o'er,
"'Putting 'twixt me and madness evermore
"'Thy sweet shape, Zanze! Therefore stoop!'
"'That's truth!'
"(Adjudge you) 'the incarcerated youth
"'Would say that!'
"Youth? Plara the bard? Set down
"That Plara spent his youth in a grim town
"Whose cramped ill-featured streets huddled about
"The minster for protection, never out
"Of its black belfry's shade and its bells' roar.
"The brighter shone the suburb,all the more
"Ugly and absolute that shade's reproof
"Of any chance escape of joy,some roof,
"Taller than they, allowed the rest detect,
"Before the sole permitted laugh (suspect
"Who could, 't was meant for laughter, that ploughed cheek's
"Repulsive gleam!) when the sun stopped both peaks
"Of the cleft belfry like a fiery wedge,
"Then sank, a huge flame on its socket edge,
"With leavings on the grey glass oriel-pane
"Ghastly some minutes more. No fear of rain
"The minster minded that! in heaps the dust
"Lay everywhere. This town, the minster's trust,
"Held Plara; who, its denizen, bade hail
"In twice twelve sonnets, Tempe's dewy vale."
"'Exact the town, the minster and the street!'"
"As all mirth triumphs, sadness means defeat:
"Lust triumphs and is gay, Love 's triumphed o'er
"And sad: but Lucio 's sad. I said before,
"Love's sad, not Lucio; one who loves may be
"As gay his love has leave to hope, as he
"Downcast that lusts' desire escapes the springe:
"'T is of the mood itself I speak, what tinge
"Determines it, else colourless,or mirth,
"Or melancholy, as from heaven or earth."
"'Ay, that 's the variation's gist!'
"Indeed?
"Thus far advanced in safety then, proceed!
"And having seen too what I saw, be bold
"And next encounter what I do behold
"(That's sure) but bid you take on trust!"
Attack
The use and purpose of such sights! Alack,
Not so unwisely does the crowd dispense
On Salinguerras praise in preference
To the Sordellos: men of action, these!
Who, seeing just as little as you please,
Yet turn that little to account,engage
With, do not gaze at,carry on, a stage,
The work o' the world, not merely make report
The work existed ere their day! In short,
When at some future no-time a brave band
Sees, using what it sees, then shake my hand
In heaven, my brother! Meanwhile where's the hurt
Of keeping the Makers-see on the alert,
At whose defection mortals stare aghast
As though heaven's bounteous windows were slammed fast
Incontinent? Whereas all you, beneath,
Should scowl at, bruise their lips and break their teeth
Who ply the pullies, for neglecting you:
And therefore have I moulded, made anew
A Man, and give him to be turned and tried,
Be angry with or pleased at. On your side,
Have ye times, places, actors of your own?
Try them upon Sordello when full-grown,
And thenah then! If Hercules first parched
His foot in Egypt only to be marched
A sacrifice for Jove with pomp to suit,
What chance have I? The demigod was mute
Till, at the altar, where time out of mind
Such guests became oblations, chaplets twined
His forehead long enough, and he began
Slaying the slayers, nor escaped a man.
Take not affront, my gentle audience! whom
No Hercules shall make his hecatomb,
Believe, nor from his brows your chaplet rend
That's your kind suffrage, yours, my patron-friend,
Whose great verse blares unintermittent on
Like your own trumpeter at Marathon,
You who, Plata and Salamis being scant,
Put up with tna for a stimulant
And did well, I acknowledged, as he loomed
Over the midland sea last month, presumed
Long, lay demolished in the blazing West
At eve, while towards him tilting cloudlets pressed
Like Persian ships at Salamis. Friend, wear
A crest proud as desert while I declare
Had I a flawless ruby fit to wring
Tears of its colour from that painted king
Who lost it, I would, for that smile which went
To my heart, fling it in the sea, content,
Wearing your verse in place, an amulet
Sovereign against all passion, wear and fret!
My English Eyebright, if you are not glad
That, as I stopped my task awhile, the sad
Dishevelled form, wherein I put mankind
To come at times and keep my pact in mind,
Renewed me,hear no crickets in the hedge,
Nor let a glowworm spot the river's edge
At home, and may the summer showers gush
Without a warning from the missel thrush!
So, to our business, nowthe fate of such
As find our common natureovermuch
Despised because restricted and unfit
To bear the burthen they impose on it
Cling when they would discard it; craving strength
To leap from the allotted world, at length
They do leap,flounder on without a term,
Each a god's germ, doomed to remain a germ
In unexpanded infancy, unless . . .
But that 's the storydull enough, confess!
There might be fitter subjects to allure;
Still, neither misconceive my portraiture
Nor undervalue its adornments quaint:
What seems a fiend perchance may prove a saint.
Ponder a story ancient pens transmit,
Then say if you condemn me or acquit.
John the Beloved, banished Antioch
For Patmos, bade collectively his flock
Farewell, but set apart the closing eve
To comfort those his exile most would grieve,
He knew: a touching spectacle, that house
In motion to receive him! Xanthus' spouse
You missed, made panther's meat a month since; but
Xanthus himself (his nephew 't was, they shut
'Twixt boards and sawed asunder) Polycarp,
Soft Charicle, next year no wheel could warp
To swear by Csar's fortune, with the rest
Were ranged; thro' whom the grey disciple pressed,
Busily blessing right and left, just stopped
To pat one infant's curls, the hangman cropped
Soon after, reached the portal. On its hinge
The door turns and he enters: what quick twinge
Ruins the smiling mouth, those wide eyes fix
Whereon, why like some spectral candlestick's
Branch the disciple's arms? Dead swooned he, woke
Anon, heaved sigh, made shift to gasp, heart-broke,
"Get thee behind me, Satan! Have I toiled
"To no more purpose? Is the gospel foiled
"Here too, and o'er my son's, my Xanthus' hearth,
"Portrayed with sooty garb and features swarth
"Ah Xanthus, am I to thy roof beguiled
"To see thethethe Devil domiciled?"
Whereto sobbed Xanthus, "Father, 't is yourself
"Installed, a limning which our utmost pelf
"Went to procure against to-morrow's loss;
"And that's no twy-prong, but a pastoral cross,
"You 're painted with!"
His puckered brows unfold
And you shall hear Sordello's story told.
~ Robert Browning, Sordello - Book the Third
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423: Book VIII: The Book of the Gods
So on the earth the seed that was sown of the centuries ripened;
Europe and Asia, met on their borders, clashed in the Troad.
All over earth men wept and bled and laboured, world-wide
Sowing Fate with their deeds and had other fruit than they hoped for,
Out of desires and their passionate griefs and fleeting enjoyments
Weaving a tapestry fit for the gods to admire, who in silence
Joy, by the cloud and the sunbeam veiled, and men know not their movers.
They in the glens of Olympus, they by the waters of Ida
Or in their temples worshipped in vain or with heart-strings of mortals
Sated their vast desire and enjoying the world and each other
Sported free and unscourged; for the earth was their prey and their playground.
But from his luminous deep domain, from his estate of azure
Zeus looked forth; he beheld the earth in its flowering greenness
Spread like an emerald dream that the eyes have enthroned in the sunlight,
Heard the symphonies old of the ocean recalling the ages
Lost and dead from its marches salt and unharvested furrows,
Felt in the pregnant hour the unborn hearts of the future.
Troubled kingdoms of men he beheld, the hind in the furrow,
Lords of the glebe and the serf subdued to the yoke of his fortunes,
Slavegirls tending the fire and herdsmen driving the cattle,
Artisans labouring long for a little hire in mens cities,
Labour long and the meagre reward for a toil that is priceless.
Kings in their seats august or marching swift with their armies
Founded ruthlessly brittle empires. Merchant and toiler
Patiently heaped up our transient wealth like the ants in their hillock.
And to preserve it all, to protect this dust that must perish,
Hurting the eternal soul and maiming heaven for some metal
Judges condemned their brothers to chains and to death and to torment,
Criminals scourgers of crime, for so are these ant-heaps founded,
Punishing sin by a worse affront to our crucified natures.
All the uncertainty, all the mistaking, all the delusion
Naked were to his gaze; in the moonlit orchards there wandered
Lovers dreaming of love that endurestill the moment of treason;
Helped by the anxious joy of their kindred supported their anguish
Women with travail racked for the child who shall rack them with sorrow.
Hopes that were confident, fates that sprang dire from the seed of a moment,
Yearning that claimed all time for its date and all life for its fuel,
All that we wonder at gazing back when the passion has fallen,
Labour blind and vain expense and sacrifice wasted,
These he beheld with a heart unshaken; to each side he studied
Seas of confused attempt and the strife and the din and the crying.
All things he pierced in us gazing down with his eyelids immortal,
Lids on which sleep dare not settle, the Father of men on his creatures;
Nor by the cloud and the mist was obscured which baffles our eyeballs,
But he distinguished our source and saw to the end of our labour.
He in the animal racked knew the god that is slowly delivered;
Therefore his heart rejoiced. Not alone the mind in its trouble
God beholds, but the spirit behind that has joy of the torture.
Might not our human gaze on the smoke of a furnace, the burning
Red, intolerable, anguish of ore that is fused in the hell-heat,
Shrink and yearn for coolness and peace and condemn all the labour?
Rather look to the purity coming, the steel in its beauty,
Rather rejoice with the master who stands in his gladness accepting
Heat of the glorious god and the fruitful pain of the iron.
Last the eternal gaze was fixed on Troy and the armies
Marching swift to the shock. It beheld the might of Achilles
Helmed and armed, knew all the craft in the brain of Odysseus,
Saw Deiphobus stern in his car and the fates of Aeneas,
Greece of her heroes empty, Troy enringed by her slayers,
Paris a setting star and the beauty of Penthesilea.
These things he saw delighted; the heart that contains all our ages
Blessed our toil and grew full of its fruits, as the Artist eternal
Watched his vehement drama staged twixt the sea and the mountains,
Phrased in the clamour and glitter of arms and closed by the firebrand,
Act itself out in blood and in passions fierce on the Troad.
Yet as a father his children, who sits in the peace of his study
Hearing the noise of his brood and pleased with their play and their quarrels,
So he beheld our mortal race. Then, turned from the armies,
Into his mind he gazed where Time is reflected and, conscient,
Knew the iron knot of our human fates in their warfare.
Calm he arose and left our earth for his limitless kingdoms.
Far from this lower blue and high in the death-scorning spaces
Lifted oer mortal mind where Time and Space are but figures
Lightly imagined by Thought divine in her luminous stillness,
Zeus has his palace high and there he has stabled his war-car.
Thence he descends to our mortal realms; where the heights of our mountains
Meet with the divine air, he touches and enters our regions.
Now he ascended back to his natural realms and their rapture,
There where all life is bliss and each feeling an ecstasy mastered.
Thence his eagle Thought with its flashing pinions extended
Winged through the world to the gods, and they came at the call, they ascended
Up from their play and their calm and their works through the infinite azure.
Some from our mortal domains in grove or by far-flowing river
Cool from the winds of the earth or quivering with perishable fragrance
Came, or our laughter they bore and the song of the sea in their paces.
Some from the heavens above us arrived, our vital dominions
Whence we draw breath; for there all things have life, the stone like the ilex,
Clay of those realms like the children of men and the brood of the giants.
There Enceladus groans oppressed and draws strength from his anguish
Under a living Aetna and flames that have joy of his entrails.
Fiercely he groans and rejoices expecting the end of his foemen
Hastened by every pang and counts long Time by his writhings.
There in the champaigns unending battle the gods and the giants,
There in eternal groves the lovers have pleasure for ever,
There are the faery climes and there are the wonderful pastures.
Some from a marvellous Paradise hundred-realmed in its musings,
Million-ecstasied, climbed like flames that in silence aspire
Windless, erect in a motionless dream, yet ascending for ever.
All grew aware of the will divine and were drawn to the Father.
Grandiose, calm in her gait, imperious, awing the regions,
Hera came in her pride, the spouse of Zeus and his sister.
As at her birth from the foam of the spaces white Aphrodite
Rose in the cloud of her golden hair like the moon in its halo.
Aegis-bearing Athene, shielded and helmeted, answered
Rushing the call and the heavens thrilled with the joy of her footsteps
Dumbly repeating her name, as insulted and trampled by beauty
Thrill might the soul of a lover and cry out the name of its tyrant.
Others there were as mighty; for Artemis, archeress ancient,
Came on her sandals lightning-tasselled. Up the vast incline
Shaking the world with the force of his advent thundered Poseidon;
Space grew full of his stride and his cry. Immortal Apollo
Shone and his silver clang was heard with alarm in our kingdoms.
Ares impetuous eyes looked forth from a cloud-drift of splendour;
Themis steps appeared and Ananke, the mystic Erinnys;
Nor was Hephaestus flaming strength from his father divided.
Even the ancient Dis to arrive dim-featured, eternal,
Seemed; but his rays are the shades and his voice is the call of the silence.
Into the courts divine they crowded, radiant, burning,
Perfect in utter grace and light. The joy of their spirits
Calls to eternal Time and the glories of Space are his answer:
Thence were these bright worlds born and persist by the throb of their heart-beats.
Not in the forms that mortals have seen when assisted they scatter
Mists of this earthly dust from their eyes in their moments of greatness
Shone those unaging Powers; nor as in our centuries radiant
Mortal-seeming bodies they wore when they mixed with our nations.
Then the long youth of the world had not faded still out of our natures,
Flowers and the sunlight were felt and the earth was glad like a mother.
Then for a human delight they were masked in this denser vesture
Earth desires for her bliss, thin veils, for the god through them glimmered.
Quick were mens days with the throng of the brilliant presences near them:
Gods from the wood and the valley, gods from the obvious wayside,
Gods on the secret hills leaped out from their light on the mortal.
Oft in the haunt and the grove they met with our kind and their touches
Seized and subjected our clay to the greatness of passions supernal,
Grasping the earthly virgin and forcing heaven on this death-dust.
Glorifying human beauty Apollo roamed in our regions
Clymene when he pursued or yearned in vain for Marpessa;
Glorifying earth with a human-seeming face of the beauty
Brought from her heavenly climes Aphrodite mixed with Anchises.
Glimpsed in the wilds were the Satyrs, seen in the woodlands the Graces,
Dryad and Naiad in river and forest, Oreads haunting
Glens and the mountain-glades where they played with the manes of our lions
Glimmered on death-claimed eyes; for the gods then were near us and clasped us,
Heaven leaned down in love with our clay and yearned to its transience.
But we have coarsened in heart and in mood; we have turned in our natures
Nearer our poorer kindred; leaned to the ant and the ferret.
Sight we have darkened with sense and power we have stifled with labour,
Likened in mood to the things we gaze at and are in our vestures:
Therefore we toil unhelped; we are left to our weakness and blindness.
Not in those veils now they rose to their skies, but like loose-fitting mantles
Dropped in the vestibules huge of their vigorous realms that besiege us
All that reminded of earth; then clothed with raiment of swiftness
Straight they went quivering up in a glory like fire or the storm-blast.
Even those natural vestures of puissance they leave when they enter
Minds more subtle fields and agree with its limitless regions
Peopled by creatures of bliss and forms more true than earths shadows,
Mind that pure from this density, throned in her splendours immortal
Looks up at Light and suffers bliss from ineffable kingdoms
Where beyond Mind and its rays is the gleam of a glory supernal:
There our sun cannot shine and our moon has no place for her lustres,
There our lightnings flash not, nor fire of these spaces is suffered.
They with bodies impalpable here to our touch and our seeing,
But for a higher delight, to a brighter sense, with more sweetness
Palpable there and visible, thrilled with a lordlier joyance,
Came to the courts of Zeus and his heavens sang to their footsteps.
Harmonies flowed through the blissful coils of the kingdoms of rapture.
Then by his mighty equals surrounded the Thunderer regnant
Veiled his thought in sound that was heard in their souls as they listened.
Veiled are the high gods always lest there should dawn on the mortal
Light too great from the skies and men to their destiny clear-eyed
Walk unsustained like the gods; then Night and Dawn were defeated
And of their masks the deities robbed would be slaves to their subjects.
Children of Immortality, gods who are joyous for ever,
Rapture is ours and eternity measures our lives by his aeons.
For we desireless toil who have joy in the fall as the triumph,
Knowledge eternal possessing we work for an end that is destined
Long already beyond by the Will of which Time is the courser.
Therefore death cannot alter our lives nor pain our enjoyment.
But in the world of mortals twilight is lord of its creatures.
Nothing they perfectly see, but all things seek and imagine,
Out of the clod who have come and would climb from their mire to our heavens.
Yet are the heavenly seats not easy even for the chosen:
Rough and remote is that path; that ascent is too hard for the death-bound.
Hard are Gods terms and few can meet them of men who are mortal.
Mind resists; their breath is a clog; by their tools they are hampered,
Blindly mistaking the throb of their mortal desires for our guidance.
How shall they win in their earth to our skies who are clay and a life-wind,
But that their hearts we invade? Our shocks on their lives come incessant,
Ease discourage and penetrate coarseness; sternness celestial
Forces their souls towards the skies and their bodies by anguish are sifted.
We in the mortal wake an immortal strength by our tortures
And by the flame of our lightnings choose out the vessels of godhead.
This is the nature of earth that to blows she responds and by scourgings
Travails excited; pain is the bed of her blossoms of pleasure.
Earth that was wakened by pain to life and by hunger to thinking
Left to her joys rests inert and content with her gains and her station.
But for the unbearable whips of the gods back soon to her matter
She would go glad and the goal would be missed and the aeons be wasted.
But for the god in their breasts unsatisfied, but for his spurrings
Soon would the hero turn beast and the sage reel back to the savage;
Man from his difficult heights would recoil and be mud in the earth-mud.
This by pain we prevent; we compel his feet to the journey.
But in their minds to impression made subject, by forms of things captured
Blind is the thought and presumptuous the hope and they swerve from our goading;
Blinded are human hearts by desire and fear and possession,
Darkened is knowledge on earth by hope the helper of mortals.
Now too from earth and her children voices of anger and weeping
Beat at our thrones; tis the grief and the wrath of fate-stricken creatures,
Mortals struggling with destiny, hearts that are slaves to their sorrow.
We unmoved by the cry will fulfil our unvarying purpose.
Troy shall fall at last and the ancient ages shall perish.
You who are lovers of Ilion turn from the moans of her people,
Chase from your hearts their prayers, blow back from your nostrils the incense.
Let not one nation resist by its glory the good of the ages.
Twilight thickens over man and he moves to his winter of darkness.
Troy that displaced with her force and her arms the luminous ancients,
Sinks in her turn by the ruder strength of the half-savage Achaians.
They to the Hellene shall yield and the Hellene fall by the Roman.
Rome too shall not endure, but by strengths ill-shaped shall be broken,
Nations formed in the ice and mist, confused and crude-hearted.
So shall the darker and ruder always prevail oer the brilliant
Till in its turn to a ruder and darker it falls and is shattered.
So shall mankind make speed to destroy what twas mighty creating.
Ever since knowledge failed and the ancient ecstasy slackened,
Light has been helper to death and darkness increases the victor.
So shall it last till the fallen ages return to their greatness.
For if the twilight be helped not, night oer the world cannot darken;
Night forbidden how shall a greater dawn be effected?
Gods of the light who know and resist that the doomed may have succour,
Always then shall desire and passion strive with Ananke?
Conquer the cry of your heart-strings that man too may conquer his sorrow,
Stilled in his yearnings. Cease, O ye gods, from the joy of rebellion.
Open the eye of the soul, admit the voice of the Silence.
So in the courts of Heaven august the Thunderer puissant
Spoke to his sons in their souls and they heard him, mighty in silence.
Then to her brother divine the white-armed passionless Hera:
Zeus, we remember; thy sons forget, Apollo and Ares.
Hera, queen of the heavens, they forget not, but choose to be mindless.
This is the greatness of gods that they know and can put back the knowledge;
Doing the work they have chosen they turn not for fruit nor for failure,
Griefless they walk to their goal and strain not their eyes towards the ending.
Light that they have they can lose with a smile, not as souls in the darkness
Clutch at every beam and mistake their one ray for all splendour.
All things are by Time and the Will eternal that moves us,
And for each birth its hour is set in the night or the dawning.
There is an hour for knowledge, an hour to forget and to labour.
Great Cronion ceased and high in the heavenly silence
Rose in their midst the voice of the loud impetuous Ares
Sounding far in the luminous fields of his soul as with thunder.
Father, we know and we have not forgotten. This is our godhead,
Still to strive and never to yield to the evil that conquers.
I will not dwell with the Greeks nor aid them save forced by Ananke
And because lives of the great and the blood of the strong are my portion.
This too thou knowest, our nature enjoys in mankind its fulfilment.
War is my nature and greatness and hardness, the necks of the vanquished;
Force is my soul and strength is my bosom; I shout in the battle
Breaking cities like toys and the nations are playthings of Ares:
Hither and thither I shove them and throw down or range on my table.
Constancy most I love, nobility, virtue and courage;
Fugitive hearts I abhor and the nature fickle as sea-foam.
Now if the ancient spirit of Titan battle is over,
Tros fights no more on the earth, nor now Heracles tramples and struggles,
Bane of the hydra or slaying the Centaurs oer Pelion driven,
Now if the earth no more must be shaken by Titan horsehooves,
Since to a pettier framework all things are fitted consenting,
Yet will I dwell not in Greece nor favour the nurslings of Pallas.
I will await the sons of my loins and the teats of the she-wolf,
Consuls browed like the cliffs and plebeians stern of the wolf-brood,
Senates of kings and armies of granite that grow by disaster;
Such be the nation august that is fit for the favour of Ares!
They shall fulfil me and honour my mother, imperial Hera.
Then with an iron march they shall move to their world-wide dominion,
Through the long centuries rule and at last because earth is impatient,
Slowly with haughtiness perish compelled by mortalitys transience
Leaving a Roman memory stamped on the ages of weakness.
But to his son far-sounding the Father high of the Immortals:
So let it be since such is the will in thee, mightiest Ares;
Thou shalt till sunset prevail, O war-god, fighting for Troya.
So he decreed and the soul of the Warrior sternly consented.
He from his seats arose and down on the summits of Ida
Flaming through Space in his cloud in a headlong glory descended,
Prone like a thunderbolt flaming down from the hand of the Father.
Thence in his chariot drawn by living fire and by swiftness,
Thundered down to earths plains the mighty impetuous Ares.
Far where Deiphobus stern was labouring stark and outnumbered
Smiting the Achaian myriads back on the right of the carnage,
Over the hosts in his car he stood and darkened the Argives.
But in the courts divine the Thunderer spoke to his children:
Ares resisting a present Fate for the hope of the future,
Gods, has gone forth from us. Choose thou thy paths, O my daughter,
More than thy brother assailed by the night that darkens oer creatures.
Choose the silence in heaven or choose the struggle mid mortals,
Golden joy of the worlds, O thou roseate white Aphrodite.
Then with her starry eyes and bosom of bliss from the immortals
Glowing and rosy-limbed cried the wonderful white Aphrodite,
Drawing her fingers like flowers through the flowing gold of her tresses,
Calm, discontented, her perfect mouth like a rose of resistance
Chidingly budded gainst Fate, a charm to their senses enamoured.
Well do I know thou hast given my world to Hera and Pallas.
What though my temples shall stand in Paphos and island Cythera
And though the Greek be a priest for my thoughts and a lyre for my singing,
Beauty pursuing and light through the figures of grace and of rhythm,
Forms shall he mould for mens eyes that the earth has forgotten and mourns for,
Mould even the workings of Pallas to commune with Paphias sweetness,
Mould Hephaestus craft in the gaze of the gold Aphrodite,
Only my form he pursues that I wear for a mortal enchantment,
He to whom now thou givest the world, the Ionian, the Hellene,
But for my might is unfit which Babylon worshipped and Sidon
Palely received from the past in images faint of the gladness
Once that was known by the children of men when the thrill of their members
Was but the immortal joy of the spirit overflowing their bodies,
Wine-cups of Gods desire; but their clay from my natural greatness
Falters betrayed to pain, their delight they have turned into ashes.
Nor to my peaks shall he rise and the perfect fruit of my promptings,
There where the senses swoon but the heart is delivered by rapture:
Never my touch can cling to his soul nor reply from his heart-strings.
Once could my godhead surprise all the stars with the seas of its rapture;
Once the world in its orbit danced to a marvellous rhythm.
Men in their limits, gods in their amplitudes answered my calling;
Life was moved by a chant of delight that sang from the spaces,
Sang from the Soul of the Vast, its rapture clasping its creatures.
Sweetly agreed my fire with their soil and their hearts were as altars.
Pure were its crests; twas not dulled with earth, twas not lost in the hazes
Then when the sons of earth and the daughters of heaven together
Met on lone mountain peaks or, linked on wild beach and green meadow,
Twining embraced. For I danced on Taygetus peaks and oer Ida
Naked and loosing my golden hair like a nimbus of glory
Oer a deep-ecstasied earth that was drunk with my roses and whiteness.
There was no shrinking nor veil in our old Saturnian kingdoms.
Equals were heaven and earth, twin gods on the lap of Dione.
Now shall my waning greatness perish and pass out of Nature.
For though the Romans, my children, shall grasp at the strength of their mother,
They shall not hold the god, but lose in unsatisfied orgies
Yet what the earth has kept of my joy, my glory, my puissance,
Who shall but drink for a troubled hour in the dusk of the sunset
Dregs of my wine Pandemian missing the Uranian sweetness.
So shall the night descend on the greatness and rapture of living;
Creeds that refuse shall persuade the world to revolt from its mother.
Pallas adorers shall loa the me and Heras scorn me for lowness;
Beauty shall pass from mens work and delight from their play and their labour;
Earth restored to the Cyclops shall shrink from the gold Aphrodite.
So shall I live diminished, owned but by beasts in the forest,
Birds of the air and the gods in their heavens, but disgraced in the mortal.
Then to the discontented rosy-mouthed Aphrodite
Zeus replied, the Father divine: O goddess Astarte,
What are these thoughts thou hast suffered to wing from thy rose-mouth immortal?
Bees that sting and delight are the words from thy lips, Cytherea.
Art thou not womb of the world and from thee are the thronging of creatures?
And didst thou cease the worlds too would cease and the aeons be ended.
Suffer my Greeks; accept who accept thee, O gold Dionaean.
They in the works of their craft and their dreams shall enthrone thee for ever,
Building thee temples in Paphos and Eryx and island Cythera,
Building the fane more enduring and bright of thy golden ideal.
Even if natures of men could renounce thee and God do without thee,
Rose of love and sea of delight, O my child Aphrodite,
Still wouldst thou live in the worship they gave thee protected from fading,
Splendidly statued and shrined in mens works and mens thoughts, Cytherea.
Pleased and blushing with bliss of her praise and the thought of her empire
Answered, as cries a harp in heaven, the gold Aphrodite:
Father, I know and I spoke but to hear from another my praises.
I am the womb of the world and the cause of this teeming of creatures,
And if discouraged I ceased, Gods world would lose heart and would perish.
How will you do then without me your works of wisdom and greatness,
Hera, queen of heaven, and thou, O my sister Athene?
Yes, I shall reign and endure though the pride of my workings be conquered.
What though no second Helen find a second Paris,
Lost though their glories of form to the earth, though their confident gladness
Pass from a race misled and forgetting the sap that it sprang from,
They are eternal in man in the worship of beauty and rapture.
Ever while earth is embraced by the sun and hot with his kisses
And while a Will supernal works through the passions of Nature,
Me shall men seek with my light or their darkness, sweetly or crudely,
Cold on the ice of the north or warm in the heats of the southland,
Slowly enduring my touch or with violence rapidly burning.
I am the sweetness of living, I am the touch of the Master.
Love shall die bound to my stake like a victim adorned as for bridal,
Life shall be bathed in my flames and be purified gold or be ashes.
I, Aphrodite, shall move the world for ever and ever.
Yet now since most to me, Father of all, the ages arriving,
Hostile, rebuke my heart and turn from my joy and my sweetness,
I will resist and not yield, nor care what I do, so I conquer.
Often I curbed my mood for your sakes and was gracious and kindly,
Often I lay at Heras feet and obeyed her commandments
Tranquil and proud or oercome by a honeyed and ancient compulsion
Fawned on thy pureness and served thy behests, O my sister Pallas.
Deep was the love that united us, happy the wrestle and clasping;
Love divided, Love united, Love was our mover.
But since you now overbear and would scourge me and chain and control me,
War I declare on you all, O my Father and brothers and sisters.
Henceforth I do my will as the joy in me prompts or the anger.
Ranging the earth with my beauty and passion and golden enjoyments
All whom I can, I will bind; I will drive at the bliss of my workings,
Whether mens hearts are seized by the joy or seized by the torture.
Most I will plague your men, your worshippers and in my malice
Break up your works with confusion divine, O my mother and sister;
Then shall you fume and resist and be helpless and pine with my torments.
Yet will I never relent but always be sweet and malignant,
Cruel and tyrannous, hurtful and subtle, a charm and a torture.
Thou too, O father Zeus, shalt always be vexed with my doings;
Called in each moment to judge thou shalt chafe at our cry and our quarrels,
Often grope for thy thunderbolt, often frown magisterial
Joining in vain thy awful brows oer thy turbulent children.
Yet in thy wrath recall my might and my wickedness, Father;
Hurt me not then too much lest the world and thyself too should suffer.
Save, O my Father, life and grace and the charm of the senses;
Love preserve lest the heart of the world grow dulled and forsaken.
Smiling her smile immortal of love and of mirth and of malice
White Aphrodite arose in her loveliness armed for the conflict.
Golden and careless and joyous she went like a wild bird that winging
Flits from bough to bough and resumes its chant interrupted.
Love where her white feet trod bloomed up like a flower from the spaces;
Mad round her touches billowed incessantly laughter and rapture.
Thrilled with her feet was the bosom of Space, for her amorous motion
Floated, a flower on the wave of her bliss or swayed like the lightning.
Rich as a summer fruit and fresh as Springs blossoms her body
Gleaming and blushing, veiled and bare and with ecstasy smiting
Burned out rosy and white through her happy ambrosial raiment,
Golden-tressed and a charm, her bosom a fragrance and peril.
So was she framed to the gaze as she came from the seats of the Mighty,
So embodied she visits the hearts of men and their dwellings
And in her breathing tenement laughs at the eyes that can see her.
Swift-footed down to the Troad she hastened thrilling the earth-gods.
There with ambrosial secrecy veiled, admiring the heroes
Strong and beautiful, might of the warring and glory of armour,
Over her son Aeneas she stood, his guard in the battle.
But in the courts divine the Thunderer spoke mid his children:
Thou for a day and a night and another day and a nightfall,
White Aphrodite, prevail; oer thee too the night is extended.
She has gone forth who made men like gods in their glory and gladness.
Now in the darkness coming all beauty must wane or be tarnished;
Joy shall fade and mighty Love grow fickle and fretful;
Even as a child that is scared in the night, he shall shake in his chambers.
Yet shall a portion be kept for these, Ares and white Aphrodite.
Thou whom already thy Pythoness bears not, torn by thy advent,
Caverned already who sittest in Delphi knowing thy future,
What wilt thou do with the veil and the night, O burning Apollo?
Then from the orb of his glory unbearable save to immortals
Bright and austere replied the beautiful mystic Apollo:
Zeus, I know that I fade; already the night is around me.
Dusk she extends her reign and obscures my lightnings with error.
Therefore my prophets mislead mens hearts to the ruin appointed,
Therefore Cassandra cries in vain to her sire and her brothers.
All I endure I foresee and the strength in me waits for its coming;
All I foresee I approve; for I know what is willed, O Cronion.
Yet is the fierce strength wroth in my breast at the need of approval
And for the human race fierce pity works in my bosom;
Wroth is my splendid heart with the cowering knowledge of mortals,
Wroth are my burning eyes with the purblind vision of reason.
I will go forth from your seats and descend to the night among mortals
There to guard the flame and the mystery; vast in my moments
Rare and sublime to sound like a sea against Time and its limits,
Cry like a spirit in pain in the hearts of the priest and the poet,
Cry against limits set and disorder sanities bounded.
Jealous for truth to the end my might shall prevail and for ever
Shatter the moulds that men make to imprison their limitless spirits.
Dire, overpowering the brain I shall speak out my oracles splendid.
Then in their ages of barren light or lucidity fruitful
Whenso the clear gods think they have conquered earth and its mortals,
Hidden God from all eyes, they shall wake from their dream and recoiling
Still they shall find in their paths the fallen and darkened Apollo.
So he spoke, repressing his dreadful might in his bosom,
And from their high seats passed, his soul august and resplendent
Drawn to the anguish of men and the fierce terrestrial labour.
Down he dropped with a roar of light invading the regions,
And in his fierce and burning spirit intense and uplifted
Sure of his luminous truth and careless for weakness of mortals
Flaming oppressed the earth with his dire intolerant beauty.
Over the summits descending that slept in the silence of heaven,
He through the spaces angrily drew towards the tramp and the shouting
Over the speeding of Xanthus and over the pastures of Troya.
Clang of his argent bow was the wrath restrained of the mighty,
Stern was his pace like Fates; so he came to the warfare of mortals
And behind Paris strong and inactive waited Gods moment
Knowing what should arrive, nor disturbed like men by their hopings.
But in the courts of Heaven Zeus to his brother immortal
Turned like a menaced king on his counsellor smiling augustly:
Seest thou, Poseidon, this sign that great gods revolting have left us,
Follow their hearts and strive with Ananke? Yet though they struggle,
Thou and I will do our will with the world, O earth-shaker.
Answered to Zeus the besieger of earth, the voice of the waters:
This is our strength and our right, for we are the kings and the masters.
Too much pity has been and yielding of Heaven to mortals.
I will go down with my chariot drawn by my thunder-maned coursers
Into the battle and thrust down Troy with my hand to the silence,
Even though she cling round the snowy knees of our child Aphrodite
Or with Apollos sun take refuge from Night and her shadows.
I will not pity her pain, who am ruthless even as my surges.
Brother, thou knowest, O Zeus, that I am a king and a trader;
For on my paths I receive earths skill and her merchandise gather,
Traffic richly in pearls and bear the swift ships on my bosom.
Blue are my waves and they call mens hearts to wealth and adventure.
Lured by the shifting surges they launch their delight and their treasures
Trusting the toil of years to the perilous moments of Ocean.
Huge mans soul in its petty frame goes wrestling with Nature
Over her vasts and his fragile ships between my horizons
Buffeting death in his solitudes labour through swell and through storm-blast
Bound for each land with her sons and watched for by eyes in each haven.
I from Tyre up to Gades trace on my billows their trade-routes
And on my vast and spuming Atlantic suffer their rudders.
Carthage and Greece are my children, the marts of the world are my term-posts.
Who then deserves the earth if not he who enriches and fosters?
But thou hast favoured thy sons, O Zeus; O Hera, earths sceptres
Still were denied me and kept for strong Ares and brilliant Apollo.
Now all your will shall be done, so you give me the earth for my nations.
Gold shall make men like gods and bind their thoughts into oneness;
Peace I will build with gold and heaven with the pearls of my caverns.
Smiling replied to his brothers craft the mighty Cronion:
Lord of the boundless seas, Poseidon, soul of the surges,
Well thou knowest that earth shall be seized as a booth for the trader.
Rome nor Greece nor France can drive back Carthage for ever.
Always each birth of the silence attaining the field and the movement
Takes from Time its reign; for it came for its throne and its godhead.
So too shall Mammon take and his sons their hour from the ages.
Yet is the flame and the dust last end of the silk and the iron,
And at their end the king and the prophet shall govern the nations.
Even as Troy, so shall Babylon flame up to heaven for the spoiler
Wailed by the merchant afar as he sees the red glow from the ocean.
Up from the seats of the Mighty the Earth-shaker rose. His raiment
Round him purple and dominant rippled and murmured and whispered,
Whispered of argosies sunk and the pearls and the Nereids playing,
Murmured of azure solitudes, sounded of storm and the death-wail.
Even as the march of his waters so was the pace of the sea-god
Flowing on endless through Time; with the glittering symbol of empire
Crowned were his fatal brows; in his grasp was the wrath of the trident,
Tripled force, life-shattering, brutal, imperial, sombre.
Resonant, surging, vast in the pomp of his clamorous greatness
Proud and victorious he came to his home in the far-spuming waters.
Even as a soul from the heights of thought plunges back into living,
So he plunged like a rock through the foam; for it falls from a mountain
Overpeering the waves in some silence of desolate waters
Left to the wind and the sea-gull where Ocean alone with the ages
Dreams of the calm of the skies or tosses its spray to the wind-gods,
Tosses for ever its foam in the solitude huge of its longings
Far from the homes and the noises of men. So the dark-browed Poseidon
Came to his coral halls and the sapphire stables of Nereus
Ever where champ their bits the harnessed steeds of the Ocean
Watched by foam-white girls in the caverns of still Amphitrite.
There was his chariot yoked by the Tritons, drawn by his coursers
Born of the fleeing sea-spray and shod with the northwind who journey
Black like the front of the storm and clothed with their manes as with thunder.
This now rose from its depths to the upper tumults of Ocean
Bearing the awful brows and the mighty form of the sea-god
And from the roar of the surges fast oer the giant margin
Came remembering the storm and the swiftness wide towards the Troad.
So among men he arrived to the clamorous labours of Ares,
Close by the stern Diomedes stood and frowned oer the battle.
He for the Trojan slaughter chose for his mace and his sword-edge
Iron Tydeus son and the adamant heart of young Pyrrhus.
But in the courts divine the Father high of the immortals
Turned in his heart to the brilliant offspring born of his musings,
She who tranquil observes and judges her father and all things.
What shall I say to the thought that is calm in thy breasts, O Athene?
Have I not given thee earth for thy portion, throned thee and armoured,
Darkened Cypris smile, dimmed Heras son and Latonas?
Swift in thy silent ambition, proud in thy radiant sternness,
Girl, thou shalt rule with the Greek and the Saxon, the Frank and the Roman.
Worker and fighter and builder and thinker, light of the reason,
Men shall leave all temples to crowd in thy courts, O Athene.
Go then and do my will, prepare mans tribes for their fullness.
But with her high clear smile on him answered the mighty Athene,
Wisely and soberly, tenderly smiled she chiding her father
Even as a mother might rail at her child when he hides and dissembles:
Zeus, I see and I am not deceived by thy words in my spirit.
We but build forms for thy thought while thou smilest down high oer our toiling;
Even as men are we tools for thee, who are thy children and dear ones.
All this life is thy sport and thou workst like a boy at his engines
Making a toil of the game and a play of the serious labour.
Then to that play thou callest us wearing a sombre visage,
This consulting, that to our wills confiding, O Ruler;
Choosing thy helpers, hastened by those whom thou lurest to oppose thee
Guile thou usest with gods as with mortals, scheming, deceiving,
And at the wrath and the love thou hast prompted laughest in secret.
So we two who are sisters and enemies, lovers and rivals,
Fondled and baffled in turn obey thy will and thy cunning,
I, thy girl of war, and the rosy-white Aphrodite.
Always we served but thy pleasure since our immortal beginnings,
Always each other we helped by our play and our wrestlings and quarrels.
This too I know that I pass preparing the paths of Apollo
And at the end as his sister and slave and bride I must sojourn
Rapt to his courts of mystic light and unbearable brilliance.
Was I not ever condemned since my birth from the toil of thy musings
Seized like a lyre in my body to sob and to laugh out his music,
Shake as a leaf in his fierceness and leap as a flame in his splendours!
So must I dwell overpowered and so must I labour subjected
Robbed of my loneliness pure and coerced in my radiant freedom,
Now whose clearness and pride are the sovereign joy of thy creatures.
Such the reward that thou keepst for my labour obedient always.
Yet I work and I do thy will, for tis mine, O my father.
Proud of her ruthless lust of thought and action and battle,
Swift-footed rose the daughter of Zeus from her sessions immortal:
Breasts of the morning unveiled in a purity awful and candid,
Head of the mighty Dawn, the goddess Pallas Athene!
Strong and rapacious she swooped on the world as her prey and her booty
Down from the courts of the Mighty descending, darting on Ida.
Dire she descended, a god in her reason, a child in her longings,
Joy and woe to the world that is given to the whims of the child-god
Greedy for rule and play and the minds of men and their doings!
So with her aegis scattering light oer the heads of the nations
Shining-eyed in her boyish beauty severe and attractive
Came to the fields of the Troad, came to the fateful warfare,
Veiled, the goddess calm and pure in her luminous raiment
Zoned with beauty and strength. Rejoicing, spurring the fighters
Close oer Odysseus she stood and clear-eyed governed the battle.
Zeus to Hephaestus next, the Cyclopean toiler
Turned, Hephaestus the strong-souled, priest and king and a bond-slave,
Servant of men in their homes and their workshops, servant of Nature,
He who has built these worlds and kindles the fire for a mortal.
Thou, my son, art obedient always. Wisdom is with thee,
Therefore thou knowst and obeyest. Submission is wisdom and knowledge;
He who is blind revolts and he who is limited struggles:
Strife is not for the infinite; wisdom observes to accomplish.
Troy and her sons and her works are thy food today, O Hephaestus.
And to his father the Toiler answered, the silent Seer:
Yes, I obey thee, my Father, and That which than thou is more mighty;
Even as thou obeyest by rule, so I by my labour.
Now must I heap the furnace, now must I toil at the smithy,
I who have flamed on the altar of sacrifice helping the sages.
I am the Cyclops, the lamester, who once was pure and a high-priest.
Holy the pomp of my flames ascendant from pyre and from altar
Robed mens souls for their heavens and my smoke was a pillar to Nature.
Though I have burned in the sight of the sage and the heart of the hero,
Now is no nobler hymn for my ear than the clanging of metal,
Breath of human greed and the dolorous pant of the engines.
Still I repine not, but toil; for to toil I was yoked by my Maker.
I am your servant, O Gods, and his of whom you are servants.
But to the toiler Zeus replied, to the servant of creatures:
What is the thought thou hast uttered betrayed by thy speech, O Hephaestus?
True is it earth shall grow as a smithy, the smoke of the furnace
Fill mens eyes and their souls shall be stunned with the clang of the hammers;
Yet in the end there is rest on the peak of a labour accomplished.
Nor shall the might of the thinker be quelled by that iron oppression,
Nor shall the soul of the warrior despair in the darkness triumphant;
For when the night shall be deepest, dawn shall increase on the mountains
And in the heart of the worst the best shall be born by my wisdom.
Pallas thy sister shall guard mans knowledge fighting the earth-smoke.
Thou too art mighty to live through the clamour even as Apollo.
Work then, endure; expect from the Silence an end and thy wages.
So King Hephaestus arose and passed from the courts of his father;
Down upon earth he came with his lame omnipotent motion;
And with uneven steps absorbed and silent the Master
Worked employed mid the wheels of the cars as a smith in his smithy,
But it was death and bale that he forged, not the bronze and the iron.
Stark, like a fire obscured by its smoke, through the spear-casts he laboured
Helping Ajax war and the Theban and Phocian fighters.
Zeus to his grandiose helper next, who proved and unmoving,
Calm in her greatness waited the mighty comm and of her husband:
Hera, sister and spouse, what my will is thou knowest, O consort.
One are our blood and our hearts, nor the thought for the words of the speaker
Waits, but each other we know and ourselves and the Vast and the heavens,
Life and all between and all beyond and the ages.
That which Space not knows nor Time, we have known, O my sister.
Therefore our souls are one soul and our minds become mirrors of oneness.
Go then and do my will, O thou mighty one, burning down Troya.
Silent she rose from the seats of the Blissful, Hera majestic,
And with her flowing garment and mystical zone through the spaces
Haloed came like the moon on an evening of luminous silence
Down upon Ida descending, a snow-white swan on the greenness,
Down upon Ida the mystic haunted by footsteps immortal
Ever since out of the Ocean it rose and lived gazing towards heaven.
There on a peak of the mountains alone with the sea and the azure
Voiceless and mighty she paused like a thought on the summits of being
Clasped by all heaven; the winds at play in her gust-scattered raiment
Sported insulting her gracious strength with their turbulent sweetness,
Played with their mother and queen; but she stood absorbed and unheeding,
Mute, with her sandalled foot for a moment thrilling the grasses,
Dumbly adored by a soul in the mountains, a thought in the rivers,
Roared to loud by her lions. The voice of the cataracts falling
Entered her soul profound and it heard eternitys rumour.
Silent its gaze immense contained the wheeling of aeons.
Huge-winged through Time flew her thought and its grandiose vast revolutions
Turned and returned. So musing her timeless creative spirit,
Master of Time, its instrument, grieflessly hastening forward
Parted with greatnesses dead and summoned new strengths from their stables;
Maned they came to her call and filled with their pacings the future.
Calm, with the vision satisfied, thrilled by the grandeurs within her,
Down in a billow of whiteness and gold and delicate raiment
Gliding the daughter of Heaven came to the earth that received her
Glad of the tread divine and bright with her more than with sunbeams.
King Agamemnon she found and smiling on Spartas levies
Mixed unseen with the far-glinting spears of haughty Mycenae.
Then to the Mighty who tranquil abode and august in his regions
Zeus, while his gaze over many forms and high-seated godheads
Passed like a swift-fleeing eagle over the peaks and the glaciers
When to his eyrie he flies alone through the vastness and silence:
Artemis, child of my loins and you, O legioned immortals,
All you have heard. Descend, O ye gods, to your sovereign stations,
Labour rejoicing whose task is joy and your bliss is creation;
Shrink from no act that Necessity asks from your luminous natures.
Thee I have given no part in the years that come, O my daughter,
Huntress swift of the worlds who with purity all things pursuest.
Yet not less is thy portion intended than theirs who oerpass thee:
Helped are the souls that wait more than strengths soon fulfilled and exhausted.
Archeress, brilliance, wait thine hour from the speed of the ages.
So they departed, Artemis leading lightning-tasselled.
Ancient Themis remained and awful Dis and Ananke.
Then mid these last of the gods who shall stand when all others have perished,
Zeus to the Silence obscure under iron brows of that goddess,
Griefless, unveiled was her visage, dire and unmoved and eternal:
Thou and I, O Dis, remain and our sister Ananke.
That which the joyous hearts of our children, radiant heaven-moths
Flitting mid flowers of sense for the honey of thought have not captured,
That which Poseidon forgets mid the pomp and the roar of his waters,
We three keep in our hearts. By the Light that I watch for unsleeping,
By thy tremendous consent to the silence and darkness, O Hades,
By her delight renounced and the prayers and the worship of mortals
Making herself as an engine of God without bowels or vision,
Yet in that engine are only heart-beats, yet is her riddle
Only Love that is veiled and pity that suffers and slaughters,
We three are free from ourselves, O Dis, and free from each other.
Do then, O King of the Night, observe then with Time for thy servant
Not my behest, but What she and thou and I are for ever.
Mute the Darkness sat like a soul unmoved through the aeons,
Then came a voice from the silence of Dis, from the night there came wisdom.
Yes, I have chosen and that which I chose I endure, O Cronion,
Though to the courts of the gods I come as a threat and a shadow,
Even though none to their counsels call me, none to their pastime,
None companions me willingly; even thy daughter, my consort,
Trembling whom once from our sister Demeter I plucked like a blossom
Torn from Sicilian fields, while Fate reluctant, consenting,
Bowed her head, lives but by her gasps of the sun and the azure;
Stretched are her hands to the light and she seeks for the clasp of her mother.
I, I am Night and her reign and that of which Night is a symbol.
All to me comes, even thou shalt come to me, brilliant Cronion.
All here exists by me whom all walk fearing and shunning;
He who shuns not, He am I and thou and Ananke.
All things I take to my bosom that Life may be swift in her voyage;
For out of death is Life and not by birth and her motions
And behind Night is light and not in the sun and his splendours.
Troy to the Night I will gather a wreath for my shadows, O grower.
So in his arrogance dire the vast invincible Death-god
Triumphing passed out of heaven with Themis and silent Ananke.
Zeus alone in the spheres of his bliss, in his kingdoms of brilliance
Sat divine and alarmed; for even the gods in their heavens
Scarce shall live who have gazed on the unveiled face of Ananke,
Heard the accents dire of the Darkness that waits for the ages.
Awful and dull grew his eyes and mighty and still grew his members.
Back from his nature he drew to the passionless peaks of the spirit,
Throned where it dwells for ever uplifted and silent and changeless
Far beyond living and death, beyond Nature and ending of Nature.
There for a while he dwelt veiled, protected from Dis and his greatness;
Then to the works of the world he returned and the joy of his musings.
Life and the blaze of the mighty soul that he was of Gods making
Dawned again in the heavenly eyes and the majestied semblance.
Comforted heaven he beheld, to the green of the earth was attracted.
But through this Space unreal, but through these worlds that are shadows
Went the awful Three. None saw them pass, none felt them.
Only in the heavens was a tread as of death, in the air was a winter,
Earth oppressed moaned long like a woman striving with anguish.
Ida saw them not, but her grim lions cowered in their caverns,
Ceased for a while on her slopes the eternal laughter of fountains.
Over the ancient ramparts of Dardanus high-roofed city
Darkening her victor domes and her gardens of life and its sweetness
Silent they came. Unseen and unheard was the dreadful arrival.
Troy and her gods dreamed secure in the moment flattered by sunlight.
Dim to the citadel high they arrived and their silence invaded
Pallas marble shrine where stern and white in her beauty,
Armed on her pedestal, trampling the prostrate image of darkness
Mighty Athenes statue guarded imperial Troya.
Dim and vast they entered in. Then through all the great city
Huge a rushing sound was heard from her gardens and places
And in their musings her seers as they strove with night and with error
And in the fane of Apollo Laocoon torn by his visions
Heard aghast the voice of Troys deities fleeing from Troya,
Saw the flaming lords of her households drive in a death-rout
Forth from her ancient halls and their noble familiar sessions.
Ghosts of her splendid centuries wailed on the wings of the doom-blast.
Moaning the Dryads fled and her Naiads passed from Scamander
Leaving the world to deities dumb of the clod and the earth-smoke,
And from their tombs and their shrines the shadowy Ancestors faded.
Filled was the air with their troops and the sound of a vast lamentation.
Wailing they went, lamenting mortalitys ages of greatness,
Ruthless Anankes deeds and the mortal conquests of Hades.
Then in the fane Palladian the shuddering priests of Athene
Entered the darkened shrine and saw on the suffering marble
Shattered Athenes mighty statue prostrate as conquered,
But on its pedestal rose oer the unhurt image of darkness
Awful shapes, a Trinity dim and dire unto mortals.
Dumb they fell down on the earth and the life-breath was slain in their bosoms.
And in the noon there was night. And Apollo passed out of Troya.
***
~ Sri Aurobindo, 8 - The Book of the Gods
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424:BOOK THE FOURTH
The Story of Alcithoe and her Sisters
Yet still Alcithoe perverse remains,
And Bacchus still, and all his rites, disdains.
Too rash, and madly bold, she bids him prove
Himself a God, nor owns the son of Jove.
Her sisters too unanimous agree,
Faithful associates in impiety.
Be this a solemn feast, the priest had said;
Be, with each mistress, unemploy'd each maid.
With skins of beasts your tender limbs enclose,
And with an ivy-crown adorn your brows,
The leafy Thyrsus high in triumph bear,
And give your locks to wanton in the air.
These rites profan'd, the holy seer foreshow'd
A mourning people, and a vengeful God.
Matrons and pious wives obedience show,
Distaffs, and wooll, half spun, away they throw:
Then incense burn, and, Bacchus, thee adore,
Or lov'st thou Nyseus, or Lyaeus more?
O! doubly got, O! doubly born, they sung,
Thou mighty Bromius, hail, from light'ning sprung!
Hail, Thyon, Eleleus! each name is thine:
Or, listen parent of the genial vine!
Iachus! Evan! loudly they repeat,
And not one Grecian attri bute forget,
Which to thy praise, great Deity, belong,
Stil'd justly Liber in the Roman song.
Eternity of youth is thine! enjoy
Years roul'd on years, yet still a blooming boy.
In Heav'n thou shin'st with a superior grace;
Conceal thy horns, and 'tis a virgin's face.
Thou taught'st the tawny Indian to obey,
And Ganges, smoothly flowing, own'd thy sway.
Lycurgus, Pentheus, equally profane,
By thy just vengeance equally were slain.
By thee the Tuscans, who conspir'd to keep
Thee captive, plung'd, and cut with finns the deep.
With painted reins, all-glitt'ring from afar,
The spotted lynxes proudly draw thy car.
Around, the Bacchae, and the satyrs throng;
Behind, Silenus, drunk, lags slow along:
On his dull ass he nods from side to side,
Forbears to fall, yet half forgets to ride.
Still at thy near approach, applauses loud
Are heard, with yellings of the female crowd.
Timbrels, and boxen pipes, with mingled cries,
Swell up in sounds confus'd, and rend the skies.
Come, Bacchus, come propitious, all implore,
And act thy sacred orgies o'er and o'er.
But Mineus' daughters, while these rites were pay'd,
At home, impertinently busie, stay'd.
Their wicked tasks they ply with various art,
And thro' the loom the sliding shuttle dart;
Or at the fire to comb the wooll they stand,
Or twirl the spindle with a dext'rous hand.
Guilty themselves, they force the guiltless in;
Their maids, who share the labour, share the sin.
At last one sister cries, who nimbly knew
To draw nice threads, and winde the finest clue,
While others idly rove, and Gods revere,
Their fancy'd Gods! they know not who, or where;
Let us, whom Pallas taught her better arts,
Still working, cheer with mirthful chat our hearts,
And to deceive the time, let me prevail
With each by turns to tell some antique tale.
She said: her sisters lik'd the humour well,
And smiling, bad her the first story tell.
But she a-while profoundly seem'd to muse,
Perplex'd amid variety to chuse:
And knew not, whether she should first relate
The poor Dircetis, and her wond'rous fate.
The Palestines believe it to a man,
And show the lake, in which her scales began.
Or if she rather should the daughter sing,
Who in the hoary verge of life took wing;
Who soar'd from Earth, and dwelt in tow'rs on high,
And now a dove she flits along the sky.
Or how lewd Nais, when her lust was cloy'd,
To fishes turn'd the youths, she had enjoy'd,
By pow'rful verse, and herbs; effect most strange!
At last the changer shar'd herself the change.
Or how the tree, which once white berries bore,
Still crimson bears, since stain'd with crimson gore.
The tree was new; she likes it, and begins
To tell the tale, and as she tells, she spins.
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe
In Babylon, where first her queen, for state
Rais'd walls of brick magnificently great,
Liv'd Pyramus, and Thisbe, lovely pair!
He found no eastern youth his equal there,
And she beyond the fairest nymph was fair.
A closer neighbourhood was never known,
Tho' two the houses, yet the roof was one.
Acquaintance grew, th' acquaintance they improve
To friendship, friendship ripen'd into love:
Love had been crown'd, but impotently mad,
What parents could not hinder, they forbad.
For with fierce flames young Pyramus still burn'd,
And grateful Thisbe flames as fierce return'd.
Aloud in words their thoughts they dare not break,
But silent stand; and silent looks can speak.
The fire of love the more it is supprest,
The more it glows, and rages in the breast.
When the division-wall was built, a chink
Was left, the cement unobserv'd to shrink.
So slight the cranny, that it still had been
For centuries unclos'd, because unseen.
But oh! what thing so small, so secret lies,
Which scapes, if form'd for love, a lover's eyes?
Ev'n in this narrow chink they quickly found
A friendly passage for a trackless sound.
Safely they told their sorrows, and their joys,
In whisper'd murmurs, and a dying noise,
By turns to catch each other's breath they strove,
And suck'd in all the balmy breeze of love.
Oft as on diff'rent sides they stood, they cry'd,
Malicious wall, thus lovers to divide!
Suppose, thou should'st a-while to us give place
To lock, and fasten in a close embrace:
But if too much to grant so sweet a bliss,
Indulge at least the pleasure of a kiss.
We scorn ingratitude: to thee, we know,
This safe conveyance of our minds we owe.
Thus they their vain petition did renew
'Till night, and then they softly sigh'd adieu.
But first they strove to kiss, and that was all;
Their kisses dy'd untasted on the wall.
Soon as the morn had o'er the stars prevail'd,
And warm'd by Phoebus, flow'rs their dews exhal'd,
The lovers to their well-known place return,
Alike they suffer, and alike they mourn.
At last their parents they resolve to cheat
(If to deceive in love be call'd deceit),
To steal by night from home, and thence unknown
To seek the fields, and quit th' unfaithful town.
But, to prevent their wand'ring in the dark,
They both agree to fix upon a mark;
A mark, that could not their designs expose:
The tomb of Ninus was the mark they chose.
There they might rest secure beneath the shade,
Which boughs, with snowy fruit encumber'd, made:
A wide-spread mulberry its rise had took
Just on the margin of a gurgling brook.
Impatient for the friendly dusk they stay;
And chide the slowness of departing day;
In western seas down sunk at last the light,
From western seas up-rose the shades of night.
The loving Thisbe ev'n prevents the hour,
With cautious silence she unlocks the door,
And veils her face, and marching thro' the gloom
Swiftly arrives at th' assignation-tomb.
For still the fearful sex can fearless prove;
Boldly they act, if spirited by love.
When lo! a lioness rush'd o'er the plain,
Grimly besmear'd with blood of oxen slain:
And what to the dire sight new horrors brought,
To slake her thirst the neighb'ring spring she sought.
Which, by the moon, when trembling Thisbe spies,
Wing'd with her fear, swift, as the wind, she flies;
And in a cave recovers from her fright,
But drop'd her veil, confounded in her flight.
When sated with repeated draughts, again
The queen of beasts scour'd back along the plain,
She found the veil, and mouthing it all o'er,
With bloody jaws the lifeless prey she tore.
The youth, who could not cheat his guards so soon,
Late came, and noted by the glimm'ring moon
Some savage feet, new printed on the ground,
His cheeks turn'd pale, his limbs no vigour found;
But when, advancing on, the veil he spied
Distain'd with blood, and ghastly torn, he cried,
One night shall death to two young lovers give,
But she deserv'd unnumber'd years to live!
'Tis I am guilty, I have thee betray'd,
Who came not early, as my charming maid.
Whatever slew thee, I the cause remain,
I nam'd, and fix'd the place where thou wast slain.
Ye lions from your neighb'ring dens repair,
Pity the wretch, this impious body tear!
But cowards thus for death can idly cry;
The brave still have it in their pow'r to die.
Then to th' appointed tree he hastes away,
The veil first gather'd, tho' all rent it lay:
The veil all rent yet still it self endears,
He kist, and kissing, wash'd it with his tears.
Tho' rich (he cry'd) with many a precious stain,
Still from my blood a deeper tincture gain.
Then in his breast his shining sword he drown'd,
And fell supine, extended on the ground.
As out again the blade lie dying drew,
Out spun the blood, and streaming upwards flew.
So if a conduit-pipe e'er burst you saw,
Swift spring the gushing waters thro' the flaw:
Then spouting in a bow, they rise on high,
And a new fountain plays amid the sky.
The berries, stain'd with blood, began to show
A dark complexion, and forgot their snow;
While fatten'd with the flowing gore, the root
Was doom'd for ever to a purple fruit.
Mean-time poor Thisbe fear'd, so long she stay'd,
Her lover might suspect a perjur'd maid.
Her fright scarce o'er, she strove the youth to find
With ardent eyes, which spoke an ardent mind.
Already in his arms, she hears him sigh
At her destruction, which was once so nigh.
The tomb, the tree, but not the fruit she knew,
The fruit she doubted for its alter'd hue.
Still as she doubts, her eyes a body found
Quiv'ring in death, and gasping on the ground.
She started back, the red her cheeks forsook,
And ev'ry nerve with thrilling horrors shook.
So trembles the smooth surface of the seas,
If brush'd o'er gently with a rising breeze.
But when her view her bleeding love confest,
She shriek'd, she tore her hair, she beat her breast.
She rais'd the body, and embrac'd it round,
And bath'd with tears unfeign'd the gaping wound.
Then her warm lips to the cold face apply'd,
And is it thus, ah! thus we meet, she cry'd!
My Pyramus! whence sprung thy cruel fate?
My Pyramus!- ah! speak, ere 'tis too late.
I, thy own Thisbe, but one word implore,
One word thy Thisbe never ask'd before.
At Thisbe's name, awak'd, he open'd wide
His dying eyes; with dying eyes he try'd
On her to dwell, but clos'd them slow, and dy'd.
The fatal cause was now at last explor'd,
Her veil she knew, and saw his sheathless sword:
From thy own hand thy ruin thou hast found,
She said, but love first taught that hand to wound,
Ev'n I for thee as bold a hand can show,
And love, which shall as true direct the blow.
I will against the woman's weakness strive,
And never thee, lamented youth, survive.
The world may say, I caus'd, alas! thy death,
But saw thee breathless, and resign'd my breath.
Fate, tho' it conquers, shall no triumph gain,
Fate, that divides us, still divides in vain.
Now, both our cruel parents, hear my pray'r;
My pray'r to offer for us both I dare;
Oh! see our ashes in one urn confin'd,
Whom love at first, and fate at last has join'd.
The bliss, you envy'd, is not our request;
Lovers, when dead, may sure together rest.
Thou, tree, where now one lifeless lump is laid,
Ere-long o'er two shalt cast a friendly shade.
Still let our loves from thee be understood,
Still witness in thy purple fruit our blood.
She spoke, and in her bosom plung'd the sword,
All warm and reeking from its slaughter'd lord.
The pray'r, which dying Thisbe had preferr'd,
Both Gods, and parents, with compassion heard.
The whiteness of the mulberry soon fled,
And rip'ning, sadden'd in a dusky red:
While both their parents their lost children mourn,
And mix their ashes in one golden urn.
Thus did the melancholy tale conclude,
And a short, silent interval ensu'd.
The next in birth unloos'd her artful tongue,
And drew attentive all the sister-throng.
The Story of Leucothoe and the Sun
The Sun, the source of light, by beauty's pow'r
Once am'rous grew; then hear the Sun's amour.
Venus, and Mars, with his far-piercing eyes
This God first spy'd; this God first all things spies.
Stung at the sight, and swift on mischief bent,
To haughty Juno's shapeless son he went:
The Goddess, and her God gallant betray'd,
And told the cuckold, where their pranks were play'd.
Poor Vulcan soon desir'd to hear no more,
He drop'd his hammer, and he shook all o'er:
Then courage takes, and full of vengeful ire
He heaves the bellows, and blows fierce the fire:
From liquid brass, tho' sure, yet subtile snares
He forms, and next a wond'rous net prepares,
Drawn with such curious art, so nicely sly,
Unseen the mashes cheat the searching eye.
Not half so thin their webs the spiders weave,
Which the most wary, buzzing prey deceive.
These chains, obedient to the touch, he spread
In secret foldings o'er the conscious bed:
The conscious bed again was quickly prest
By the fond pair, in lawless raptures blest.
Mars wonder'd at his Cytherea's charms,
More fast than ever lock'd within her arms.
While Vulcan th' iv'ry doors unbarr'd with care,
Then call'd the Gods to view the sportive pair:
The Gods throng'd in, and saw in open day,
Where Mars, and beauty's queen, all naked, lay.
O! shameful sight, if shameful that we name,
Which Gods with envy view'd, and could not blame;
But, for the pleasure, wish'd to bear the shame.
Each Deity, with laughter tir'd, departs,
Yet all still laugh'd at Vulcan in their hearts.
Thro' Heav'n the news of this surprizal run,
But Venus did not thus forget the Sun.
He, who stol'n transports idly had betray'd,
By a betrayer was in kind repay'd.
What now avails, great God, thy piercing blaze,
That youth, and beauty, and those golden rays?
Thou, who can'st warm this universe alone,
Feel'st now a warmth more pow'rful than thy own:
And those bright eyes, which all things should survey,
Know not from fair Leucothoe to stray.
The lamp of light, for human good design'd,
Is to one virgin niggardly confin'd.
Sometimes too early rise thy eastern beams,
Sometimes too late they set in western streams:
'Tis then her beauty thy swift course delays,
And gives to winter skies long summer days.
Now in thy face thy love-sick mind appears,
And spreads thro' impious nations empty fears:
For when thy beamless head is wrapt in night,
Poor mortals tremble in despair of light.
'Tis not the moon, that o'er thee casts a veil
'Tis love alone, which makes thy looks so pale.
Leucothoe is grown thy only care,
Not Phaeton's fair mother now is fair.
The youthful Rhodos moves no tender thought,
And beauteous Porsa is at last forgot.
Fond Clytie, scorn'd, yet lov'd, and sought thy bed,
Ev'n then thy heart for other virgins bled.
Leucothoe has all thy soul possest,
And chas'd each rival passion from thy breast.
To this bright nymph Eurynome gave birth
In the blest confines of the spicy Earth.
Excelling others, she herself beheld
By her own blooming daughter far excell'd.
The sire was Orchamus, whose vast command,
The sev'nth from Belus, rul'd the Persian Land.
Deep in cool vales, beneath th' Hesperian sky,
For the Sun's fiery steeds the pastures lye.
Ambrosia there they eat, and thence they gain
New vigour, and their daily toils sustain.
While thus on heav'nly food the coursers fed,
And night, around, her gloomy empire spread,
The God assum'd the mother's shape and air,
And pass'd, unheeded, to his darling fair.
Close by a lamp, with maids encompass'd round,
The royal spinster, full employ'd, he found:
Then cry'd, A-while from work, my daughter, rest;
And, like a mother, scarce her lips he prest.
Servants retire!- nor secrets dare to hear,
Intrusted only to a daughter's ear.
They swift obey'd: not one, suspicious, thought
The secret, which their mistress would be taught.
Then he: since now no witnesses are near,
Behold! the God, who guides the various year!
The world's vast eye, of light the source serene,
Who all things sees, by whom are all things seen.
Believe me, nymph! (for I the truth have show'd)
Thy charms have pow'r to charm so great a God.
Confus'd, she heard him his soft passion tell,
And on the floor, untwirl'd, the spindle fell:
Still from the sweet confusion some new grace
Blush'd out by stealth, and languish'd in her face.
The lover, now inflam'd, himself put on,
And out at once the God, all-radiant, shone.
The virgin startled at his alter'd form,
Too weak to bear a God's impetuous storm:
No more against the dazling youth she strove,
But silent yielded, and indulg'd his love.
This Clytie knew, and knew she was undone,
Whose soul was fix'd, and doated on the Sun.
She rag'd to think on her neglected charms,
And Phoebus, panting in another's arms.
With envious madness fir'd, she flies in haste,
And tells the king, his daughter was unchaste.
The king, incens'd to hear his honour stain'd,
No more the father nor the man retain'd.
In vain she stretch'd her arms, and turn'd her eyes
To her lov'd God, th' enlightner of the skies.
In vain she own'd it was a crime, yet still
It was a crime not acted by her will.
The brutal sire stood deaf to ev'ry pray'r,
And deep in Earth entomb'd alive the fair.
What Phoebus could do, was by Phoebus done:
Full on her grave with pointed beams he shone:
To pointed beams the gaping Earth gave way;
Had the nymph eyes, her eyes had seen the day,
But lifeless now, yet lovely still, she lay.
Not more the God wept, when the world was fir'd,
And in the wreck his blooming boy expir'd.
The vital flame he strives to light again,
And warm the frozen blood in ev'ry vein:
But since resistless Fates deny'd that pow'r,
On the cold nymph he rain'd a nectar show'r.
Ah! undeserving thus (he said) to die,
Yet still in odours thou shalt reach the sky.
The body soon dissolv'd, and all around
Perfum'd with heav'nly fragrancies the ground,
A sacrifice for Gods up-rose from thence,
A sweet, delightful tree of frankincense.
The Transformation of Clytie
Tho' guilty Clytie thus the sun betray'd,
By too much passion she was guilty made.
Excess of love begot excess of grief,
Grief fondly bad her hence to hope relief.
But angry Phoebus hears, unmov'd, her sighs,
And scornful from her loath'd embraces flies.
All day, all night, in trackless wilds, alone
She pin'd, and taught the list'ning rocks her moan.
On the bare earth she lies, her bosom bare,
Loose her attire, dishevel'd is her hair.
Nine times the morn unbarr'd the gates of light,
As oft were spread th' alternate shades of night,
So long no sustenance the mourner knew,
Unless she drunk her tears, or suck'd the dew.
She turn'd about, but rose not from the ground,
Turn'd to the Sun, still as he roul'd his round:
On his bright face hung her desiring eyes,
'Till fix'd to Earth, she strove in vain to rise.
Her looks their paleness in a flow'r retain'd,
But here, and there, some purple streaks they gain'd.
Still the lov'd object the fond leafs pursue,
Still move their root, the moving Sun to view,
And in the Heliotrope the nymph is true.
The sisters heard these wonders with surprise,
But part receiv'd them as romantick lies;
And pertly rally'd, that they could not see
In Pow'rs divine so vast an energy.
Part own'd, true Gods such miracles might do,
But own'd not Bacchus, one among the true.
At last a common, just request they make,
And beg Alcithoe her turn to take.
I will (she said) and please you, if I can.
Then shot her shuttle swift, and thus began.
The fate of Daphnis is a fate too known,
Whom an enamour'd nymph transform'd to stone,
Because she fear'd another nymph might see
The lovely youth, and love as much as she:
So strange the madness is of jealousie!
Nor shall I tell, what changes Scython made,
And how he walk'd a man, or tripp'd a maid.
You too would peevish frown, and patience want
To hear, how Celmis grew an adamant.
He once was dear to Jove, and saw of old
Jove, when a child; but what he saw, he told.
Crocus, and Smilax may be turn'd to flow'rs,
And the Curetes spring from bounteous show'rs;
I pass a hundred legends stale, as these,
And with sweet novelty your taste will please.
The Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
How Salmacis, with weak enfeebling streams
Softens the body, and unnerves the limbs,
And what the secret cause, shall here be shown;
The cause is secret, but th' effect is known.
The Naids nurst an infant heretofore,
That Cytherea once to Hermes bore:
From both th' illustrious authors of his race
The child was nam'd, nor was it hard to trace
Both the bright parents thro' the infant's face.
When fifteen years in Ida's cool retreat
The boy had told, he left his native seat,
And sought fresh fountains in a foreign soil:
The pleasure lessen'd the attending toil,
With eager steps the Lycian fields he crost,
A river here he view'd so lovely bright,
It shew'd the bottom in a fairer light,
Nor kept a sand conceal'd from human sight.
The stream produc'd nor slimy ooze, nor weeds,
Nor miry rushes, nor the spiky reeds;
But dealt enriching moisture all around,
The fruitful banks with chearful verdure crown'd,
And kept the spring eternal on the ground.
A nymph presides, not practis'd in the chace,
Nor skilful at the bow, nor at the race;
Of all the blue-ey'd daughters of the main,
The only stranger to Diana's train:
Her sisters often, as 'tis said, wou'd cry,
"Fie Salmacis: what, always idle! fie.
Or take thy quiver, or thy arrows seize,
And mix the toils of hunting with thy ease."
Nor quiver she nor arrows e'er wou'd seize,
Nor mix the toils of hunting with her ease.
But oft would ba the her in the chrystal tide,
Oft with a comb her dewy locks divide;
Now in the limpid streams she views her face,
And drest her image in the floating glass:
On beds of leaves she now repos'd her limbs,
Now gather'd flow'rs that grew about her streams,
And then by chance was gathering, as he stood
To view the boy, and long'd for what she view'd.
Fain wou'd she meet the youth with hasty feet,
She fain wou'd meet him, but refus'd to meet
Before her looks were set with nicest care,
And well deserv'd to be reputed fair.
"Bright youth," she cries, "whom all thy features prove
A God, and, if a God, the God of love;
But if a mortal, blest thy nurse's breast,
Blest are thy parents, and thy sisters blest:
But oh how blest! how more than blest thy bride,
Ally'd in bliss, if any yet ally'd.
If so, let mine the stoln enjoyments be;
If not, behold a willing bride in me."
The boy knew nought of love, and toucht with shame,
He strove, and blusht, but still the blush became:
In rising blushes still fresh beauties rose;
The sunny side of fruit such blushes shows,
And such the moon, when all her silver white
Turns in eclipses to a ruddy light.
The nymph still begs, if not a nobler bliss,
A cold salute at least, a sister's kiss:
And now prepares to take the lovely boy
Between her arms. He, innocently coy,
Replies, "Or leave me to my self alone,
You rude uncivil nymph, or I'll be gone."
"Fair stranger then," says she, "it shall be so";
And, for she fear'd his threats, she feign'd to go:
But hid within a covert's neighbouring green,
She kept him still in sight, herself unseen.
The boy now fancies all the danger o'er,
And innocently sports about the shore,
Playful and wanton to the stream he trips,
And dips his foot, and shivers as he dips.
The coolness pleas'd him, and with eager haste
His airy garments on the banks he cast;
His godlike features, and his heav'nly hue,
And all his beauties were expos'd to view.
His naked limbs the nymph with rapture spies,
While hotter passions in her bosom rise,
Flush in her cheeks, and sparkle in her eyes.
She longs, she burns to clasp him in her arms,
And looks, and sighs, and kindles at his charms.
Now all undrest upon the banks he stood,
And clapt his sides, and leapt into the flood:
His lovely limbs the silver waves divide,
His limbs appear more lovely through the tide;
As lillies shut within a chrystal case,
Receive a glossy lustre from the glass.
He's mine, he's all my own, the Naid cries,
And flings off all, and after him she flies.
And now she fastens on him as he swims,
And holds him close, and wraps about his limbs.
The more the boy resisted, and was coy,
The more she clipt, and kist the strugling boy.
So when the wrigling snake is snatcht on high
In Eagle's claws, and hisses in the sky,
Around the foe his twirling tail he flings,
And twists her legs, and wriths about her wings.
The restless boy still obstinately strove
To free himself, and still refus'd her love.
Amidst his limbs she kept her limbs intwin'd,
"And why, coy youth," she cries, "why thus unkind!
Oh may the Gods thus keep us ever join'd!
Oh may we never, never part again!"
So pray'd the nymph, nor did she pray in vain:
For now she finds him, as his limbs she prest,
Grow nearer still, and nearer to her breast;
'Till, piercing each the other's flesh, they run
Together, and incorporate in one:
Last in one face are both their faces join'd,
As when the stock and grafted twig combin'd
Shoot up the same, and wear a common rind:
Both bodies in a single body mix,
A single body with a double sex.
The boy, thus lost in woman, now survey'd
The river's guilty stream, and thus he pray'd.
(He pray'd, but wonder'd at his softer tone,
Surpriz'd to hear a voice but half his own.)
You parent-Gods, whose heav'nly names I bear,
Hear your Hermaphrodite, and grant my pray'r;
Oh grant, that whomsoe'er these streams contain,
If man he enter'd, he may rise again
Supple, unsinew'd, and but half a man!
The heav'nly parents answer'd from on high,
Their two-shap'd son, the double votary
Then gave a secret virtue to the flood,
And ting'd its source to make his wishes good.
Alcithoe and her Sisters transform'd to Bats
But Mineus' daughters still their tasks pursue,
To wickedness most obstinately true:
At Bacchus still they laugh, when all around,
Unseen, the timbrels hoarse were heard to sound.
Saffron and myrrh their fragrant odours shed,
And now the present deity they dread.
Strange to relate! Here ivy first was seen,
Along the distaff crept the wond'rous green.
Then sudden-springing vines began to bloom,
And the soft tendrils curl'd around the loom:
While purple clusters, dangling from on high,
Ting'd the wrought purple with a second die.
Now from the skies was shot a doubtful light,
The day declining to the bounds of night.
The fabrick's firm foundations shake all o'er,
False tigers rage, and figur'd lions roar.
Torches, aloft, seem blazing in the air,
And angry flashes of red light'nings glare.
To dark recesses, the dire sight to shun,
Swift the pale sisters in confusion run.
Their arms were lost in pinions, as they fled,
And subtle films each slender limb o'er-spread.
Their alter'd forms their senses soon reveal'd;
Their forms, how alter'd, darkness still conceal'd.
Close to the roof each, wond'ring, upwards springs,
Born on unknown, transparent, plumeless wings.
They strove for words; their little bodies found
No words, but murmur'd in a fainting sound.
In towns, not woods, the sooty bats delight,
And, never, 'till the dusk, begin their flight;
'Till Vesper rises with his ev'ning flame;
From whom the Romans have deriv'd their name.
The Transformation of Ino and Melicerta to Sea-Gods
The pow'r of Bacchus now o'er Thebes had flown:
With awful rev'rence soon the God they own.
Proud Ino, all around the wonder tells,
And on her nephew deity still dwells.
Of num'rous sisters, she alone yet knew
No grief, but grief, which she from sisters drew.
Imperial Juno saw her with disdain,
Vain in her offspring, in her consort vain,
Who rul'd the trembling Thebans with a nod,
But saw her vainest in her foster-God.
Could then (she cry'd) a bastard-boy have pow'r
To make a mother her own son devour?
Could he the Tuscan crew to fishes change,
And now three sisters damn to forms so strange?
Yet shall the wife of Jove find no relief?
Shall she, still unreveng'd, disclose her grief?
Have I the mighty freedom to complain?
Is that my pow'r? is that to ease my pain?
A foe has taught me vengeance; and who ought
To scorn that vengeance, which a foe has taught?
What sure destruction frantick rage can throw,
The gaping wounds of slaughter'd Pentheus show.
Why should not Ino, fir'd with madness, stray,
Like her mad sisters her own kindred slay?
Why, she not follow, where they lead the way?
Down a steep, yawning cave, where yews display'd
In arches meet, and lend a baleful shade,
Thro' silent labyrinths a passage lies
To mournful regions, and infernal skies.
Here Styx exhales its noisome clouds, and here,
The fun'ral rites once paid, all souls appear.
Stiff cold, and horror with a ghastly face
And staring eyes, infest the dreary place.
Ghosts, new-arriv'd, and strangers to these plains,
Know not the palace, where grim Pluto reigns.
They journey doubtful, nor the road can tell,
Which leads to the metropolis of Hell.
A thousand avenues those tow'rs command,
A thousand gates for ever open stand.
As all the rivers, disembogu'd, find room
For all their waters in old Ocean's womb:
So this vast city worlds of shades receives,
And space for millions still of worlds she leaves.
Th' unbody'd spectres freely rove, and show
Whate'er they lov'd on Earth, they love below.
The lawyers still, or right, or wrong, support,
The courtiers smoothly glide to Pluto's court.
Still airy heroes thoughts of glory fire,
Still the dead poet strings his deathless lyre,
And lovers still with fancy'd darts expire.
The Queen of Heaven, to gratify her hate,
And sooth immortal wrath, forgets her state.
Down from the realms of day, to realms of night,
The Goddess swift precipitates her flight.
At Hell arriv'd, the noise Hell's porter heard,
Th' enormous dog his triple head up-rear'd:
Thrice from three grizly throats he howl'd profound,
Then suppliant couch'd, and stretch'd along the ground.
The trembling threshold, which Saturnia prest,
The weight of such divinity confest.
Before a lofty, adamantine gate,
Which clos'd a tow'r of brass, the Furies sate:
Mis-shapen forms, tremendous to the sight,
Th' implacable foul daughters of the night.
A sounding whip each bloody sister shakes,
Or from her tresses combs the curling snakes.
But now great Juno's majesty was known;
Thro' the thick gloom, all heav'nly bright, she shone:
The hideous monsters their obedience show'd,
And rising from their seats, submissive bow'd.
This is the place of woe, here groan the dead;
Huge Tityus o'er nine acres here is spread.
Fruitful for pain th' immortal liver breeds,
Still grows, and still th' insatiate vulture feeds.
Poor Tantalus to taste the water tries,
But from his lips the faithless water flies:
Then thinks the bending tree he can command,
The tree starts backwards, and eludes his hand.
The labour too of Sisyphus is vain,
Up the steep mount he heaves the stone with pain,
Down from the summet rouls the stone again.
The Belides their leaky vessels still
Are ever filling, and yet never fill:
Doom'd to this punishment for blood they shed,
For bridegrooms slaughter'd in the bridal bed.
Stretch'd on the rolling wheel Ixion lies;
Himself he follows, and himself he flies.
Ixion, tortur'd, Juno sternly ey'd,
Then turn'd, and toiling Sisyphus espy'd:
And why (she said) so wretched is the fate
Of him, whose brother proudly reigns in state?
Yet still my altars unador'd have been
By Athamas, and his presumptuous queen.
What caus'd her hate, the Goddess thus confest,
What caus'd her journey now was more than guest.
That hate, relentless, its revenge did want,
And that revenge the Furies soon could grant:
They could the glory of proud Thebes efface,
And hide in ruin the Cadmean race.
For this she largely promises, entreats,
And to intreaties adds imperial threats.
Then fell Tisiphone with rage was stung,
And from her mouth th' untwisted serpents flung.
To gain this trifling boon, there is no need
(She cry'd) in formal speeches to proceed.
Whatever thou command'st to do, is done;
Believe it finish'd, tho' not yet begun.
But from these melancholly seats repair
To happier mansions, and to purer air.
She spoke: the Goddess, darting upwards, flies,
And joyous re-ascends her native skies:
Nor enter'd there, till 'round her Iris threw
Ambrosial sweets, and pour'd celestial dew.
The faithful Fury, guiltless of delays,
With cruel haste the dire comm and obeys.
Girt in a bloody gown, a torch she shakes,
And round her neck twines speckled wreaths of snakes.
Fear, and dismay, and agonizing pain,
With frantick rage, compleat her loveless train.
To Thebes her flight she sped, and Hell forsook;
At her approach the Theban turrets shook:
The sun shrunk back, thick clouds the day o'er-cast,
And springing greens were wither'd as she past.
Now, dismal yellings heard, strange spectres seen,
Confound as much the monarch as the queen.
In vain to quit the palace they prepar'd,
Tisiphone was there, and kept the ward.
She wide extended her unfriendly arms,
And all the Fury lavish'd all her harms.
Part of her tresses loudly hiss, and part
Spread poyson, as their forky tongues they dart.
Then from her middle locks two snakes she drew,
Whose merit from superior mischief grew:
Th' envenom'd ruin, thrown with spiteful care,
Clung to the bosoms of the hapless pair.
The hapless pair soon with wild thoughts were fir'd,
And madness, by a thousand ways inspir'd.
'Tis true, th' unwounded body still was sound,
But 'twas the soul which felt the deadly wound.
Nor did th' unsated monster here give o'er,
But dealt of plagues a fresh, unnumber'd store.
Each baneful juice too well she understood,
Foam, churn'd by Cerberus, and Hydra's blood.
Hot hemlock, and cold aconite she chose,
Delighted in variety of woes.
Whatever can untune th' harmonious soul,
And its mild, reas'ning faculties controul,
Give false ideas, raise desires profane,
And whirl in eddies the tumultuous brain,
Mix'd with curs'd art, she direfully around
Thro' all their nerves diffus'd the sad compound.
Then toss'd her torch in circles still the same,
Improv'd their rage, and added flame to flame.
The grinning Fury her own conquest spy'd,
And to her rueful shades return'd with pride,
And threw th' exhausted, useless snakes aside.
Now Athamas cries out, his reason fled,
Here, fellow-hunters, let the toils be spread.
I saw a lioness, in quest of food,
With her two young, run roaring in this wood.
Again the fancy'd savages were seen,
As thro' his palace still he chac'd his queen;
Then tore Learchus from her breast: the child
Stretch'd little arms, and on its father smil'd:
A father now no more, who now begun
Around his head to whirl his giddy son,
And, quite insensible to Nature's call,
The helpless infant flung against the wall.
The same mad poyson in the mother wrought,
Young Melicerta in her arms she caught,
And with disorder'd tresses, howling, flies,
O! Bacchus, Evoe, Bacchus! loud she cries.
The name of Bacchus Juno laugh'd to hear,
And said, Thy foster-God has cost thee dear.
A rock there stood, whose side the beating waves
Had long consum'd, and hollow'd into caves.
The head shot forwards in a bending steep,
And cast a dreadful covert o'er the deep.
The wretched Ino, on destruction bent,
Climb'd up the cliff; such strength her fury lent:
Thence with her guiltless boy, who wept in vain,
At one bold spring she plung'd into the main.
Her neice's fate touch'd Cytherea's breast,
And in soft sounds she Neptune thus addrest:
Great God of waters, whose extended sway
Is next to his, whom Heav'n and Earth obey:
Let not the suit of Venus thee displease,
Pity the floaters on th' Ionian seas.
Encrease thy Subject-Gods, nor yet disdain
To add my kindred to that glorious train.
If from the sea I may such honours claim,
If 'tis desert, that from the sea I came,
As Grecian poets artfully have sung,
And in the name confest, from whence I sprung.
Pleas'd Neptune nodded his assent, and free
Both soon became from frail mortality.
He gave them form, and majesty divine,
And bad them glide along the foamy brine.
For Melicerta is Palaemon known,
And Ino once, Leucothoe is grown.
The Transformation of the Theban Matrons
The Theban matrons their lov'd queen pursu'd,
And tracing to the rock, her footsteps view'd.
Too certain of her fate, they rend the skies
With piteous shrieks, and lamentable cries.
All beat their breasts, and Juno all upbraid,
Who still remember'd a deluded maid:
Who, still revengeful for one stol'n embrace,
Thus wreak'd her hate on the Cadmean race.
This Juno heard: And shall such elfs, she cry'd,
Dispute my justice, or my pow'r deride?
You too shall feel my wrath not idly spent;
A Goddess never for insults was meant.
She, who lov'd most, and who most lov'd had been,
Said, Not the waves shall part me from my queen.
She strove to plunge into the roaring flood;
Fix'd to the stone, a stone her self she stood.
This, on her breast would fain her blows repeat,
Her stiffen'd hands refus'd her breast to beat.
That, stretch'd her arms unto the seas; in vain
Her arms she labour'd to unstretch again.
To tear her comely locks another try'd,
Both comely locks, and fingers petryfi'd.
Part thus; but Juno with a softer mind
Part doom'd to mix among the feather'd kind.
Transform'd, the name of Theban birds they keep,
And skim the surface of that fatal deep.
Cadmus and his Queen transform'd to Serpents
Mean-time, the wretched Cadmus mourns, nor knows,
That they who mortal fell, immortal rose.
With a long series of new ills opprest,
He droops, and all the man forsakes his breast.
Strange prodigies confound his frighted eyes;
From the fair city, which he rais'd, he flies:
As if misfortune not pursu'd his race,
But only hung o'er that devoted place.
Resolv'd by sea to seek some distant land,
At last he safely gain'd th' Illyrian strand.
Chearless himself, his consort still he chears,
Hoary, and loaden'd both with woes and years.
Then to recount past sorrows they begin,
And trace them to the gloomy origin.
That serpent sure was hallow'd, Cadmus cry'd,
Which once my spear transfix'd with foolish pride;
When the big teeth, a seed before unknown,
By me along the wond'ring glebe were sown,
And sprouting armies by themselves o'erthrown.
If thence the wrath of Heav'n on me is bent,
May Heav'n conclude it with one sad event;
To an extended serpent change the man:
And while he spoke, the wish'd-for change began.
His skin with sea-green spots was vary'd 'round,
And on his belly prone he prest the ground.
He glitter'd soon with many a golden scale,
And his shrunk legs clos'd in a spiry tail.
Arms yet remain'd, remaining arms he spread
To his lov'd wife, and human tears yet shed.
Come, my Harmonia, come, thy face recline
Down to my face; still touch, what still is mine.
O! let these hands, while hands, be gently prest,
While yet the serpent has not all possest.
More he had spoke, but strove to speak in vain,
The forky tongue refus'd to tell his pain,
And learn'd in hissings only to complain.
Then shriek'd Harmonia, Stay, my Cadmus, stay,
Glide not in such a monstrous shape away!
Destruction, like impetuous waves, rouls on.
Where are thy feet, thy legs, thy shoulders gone?
Chang'd is thy visage, chang'd is all thy frame;
Cadmus is only Cadmus now in name.
Ye Gods, my Cadmus to himself restore,
Or me like him transform; I ask no more.
The husband-serpent show'd he still had thought,
With wonted fondness an embrace he sought;
Play'd 'round her neck in many a harmless twist,
And lick'd that bosom, which, a man, he kist.
The lookers-on (for lookers-on there were)
Shock'd at the sight, half-dy'd away with fear.
The transformation was again renew'd,
And, like the husband, chang'd the wife they view'd.
Both, serpents now, with fold involv'd in fold,
To the next covert amicably roul'd.
There curl'd they lie, or wave along the green,
Fearless see men, by men are fearless seen,
Still mild, and conscious what they once have been.
The Story of Perseus
Yet tho' this harsh, inglorious fate they found,
Each in the deathless grandson liv'd renown'd.
Thro' conquer'd India Bacchus nobly rode,
And Greece with temples hail'd the conqu'ring God.
In Argos only proud Acrisius reign'd,
Who all the consecrated rites profan'd.
Audacious wretch! thus Bacchus to deny,
And the great Thunderer's great son defie!
Nor him alone: thy daughter vainly strove,
Brave Perseus of celestial stem to prove,
And her self pregnant by a golden Jove.
Yet this was true, and truth in time prevails;
Acrisius now his unbelief bewails.
His former thought, an impious thought he found,
And both the heroe, and the God were own'd.
He saw, already one in Heav'n was plac'd,
And one with more than mortal triumphs grac'd,
The victor Perseus with the Gorgon-head,
O'er Libyan sands his airy journey sped.
The gory drops distill'd, as swift he flew,
And from each drop envenom'd serpents grew,
The mischiefs brooded on the barren plains,
And still th' unhappy fruitfulness remains.
Atlas transform'd to a Mountain
Thence Perseus, like a cloud, by storms was driv'n,
Thro' all th' expanse beneath the cope of Heaven.
The jarring winds unable to controul,
He saw the southern, and the northern pole:
And eastward thrice, and westward thrice was whirl'd,
And from the skies survey'd the nether world.
But when grey ev'ning show'd the verge of night,
He fear'd in darkness to pursue his flight.
He pois'd his pinions, and forgot to soar,
And sinking, clos'd them on th' Hesperian shore:
Then beg'd to rest, 'till Lucifer begun
To wake the morn, the morn to wake the sun.
Here Atlas reign'd, of more than human size,
And in his kingdom the world's limit lies.
Here Titan bids his weary'd coursers sleep,
And cools the burning axle in the deep.
The mighty monarch, uncontrol'd, alone,
His sceptre sways: no neighb'ring states are known.
A thousand flocks on shady mountains fed,
A thousand herds o'er grassy plains were spread.
Here wond'rous trees their shining stores unfold,
Their shining stores too wond'rous to be told,
Their leafs, their branches, and their apples, gold.
Then Perseus the gigantick prince addrest,
Humbly implor'd a hospitable rest.
If bold exploits thy admiration fire,
He said, I fancy, mine thou wilt admire.
Or if the glory of a race can move,
Not mean my glory, for I spring from Jove.
At this confession Atlas ghastly star'd,
Mindful of what an oracle declar'd,
That the dark womb of Time conceal'd a day,
Which should, disclos'd, the bloomy gold betray:
All should at once be ravish'd from his eyes,
And Jove's own progeny enjoy the prize.
For this, the fruit he loftily immur'd,
And a fierce dragon the strait pass secur'd.
For this, all strangers he forbad to land,
And drove them from th' inhospitable strand.
To Perseus then: Fly quickly, fly this coast,
Nor falsly dare thy acts and race to boast.
In vain the heroe for one night entreats,
Threat'ning he storms, and next adds force to threats.
By strength not Perseus could himself defend,
For who in strength with Atlas could contend?
But since short rest to me thou wilt not give,
A gift of endless rest from me receive,
He said, and backward turn'd, no more conceal'd
The present, and Medusa's head reveal'd.
Soon the high Atlas a high mountain stood,
His locks, and beard became a leafy wood.
His hands, and shoulders, into ridges went,
The summit-head still crown'd the steep ascent.
His bones a solid, rocky hardness gain'd:
He, thus immensely grown (as fate ordain'd),
The stars, the Heav'ns, and all the Gods sustain'd.
Andromeda rescu'd from the Sea Monster
Now Aeolus had with strong chains confin'd,
And deep imprison'd e'vry blust'ring wind,
The rising Phospher with a purple light
Did sluggish mortals to new toils invite.
His feet again the valiant Perseus plumes,
And his keen sabre in his hand resumes:
Then nobly spurns the ground, and upwards springs,
And cuts the liquid air with sounding wings.
O'er various seas, and various lands he past,
'Till Aethiopia's shore appear'd at last.
Andromeda was there, doom'd to attone
By her own ruin follies not her own:
And if injustice in a God can be,
Such was the Libyan God's unjust decree.
Chain'd to a rock she stood; young Perseus stay'd
His rapid flight, to view the beauteous maid.
So sweet her frame, so exquisitely fine,
She seem'd a statue by a hand divine,
Had not the wind her waving tresses show'd,
And down her cheeks the melting sorrows flow'd.
Her faultless form the heroe's bosom fires;
The more he looks, the more he still admires.
Th' admirer almost had forgot to fly,
And swift descended, flutt'ring from on high.
O! Virgin, worthy no such chains to prove,
But pleasing chains in the soft folds of love;
Thy country, and thy name (he said) disclose,
And give a true rehearsal of thy woes.
A quick reply her bashfulness refus'd,
To the free converse of a man unus'd.
Her rising blushes had concealment found
From her spread hands, but that her hands were bound.
She acted to her full extent of pow'r,
And bath'd her face with a fresh, silent show'r.
But by degrees in innocence grown bold,
Her name, her country, and her birth she told:
And how she suffer'd for her mother's pride,
Who with the Nereids once in beauty vy'd.
Part yet untold, the seas began to roar,
And mounting billows tumbled to the shore.
Above the waves a monster rais'd his head,
His body o'er the deep was widely spread:
Onward he flounc'd; aloud the virgin cries;
Each parent to her shrieks in shrieks replies:
But she had deepest cause to rend the skies.
Weeping, to her they cling; no sign appears
Of help, they only lend their helpless tears.
Too long you vent your sorrows, Perseus said,
Short is the hour, and swift the time of aid,
In me the son of thund'ring Jove behold,
Got in a kindly show'r of fruitful gold.
Medusa's snaky head is now my prey,
And thro' the clouds I boldly wing my way.
If such desert be worthy of esteem,
And, if your daughter I from death redeem,
Shall she be mine? Shall it not then be thought,
A bride, so lovely, was too cheaply bought?
For her my arms I willingly employ,
If I may beauties, which I save, enjoy.
The parents eagerly the terms embrace:
For who would slight such terms in such a case?
Nor her alone they promise, but beside,
The dowry of a kingdom with the bride.
As well-rigg'd gallies, which slaves, sweating, row,
With their sharp beaks the whiten'd ocean plough;
So when the monster mov'd, still at his back
The furrow'd waters left a foamy track.
Now to the rock he was advanc'd so nigh,
Whirl'd from a sling a stone the space would fly.
Then bounding, upwards the brave Perseus sprung,
And in mid air on hov'ring pinions hung.
His shadow quickly floated on the main;
The monster could not his wild rage restrain,
But at the floating shadow leap'd in vain.
As when Jove's bird, a speckl'd serpent spies,
Which in the shine of Phoebus basking lies,
Unseen, he souses down, and bears away,
Truss'd from behind, the vainly-hissing prey.
To writh his neck the labour nought avails,
Too deep th' imperial talons pierce his scales.
Thus the wing'd heroe now descends, now soars,
And at his pleasure the vast monster gores.
Full in his back, swift stooping from above,
The crooked sabre to its hilt he drove.
The monster rag'd, impatient of the pain,
First bounded high, and then sunk low again.
Now, like a savage boar, when chaf'd with wounds,
And bay'd with opening mouths of hungry hounds,
He on the foe turns with collected might,
Who still eludes him with an airy flight;
And wheeling round, the scaly armour tries
Of his thick sides; his thinner tall now plies:
'Till from repeated strokes out gush'd a flood,
And the waves redden'd with the streaming blood.
At last the dropping wings, befoam'd all o'er,
With flaggy heaviness their master bore:
A rock he spy'd, whose humble head was low,
Bare at an ebb, but cover'd at a flow.
A ridgy hold, he, thither flying, gain'd,
And with one hand his bending weight sustain'd;
With th' other, vig'rous blows he dealt around,
And the home-thrusts the expiring monster own'd.
In deaf'ning shouts the glad applauses rise,
And peal on peal runs ratling thro' the skies.
The saviour-youth the royal pair confess,
And with heav'd hands their daughter's bridegroom bless.
The beauteous bride moves on, now loos'd from chains,
The cause, and sweet reward of all the heroe's pains,
Mean-time, on shore triumphant Perseus stood,
And purg'd his hands, smear'd with the monster's blood:
Then in the windings of a sandy bed
Compos'd Medusa's execrable head.
But to prevent the roughness, leafs he threw,
And young, green twigs, which soft in waters grew,
There soft, and full of sap; but here, when lay'd,
Touch'd by the head, that softness soon decay'd.
The wonted flexibility quite gone,
The tender scyons harden'd into stone.
Fresh, juicy twigs, surpriz'd, the Nereids brought,
Fresh, juicy twigs the same contagion caught.
The nymphs the petrifying seeds still keep,
And propagate the wonder thro' the deep.
The pliant sprays of coral yet declare
Their stiff'ning Nature, when expos'd to air.
Those sprays, which did, like bending osiers, move,
Snatch'd from their element, obdurate prove,
And shrubs beneath the waves, grow stones above.
The great immortals grateful Perseus prais'd,
And to three Pow'rs three turfy altars rais'd.
To Hermes this; and that he did assign
To Pallas: the mid honours, Jove, were thine,
He hastes for Pallas a white cow to cull,
A calf for Hermes, but for Jove a bull.
Then seiz'd the prize of his victorious fight,
Andromeda, and claim'd the nuptial rite.
Andromeda alone he greatly sought,
The dowry kingdom was not worth his thought.
Pleas'd Hymen now his golden torch displays;
With rich oblations fragrant altars blaze,
Sweet wreaths of choicest flow'rs are hung on high,
And cloudless pleasure smiles in ev'ry eye.
The melting musick melting thoughts inspires,
And warbling songsters aid the warbling lyres.
The palace opens wide in pompous state,
And by his peers surrounded, Cepheus sate.
A feast was serv'd, fit for a king to give,
And fit for God-like heroes to receive.
The banquet ended, the gay, chearful bowl
Mov'd round, and brighten'd, and enlarg'd each soul.
Then Perseus ask'd, what customs there obtain'd,
And by what laws the people were restrain'd.
Which told; the teller a like freedom takes,
And to the warrior his petition makes,
To know, what arts had won Medusa's snakes.
The Story of Medusa's Head
The heroe with his just request complies,
Shows, how a vale beneath cold Atlas lies,
Where, with aspiring mountains fenc'd around,
He the two daughters of old Phorcus found.
Fate had one common eye to both assign'd,
Each saw by turns, and each by turns was blind.
But while one strove to lend her sister sight,
He stretch'd his hand, and stole their mutual light,
And left both eyeless, both involv'd in night.
Thro' devious wilds, and trackless woods he past,
And at the Gorgon-seats arriv'd at last:
But as he journey'd, pensive he survey'd,
What wasteful havock dire Medusa made.
Here, stood still breathing statues, men before;
There, rampant lions seem'd in stone to roar.
Nor did he, yet affrighted, quit the field,
But in the mirror of his polish'd shield
Reflected saw Medusa slumbers take,
And not one serpent by good chance awake.
Then backward an unerring blow he sped,
And from her body lop'd at once her head.
The gore prolifick prov'd; with sudden force
Sprung Pegasus, and wing'd his airy course.
The Heav'n-born warrior faithfully went on,
And told the num'rous dangers which he run.
What subject seas, what lands he had in view,
And nigh what stars th' advent'rous heroe flew.
At last he silent sate; the list'ning throng
Sigh'd at the pause of his delightful tongue.
Some beg'd to know, why this alone should wear,
Of all the sisters, such destructive hair.
Great Perseus then: With me you shall prevail,
Worth the relation, to relate a tale.
Medusa once had charms; to gain her love
A rival crowd of envious lovers strove.
They, who have seen her, own, they ne'er did trace
More moving features in a sweeter face.
Yet above all, her length of hair, they own,
In golden ringlets wav'd, and graceful shone.
Her Neptune saw, and with such beauties fir'd,
Resolv'd to compass, what his soul desir'd.
In chaste Minerva's fane, he, lustful, stay'd,
And seiz'd, and rifled the young, blushing maid.
The bashful Goddess turn'd her eyes away,
Nor durst such bold impurity survey;
But on the ravish'd virgin vengeance takes,
Her shining hair is chang'd to hissing snakes.
These in her Aegis Pallas joys to bear,
The hissing snakes her foes more sure ensnare,
Than they did lovers once, when shining hair.
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~ Ovid, BOOK THE FOURTH
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425:BOOK THE SEVENTH
The Story of Medea and Jason
The Argonauts now stemm'd the foaming tide,
And to Arcadia's shore their course apply'd;
Where sightless Phineus spent his age in grief,
But Boreas' sons engage in his relief;
And those unwelcome guests, the odious race
Of Harpyes, from the monarch's table chase.
With Jason then they greater toils sustain,
And Phasis' slimy banks at last they gain,
Here boldly they demand the golden prize
Of Scythia's king, who sternly thus replies:
That mighty labours they must first o'ercome,
Or sail their Argo thence unfreighted home.
Meanwhile Medea, seiz'd with fierce desire,
By reason strives to quench the raging fire;
But strives in vain!- Some God (she said) withstands,
And reason's baffl'd council countermands.
What unseen Pow'r does this disorder move?
'Tis love,- at least 'tis like, what men call love.
Else wherefore shou'd the king's commands appear
To me too hard?- But so indeed they are.
Why shou'd I for a stranger fear, lest he
Shou'd perish, whom I did but lately see?
His death, or safety, what are they to me?
Wretch, from thy virgin-breast this flame expel,
And soon- Oh cou'd I, all wou'd then be well!
But love, resistless love, my soul invades;
Discretion this, affection that perswades.
I see the right, and I approve it too,
Condemn the wrong- and yet the wrong pursue.
Why, royal maid, shou'dst thou desire to wed
A wanderer, and court a foreign bed?
Thy native land, tho' barb'rous, can present
A bridegroom worth a royal bride's content:
And whether this advent'rer lives, or dies,
In Fate, and Fortune's fickle pleasure lies.
Yet may be live! for to the Pow'rs above,
A virgin, led by no impulse of love,
So just a suit may, for the guiltless, move.
Whom wou'd not Jason's valour, youth and blood
Invite? or cou'd these merits be withstood,
At least his charming person must encline
The hardest heart- I'm sure 'tis so with mine!
Yet, if I help him not, the flaming breath
Of bulls, and earth-born foes, must be his death.
Or, should he through these dangers force his way,
At last he must be made the dragon's prey.
If no remorse for such distress I feel,
I am a tigress, and my breast is steel.
Why do I scruple then to see him slain,
And with the tragick scene my eyes prophane?
My magick's art employ, not to asswage
The Salvages, but to enflame their rage?
His earth-born foes to fiercer fury move,
And accessary to his murder prove?
The Gods forbid- But pray'rs are idle breath,
When action only can prevent his death.
Shall I betray my father, and the state,
To intercept a rambling hero's fate;
Who may sail off next hour, and sav'd from harms
By my assistance, bless another's arms?
Whilst I, not only of my hopes bereft,
But to unpity'd punishment am left.
If he is false, let the ingrateful bleed!
But no such symptom in his looks I read.
Nature wou'd ne'er have lavish'd so much grace
Upon his person, if his soul were base.
Besides, he first shall plight his faith, and swear
By all the Gods; what therefore can'st thou fear?
Medea haste, from danger set him free,
Jason shall thy eternal debtor be.
And thou, his queen, with sov'raign state enstall'd,
By Graecian dames the Kind Preserver call'd.
Hence idle dreams, by love-sick fancy bred!
Wilt thou, Medea, by vain wishes led,
To sister, brother, father bid adieu?
Forsake thy country's Gods, and country too?
My father's harsh, my brother but a child,
My sister rivals me, my country's wild;
And for its Gods, the greatest of 'em all
Inspires my breast, and I obey his call.
That great endearments I forsake, is true,
But greater far the hopes that I pursue:
The pride of having sav'd the youths of Greece
(Each life more precious than our golden fleece);
A nobler soil by me shall be possest,
I shall see towns with arts and manners blest;
And, what I prize above the world beside,
Enjoy my Jason- and when once his bride,
Be more than mortal, and to Gods ally'd.
They talk of hazards I must first sustain,
Of floating islands justling in the main;
Our tender barque expos'd to dreadful shocks
Of fierce Charybdis' gulf, and Scylla's rocks,
Where breaking waves in whirling eddies rowl,
And rav'nous dogs that in deep caverns howl:
Amidst these terrors, while I lye possest
Of him I love, and lean on Jason's breast,
In tempests unconcern'd I will appear,
Or, only for my husband's safety fear.
Didst thou say husband?- canst thou so deceive
Thy self, fond maid, and thy own cheat believe?
In vain thou striv'st to varnish o'er thy shame,
And grace thy guilt with wedlock's sacred name.
Pull off the coz'ning masque, and oh! in time
Discover and avoid the fatal crime.
She ceas'd- the Graces now, with kind surprize,
And virtue's lovely train, before her eyes
Present themselves, and vanquish'd Cupid flies.
She then retires to Hecate's shrine, that stood
Far in the covert of a shady wood:
She finds the fury of her flames asswag'd,
But, seeing Jason there, again they rag'd.
Blushes, and paleness did by turns invade
Her tender cheeks, and secret grief betray'd.
As fire, that sleeping under ashes lyes,
Fresh-blown, and rous'd, does up in blazes rise,
So flam'd the virgin's breast-
New kindled by her lover's sparkling eyes.
For chance, that day, had with uncommon grace
Adorn'd the lovely youth, and through his face
Display'd an air so pleasing as might charm
A Goddess, and a Vestal's bosom warm.
Her ravish'd eyes survey him o'er and o'er,
As some gay wonder never seen before;
Transported to the skies she seems to be,
And thinks she gazes on a deity.
But when he spoke, and prest her trembling hand,
And did with tender words her aid demand,
With vows, and oaths to make her soon his bride,
She wept a flood of tears, and thus reply'd:
I see my error, yet to ruin move,
Nor owe my fate to ignorance, but love:
Your life I'll guard, and only crave of you
To swear once more- and to your oath be true.
He swears by Hecate he would all fulfil,
And by her grandfa ther's prophetick skill,
By ev'ry thing that doubting love cou'd press,
His present danger, and desir'd success.
She credits him, and kindly does produce
Enchanted herbs, and teaches him their use:
Their mystick names, and virtues he admires,
And with his booty joyfully retires.
The Dragon's Teeth transform'd to Men
Impatient for the wonders of the day,
Aurora drives the loyt'ring stars away.
Now Mars's mount the pressing people fill,
The crowd below, the nobles crown the hill;
The king himself high-thron'd above the rest,
With iv'ry scepter, and in purple drest.
Forthwith the brass-hoof'd bulls are set at large,
Whose furious nostrils sulph'rous flame discharge:
The blasted herbage by their breath expires;
As forges rumble with excessive fires,
And furnaces with fiercer fury glow,
When water on the panting mass ye throw;
With such a noise, from their convulsive breast,
Thro' bellowing throats, the struggling vapour prest.
Yet Jason marches up without concern,
While on th' advent'rous youth the monsters turn
Their glaring eyes, and, eager to engage,
Brandish their steel-tipt horns in threatning rage:
With brazen hoofs they beat the ground, and choak
The ambient air with clouds of dust and smoak:
Each gazing Graecian for his champion shakes,
While bold advances he securely makes
Thro' sindging blasts; such wonders magick art
Can work, when love conspires, and plays his part.
The passive savages like statues stand,
While he their dew-laps stroaks with soothing hand;
To unknown yokes their brawny necks they yield,
And, like tame oxen, plow the wond'ring field.
The Colchians stare; the Graecians shout, and raise
Their champion's courage with inspiring praise.
Embolden'd now, on fresh attempts he goes,
With serpent's teeth the fertile furrows sows;
The glebe, fermenting with inchanted juice,
Makes the snake's teeth a human crop produce.
For as an infant, pris'ner to the womb,
Contented sleeps, 'till to perfection come,
Then does the cell's obscure confinement scorn,
He tosses, throbs, and presses to be born;
So from the lab'ring Earth no single birth,
But a whole troop of lusty youths rush forth;
And, what's more strange, with martial fury warm'd,
And for encounter all compleatly arm'd;
In rank and file, as they were sow'd, they stand,
Impatient for the signal of command.
No foe but the Aemonian youth appears;
At him they level their steel-pointed spears;
His frighted friends, who triumph'd, just before,
With peals of sighs his desp'rate case deplore:
And where such hardy warriors are afraid,
What must the tender, and enamour'd maid?
Her spirits sink, the blood her cheek forsook;
She fears, who for his safety undertook:
She knew the vertue of the spells she gave,
She knew the force, and knew her lover brave;
But what's a single champion to an host?
Yet scorning thus to see him tamely lost,
Her strong reserve of secret arts she brings,
And last, her never-failing song she sings.
Wonders ensue; among his gazing foes
The massy fragment of a rock he throws;
This charm in civil war engag'd 'em all;
By mutual wounds those Earth-born brothers fall.
The Greeks, transported with the strange success,
Leap from their seats the conqu'ror to caress;
Commend, and kiss, and clasp him in their arms:
So would the kind contriver of the charms;
But her, who felt the tenderest concern,
Honour condemns in secret flames to burn;
Committed to a double guard of fame,
Aw'd by a virgin's, and a princess' name.
But thoughts are free, and fancy unconfin'd,
She kisses, courts, and hugs him in her mind;
To fav'ring Pow'rs her silent thanks she gives,
By whose indulgence her lov'd hero lives.
One labour more remains, and, tho' the last,
In danger far surmounting all the past;
That enterprize by Fates in store was kept,
To make the dragon sleep that never slept,
Whose crest shoots dreadful lustre; from his jaws
A tripple tire of forked stings he draws,
With fangs, and wings of a prodigious size:
Such was the guardian of the golden prize.
Yet him, besprinkled with Lethaean dew,
The fair inchantress into slumber threw;
And then, to fix him, thrice she did repeat
The rhyme, that makes the raging winds retreat,
In stormy seas can halcyon seasons make,
Turn rapid streams into a standing lake;
While the soft guest his drowzy eye-lids seals,
Th' ungarded golden fleece the stranger steals;
Proud to possess the purchase of his toil,
Proud of his royal bride, the richer spoil;
To sea both prize, and patroness he bore,
And lands triumphant on his native shore.
Old Aeson restor'd to Youth
Aemonian matrons, who their absence mourn'd,
Rejoyce to see their prosp'rous sons return'd:
Rich curling fumes of incense feast the skies,
An hecatomb of voted victims dies,
With gilded horns, and garlands on their head,
And all the pomp of death, to th' altar led.
Congratulating bowls go briskly round,
Triumphant shouts in louder musick drown'd.
Amidst these revels, why that cloud of care
On Jason's brow? (to whom the largest share
Of mirth was due)- His father was not there.
Aeson was absent, once the young, and brave,
Now crush'd with years, and bending to the grave.
At last withdrawn, and by the crowd unseen,
Pressing her hand (with starting sighs between),
He supplicates his kind, and skilful queen.
O patroness! preserver of my life!
(Dear when my mistress, and much dearer wife)
Your favours to so vast a sum amount,
'Tis past the pow'r of numbers to recount;
Or cou'd they be to computation brought,
The history would a romance be thought:
And yet, unless you add one favour more,
Greater than all that you conferr'd before,
But not too hard for love and magick skill,
Your past are thrown away, and Jason's wretched still.
The morning of my life is just begun,
But my declining father's race is run;
From my large stock retrench the long arrears,
And add 'em to expiring Aeson's years.
Thus spake the gen'rous youth, and wept the rest.
Mov'd with the piety of his request,
To his ag'd sire such filial duty shown,
So diff'rent from her treatment of her own,
But still endeav'ring her remorse to hide,
She check'd her rising sighs, and thus reply'd.
How cou'd the thought of such inhuman wrong
Escape (said she) from pious Jason's tongue?
Does the whole world another Jason bear,
Whose life Medea can to yours prefer?
Or cou'd I with so dire a change dispence,
Hecate will never join in that offence:
Unjust is the request you make, and I
In kindness your petition shall deny;
Yet she that grants not what you do implore,
Shall yet essay to give her Jason more;
Find means t' encrease the stock of Aeson's years,
Without retrenchment of your life's arrears;
Provided that the triple Goddess join
A strong confed'rate in my bold design.
Thus was her enterprize resolv'd; but still
Three tedious nights are wanting to fulfil
The circling crescents of th' encreasing moon;
Then, in the height of her nocturnal noon,
Medea steals from court; her ankles bare,
Her garments closely girt, but loose her hair;
Thus sally'd, like a solitary sprite,
She traverses the terrors of the night.
Men, beasts, and birds in soft repose lay charm'd,
No boistrous wind the mountain-woods alarm'd;
Nor did those walks of love, the myrtle-trees,
Of am'rous Zephir hear the whisp'ring breeze;
All elements chain'd in unactive rest,
No sense but what the twinkling stars exprest;
To them (that only wak'd) she rears her arm,
And thus commences her mysterious charms.
She turn'd her thrice about, as oft she threw
On her pale tresses the nocturnal dew;
Then yelling thrice a most enormous sound,
Her bare knee bended on the flinty ground.
O night (said she) thou confident and guide
Of secrets, such as darkness ought to hide;
Ye stars and moon, that, when the sun retires,
Support his empire with succeeding fires;
And thou, great Hecate, friend to my design;
Songs, mutt'ring spells, your magick forces join;
And thou, O Earth, the magazine that yields
The midnight sorcerer drugs; skies, mountains, fields;
Ye wat'ry Pow'rs of fountain, stream, and lake;
Ye sylvan Gods, and Gods of night, awake,
And gen'rously your parts in my adventure take.
Oft by your aid swift currents I have led
Thro' wand'ring banks, back to their fountain head;
Transformed the prospect of the briny deep,
Made sleeping billows rave, and raving billows sleep;
Made clouds, or sunshine; tempests rise, or fall;
And stubborn lawless winds obey my call:
With mutter'd words disarm'd the viper's jaw;
Up by the roots vast oaks, and rocks cou'd draw,
Make forests dance, and trembling mountains come,
Like malefactors, to receive their doom;
Earth groan, and frighted ghosts forsake their tomb.
Thee, Cynthia, my resistless rhymes drew down,
When tinkling cymbals strove my voice to drown;
Nor stronger Titan could their force sustain,
In full career compell'd to stop his wain:
Nor could Aurora's virgin blush avail,
With pois'nous herbs I turn'd her roses pale;
The fury of the fiery bulls I broke,
Their stubborn necks submitting to my yoke;
And when the sons of Earth with fury burn'd,
Their hostile rage upon themselves I turn'd;
The brothers made with mutual wounds to bleed,
And by their fatal strife my lover freed;
And, while the dragon slept, to distant Greece,
Thro' cheated guards, convey'd the golden fleece.
But now to bolder action I proceed,
Of such prevailing juices now have need,
That wither'd years back to their bloom can bring,
And in dead winter raise a second spring.
And you'll perform't-
You will; for lo! the stars, with sparkling fires,
Presage as bright success to my desires:
And now another happy omen see!
A chariot drawn by dragons waits for me.
With these last words he leaps into the wain,
Stroaks the snakes' necks, and shakes the golden rein;
That signal giv'n, they mount her to the skies,
And now beneath her fruitful Tempe lies,
Whose stories she ransacks, then to Crete she flies;
There Ossa, Pelion, Othrys, Pindus, all
To the fair ravisher, a booty fall;
The tri bute of their verdure she collects,
Nor proud Olympus' height his plants protects.
Some by the roots she plucks; the tender tops
Of others with her culling sickle crops.
Nor could the plunder of the hills suffice,
Down to the humble vales, and meads she flies;
Apidanus, Amphrysus, the next rape
Sustain, nor could Enipeus' bank escape;
Thro' Beebe's marsh, and thro' the border rang'd
Whose pasture Glaucus to a Triton chang'd.
Now the ninth day, and ninth successive night,
Had wonder'd at the restless rover's flight;
Mean-while her dragons, fed with no repast,
But her exhaling simples od'rous blast,
Their tarnish'd scales, and wrinkled skins had cast.
At last return'd before her palace gate,
Quitting her chariot, on the ground she sate;
The sky her only canopy of state.
All conversation with her sex she fled,
Shun'd the caresses of the nuptial bed:
Two altars next of grassy turf she rears,
This Hecate's name, that Youth's inscription bears;
With forest-boughs, and vervain these she crown'd;
Then delves a double trench in lower ground,
And sticks a black-fleec'd ram, that ready stood,
And drench'd the ditches with devoted blood:
New wine she pours, and milk from th' udder warm,
With mystick murmurs to compleat the charm,
And subterranean deities alarm.
To the stern king of ghosts she next apply'd,
And gentle Proserpine, his ravish'd bride,
That for old Aeson with the laws of Fate
They would dispense, and leng then his short date;
Thus with repeated pray'rs she long assails
Th' infernal tyrant and at last prevails;
Then calls to have decrepit Aeson brought,
And stupifies him with a sleeping draught;
On Earth his body, like a corpse, extends,
Then charges Jason and his waiting friends
To quit the place, that no unhallow'd eye
Into her art's forbidden secrets pry.
This done, th' inchantress, with her locks unbound,
About her altars trips a frantick round;
Piece-meal the consecrated wood she splits,
And dips the splinters in the bloody pits,
Then hurles 'em on the piles; the sleeping sire
She lustrates thrice, with sulphur, water, fire.
In a large cauldron now the med'cine boils,
Compounded of her late-collected spoils,
Blending into the mesh the various pow'rs
Of wonder-working juices, roots, and flow'rs;
With gems i' th' eastern ocean's cell refin'd,
And such as ebbing tides had left behind;
To them the midnight's pearly dew she flings,
A scretch-owl's carcase, and ill boding wings;
Nor could the wizard wolf's warm entrails scape
(That wolf who counterfeits a human shape).
Then, from the bottom of her conj'ring bag,
Snakes' skins, and liver of a long-liv'd stag;
Last a crow's head to such an age arriv'd,
That he had now nine centuries surviv'd;
These, and with these a thousand more that grew
In sundry soils, into her pot she threw;
Then with a wither'd olive-bough she rakes
The bubling broth; the bough fresh verdure takes;
Green leaves at first the perish'd plant surround,
Which the next minute with ripe fruit were crown'd.
The foaming juices now the brink o'er-swell;
The barren heath, where-e'er the liquor fell,
Sprang out with vernal grass, and all the pride
Of blooming May- When this Medea spy'd,
She cuts her patient's throat; th' exhausted blood
Recruiting with her new enchanted flood;
While at his mouth, and thro' his op'ning wound,
A double inlet her infusion found;
His feeble frame resumes a youthful air,
A glossy brown his hoary beard and hair.
The meager paleness from his aspect fled,
And in its room sprang up a florid red;
Thro' all his limbs a youthful vigour flies,
His empty'd art'ries swell with fresh supplies:
Gazing spectators scarce believe their eyes.
But Aeson is the most surpriz'd to find
A happy change in body and in mind;
In sense and constitution the same man,
As when his fortieth active year began.
Bacchus, who from the clouds this wonder view'd,
Medea's method instantly pursu'd,
And his indulgent nurse's youth renew'd.
The Death of Pelias
Thus far obliging love employ'd her art,
But now revenge must act a tragick part;
Medea feigns a mortal quarrel bred
Betwixt her, and the partner of her bed;
On this pretence to Pelias' court she flies,
Who languishing with age and sickness lies:
His guiltless daughters, with inveigling wiles,
And well dissembled friendship, she beguiles:
The strange achievements of her art she tells,
With Aeson's cure, and long on that she dwells,
'Till them to firm perswasion she has won,
The same for their old father may be done:
For him they court her to employ her skill,
And put upon the cure what price she will.
At first she's mute, and with a grave pretence
Of difficulty, holds 'em in suspense;
Then promises, and bids 'em, from the fold
Chuse out a ram, the most infirm and old;
That so by fact their doubts may be remov'd,
And first on him the operation prov'd.
A wreath-horn'd ram is brought, so far o'er-grown
With years, his age was to that age unknown
Of sense too dull the piercing point to feel,
And scarce sufficient blood to stain the steel.
His carcass she into a cauldron threw,
With drugs whose vital qualities she knew;
His limbs grow less, he casts his horns, and years,
And tender bleatings strike their wond'ring ears.
Then instantly leaps forth a frisking lamb,
That seeks (too young to graze) a suckling dam.
The sisters, thus confirm'd with the success,
Her promise with renew'd entreaty press;
To countenance the cheat, three nights and days
Before experiment th' inchantress stays;
Then into limpid water, from the springs,
Weeds, and ingredients of no force she flings;
With antique ceremonies for pretence
And rambling rhymes without a word of sense.
Mean-while the king with all his guards lay bound
In magick sleep, scarce that of death so sound;
The daughters now are by the sorc'ress led
Into his chamber, and surround his bed.
Your father's health's concern'd, and can ye stay?
Unnat'ral nymphs, why this unkind delay?
Unsheath your swords, dismiss his lifeless blood,
And I'll recruit it with a vital flood:
Your father's life and health is in your hand,
And can ye thus like idle gazers stand?
Unless you are of common sense bereft,
If yet one spark of piety is left,
Dispatch a father's cure, and disengage
The monarch from his toilsome load of age:
Come- drench your weapons in his putrid gore;
'Tis charity to wound, when wounding will restore.
Thus urg'd, the poor deluded maids proceed,
Betray'd by zeal, to an inhumane deed,
And, in compassion, make a father bleed.
Yes, she who had the kindest, tend'rest heart,
Is foremost to perform the bloody part.
Yet, tho' to act the butchery betray'd,
They could not bear to see the wounds they made;
With looks averted, backward they advance,
Then strike, and stab, and leave the blows to chance.
Waking in consternation, he essays
(Weltring in blood) his feeble arms to raise:
Environ'd with so many swords- From whence
This barb'rous usage? what is my offence?
What fatal fury, what infernal charm,
'Gainst a kind father does his daughters arm?
Hearing his voice, as thunder-struck they stopt,
Their resolution, and their weapons dropt:
Medea then the mortal blow bestows,
And that perform'd, the tragick scene to close,
His corpse into the boiling cauldron throws.
Then, dreading the revenge that must ensue,
High mounted on her dragon-coach she flew;
And in her stately progress thro' the skies,
Beneath her shady Pelion first she spies,
With Othrys, that above the clouds did rise;
With skilful Chiron's cave, and neighb'ring ground,
For old Cerambus' strange escape renown'd,
By nymphs deliver'd, when the world was drown'd;
Who him with unexpected wings supply'd,
When delug'd hills a safe retreat deny'd.
Aeolian Pitane on her left hand
She saw, and there the statu'd dragon stand;
With Ida's grove, where Bacchus, to disguise
His son's bold theft, and to secure the prize,
Made the stoln steer a stag to represent;
Cocytus' father's sandy monument;
And fields that held the murder'd sire's remains,
Where howling Moera frights the startled plains.
Euryphilus' high town, with tow'rs defac'd
By Hercules, and matrons more disgrac'd
With sprouting horns, in signal punishment,
From Juno, or resenting Venus sent.
Then Rhodes, which Phoebus did so dearly prize,
And Jove no less severely did chastize;
For he the wizard native's pois'ning sight,
That us'd the farmer's hopeful crops to blight,
In rage o'erwhelm'd with everlasting night.
Cartheia's ancient walls come next in view,
Where once the sire almost a statue grew
With wonder, which a strange event did move,
His daughter turn'd into a turtle-dove.
Then Hyrie's lake, and Tempe's field o'er-ran,
Fam'd for the boy who there became a swan;
For there enamour'd Phyllius, like a slave,
Perform'd what tasks his paramour would crave.
For presents he had mountain-vultures caught,
And from the desart a tame lion brought;
Then a wild bull commanded to subdue,
The conquer'd savage by the horns he drew;
But, mock'd so oft, the treatment he disdains,
And from the craving boy this prize detains.
Then thus in choler the resenting lad:
Won't you deliver him?- You'll wish you had:
Nor sooner said, but, in a peevish mood,
Leapt from the precipice on which he stood:
The standers-by were struck with fresh surprize,
Instead of falling, to behold him rise
A snowy swan, and soaring to the skies.
But dearly the rash prank his mother cost,
Who ignorantly gave her son for lost;
For his misfortune wept, 'till she became
A lake, and still renown'd with Hyrie's name.
Thence to Latona's isle, where once were seen,
Transform'd to birds, a monarch, and his queen.
Far off she saw how old Cephisus mourn'd
His son, into a seele by Phoebus turn'd;
And where, astonish'd at a stranger sight,
Eumelus gaz'd on his wing'd daughter's flight.
Aetolian Pleuron she did next survey,
Where sons a mother's murder did essay,
But sudden plumes the matron bore away.
On her right hand, Cyllene, a fair soil,
Fair, 'till Menephron there the beauteous hill
Attempted with foul incest to defile.
Her harness'd dragons now direct she drives
For Corinth, and at Corinth she arrives;
Where, if what old tradition tells, be true,
In former ages men from mushrooms grew.
But here Medea finds her bed supply'd,
During her absence, by another bride;
And hopeless to recover her lost game,
She sets both bride and palace in a flame.
Nor could a rival's death her wrath asswage,
Nor stopt at Creon's family her rage,
She murders her own infants, in despight
To faithless Jason, and in Jason's sight;
Yet e'er his sword could reach her, up she springs,
Securely mounted on her dragon's wings.
The Story of Aegeus
From hence to Athens she directs her flight,
Where Phineus, so renown'd for doing right;
Where Periphas, and Polyphemon's neece,
Soaring with sudden plumes amaz'd the towns of Greece.
Here Aegeus so engaging she addrest,
That first he treats her like a royal guest;
Then takes the sorc'ress for his wedded wife;
The only blemish of his prudent life.
Mean-while his son, from actions of renown,
Arrives at court, but to his sire unknown.
Medea, to dispatch a dang'rous heir
(She knew him), did a pois'nous draught prepare;
Drawn from a drug, was long reserv'd in store
For desp'rate uses, from the Scythian shore;
That from the Echydnaean monster's jaws
Deriv'd its origin, and this the cause.
Thro' a dark cave a craggy passage lies,
To ours, ascending from the nether skies;
Thro' which, by strength of hand, Alcides drew
Chain'd Cerberus, who lagg'd, and restive grew,
With his blear'd eyes our brighter day to view.
Thrice he repeated his enormous yell,
With which he scares the ghosts, and startles Hell;
At last outragious (tho' compell'd to yield)
He sheds his foam in fury on the field,-
Which, with its own, and rankness of the ground,
Produc'd a weed, by sorcerers renown'd,
The strongest constitution to confound;
Call'd Aconite, because it can unlock
All bars, and force its passage thro' a rock.
The pious father, by her wheedles won,
Presents this deadly potion to his son;
Who, with the same assurance takes the cup,
And to the monarch's health had drank it up,
But in the very instant he apply'd
The goblet to his lips, old Aegeus spy'd
The iv'ry hilted sword that grac'd his side.
That certain signal of his son he knew,
And snatcht the bowl away; the sword he drew,
Resolv'd, for such a son's endanger'd life,
To sacrifice the most perfidious wife.
Revenge is swift, but her more active charms
A whirlwind rais'd, that snatch'd her from his arms.
While conjur'd clouds their baffled sense surprize,
She vanishes from their deluded eyes,
And thro' the hurricane triumphant flies.
The gen'rous king, altho' o'er-joy'd to find
His son was safe, yet bearing still in mind
The mischief by his treach'rous queen design'd;
The horrour of the deed, and then how near
The danger drew, he stands congeal'd with fear.
But soon that fear into devotion turns,
With grateful incense ev'ry altar burns;
Proud victims, and unconscious of their fate,
Stalk to the temple, there to die in state.
In Athens never had a day been found
For mirth, like that grand festival, renown'd.
Promiscuously the peers, and people dine,
Promiscuously their thankful voices join,
In songs of wit, sublim'd by spritely wine.
To list'ning spheres their joint applause they raise,
And thus resound their matchless Theseus' praise.
Great Theseus! Thee the Marathonian plain
Admires, and wears with pride the noble stain
Of the dire monster's blood, by valiant Theseus slain.
That now Cromyon's swains in safety sow,
And reap their fertile field, to thee they owe.
By thee th' infested Epidaurian coast
Was clear'd, and now can a free commerce boast.
The traveller his journey can pursue,
With pleasure the late dreadful valley view,
And cry, Here Theseus the grand robber slew.
Cephysus' cries to his rescu'd shore,
The merciless Procrustes is no more.
In peace, Eleusis, Ceres' rites renew,
Since Theseus' sword the fierce Cercyon slew.
By him the tort'rer Sinis was destroy'd,
Of strength (but strength to barb'rous use employ'd)
That tops of tallest pines to Earth could bend,
And thus in pieces wretched captives rend.
Inhuman Scyron now has breath'd his last,
And now Alcatho's roads securely past;
By Theseus slain, and thrown into the deep:
But Earth nor Sea his scatter'd bones wou'd keep,
Which, after floating long, a rock became,
Still infamous with Scyron's hated name.
When Fame to count thy acts and years proceeds,
Thy years appear but cyphers to thy deeds.
For thee, brave youth, as for our common-wealth,
We pray; and drink, in yours, the publick health.
Your praise the senate, and plebeians sing,
With your lov'd name the court, and cottage ring.
You make our shepherds and our sailors glad,
And not a house in this vast city's sad.
But mortal bliss will never come sincere,
Pleasure may lead, but grief brings up the rear;
While for his sons' arrival, rev'ling joy
Aegeus, and all his subjects does employ;
While they for only costly feasts prepare,
His neighb'ring monarch, Minos, threatens war:
Weak in land-forces, nor by sea more strong,
But pow'rful in a deep resented wrong
For a son's murder, arm'd with pious rage;
Yet prudently before he would engage,
To raise auxiliaries resolv'd to sail,
And with the pow'rful princes to prevail.
First Anaphe, then proud Astypalaea gains,
By presents that, and this by threats obtains:
Low Mycone, Cymolus, chalky soil,
Tall Cythnos, Scyros, flat Seriphos' isle;
Paros, with marble cliffs afar display'd;
Impregnable Sithonia; yet betray'd
To a weak foe by a gold-admiring maid,
Who, chang'd into a daw of sable hue,
Still hoards up gold, and hides it from the view.
But as these islands chearfully combine,
Others refuse t' embark in his design.
Now leftward with an easy sail he bore,
And prosp'rous passage to Oenopia's shore;
Oenopia once, but now Aegina call'd,
And with his royal mother's name install'd
By Aeacus, under whose reign did spring
The Myrmidons, and now their reigning king.
Down to the port, amidst the rabble, run
The princes of the blood; with Telamon,
Peleus the next, and Phocus the third son:
Then Aeacus, altho' opprest with years,
To ask the cause of their approach appears.
That question does the Gnossian's grief renew,
And sighs from his afflicted bosom drew;
Yet after a short solemn respite made,
The ruler of the hundred cities said:
Assist our arms, rais'd for a murder'd son,
In this religious war no risque you'll run:
Revenge the dead- for who refuse to give
Rest to their urns, unworthy are to live.
What you request, thus Aeacus replies,
Not I, but truth and common faith denies;
Athens and we have long been sworn allies:
Our leagues are fix'd, confed'rate are our pow'rs,
And who declare themselves their foes, are ours.
Minos rejoins, Your league shall dearly cost
(Yet, mindful how much safer 'twas to boast,
Than there to waste his forces, and his fame,
Before in field with his grand foe he came),
Parts without blows- nor long had left the shore,
E're into port another navy bore,
With Cephalus, and all his jolly crew;
Th' Aeacides their old acquaintance knew:
The princes bid him welcome, and in state
Conduct the heroe to their palace gate;
Who entr'ring, seem'd the charming mein to wear,
As when in youth he paid his visit there.
In his right hand an olive-branch he holds,
And, salutation past, the chief unfolds
His embassy from the Athenian state,
Their mutual friendship, leagues of ancient date;
Their common danger, ev'ry thing cou'd wake
Concern, and his address successful make:
Strength'ning his plea with all the charms of sense,
And those, with all the charms of eloquence.
Then thus the king: Like suitors do you stand
For that assistance which you may command?
Athenians, all our listed forces use
(They're such as no bold service will refuse);
And when y' ave drawn them off, the Gods be prais'd,
Fresh legions can within our isle be rais'd:
So stock'd with people, that we can prepare
Both for domestick, and for distant war,
Ours, or our friends' insulters to chastize.
Long may ye flourish thus, the prince replies.
Strange transport seiz'd me as I pass'd along,
To meet so many troops, and all so young,
As if your army did of twins consist;
Yet amongst them my late acquaintance miss'd:
Ev'n all that to your palace did resort,
When first you entertain'd me at your court;
And cannot guess the cause from whence cou'd spring
So vast a change- Then thus the sighing king:
Illustrious guest, to my strange tale attend,
Of sad beginning, but a joyful end:
The whole to a vast history wou'd swell,
I shall but half, and that confus'dly, tell.
That race whom so deserv'dly you admir'd,
Are all into their silent tombs retir'd:
They fell; and falling, how they shook my state,
Thought may conceive, but words can ne'er relate.
The Story of Ants chang'd to Men
A dreadful plague from angry Juno came,
To scourge the land, that bore her rival's name;
Before her fatal anger was reveal'd,
And teeming malice lay as yet conceal'd,
All remedies we try, all med'cines use,
Which Nature cou'd supply, or art produce;
Th' unconquer'd foe derides the vain design,
And art, and Nature foil'd, declare the cause divine.
At first we only felt th' oppressive weight
Of gloomy clouds, then teeming with our fate,
And lab'ring to discarge unactive heat:
But ere four moons alternate changes knew,
With deadly blasts the fatal South-wind blew,
Infected all the air, and poison'd as it flew.
Our fountains too a dire infection yield,
For crowds of vipers creep along the field,
And with polluted gore, and baneful steams,
Taint all the lakes, and venom all the streams.
The young disease with milder force began,
And rag'd on birds, and beasts, excusing Man.
The lab'ring oxen fall before the plow,
Th' unhappy plow-men stare, and wonder how:
The tabid sheep, with sickly bleatings, pines;
Its wool decreasing, as its strength declines:
The warlike steed, by inward foes compell'd,
Neglects his honours, and deserts the field;
Unnerv'd, and languid, seeks a base retreat,
And at the manger groans, but wish'd a nobler fate:
The stags forget their speed, the boars their rage,
Nor can the bears the stronger herds engage:
A gen'ral faintness does invade 'em all,
And in the woods, and fields, promiscuously they fall.
The air receives the stench, and (strange to say)
The rav'nous birds and beasts avoid the prey:
Th' offensive bodies rot upon the ground,
And spread the dire contagion all around.
But now the plague, grown to a larger size,
Riots on Man, and scorns a meaner prize.
Intestine heats begin the civil war,
And flushings first the latent flame declare,
And breath inspir'd, which seem'd like fiery air.
Their black dry tongues are swell'd, and scarce can move,
And short thick sighs from panting lung are drove.
They gape for air, with flatt'ring hopes t' abate
Their raging flames, but that augments their heat.
No bed, no cov'ring can the wretches bear,
But on the ground, expos'd to open air,
They lye, and hope to find a pleasing coolness there.
The suff'ring Earth with that oppression curst,
Returns the heat which they imparted first.
In vain physicians would bestow their aid,
Vain all their art, and useless all their trade;
And they, ev'n they, who fleeting life recall,
Feel the same Pow'rs, and undistinguish'd fall.
If any proves so daring to attend
His sick companion, or his darling friend,
Th' officious wretch sucks in contagious breath,
And with his friend does sympathize in death.
And now the care and hopes of life are past,
They please their fancies, and indulge their taste;
At brooks and streams, regardless of their shame,
Each sex, promiscuous, strives to quench their flame;
Nor do they strive in vain to quench it there,
For thirst, and life at once extinguish'd are.
Thus in the brooks the dying bodies sink,
But heedless still the rash survivors drink.
So much uneasy down the wretches hate,
They fly their beds, to struggle with their fate;
But if decaying strength forbids to rise,
The victim crawls and rouls, 'till on the ground he lies.
Each shuns his bed, as each wou'd shun his tomb,
And thinks th' infection only lodg'd at home.
Here one, with fainting steps, does slowly creep
O'er heaps of dead, and strait augments the heap;
Another, while his strength and tongue prevail'd,
Bewails his friend, and falls himself bewail'd:
This with imploring looks surveys the skies,
The last dear office of his closing eyes,
But finds the Heav'ns implacable, and dies.
What now, ah! what employ'd my troubled mind?
But only hopes my subjects' fate to find.
What place soe'er my weeping eyes survey,
There in lamented heaps the vulgar lay;
As acorns scatter when the winds prevail,
Or mellow fruit from shaken branches fall.
You see that dome which rears its front so high:
'Tis sacred to the monarch of the sky:
How many there, with unregarded tears,
And fruitless vows, sent up successless pray'rs?
There fathers for expiring sons implor'd,
And there the wife bewail'd her gasping lord;
With pious off'rings they'd appease the skies,
But they, ere yet th' attoning vapours rise,
Before the altars fall, themselves a sacrifice:
They fall, while yet their hands the gums contain,
The gums surviving, but their off'rers slain.
The destin'd ox, with holy garlands crown'd,
Prevents the blow, and feels th' expected wound:
When I my self invok'd the Pow'rs divine,
To drive the fatal pest from me and mine;
When now the priest with hands uplifted stood,
Prepar'd to strike, and shed the sacred blood,
The Gods themselves the mortal stroke bestow,
The victim falls, but they impart the blow:
Scarce was the knife with the pale purple stain'd,
And no presages cou'd be then obtain'd,
From putrid entrails, where th' infection reign'd.
Death stalk'd around with such resistless sway,
The temples of the Gods his force obey,
And suppliants feel his stroke, while yet they pray.
Go now, said he, your deities implore
For fruitless aid, for I defie their pow'r.
Then with a curst malicious joy survey'd
The very altars, stain'd with trophies of the dead.
The rest grown mad, and frantick with despair,
Urge their own fate, and so prevent the fear.
Strange madness that, when Death pursu'd so fast,
T' anticipate the blow with impious haste.
No decent honours to their urns are paid,
Nor cou'd the graves receive the num'rous dead;
For, or they lay unbury'd on the ground,
Or unadorn'd a needy fun'ral found:
All rev'rence past, the fainting wretches fight
For fun'ral piles which were another's right.
Unmourn'd they fall: for, who surviv'd to mourn?
And sires, and mothers unlamented burn:
Parents, and sons sustain an equal fate,
And wand'ring ghosts their kindred shadows meet.
The dead a larger space of ground require,
Nor are the trees sufficient for the fire.
Despairing under grief's oppressive weight,
And sunk by these tempestuous blasts of Fate,
O Jove, said I, if common fame says true,
If e'er Aegina gave those joys to you,
If e'er you lay enclos'd in her embrace,
Fond of her charms, and eager to possess;
O father, if you do not yet disclaim
Paternal care, nor yet disown the name;
Grant my petitions, and with speed restore
My subjects num'rous as they were before,
Or make me partner of the fate they bore.
I spoke, and glorious lightning shone around,
And ratling thunder gave a prosp'rous sound;
So let it be, and may these omens prove
A pledge, said I, of your returning love.
By chance a rev'rend oak was near the place,
Sacred to Jove, and of Dodona's race,
Where frugal ants laid up their winter meat,
Whose little bodies bear a mighty weight:
We saw them march along, and hide their store,
And much admir'd their number, and their pow'r;
Admir'd at first, but after envy'd more.
Full of amazement, thus to Jove I pray'd,
O grant, since thus my subjects are decay'd,
As many subjects to supply the dead.
I pray'd, and strange convulsions mov'd the oak,
Which murmur'd, tho' by ambient winds unshook:
My trembling hands, and stiff-erected hair,
Exprest all tokens of uncommon fear;
Yet both the earth and sacred oak I kist,
And scarce cou'd hope, yet still I hop'd the best;
For wretches, whatsoe'er the Fates divine,
Expound all omens to their own design.
But now 'twas night, when ev'n distraction wears
A pleasing look, and dreams beguile our cares,
Lo! the same oak appears before my eyes,
Nor alter'd in his shape, nor former size;
As many ants the num'rous branches bear,
The same their labour, and their frugal care;
The branches too a like commotion sound,
And shook th' industrious creatures on the ground,
Who, by degrees (what's scarce to be believ'd)
A nobler form, and larger bulk receiv'd,
And on the earth walk'd an unusual pace,
With manly strides, and an erected face-
Their num'rous legs, and former colour lost,
The insects cou'd a human figure boast.
I wake, and waking find my cares again,
And to the unperforming Gods complain,
And call their promise, and pretences, vain.
Yet in my court I heard the murm'ring voice
Of strangers, and a mixt uncommon noise:
But I suspected all was still a dream,
'Till Telamon to my apartment came,
Op'ning the door with an impetuous haste,
O come, said he, and see your faith and hopes surpast:
I follow, and, confus'd with wonder, view
Those shapes which my presaging slumbers drew:
I saw, and own'd, and call'd them subjects; they
Confest my pow'r, submissive to my sway.
To Jove, restorer of my race decay'd,
My vows were first with due oblations paid,
I then divide with an impartial hand
My empty city, and my ruin'd land,
To give the new-born youth an equal share,
And call them Myrmidons, from what they were.
You saw their persons, and they still retain
The thrift of ants, tho' now transform'd to men.
A frugal people, and inur'd to sweat,
Lab'ring to gain, and keeping what they get.
These, equal both in strength and years, shall join
Their willing aid, and follow your design,
With the first southern gale that shall present
To fill your sails, and favour your intent.
With such discourse they entertain the day;
The ev'ning past in banquets, sport, and play:
Then, having crown'd the night with sweet repose,
Aurora (with the wind at east) arose.
Now Pallas' sons to Cephalus resort,
And Cephalus with Pallas' sons to court,
To the king's levee; him sleep's silken chain,
And pleasing dreams, beyond his hour detain;
But then the princes of the blood, in state,
Expect, and meet 'em at the palace gate.
The Story of Cephalus and Procris
To th' inmost courts the Grecian youths were led,
And plac'd by Phocus on a Tyrian bed;
Who, soon observing Cephalus to hold
A dart of unknown wood, but arm'd with gold:
None better loves (said he) the huntsman's sport,
Or does more often to the woods resort;
Yet I that jav'lin's stem with wonder view,
Too brown for box, too smooth a grain for yew.
I cannot guess the tree; but never art
Did form, or eyes behold so fair a dart!
The guest then interrupts him- 'Twou'd produce
Still greater wonder, if you knew its use.
It never fails to strike the game, and then
Comes bloody back into your hand again.
Then Phocus each particular desires,
And th' author of the wond'rous gift enquires.
To which the owner thus, with weeping eyes,
And sorrow for his wife's sad fate, replies,
This weapon here (o prince!) can you believe
This dart the cause for which so much I grieve;
And shall continue to grieve on, 'till Fate
Afford such wretched life no longer date.
Would I this fatal gift had ne'er enjoy'd,
This fatal gift my tender wife destroy'd:
Procris her name, ally'd in charms and blood
To fair Orythia courted by a God.
Her father seal'd my hopes with rites divine,
But firmer love before had made her mine.
Men call'd me blest, and blest I was indeed.
The second month our nuptials did succeed;
When (as upon Hymettus' dewy head,
For mountain stags my net betimes I spread)
Aurora spy'd, and ravish'd me away,
With rev'rence to the Goddess, I must say,
Against my will, for Procris had my heart,
Nor wou'd her image from my thoughts depart.
At last, in rage she cry'd, Ingrateful boy
Go to your Procris, take your fatal joy;
And so dismiss'd me: musing, as I went,
What those expressions of the Goddess meant,
A thousand jealous fears possess me now,
Lest Procris had prophan'd her nuptial vow:
Her youth and charms did to my fancy paint
A lewd adultress, but her life a saint.
Yet I was absent long, the Goddess too
Taught me how far a woman cou'd be true.
Aurora's treatment much suspicion bred;
Besides, who truly love, ev'n shadows dread.
I strait impatient for the tryal grew,
What courtship back'd with richest gifts cou'd do.
Aurora's envy aided my design,
And lent me features far unlike to mine.
In this disguise to my own house I came,
But all was chaste, no conscious sign of blame:
With thousand arts I scarce admittance found,
And then beheld her weeping on the ground
For her lost husband; hardly I retain'd
My purpose, scarce the wish'd embrace refrain'd.
How charming was her grief! Then, Phocus, guess
What killing beauties waited on her dress.
Her constant answer, when my suit I prest,
Forbear, my lord's dear image guards this breast;
Where-e'er he is, whatever cause detains,
Who-e'er has his, my heart unmov'd remains.
What greater proofs of truth than these cou'd be?
Yet I persist, and urge my destiny.
At length, she found, when my own form return'd,
Her jealous lover there, whose loss she mourn'd.
Enrag'd with my suspicion, swift as wind,
She fled at once from me and all mankind;
And so became, her purpose to retain,
A nymph, and huntress in Diana's train:
Forsaken thus, I found my flames encrease,
I own'd my folly, and I su'd for peace.
It was a fault, but not of guilt, to move
Such punishment, a fault of too much love.
Thus I retriev'd her to my longing arms,
And many happy days possess'd her charms.
But with herself she kindly did confer,
What gifts the Goddess had bestow'd on her;
The fleetest grey-hound, with this lovely dart,
And I of both have wonders to impart.
Near Thebes a savage beast, of race unknown,
Laid waste the field, and bore the vineyards down;
The swains fled from him, and with one consent
Our Grecian youth to chase the monster went;
More swift than light'ning he the toils surpast,
And in his course spears, men, and trees o'er-cast.
We slipt our dogs, and last my Lelaps too,
When none of all the mortal race wou'd do:
He long before was struggling from my hands,
And, e're we cou'd unloose him, broke his bands.
That minute where he was, we cou'd not find,
And only saw the dust he left behind.
I climb'd a neighb'ring hill to view the chase,
While in the plain they held an equal race;
The savage now seems caught, and now by force
To quit himself, nor holds the same strait course;
But running counter, from the foe withdraws,
And with short turning cheats his gaping jaws:
Which he retrieves, and still so closely prest,
You'd fear at ev'ry stretch he were possess'd;
Yet for the gripe his fangs in vain prepare;
The game shoots from him, and he chops the air.
To cast my jav'lin then I took my stand;
But as the thongs were fitting to my hand,
While to the valley I o'er-look'd the wood,
Before my eyes two marble statues stood;
That, as pursu'd appearing at full stretch,
This barking after, and at point to catch:
Some God their course did with this wonder grace,
That neither might be conquer'd in the chase.
A sudden silence here his tongue supprest,
He here stops short, and fain wou'd wave the rest.
The eager prince then urg'd him to impart,
The Fortune that attended on the dart.
First then (said he) past joys let me relate,
For bliss was the foundation of my fate.
No language can those happy hours express,
Did from our nuptials me, and Procris bless:
The kindest pair! What more cou'd Heav'n confer?
For she was all to me, and I to her.
Had Jove made love, great Jove had been despis'd;
And I my Procris more than Venus priz'd:
Thus while no other joy we did aspire,
We grew at last one soul, and one desire.
Forth to the woods I went at break of day
(The constant practice of my youth) for prey:
Nor yet for servant, horse, or dog did call,
I found this single dart to serve for all.
With slaughter tir'd, I sought the cooler shade,
And winds that from the mountains pierc'd the glade:
Come, gentle air (so was I wont to say)
Come, gentle air, sweet Aura come away.
This always was the burden of my song,
Come 'swage my flames, sweet Aura come along.
Thou always art most welcome to my breast;
I faint; approach, thou dearest, kindest guest!
These blandishments, and more than these, I said
(By Fate to unsuspected ruin led),
Thou art my joy, for thy dear sake I love
Each desart hill, and solitary grove;
When (faint with labour) I refreshment need,
For cordials on thy fragrant breath I feed.
At last a wand'ring swain in hearing came,
And cheated with the sound of Aura's name,
He thought I some assignation made;
And to my Procris' ear the news convey'd.
Great love is soonest with suspicion fir'd:
She swoon'd, and with the tale almost expir'd.
Ah! wretched heart! (she cry'd) ah! faithless man.
And then to curse th' imagin'd nymph began:
Yet oft she doubts, oft hopes she is deceiv'd,
And chides herself, that ever she believ'd
Her lord to such injustice cou'd proceed,
'Till she her self were witness of the deed.
Next morn I to the woods again repair,
And, weary with the chase, invoke the air:
Approach, dear Aura, and my bosom chear:
At which a mournful sound did strike my ear;
Yet I proceeded, 'till the thicket by,
With rustling noise and motion, drew my eye:
I thought some beast of prey was shelter'd there,
And to the covert threw my certain spear;
From whence a tender sigh my soul did wound,
Ah me! it cry'd, and did like Procris sound.
Procris was there, too well the voice I knew,
And to the place with headlong horror flew;
Where I beheld her gasping on the ground,
In vain attempting from the deadly wound
To draw the dart, her love's dear fatal gift!
My guilty arms had scarce the strength to lift
The beauteous load; my silks, and hair I tore
(If possible) to stanch the pressing gore;
For pity beg'd her keep her flitting breath,
And not to leave me guilty of her death.
While I intreat she fainted fast away,
And these few words had only strength to say:
By all the sacred bonds of plighted love,
By all your rev'rence to the Pow'rs above,
By all the truth for which you held me dear,
And last by love, the cause through which I bleed,
Let Aura never to my bed succeed.
I then perceiv'd the error of our fate,
And told it her, but found and told too late!
I felt her lower to my bosom fall,
And while her eyes had any sight at all,
On mine she fix'd them; in her pangs still prest
My hand, and sigh'd her soul into my breast;
Yet, being undeceiv'd, resign'd her breath
Methought more chearfully, and smil'd in death.
With such concern the weeping heroe told
This tale, that none who heard him cou'd with-hold
From melting into sympathizing tears,
'Till Aeacus with his two sons appears;
Whom he commits, with their new-levy'd bands,
To Fortune's, and so brave a gen'ral's hands.
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~ Ovid, BOOK THE SEVENTH
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Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we, that have not seen thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove;
Thine are these orbs of light and shade;
Thou madest Life in man and brute;
Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot
Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Thou wilt not leave us in the dust:
Thou madest man, he knows not why,
He thinks he was not made to die;
And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Thou seemest human and divine,
The highest, holiest manhood, thou:
Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be:
They are but broken lights of thee,
And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
We have but faith: we cannot know;
For knowledge is of things we see;
And yet we trust it comes from thee,
A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Let knowledge grow from more to more,
But more of reverence in us dwell;
That mind and soul, according well,
May make one music as before,
But vaster. We are fools and slight;
We mock thee when we do not fear:
But help thy foolish ones to bear;
Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light.
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Forgive what seem’d my sin in me;
What seem’d my worth since I began;
For merit lives from man to man,
And not from man, O Lord, to thee.
Forgive my grief for one removed,
Thy creature, whom I found so fair.
I trust he lives in thee, and there
I find him worthier to be loved.
Forgive these wild and wandering cries,
Confusions of a wasted youth;
Forgive them where they fail in truth,
And in thy wisdom make me wise.
I.
I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
But who shall so forecast the years
And find in loss a gain to match?
Or reach a hand thro’ time to catch
The far-off interest of tears?
Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown’d,
Let darkness keep her raven gloss:
Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss,
To dance with death, to beat the ground,
Than that the victor Hours should scorn
The long result of love, and boast,
‘Behold the man that loved and lost,
But all he was is overworn.’
II.
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Old Yew, which graspest at the stones
That name the under-lying dead,
Thy fibres net the dreamless head,
Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
The seasons bring the flower again,
And bring the firstling to the flock;
And in the dusk of thee, the clock
Beats out the little lives of men.
O not for thee the glow, the bloom,
Who changest not in any gale,
Nor branding summer suns avail
To touch thy thousand years of gloom:
And gazing on thee, sullen tree,
Sick for thy stubborn hardihood,
I seem to fail from out my blood
And grow incorporate into thee.
III.
O Sorrow, cruel fellowship,
O Priestess in the vaults of Death,
O sweet and bitter in a breath,
What whispers from thy lying lip?
‘The stars,’ she whispers, ‘blindly run;
A web is wov’n across the sky;
From out waste places comes a cry,
And murmurs from the dying sun:
‘And all the phantom, Nature, stands–
With all the music in her tone,
A hollow echo of my own,–
A hollow form with empty hands.’
And shall I take a thing so blind,
Embrace her as my natural good;
Or crush her, like a vice of blood,
Upon the threshold of the mind?
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IV.
To Sleep I give my powers away;
My will is bondsman to the dark;
I sit within a helmless bark,
And with my heart I muse and say:
O heart, how fares it with thee now,
That thou should’st fail from thy desire,
Who scarcely darest to inquire,
‘What is it makes me beat so low?’
Something it is which thou hast lost,
Some pleasure from thine early years.
Break, thou deep vase of chilling tears,
That grief hath shaken into frost!
Such clouds of nameless trouble cross
All night below the darken’d eyes;
With morning wakes the will, and cries,
‘Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.’
V.
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.
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VI.
One writes, that ‘Other friends remain,’
That ‘Loss is common to the race’–
And common is the commonplace,
And vacant chaff well meant for grain.
That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.
O father, wheresoe’er thou be,
Who pledgest now thy gallant son;
A shot, ere half thy draught be done,
Hath still’d the life that beat from thee.
O mother, praying God will save
Thy sailor,–while thy head is bow’d,
His heavy-shotted hammock-shroud
Drops in his vast and wandering grave.
Ye know no more than I who wrought
At that last hour to please him well;
Who mused on all I had to tell,
And something written, something thought;
Expecting still his advent home;
And ever met him on his way
With wishes, thinking, ‘here to-day,’
Or ‘here to-morrow will he come.’
O somewhere, meek, unconscious dove,
That sittest ranging golden hair;
And glad to find thyself so fair,
Poor child, that waitest for thy love!
For now her father’s chimney glows
In expectation of a guest;
And thinking ‘this will please him best,’
She takes a riband or a rose;
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For he will see them on to-night;
And with the thought her colour burns;
And, having left the glass, she turns
Once more to set a ringlet right;
And, even when she turn’d, the curse
Had fallen, and her future Lord
Was drown’d in passing thro’ the ford,
Or kill’d in falling from his horse.
O what to her shall be the end?
And what to me remains of good?
To her, perpetual maidenhood,
And unto me no second friend.
VII.
Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my heart was used to beat
So quickly, waiting for a hand,
A hand that can be clasp’d no more–
Behold me, for I cannot sleep,
And like a guilty thing I creep
At earliest morning to the door.
He is not here; but far away
The noise of life begins again,
And ghastly thro’ the drizzling rain
On the bald street breaks the blank day.
VIII.
A happy lover who has come
To look on her that loves him well,
Who ’lights and rings the gateway bell,
And learns her gone and far from home;
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He saddens, all the magic light
Dies off at once from bower and hall,
And all the place is dark, and all
The chambers emptied of delight:
So find I every pleasant spot
In which we two were wont to meet,
The field, the chamber and the street,
For all is dark where thou art not.
Yet as that other, wandering there
In those deserted walks, may find
A flower beat with rain and wind,
Which once she foster'd up with care;
So seems it in my deep regret,
O my forsaken heart, with thee
And this poor flower of poesy
Which little cared for fades not yet.
But since it pleased a vanish’d eye,
I go to plant it on his tomb,
That if it can it there may bloom,
Or dying, there at least may die.
IX.
Fair ship, that from the Italian shore
Sailest the placid ocean-plains
With my lost Arthur’s loved remains,
Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er.
So draw him home to those that mourn
In vain; a favourable speed
Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead
Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.
All night no ruder air perplex
Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright
As our pure love, thro’ early light
Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
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Sphere all your lights around, above;
Sleep, gentle heavens, before the prow;
Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now,
My friend, the brother of my love;
My Arthur, whom I shall not see
Till all my widow’d race be run;
Dear as the mother to the son,
More than my brothers are to me.
X.
I hear the noise about thy keel;
I hear the bell struck in the night:
I see the cabin-window bright;
I see the sailor at the wheel.
Thou bring’st the sailor to his wife,
And travell’d men from foreign lands;
And letters unto trembling hands;
And, thy dark freight, a vanish’d life.
So bring him: we have idle dreams:
This look of quiet flatters thus
Our home-bred fancies: O to us,
The fools of habit, sweeter seems
To rest beneath the clover sod,
That takes the sunshine and the rains,
Or where the kneeling hamlet drains
The chalice of the grapes of God;
Than if with thee the roaring wells
Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine;
And hands so often clasp’d in mine,
Should toss with tangle and with shells.
XI.
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Calm is the morn without a sound,
Calm as to suit a calmer grief,
And only thro’ the faded leaf
The chestnut pattering to the ground:
Calm and deep peace on this high wold,
And on these dews that drench the furze,
And all the silvery gossamers
That twinkle into green and gold:
Calm and still light on yon great plain
That sweeps with all its autumn bowers,
And crowded farms and lessening towers,
To mingle with the bounding main:
Calm and deep peace in this wide air,
These leaves that redden to the fall;
And in my heart, if calm at all,
If any calm, a calm despair:
Calm on the seas, and silver sleep,
And waves that sway themselves in rest,
And dead calm in that noble breast
Which heaves but with the heaving deep.
XII.
Lo, as a dove when up she springs
To bear thro’ Heaven a tale of woe,
Some dolorous message knit below
The wild pulsation of her wings;
Like her I go; I cannot stay;
I leave this mortal ark behind,
A weight of nerves without a mind,
And leave the cliffs, and haste away
O’er ocean-mirrors rounded large,
And reach the glow of southern skies,
And see the sails at distance rise,
And linger weeping on the marge,
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And saying; ‘Comes he thus, my friend?
Is this the end of all my care?’
And circle moaning in the air:
‘Is this the end? Is this the end?’
And forward dart again, and play
About the prow, and back return
To where the body sits, and learn
That I have been an hour away.
XIII.
Tears of the widower, when he sees
A late-lost form that sleep reveals,
And moves his doubtful arms, and feels
Her place is empty, fall like these;
Which weep a loss for ever new,
A void where heart on heart reposed;
And, where warm hands have prest and closed,
Silence, till I be silent too.
Which weeps the comrade of my choice,
An awful thought, a life removed,
The human-hearted man I loved,
A Spirit, not a breathing voice.
Come Time, and teach me, many years,
I do not suffer in a dream;
For now so strange do these things seem,
Mine eyes have leisure for their tears;
My fancies time to rise on wing,
And glance about the approaching sails,
As tho’ they brought but merchants’ bales,
And not the burthen that they bring.
XIV.
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If one should bring me this report,
That thou hadst touch’d the land to-day,
And I went down unto the quay,
And found thee lying in the port;
And standing, muffled round with woe,
Should see thy passengers in rank
Come stepping lightly down the plank,
And beckoning unto those they know;
And if along with these should come
The man I held as half-divine;
Should strike a sudden hand in mine,
And ask a thousand things of home;
And
And
And
And
I should tell him all my pain,
how my life had droop’d of late,
he should sorrow o’er my state
marvel what possess’d my brain;
And I perceived no touch of change,
No hint of death in all his frame,
But found him all in all the same,
I should not feel it to be strange.
XV.
To-night the winds begin to rise
And roar from yonder dropping day:
The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
The rooks are blown about the skies;
The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d,
The cattle huddled on the lea;
And wildly dash’d on tower and tree
The sunbeam strikes along the world:
And but for fancies, which aver
That all thy motions gently pass
Athwart a plane of molten glass,
I scarce could brook the strain and stir
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That makes the barren branches loud;
And but for fear it is not so,
The wild unrest that lives in woe
Would dote and pore on yonder cloud
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a labouring breast,
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire.
XVI.
What words are these have fall’n from me?
Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?
Or doth she only seem to take
The touch of change in calm or storm;
But knows no more of transient form
In her deep self, than some dead lake
That holds the shadow of a lark
Hung in the shadow of a heaven?
Or has the shock, so harshly given,
Confused me like the unhappy bark
That strikes by night a craggy shelf,
And staggers blindly ere she sink?
And stunn’d me from my power to think
And all my knowledge of myself;
And made me that delirious man
Whose fancy fuses old and new,
And flashes into false and true,
And mingles all without a plan?
XVII.
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Thou comest, much wept for: such a breeze
Compell’d thy canvas, and my prayer
Was as the whisper of an air
To breathe thee over lonely seas.
For I in spirit saw thee move
Thro’ circles of the bounding sky,
Week after week: the days go by:
Come quick, thou bringest all I love.
Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam,
My blessing, like a line of light,
Is on the waters day and night,
And like a beacon guards thee home.
So may whatever tempest mars
Mid-ocean, spare thee, sacred bark;
And balmy drops in summer dark
Slide from the bosom of the stars.
So kind an office hath been done,
Such precious relics brought by thee;
The dust of him I shall not see
Till all my widow’d race be run.
XVIII.
’Tis well; ’tis something; we may stand
Where he in English earth is laid,
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
’Tis little; but it looks in truth
As if the quiet bones were blest
Among familiar names to rest
And in the places of his youth.
Come then, pure hands, and bear the head
That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep,
And come, whatever loves to weep,
And hear the ritual of the dead.
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Ah yet, ev’n yet, if this might be,
I, falling on his faithful heart,
Would breathing thro’ his lips impart
The life that almost dies in me;
That dies not, but endures with pain,
And slowly forms the the firmer mind,
Treasuring the look it cannot find,
The words that are not heard again.
XIX.
The Danube to the Severn gave
The darken’d heart that beat no more;
They laid him by the pleasant shore,
And in the hearing of the wave.
There twice a day the Severn fills;
That salt sea-water passes by,
And hushes half the babbling Wye,
And makes a silence in the hills.
The Wye is hush’d nor moved along,
And hush’d my deepest grief of all,
When fill’d with tears that cannot fall,
I brim with sorrow drowning song.
The tide flows down, the wave again
Is vocal in its wooded walls;
My deeper anguish also falls,
And I can speak a little then.
XX.
The lesser griefs that may be said,
That breathe a thousand tender vows,
Are but as servants in a house
Where lies the master newly dead;
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Who speak their feeling as it is,
And weep the fulness from the mind:
‘It will be hard,’ they say, ‘to find
Another service such as this.’
My lighter moods are like to these,
That out of words a comfort win;
But there are other griefs within,
And tears that at their fountain freeze;
For by the hearth the children sit
Cold in that atmosphere of Death,
And scarce endure to draw the breath,
Or like to noiseless phantoms flit:
But open converse is there none,
So much the vital spirits sink
To see the vacant chair, and think,
‘How good! how kind! and he is gone.’
XXI.
I sing to him that rests below,
And, since the grasses round me wave,
I take the grasses of the grave,
And make them pipes whereon to blow.
The traveller hears me now and then,
And sometimes harshly will he speak:
‘This fellow would make weakness weak,
And melt the waxen hearts of men.’
Another answers, ‘Let him be,
He loves to make parade of pain,
That with his piping he may gain
The praise that comes to constancy.’
A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour
For private sorrow’s barren song,
When more and more the people throng
The chairs and thrones of civil power?
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‘A time to sicken and to swoon,
When Science reaches forth her arms
To feel from world to world, and charms
Her secret from the latest moon?’
Behold, ye speak an idle thing:
Ye never knew the sacred dust:
I do but sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing:
And one is glad; her note is gay,
For now her little ones have ranged;
And one is sad; her note is changed,
Because her brood is stol’n away.
XXII.
The path by which we twain did go,
Which led by tracts that pleased us well,
Thro’ four sweet years arose and fell,
From flower to flower, from snow to snow:
And we with singing cheer’d the way,
And, crown’d with all the season lent,
From April on to April went,
And glad at heart from May to May:
But where the path we walk’d began
To slant the fifth autumnal slope,
As we descended following Hope,
There sat the Shadow fear’d of man;
Who broke our fair companionship,
And spread his mantle dark and cold,
And wrapt thee formless in the fold,
And dull’d the murmur on thy lip,
And bore thee where I could not see
Nor follow, tho’ I walk in haste,
And think, that somewhere in the waste
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The Shadow sits and waits for me.
XXIII.
Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut,
Or breaking into song by fits,
Alone, alone, to where he sits,
The Shadow cloak’d from head to foot,
Who keeps the keys of all the creeds,
I wander, often falling lame,
And looking back to whence I came,
Or on to where the pathway leads;
And crying, How changed from where it ran
Thro’ lands where not a leaf was dumb;
But all the lavish hills would hum
The murmur of a happy Pan:
When each by turns was guide to each,
And Fancy light from Fancy caught,
And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech;
And all we met was fair and good,
And all was good that Time could bring,
And all the secret of the Spring
Moved in the chambers of the blood;
And many an old philosophy
On Argive heights divinely sang,
And round us all the thicket rang
To many a flute of Arcady.
XXIV.
And was the day of my delight
As pure and perfect as I say?
The very source and fount of Day
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Is dash’d with wandering isles of night.
If all was good and fair we met,
This earth had been the Paradise
It never look’d to human eyes
Since our first Sun arose and set.
And is it that the haze of grief
Makes former gladness loom so great?
The lowness of the present state,
That sets the past in this relief?
Or that the past will always win
A glory from its being far;
And orb into the perfect star
We saw not, when we moved therein?
XXV.
I know that this was Life,–the track
Whereon with equal feet we fared;
And then, as now, the day prepared
The daily burden for the back.
But this it was that made me move
As light as carrier-birds in air;
I loved the weight I had to bear,
Because it needed help of Love:
Nor could I weary, heart or limb,
When mighty Love would cleave in twain
The lading of a single pain,
And part it, giving half to him.
XXVI.
Still onward winds the dreary way;
I with it; for I long to prove
No lapse of moons can canker Love,
Whatever fickle tongues may say.
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And if that eye which watches guilt
And goodness, and hath power to see
Within the green the moulder’d tree,
And towers fall’n as soon as built–
Oh, if indeed that eye foresee
Or see (in Him is no before)
In more of life true life no more
And Love the indifference to be,
Then might I find, ere yet the morn
Breaks hither over Indian seas,
That Shadow waiting with the keys,
To shroud me from my proper scorn.
XXVII.
I envy not in any moods
The captive void of noble rage,
The linnet born within the cage,
That never knew the summer woods:
I envy not the beast that takes
His license in the field of time,
Unfetter’d by the sense of crime,
To whom a conscience never wakes;
Nor, what may count itself as blest,
The heart that never plighted troth
But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;
Nor any want-begotten rest.
I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
XXVIII.
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The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
Four voices of four hamlets round,
From far and near, on mead and moor,
Swell out and fail, as if a door
Were shut between me and the sound:
Each voice four changes on the wind,
That now dilate, and now decrease,
Peace and goodwill, goodwill and peace,
Peace and goodwill, to all mankind.
This year I slept and woke with pain,
I almost wish’d no more to wake,
And that my hold on life would break
Before I heard those bells again:
But they my troubled spirit rule,
For they controll’d me when a boy;
They bring me sorrow touch’d with joy,
The merry merry bells of Yule.
XXIX.
With such compelling cause to grieve
As daily vexes household peace,
And chains regret to his decease,
How dare we keep our Christmas-eve;
Which brings no more a welcome guest
To enrich the threshold of the night
With shower’d largess of delight
In dance and song and game and jest?
Yet go, and while the holly boughs
Entwine the cold baptismal font,
Make one wreath more for Use and Wont,
That guard the portals of the house;
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Old sisters of a day gone by,
Gray nurses, loving nothing new;
Why should they miss their yearly due
Before their time? They too will die.
XXX.
With trembling fingers did we weave
The holly round the Christmas hearth;
A rainy cloud possess’d the earth,
And sadly fell our Christmas-eve.
At our old pastimes in the hall
We gambol’d, making vain pretence
Of gladness, with an awful sense
Of one mute Shadow watching all.
We paused: the winds were in the beech:
We heard them sweep the winter land;
And in a circle hand-in-hand
Sat silent, looking each at each.
Then echo-like our voices rang;
We sung, tho’ every eye was dim,
A merry song we sang with him
Last year: impetuously we sang:
We ceased: a gentler feeling crept
Upon us: surely rest is meet:
‘They rest,’ we said, ‘their sleep is sweet,’
And silence follow’d, and we wept.
Our voices took a higher range;
Once more we sang: ‘They do not die
Nor lose their mortal sympathy,
Nor change to us, although they change;
‘Rapt from the fickle and the frail
With gather’d power, yet the same,
Pierces the keen seraphic flame
From orb to orb, from veil to veil.’
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Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn,
Draw forth the cheerful day from night:
O Father, touch the east, and light
The light that shone when Hope was born.
XXXI.
When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
And home to Mary’s house return’d,
Was this demanded–if he yearn’d
To hear her weeping by his grave?
‘Where wert thou, brother, those four days?’
There lives no record of reply,
Which telling what it is to die
Had surely added praise to praise.
From every house the neighbours met,
The streets were fill’d with joyful sound,
A solemn gladness even crown’d
The purple brows of Olivet.
Behold a man raised up by Christ!
The rest remaineth unreveal’d;
He told it not; or something seal’d
The lips of that Evangelist.
XXXII.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer,
Nor other thought her mind admits
But, he was dead, and there he sits,
And he that brought him back is there.
Then one deep love doth supersede
All other, when her ardent gaze
Roves from the living brother’s face,
And rests upon the Life indeed.
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All subtle thought, all curious fears,
Borne down by gladness so complete,
She bows, she bathes the Saviour’s feet
With costly spikenard and with tears.
Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers,
Whose loves in higher love endure;
What souls possess themselves so pure,
Or is there blessedness like theirs?
XXXIII.
O thou that after toil and storm
Mayst seem to have reach’d a purer air,
Whose faith has centre everywhere,
Nor cares to fix itself to form,
Leave thou thy sister when she prays,
Her early Heaven, her happy views;
Nor thou with shadow’d hint confuse
A life that leads melodious days.
Her faith thro’ form is pure as thine,
Her hands are quicker unto good:
Oh, sacred be the flesh and blood
To which she links a truth divine!
See thou, that countest reason ripe
In holding by the law within,
Thou fail not in a world of sin,
And ev’n for want of such a type.
XXXIV.
My own dim life should teach me this,
That life shall live for evermore,
Else earth is darkness at the core,
And dust and ashes all that is;
This round of green, this orb of flame,
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Fantastic beauty; such as lurks
In some wild Poet, when he works
Without a conscience or an aim.
What then were God to such as I?
’Twere hardly worth my while to choose
Of things all mortal, or to use
A little patience ere I die;
’Twere best at once to sink to peace,
Like birds the charming serpent draws,
To drop head-foremost in the jaws
Of vacant darkness and to cease.
XXXV.
Yet if some voice that man could trust
Should murmur from the narrow house,
‘The cheeks drop in; the body bows;
Man dies: nor is there hope in dust:’
Might I not say? ‘Yet even here,
But for one hour, O Love, I strive
To keep so sweet a thing alive:’
But I should turn mine ears and hear
The moanings of the homeless sea,
The sound of streams that swift or slow
Draw down Æonian hills, and sow
The dust of continents to be;
And Love would answer with a sigh,
‘The sound of that forgetful shore
Will change my sweetness more and more,
Half-dead to know that I shall die.’
O me, what profits it to put
And idle case? If Death were seen
At first as Death, Love had not been,
Or been in narrowest working shut,
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Mere fellowship of sluggish moods,
Or in his coarsest Satyr-shape
Had bruised the herb and crush’d the grape,
And bask’d and batten’d in the woods.
XXXVI.
Tho’ truths in manhood darkly join,
Deep-seated in our mystic frame,
We yield all blessing to the name
Of Him that made them current coin;
For Wisdom dealt with mortal powers,
Where truth in closest words shall fail,
When truth embodied in a tale
Shall enter in at lowly doors.
And so the Word had breath, and wrought
With human hands the creed of creeds
In loveliness of perfect deeds,
More strong than all poetic thought;
Which he may read that binds the sheaf,
Or builds the house, or digs the grave,
And those wild eyes that watch the wave
In roarings round the coral reef.
XXXVII.
Urania speaks with darken’d brow:
‘Thou pratest here where thou art least;
This faith has many a purer priest,
And many an abler voice than thou.
‘Go down beside thy native rill,
On thy Parnassus set thy feet,
And hear thy laurel whisper sweet
About the ledges of the hill.’
And my Melpomene replies,
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A touch of shame upon her cheek:
‘I am not worthy ev’n to speak
Of thy prevailing mysteries;
‘For I am but an earthly Muse,
And owning but a little art
To lull with song an aching heart,
And render human love his dues;
‘But brooding on the dear one dead,
And all he said of things divine,
(And dear to me as sacred wine
To dying lips is all he said),
‘I murmur’d, as I came along,
Of comfort clasp’d in truth reveal’d;
And loiter’d in the master’s field,
And darken’d sanctities with song.’
XXXVIII.
With weary steps I loiter on,
Tho’ always under alter’d skies
The purple from the distance dies,
My prospect and horizon gone.
No joy the blowing season gives,
The herald melodies of spring,
But in the songs I love to sing
A doubtful gleam of solace lives.
If any care for what is here
Survive in spirits render’d free,
Then are these songs I sing of thee
Not all ungrateful to thine ear.
XXXIX.
Old warder of these buried bones,
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And answering now my random stroke
With fruitful cloud and living smoke,
Dark yew, that graspest at the stones
And dippest toward the dreamless head,
To thee too comes the golden hour
When flower is feeling after flower;
But Sorrow–fixt upon the dead,
And darkening the dark graves of men,–
What whisper’d from her lying lips?
Thy gloom is kindled at the tips,
And passes into gloom again.
XL.
Could we forget the widow’d hour
And look on Spirits breathed away,
As on a maiden in the day
When first she wears her orange-flower!
When crown’d with blessing she doth rise
To take her latest leave of home,
And hopes and light regrets that come
Make April of her tender eyes;
And doubtful joys the father move,
And tears are on the mother’s face,
As parting with a long embrace
She enters other realms of love;
Her office there to rear, to teach,
Becoming as is meet and fit
A link among the days, to knit
The generations each with each;
And, doubtless, unto thee is given
A life that bears immortal fruit
In those great offices that suit
The full-grown energies of heaven.
Ay me, the difference I discern!
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How often shall her old fireside
Be cheer’d with tidings of the bride,
How often she herself return,
And tell them all they would have told,
And bring her babe, and make her boast,
Till even those that miss’d her most
Shall count new things as dear as old:
But thou and I have shaken hands,
Till growing winters lay me low;
My paths are in the fields I know,
And thine in undiscover’d lands.
XLI.
The spirit ere our fatal loss
Did ever rise from high to higher;
As mounts the heavenward altar-fire,
As flies the lighter thro’ the gross.
But thou art turn’d to something strange,
And I have lost the links that bound
Thy changes; here upon the ground,
No more partaker of thy change.
Deep folly! yet that this could be–
That I could wing my will with might
To leap the grades of life and light,
And flash at once, my friend, to thee.
For tho’ my nature rarely yields
To that vague fear implied in death;
Nor shudders at the gulfs beneath,
The howlings from forgotten fields;
Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor
An inner trouble I behold,
A spectral doubt which makes me cold,
That I shall be thy mate no more,
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Tho’ following with an upward mind
The wonders that have come to thee,
Thro’ all the secular to-be,
But evermore a life behind.
XLII.
I vex my heart with fancies dim:
He still outstript me in the race;
It was but unity of place
That made me dream I rank’d with him.
And so may Place retain us still,
And he the much-beloved again,
A lord of large experience, train
To riper growth the mind and will:
And what delights can equal those
That stir the spirit’s inner deeps,
When one that loves but knows not, reaps
A truth from one that loves and knows?
XLIII.
If Sleep and Death be truly one,
And every spirit’s folded bloom
Thro’ all its intervital gloom
In some long trance should slumber on;
Unconscious of the sliding hour,
Bare of the body, might it last,
And silent traces of the past
Be all the colour of the flower:
So then were nothing lost to man;
So that still garden of the souls
In many a figured leaf enrolls
The total world since life began;
And love will last as pure and whole
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As when he loved me here in Time,
And at the spiritual prime
Rewaken with the dawning soul.
XLIV.
How fares it with the happy dead?
For here the man is more and more;
But he forgets the days before
God shut the doorways of his head.
The days have vanish’d, tone and tint,
And yet perhaps the hoarding sense
Gives out at times (he knows not whence)
A little flash, a mystic hint;
And in the long harmonious years
(If Death so taste Lethean springs),
May some dim touch of earthly things
Surprise thee ranging with thy peers.
If such a dreamy touch should fall,
O turn thee round, resolve the doubt;
My guardian angel will speak out
In that high place, and tell thee all.
XLV.
The baby new to earth and sky,
What time his tender palm is prest
Against the circle of the breast,
Has never thought that ‘this is I:’
But as he grows he gathers much,
And learns the use of ‘I,’ and ‘me,’
And finds ‘I am not what I see,
And other than the things I touch.’
So rounds he to a separate mind
From whence clear memory may begin,
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As thro’ the frame that binds him in
His isolation grows defined.
This use may lie in blood and breath,
Which else were fruitless of their due,
Had man to learn himself anew
Beyond the second birth of Death.
XLVI.
We ranging down this lower track,
The path we came by, thorn and flower,
Is shadow’d by the growing hour,
Lest life should fail in looking back.
So be it: there no shade can last
In that deep dawn behind the tomb,
But clear from marge to marge shall bloom
The eternal landscape of the past;
A lifelong tract of time reveal’d;
The fruitful hours of still increase;
Days order’d in a wealthy peace,
And those five years its richest field.
O Love, thy province were not large,
A bounded field, nor stretching far;
Look also, Love, a brooding star,
A rosy warmth from marge to marge.
XLVII.
That each, who seems a separate whole,
Should move his rounds, and fusing all
The skirts of self again, should fall
Remerging in the general Soul,
Is faith as vague as all unsweet:
Eternal form shall still divide
The eternal soul from all beside;
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And I shall know him when we meet:
And we shall sit at endless feast,
Enjoying each the other’s good:
What vaster dream can hit the mood
Of Love on earth? He seeks at least
Upon the last and sharpest height,
Before the spirits fade away,
Some landing-place, to clasp and say,
‘Farewell! We lose ourselves in light.’
XLVIII.
If these brief lays, of Sorrow born,
Were taken to be such as closed
Grave doubts and answers here proposed,
Then these were such as men might scorn:
Her care is not to part and prove;
She takes, when harsher moods remit,
What slender shade of doubt may flit,
And makes it vassal unto love:
And hence, indeed, she sports with words,
But better serves a wholesome law,
And holds it sin and shame to draw
The deepest measure from the chords:
Nor dare she trust a larger lay,
But rather loosens from the lip
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip
Their wings in tears, and skim away.
XLIX.
From art, from nature, from the schools,
Let random influences glance,
Like light in many a shiver’d lance
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That breaks about the dappled pools:
The lightest wave of thought shall lisp,
The fancy’s tenderest eddy wreathe,
The slightest air of song shall breathe
To make the sullen surface crisp.
And look thy look, and go thy way,
But blame not thou the winds that make
The seeming-wanton ripple break,
The tender-pencil’d shadow play.
Beneath all fancied hopes and fears
Ay me, the sorrow deepens down,
Whose muffled motions blindly drown
The bases of my life in tears.
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Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is sick,
And all the wheels of Being slow.
Be near me when the sensuous frame
Is rack’d with pangs that conquer trust;
And Time, a maniac scattering dust,
And Life, a Fury slinging flame.
Be near me when my faith is dry,
And men the flies of latter spring,
That lay their eggs, and sting and sing
And weave their petty cells and die.
Be near me when I fade away,
To point the term of human strife,
And on the low dark verge of life
The twilight of eternal day.
LI.
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Do we indeed desire the dead
Should still be near us at our side?
Is there no baseness we would hide?
No inner vileness that we dread?
Shall he for whose applause I strove,
I had such reverence for his blame,
See with clear eye some hidden shame
And I be lessen’d in his love?
I wrong the grave with fears untrue:
Shall love be blamed for want of faith?
There must be wisdom with great Death:
The dead shall look me thro’ and thro’.
Be near us when we climb or fall:
Ye watch, like God, the rolling hours
With larger other eyes than ours,
To make allowance for us all.
LII.
I cannot love thee as I ought,
For love reflects the thing beloved;
My words are only words, and moved
Upon the topmost froth of thought.
‘Yet blame not thou thy plaintive song,’
The Spirit of true love replied;
‘Thou canst not move me from thy side,
Nor human frailty do me wrong.
‘What keeps a spirit wholly true
To that ideal which he bears?
What record? not the sinless years
That breathed beneath the Syrian blue:
‘So fret not, like an idle girl,
That life is dash’d with flecks of sin.
Abide: thy wealth is gather’d in,
When Time hath sunder’d shell from pearl.’
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LIII.
How many a father have I seen,
A sober man, among his boys,
Whose youth was full of foolish noise,
Who wears his manhood hale and green:
And dare we to this fancy give,
That had the wild oat not been sown,
The soil, left barren, scarce had grown
The grain by which a man may live?
Or, if we held the doctrine sound
For life outliving heats of youth,
Yet who would preach it as a truth
To those that eddy round and round?
Hold thou the good: define it well:
For fear divine Philosophy
Should push beyond her mark, and be
Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
LIV.
Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins of will,
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood;
That nothing walks with aimless feet;
That not one life shall be destroy’d,
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete;
That not a worm is cloven in vain;
That not a moth with vain desire
Is shrivell’d in a fruitless fire,
Or but subserves another’s gain.
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Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last–far off–at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.
So runs my dream: but what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.
LV.
The wish, that of the living whole
No life may fail beyond the grave,
Derives it not from what we have
The likest God within the soul?
Are God and Nature then at strife,
That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life;
That I, considering everywhere
Her secret meaning in her deeds,
And finding that of fifty seeds
She often brings but one to bear,
I falter where I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great world’s altar-stairs
That slope thro’ darkness up to God,
I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope,
And gather dust and chaff, and call
To what I feel is Lord of all,
And faintly trust the larger hope.
LVI.
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‘So careful of the type?’ but no.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone
She cries, ‘A thousand types are gone:
I care for nothing, all shall go.
‘Thou makest thine appeal to me:
I bring to life, I bring to death:
The spirit does but mean the breath:
I know no more.’ And he, shall he,
Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair,
Such splendid purpose in his eyes,
Who roll’d the psalm to wintry skies,
Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer,
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation’s final law–
Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek’d against his creed–
Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills,
Who battled for the True, the Just,
Be blown about the desert dust,
Or seal’d within the iron hills?
No more? A monster then, a dream,
A discord. Dragons of the prime,
That tare each other in their slime,
Were mellow music match’d with him.
O life as futile, then, as frail!
O for thy voice to soothe and bless!
What hope of answer, or redress?
Behind the veil, behind the veil.
LVII.
Peace; come away: the song of woe
Is after all an earthly song:
Peace; come away: we do him wrong
To sing so wildly: let us go.
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Come; let us go: your cheeks are pale;
But half my life I leave behind:
Methinks my friend is richly shrined;
But I shall pass; my work will fail.
Yet in these ears, till hearing dies,
One set slow bell will seem to toll
The passing of the sweetest soul
That ever look’d with human eyes.
I hear it now, and o’er and o’er,
Eternal greetings to the dead;
And ‘Ave, Ave, Ave,’ said,
‘Adieu, adieu’ for evermore.
LVIII.
In those sad words I took farewell:
Like echoes in sepulchral halls,
As drop by drop the water falls
In vaults and catacombs, they fell;
And, falling, idly broke the peace
Of hearts that beat from day to day,
Half-conscious of their dying clay,
And those cold crypts where they shall cease.
The high Muse answer’d: ‘Wherefore grieve
Thy brethren with a fruitless tear?
Abide a little longer here,
And thou shalt take a nobler leave.’
LIX.
O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me
No casual mistress, but a wife,
My bosom-friend and half of life;
As I confess it needs must be;
O Sorrow, wilt thou rule my blood,
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Be sometimes lovely like a bride,
And put thy harsher moods aside,
If thou wilt have me wise and good.
My centred passion cannot move,
Nor will it lessen from to-day;
But I’ll have leave at times to play
As with the creature of my love;
And set thee forth, for thou art mine,
With so much hope for years to come,
That, howsoe’er I know thee, some
Could hardly tell what name were thine.
LX.
He past; a soul of nobler tone:
My spirit loved and loves him yet,
Like some poor girl whose heart is set
On one whose rank exceeds her own.
He mixing with his proper sphere,
She finds the baseness of her lot,
Half jealous of she knows not what,
And envying all that meet him there.
The little village looks forlorn;
She sighs amid her narrow days,
Moving about the household ways,
In that dark house where she was born.
The foolish neighbours come and go,
And tease her till the day draws by:
At night she weeps, ‘How vain am I!
How should he love a thing so low?’
LXI.
If, in thy second state sublime,
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Thy ransom’d reason change replies
With all the circle of the wise,
The perfect flower of human time;
And if thou cast thine eyes below,
How dimly character’d and slight,
How dwarf’d a growth of cold and night,
How blanch'd with darkness must I grow!
Yet turn thee to the doubtful shore,
Where thy first form was made a man:
I loved thee, Spirit, and love, nor can
The soul of Shakespeare love thee more.
LXII.
Tho’ if an eye that’s downward cast
Could make thee somewhat blench or fail,
Then be my love an idle tale,
And fading legend of the past;
And thou, as one that once declined,
When he was little more than boy,
On some unworthy heart with joy,
But lives to wed an equal mind;
And breathes a novel world, the while
His other passion wholly dies,
Or in the light of deeper eyes
Is matter for a flying smile.
LXIII.
Yet pity for a horse o’er-driven,
And love in which my hound has part,
Can hang no weight upon my heart
In its assumptions up to heaven;
And I am so much more than these,
As thou, perchance, art more than I,
And yet I spare them sympathy,
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And I would set their pains at ease.
So mayst thou watch me where I weep,
As, unto vaster motions bound,
The circuits of thine orbit round
A higher height, a deeper deep.
LXIV.
Dost thou look back on what hath been,
As some divinely gifted man,
Whose life in low estate began
And on a simple village green;
Who breaks his birth’s invidious bar,
And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance,
And grapples with his evil star;
Who makes by force his merit known
And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty state’s decrees,
And shape the whisper of the throne;
And moving up from high to higher,
Becomes on Fortune’s crowning slope
The pillar of a people’s hope,
The centre of a world’s desire;
Yet feels, as in a pensive dream,
When all his active powers are still,
A distant dearness in the hill,
A secret sweetness in the stream,
The limit of his narrower fate,
While yet beside its vocal springs
He play’d at counsellors and kings,
With one that was his earliest mate;
Who ploughs with pain his native lea
And reaps the labour of his hands,
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Or in the furrow musing stands;
‘Does my old friend remember me?’
LXV.
Sweet soul, do with me as thou wilt;
I lull a fancy trouble-tost
With ‘Love’s too precious to be lost,
A little grain shall not be spilt.’
And in that solace can I sing,
Till out of painful phases wrought
There flutters up a happy thought,
Self-balanced on a lightsome wing:
Since we deserved the name of friends,
And thine effect so lives in me,
A part of mine may live in thee
And move thee on to noble ends.
LXVI.
You thought my heart too far diseased;
You wonder when my fancies play
To find me gay among the gay,
Like one with any trifle pleased.
The shade by which my life was crost,
Which makes a desert in the mind,
Has made me kindly with my kind,
And like to him whose sight is lost;
Whose feet are guided thro’ the land,
Whose jest among his friends is free,
Who takes the children on his knee,
And winds their curls about his hand:
He plays with threads, he beats his chair
For pastime, dreaming of the sky;
His inner day can never die,
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His night of loss is always there.
LXVII.
When on my bed the moonlight falls,
I know that in thy place of rest
By that broad water of the west,
There comes a glory on the walls:
Thy marble bright in dark appears,
As slowly steals a silver flame
Along the letters of thy name,
And o’er the number of thy years.
The mystic glory swims away;
From off my bed the moonlight dies;
And closing eaves of wearied eyes
I sleep till dusk is dipt in gray:
And then I know the mist is drawn
A lucid veil from coast to coast,
And in the dark church like a ghost
Thy tablet glimmers to the dawn.
LXVIII.
When in the down I sink my head,
Sleep, Death’s twin-brother, times my breath;
Sleep, Death’s twin-brother, knows not Death,
Nor can I dream of thee as dead:
I walk as ere I walk’d forlorn,
When all our path was fresh with dew,
And all the bugle breezes blew
Reveillée to the breaking morn.
But what is this? I turn about,
I find a trouble in thine eye,
Which makes me sad I know not why,
Nor can my dream resolve the doubt:
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But ere the lark hath left the lea
I wake, and I discern the truth;
It is the trouble of my youth
That foolish sleep transfers to thee.
LXIX.
I dream’d there would be Spring no more,
That Nature’s ancient power was lost:
The streets were black with smoke and frost,
They chatter’d trifles at the door:
I wander’d from the noisy town,
I found a wood with thorny boughs:
I took the thorns to bind my brows,
I wore them like a civic crown:
I met with scoffs, I met with scorns
From youth and babe and hoary hairs:
They call’d me in the public squares
The fool that wears a crown of thorns:
They call’d me fool, they call’d me child:
I found an angel of the night;
The voice was low, the look was bright;
He look’d upon my crown and smiled:
He reach’d the glory of a hand,
That seem’d to touch it into leaf:
The voice was not the voice of grief,
The words were hard to understand.
LXX.
I cannot see the features right,
When on the gloom I strive to paint
The face I know; the hues are faint
And mix with hollow masks of night;
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Cloud-towers by ghostly masons wrought,
A gulf that ever shuts and gapes,
A hand that points, and palled shapes
In shadowy thoroughfares of thought;
And crowds that stream from yawning doors,
And shoals of pucker’d faces drive;
Dark bulks that tumble half alive,
And lazy lengths on boundless shores;
Till all at once beyond the will
I hear a wizard music roll,
And thro’ a lattice on the soul
Looks thy fair face and makes it still.
LXXI.
Sleep, kinsman thou to death and trance
And madness, thou hast forged at last
A night-long Present of the Past
In which we went thro’ summer France.
Hadst thou such credit with the soul?
Then bring an opiate trebly strong,
Drug down the blindfold sense of wrong
That so my pleasure may be whole;
While now we talk as once we talk’d
Of men and minds, the dust of change,
The days that grow to something strange,
In walking as of old we walk’d
Beside the river’s wooded reach,
The fortress, and the mountain ridge,
The cataract flashing from the bridge,
The breaker breaking on the beach.
LXXII.
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Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again,
And howlest, issuing out of night,
With blasts that blow the poplar white,
And lash with storm the streaming pane?
Day, when my crown’d estate begun
To pine in that reverse of doom,
Which sicken’d every living bloom,
And blurr’d the splendour of the sun;
Who usherest in the dolorous hour
With thy quick tears that make the rose
Pull sideways, and the daisy close
Her crimson fringes to the shower;
Who might’st have heaved a windless flame
Up the deep East, or, whispering, play’d
A chequer-work of beam and shade
Along the hills, yet look’d the same.
As wan, as chill, as wild as now;
Day, mark’d as with some hideous crime,
When the dark hand struck down thro’ time,
And cancell’d nature’s best: but thou,
Lift as thou may’st thy burthen’d brows
Thro’ clouds that drench the morning star,
And whirl the ungarner’d sheaf afar,
And sow the sky with flying boughs,
And up thy vault with roaring sound
Climb thy thick noon, disastrous day;
Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray,
And hide thy shame beneath the ground.
LXXIII.
So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be,
How know I what had need of thee,
For thou wert strong as thou wert true?
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The fame is quench’d that I foresaw,
The head hath miss’d an earthly wreath:
I curse not nature, no, nor death;
For nothing is that errs from law.
We pass; the path that each man trod
Is dim, or will be dim, with weeds:
What fame is left for human deeds
In endless age? It rests with God.
O hollow wraith of dying fame,
Fade wholly, while the soul exults,
And self-infolds the large results
Of force that would have forged a name.
LXXIV.
As sometimes in a dead man’s face,
To those that watch it more and more,
A likeness, hardly seen before,
Comes out–to some one of his race:
So, dearest, now thy brows are cold,
I see thee what thou art, and know
Thy likeness to the wise below,
Thy kindred with the great of old.
But there is more than I can see,
And what I see I leave unsaid,
Nor speak it, knowing Death has made
His darkness beautiful with thee.
LXXV.
I leave thy praises unexpress’d
In verse that brings myself relief,
And by the measure of my grief
I leave thy greatness to be guess’d;
What practice howsoe’er expert
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In fitting aptest words to things,
Or voice the richest-toned that sings,
Hath power to give thee as thou wert?
I care not in these fading days
To raise a cry that lasts not long,
And round thee with the breeze of song
To stir a little dust of praise.
Thy leaf has perish’d in the green,
And, while we breathe beneath the sun,
The world which credits what is done
Is cold to all that might have been.
So here shall silence guard thy fame;
But somewhere, out of human view,
Whate’er thy hands are set to do
Is wrought with tumult of acclaim.
LXXVI.
Take wings of fancy, and ascend,
And in a moment set thy face
Where all the starry heavens of space
Are sharpen’d to a needle’s end;
Take wings of foresight; lighten thro’
The secular abyss to come,
And lo, thy deepest lays are dumb
Before the mouldering of a yew;
And if the matin songs, that woke
The darkness of our planet, last,
Thine own shall wither in the vast,
Ere half the lifetime of an oak.
Ere these have clothed their branchy bowers
With fifty Mays, thy songs are vain;
And what are they when these remain
The ruin’d shells of hollow towers?
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LXXVII.
What hope is here for modern rhyme
To him, who turns a musing eye
On songs, and deeds, and lives, that lie
Foreshorten’d in the tract of time?
These mortal lullabies of pain
May bind a book, may line a box,
May serve to curl a maiden’s locks;
Or when a thousand moons shall wane
A man upon a stall may find,
And, passing, turn the page that tells
A grief, then changed to something else,
Sung by a long-forgotten mind.
But what of that? My darken’d ways
Shall ring with music all the same;
To breathe my loss is more than fame,
To utter love more sweet than praise.
LXXVIII.
Again at Christmas did we weave
The holly round the Christmas hearth;
The silent snow possess’d the earth,
And calmly fell our Christmas-eve:
The yule-clog sparkled keen with frost,
No wing of wind the region swept,
But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.
As in the winters left behind,
Again our ancient games had place,
The mimic picture’s breathing grace,
And dance and song and hoodman-blind.
Who show’d a token of distress?
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No single tear, no mark of pain:
O sorrow, then can sorrow wane?
O grief, can grief be changed to less?
O last regret, regret can die!
No–mixt with all this mystic frame,
Her deep relations are the same,
But with long use her tears are dry.
LXXIX.
‘More than my brothers are to me,’–
Let this not vex thee, noble heart!
I know thee of what force thou art
To hold the costliest love in fee.
But thou and I are one in kind,
As moulded like in Nature’s mint;
And hill and wood and field did print
The same sweet forms in either mind.
For us the same cold streamlet curl’d
Thro’ all his eddying coves; the same
All winds that roam the twilight came
In whispers of the beauteous world.
At one dear knee we proffer’d vows,
One lesson from one book we learn’d,
Ere childhood’s flaxen ringlet turn’d
To black and brown on kindred brows.
And so my wealth resembles thine,
But he was rich where I was poor,
And he supplied my want the more
As his unlikeness fitted mine.
LXXX.
If any vague desire should rise,
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That holy Death ere Arthur died
Had moved me kindly from his side,
And dropt the dust on tearless eyes;
Then fancy shapes, as fancy can,
The grief my loss in him had wrought,
A grief as deep as life or thought,
But stay’d in peace with God and man.
I make a picture in the brain;
I hear the sentence that he speaks;
He bears the burthen of the weeks
But turns his burthen into gain.
His credit thus shall set me free;
And, influence-rich to soothe and save,
Unused example from the grave
Reach out dead hands to comfort me.
LXXXI.
Could I have said while he was here,
‘My love shall now no further range;
There cannot come a mellower change,
For now is love mature in ear.’
Love, then, had hope of richer store:
What end is here to my complaint?
This haunting whisper makes me faint,
‘More years had made me love thee more.’
But Death returns an answer sweet:
‘My sudden frost was sudden gain,
And gave all ripeness to the grain,
It might have drawn from after-heat.’
LXXXII.
I wage not any feud with Death
For changes wrought on form and face;
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No lower life that earth’s embrace
May breed with him, can fright my faith.
Eternal process moving on,
From state to state the spirit walks;
And these are but the shatter’d stalks,
Or ruin’d chrysalis of one.
Nor blame I Death, because he bare
The use of virtue out of earth:
I know transplanted human worth
Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.
For this alone on Death I wreak
The wrath that garners in my heart;
He put our lives so far apart
We cannot hear each other speak.
LXXXIII.
Dip down upon the northern shore,
O sweet new-year delaying long;
Thou doest expectant nature wrong;
Delaying long, delay no more.
What stays thee from the clouded noons,
Thy sweetness from its proper place?
Can trouble live with April days,
Or sadness in the summer moons?
Bring orchis, bring the foxglove spire,
The little speedwell’s darling blue,
Deep tulips dash’d with fiery dew,
Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire.
O thou, new-year, delaying long,
Delayest the sorrow in my blood,
That longs to burst a frozen bud
And flood a fresher throat with song.
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LXXXIV.
When I contemplate all alone
The life that had been thine below,
And fix my thoughts on all the glow
To which thy crescent would have grown;
I see thee sitting crown’d with good,
A central warmth diffusing bliss
In glance and smile, and clasp and kiss,
On all the branches of thy blood;
Thy blood, my friend, and partly mine;
For now the day was drawing on,
When thou should’st link thy life with one
Of mine own house, and boys of thine
Had babbled ‘Uncle’ on my knee;
But that remorseless iron hour
Made cypress of her orange flower,
Despair of Hope, and earth of thee.
I seem to meet their least desire,
To clap their cheeks, to call them mine.
I see their unborn faces shine
Beside the never-lighted fire.
I see myself an honour’d guest,
Thy partner in the flowery walk
Of letters, genial table-talk,
Or deep dispute, and graceful jest;
While now thy prosperous labour fills
The lips of men with honest praise,
And sun by sun the happy days
Descend below the golden hills
With promise of a morn as fair;
And all the train of bounteous hours
Conduct by paths of growing powers,
To reverence and the silver hair;
Till slowly worn her earthly robe,
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Her lavish mission richly wrought,
Leaving great legacies of thought,
Thy spirit should fail from off the globe;
What time mine own might also flee,
As link’d with thine in love and fate,
And, hovering o’er the dolorous strait
To the other shore, involved in thee,
Arrive at last the blessed goal,
And He that died in Holy Land
Would reach us out the shining hand,
And take us as a single soul.
What reed was that on which I leant?
Ah, backward fancy, wherefore wake
The old bitterness again, and break
The low beginnings of content.
LXXXV.
This truth came borne with bier and pall,
I felt it, when I sorrow’d most,
’Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all–
O true in word, and tried in deed,
Demanding, so to bring relief
To this which is our common grief,
What kind of life is that I lead;
And whether trust in things above
Be dimm’d of sorrow, or sustain’d;
And whether love for him have drain’d
My capabilities of love;
Your words have virtue such as draws
A faithful answer from the breast,
Thro’ light reproaches, half exprest,
And loyal unto kindly laws.
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My blood an even tenor kept,
Till on mine ear this message falls,
That in Vienna’s fatal walls
God’s finger touch’d him, and he slept.
The great Intelligences fair
That range above our mortal state,
In circle round the blessed gate,
Received and gave him welcome there;
And led him thro’ the blissful climes,
And show'd him in the fountain fresh
All knowledge that the sons of flesh
Shall gather in the cycled times.
But I remained, whose hopes were dim,
Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth,
To wander on a darkened earth,
Where all things round me breathed of him.
friendship, equal poised control,
heart, with kindliest motion warm,
sacred essence, other form,
solemn ghost, O crowned soul!
Yet none could better know than I,
How much of act at human hands
The sense of human will demands
By which we dare to live or die.
Whatever way my days decline,
I felt and feel, tho’ left alone,
His being working in mine own,
The footsteps of his life in mine;
A life that all the Muses decked
With gifts of grace, that might express
All comprehensive tenderness,
All-subtilising intellect:
And so my passion hath not swerved
To works of weakness, but I find
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An image comforting the mind,
And in my grief a strength reserved.
Likewise the imaginative woe,
That loved to handle spiritual strife,
Diffused the shock thro’ all my life,
But in the present broke the blow.
My pulses therefore beat again
For other friends that once I met;
Nor can it suit me to forget
The mighty hopes that make us men.
I woo your love: I count it crime
To mourn for any overmuch;
I, the divided half of such
A friendship as had master’d Time;
Which masters Time indeed, and is
Eternal, separate from fears:
The all-assuming months and years
Can take no part away from this:
But Summer on the steaming floods,
And Spring that swells the narrow brooks,
And Autumn, with a noise of rooks,
That gather in the waning woods,
And every pulse of wind and wave
Recalls, in change of light or gloom,
My old affection of the tomb,
And my prime passion in the grave:
My old affection of the tomb,
A part of stillness, yearns to speak:
‘Arise, and get thee forth and seek
A friendship for the years to come.
‘I watch thee from the quiet shore;
Thy spirit up to mine can reach;
But in dear words of human speech
We two communicate no more.’
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And I, ‘Can clouds of nature stain
The starry clearness of the free?
How is it? Canst thou feel for me
Some painless sympathy with pain?’
And lightly does the whisper fall;
‘’Tis hard for thee to fathom this;
I triumph in conclusive bliss,
And that serene result of all.’
So hold I commerce with the dead;
Or so methinks the dead would say;
Or so shall grief with symbols play
And pining life be fancy-fed.
Now looking to some settled end,
That these things pass, and I shall prove
A meeting somewhere, love with love,
I crave your pardon, O my friend;
If not so fresh, with love as true,
I, clasping brother-hands aver
I could not, if I would, transfer
The whole I felt for him to you.
For which be they that hold apart
The promise of the golden hours?
First love, first friendship, equal powers,
That marry with the virgin heart.
Still mine, that cannot but deplore,
That beats within a lonely place,
That yet remembers his embrace,
But at his footstep leaps no more,
My heart, tho’ widow’d, may not rest
Quite in the love of what is gone,
But seeks to beat in time with one
That warms another living breast.
Ah, take the imperfect gift I bring,
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Knowing the primrose yet is dear,
The primrose of the later year,
As not unlike to that of Spring.
LXXXVI.
Sweet after showers, ambrosial air,
That rollest from the gorgeous gloom
Of evening over brake and bloom
And meadow, slowly breathing bare
The round of space, and rapt below
Thro’ all the dewy-tassell’d wood,
And shadowing down the horned flood
In ripples, fan my brows and blow
The fever from my cheek, and sigh
The full new life that feeds thy breath
Throughout my frame, till Doubt and Death,
Ill brethren, let the fancy fly
From belt to belt of crimson seas
On leagues of odour streaming far,
To where in yonder orient star
A hundred spirits whisper ‘Peace.’
LXXXVII.
I past beside the reverend walls
In which of old I wore the gown;
I roved at random thro’ the town,
And saw the tumult of the halls;
And heard one more in college fanes
The storm their high-built organs make,
And thunder-music, rolling, shake
The prophet blazon’d on the panes;
And caught one more the distant shout,
The measured pulse of racing oars
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Among the willows; paced the shores
And many a bridge, and all about
The same gray flats again, and felt
The same, but not the same; and last
Up that long walk of limes I past
To see the rooms in which he dwelt.
Another name was on the door:
I linger’d; all within was noise
Of songs, and clapping hands, and boys
That crash’d the glass and beat the floor;
Where once we held debate, a band
Of youthful friends, on mind and art,
And labour, and the changing mart,
And all the framework of the land;
When one would aim an arrow fair,
But send it slackly from the string;
And one would pierce an outer ring,
And one an inner, here and there;
And last the master-bowman, he,
Would cleave the mark. A willing ear
We lent him. Who, but hung to hear
The rapt oration flowing free
From point to point, with power and grace
And music in the bounds of law,
To those conclusions when we saw
The God within him light his face,
And seem to lift the form, and glow
In azure orbits heavenly wise;
And over those ethereal eyes
The bar of Michael Angelo.
LXXXVIII.
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Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet,
Rings Eden thro’ the budded quicks,
O tell me where the senses mix,
O tell me where the passions meet,
Whence radiate: fierce extremes employ
Thy spirits in the darkening leaf,
And in the midmost heart of grief
Thy passion clasps a secret joy:
And I–my harp would prelude woe–
I cannot all command the strings;
The glory of the sum of things
Will flash along the chords and go.
LXXXIX.
Witch-elms that counterchange the floor
Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright;
And thou, with all thy breadth and height
Of foliage, towering sycamore;
How often, hither wandering down,
My Arthur found your shadows fair,
And shook to all the liberal air
The dust and din and steam of town:
He brought an eye for all he saw;
He mixt in all our simple sports;
They pleased him, fresh from brawling courts
And dusty purlieus of the law.
O joy to him in this retreat,
Immantled in ambrosial dark,
To drink the cooler air, and mark
The landscape winking thro’ the heat:
O sound to rout the brood of cares,
The sweep of scythe in morning dew,
The gust that round the garden flew,
And tumbled half the mellowing pears!
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O bliss, when all in circle drawn
About him, heart and ear were fed
To hear him, as he lay and read
The Tuscan poets on the lawn:
Or in the all-golden afternoon
A guest, or happy sister, sung,
Or here she brought the harp and flung
A ballad to the brightening moon:
Nor less it pleased in livelier moods,
Beyond the bounding hill to stray,
And break the livelong summer day
With banquet in the distant woods;
Whereat we glanced from theme to theme,
Discuss’d the books to love or hate,
Or touch’d the changes of the state,
Or threaded some Socratic dream;
But if I praised the busy town,
He loved to rail against it still,
For ‘ground in yonder social mill
We rub each other’s angles down,
‘And merge’ he said ‘in form and gloss
The picturesque of man and man.’
We talk’d: the stream beneath us ran,
The wine-flask lying couch’d in moss,
Or cool’d within the glooming wave;
And last, returning from afar,
Before the crimson-circled star
Had fall’n into her father’s grave,
And brushing ankle-deep in flowers,
We heard behind the woodbine veil
The milk that bubbled in the pail,
And buzzings of the honied hours.
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He tasted love with half his mind,
Nor ever drank the inviolate spring
Where nighest heaven, who first could fling
This bitter seed among mankind;
That could the dead, whose dying eyes
Were closed with wail, resume their life,
They would but find in child and wife
An iron welcome when they rise:
’Twas well, indeed, when warm with wine,
To pledge them with a kindly tear,
To talk them o’er, to wish them here,
To count their memories half divine;
But if they came who past away,
Behold their brides in other hands;
The hard heir strides about their lands,
And will not yield them for a day.
Yea, tho’ their sons were none of these,
Not less the yet-loved sire would make
Confusion worse than death, and shake
The pillars of domestic peace.
Ah dear, but come thou back to me:
Whatever change the years have wrought,
I find not yet one lonely thought
That cries against my wish for thee.
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When rosy plumelets tuft the larch,
And rarely pipes the mounted thrush;
Or underneath the barren bush
Flits by the sea-blue bird of March;
Come, wear the form by which I know
Thy spirit in time among thy peers;
The hope of unaccomplish’d years
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Be large and lucid round thy brow.
When summer’s hourly-mellowing change
May breathe, with many roses sweet,
Upon the thousand waves of wheat,
That ripple round the lonely grange;
Come: not in watches of the night,
But where the sunbeam broodeth warm,
Come, beauteous in thine after form,
And like a finer light in light.
XCII.
If any vision should reveal
Thy likeness, I might count it vain
As but the canker of the brain;
Yea, tho’ it spake and made appeal
To chances where our lots were cast
Together in the days behind,
I might but say, I hear a wind
Of memory murmuring the past.
Yea, tho’ it spake and bared to view
A fact within the coming year;
And tho’ the months, revolving near,
Should prove the phantom-warning true,
They might not seem thy prophecies,
But spiritual presentiments,
And such refraction of events
As often rises ere they rise.
XCIII.
I shall not see thee. Dare I say
No spirit ever brake the band
That stays him from the native land
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Where first he walk’d when claspt in clay?
No visual shade of some one lost,
But he, the Spirit himself, may come
Where all the nerve of sense is numb;
Spirit to Spirit, Ghost to Ghost.
O, therefore from thy sightless range
With gods in unconjectured bliss,
O, from the distance of the abyss
Of tenfold-complicated change,
Descend, and touch, and enter; hear
The wish too strong for words to name;
That in this blindness of the frame
My Ghost may feel that thine is near.
XCIV.
How pure at heart and sound in head,
With what divine affections bold
Should be the man whose thought would hold
An hour’s communion with the dead.
In vain shalt thou, or any, call
The spirits from their golden day,
Except, like them, thou too canst say,
My spirit is at peace with all.
They haunt the silence of the breast,
Imaginations calm and fair,
The memory like a cloudless air,
The conscience as a sea at rest:
But when the heart is full of din,
And doubt beside the portal waits,
They can but listen at the gates,
And hear the household jar within.
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By night we linger’d on the lawn,
For underfoot the herb was dry;
And genial warmth; and o’er the sky
The silvery haze of summer drawn;
And calm that let the tapers burn
Unwavering: not a cricket chirr’d:
The brook alone far-off was heard,
And on the board the fluttering urn:
And bats went round in fragrant skies,
And wheel’d or lit the filmy shapes
That haunt the dusk, with ermine capes
And woolly breasts and beaded eyes;
While now we sang old songs that peal’d
From knoll to knoll, where, couch’d at ease,
The white kine glimmer’d, and the trees
Laid their dark arms about the field.
But when those others, one by one,
Withdrew themselves from me and night,
And in the house light after light
Went out, and I was all alone,
A hunger seized my heart; I read
Of that glad year which once had been,
In those fall’n leaves which kept their green,
The noble letters of the dead:
And strangely on the silence broke
The silent-speaking words, and strange
Was love’s dumb cry defying change
To test his worth; and strangely spoke
The faith, the vigour, bold to dwell
On doubts that drive the coward back,
And keen thro’ wordy snares to track
Suggestion to her inmost cell.
So word by word, and line by line,
The dead man touch’d me from the past,
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And all at once it seem’d at last
The living soul was flash’d on mine,
And mine in this was wound, and whirl’d
About empyreal heights of thought,
And came on that which is, and caught
The deep pulsations of the world,
Æonian music measuring out
The steps of Time–the shocks of Chance–
The blows of Death. At length my trance
Was cancell’d, stricken thro’ with doubt.
Vague words! but ah, how hard to frame
In matter-moulded forms of speech,
Or ev’n for intellect to reach
Thro’ memory that which I became:
Till now the doubtful dusk reveal’d
The knolls once more where, couch’d at ease,
The white kine glimmer’d, and the trees
Laid their dark arms about the field:
And suck’d from out the distant gloom
A breeze began to tremble o’er
The large leaves of the sycamore,
And fluctuate all the still perfume,
And gathering freshlier overhead,
Rock’d the full-foliaged elms, and swung
The heavy-folded rose, and flung
The lilies to and fro, and said
‘The dawn, the dawn,’ and died away;
And East and West, without a breath,
Mixt their dim lights, like life and death,
To broaden into boundless day.
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You say, but with no touch of scorn,
Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes
Are tender over drowning flies,
You tell me, doubt is Devil-born.
I know not: one indeed I knew
In many a subtle question versed,
Who touch’d a jarring lyre at first,
But ever strove to make it true:
Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
He fought his doubts and gather’d strength,
He would not make his judgment blind,
He faced the spectres of the mind
And laid them: thus he came at length
To find a stronger faith his own;
And Power was with him in the night,
Which makes the darkness and the light,
And dwells not in the light alone,
But in the darkness and the cloud,
As over Sinaï’s peaks of old,
While Israel made their gods of gold,
Altho’ the trumpet blew so loud.
XCVII.
My love has talk’d with rocks and trees;
He finds on misty mountain-ground
His own vast shadow glory-crown’d;
He sees himself in all he sees.
Two partners of a married life–
I look’d on these and thought of thee
In vastness and in mystery,
And of my spirit as of a wife.
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These two–they dwelt with eye on eye,
Their hearts of old have beat in tune,
Their meetings made December June,
Their every parting was to die.
Their love has never past away;
The days she never can forget
Are earnest that he loves her yet,
Whate’er the faithless people say.
Her life is lone, he sits apart,
He loves her yet, she will not weep,
Tho’ rapt in matters dark and deep
He seems to slight her simple heart.
He
He
He
He
thrids the labyrinth of the mind,
reads the secret of the star,
seems so near and yet so far,
looks so cold: she thinks him kind.
She keeps the gift of years before,
A wither’d violet is her bliss:
She knows not what his greatness is,
For that, for all, she loves him more.
For him she plays, to him she sings
Of early faith and plighted vows;
She knows but matters of the house,
And he, he knows a thousand things.
Her faith is fixt and cannot move,
She darkly feels him great and wise,
She dwells on him with faithful eyes,
‘I cannot understand: I love.’
XCVIII.
You leave us: you will see the Rhine,
And those fair hills I sail’d below,
When I was there with him; and go
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By summer belts of wheat and vine
To where he breathed his latest breath,
That City. All her splendour seems
No livelier than the wisp that gleams
On Lethe in the eyes of Death.
Let her great Danube rolling fair
Enwind her isles, unmark’d of me:
I have not seen, I will not see
Vienna; rather dream that there,
A treble darkness, Evil haunts
The birth, the bridal; friend from friend
Is oftener parted, fathers bend
Above more graves, a thousand wants
Gnarr at the heels of men, and prey
By each cold hearth, and sadness flings
Her shadow on the blaze of kings:
And yet myself have heard him say,
That not in any mother town
With statelier progress to and fro
The double tides of chariots flow
By park and suburb under brown
Of lustier leaves; nor more content,
He told me, lives in any crowd,
When all is gay with lamps, and loud
With sport and song, in booth and tent,
Imperial halls, or open plain;
And wheels the circled dance, and breaks
The rocket molten into flakes
Of crimson or in emerald rain.
XCIX.
Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again,
So loud with voices of the birds,
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So thick with lowings of the herds,
Day, when I lost the flower of men;
Who tremblest thro’ thy darkling red
On yon swoll’n brook that bubbles fast
By meadows breathing of the past,
And woodlands holy to the dead;
Who murmurest in the foliaged eaves
A song that slights the coming care,
And Autumn laying here and there
A fiery finger on the leaves;
Who wakenest with thy balmy breath
To myriads on the genial earth,
Memories of bridal, or of birth,
And unto myriads more, of death.
O wheresoever those may be,
Betwixt the slumber of the poles,
To-day they count as kindred souls;
They know me not, but mourn with me.
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I climb the hill: from end to end
Of all the landscape underneath,
I find no place that does not breathe
Some gracious memory of my friend;
No gray old grange, or lonely fold,
Or low morass and whispering reed,
Or simple stile from mead to mead,
Or sheepwalk up the windy wold;
Nor hoary knoll of ash and haw
That hears the latest linnet trill,
Nor quarry trench’d along the hill
And haunted by the wrangling daw;
Nor runlet tinkling from the rock;
Nor pastoral rivulet that swerves
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To left and right thro’ meadowy curves,
That feed the mothers of the flock;
But each has pleased a kindred eye,
And each reflects a kindlier day;
And, leaving these, to pass away,
I think once more he seems to die.
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Unwatch’d, the garden bough shall sway,
The tender blossom flutter down,
Unloved, that beech will gather brown,
This maple burn itself away;
Unloved, the sun-flower, shining fair,
Ray round with flames her disk of seed,
And many a rose-carnation feed
With summer spice the humming air;
Unloved, by many a sandy bar,
The brook shall babble down the plain,
At noon or when the lesser wain
Is twisting round the polar star;
Uncared for, gird the windy grove,
And flood the haunts of hern and crake;
Or into silver arrows break
The sailing moon in creek and cove;
Till from the garden and the wild
A fresh association blow,
And year by year the landscape grow
Familiar to the stranger’s child;
As year by year the labourer tills
His wonted glebe, or lops the glades;
And year by year our memory fades
From all the circle of the hills.
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CII.
We leave the well-beloved place
Where first we gazed upon the sky;
The roofs, that heard our earliest cry,
Will shelter one of stranger race.
We go, but ere we go from home,
As down the garden-walks I move,
Two spirits of a diverse love
Contend for loving masterdom.
One whispers, ‘Here thy boyhood sung
Long since its matin song, and heard
The low love-language of the bird
In native hazels tassel-hung.’
The other answers, ‘Yea, but here
Thy feet have stray’d in after hours
With thy lost friend among the bowers,
And this hath made them trebly dear.’
These two have striven half the day,
And each prefers his separate claim,
Poor rivals in a losing game,
That will not yield each other way.
I turn to go: my feet are set
To leave the pleasant fields and farms;
They mix in one another’s arms
To one pure image of regret.
CIII.
On that last night before we went
From out the doors where I was bred,
I dream’d a vision of the dead,
Which left my after-morn content.
Methought I dwelt within a hall,
And maidens with me: distant hills
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From hidden summits fed with rills
A river sliding by the wall.
The hall with harp and carol rang.
They sang of what is wise and good
And graceful. In the centre stood
A statue veil’d, to which they sang;
And which, tho’ veil’d, was known to me,
The shape of him I loved, and love
For ever: then flew in a dove
And brought a summons from the sea:
And when they learnt that I must go
They wept and wail’d, but led the way
To where a little shallop lay
At anchor in the flood below;
And on by many a level mead,
And shadowing bluff that made the banks,
We glided winding under ranks
Of iris, and the golden reed;
And still as vaster grew the shore
And roll’d the floods in grander space,
The maidens gather’d strength and grace
And presence, lordlier than before;
And I myself, who sat apart
And watch’d them, wax’d in every limb;
I felt the thews of Anakim,
The pulses of a Titan’s heart;
As one would sing the death of war,
And one would chant the history
Of that great race, which is to be,
And one the shaping of a star;
Until the forward-creeping tides
Began to foam, and we to draw
From deep to deep, to where we saw
A great ship lift her shining sides.
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The man we loved was there on deck,
But thrice as large as man he bent
To greet us. Up the side I went,
And fell in silence on his neck:
Whereat those maidens with one mind
Bewail’d their lot; I did them wrong:
‘We served thee here’ they said, ‘so long,
And wilt thou leave us now behind?’
So rapt I was, they could not win
An answer from my lips, but he
Replying, ‘Enter likewise ye
And go with us:’ they enter’d in.
And while the wind began to sweep
A music out of sheet and shroud,
We steer’d her toward a crimson cloud
That landlike slept along the deep.
CIV.
The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid, the night is still;
A single church below the hill
Is pealing, folded in the mist.
A single peal of bells below,
That wakens at this hour of rest
A single murmur in the breast,
That these are not the bells I know.
Like strangers’ voices here they sound,
In lands where not a memory strays,
Nor landmark breathes of other days,
But all is new unhallow’d ground.
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To-night ungather’d let us leave
This laurel, let this holly stand:
We live within the stranger’s land,
And strangely falls our Christmas-eve.
Our father’s dust is left alone
And silent under other snows:
There in due time the woodbine blows,
The violet comes, but we are gone.
No more shall wayward grief abuse
The genial hour with mask and mime;
For change of place, like growth of time,
Has broke the bond of dying use.
Let cares that petty shadows cast,
By which our lives are chiefly proved,
A little spare the night I loved,
And hold it solemn to the past.
But let no footstep beat the floor,
Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm;
For who would keep an ancient form
Thro’ which the spirit breathes no more?
Be neither song, nor game, nor feast;
Nor harp be touch’d, nor flute be blown;
No dance, no motion, save alone
What lightens in the lucid east
Of rising worlds by yonder wood.
Long sleeps the summer in the seed;
Run out your measured arcs, and lead
The closing cycle rich in good.
CVI.
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
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Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring
Ring
Ring
Ring
out old shapes of foul disease;
out the narrowing lust of gold;
out the thousand wars of old,
in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
CVII.
It is the day when he was born,
A bitter day that early sank
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Behind a purple-frosty bank
Of vapour, leaving night forlorn.
The time admits not flowers or leaves
To deck the banquet. Fiercely flies
The blast of North and East, and ice
Makes daggers at the sharpen’d eaves,
And bristles all the brakes and thorns
To yon hard crescent, as she hangs
Above the wood which grides and clangs
Its leafless ribs and iron horns
Together, in the drifts that pass
To darken on the rolling brine
That breaks the coast. But fetch the wine,
Arrange the board and brim the glass;
Bring in great logs and let them lie,
To make a solid core of heat;
Be cheerful-minded, talk and treat
Of all things ev’n as he were by;
We keep the day. With festal cheer,
With books and music, surely we
Will drink to him, whate’er he be,
And sing the songs he loved to hear.
CVIII.
I will not shut me from my kind,
And, lest I stiffen into stone,
I will not eat my heart alone,
Nor feed with sighs a passing wind:
What profit lies in barren faith,
And vacant yearning, tho’ with might
To scale the heaven’s highest height,
Or dive below the wells of Death?
What find I in the highest place,
But mine own phantom chanting hymns?
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And on the depths of death there swims
The reflex of a human face.
I'll rather take what fruit may be
Of sorrow under human skies:
’Tis held that sorrow makes us wise,
Whatever wisdom sleep with thee.
CIX.
Heart-affluence in discursive talk
From household fountains never dry;
The critic clearness of an eye,
That saw thro’ all the Muses’ walk;
Seraphic intellect and force
To seize and throw the doubts of man;
Impassion’d logic, which outran
The hearer in its fiery course;
High nature amorous of the good,
But touch’d with no ascetic gloom;
And passion pure in snowy bloom
Thro’ all the years of April blood;
A love of freedom rarely felt,
Of freedom in her regal seat
Of England; not the schoolboy heat,
The blind hysterics of the Celt;
And manhood fused with female grace
In such a sort, the child would twine
A trustful hand, unask’d, in thine,
And find his comfort in thy face;
All these have been, and thee mine eyes
Have look’d on: if they look’d in vain,
My shame is greater who remain,
Nor let thy wisdom make me wise.
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CX.
Thy converse drew us with delight,
The men of rathe and riper years:
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears,
Forgot his weakness in thy sight.
On thee the loyal-hearted hung,
The proud was half disarm’d of pride,
Nor cared the serpent at thy side
To flicker with his double tongue.
The stern were mild when thou wert by,
The flippant put himself to school
And heard thee, and the brazen fool
Was soften’d, and he knew not why;
While I, thy nearest, sat apart,
And felt thy triumph was as mine;
And loved them more, that they were thine,
The graceful tact, the Christian art;
Nor mine the sweetness or the skill,
But mine the love that will not tire,
And, born of love, the vague desire
That spurs an imitative will.
CXI.
The churl in spirit, up or down
Along the scale of ranks, thro’ all,
To him who grasps a golden ball,
By blood a king, at heart a clown;
The churl in spirit, howe’er he veil
His want in forms for fashion’s sake,
Will let his coltish nature break
At seasons thro’ the gilded pale:
For who can always act? but he,
To whom a thousand memories call,
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Not being less but more than all
The gentleness he seem’d to be,
Best seem’d the thing he was, and join’d
Each office of the social hour
To noble manners, as the flower
And native growth of noble mind;
Nor ever narrowness or spite,
Or villain fancy fleeting by,
Drew in the expression of an eye,
Where God and Nature met in light;
And thus he bore without abuse
The grand old name of gentleman,
Defamed by every charlatan,
And soil’d with all ignoble use.
CXII.
High wisdom holds my wisdom less,
That I, who gaze with temperate eyes
On glorious insufficiencies,
Set light by narrower perfectness.
But thou, that fillest all the room
Of all my love, art reason why
I seem to cast a careless eye
On souls, the lesser lords of doom.
For what wert thou? some novel power
Sprang up for ever at a touch,
And hope could never hope too much,
In watching thee from hour to hour,
Large elements in order brought,
And tracts of calm from tempest made,
And world-wide fluctuation sway’d
In vassal tides that follow’d thought.
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CXIII.
’Tis held that sorrow makes us wise;
Yet how much wisdom sleeps with thee
Which not alone had guided me,
But served the seasons that may rise;
For can I doubt, who knew thee keen
In intellect, with force and skill
To strive, to fashion, to fulfil–
I doubt not what thou wouldst have been:
life in civic action warm,
soul on highest mission sent,
potent voice of Parliament,
pillar steadfast in the storm,
Should licensed boldness gather force,
Becoming, when the time has birth,
A lever to uplift the earth
And roll it in another course,
With thousand shocks that come and go,
With agonies, with energies,
With overthrowings, and with cries,
And undulations to and fro.
CXIV.
Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
Against her beauty? May she mix
With men and prosper! Who shall fix
Her pillars? Let her work prevail.
But on her forehead sits a fire:
She sets her forward countenance
And leaps into the future chance,
Submitting all things to desire.
Half-grown as yet, a child, and vain–
She cannot fight the fear of death.
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What is she, cut from love and faith,
But some wild Pallas from the brain
Of Demons? fiery-hot to burst
All barriers in her onward race
For power. Let her know her place;
She is the second, not the first.
A higher hand must make her mild,
If all be not in vain; and guide
Her footsteps, moving side by side
With wisdom, like the younger child:
For she is earthly of the mind,
But Wisdom heavenly of the soul.
O, friend, who camest to thy goal
So early, leaving me behind,
I would the great world grew like thee,
Who grewest not alone in power
And knowledge, but by year and hour
In reverence and in charity.
CXV.
Now fades the last long streak of snow,
Now burgeons every maze of quick
About the flowering squares, and thick
By ashen roots the violets blow.
Now rings the woodland loud and long,
The distance takes a lovelier hue,
And drown’d in yonder living blue
The lark becomes a sightless song.
Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,
The flocks are whiter down the vale,
And milkier every milky sail
On winding stream or distant sea;
Where now the seamew pipes, or dives
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In yonder greening gleam, and fly
The happy birds, that change their sky
To build and brood; that live their lives
From land to land; and in my breast
Spring wakens too; and my regret
Becomes an April violet,
And buds and blossoms like the rest.
CXVI.
Is it, then, regret for buried time
That keenlier in sweet April wakes,
And meets the year, and gives and takes
The colours of the crescent prime?
Not all: the songs, the stirring air,
The life re-orient out of dust,
Cry thro’ the sense to hearten trust
In that which made the world so fair.
Not all regret: the face will shine
Upon me, while I muse alone;
And that dear voice, I once have known,
Still speak to me of me and mine:
Yet less of sorrow lives in me
For days of happy commune dead;
Less yearning for the friendship fled,
Than some strong bond which is to be.
CXVII.
O days and hours, your work is this
To hold me from my proper place,
A little while from his embrace
For fuller gain of after bliss:
That out of distance might ensue
Desire of nearness doubly sweet;
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And unto meeting when we meet,
Delight a hundredfold accrue,
For every grain of sand that runs,
And every span of shade that steals,
And every kiss of toothed wheels,
And all the courses of the suns.
CXVIII.
Contemplate all this work of Time,
The giant labouring in his youth;
Nor dream of human love and truth,
As dying Nature’s earth and lime;
But trust that those we call the dead
Are breathers of an ampler day
For ever nobler ends. They say,
The solid earth whereon we tread
In tracts of fluent heat began,
And grew to seeming-random forms,
The seeming prey of cyclic storms,
Till at the last arose the man;
Who throve and branch’d from clime to clime,
The herald of a higher race,
And of himself in higher place,
If so he type this work of time
Within himself, from more to more;
Or, crown’d with attributes of woe
Like glories, move his course, and show
That life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And batter’d with the shocks of doom
To shape and use. Arise and fly
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The reeling Faun, the sensual feast;
Move upward, working out the beast,
And let the ape and tiger die.
CXIX.
Doors, where my heart was used to beat
So quickly, not as one that weeps
I come once more; the city sleeps;
I smell the meadow in the street;
I hear a chirp of birds; I see
Betwixt the black fronts long-withdrawn
A light-blue lane of early dawn,
And think of early days and thee,
And bless thee, for thy lips are bland,
And bright the friendship of thine eye;
And in my thoughts with scarce a sigh
I take the pressure of thine hand.
CXX.
I trust I have not wasted breath:
I think we are not wholly brain,
Magnetic mockeries; not in vain,
Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death;
Not only cunning casts in clay:
Let Science prove we are, and then
What matters Science unto men,
At least to me? I would not stay.
Let him, the wiser man who springs
Hereafter, up from childhood shape
His action like the greater ape,
But I was born to other things.
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CXXI.
Sad Hesper o’er the buried sun
And ready, thou, to die with him,
Thou watchest all things ever dim
And dimmer, and a glory done:
The team is loosen’d from the wain,
The boat is drawn upon the shore;
Thou listenest to the closing door,
And life is darken’d in the brain.
Bright Phosphor, fresher for the night,
By thee the world’s great work is heard
Beginning, and the wakeful bird;
Behind thee comes the greater light:
The market boat is on the stream,
And voices hail it from the brink;
Thou hear’st the village hammer clink,
And see’st the moving of the team.
Sweet Hesper-Phosphor, double name
For what is one, the first, the last,
Thou, like my present and my past,
Thy place is changed; thou art the same.
CXXII.
Oh, wast thou with me, dearest, then,
While I rose up against my doom,
And yearn’d to burst the folded gloom,
To bare the eternal Heavens again,
To feel once more, in placid awe,
The strong imagination roll
A sphere of stars about my soul,
In all her motion one with law;
If thou wert with me, and the grave
Divide us not, be with me now,
And enter in at breast and brow,
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Till all my blood, a fuller wave,
Be quicken’d with a livelier breath,
And like an inconsiderate boy,
As in the former flash of joy,
I slip the thoughts of life and death;
And all the breeze of Fancy blows,
And every dew-drop paints a bow,
The wizard lightnings deeply glow,
And every thought breaks out a rose.
CXXIII.
There rolls the deep where grew the tree.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There where the long street roars, hath been
The stillness of the central sea.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
From form to form, and nothing stands;
They melt like mist, the solid lands,
Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
But in my spirit will I dwell,
And dream my dream, and hold it true;
For tho’ my lips may breathe adieu,
I cannot think the thing farewell.
CXXIV.
That which we dare invoke to bless;
Our dearest faith; our ghastliest doubt;
He, They, One, All; within, without;
The Power in darkness whom we guess;
I found Him not in world or sun,
Or eagle’s wing, or insect’s eye;
Nor thro’ the questions men may try,
The petty cobwebs we have spun:
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If e’er when faith had fall’n asleep,
I heard a voice ‘believe no more’
And heard an ever-breaking shore
That tumbled in the Godless deep;
A warmth within the breast would melt
The freezing reason’s colder part,
And like a man in wrath the heart
Stood up and answer’d ‘I have felt.’
No, like a child in doubt and fear:
But that blind clamour made me wise;
Then was I as a child that cries,
But, crying, knows his father near;
And what I am beheld again
What is, and no man understands;
And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro’ nature, moulding men.
CXXV.
Whatever I have said or sung,
Some bitter notes my harp would give,
Yea, tho’ there often seem’d to live
A contradiction on the tongue,
Yet Hope had never lost her youth;
She did but look through dimmer eyes;
Or Love but play’d with gracious lies,
Because he felt so fix’d in truth:
And if the song were full of care,
He breathed the spirit of the song;
And if the words were sweet and strong
He set his royal signet there;
Abiding with me till I sail
To seek thee on the mystic deeps,
And this electric force, that keeps
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A thousand pulses dancing, fail.
CXXVI.
Love is and was my Lord and King,
And in his presence I attend
To hear the tidings of my friend,
Which every hour his couriers bring.
Love is and was my King and Lord,
And will be, tho’ as yet I keep
Within his court on earth, and sleep
Encompass’d by his faithful guard,
And hear at times a sentinel
Who moves about from place to place,
And whispers to the worlds of space,
In the deep night, that all is well.
CXXVII.
And all is well, tho’ faith and form
Be sunder’d in the night of fear;
Well roars the storm to those that hear
A deeper voice across the storm,
Proclaiming social truth shall spread,
And justice, ev’n tho’ thrice again
The red fool-fury of the Seine
Should pile her barricades with dead.
But ill for him that wears a crown,
And him, the lazar, in his rags:
They tremble, the sustaining crags;
The spires of ice are toppled down,
And molten up, and roar in flood;
The fortress crashes from on high,
The brute earth lightens to the sky,
And the great Æon sinks in blood,
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And compass’d by the fires of Hell;
While thou, dear spirit, happy star,
O’erlook’st the tumult from afar,
And smilest, knowing all is well.
CXXVIII.
The love that rose on stronger wings,
Unpalsied when he met with Death,
Is comrade of the lesser faith
That sees the course of human things.
No doubt vast eddies in the flood
Of onward time shall yet be made,
And throned races may degrade;
Yet O ye mysteries of good,
Wild Hours that fly with Hope and Fear,
If all your office had to do
With old results that look like new;
If this were all your mission here,
To
To
To
To
draw, to sheathe a useless sword,
fool the crowd with glorious lies,
cleave a creed in sects and cries,
change the bearing of a word,
To shift an arbitrary power,
To cramp the student at his desk,
To make old bareness picturesque
And tuft with grass a feudal tower;
Why then my scorn might well descend
On you and yours. I see in part
That all, as in some piece of art,
Is toil coöperant to an end.
CXXIX.
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Dear friend, far off, my lost desire,
So far, so near in woe and weal;
O loved the most, when most I feel
There is a lower and a higher;
Known and unknown; human, divine;
Sweet human hand and lips and eye;
Dear heavenly friend that canst not die,
Mine, mine, for ever, ever mine;
Strange friend, past, present, and to be;
Loved deeplier, darklier understood;
Behold, I dream a dream of good,
And mingle all the world with thee.
CXXX.
Thy voice is on the rolling air;
I hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in the setting thou art fair.
What art thou then? I cannot guess;
But tho’ I seem in star and flower
To feel thee some diffusive power,
I do not therefore love thee less:
My love involves the love before;
My love is vaster passion now;
Tho’ mix’d with God and Nature thou,
I seem to love thee more and more.
Far off thou art, but ever nigh;
I have thee still, and I rejoice;
I prosper, circled with thy voice;
I shall not lose thee tho’ I die.
CXXXI.
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O living will that shalt endure
When all that seems shall suffer shock,
Rise in the spiritual rock,
Flow thro’ our deeds and make them pure,
That we may lift from out of dust
A voice as unto him that hears,
A cry above the conquer’d years
To one that with us works, and trust,
With faith that comes of self-control,
The truths that never can be proved
Until we close with all we loved,
And all we flow from, soul in soul.
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O true and tried, so well and long,
Demand not thou a marriage lay;
In that it is thy marriage day
Is music more than any song.
Nor have I felt so much of bliss
Since first he told me that he loved
A daughter of our house; nor proved
Since that dark day a day like this;
Tho’ I since then have number’d o’er
Some thrice three years: they went and came,
Remade the blood and changed the frame,
And yet is love not less, but more;
No longer caring to embalm
In dying songs a dead regret,
But like a statue solid-set,
And moulded in colossal calm.
Regret is dead, but love is more
Than in the summers that are flown,
For I myself with these have grown
To something greater than before;
Which makes appear the songs I made
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As echoes out of weaker times,
As half but idle brawling rhymes,
The sport of random sun and shade.
But where is she, the bridal flower,
That must he made a wife ere noon?
She enters, glowing like the moon
Of Eden on its bridal bower:
On me she bends her blissful eyes
And then on thee; they meet thy look
And brighten like the star that shook
Betwixt the palms of paradise.
O when her life was yet in bud,
He too foretold the perfect rose.
For thee she grew, for thee she grows
For ever, and as fair as good.
And thou art worthy; full of power;
As gentle; liberal-minded, great,
Consistent; wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.
But now set out: the noon is near,
And I must give away the bride;
She fears not, or with thee beside
And me behind her, will not fear.
For I that danced her on my knee,
That watch’d her on her nurse’s arm,
That shielded all her life from harm
At last must part with her to thee;
Now waiting to be made a wife,
Her feet, my darling, on the dead;
Their pensive tablets round her head,
And the most living words of life
Breathed in her ear. The ring is on,
The ‘wilt thou’ answer’d, and again
The ‘wilt thou’ ask’d, till out of twain
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Her sweet ‘I will’ has made you one.
Now sign your names, which shall be read,
Mute symbols of a joyful morn,
By village eyes as yet unborn;
The names are sign’d, and overhead
Begins the clash and clang that tells
The joy to every wandering breeze;
The blind wall rocks, and on the trees
The dead leaf trembles to the bells.
O happy hour, and happier hours
Await them. Many a merry face
Salutes them–maidens of the place,
That pelt us in the porch with flowers.
O happy hour, behold the bride
With him to whom her hand I gave.
They leave the porch, they pass the grave
That has to-day its sunny side.
To-day the grave is bright for me,
For them the light of life increased,
Who stay to share the morning feast,
Who rest to-night beside the sea.
Let all my genial spirits advance
To meet and greet a whiter sun;
My drooping memory will not shun
The foaming grape of eastern France.
It circles round, and fancy plays,
And hearts are warm’d and faces bloom,
As drinking health to bride and groom
We wish them store of happy days.
Nor count me all to blame if I
Conjecture of a stiller guest,
Perchance, perchance, among the rest,
And, tho’ in silence, wishing joy.
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But they must go, the time draws on,
And those white-favour’d horses wait;
They rise, but linger; it is late;
Farewell, we kiss, and they are gone.
A shade falls on us like the dark
From little cloudlets on the grass,
But sweeps away as out we pass
To range the woods, to roam the park,
Discussing how their courtship grew,
And talk of others that are wed,
And how she look’d, and what he said,
And back we come at fall of dew.
Again the feast, the speech, the glee,
The shade of passing thought, the wealth
Of words and wit, the double health,
The crowning cup, the three-times-three,
And last the dance;–till I retire:
Dumb is that tower which spake so loud,
And high in heaven the streaming cloud,
And on the downs a rising fire:
And rise, O moon, from yonder down,
Till over down and over dale
All night the shining vapour sail
And pass the silent-lighted town,
The white-faced halls, the glancing rills,
And catch at every mountain head,
And o’er the friths that branch and spread
Their sleeping silver thro’ the hills;
And touch with shade the bridal doors,
With tender gloom the roof, the wall;
And breaking let the splendour fall
To spangle all the happy shores
By which they rest, and ocean sounds,
And, star and system rolling past,
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A soul shall draw from out the vast
And strike his being into bounds,
And, moved thro’ life of lower phase,
Result in man, be born and think,
And act and love, a closer link
Betwixt us and the crowning race
Of those that, eye to eye, shall look
On knowledge; under whose command
Is Earth and Earth’s, and in their hand
Is Nature like an open book;
No longer half-akin to brute,
For all we thought and loved and did,
And hoped, and suffer’d, is but seed
Of what in them is flower and fruit;
Whereof the man, that with me trod
This planet, was a noble type
Appearing ere the times were ripe,
That friend of mine who lives in God,
That God, which ever lives and loves,
One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which the whole creation moves.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,#NFDB
252 Integral Yoga
63 Poetry
41 Occultism
26 Fiction
26 Christianity
20 Psychology
14 Philosophy
12 Mythology
6 Integral Theory
4 Yoga
4 Science
4 Mysticism
4 Baha i Faith
2 Hinduism
2 Education
1 Philsophy
1 Kabbalah
1 Islam
1 Cybernetics
1 Alchemy
117 The Mother
112 Satprem
109 Sri Aurobindo
67 Nolini Kanta Gupta
25 H P Lovecraft
25 Aleister Crowley
16 William Wordsworth
14 Carl Jung
13 Robert Browning
10 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
9 Plotinus
9 George Van Vrekhem
8 Joseph Campbell
8 Jorge Luis Borges
8 James George Frazer
7 Saint Augustine of Hippo
5 Nirodbaran
4 Walt Whitman
4 Ovid
4 Jordan Peterson
4 Henry David Thoreau
4 Baha u llah
4 A B Purani
3 Sri Ramakrishna
3 John Keats
3 Friedrich Nietzsche
2 William Butler Yeats
2 Vyasa
2 Swami Krishnananda
2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
2 Rabindranath Tagore
2 Percy Bysshe Shelley
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Edgar Allan Poe
25 Lovecraft - Poems
23 Savitri
20 Magick Without Tears
19 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
16 Wordsworth - Poems
16 The Life Divine
15 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
13 Browning - Poems
12 Agenda Vol 10
11 The Synthesis Of Yoga
11 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
11 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
9 Preparing for the Miraculous
8 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
8 The Golden Bough
8 Labyrinths
8 Agenda Vol 11
7 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
7 City of God
7 Agenda Vol 12
7 Agenda Vol 06
7 Agenda Vol 05
7 Agenda Vol 04
7 Agenda Vol 03
7 Agenda Vol 01
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Phenomenon of Man
6 On the Way to Supermanhood
6 Liber ABA
6 Collected Poems
6 Aion
6 Agenda Vol 08
5 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
5 The Human Cycle
5 Talks
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
5 Agenda Vol 13
5 Agenda Vol 09
5 Agenda Vol 07
4 Whitman - Poems
4 Walden
4 Record of Yoga
4 Questions And Answers 1953
4 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
4 On Education
4 Mysterium Coniunctionis
4 Metamorphoses
4 Maps of Meaning
4 Letters On Yoga IV
4 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
4 Agenda Vol 02
3 The Future of Man
3 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
3 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
3 Questions And Answers 1956
3 Questions And Answers 1955
3 Prayers And Meditations
3 Letters On Yoga I
3 Keats - Poems
3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
3 Essays Divine And Human
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
3 5.1.01 - Ilion
2 Yeats - Poems
2 Words Of The Mother III
2 Vishnu Purana
2 Vedic and Philological Studies
2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2 The Study and Practice of Yoga
2 The Integral Yoga
2 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
2 The Divine Comedy
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Tagore - Poems
2 Some Answers From The Mother
2 Shelley - Poems
2 Selected Fictions
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
2 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
2 Letters On Yoga II
2 Agenda Vol 1
2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Her step by step, as one discovers a forest, or rather as one fights with it, machete in hand - and then it melts, one loves, so sublime does it become. Mother grew beneath our skin like an adventure of life and death. For seven years we fought with Her. It was fascinating, detestable, powerful and sweet; we felt like screaming and biting, fleeing and always coming back: 'Ah! You won't catch me! If you think I came here to worship you, you're wrong!' And She laughed. She always laughed.
We had our bellyful of adventure at last: if you go astray in the forest, you get delightfully lost yet still with the same old skin on your back, whereas here, there is nothing left to get lost in! It is no longer just a matter of getting lost - you have to CHANGE your skin. Or die. Yes, change species.
Or become one more nauseating little worshipper - which was not on our program. 'We are the enemy of our own conception of the Divine,' She told us one day with her mischievous little smile.
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Spirit nor even an improved Matter, but ... it could be called 'nothing,' so contrary was it to all we know. For the caterpillar, a butterfly is nothing, it is not even visible and has nothing in common with caterpillar heavens nor even caterpillar matter. So there we were, trapped in an impossible adventure. One does not return from there: one must cross the bridge to the other side. Then one day in that seventh year, while we still believed in liberations and the collected Upanishads, highlighted with a few glorious visions to relieve the commonplace (which remained appallingly commonplace), while we were still considering 'the Mother of the Ashram' rather like some spiritual super-director (endowed, albeit, with a disarming yet ever so provocative smile, as though
She were making fun of us, then loving us in secret), She told us, 'I have the feeling that ALL we have lived, ALL we have known, ALL we have done is a perfect illusion ... When I had the spiritual experience that material life is an illusion, personally I found that so marvelously beautiful and happy that it was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life, but now it is the entire spiritual structure as we have lived it that is becoming an illusion! - Not the same illusion, but an illusion far worse. And I am no baby: I have been here for forty-seven years now!' Yes, She was eighty-three years old then. And that day, we ceased being 'the enemy of our own conception of the Divine,' for this entire Divine was shattered to pieces - and we met Mother, at last. This mystery we call
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TRULY to the conquest of the new. The 'new' is painful, discouraging, it resembles nothing we know! We cannot hoist the flag of an unconquered country - but this is what is so marvelous: it does not yet exist. We must MAKE IT EXIST. The adventure has not been carved out: it is to be carved out. Truth is not entrapped and fossilized, 'spiritualized': it is to be discovered. We are in a nothing that we must force to become a something. We are in the adventure of the new species. A new species is obviously contradictory to the old species and to the little flags of the alreadyknown. It has nothing in common with the spiritual summits of the old world, nor even with its abysms - which might be delightfully tempting for those who have had enough of the summits, but everything is the same, in black or white, it is fraternal above and below. SOMETHING ELSE is needed.
'Are you conscious of your ceils?' She asked us a short time after the little operation of spiritual demolition She had undergone. 'No? Well, become conscious of your cells, and you will see that it gives TERRESTRIAL results.' To become conscious of one's cells? ... It was a far more radical operation than crossing the Maroni with a machete in hand, for after all, trees and lianas can be cut, but what cannot be so easily uncovered are the grandfa ther and the grandmo ther and the whole atavistic pack, not to mention the animal and plant and mineral layers that form a teeming humus over this single pure little cell beneath its millennial genetic program. The grandfa thers and grandmo thers grow back again like crabgrass, along with all the old habits of being hungry, afraid, falling ill, fearing the worst, hoping for the best, which is still the best of an old mortal habit. All this is not uprooted nor entrapped as easily as celestial 'liberations,' which leave the teeming humus in peace and the body to its usual decomposition. She had come to hew a path through all that. She was the Ancient One of evolution who had come to make a new cleft in the old, tedious habit of being a man. She did not like tedious repetitions, She was the adventuress par excellence - the adventuress of the earth. She was wrenching out for man the great Possible that was already beating there, in his primeval clearing, which he believed he had momentarily trapped with a few machines.
She was uprooting a new Matter, free, free from the habit of inexorably being a man who repeats himself ad infinitum with a few improvements in the way of organ transplants or monetary exchanges. In fact, She was there to discover what would happen after materialism and after spiritualism, these prodigal twin brothers. Because Materialism is dying in the West for the same reason that Spiritualism is dying in the East: it is the hour of the new species. Man needs to awaken, not only from his demons but also from his gods. A new Matter, yes, like a new Spirit, yes, because we still know neither one nor the other. It is the hour when Science, like Spirituality, at the end of their roads, must discover what Matter TRULY is, for it is really there that a Spirit as yet unknown to us is to be found. It is a time when all the 'isms' of the old species are dying: 'The age of
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This AGENDA is not even a path: it is a light little vibration that seizes you at any turning - and then, there it is, you are IN IT. 'Another world in the world,' She said. One has to catch the light little vibration, one has to flow with it, in a nothing that is like the only something in the midst of this great debacle. At the beginning of things, when still nothing was FIXED, when there was not yet this habit of the pelican or the kangaroo or the chimpanzee or the XXth century biologist, there was a little pulsation that beat and beat - a delightful dizziness, a joy in the world's great adventure; a little never-imprisoned spark that has kept on beating from species to species, but as if it were always eluding us, as if it were always over there, over there - as if it were something to become,
something to be played forever as the one great game of the world; a who-knows-what that left this sprig of a pensive man in the middle of a clearing; a little 'something' that beats, beats, that keeps on breathing beneath every skin that has ever been put on it - like our deepest breath, our lightest air, our air of nothing - and it keeps on going, it keeps on going. We must catch the light little breath, the little pulsation of nothing. Then suddenly, on the threshold of our clearing of concrete, our head starts spinning incurably, our eyes blink into something else, and all is different, and all seems surcharged with meaning and with life, as though we had never lived until that very minute.
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Furthermore, being so, the mystic domain is of infinitely greater potency than the domain of intra-atomic forces. If one comes, all on a sudden, into contact with a force here without the necessary preparation to hold and handle it, he may get seriously bruised, morally and physically. The adventure into the mystic domain has its own toll of casualtiesone can lose the mind, one can lose one's body even and it is a very common experience among those who have tried the path. It is not in vain and merely as a poetic metaphor that the ancient seers have said
Kurasya dhr niit duratyay1
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, *I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still, I do not know how far I shall succeed. I pray for help.* And you know what it was? It was - before beginning, I warn you in advance - it was His way of speaking, so full of divine humility and modesty. He never... *asserted Himself*. And the day He actually began it, He told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
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My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to brea the the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
0 0.02 - Topographical Note, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother was patiently preparing the instrument that would be able to traverse the adventure without breaking along the way.
From 1960, the Agenda took its final shape arid grew for thirteen years, until May 1973, filling thirteen volumes in all (some six thousand pages), with a change of setting in March 1962 at the time of the Great Turning in Mother's yoga when She permanently retired to her room upstairs, as had Sri Aurobindo in 1926. The interviews then took place high up in this large room carpeted in golden wool, like a ship's stateroom, amidst the rustling of the Copper Pod tree and the cawing of crows. Mother would sit in a low rosewood chair, her face turned towards Sri Aurobindo's tomb, as though She were wearing down the distance separating that world from our own. Her voice had become like that of a child, one could hear her laughter. She always laughed, this Mother. And then her long silences. Until the day the disciples closed her door on us. It was May 19, 1973. We did not want to believe it. She was alone, just as we were suddenly alone. Slowly, painfully, we had to discover the why of this rupture. We understood nothing of the jealousies of the old species, we did not yet realize that they were becoming the 'owners' of Mother - of the Ashram, of Auroville, of
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Science of the Five Agnis (Fires), as propounded by Pravahan, explains and illustrates the process of the birth of the body, the passage of the soul into earth existence. It describes the advent of the child, the building of the physical form of the human being. The process is conceived of as a sacrifice, the usual symbol with the Vedic Rishis for the expression of their vision and perception of universal processes of Nature, physical and psychological. Here, the child IS said to be the final fruit of the sacrifice, the different stages in the process being: (i) Soma, (ii) Rain, (iii) Food, (iv) Semen, (v) Child. Soma means Rasaphysically the principle of water, psychologically the 'principle of delightand symbolises and constitutes the very soul and substance of life. Now it is said that these five principles the fundamental and constituent elementsare born out of the sacrifice, through the oblation or offering to the five Agnis. The first Agni is Heaven or the Sky-God, and by offering to it one's faith and one's ardent desire, one calls into manifestation Soma or Rasa or Water, the basic principle of life. This water is next offered to the second Agni, the Rain-God, who sends down Rain. Rain, again, is offered to the third Agni, the Earth, who brings forth Food. Food is, in its turn, offered to the fourth Agni, the Father or Male, who elaborates in himself the generating fluid.
Finally, this fluid is offered to the fifth Agni, the Mother or the Female, who delivers the Child.
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The first boon regards the individual, that is to say, the individual identity and integrity. It asks for the maintenance of that individuality so that it may be saved from the dissolution that Death brings about. Death, of course, means the dissolution of the body, but it represents also dissolution pure and simple. Indeed death is a process which does not stop with the physical phenomenon, but continues even after; for with the body gone, the other elements of the individual organism, the vital and the mental too gradually fall off, fade and dissolve. Nachiketas wishes to secure from Death the safety and preservation of the earthly personality, the particular organisation of mind and vital based upon a recognisable physical frame. That is the first necessity for the aspiring mortalfor, it is said, the body is the first instrument for the working out of one's life ideal. But man's true personality, the real individuality lies beyond, beyond the body, beyond the life, beyond the mind, beyond the triple region that Death lords it over. That is the divine world, the Heaven of the immortals, beyond death and beyond sorrow and grief. It is the hearth secreted in the inner heart where burns the Divine Fire, the God of Life Everlasting. And this is the nodus that binds together the threefold status of the manifested existence, the body, the life and the mind. This triplicity is the structure of name and form built out of the bricks of experience, the kiln, as it were, within which burns the Divine Agni, man's true soul. This soul can be reached only when one exceeds the bounds and limitations of the triple cord and experiences one's communion and identity with all souls and all existence. Agni is the secret divinity within, within the individual and within the world; he is the Immanent Divine, the cosmic godhead that holds together and marshals all the elements and components, all the principles that make up the manifest universe. He it is that has entered into the world and created facets of his own reality in multiple forms: and it is he that lies secret in the human being as the immortal soul through all its adventure of life and death in the series of incarnations in terrestrial evolution. The adoration and realisation of this Immanent Divinity, the worship of Agni taught by Yama in the second boon, consists in the triple sacrifice, the triple work, the triple union in the triple status of the physical, the vital and the mental consciousness, the mastery of which leads one to the other shore, the abode of perennial existence where the human soul enjoys its eternity and unending continuity in cosmic life. Therefore, Agni, the master of the psychic being, is called jtaveds, he who knows the births, all the transmigrations from life to life.
The third boon is the secret of secrets, for it is the knowledge and realisation of Transcendence that is sought here. Beyond the individual lies the universal; is there anything beyond the universal? The release of the individual into the cosmic existence gives him the griefless life eternal: can the cosmos be rolled up and flung into something beyond? What would be the nature of that thing? What is there outside creation, outside manifestation, outside Maya, to use a latter day term? Is there existence or non-existence (utter dissolution or extinctionDeath in his supreme and absolute status)? King Yama did not choose to answer immediately and even endeavoured to dissuade Nachiketas from pursuing the question over which people were confounded, as he said. Evidently it was a much discussed problem in those days. Buddha was asked the same question and he evaded it, saying that the pragmatic man should attend to practical and immediate realities and not, waste time and energy in discussing things ultimate and beyond that have hardly any relation to the present and the actual.
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
horizontal and ever more steeply aloft. With the advent of successively higher
strength-to-weight ratios of metal alloys and glass-reinforced plastic materials, ever
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Gadadhar was seven years old when his father died. This incident profoundly affected him. For the first time the boy realized that life on earth was impermanent. Unobserved by others, he began to slip into the mango orchard or into one of the cremation grounds, and he spent hours absorbed in his own thoughts. He also became more helpful to his mother in the discharge of her household duties. He gave more attention to reading and hearing the religious stories recorded in the Puranas. And he became interested in the wandering monks and pious pilgrims who would stop at Kamarpukur on their way to Puri. These holy men, the custodians of India's spiritual heritage and the living witnesses of the ideal of renunciation of the world and all-absorbing love of God, entertained the little boy with stories from the Hindu epics, stories of saints and prophets, and also stories of their own adventures. He, on his part, fetched their water and fuel and
served them in various ways. Meanwhile, he was observing their meditation and worship.
01.01 - A Yoga of the Art of Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here is the very heart of the mystery, the master-key to the problem. The advent of the superhuman or divine race, however stupendous or miraculous the phenomenon may appear to be, can become a thing of practical actuality, precisely because it is no human agency that has undertaken it but the Divine himself in his supreme potency and wisdom and love. The descent of the Divine into the ordinary human nature in order to purify and transform it and be lodged there is the whole secret of the sadhana in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. The sadhaka has only to be quiet and silent, calmly aspiring, open and acquiescent and receptive to the one Force; he need not and should not try to do things by his independent personal effort, but get them done or let them be done for him in the dedicated consciousness by the Divine Master and Guide. All other Yogas or spiritual disciplines in the past envisaged an ascent of the consciousness, its sublimation into the consciousness of the Spirit and its fusion and dissolution there in the end. The descent of the Divine Consciousness to prepare its definitive home in the dynamic and pragmatic human nature, if considered at all, was not the main theme of the past efforts and achievements. Furthermore, the descent spoken of here is the descent, not of a divine consciousness for there are many varieties of divine consciousness but of the Divine's own consciousness, of the Divine himself with his Shakti. For it is that that is directly working out this evolutionary transformation of the age.
It is not my purpose here to enter into details as to the exact meaning of the descent, how it happens and what are its lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work therealthough it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters into the denser regions of the emotions and desires, of life activity and vital dynamism; finally, it gets into brute Matter itself, the hard and obscure rock of the physical body, for that too has to be illumined and made the very form and figure of the Light supernal. The Divine in his descending Grace is the Master-Architect who is building slowly and surely the many-chambered and many-storeyed edifice that is human nature and human life into the mould of the Divine Truth in its perfect play and supreme expression. But this is a matter which can be closely considered when one is already well within the mystery of the path and has acquired the elementary essentials of an initiate.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Calling the adventure of consciousness and joy
And, conquering Nature's disillusioned breast,
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, with regard to the time that the present stage of evolution is likely to take for its fulfilment, one can presume that since or if the specific urge and stress has manifested and come up to the front, this very fact would show that the problem has become a problem of actuality, and even that it can be dealt with as if it had to be solved now or never. We have said that in man, with man's self-consciousness or the consciousness of the psychic being as the instrument, evolution has attained the capacity of a swift and concentrated process, which is the process of Yoga; the process will become swifter and more concentrated, the more that instrument grows and gathers power and is infused with the divine afflatus. In fact, evolution has been such a process of gradual acceleration in tempo from the very beginning. The earliest stage, for example, the stage of dead Matter, of the play of the mere chemical forces was a very, very long one; it took millions and millions of years to come to the point when the manifestation of life became possible. But the period of elementary life, as manifested in the plant world that followed, although it too lasted a good many millions of years, was much briefer than the preceding periodit ended with the advent of the first animal form. The age of animal life, again, has been very much shorter than that of the plant life before man came upon earth. And man is already more than a million or two years oldit is fully time that a higher order of being should be created out of him.
The Dhammapada, I. 1
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Here with the suddenness divine advents have,
Repeating the marvel of the first descent,
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In her attracting advent's luminous wake,
The white-fire dragon-bird of endless bliss
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In judgment sit on the adventurer soul,
And the dual tables and the Karmic norm
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Recall of the soul's adventure into space,
A traveller through the magic centuries
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Waiting the advent of a larger ray
And rescue of the lost herds of the Sun.
01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The best way to prepare oneself for the spiritual life when one has to live in the ordinary occupations and surroundings is to cultivate an entire equality and detachment and the samata of the Gita with the faith that the Divine is there and the Divine Will at work in all things even though at present under the conditions of a world of Ignorance. Beyond this are the Light and Ananda towards which life is working, but the best way for their advent and foundation in the individual being and nature is to grow in this spiritual equality. That would also solve your difficulty about things unpleasant and disagreeable. All unpleasantness should be faced with this spirit of samata.
I may say briefly that there are two states of consciousness in either of which one can live. One is a higher consciousness which stands above the play of life and governs it; this is variously called the Self, the Spirit or the Divine. The other is the normal consciousness in which men live; it is something quite superficial, an instrument of the Spirit for the play of life. Those who live and act in the normal consciousness are governed entirely by the common movements of the mind and are naturally subject to grief and joy and anxiety and desire or to everything else that makes up the ordinary stuff of life.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Such a stage in human evolution, the advent of Homo Faber, has been a necessity; it has to serve a purpose and it has done admirably its work. Only we have to put it in its proper place. The salvation of an extremely self-conscious age lies in an exceeding and not in a further enhancement or an exclusive concentration of the self-consciousness, nor, of course, in a falling back into the original unconsciousness. It is this shift in the poise of consciousness that has been presaged and prepared by the conscious, the scientific artists of today. Their task is to forge an instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the familiar and the ordinary, the pressure was for the discovery of other strands, secret stores of truth and reality and beauty. The first discovery was that of the great Unconscious, the dark and mysterious and all-powerful subconscient. Many of our poets and artists have been influenced by this power, some even sought to enter into that region and become its denizens. But artistic inspiration is an emanation of Light; whatever may be the field of its play, it can have its origin only in the higher spheres, if it is to be truly beautiful and not merely curious and scientific.
That is what is wanted at present in the artistic world the true inspiration, the breath from higher altitudes. And here comes the role of the mystic, the Yogi. The sense of evolution, the march of human consciousness demands and prophesies that the future poet has to be a mysticin him will be fulfilled the travail of man's conscious working. The self-conscious craftsman, the tireless experimenter with his adventurous analytic mind has sharpened his instrument, made it supple and elastic, tempered, refined and enriched it; that is comparable to what we call the aspiration or call from below. Now the Grace must descend and fulfil. And when one rises into this higher consciousness beyond the brain and mind, when one lives there habitually, one knows the why and the how of things, one becomes a perfectly conscious operator and still retains all spontaneity and freshness and wonder and magic that are usually associated with inconscience and irreflection. As there is a spontaneity of instinct, there is likewise also a spontaneity of vision: a child is spontaneous in its movements, even so a seer. Not only so, the higher spontaneity is more spontaneous, for the higher consciousness means not only awareness but the free and untrammelled activity and expression of the truth and reality it is.
Genius had to be generally more or less unconscious in the past, because the instrument was not ready, was clogged as it were with its own lower grade movements; the higher inspiration had very often to bypass it, or rob it of its serviceable materials without its knowledge, in an almost clandestine way. Wherever it was awake and vigilant, we have seen it causing a diminution in the poetic potential. And yet even so, it was being prepared for a greater role, a higher destiny it is to fulfil in the future. A conscious and full participation of a refined and transparent and enriched instrument in the delivery of superconscious truth and beauty will surely mean not only a new but the very acme of aesthetic creation. We thus foresee the age of spiritual art in which the sense of creative beauty in man will find its culmination. Such an art was only an exception, something secondary or even tertiary, kept in the background, suggested here and there as a novel strain, called "mystic" to express its unfamiliar nature-unless, of course, it was openly and obviously scriptural and religious.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As the breadths draw the small to adventure vast,
Their aloofness drives man to surpass himself.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Confessed the advent of a mastering Mind
And bore the compulsion of a time-born gaze.
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An endless climb and adventure of the Idea
There tirelessly tempted the explorer mind
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And rich with life's adventure and delight
And packed with the beauty of Matter's shapes and hues
01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
So far so good. For it is not far enough. The being or becoming that is demanded in fulfilment of the divine advent in humanity must go to the very roots of life and nature, must seize God in his highest and sovereign status. No prejudice of the past, no notion of our mental habits must seek to impose its law. Thus, for example, in the matter of redeeming the senses by the influx of the higher light, our author seems to consider that the senses will remain more or less as they are, only they will be controlled, guided, used by the higher light. And he seems to think that even the sex relation (even the institution of marriage) may continue to remain, but sublimated, submitted to the laws of the Higher Order. This, according to us, is a dangerous compromise and is simply the imposition of the lower law upon the higher. Our view of the total transformation and divinisation of the Lower is altogether different. The Highest must come down wholly and inhabit in the Lowest, the Lowest must give up altogether its own norms and lift itself into the substance and form too of the Highest.
Viewed in this light, Blake's memorable mantra attains a deeper and more momentous significance. For it is not merely Earth the senses and life and Matter that are to be uplifted and affianced to Heaven, but all that remains hidden within the bowels of the Earth, the subterranean regions of man's consciousness, the slimy viscous undergrowths, the darkest horrors and monstrosities that man and nature hide in their subconscient and inconscient dungeons of material existence, all these have to be laid bare to the solar gaze of Heaven, burnt or transmuted as demanded by the law of that Supreme Will. That is the Hell that has to be recognised, not rejected and thrown away, but taken up purified and transubstantiated into the body of Heaven itself. The hand of the Highest Heaven must extend and touch the Lowest of the lowest elements, transmute it and set it in its rightful place of honour. A mortal body reconstituted into an immemorial fossil, a lump of coal revivified into a flashing carat of diamond-that shows something of the process underlying the nuptials of which we are speaking.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
year: "Salute to the advent of Truth." Is it therefore very
near? What must we do during 1965 to prepare ourselves
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no way affect the fact of the advent of these forces and powers
in the physical world.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
to think that aspiration and human effort can hasten the advent
of the divine transformation, because effort and aspiration are
0 1955-06-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Your case is not unique; there are others (and among the best and the most faithful) who are likewise a veritable battlefield for the forces opposing the advent of the truth. They feel powerless in this battle, sorrowful witnesses, victims without the strength to fight, for this is taking place in that part of the physical consciousness where the supramental forces are not yet fully active, although I am confident they soon will be. Meanwhile, the only remedy is to endure, to go through this suffering and to await patiently the hour of liberation.
While reading your prayer, I too prayed that it be heard.
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When the mind came down upon earth, something like a million years went by between the manifestation of the mind in the earth atmosphere and the appearance of the first man. But it will go faster this time because man is waiting for something, he has a vague idea: he is awaiting in some way or another the advent of the superman. Whereas the apes were certainly not awaiting the birth of man, they never thought of it for the excellent reason that they probably dont think very much! But man has thought about it and is waiting, so it will go faster. But faster probably still means thousands of years. We shall speak of this again in a few thousand years!
(silence)
0 1957-10-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There is no question of my abandoning the path and I remain convinced that the only goal in life is spiritual. But I need things to help me along the way: I am not yet ripe enough to depend upon inner strength alone. And when I speak of the forest or a boat, it is not only for the sake of adventure or the feeling of space, but also because they mean a discipline. Outer constraints and difficulties help me, they force me to remain concentrated around that which is best in me. In a sense, life here is too easy. Yet it is also too hard, for one must depend on ones own discipline I do not yet have that strength, I need to be helped by outer circumstances. The very difficulty of life in the outside world helps me to be disciplined, for it forces me to concentrate all my vital strength in effort. Here, this vital part is unemployed, so it acts foolishly, it strains at the leash.
I doubt that a new experience outside can really resolve things, but I believe it might help me make it to the next stage and consolidate my inner life. And if you wish, I would return in a year or two.
0 1957-12-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sweet Mother, this is what is rising from my soul: I feel in me something unemployed, something seeking to express itself in life. I want to be like a knight, your knight, and go off in search of a treasure that I could bring back to you. The world has lost all sense of the wonderful, all beauty of adventure, this quest known to the knights of the Middle Ages. It is this that calls so relentlessly within me, this need for a quest in the world and for a beautiful adventure which at the same time would be an adventure of the soul. How I wish that the two things, inner and outer, be JOINED, that the joy of action, of the open road and the quest help the souls blossoming, that they be like a prayer of the soul expressed in life. The knights of the Middle Ages knew this. Perhaps it is all childish and absurd in the midst of this 20th century, but this is what I feel, this that is summoning me to leavenot anything base, not anything mediocre, only a need for something in me to be fulfilled. If only I could bring you back a beautiful treasure!
After that, perhaps I would be riper to accept the everyday life of the Ashram, and know how to give myself better.
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When I invited you on a voyage into the unknown, a voyage of adventure,2 I did not know just how true were my words! And I can promise those who are ready to embark upon this adventure that they will make some very astonishing discoveries.
Indeed, one of the people near Mother had pulled Her out of the experience.
0 1959-05-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1) There is the destiny of the adventurer: it is the one in me that needs the sea or the forest and wide open spaces and struggles. This was the best part of my childhood. I can sit on it and tell myself that the adventure is within, and it might work for a while. But this untamed child in me continues to live all the same, and it is something very valuable in me. I cannot kill it through reasoning, even spiritual reasoning. And if I tell it that everything lies within, not without, it replies, Then why was I born, why this manifestation in the outer world? In the end, it is not a question of reasoning. It is a fact, like the wind upon the heaths.
2) There is the destiny of the writer in me. And this too is linked to the best of my soul. It is also a profound need, like adventuring upon the heaths, because when I write certain things, I brea the in a certain way. But during the five years I have been here, I have had to bow to the fact that, materially, there is no time to write what I would like (I recall how I had to wrench out this Orpailleur, which I have not even had time to revise). This is not a reproach, Mother, for you do all you can to help me. But I realize that to write, one must have leisure, and there are too many less personal and more serious things to do. So I can also sit on this and tell myself that I am going to write a Sri Aurobindo but this will not satisfy that other need in me, and periodically it awakens and sprouts up to tell me that it too needs to breathe.
3) There is also the destiny that feels human love as something divine, something that can be transfigured and become a very powerful driving force. I did not believe it possible, except in dreams, until the day I met someone here. But you do not believe in these things, so I shall not speak of it further. I can gag this also and tell myself that one day all will be filled in the inner divine love. But that does not prevent this other need in me from living and from finding that life is dry and from saying, Why this outer manifestation if all life is in the inner realms? But neither can I stifle this with reasoning.
0 1959-06-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Regarding me, this is more or less what he said: First of all, I want an agreement from you so that under any circumstances you never leave the Ashram. Whatever happens, even if Yama1 comes to dance at your door, you should never leave the Ashram. At the critical moment, when the attack is the strongest, you should throw everything into His hands, then and then only the thing can be removed (I no longer know whether he said removed or destroyed ). It is the only way. SARVAM MAMA BRAHMAN [Thou art my sole refuge]. Here in Rameswaram, we are going to meditate together for 45 days, and the Asuric-Shakti may come with full strength to attack, and I shall try my best not only to protect but to destroy, but for that, I need your determination. It is only by your own determination that I can get strength. If the force comes to make suggestions: lack of adventure, lack of Nature, lack of love, then think that I am the forest, think that I am the sea, think that I am the wife (!!) Meanwhile, X has nearly doubled the number of repetitions of the mantra that I have to say every day (it is the same mantra he gave me in Pondicherry). X repeated to me again and again that I am not merely a disciple to him, like the others, but as if his son.
This was a first, hasty conversation, and we did not discuss things at length. I said nothing. I have no confidence in my reactions when I am in the midst of my crises of complete negation. And truly speaking, at the time of my last crisis in Pondicherry, I do not know if it was really Xs occult working that set things right, for personally (but perhaps it is an ignorant impression), I felt that it was thanks to Sujata and her childlike simplicity that I was able to get out of it.
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo et la Transformation du Monde [Sri Aurobindo and the Transformation of the World], a book that Editions du Seuil had asked Satprem to write and subsequently refused on the pretext that it did not conform to the 'spirit of the collection.' This book would never see the light of day. Satprem would later write another book entitled Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness.
A long-time disciple (Suzanne Karpeles) and a member of the cole Franaise d'Extrme Orient.
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Listen to this appeal: If the opportunity offered by this movement appeals to you, if you have the feeling that you are one of those who have been prepared to collaborate in the spiritual adventure, we invite you to write to us, enrolling yourself as a member of World Union.
Im going to send this to V, asking her innocently, Has this appeared in your journal? Because it would be better if it didnt: we dont make propaganda. Oh, I am hard on them, you know!
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And could he tell stories! I think he read every novel available, all the stories he could findextraordinary adventure stories, for he loved adventures. When we were kids he used to let us come into his room very early in the morning and, while still sitting in bed, tell us stories from the books he had read but he told them as if they were his own, as if hed had extraordinary adventures with outlaws, with wild animals. Every story he picked up he told as his own. We enjoyed it tremendously!
But one day when my brother had disobeyed him (Matteo must have been ten or eleven, and I perhaps nine or ten), I came into the dining room and saw my father sitting on a sofa with my brother across his knees; he had pulled down his trousers and was spanking him, I dont know what for. It wasnt a very serious spanking, but still. I came in, drew myself up to my full height and said, Papa, if you ever do that again, I am leaving this house! And with such authority, mon petit! He stopped and never did it again.
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Extracts from the passage in Sri Aurobindo and the Transformation of the World read to Mother by Satprem. This unpublished manuscript would become the first rough draft of The adventure of Consciousness)
Since the time of Adam, it seems we have been choosing to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and there can be no half-measures or regrets along this way, for if we remain prostrate in a false humility, our noses in the dust, the titans or the djinns among us will know all too well how to snatch the Power left unclaimed; this is in fact what they are doingthey would crush the god within us. It is a question of knowingyes or nowhether we want to escape once again into our various paradises, abandoning the earth to the hands of Darkness, or find and seize hold of the Power to refashion this earth into a diviner imagein the words of the Rishis, make earth and heaven equal and one.
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But following that, and because of the overwork, an old thing I thought I had cured has come back. It was originally brought on by overwork when I was going to the Playground and resting only two hours out of twenty-four, which wasnt enougha sort of ulcer formed between my nose and throat. Its an old complaint, dating from the removal of adenoids in my childhood; the operation left a kind of small cavity, which was nothing in itself, except that occasionally it would give me a cold. But as a result of overwork it came back in the form of an ulcer, and gave me artificial colds; it was so sour and corrosive, a terrible irritation in the throat and nose. It got much worse when I was giving classes at the Playground, and once I showed it to the doctor. Why, you have an ulcer! he said. A big fuss. He offered to treat me. No thanks! I said. Dont worry, it will pass. And I began my own yogic treatment. It was over in a week and for three years there was no further sign of it. Recently (the last two or three months) I had felt it trying to come back, for exactly the same reason of overwork. And with that little adventure the other day, it did come backit gave me one of those stupid colds: sneezing, coughing. Its not quite over yet. But its nothing, it just gives me an excuse (laughing) to tell people I am still not quite well!
I am resting.
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The question, of course, is the supramentalization of MATTER the consciousness, thats nothing at all. Most people who have had that experience had it on the mental level, which is relatively easy. Its very easy: abolition of limits set by the ego, indefinite expansion with a movement following the rhythm of the Becoming. Mentally, its all very easy. Vitally. A few months after I withdrew to my room, I had the experience in the vitalwonderful, magnificent! Of course to have the experience there, the mind must have undergone a change, one must be in complete communion; without exception, any individual vital being that hasnt been prepared by what might be called a sufficient mental foundation would be panic-stricken. All those poor people who get scared at the least little experience had better not dabble with thistheyd panic! But as it happensthrough divine grace, you might saymy vital, the vital being of this present incarnation, was born free and victorious. It has never been afraid of anything in the vital world; the most fantastic experiences were practically childs play. But when I had that experience, it was so interesting that for a few weeks I was tempted to stay in it; it was. I once told you a little about that experience (it was quite a while ago, at least two years).5 I told you that even during the day I seemed to be sitting on top of the Earth that was this realization in the vital world. And what fantastic nights it gave me! Nights I have never been able to describe to anyone and never mentioned but I would look forward to the night as a marvelous adventure.
I voluntarily renounced all that in order to go further. And when I did it, I understood what people here in India mean when they say: he surrendered his experience. I had never really understood what that meant. When I did it, I understood. No, I said, I dont want to stop there; I am giving it all to You, that I may go on to the end. Then I understood what it meant.
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The book that became Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness.
With the work on the Bulletin and other Ashram publications, translating Sri Aurobindo, working on this Agenda, writing his own books and doing many hours of japa, plus other tasks besides, Satprem had been working something like fifteen hours a day (except when he ran off somewhere and even then ...) for eight years nonstop.
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Human experience, with this direct incarnation of the Supreme,9 is ultimately a UNIQUE experience, which has given a new orientation to universal history. Sri Aurobindo speaks of thishe speaks of the difference between the Vedic era, the Vedic way of relating to the Supreme, and the advent of Vedanta (I think its Vedanta): devotion, adoration, bhakti, the God within.10 Well, this aspect of rapport with the Supreme could exist ONLY WITH MAN, because man is a special being in universal History the divine Presence is in him. And several of those great gods have taken human bodies JUST TO HAVE THAT.11 But not many of themthey were so fully aware of their own perfect independence and their almightiness that they didnt NEED anything (unlike man, you see, struggling to escape his slavery): they were absolutely free.
And thats why. How many times Durga came! She would always come, and I had my eye on her (!), because in her presence I could clearly sense that there wasnt that rapport with the Supreme (she just didnt need it, she didnt need anything). And it wasnt that something acted on her consciously, deliberately, to obtain that result: it has been a contagion. I remember how she used to come, and my aspiration would be so intense, my inner attitude so concentrated and one day there was such a sense of power, of immensity, of ineffable bliss in the contact with the Supreme (it was a day when Durga was there), and she seemed to be taken and absorbed in it. And through that bliss she made her surrender.
0 1962-07-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, such humorous things happen. The other day I saw T. Her old mother lives in Moscow; shes very old and on her deathbed, and has asked T. to come see her. So T. is going to go there. Its a risky adventure. She wrote to ask if she could see me before leaving (I dont see anyone and I had no intention of receiving her, but it was decided in spite of me and I let her come). She had been told not to speak, but thats impossible for such a chatterbox! So she began by lamenting (probably thinking it was the thing to do) over my serious illness and god knows what else I didnt listen. I simply told her, No, its not that, its the yoga. Then, with the effervescence of an ignorant child: Yoga! But you shouldnt be doing yoga! You shouldnt be. Just then, the Lords face came (the Lords face often takes on Sri Aurobindos appearancean idealized Sri Aurobindo, not exactly as he was physically), and it came here (right up against Mothers face), and it was blue. Then It made my finger touch her cheek, like this (Mother seems to tap T.s cheek), and It told that child, Little children dont know what theyre talking about. And it was so thoroughly Him! He was speaking and I saw only Him, his appearance: Little children dont know what theyre talking about.
I dont know how I looked (I was enjoying myself enormously), but she must have felt something (she didnt say a word), she must at least have felt something strange because a shudder went through her being. And I was told that when she left, she said, I may come back before I leave, but I wont ask to see Mother! (Mother laughs.)
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it has never left meyou know, as a proof of Sri Aurobindos power its incomparable! I dont believe there has ever been an example of such a (how can I put it?) such a total success: a miracle. It has NEVER left me. I went to Japan, I did all sorts of things, had all possible kinds of adventures, even the most unpleasant, but it never left mestillness, stillness, stillness
And it was he who did it, entirely. I didnt even ask him, there was no aspiration, nothing (there were my previous efforts; I knew it had to come, thats all). But on that day I hadnt mentioned it to him, I wasnt thinking about it, I wasnt doing anythingjust sitting there. And outwardly he seemed to be fully engrossed in his conversation about this and that and what was going to happen in the world.
0 1962-09-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Short extract from the passage in The adventure of Consciousness that Satprem just read to Mother:)
In the middle of the First World War, Sri Aurobindo noted with prophetic force: The defeat of Germany could not of itself kill the spirit then incarnate in Germany; it may well lead merely to a new incarnation of it, perhaps in some other race or empire, and the whole battle would then have to be fought over again. So long as the old gods are alive, the breaking or depression of the body which they animate is a small matter, for they know well how to transmigrate. Germany overthrew the Napoleonic spirit in France in 1813 and broke the remnants of her European leadership in 1870; the same Germany became the incarnation of that which it had overthrown. The phenomenon is easily capable of renewal on a more formidable scale.2 Today we are finding that the old gods know how to transmigrate. Gandhi himself, seeing all those years of nonviolence culminate in the terrible violence that marked Indias partition in 1947, ruefully observed shortly before his death: The attitude of violence which we have secretly harboured now recoils on us, and makes us fly at each others throats when the question of distribution of power arises. Now that the burden of subjection is lifted, all the forces of evil have come to the surface. For neither nonviolence nor violence touch upon the root of Evil.
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A deluge of work! The other day, you said in your manuscript [of The adventure of Consciousness] that Sri Aurobindo used to work fourteen hours a day, and they want me to do the same for the moment I am not giving in.
Oh, youre quite right!
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wanted the book [The adventure of Consciousness] to come out for February 21, 1964. That doesnt leave too much time, because Thats another marvel, it must have been one of the things Sri Aurobindo was showing me: at the [Ashram] Press, theyre behind schedule for everything and they work night and day! They have never worked so hard! Very clearly, seen from above, its a lack of organization; for something requiring an ounce of force they have to put in ten pounds, and still it doesnt work.
It grinds and grates.
0 1963-05-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding a letter from a personal friend of Satprem at the Editions du Seuil, who hints that the second manuscript on Sri Aurobindo ["The adventure of Consciousness"] will also be refused: "I do not know whether P.A.L. has read it yet, he hasn't told me, but as soon as I read the first pages, I felt that this manuscript would never be published by Le Seuil. It has some defects and clumsy passages but that will not be the reason for its refusal....")
Very well! (laughter) Let us wait and see what they say. Of course, I never thought even for a minute that those people would publish it but others will.
0 1963-06-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My friend is an aristocrat, a marquis of something. But hes no ordinary marquis: hes an adventurer.
Well, yes! Its part of the character. Its the Kshatrya1 element, its part of the character: being an adventurer.
But this one is terribly well-mannered! (Laughing) Excellent manners, a refined man perhaps. An intellectual.
0 1963-07-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding the English translation of "The adventure of Consciousness":)
Whats impossible to translate is the musical rhythm of the sentence thats impossible. Because the English rhythm and the French rhythm are very different in character, and if you translate literally something that has a poetic rhythm in English, it may not come out poetic at all in French. So a translation is a translation, we have to settle for it. But there will still be quite enough ideas left to do people some good!
0 1963-07-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I must now bring myself to write to you. With regret and sadness, I confess, since it is to inform you that we do not think it possible to publish your book Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness. I confess that what prevented me from writing to you earlier is not so much the fear of causing you pain, for you are able to rise above the shock such news cannot but cause, as the fact that I knew it would be impossible to explain our reasons to you. Frankly, we cannot really understand this book. And how to explain the reasons for not understanding something? As for me, I often had the feeling of passing from one plane to another, from the level of fact to that of conjecture, from the level of logic (with defined terms as a starting point) to that of presupposition (within a coherence unconnected with the knowledge you offer). I know that all this is disputable. I also know or guess that behind those pages lies an entire lived experience, but one doesnt feel the reader can participate in it. For what reason? Once again, I cannot say. The readers blindness, quite possibly. The minds limitation, too. But a book must build a bridge, pierce the screen, and there are doubtless cases in which doing so no longer depends on the author. I must therefore return this manuscript to you.
(signed: P.A.L.)
0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive received a letter from a publisher friend of mine. He tells me the real reasons for their refusal of my manuscript Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness.
Oh, really!
0 1964-03-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But actually its nothing but an adventure into the unknown, because theres no guarantee that they wont cure one thing at the expense of another. You understand, when they start operating on the brain!
Obviously a day will come when these operations will be common practice, but for the time being there are still too many unknowns.
--
Its an adventure.
Three thousand visitors came for February 21 and 29.
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Just before Satprem leaves, regarding the recent publication of Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness at the Ashram, and its distribution:)
What I wanted was to set a date, to get the book published I am not particularly keen that people [here at the Ashram] should read it! Because I have a feeling that after some time (now I understand better), when the atmosphere is quite ready, it will do a very useful work over there [in Europe], very useful.
0 1964-04-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A publisher for Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness.
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0 1964-08-08, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding an Italian or Spanish reader of The adventure of Consciousness:)
The best thing is for them to translate for themselves. Thats the best way of reading; when you really want to understand a book, you should translate it.
0 1964-08-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats right, more than twice your age. When I was forty, I didnt know all that you have written here (Mother points to the American edition of The adventure of Consciousness). True, I had experiences, but as for knowing what you know, certainly not!
But its not I who know!
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And anything that disturbs the Inertia is, for Inertia, a catastrophe. In the world, the earthly world (its the only one I can speak of with competence; of the others, I have only overall visions), in the earthly world, for Inertia (which is the basis of the creation and is necessary to fix, to concretize things), anything that disturbs it is a catastrophe. That is to say, the advent of Life was a monstrous catastrophe, and the advent of intelligence in Life another monstrous catastrophe, and now the advent of Supermind is the final catastrophe! Thats how it is. And for the unenlightened mind, it really is a catastrophe! I know cases, for instance, of people who are sick: if they follow the routine of the doctor and medicines and treatment and disease, they get well; if by some mischance (!) they call on the Force and I apply it, the more I apply, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena and they are terrified: Whats happening to me! Whats happening to me! As if it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute the Force comes and they feel just a bit of it, like one drop, they tense up, they resist, they panic, they become absolutely restless. Thats right: they become so restless, so absolutely restless! That is, the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all that comes.
Its very interesting.
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You know that they are printing two calendars, one here and one in Calcutta. In the Calcutta calendar, I look happy and I greet with folded hands; so I wrote underneath, Salut Toi, Vrit [Salute to you, O Truth]. In English (theyre a bit slow, you know!), they wanted something more explicit, so I wrote, Salute to the advent of the Truth. I am going to give the subject to Sunil: Make some music on this.
But still, its a pity for you to give up music.
0 1964-12-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Wait. The message (it isnt a message!) There is a photo of me in which I have my hands folded and I look happy (!), so I wrote underneath, Salut Toi, Vrit. Then I was asked to put it into English I said, Salute to the advent of the Truth.
So this is the theme.
0 1965-02-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This power of discrimination is one of the first effects of the advent of the Truths Light in the earths atmosphere.
I was asked the question and I answered (in English).
But there is something interesting here. I have noticed this: if you try EVERY SECOND to discern the impulse of your action, how difficult it is! To discern whether it comes from the ego, whether it comes from darkness, whether it comes from the Light. And when you want to express as purely as possible what exclusively comes from the Supreme, you have to work at it every second and it is there was a time (not so long ago) when I used to consider it was materially practically impossiblenot in the main lines or in the great movements that come from the higher parts of the being, but in all that is purely material, absolutely material. And all of a sudden, at the beginning of this year, with this Salute to the advent of the Truth5 there came a sort of very sharp inner sense, very sharp, very precise, and so QUIET, So quiet, which gave the power to clearly see the origin of a material impulse or a material reaction, EVEN IN VERY SMALL THINGS. It was very interesting. So I studied carefully, and it has become almost automatic.
Previously it took an inner discomfort, a feeling of some friction to make me aware that it wasnt the true thing; but now it isnt like that: it is seen BEFOREHAND in the space of half a second.
0 1965-02-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Later, Mother adds a comment to the Declaration she made on the occasion of the events of February 11: We do not fight against any creed, any religion. We do not fight against any form of government. We do not fight against any caste, any social class. We do not fight against any nation or civilisation. We are fighting division, unconsciousness, ignorance, inertia and falsehood. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousness, truth; and we fight whatever opposes the advent of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truth and Love.1 February 16, 1965.)
That makes our outer position clear. Many people think we are trying to establish a new religion or that we are against this or that religion; there are many ideas like that everywhere. But that doesnt interest us at all! Those are all the human activities in every formthey are approximations.
0 1965-06-26, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a long time I have been in touch with C.S. about the German translation of the book [The adventure of Consciousness]. He has thought about it a lot (so have I), and finally P. has made a suggestion. The word for spirit in German, Geist, is used indifferently, and of course especially to denote the mindas in French esprit is used very vaguely. So P. suggested we keep the word Geist for the mind and qualify it: thinking mind, illuminated mind, etc. But the word spirit would still have to be translated, and there is no word for it in German. There exist a few adjectives that derive from the Latin word spiritus, but nothing for spirit. P. suggested we use der Spirit, derived from Latin. C.S. hesitates. So I wanted to ask you if you had some impression or other. Can we introduce der Spirit in German? Thats the sort of thing that brings all the German translators into conflict.
But theres no guarantee of their accepting a suggestion.
0 1965-06-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, there was a lot like that, I had all sorts of adventures. Then I looked to see if Sri Aurobindo really needed his cup of tea because it seemed so difficult! I saw him, there was that wonderful French window, so clear, and then as if recessed into the wall (I dont know) a sort of platform couch, a place to sit, but it was very pretty, and he was seated or half-reclining on it, and very comfortable. And there was a boy (or a boy had come to ask him something), and there were kinds of stairs leading up to the couch; the boy was reclining on the stairs, asking questions, and Sri Aurobindo was explaining something. I recognized the boy. I thought, Ah, (laughing) hes no longer thinking of his cup of tea, fortunately! Then I woke up. But I thought, If this is how he sees us having gobbled up everything, you understand.
But a few years ago you told me an almost identical vision in which you were also in search of food for Sri Aurobindo, and you couldnt find anything: the people who were supposed to prepare it hadnt prepared it or didnt know how to.2
0 1965-07-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A practical problem, not a yogic one! Its about Italy, N. and the publication of the book on Sri Aurobindo [The adventure of Consciousness]. N. translated it and gave it to his friend S. to look after the publication in Italy. S. saw a publisher, who asked to read the book in French and found it interesting. And then, I dont know whether on the publishers suggestion or S.s, they are asking if it wouldnt be better to publish first a book by Sri Aurobindo like, for instance, The Guide to Yoga.
That doesnt exist!
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On a December morning, almost twenty years ago, on the platforms of the Gare du Nord, a youth was preparing to set off for anywhere, as long as it was as far and adventurous as possible for the time being, it was South America. And beneath the enormous clock which weighed several tons and seemed to him as weighty as Western time, this youth was repeating a curious mantra in his heart: Sri Aurobindo-Mauthausen. Only these two words remained to live and walk with. Behind, there was a world collapsed once for all under the Austrian watchtowers. Although the watchtowers might as well have been Boulevard Montparnasseit was the same thing; another searchlight would have pierced the scenery perfectly well. And there was in that word all the force of a man who had emerged from the dead. Then this name, which did not have a very precise meaning, Sri Aurobindo, but it goes without saying that open sesames have never spoken to the headthey open the door. And there was in it all the force of a man who needs one true little thing to live.
Because we can entertain our minds as long as we likeour libraries are full; we can amass all the possible explanations of the world, but we will not have achieved anything or walked a single step if we havent touched the secret spring behind the minds flourishes. For the Truth is not what makes us think, but what makes us walk on.
--
And he tells us that just because we have invented a few rockets and cultivated a few cerebral pyramids, that does not mean we have done with being men. A still greater adventure awaits us, divine and superhuman, if only we have the courage to get under way.
And he gives us the means to do so.
0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The adventure of Consciousness.
Mother asked Satprem to alter the following passage in which she was first referring to the Ashram. It is interesting to note what she saw for the Ashram, interesting too to note that she asked Satprem to cut and alter this passage, the original version of which we are giving here: "For a group such as the Ashram, for instance, in order for it to function really well, members of that higher humanity would have to be formed who had towards the future or promised supramental being the same attitude as animality (like the dog, for instance) has towards man. For the Ashram to function well, there should be people who had found in themselves or in their life this harmony with lifethis human harmony and who had the same sense of worship, of devotion [as have animals] towards 'something' that seems to them so superior that they don't even attempt to realize it, but which they worship, and whose influence and protection they feel the need ofand the need to live in that influence and to have the joy of being under that protection."
0 1966-04-24, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As to whether the Divine seriously means something to happen, I believe it is intended. I know with absolute certitude that the Supramental is a truth and its advent is in the very nature of things inevitable. The question is as to the when and the how. That also is decided and predestined from somewhere above; but it is here being fought out amid a rather grim clash of conflicting forces. For in the terrestrial world the predetermined result is hidden and what we see is a whirl of possibilities and forces attempting to achieve some thing with the destiny of it all concealed from human eyes. This is, however, certain that a number of souls have been sent to see that it shall be now. That is the situation. My faith and will are for the now. I am speaking of course on the level of the human intelligencemystically-rationally, as one might put it. To say more would be going beyond that line. You dont want me to start prophesying, I suppose? As a rationalist, you cant.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1966-06-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My idea (if I have one), and what makes me persist in writing, is that all that I have said in an intellectual way, which appeals to peoples intellectual consciousness, Id like to say it in a deeper way, which is a rhythm (people call it poetry, but as for me I dont understand a thing about poetry). What Id like is to express an inner rhythm, to touch another layer of the being, deeper than those things of the intellect. The adventure of Consciousness appeals to peoples intellectual consciousness, its to make them understand. But what Id like is to touch something else. To say the same thing with an inner rhythm images.
Maybe thats why, maybe I am also responsible?
0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Humanity is not the last rung of terrestrial creation. Evolution continues and man will be surpassed. It is for each one to know whether he wants to participate in the advent of the new species. For those who are satisfied with the world as it is, Auroville obviously has no raison dtre.
Mother is referring to last year's conflict of September 1965, on the occasion of which Mother had publicly encouraged India to fight to the end.
0 1966-10-08, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Soon afterwards, the conversation turns to a question asked by a young disciple about the description of Sri Aurobindos life in The adventure of Consciousness, when Sri Aurobindo was agnostic and began yoga for the liberation of his country.)
Its a chapter entitled The End of the Intellect, in which I wrote that in the beginning Sri Aurobindo was an agnostic and had mainly cultivated the intellect. So V. has made a summary of this chapter, and in the end he asks: How can one practice yogic disciplines without believing in God or in the Divine?
0 1966-11-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because the Truth is supremely destructive of Falsehood and ill will; were It to act at once on the world as it is, little of it would remain. It is patiently preparing its advent.
Its true, I feel this: the resistance is so TOTAL that were That to go like this (gesture of descent on the earth), nothing would be left!
0 1967-01-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mentally, when that happens in the physical mind (it was years ago, but I had observed that), its what gives people the feeling that theyre going insane, and they get frightened (and with fear things happen), so they rush back into ordinary common sense to escape it. Its the equivalentnot the same thing, but the equivalent of what happens in the material: you feel all the usual stability is vanishing. Well, for a long timea long timethere was that retreat into habit, and then you are quite at peace and you start all over again. But now, the cells no longer want that Come what may, well see! The great adventure.
How will we be?How will we be? How You understand, its the cells asking, How should we be? How will we be?
0 1967-02-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This distortion has been still more pronounced since the advent of the mind, which in its working, has taken the place of consciousness so much that it has substituted itself for consciousness as it were, and to the extent that the mind, in its ordinary working, cannot be distinguished from consciousness it doesnt know what consciousness is, and so (Mother makes a gesture expressing a shrinking or hardening).
Its becoming very, very precise, very clear, very visible in the developed human mind. For the functioning of the body, for example, the difference between the action and perception of the consciousness, and the action and perception of the mind. And in our world as its still organized, the mind is more (oh, it is a very interesting impression) much more concreteconcrete in the sense of what we are in the habit (the bad habit) of calling real and fixed. Its not translucent, not fluid; its not plastic, not fluid: its mental, concrete. And then, the mind needs acquired knowledge and all the contacts with the outside. Lets take a disorder in the bodys functioning (which may come for all kinds of reasons that are very interesting to observe, but anyhow, we cant speak of everything at the same time), the disorder is there and is expressed through a sense of discomfort; the way the consciousness behaves and acts and the way the mind behaves and acts are entirely, absolutely different (we cant say opposite, but absolutely different). Then there is the weakness (I am talking about the sensation of the body itself), the weakness arising from old habit. Its not a lack of faith, the body knows in an almost absolute way that there is only one salvation, one saviour: THE Consciousness. But there is a weakness that causes a sort of slackening, a letting go to habit, and thats where an intensity of faith is needed but an energy in the faithin order not to yield. This goes on in a very small sphere, you understand, its a question not even of minutesof seconds. And if there is a letting go, it means illness; while the other way (of the consciousness) means, little by little, little by little, the unreality of the disorder.
0 1967-06-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1) Being convinced of the essential human unity and having the will to collaborate in the advent of this unity.
2) The will to collaborate in all that furthers future realizations.
0 1967-06-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If a world-war breaks out, it may not only destroy the major portion of humanity but may even make living conditions for those who survive impossible due to the effects of the nuclear fall-out. In case the possibility of such a war is still there, will it not affect the advent of the Supramental Truth and of the New Race upon earth?
Here is the answer:
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The safest and most healthy attitude of the mind is like this one: we have been told in a positive and definite way that the supramental creation will follow the present one, so, whatever is in preparation for the future must be the circumstances needed for the advent whatever they are. And as we are unable to foresee correctly what these circumstances are, it is better to keep silent about them.
I wanted to tell you that I saw V. a few days ago, and he said that according to what he had felt or seen, he was ninety-five percent certain that a new conflict will break out around September or October, probably in the direction of Pakistan or China: between Pakistan and India or between China and India.
0 1967-06-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And order will be restored in the house. Man will be able to prepare himself for a vaster adventure.
Ultimately, everyone commits the errors that will help towards the larger triumph of the Truth.
0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Which means the advent of the superhuman being may well it may very well go unnoticed, or not be understood. We cant say, because there is no analogy; its obvious that if one of the apes, the large apes, had met the first man, he would simply have felt he was a somewhat strange being, thats all. But now its different because man thinks, reasons.
But anything higher than him man has been used to thinking of as divine beings; that is to say, bodiless beings, appearing in the light, anyway all the gods in human conception but its not that at all!
0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With this latest adventure [the attack on Mother], this body has learned trust. It was very much steeped in pessimism because of its material antecedents. Certain antecedents, that is, father and mother, had been chosen for their great practicality and a very concrete material honesty, but no mysticism, nothing of the sortdeliberately. But then, it gave a kind of not exactly pessimism, but a very sharp vision of how things go wrong. The body had that, and its faith had to struggle against a habit of expecting difficulty, obstacles, resistance; although it had complete faith in the final Victory, it couldnt overcome the habit of expecting difficulties on the path. This latest adventure has given it a good push forward: its trust is much more smiling. And the general vision is as I told you. And constantly, all the time, even at the time of the worst difficulties, all the time there is it wells up from the cells, like a golden hymn: an incantation, you know, a call, an incantation to the supreme Power. And with such faith! A marvelous faith.
(silence)
0 1968-06-05, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is another fact regarding this Msgr. R., whose huge holdings were managed by P.L. There was a thought (it was J.s thought) to send him my book, the adventure of Consciousness, and he has written an enthusiastic letter in which he says hes very taken with the book and is prodigiously interested. And he has sent P. L. a second letter, saying, If I werent detained in Rome, I would go and join you immediately.
Oh! Thats good. Its good.
0 1968-07-06, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness.
P.L. had pleaded some "psychological" illness.
0 1968-07-17, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I feel all luminous, the Divine Grace is so powerful that at times I think my body is incapable of holding it; Mothers Presence is so real; the bliss is so serene, so tranquil. The little adventURE begun at the Samadhi becomes so worthy of being lived, the CONSCIOUSNESS has widened so much. Darkness, fear, scruples, mortifications are so far away! A few weeks ago, I had a very painful dream: my body was being torn apart, the pain was excruciating; my feet, my hands, my head were being pulled apart. Today, when I read your letter, I understood the meaning: I had to grow. Just two words to inform you about my situation. As I told you, I found two currents in the Vatican, the first one quite raging against me; we thought that my assuming a new post would calm them down but a few days later, they managed to demand a Collegiate examination (by a neurologist, who, I believe, had been ordered to declare me ill, an endocrinologist, an expert in general medicine, and the Popes physician] hence the cry of the child running to his mother: my telegram asking for Mothers protection. On Sunday the 7th, I had a dream: Mother came into a sort of huge warehouse, where I was lying on the ground, and told me, Quick, get away and leave me your place. I flew away (without my body, which was still on the ground): it was my soul that went away, and, from on high, very high up, I saw Mother taking possession of my body, entering it, and staying put. Suddenly an army of doctors in white robes makes a beeline for my body (in which Mother is still hidden); no sooner have they surrounded and begun examining it than a terrible explosion sends them flying into the air.
(Mother laughs)
0 1968-12-25, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then You know that from every side Ive been trying to get Sri Aurobindo published [in France], in particular The Human Cycle. At last I got a letter from a certain J. B., who writes: For a long time now, a publisher (F.) has been asking me to create a collection in his publishing house. I thought of a few books, mostly foreign ones, grouped around a title such as Towards the spiritual mutation and focused on the present researches, individual and clumsy, often dangerous, but sincere and undertaken in a spirit quite different from that of the former generation, the spirit of a certain youth I am in contact with. The idea is to show these young people that their attempts and aspirations are legitimate, even if they have discovered them through drugs, since in many cases drugs alone have been able to unmoor them from the Cartesian rationalist bedrock, to put before them experiences that, at least, are positive, and to offer them directions and models. In other words, the aspect of amateurism and exoticism found in Z [another publisher] would be replaced here by a practical and technical side, wide open to all spiritual researches, whatever they may be, to all duly controlled metapsychical experiments, serious psychedelic experiments (I have T. Leary in mind, for instance), new theologies Naturally, there would be room, a major place, for the Oriental endeavor. In sum, it would involve all researches and attempts to crack open that sort of corset within which the Western mind has been going in circles for such a long time. That does not in the least rule out, on the contrary, certain scientific worksof pure sciencein which, out of intrinsic necessity, this Cartesianism has already been singularly shaken. Of course, all that would make for quite an ill-assorted backdrop for Sri Aurobindos thought, a backdrop you will regard as unworthy of it. The planned Collection might be called Spiritual adventures.
We can try.
0 1969-01-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A collection of "spiritual adventures" (in the plural) in which Sri Aurobindo might have found a place amidst drugs and psychedelia.
The famous cole Polytechnique in Paris.
0 1969-03-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding the Italian and the German translations of "Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness.")
I have nothing to say But what about you? Anything?
0 1969-04-02, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All sorts of people whove read the book [Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness].
I know that a few times, people told me they would like to see you. I said, Its no use, he has other things to do.
0 1969-04-05, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He is the adventurer and cosmologist
Of a magic earths obscure geography
0 1969-04-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In what sense is our Yoga an adventure?
We may say it is an adventure because it is the first time that the yoga aims at the transformation and divinization of physical life, instead of aiming at escaping from it.
Why is faith supremely important in the yoga?
0 1969-06-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What is the idea behind this sentence from the adventure: Unfortunately, the West has too much intelligence to have much clear vision to translate outwardly, while India, too full within, is not demanding enough to match what she lives with what she sees?
(Mother smiles and dictates straight off)
--
In truth, this is the time of the Great adventure. The world is closed, there are no more adventures outside: only robots go to the moon and our borders are guarded everywherein Rome or in Rangoon, the same functionaries of the great Machine are watching us, punching our cards, checking our faces and searching our pockets there is no more adventure outside! The adventure is with inFreedom is within, Space is within, so is the transformation of our world by the power of the Spirit. Because, in truth, that Power was always there, supreme, all-powerful, prodding evolution on: it was the hidden Spirit growing to become the Spirit manifest upon earth, and if we have trust, if we want that supreme Power, if we have the courage to descend into our hearts, everything is possible, for God is in us.
Its unfortunate that there cant be another word than God.
0 1969-07-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness.
"All that is the most vital and important for you will appear to be abstractions and speculations." A friend of Satprem's in the same publishing house gave him this explanation: "Were you writing about Vietnam, the Black problem, LSD, the Third World or Marcuse, we would a priori be interested, even if we disagreed with you. But capital letters frighten us. Social peace is a topic; Peace isn't."
0 1969-08-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Four of us went on a trek from I forgot from which place on the banks of the Rhone, to go to Geneva, crossing the mountains on foot, the four of ustwo men, two women.1 We walked on, and when we reached some place at lunch time and were hungry, we ate there; when we reached some place at nightfall, we slept there, and then we went onit was real adventure. We didnt even know the route, we had some kinds of maps. Well then, once, far from any town or any village, on a mountain road, we arrived at lunch time at a sort of inn something that looked like an inn, which stood by itself, miles from anywhere. We entered. An old man and an old woman were there They had a most peculiar look. They were very brisk, very alertthey had a peculiar look. We asked if we could eat there. They said yes. They looked at us, eyed us closely, then let us into a big room, with a table in one corner and chairs around it and also big benches I dont know what that room was used for. And they had us eat there. They asked us if we wanted they had a good little white wineif we wanted some of it. The other three said yes; as for me, I had already stopped drinking alcohol. They said yes, and they drank the wine (it was a light wine), they washed down their food with it. But I didnt touch it. At the end of the meal they said, Oh, how sleepy we are! Wed like to rest, well take a nap. So they lay down on the benches and slept. Now, I had a pair of shoes that didnt fit me and were hurting one of my big toes: it had caused an inflammation, it was painful, and I wanted to ba the my foot so as to disinfect it. I didnt feel sleepy in the least. I sat downthere was a basin and some water-and bathed my foot. Half an hour later, the rooms entrance door slowly opened, and the old couple came in (furtive gesture). I was sitting rather low, so I was hidden by the tables and they didnt see me. They came in on tiptoe, looked this way and that, and were about to come up to the benches on which the others were lying, when suddenly they saw meah! (Mother gives a start of surprise) They stopped. Then I raised my head, looked at them, and said, You wanted?
Oh, they were very wily, they said, Oh, we just came to see if you needed anything. And they went out.
0 1969-11-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its in the relationship with others. I dont know if its the same thing in your bourgeoisism: a sort of distrust of the adventurer.
Oh, yes!
--
And Auroville is a great adventure.
I see how its being organized, its really interesting, really interesting.2
--
Oh! He wants to help in the creation of Auroville. He already has a society, Auroville International, and he is going to start his actionhes traveling here and there. Hes a man who knows four or five languages, and he has the mind of an inventor. It seems his invention some engineers here saw it and said it was remarkable, so As for me, I cant judge. Its for these machines (Mother points to the tape recorder), its a transformation of receiving and recording machines. I dont know, but others told me it was remarkable. He likes to organize, but he is as I said, he loves adventure, its in his temperament (after all, inventions are adventures, and thats how he is). So hes already founded a society called Auroville International with members in Europe and its head office in the United States the whole outfit. As for me, I watch and have great fun! In appearance hes very surrendered and devoted, but For the moment, I dont have proof its anything other than a necessary appearance. But hes nice and a man of real goodwill but I see him with a plume in his hat!
So well see.
--
But he is among those people who really arent bourgeois from the standpoint of money, that is, who dont have much notion of personal property. So then I caught myself (thats how I caught myself!). I myself made an effort to reach the viewpoint that money is a force that must circulate and must not be a personal property. In the consciousness, everything is fine, but the body has its old habit, and it observed the state in which this man is: for him money is a force that must circulate, go where it has to go, it doesnt belong to this or that personso it [the body] first had this reaction: Oh, watch out, hes an adventurer. (Mother laughs) I caught myself, I said, See, you preach, and when someone does as you say! I found it very amusing. But I saw how he is enthusiastic about the idea of Auroville, and it seems to be quite sincere, he even said its what he has been looking for for a long time. So he goes about it fair and square. He was a minister in Persia, but there were revolutions in Persia and he left, he is in America. But hes a man whos used to earning money.
I really caught myself there, I had some real fun. I said to myself, See, youve come across the man who understands you! (Mother laughs) Its funny, you know!
--
Things can be said in a psychological way, as in The adventure of Consciousness, psychological and reasoned, or else they can be said in a more poetic form, that is, in the form of a novel or a play or a poem I dont know.
Poem? Have you ever written poems?
0 1969-11-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was wondering in what direction that book should be: would it be a book about you, as I wrote the adventure about Sri Aurobindo?
Oh, no, not about me! Please, it makes my work so much more complicated when people think of me.
So would it be simply a sequel to the adventure of Consciousness, but more developed? What should it be?
If it could be a vision of what will be I would like you to have that. A vision of the next step.
--
It would be the same genre as the adventure of Consciousness?
Ah, you know, its a growing success.
0 1969-11-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a small humorous detail: in The adventure of Consciousness (which he read), regarding mental silence, I wrote somewhere (I even put it in a footnote): Obviously, we wouldnt recommend mental silence to a peasant of Brittany, for instance! Because mental silence is quite fine once one has come to the end of the curve.
Yes, thats right!
0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother gives presents for the New Year and a few copies of "The adventure of Consciousness" in Italian.)
This is Italian . I have several of them, do you want any?
--
In Italy, the book [The adventure] is having a lot of success, a lot: Italians are coming in large numbers .
You know Paolo, have you seen him? Hes nice.
0 1970-01-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem first reads out to Mother his preface to the second edition of Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness. We publish it here to give the temperature of the times.)
The age of adventures is over. Even if we go to the seventh galaxy, we will go there helmeted and mechanised, and we will find ourselves exactly as we are: children in the face of death, living beings who are not too sure how they live or why, nor where they are going. On the earth, as we know, the times of Cortez and Pizarro are gone: a single Machine hems us in, the trap is closing. But, as always, it turns out that our darkest adversities are our best opportunities, and the obscure transition is only a transition leading to a greater light. That is why we are pushed to the wall and faced with the last exploration left to us, the ultimate adventure: ourselves.
The signs abound, they are simple and obvious. The most important event of the sixties is not the trip to the moon, but the trips on drugs, the great hippie migration, and the student unrest throughout the world but where will they go? There is no more room on the teeming beaches, no more room on the bustling roads, no more room in the ever-growing anthills of our cities. The way out is elsewhere.
0 1970-03-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, lots and lots of people read the book; its having an enormous action. I constantly get letters from people who say, I have read The adventure of Consciousness, its been a revelationconstantly, constantly. And the book is beginning to have a lot of effect in the U.S.A. and in Canada. So naturally, it gives you tiring nights!
(silence)
0 1970-04-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes (laughing), I think thats the great adventure!
Very well.
0 1970-06-13, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
5) The whole earth must prepare for the advent of the new species, and Auroville wants to consciously work to hasten that advent.
6) What this new species is to be will be progressively revealed to us. In the meanwhile, the best way is to consecrate oneself entirely to the Divine.
--
You remember that we gave the book to P. L. [the disciple at the Vatican] so he would give it to a publisher he knows in Paris, Robert Laffont, because I wasnt too keen it should go into the hands of my usual publisher, with whom Ive had a good deal of trouble. But it so happens that before he went to Robert Laffont, P. L. had to go and see my usual publisher to sign the agreement for the Spanish translation of The adventure of Consciousness. And heres what happened: P. L. writes to me, At first he raised, lots of difficulties. I told him I want no favors and am ready to pay him royalties straight away and sign the agreement. At one point, he asked me, But why are you interested in the problems and doctrines of India? I replied, Churches are in a crisis; and when the ship is sinking, theres no point discussing whether one should jump on the left or on the right! The spark of friendship flew at once; he told me he is Protestant and his father-in-law is a very important pastor in Paris, who was invited to the Vatican to hold a meeting between Catholics and Protestants. Then we signed the agreement. I told him I attach a great importance to this book in the whole of Latin America. He told me that in France, too, Satprems Sri Aurobindo is selling very well, but that there is a certain misunderstanding with you. Then I told him that after I leave, I proposed to go and see Laffont, another publisher, for I had with me your latest book, The Sannyasin. And I showed it to him. No sooner did he see it than he implored me not to deprive him of its publication, not to go to Laffont, and to leave the book with him, for he desired to read it immediately! I told him I would think it over.
Its yes.
0 1970-09-30, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, the Dutch translation of the adventure of Consciousness is going to be published, and D. asked A. M. to make a cover for the book. A. M. has done something hed like to show you. Here is what hes done.1 [Satprem shows the painting.]
Bah! its really dark.
--
The other book,2 you know, its an adventure.
(Laughing) So then?
Nothing, its an adventure.
Give me a paper (Mother draws).
0 1970-10-10, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for the book, it will do like The adventure, it will spread little by little.
***
0 1970-10-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Normally, it should be the publisher of The adventure of Consciousness.
Yes. But does he have the caliber?
He has he will benefit from The adventure of Consciousness.
(Mother looks at Satprem, smiling)
0 1970-10-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
About nothing! He tells me that my book, The adventure of Consciousness, is a huge falsehood
Does he say that?
0 1971-03-03, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The adventure of Consciousness.
Thirty-nine years.
0 1971-03-10, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A Most Fruitful adventure
As there is a category of facts to which our senses are our best available but very imperfect guides, as there is a category of truths which we seek by the keen but still imperfect light of our reason, so according to the mystic, there is a category of more subtle truths which surpass the reach both of the senses and the reason but can be ascertained by an inner direct knowledge and direct experience. These truths are supersensuous, but not the less real for that: they have immense results upon the consciousness changing its substance and movement, bringing especially deep peace and abiding joy, a great light of vision and knowledge, a possibility of the overcoming of the lower animal nature, vistas of a spiritual self-development which without them do not exist. A new outlook on things arises which brings with it, if fully pursued into its consequences, a great liberation, inner harmony, unificationmany other possibilities besides. These things have been experienced, it is true, by a small minority of the human race, but still there has been a host of independent witnesses to them in all times, climes and conditions and numbered among them are some of the greatest intelligences of the past, some of the worlds most remarkable figures. Must these possibilities be immediately condemned as chimeras because they are not only beyond the average man in the street but also not easily seizable even by many cultivated intellects or because their method is more difficult than that of the ordinary sense or reason? If there is any truth in them, is not this possibility opened by them worth pursuing as disclosing a highest range of self-discovery and world discovery by the human soul? At its best, taken as true, it must be thatat its lowest taken as only a possibility, as all things attained by man have been only a possibility in their earlier stages, it is a great and may well be a most fruitful adventure.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1971-03-13, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Evidently, C.S. wanted to use the same vocabulary in the other book as the one he used in The adventure of Consciousness.
Thats reasonable enough.
0 1971-04-21, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive received some news from my friend in Paris who looked after The Gold-Washer and The adventure of Consciousness. I mentioned The Sannyasin to him, or rather the difficulties of the Sannyasin, and also Supermanhood.
On the Way to Supermanhood is the important one.
0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
India is precisely such a symbol and Bangladesh is another, a little turning point in the great course of events of the earth. The time has come to consider the eternal Landmarks and read the greater tide in the small eddies. Now, the greater tide tells us that Indias role is to be the spiritual heart of the terrestrial body just as, for example, the role of France is to express clarity of intellect, or that of Germany to express skill, Russia the brotherhood of man and the United States enthusiasm for adventure and practical organization, etc. But only if India is ONE can she fulfill this role, for how can one who is herself divided lead others? Thus the division of India is the first Falsehood that must disappear, for it is the symbol of the earths division. As long as India is not one, the world cannot be one. Indias striving for unity is the symbolic drama of the worlds striving for unity.
From this simple, eternal Fact follow all the conclusions and policies that will flow with the current of the earths destiny. Sri Aurobindo said so already in 1947, The division must and will go. Dire will be the consequences for India and for the earth if we fail to heed this eternal Theorem: The old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have hardened into a permanent political division of the country, said Sri Aurobindo. It is to be hoped that this settled fact will not be accepted as settled for ever or as anything more than a temporary expedient. For if it lasts, India may be seriously weakened, even crippled: civil strife may remain always possible, possible even a new invasion and foreign conquest. We now know, twenty-four years after this prophetic declaration, that China is at our gates and only awaits her hour to invade the entire continent, seizing precisely on this division of India to strike at the spiritual heart of the world and, perhaps, frustrating the realization of the entire destiny of the earth or postponing it until a future cycle after much suffering and complication.
0 1971-12-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, the prison is already starting to collapse. The end of a stage of evolution, announced by Sri Aurobindo, is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution.6 Everywhere about us we see this paroxysmal shattering of all the old forms: our borders, our churches, our laws, our morals are collapsing on all sides. They are not collapsing because we are bad, immoral, irreligious, or because we are not sufficiently rational, scientific or human, but because we have come to the end of the human! To the end of the old mechanism for we are on our way to SOMETHING ELSE. The world is not going through a moral crisis but through an evolutionary crisis. We are not going towards a better worldnor, for that matter, towards a worse onewe are in the midst of a MUTATION to a radically different world, as different as the human world was from the ape world of the Tertiary Era. We are entering a new era, a supramental Quinary. We leave our countries, wander aimlessly, we go looking for drugs, for adventure, we go on strike here, enact reforms there, foment revolutions and counterrevolutions. But all this is only an appearance; in fact, unwittingly, we are looking for the new being. We are in the midst of human evolution.
And Sri Aurobindo gives us the key. It may be that the sense of our own revolution escapes us because we try to prolong that which already exists, to refine it, improve it, sublimate it. But the ape may have made the same mistake amid its revolution that produced man; perhaps it sought to become a super-ape, better equipped to climb trees, hunt and run, a more agile and clever ape. With Nietzsche we too sought a superman who was nothing more than a colossalization of man, and with the spiritualists a super-saint more richly endowed with virtue and wisdom. But human virtue and wisdom are useless! Even when carried to their highest heights they are nothing more than the old poverties gilded over, the obverse of our tenacious misery. Supermanhood, says Sri Aurobindo, is not man climbed to his own natural zenith, not a superior degree of human greatness, knowledge, power, intelligence, will, genius, saintliness, love, purity or perfection.7 It is SOMETHING ELSE, another vibration of being, another consciousness.
--
Such is the new adventure to which Sri Aurobindo invites us, an adventure into mans unknown. Whether we like it or not, the whole earth is moving into a new groove, but why shouldnt we like it? Why shouldnt we collaborate in this great, unprecedented adventure? Why shouldnt we collaborate in our own evolution, instead of repeating endlessly the same old story, instead of chasing hallucinatory paradises which will never quench our thirst or otherworldly paradises which leave the earth to rot along with our bodies? Why be born if it is to get out at the end? exclaims the Mother, who continues Sri Aurobindos work. What is the use of having struggled so much, suffered so much, of having created something which, in its outer appearance at least, is so tragic and dramatic, if it is only to learn how to get out of itit would have been better not to start at all. Evolution is not a tortuous course that brings us back, somewhat battered, to the starting point. Quite the contrary, it is meant, says Mother, to teach the whole of creation the joy of being, the beauty of being, the grandeur of being, the majesty of a sublime life, and the perpetual development, perpetually progressive, of this joy, this beauty, this grandeur. Then everything has a meaning.11
This body, this obscure beast of burden we inhabit, is the experimental field of Sri Aurobindos yogawhich is a yoga of the whole earth, for one can easily understand that if a single being among our millions of sufferings succeeds in negotiating the evolutionary leap, the mutation of the next age, the face of the earth will be radically altered. Then all the so-called powers of which we boast today will seem like childish games before the radiance of this almighty embodied spirit. Sri Aurobindo tells us that it is possiblenot only possible but that it will be done. It is being done. And perhaps everything depends not so much on a sublime effort of humanity to transcend its limitations for that means still using our own human strength to free ourselves from human strengthas on a call, a conscious cry of the earth to this new being which the earth already carries within itself. All is already there, within our hearts, the supreme Source which is the supreme Poweronly we must call it into our forest of cement, we must understand the meaning of man, the meaning of ourselves. The amplified cry of the earth, of its millions of men and women who cannot bear it anymore, who no longer accept their prison, must open a crack to let the new vibration in. Then all the apparently ineluctable laws that bind us in their hereditary and scientific groove will crumble before the Joy of the sun-eyed children.12 Expect nothing from death, says Mother, life is your salvation. It is in life that you must transform yourself. It is on earth that you progress and on earth that you realize. It is in the body that you win the Victory.13
0 1971-12-29a, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We are at a decisive hour in the history of the earth. The earth is preparing for the advent of the supramental being, and because of this the old way of living loses its value. One must launch oneself consciously on the path of the future in spite of the new exigencies. The pettinesses tolerable at one time are no more so; one must widen oneself to receive that which shall be born.
***
0 1972-02-01, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Auroville is intended to hasten the advent of the supramental reality upon earth.
The help of all those who find that the world is not what it ought to be is welcome.
0 1972-02-16, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, I received a letter from A., conveying a message from my publisher B.C. (you know, the one who published The adventure of Consciousness). B.C. wrote a letter [Satprem reads it to Mother] saying hes reading The Ideal of Human Unity, but would like to publish The Synthesis of Yoga.So A. replied to him [Satprem reads the reply to Mother] that he is sending his letter to Pondicherry for instructions, but that in his opinion it would be better to publish first the Ideal, which may be accessible to a larger Western audience than the Synthesis and might be more suitable for Sri Aurobindos centenary year.
Thats not my opinion at all! I think it would be far better to publish The Synthesis of Yoga than The Ideal.
0 1972-03-10, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, we preach Unity, we say that humanity must be one, that all efforts must join together for the general progress, for the advent of the Supramental but everyone pulls as hard as he can in his own direction. Thats the situation.
So I wanted to tell all of you, Practice what you say, or you will cease to exist.
0 1972-03-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Let us do our best to help prepare the advent of the New Being. The mind must fall silent and be replaced by the Truth-Consciousness the consciousness of details integrated with the consciousness of the whole.
***
0 1972-07-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wrote it in French and I put, The creation of tomorrow, the advent of the supramental being. Because they are likely to call it superman if I dont put supramental being. The advent of the supramental being.
We are just in between. No longer this, not yet that the time thats the most.
02.01 - A Vedic Story, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is another point which requires clarification. As a reason for his nervousness and flight he alleges that greater people who preceded him had attempted the work, but evidently failed in the attempt; so how can he, a younger novice, dare to go the same way? Putting the imagery back to its psychological bearing, one play explain that the predecessors refer to the deities of the physical, vital and mental consciousness who ruled the earth before the emergence of the psychic or soul consciousness. It is precisely because of the failure or insufficiency of these anteriorin the evolutionary movementand inferior gods that Agni's service is being requisitioned. Mythologically also a parallelism is found in the Greek legends where it is said that the Olympian godsZeus and his companywere a younger generation that replaced, after of course a bloody warfare, their ancestors, the more ancient race of Kronos, the Titans. Titans were the Asuras and Rakshasas who reigned upon earth before the advent of the mentalsattwichuman being, Manu, as referred here.
Now, here I give you the original text in translation:
02.01 - The World-Stair, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Tireless the heart's adventure of delight,
Endless the kingdoms of the Spirit's bliss,
--
From the deep adventure of material birth,
A ladder of delivering ascent
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here also in the vital three ranges can be distinguished the lower becoming more and more turbid and turbulent and fierce or more and more self-centred and selfish. These levels can best be seen by their impact on our vital being and formations there. The first, the highest one, the meeting or confluence of the Mind and the Vital is the Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental vehicle, of the frontal consciousness, behind which is born and hides the true individualised consciousness, the psyche. The mid-region is the Higher Vital consisting of larger (egoistic) dynamisms, such as high ambition, great enterprise, heroic courage, capacity for work, adventure, masterfulness, also such movements as sweeping violences, mighty hungers, and intense arrogances. The physical seat of this movement is, as perhaps the Tantras would say, the domain ranging between the heart and the navel. Lower down ranges the Lower Vital which consists of small desires, petty hankerings, blind cravingsall urges and impulses that are more or less linked up with the body and move to gross physical satisfactions.
But always the Consciousness is driving towards a yet greater disintegration and fragmentation, obscuration and condensation of self-oblivion. The last step in the process of transmutation or involution is Matter where consciousness has wiped itself out or buried itself within so completely and thoroughly that it has become in its outward form totally dark, dense, hard, pulverised into mutually exclusive grains. The supreme luminous Will of Consciousness in its gradual descent and self obliteration finally ends in a rigid process of mere mechanised drive.
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The formulation or revelation of the Psyche marks another line of what we have been describing as the Descent of Consciousness. The phenomenon of individualisation has at its back the phenomenon of the growth of the Psyche. It is originally a spark or nucleus of consciousness thrown into Matter that starts growing and organising itself behind the veil, in and through the movements and activities of the apparent vehicle consisting of the triple nexus of Body (Matter) and Life and Mind. The extreme root of the psychic growth extends perhaps right into the body, consciousness of Matter, but its real physical basis and tenement is found only with the growth and formation of the physical heart. And yet the psychic individuality behind the animal organisation is very rudimentary. All that can be said is that it is there, in potentia, it exists, it is simple being: it has not started becoming. This is man's speciality: in him the psychic begins to be dynamic; to be organised and to organise, it is a psychic personality that he possesses. Now this flowering of the psychic personality is due to an especial Descent, the descent of a Person from another level of consciousness. That Person (or Superperson) is the jvatman, the Individual Self, the central being of each individual formation. The Jivas are centres of multiplicity thrown up in the bosom of the infinite Consciousness: it is the supreme Consciousness eddying in unit formations to serve as the basis for the play of manifestation. They are not within the frame of manifestation (as the typal formations in the Supermind are), they are above or beyond or beside it and stand there eternally and invariably in and as part and parcel of the one supreme RealitySachchidananda. But the Jivatman from its own status casts its projection, representation, delegated formulationemanation, in the phraseology of the neo-Platonistsinto the manifestation of the triple complex of mind, life and body, that is to say, into the human vehicle, and thus stands behind as the psychic personality or the soul. This soul, we have seen, is a developing, organising focus of consciousness growing from below and comes to its own in the human being: or we can put it the other way, that is to say, when it comes to its own, then the human being appears. And it has come to its own precisely by a descent of its own self from above, in the same manner as with the other descents already described. Now, this coming to its own means that it begins henceforth to exercise its royal power, its natural and inherent divine right, viz, of consciously and directly controlling and organising its terrestrial kingdom which is the body and life and mind. The exercise of conscious directive will, supported and illumined by a self-consciousness, I that occurs with the advent of the Mind is a function of the I Purusha, the self-conscious being, in the Mind; but this self-conscious being has been able to come up, manifest itself and be active, because of pressure of the underlying psychic personality that has formed here.
Thus we have three characteristics of the human personality accruing from the psychic consciousness that supports and inspires it:(1) self-consciousness: an animal acts, feels and even knows, but man knows that he acts, knows that he feels, knows even that he knows. This phenomenon of consciousness turning round upon itself is the hallmark of the human being; (2) a conscious will holding together and harmonising, fashioning and integrating the whole external nature evolved till now; (3) a purposive drive, a deliberate and voluntary orientation towards a higher and ever higher status of individualisation and personalisation,not only a horizontal movement seeking to embrace and organise the normal, the already attained level of consciousness, but also a vertical movement seeking to raise the level, attain altogether a new poise of higher organisation.
02.02 - The Message of the Atomic Bomb, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Man's invention of death-dealing weapons has an interesting history. It is, curious to say, the history of his progress and growing civilisation. The primitive man fought with the strength of his God-given limbstooth and nailto which he subsequently added the crudest of weapons, clubs, of wood or flint. A revolution was brought about when iron was discovered and archery invented. Next revolution came with the appearance of gunpowder on the stage. And then the age of gun-cotton and T.N.T. which held sway till the other day. An interim period of poison gas and chemical warfare was threatened, but everything now has gone overboard with the advent of the atomic bomb and the threatened advent of the Cosmic Death-Ray.
In one sense certainly there has been a progress. This march of machinery, this evolution of tools means man's increasing mastery over Nature, even though physical nature. The primitive man like the animal is a slave, a puppet driven helplessly by Nature's forces. Both lead more or less a life of reflex action: there is here no free, original initiation of action or movement. The slow discovery of Nature's secrets, the gradual application and utilisation of these secrets in actual life meant, first, a liberation of man's conscious being originally imbedded in Nature's inertial movements, and then, a growing power to react upon Nature and mould and change it according to the will of the conscious being. The result at the outset was a release and organisation on the mental level, in the domain of reason and intelligence. Of course, man found at once that this increasing self-consciousness and self-power meant immense possibilities for good, but, unfortunately, for evil also. And so to guard against the latter contingency, rules and regulations were framed to control and canalise the new-found capacities. The Dharma of the Kshatriya, the honour of the Samurai, the code of Chivalry, all meant that. The power to kill was sought to be checked and restrained by such injunctions as, for example, not to hit below the belt, not to fight a disarmed or less armed opponent and so on. The same principle of morals and manners was maintained and continued through the centuries with necessary changes and modifications in application and finds enshrined today in International Covenants and Conventions.
02.03 - An Aspect of Emergent Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
At the very outset of the evolutionary march, when material Nature meant only a mass or masses of incandescent gaseous elements, the first miracle that happened was the formation, the advent of water. There was Hydrogen and there was Oxygen existing and moving side by side, for millions of years perhaps, but only at a given moment did an electric current happen to pass through a certain mixture of the two elements somewhere, and behold, a liquid drop was the product, an absolutely new, unforeseen, unpredictable and wonderful object! Examples can be multiplied.
The fact is admitted, on the whole, unless one is a Fundamentalist and prefers still to live in the consciousness of a bygone century. Difference comes in when the question of explanations and of viewpoints regarding them is raised. A materialist like Professor Broad would consider Mind and Life as fundamentally formations of Matter, however different they might seem from each other and from the latter. Water, the so-called miracle product of Oxygen and Hydrogen, according to him, is as material as these two; even so Life and Mind, however miraculously produced, being born of Matter, are nothing but the same single reality, only in different forms. Others, who are more or less idealists, Alexander and Lloyd Morgan, for example (some of them call themselves neo-realists, however), would not view the phenomenon in the same way. Alexander says that Matter and Life and Mind are very different from each other; they are truly emergents, that is to say, novelties; but how the thing has been possible, one need not inquire; one should accept the fact with natural piety.
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In Indian terminology, it would be the advent of the Purna Bhagavan in the human bodymnusm tanumsritam. All previous Avatars are only a preparation for the coming of this Supreme Divine. It is said also that the present epoch marks a crucial turn and transition. We await the Kalki Avatar who will wipe off the past, the Iron Age, and bring in the Golden Age, Satya Yuga.
A question inevitably arises herewhat next? Once the evolutionary movement has reached the apex, does it stop there? After the apex, the Void? I t need not be so. The completion of the pyramid would mean simply the end of a particular order of creation, the creation in Ignorance. This is, indeed, what Sri Aurobindo envisages in his conception of the creation in supramental Gnosis. The evolutionary nisus, on its arrival at the apex, according to him crosses a borderland, leaps into another order of the world, of infinite Truth-Consciousness. Thereafter another new creation starts the building perhaps of another pyramid (if we want to continue the metaphor). The progression Of the evolutionary course is naturally expected to be an unending series. The pyramids rise tier upon tier ad infinitum. Only it is to be noted that in the basic pyramid the evolution starts from inconscience and moves from more ignorance to less ignorance through a gradually lessening density of darkness until the apex is reached where all shade of darkness is eliminated for ever. Beyond there is no mixture, however thin and diluted: it is a movement from light to light, from one expression of it to another, perhaps richer, but of the same quality.
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The adventure in the dangerous fields of Time:
Hardly she availed, wallowing, to bear and live.
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Prohibiting the adventure of the Unseen
And the soul's tread through unknown infinities.
02.05 - Federated Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The autocratic empire is dead and gone: we need not fear its shadow or ghostly regeneration. But the ideal which inspired it in secret and justified its advent and reign is a truth that has still its day. The drive of Nature, of the inner consciousness of humanity was always to find a greater and larger unit for the collective life of mankind. That unit today has to be a federation of free peoples and nations. In the place of nations, several such commonwealths must now form the broad systems of the body politic of human collectivity. That must give the pattern of its texture, the outline of its configuration the shape of things to come. Such unit is no longer a hypothetical proposition, a nebula, a matter of dream and imagination. It has become a practical necessity; first of all, because of the virtual impossibility of any single nation, big or small, standing all by itself alonemilitary and political and economic exigencies demand inescapable collaboration with others, and secondly, because of the still stricter geographical compulsion the speed and ease of communication has made the globe so small and all its parts so interdependent that none can possibly afford to be exclusive and self-centred.
The organization of this greater and larger unit is the order of the day. It does not seem possible at this stage to go straight to the whole of humanity at large and make of it one single indivisible entity, obliterating all barriers of race and nation. An intermediate step is still necessary even if that remains the final end. Nationhood has been a helper in that direction; it is now a bar. And yet an indiscriminate internationalism cannot meet the situation today, it overshoots the mark. The march of events and circumstances prescribe that nations should combine to form groups or, as they say in French, societies of nations. The combination, however, must be freely determined, as voluntary partnership in a common labour organisation for common profit and achievement. This problem has to be solved first, then only can the question of nationalism or other allied knots be unravelled. Nature the Sphinx has set the problem before us and we have to answer it here and now, if humanity is to be saved and welded together into a harmonious whole for a divine purpose.
02.06 - The Integral Yoga and Other Yogas, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Yoga is not a retreading of old walks, but a spiritual adventure.
I meant by it the descent of the supramental Consciousness upon earth; all truths below the supramental
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In a perilous adventure without close.
At first no aim appeared in those large steps:
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The advent for which all creation waits,
The beautiful visage of Eternity
02.07 - The Descent into Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Announcing the advent of a perilous Form
An ominous tread softened its dire footfall
02.08 - The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Always the dark adventurers seem to win;
Nature they fill with evil's institutes,
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
These heights declined a greater adventure's call.
A glory and sweetness of satisfied desire
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It shrinks from adventure, blinks at glorious hope,
Preferring a safe foothold upon things
02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At each moment willed or adventure of the soul,
It leng thened a fate-bound mysterious chain,
02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To attempt the immense adventure of that climb
And the sacrifice of all we cherish here.
02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the older order, however, a kindlier treatment was meted out to this class, this class of the creators of values. They had patrons who looked after their physical well-being. They had the necessary freedom and leisure to follow their own bent and urge of creativity. Kings and princes, the court and the nobility, in spite of all the evils ascribed to them, and often very justly, have nevertheless been the nursery of art and culture, of all the art and culture of the ancient times. One remembers Shakespeare reading or enacting his drama before the Great Queen, or the poignant scene of Leonardo dying in the arms of Francis the First. Those were the truly great classical ages, and art or man's creative genius hardly ever rose to that height ever since. The downward curve started with the advent and growth of the bourgeoisie when the artist or the creative genius lost their supporters and had to earn their own living by the sweat of their brow. Indeed the greatest tragedies of frustration because of want and privation, occur, not as much among the "lowest" classes who are usually considered as the poorest and the most miserable in society, but in that section from where come the intellectuals, "men of light and leading," to use the epithet they are honoured with. For very few of this group are free to follow their inner trend and urge, but have either to coerce and suppress them or stultify them in the service of lesser alien duties, which mean "forced labour." The punishment for refusing to be drawn away and to falsify oneself is not unoften the withdrawal of the bare necessities of life, in certain cases sheer destitution. A Keats wasting his energies in a work that has no relation to his inner life and light, or a Madhusudan dying in a hospital as a pauper, are examples significant of the nature of the social structure man lives in.
It is one of the great illusionsor perhaps a show plank for propagandato think or say that the so-called poorer classes are the poorest and the most miserable. It is not so in fact. Really poor are those who have a standard of life commensurate with their inner nature and consciousnessof beauty and orderliness and material sufficiency and yet their actual status and function in society do not provide them with the necessary where-withals and resources. No amount of philanthropic sentimentalising can suppress or wipe off the fact that the poor do not feel the pinch of poverty so much as do those who are poor and yet are to live and move as not poor. It all depends upon one's standard. One is truly rich or poor not in proportion- to one's income, but" in accordance with one's needs and the means to meet them. And all do not have the same needs and requirements. This does not mean that the needs of the princes, the aristocrats, the magnates are greater than those of the mere commoner. No, it means that there are people, there is a section of humanity found more or less in all these classes, but mostly in less fortunate classes, whose needs are intrinsically greater and they require preferential treatment. There should be none poor or miserable in society, well and good. But this should not mean that all the economic resources of the society must be requisitioned only to enrichto pamper the poor. For there is a pampering possible in this matter. We know the nouveaux riches, the parvenus and the kind of life they lead with their fair share boldly seized. A levelling, a formal equalisation of the economic status, although it may mean uplift in certain cases, may involve gross injustice to others. The ideal is not equal distribution but rational distribution of wealth, and that distribution should not depend upon any material function, but upon psychological demands. Is this bourgeois economics? Even if it is so, the truth has to be faced and recognised. You can call truth by the name bourgeois and hang it, but it will revive all the same, like the Phoenix out of the ashes.
If it is said that the proletarian the manual laboureris given economic freedom not for the sake of that freedom merely, but for the sake of the cultural opportunity also that he will have in that way. None can demur to this noble and generous ideal, but- what must not be forgotten in that preoccupation is the fact that there exists already a culturally predisposed class in the present society who also require immediate care and nourishment so that they may grow and flourish as they should. In our eagerness to take up the enterprise and adventure of reclaiming deserts and heaths and moorlands, there is a chance of our losing sight of the precious fertile lands, rich in possibilities that we already possess. The economic status has to be improved for all who are adversely placed in the modern system, certainly; but for a real improvement based upon just and true needs, for an adjustment that will make for the highest good of the society, what is first required is to ascertain the psychological status which should alone, at least chiefly, determine the economic status.
In the old Indian social organisation there was at the basis such a psychological pattern and that must have been the reason why the structure lasted through millenniums. It was a hierarchical system but based upon living psychological forces. Each group or section or class in it had inevitably its appropriate function and an assured economic status. The Four Orders the Brahmin (those whose pursuit was knowledgeacquiring and giving knowledge), the Kshattriya (the fighters, whose business it was to give physical protection), the Vaishya (traders and farmers who were in charge of the wealth of the society, its production and distribution) and the Sudra (servants and mere labourers )are a natural division or stratification of the social body based upon the nature and function of its different members. In the original and essential pattern there is no sinister mark of inferiority branded upon what are usually termed as the lower orders, especially the lowest order. If some are considered higher and are honoured and respected as such, it meant simply that the functions and qualities they stand for constitute in some way higher values, it did not mean that the others have no value or are to be spurned or neglected. The brain must be given a higher place than the stomach, although all its support and nourishment come from there. Hierarchy means, in modern terms, that the essential services must pass first, should have certain priorities. And according to the older view-point, the Brahmin, being the emblem and repository of knowledge, was considered as the head of the social body. He is the fount and origin of a culture, the creator of a civilisation; the others protect, nourish and serve, although all are equally necessary for the common welfare.
02.14 - Panacea of Isms, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Communism cannot save humanity. For if it means the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, well, a healthy normal society will not bear or tolerate it longno Dictatorship, whether of one or of many, is likely to endure or bring in the millennium. In that sense communism is only a fascismo of small people fighting against a fascismo of big people. A society is not normally made up of proletarians only: it does not consist merely of lotus-eaters nor does it consist of hewers of wood and drawers of water (peasants and labourers) alone. Even a proletariate society will slowly and inevitably gravitate towards a stratification of its own. In its very bosom the bureaucracy, the military, the officialdom of a closed body will form a class of its own. A Lenin cannot prevent the advent of a Stalin. Even if the proletarians form the majority, by far a very large majority, even then the tyranny of the majority is as reprehensible as the tyranny of the minority. Communism pins its faith on struggle the class struggle, it says, is historically true and morally justifiable. But this is a postulate all are not bound to accept. Then again, if communism means also materialism (dialectical or any other), that also cannot meet and satisfy all the needs and urges of man, indeed it leaves out of account all the deeper yearnings that lie imbedded in him and that cannot be obliterated by a mere denial. For surely man does not live by bread alone, however indispensable that article may be to him: not even culture the kind admitted by communism, severely intellectual, rational, scientific, pragmaticcan be the be-all and end-all of human civilisation. Communistic Russia attempted to sweep away all traces of religion and church and piety; the attempt does not seem to have been very successful.
As a matter of fact, Communism is best taken as a symptom of the disease society suffers from and not as a remedy. The disease is a twofold bondage from which man has always been trying to free himself. It is fundamentally the same "bondage which the great French Revolution sought most vigorously and violently to shake offan economic and an ideological bondage, that is to say, translated in the terms of those days, the tyranny of the court and the nobility and the tyranny of the Church. The same twofold bondage appears, again today combated by Communism, viz., Capitalism and Bourgeoisie. Originally and essentially, however, Communism meant an economic system in which there is no personal property, all property being held in common. It is an ideal that requires a good deal of ingenuity to be worked out in all details, to say the least. Certain religious sects within restricted membership tried the experiment. Indeed some kind of religious mentality is required, a mentality freed from normal mundane reactions, as a preliminary condition in order that such an attempt might be successful. A perfect or ideal communism may be possible only when man's character and nature has undergone a thorough and radical change. Till then it will be a Utopia passing through various avatars.
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Nor can socialism remedy all the ills society suffers from, if it merely or mainly means the abolition of private enterprise and the assumption by the State of the entire economic and even cultural or educational apparatus of the society. Even as an economic proposition State Socialism, which is only another name of Totalitarianism, is hardly an unmixed good. First of all, however selfish and profiteering the individual may be, still, one must remember that it is always the individual who is adventurous and inventive, it is he who discovers, creates new things and beautiful things. A collective or global enterprise makes for massiveness and quantity, but it means also uniformity, often a dead uniformity: for variety, for originality, as well as for the aesthetic tone and the human touch, the personal element is needed, seems to be indispensable. Education in such a system would mean a set routine and pattern, an efficient machine to bring out consistently and continuously uniform types of men who are more or less 'automatons, mechanical and regimented in their make-up and behaviour. An all-out socialistic Government will bear down and entomb the deeper springs of human consciousness, the magic powers of initiative and creativity that depend upon individual liberty and the free play of personal choice. We do not deny that Socialism is an antidote to another malady in the social body the parcellation, the fragmentation into a thousand petty interestsall aggressive and combative-of the economic strength of a community, and also the stupendous inequality and maldistribution of wealth and opportunity. But it brings in its own poison.
It is a great illusion, as has been pointed out by many, that a collective and impersonal body cannot be profiteers and war-mongers. A nation as a whole can very well be moved by greed and violence and Sieglust (passion for conquest)Nazism has another name, it is also called National Socialism. Everything depends not upon the form, but the spirit that animates the form. It is the spirit, man's inner nature that is to be handled, dealt with and changed; outer systems and forms have only a secondary importance.
02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
They waited for the adventure of new life.
A Person persistent through the lapse of worlds,
03.01 - The New Year Initiation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The scope of this New Year Prayer does not limit itself only to our individual sadhanait embraces also the collective consciousness which is specially the field of its application. It is the muffled voice of entire humanity in its secret aspiration that is given expression here. It is by the power of this mantra, protected by this invulnerable armour,if we choose to accept it as such,that the collective life of man will attain its fulfilment. We have often stated that the outstanding feature of the modern world is that it has become a Kurukshetra of Gods and Titans. It is no doubt an eternal truth of creation, this conflict between the divine and the anti-divine, and it has been going on in the heart of humanity since its advent upon earth. In the inner life of the world this is a fact of the utmost importance, its most significant principle and mystery. Still it must be said that never in the annals of the physical world has this truth taken such momentous proportions as in the grim present. It is pregnant with all good and evil that may make or mar human destiny in the near future. Whether man will transcend his half-animal state and rise to the full height of his manhood, nay even to the godhead in him, or descend back to the level of his gross brute naturethis is the problem of problems which is being dealt with and solved in the course of the mighty holocaust of the present World War.
In her last year's message1 the Mother gave a clear warning that we must have no more hesitation, that we must renounce one side, free ourselves from all its influence and embrace the other side without hesitation, without reservation. At the decisive moment in the life of the world and of mankind, one must definitely, irrevocably choose one's loyalty. It will not do to say, like the over-wise and the over-liberal, that both sides the Allies and the Axis Powersare equalequally right or equally wrong and that we can afford to be outside or above the prejudices or interests of either. There is no room today for a neutral. He who pretends to be a neutral is an enemy to the cause of truth. Whoever is Dot with us is against us.
03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His spirit faced the adventure of the Inane.
Abandoned by the worlds of Form he strove.
03.03 - Modernism - An Oriental Interpretation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Rousseau brought in the positive element that determined the new poise of humanity. It was the advent of the heart, the coming in of the Romantic the man of sentiment and sensibility. 1 But life had not yet had its chance. Life, pure life the biological domainfirst declared its autonomy in art, for example, through the Realists and Naturalists. These pioneers, however, could bring forward mainly the facts, the constituents, the materials that compose life. The stuff was found, but the movement, life's own rhythm, was not there. It was new wine, but more or less in the old bottle. Zola or Maupassant or the Goncourts sought to express a life intrinsic and independent, but the instrument, the mould was still the old one; the manner and the movement, germane to mind and heart, continued to persist.
That mould was broken, and something of the mystery of Life's own rhythm first revealed by the Impressionists. But the Impressionists were too vague and had too much of a generalised sense to enter into the core of the matter. They touched life, caressed its contour and periphery and larger lines, but did not penetrate it, grasp and grip it, bring out the kernel, as it were, break it and express if in its atomic structure and movement. This is what is being done today.
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The bright adventure of God's game of chance.
In her ingenious ardour of caprice,
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And vast adventure into thinking shapes
And trial and lure of a new living's dreams.
03.07 - Some Thoughts on the Unthinkable, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine does not announce his presence or advent by miracles, by sudden catastrophes and upheavals. The power, the knowledge or the love that belongs to him is just like the air that surrounds us, whose silent and tranquil, yet constant pressure energises the heart of living things, whose very translucency is the stuff out of which is fashioned Earth's richly variegated life.
The Divine does not compel, he persuades. The individual soul is born out of the Divine and forms a part and parcel of the Divine, but it has been given freedomfreedom to live and move as it chooses. And although the Divine Will in the cosmos acts as a continuous pressure in the form of the evolutionary urge pushing inferior Nature gradually towards an unfolding of the Divine's own Consciousness and Nature, inherent in it and overarching it, yet it is a force that lies in the background and its fulfilment is only eventual. There is a long interim period of a full five-act drama in which the soul, through gathering experiences, freely moves and explores and seeks, falters and errs, and finally comes to its own; it comes to realise that the freedom it had, even the freedom to descend and enter into the region of the Ignorance, was accorded to it for the play of self-choice, for the joy of self-discovery, for the delight of self-surrender and self-fulfilment.
03.08 - The Democracy of Tomorrow, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The great mantra of individual liberty, in the social and political domain, was given by Rousseau in that famous opening line of his famous book,The Social Contract, almost the Bible of an age; Man is born free. And the first considerable mass rising seeking to vindicate and realise that ideal came with the toxin of the mighty French Revolution. It was really an awakening or rebirth of the individual that was the true source and sense of that miraculous movement. It meant the advent of democracy in politics and romanticism in art. The century that followed was a period of great experiment: for the central theme of that experiment was the search for the individual. In honouring the individual and giving it full and free scope the movement went far and even too far: liberty threatened to lead towards licence, democracy towards anarchy and disintegration; the final consequence of romanticism was surrealism, the deification of individual reason culminated in solipsism or ego-centricism. Naturally there came a reaction and we are in this century, still, on the high tide of this movement of reaction. Totalitarianism in one form or another continues to be the watchword and although neither Hitler nor Mussolini is there, a very living ghost of theirs stalks the human stage. The liberty of the individual, it is said and is found to be so by experience, is another name of the individual's erraticism and can produce only division and mutual clash and strife, and, in the end, social disintegration. A strong centralised power is necessary to hold together the warring elements of a group. Indeed, it is asserted, the group is the true reality and to maintain it and make it great the component individuals must be steamrollered into a compact mass. Evidently this is a poise that cannot stand long: the repressed individual rises in revolt and again we are on the move the other way round. Thus a never-ending see-saw, a cyclic recurrence of the same sequence of movements appears to be an inevitable law governing human society: it seems to have almost the absolutism of a law of Nature.1
In this connection we can recall Plato's famous serial of social types from aristocracy to tyranny, the last coming out of democracy the type that precedes it, (almost exactly as we have experienced it in our own days). But the most interesting point to which we can look with profit is Plato's view that the types are as men are, that is to say, the character and nature of man in a given period determines the kind of government or social system he is going to have. There has been this cyclic rotation of types, because men themselves were rotating types, because, in other words, the individuals composing human society had not found their true reality, their abiding status. Plato's aristocracy was the ideal society, it was composed of and ruled by the best of men (aristas, srestha) the wisest. And the question was put by many and not answered by Plato himself, what brought about the decline in a perfect system. We have attempted to give our answer.
03.09 - Buddhism and Hinduism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The original and primeval Indianism was built upon the Vedic realisation of the Everlasting Yes. That luminous body of an integral realisation, which means the Veda, came to be covered over by a more strenuous demand of immediate necessity, by an over-emphasis on one side or aspect or line of growth of the human consciousness; a negative approach was needed for man to rise out of its too earthly a tenement to glimpse his divine possibility beyond, before he could hope to build it here below. The long reign of Siva was a necessary preparation for the advent of Vishnu.
And yet Mayavada even while it reigned supreme, was never the be-all and end-all of the inner Indian spirit. Always there was along with it the other strain; in the background, driven underground its presence is felt persistently. The Shunyam, the Asat, the Akshara Brahman could never totally obliterate the Sat Purusha, the Purushottama or the Mahashakti. The Line of the Everlasting Yes was kept living and vibrant in the Tantric discipline, for example, although at times it also suffered a change under the compelling impact of the Great Negation.
03.10 - The Mission of Buddhism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
These are the two primarytruthsrya saryawhichBuddha's illumination meant and for which he has become one of the great divine leaders of humanity. First, he has discovered man's rationality, and second, he has discovered man's humanity. Since his advent two thousand and five hundred years ago till the present day, in this what may pertinently be called the Buddhist age of humanity, the entire growth, development and preoccupation of mankind was centred upon the twofold truth. Science and religion today are the highest expressions of that achievement.
They speak of the coming of a new Buddha (Maitreya) with the close of the cycle now, ushering another cycle of new growth and achievement. It is said also that humanity has reached its apex, a great change-over is inevitable: seers and savants have declared that man will have to surpass himself and become superman in order to fulfil what was expected of him since his advent upon earth. If we say that the preparation for such a consummation was taken up at the last stage by the Buddha and Buddhism, and the Buddhistic inspiration, we will not be wrong. It was a cycle of ascending tapasya for the human vehicle: it was a seeking for the pure spirit which meant a clearance of the many ignorances that shrouded it. It was also an urge of the spirit to encompass in its fold a larger and larger circle of humanity: it meant that the spiritual consciousness is no more an aristocratic or hermetic virtue, but a need in which the people, the large mass, have also their share, maybe in varying degrees.
A new humanity broad-based to encompass the whole earth, expressing and embodying the light and power and joy of spiritual heights, forming a happy world state, may very well announce in the new age the descent of a supreme truth and principle of existence here below.
03.13 - Human Destiny, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But, as we have said, man seems to have yet retained his youthfulness. He always just falls short of the perfect perfection, that is to say, in any single form or expression of life. Life did become stereotyped, mechanised, and therefore fossilised, more or less, in Egypt of the later Dynasties; in India too life did not become less inert and vegetative during two long periods, once just preceding the advent of the Buddha,.
and a second time just preceding the Moslem adventand a third time perhaps just preceding the British advent. And yet man has survived all falls and has been reborn and rejuvenated every time he seems to be off the stage.
The very lack of perfection and fixity in the human consciousness leaves a kind of plasticity in his nature and therefore an opening towards further life and progress. However perfect man's sten-gun is, it is not as sure and efficient as the bee's sting. Man outlives, because he progresses through apparent regressions. The cycles of human life upon earth are not mere repetitions of the same pattern as some have supposed, they indicate a growth and development. We have referred to the growth and development in the matter of tools, but that is only a sign and expression of another growth and developmentdevelopment in mind and consciousness. In the earlier races of mankind there was a vital, a kind of instinctive and intuitiveBergsonianlight of consciousness; that slowly has grown into a rich intellectual consciousness, and significantly and characteristically, into a more and more self-conscious consciousness. That points to man's characteristic progressive march through all the changes in his life-pattern.
03.14 - From the Known to the Unknown?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
For may not the contrary motto" from the unknown to the known"be equally valid, both as a matter of fact and as a matter of principle? Do we not, sometimes at least, take for granted and start with the unknown number x to find out the solution to our problem? Why go far, the very first step that the child takes in his adventurous journey of life, is it not a veritable step into the unknown? Indeed, many, in fact most of the scientific laws the Laws of Natureare they strictly the result of calculation and deduction from known and observed data or are they not rather "brilliant surmises", "sudden revelations" that overwhelm by their un-expected appearance? Newton did not arrive at his Law of Gravitation in the trail of a logical argument from given premises towards unforeseen conclusions. Nor did Einstein discover his version of the Law in any syllogistic way either. The fact seems to be more often true that the unknown reveals itself all on a sudden and is not reached through a continuous series of known steps. Examples could be easily multiplied from the history of scientific discoveries.
For the fact is that man, the being that knows, is composed not merely of known elements, known to himself and to others, but possesses a hidden, an unknown side which is nonetheless part of himself. And even though unknown, it is not inactive,it always exerts its influence, imposes its presence. Man has a submerged consciousness which is in contact and communion with similarly submerged worlds of consciousness. Man's consciousness possesses aerials that catch vibrations from unknown regions. He has a secret sensitiveness that receives intimations from other where than his physical senses and his logical reason. His external mind does not always recognise such unorthodox or abnormal movements; he only expresses his surprise or amazement at the luminosity, the au thenticity of solutions that come so simply, suddenly, inevitably, the unknown revealing itself miraculously.
04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His advent was a fire of irised hues,
His arms were a circle of the arrival of joy.
04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We may follow a little more closely the march of the centuries in their undulating movement. The creative intelligence of the Renaissance too belonged to a region of the higher mind, a kind of inspirational mind. It had not the altitude or even the depth of the Greek mind nor its subtler resonances: but it regained and re-established and carried to a new degree the spirit of inquiry and curiosity, an appreciation of human motives and preoccupations, a rational understanding of man and the mechanism of the world. The original intuitive fiat, the imaginative brilliance, the spirit of adventure (in the mental as well as the physical world) that inspired the epoch gradually dwindled: it gave place to an age of consolidation, organisation, stabilisation the classical age. The seventeenth century Europe marked another peak of Europe's civilisation. That is the Augustan Age to which we have referred. The following century marked a further decline of the Intuition and higher imagination and we come to the eighteenth century terre terre rationalism. Great figures still adorned that agestalwarts that either stuck to the prevailing norm and gave it a kind of stagnant nobility or already leaned towards the new light that was dawning once more. Pope and Johnson, Montesquieu and Voltaire are its high-lights. The nineteenth century brought in another crest wave with a special gift to mankind; apparently it was a reaction to the rigid classicism and dry rationalism of the preceding age, but it came burdened with a more positive mission. Its magic name was Romanticism. Man opened his heart, his higher feeling and nobler emotional surge, his subtler sensibility and a general sweep of his vital being to the truths and realities of his own nature and of the cosmic nature. Not the clear white and transparent almost glaring light of reason and logic, of the brain mind, but the rosy or rainbow tint of the emotive and aspiring personality that seeks in and through the cosmic panorama and dreams of
A light that was ne'er on sea or land. . .
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The Romantic Revival was a veritable source movement: it was, one can say, a kind of watershed from where various streams of new creation and fresh adventure flowed down in all directions. Its echoes and repurcussions are met with even today and continue. The next stage that followed naturally and inevitably was man's preoccupation with his sense being, his external, his physical and material personality. It is the age of Naturalism, Realism, Pragmatism, Scientism: it proclaims the birth of the economic man. From the heart and emotions we drop down into the field of the nervous and sensuous existence, from the vital sphere into the sphere of the body. And that is where we are today. It means that we have been made more than ever self-conscious on this plane and of this personality of ours. We have been given and are being given greater knowledge of its mechanism; we are intensively (and extensively too) getting familiar with all the drawbacks and lacunae that are there so that we can remedy them and discover new latent forces too, and re-create and possess a truly "brave new world".
That is how the spirit of progress and evolution has worked and advanced in the European world. And one can take it as the pattern of human growth generally; but in the scheme described above we have left out one particular phase and purposely. I refer to the great event of Christ and Christianity. For without that European civilisation loses more than half of its import and value. After the Roman Decline began the ebbtide, the trough, the dark shadow of the deepening abyss of the Middle Ages. But even as the Night fell and darkness closed around, a new light glimmered, a star was born. A hope and a help shone "in a naughty world". It was a ray of consciousness that came from a secret cave, from a domain hidden behind and deep within in the human being. Christ brought a leaven into the normal manifest mode of consciousness, an otherworldly mode into the worldly life. He established a living and dynamic contact with the soul, the inner person in man, the person that is behind but still rules the external personality made of mind and life and body consciousness. The Christ revelation was also characteristic in the sense that it came as a large, almost a mass movementthis approach of the soul personality to earthly life. The movement faded or got adulterated, deformed like all human things; but something remained as a permanent possession of man's heritage.
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Turning to India we find a fuller and completerif not a globalpicture of the whole movement. India, we may say, is the spiritual world itself: and she epitomised the curve of human progress in a clearer and more significant manner. Indian history, not its political but its cultural and spiritual history, divides itself naturally into great movements with corresponding epochs each dwelling upon and dealing with one domain in the hierarchy of man's consciousness. The stages and epochs are well known: they are(l) Vedic, (2) Upanishadic, (3) Darshanasroughly from Buddha to Shankara, (4) Puranic, (5) Bhagavataor the Age of Bhakti, and finally (6) the Tantric. The last does not mean that it is the latest revelation, the nearest to us in time, but that it represents a kind of complementary movement, it was there all along, for long at least, and in which the others find their fruition and consummation. We shall explain presently. The force of consciousness that came and moved and moulded the first and the earliest epoch was Revelation. It was a power of direct vision and occult will and cosmic perception. Its physical seat is somewhere behind and or just beyond the crown of the head: the peak of man's manifest being that received the first touch of Surya Savitri (the supreme Creative Consciousness) to whom it bowed down uttering the invocation mantra of Gayatri. The Ray then entered the head at the crown and illumined it: the force of consciousness that ruled there is Intuition, the immediate perception of truth and reality, the cosmic consciousness gathered and concentrated at that peak. That is Upanishadic knowledge. If the source and foundation of the Vedic initiation was occult vision, the Upanishad meant a pure and direct Ideation. The next stage in the coming down or propagation of the Light was when it reached further down into the brain and the philosophical outlook grew with rational understanding and discursive argumentation as the channel for expression, the power to be cultivated and the limb to be developed. The Age of the Darshanas or Systems of Philosophy started with the Buddha and continued till it reached its peak in Shankaracharya. The age sought to give a bright and strong mental, even an intellectual body to the spiritual light, the consciousness of the highest truth and reality. In the Puranic Age the vital being was touched by the light of the spirit and principally on the highest, the mental level of that domain. It meant the advent of the element of feeling and emotiveness and imagination into the play of the Light, the beginning of their reclamation. This was rendered more concrete and more vibrant and intense in the next stage of the movement. The whole emotional being was taken up into the travailing crucible of consciousness. We may name it also as the age of the Bhagavatas, god-lovers, Bhaktas. It reached its climax in Chaitanya whose physical passion for God denoted that the lower ranges of the vital being (its physical foundations) were now stirred in man to awake and to receive the Light. Finally remains the physical, the most material to be worked upon and made conscious and illumined. That was the task of the Tantras. Viewed in that light one can easily understand why especial stress was laid in that system upon the esoteric discipline of the five m's (pancha makra),all preoccupied with the handling and harnessing of the grossest physical instincts and the most material instruments. The Tantric discipline bases itself upon Nature Power coiled up in Matter: the release of that all-conquering force through a purification and opening into the consciousness of the Divine Mother, the transcendent creatrix of the universe. The dynamic materialising aspect of consciousness was what inspired the Tantras: the others forming the Vedantic line, on the whole, were based on the primacy of the static being, the Purusha, aloof and withdrawing.
The Indian consciousness, we say, presented the movement as an intensive and inner, a spiritual process: it dealt with the substance itself, man's very nature and sought to know it from within and shape it consciously. In Europe where the frontal consciousness is more stressed and valued, the more characteristic feature of its history is the unfoldment and metamorphosis of the forms and expressions, the residuary powers, as it were, of man's evolving personality, individual and social.
04.02 - A Chapter of Human Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Human evolution took a decisive turn with the advent of the Hellenic culture and civilisation. All crises in evolution are a sudden revelation, an unexpected outburst, a saltum, a leap into the unknown. Now, what the Greeks brought in was the Mind, the luminous Reason, the logical faculty that is married to the senses, no doubt, but still suffused with an inner glow of consciousness. It is the faculty mediating between a more direct and immediate perception of things, Intuition and Instinct, on the one hand, and on the other, the perception given by the senses and a power of control over material things. Take Egypt or Israel or Chaldea, what one finds prominent there is the instinctive-intuitive man, spontaneousprime-sautierimaginative, mythopoeic, clairvoyant, clairaudient (although not very clear, in the modern and Greek sense), bringing into this world things of the other world and pushing this world as much as possible into the other, maintaining a kind of direct connection and communion between the two. The Greeks are of another mould. They are a rational people; they do not move and act simply or mainly by instinctive reactions, but even these are filtered in them through a light of the Mind of Intelligence, a logical pattern, a rational disposition of things; through Mind they seek to know Matter and to control it. It is the modern methodology, that of observation and experiment, in other words, the scientific procedure. The Greeks have had their gods, their mythology; but these are modelled somewhat differently: the gods are made more human, too human, as has often been observed. Zeus and Juno (Hera) are infinitely more human than Isis and Osiris or Moloch and Baal or even the Jewish Jehovah. These vital gods have a sombre air about them, solemn and serious, grim and powerful, but they have not the sunshine, the radiance and smile of Apollo (Apollo Belvedere) or Hermes. The Greeks might have, they must have taken up their gods from a more ancient Pantheon, but they have, after the manner of their sculptor Phidias, remoulded them, shaped and polished them, made them more luminous and nearer and closer to earth and men. 1 Was it not said of Socrates that he brought down the gods from heaven upon earth?
The intermediary faculty the Paraclete, which the Greeks brought to play is a corner-stone in the edifice of human progress. It is the formative power of the Mind which gives things their shape and disposition, their consistency and cogency as physical realities. There are deeper and higher sources in man, more direct, immediate and revealing, where things have their birth and origin; but this one is necessary for the embodiment, for the building up and maintenance of the subtler and profounder truths in an earthly structure, establish and fix them in the normal consciousness. The Socratic Dialogues are rightly placed at the start of the modern culture; they set the pattern of modern mentality. That rational turn of mind, that mental intelligence and understanding as elaborated, formulated, codified by the Aristotelian system was the light that shone through the Grco-Latin culture of the Roman days; that was behind the culture and civilisation of the Middle Ages. The changes and revolutions of later days, social or cultural, did not affect it, rather were based upon it and inspired by it. And even today our scientific culture maintains and continues the tradition.
04.02 - Human Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Creation has evolved. That is to say, there has been a growth and unfoldment and progress. From nebulae to humanity the march cannot but be called an advance, a progress, in more senses than one. But the question is about man. Has man advanced, progressed since his advent upon earth? If so, in what manner, to what extent? Man has been upon earth for the last two million years, they say. From what has happened before him in the course of Nature's evolution, it is legitimate to infer that man too, in his turn, has moved forward in the line towards growth and development. In fact, if we admit that man started life as a savage or jungle-man or ape-man, and look at him as he is today, we have perforce to acknowledge that he has not merely changed but progressed too. The question to be answered is in what sense this progress has been made.
Modern knowledge has taught us that what marks the growth of man is his use of tools. An animal has nothing else than its own limbs as its all-serving tool. Man emerged as man the day he knew how to use tools as an extension of his limbs. And the cycles of human growth have, in consequence, been marked off by the type of tools used. As we all know, anthropologists tell us, there have been four such cycles or ages: (1) the Old Stone Age, (2) the New Stone Age, (3) the Bronze Age and (4) the Iron Age.
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We can thus note, broadly speaking, three stages in the human cycle of Nature's evolution. The first was the period of emergence of self-consciousness and the trials and experiments it went through to establish and confirm itself. The ancient civilisations represented this character of the human spirit. The subject freeing itself more and more from its environmental tegument, still living and moving within it and dynamically reacting upon itthis was the character we speak of. Next came the period when the free and dynamic subject feeling itself no more tied down to its natural objective sphere sought lines of development and adventure on its own account. This was the age of speculation and of scholasticism in philosophy and intellectual inquiry and of alchemy in natural sciencea period roughly equated with the Middle Ages. The Scientific Age coming last seeks to re-establish a junction and co-ordination between the free and dynamic self-consciousness and the mode and pattern of its objective field, involving a greater enrichment on one side the subjective consciousness and on the other, the objective environment, a corresponding change and effective reorganisation.
The present age which ushers a fourth stagesignificantly called turiya or the transcendent, in Indian terminologyis pregnant with a fateful crisis. The stage of self-consciousness to which scientific development has arrived seems to land in a cul-de-sac, a blind alley: Science also is faced, almost helplessly, with the antinomies of reason that Kant discovered long ago in the domain of speculative philosophy. The way out, for a further growth and development and evolution, lies in a supersession of the self-consciousness, an elevation into a super-consciousnessas already envisaged by Yogis and Mystics everywherewhich will give a new potential and harmony to the human consciousness.
04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
O petty adventurers in an infinite world
And prisoners of a dwarf humanity,
04.05 - The Immortal Nation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Another fact. The Asiatic peoples or nations endured generally longer than their European brethren. I have spoken of India and China, I may now refer to Persia, the old Persia that has a glorious story to tell for more than a thousand years (from Cyrus to the last of the Sassanides) ending or suffering a sea-change with the advent of the Arabs. The Arabs themselves and also the Hebrews were likewise long-lived peoples, although both of them have this especial characteristic that theirs is not a land-locked civilisation, that is to say, they were not peoples wedded to their own land, a mother-country of their own, theirs was a peripatetic genius which went abroad and sought to make their own or make themselves over to and enter into other countries and other cultures. Perhaps this is their way of securing a long life.
The reason for a long life must necessarily be in the mode of life itself. The life lived by later nations had a very dominant politico-economic bias. The government, the political, that is to say, administrative power was of outstanding importance, the economic factor being necessarily an indispensable adjunct. On the other hand, in Egypt, in Greece and in all the Eastern countries, the main stream of life ran in another channel; it was cultural and ideative. What remains of Greece or even of Egypt, what the Eastern countries carry still here and there in a living manner is that element that which is immortal in mortality, as the Vedic Rishis say. The stone monuments bear a significance and a message even to us, because they embody and point to what moved, inspired and fashioned the consciousness, the inner life of these races. And it is that that outlives the glories of governments and rulers.
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One may note three or four crises, practically rebirths, in India's life history. They correspond roughly with the great racial infiltrations or what is described as such by anthropologists, what others may describe as operations of blood transfusion. There was an original autochthonous people, the early humanity out of the stone age, usually called proto-Dravidians, whose remnants are still found among the older and cruder aboriginal tribes. Then the Dravidian infusion which culminated in the humanity, the Indian humanity, of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Next the Aryan avatar. One usually begins Indian history with the Dravido-Aryan civilisation which is taken as the basic foundation, the general layout of the whole structure. The first shock or blow the edifice received was from the Greeks and then the Huns and Scythians the Tartars something that struck at the most essential element of Indian culture and character. Psychologically the new leaven was brought in and injected by Gautama Buddha the un-Vedic Buddha the external invasion and penetration was possible because of this opening already made from within. This injection was necessary as an antidote to the decline and fall that had set in sometime between the passing of Sri Krishna and the advent of Buddha. But traditional India absorbed this new leaven and came out with a renewed and enriched personality. The next major shaking came with the Islamic inundation. This meant or would have meant a great and even catastrophic reversal, but this too in the course of centuries succeeded only in invigorating and enlarging the life and consciousness of eternal India. The last and perhaps the most dangerous assault came from the Europeans, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French and finally, most of all, from the British. An absolutely matter-of-fact vitalistic Europe overran and overwhelmed a predominantly otherworldly spirit and almost succeeded in obliterating that spirit and replacing it by a replica of its own life-pattern and Weltanschauung. Even such a blow India could survive, not only so, could utilise it for her own purpose, for the greater fulfilment of her mission in life. She is coming out of that ordeal a towering personality, a godhead for the remoulding of humanity and earth-life.
It may be argued that all nations and peoples are a mixture of various races and foreign strands which are gradually, soldered and unified together in course of time. The British nation, for example, is built upon a base of Celtic blood and culture (the original Briton), to which were added one by one the German (Angles and the Saxon), the Danish, the French. But what is to be noted is that the resultant is at the end some-thing very different from the start something unrecognisable when compared with the original pattern and genius. The resultant seems to be arrived at not by a gradual evolution and continuous transformation but by disparate echelons or , breaks, as it were, in the line. In France also or in Italy the growth and the unification were achieved through violent revolutions, eruptions and irruptions. In the former, a Gaelic and Iberian base and in the latter an Etruscan were all but swept off by the Roman rule which again saw its end at the hand of the Barbarians. The history of Greece offers a typical picture of the destiny of these peoples. Her life-line is sundered completely at three different epochs giving us not one but three different personalities or peoples: at the outset there was the original classical Greece, then the first and milder although sufficiently serious break came with the Roman conquest; the second catastrophic change was wrought by the Goths and Vandals which was stabilised in the Byzantine Empire and the third avatar appeared with the Turkish regime. At the present time, she is acquiring another life and body.
04.18 - To the Heights-XVIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
answering Grace that took shape in thy advent;
And now we blame thee and slight thee, because thou art
05.02 - Gods Labour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The integral Divine not merely suffers (as in the Christian tradition) a body material, He accepts it in his supernal delight, for it is his own being and substance: it is He in essence and it will become He in actuality. When he comes into the world, it is not as though it were a foreign country; he comes to his own,only he seeks to rebuild it on another scale, the scale of unity and infinity, instead of the present scale of separativism and finiteness. He comes among men not simply because he is' moved by human miseries; he is no extra-terrestrial person, a bigger human being, but is himself this earth, this world, all these miseries; he is woven into the fabric of the universe, he is the warp and woof that constitute creation. It is not a mere movement of sympathy or benevolence that actuates him, it is a total and absolute identification that is the ground and motive of his activity. When he assumes the frame of mortality, it is not that something outside and totally incongruous is entering into him, it is part and parcel of himself, it is himself in one of his functions and phases. Consequently, his work in and upon the material world and life may be viewed as that of self-purification and self-illumination, self-discipline and selfrealisation. Also, the horrors of material existence, being part of the cosmic play and portion of his infinity, naturally find shelter in the individual divine incarnation, are encompassed in his human embodiment. It is the energy of his own consciousness that brought out or developed even this erring earth from within it: that same energy is now available, stored up in the individual formation, for the recreation of that earth. The advent and acceptance of material existence meant, as a kind of necessity in a given scheme of divine manifestation, the appearance and play of Evil, the negation of the very divinity. Absolute Consciousness brought forth absolute unconsciousness the inconscientbecause of its own self-pressure, a play of an increasingly exclusive concentration and rigid objectivisation. That same consciousness repeats its story in the individual incarnation: it plunges into the material life and matter and identifies itself with Evil. But it is then like a pressed or tightened spring; it works at its highest potential. In other words, the Divine in the body now works to divinise the body itself, to make of the negation a concrete affirmation. The inconscient will be embodied consciousness.
The humanist said, Nothing human I reckon foreign to me," In a deeper and more absolute sense the divine Mystic of the integral Yoga says the same. He is indeed humanity incarnate, the whole mankind condensed and epitomised in his single body. Mankind as imbedded in ignorance and inconscience, the conscious soul lost in the dark depths of dead matter, is he and his whole labour consists in working in and through that obscure "gravitational" mass, to evoke and bring down the totality of the superconscient force, the creative delight which he is essentially in his inmost and topmost being. The labour within himself is conterminous with the cosmic labour, and the change effected in his being and nature means a parallel change in the world outside, at least a ready possibility of the change. All the pains and weaknesses normal humanity suffers from, the heritage of an inconscient earthly existence, the Divine takes into his incarnated bodyall and more and to the highest degreeinto a crucible as it were, and works out there the alchemy. The natural man individually shares also each other's burden in some way, for all are interconnected in lifeaction at one point has a reaction at all other points: only the sharing is done unconsciously and is suffered or imposed than accepted and it tends to be at a minimum. An ordinary mortal would break under a greater pressure. It is the Avatar who comes forward and carries on his shoulders the entire burden of earthly inconscience.
05.04 - The Immortal Person, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
So the individualisation and growth of the soul means a growth and individualisation of the mental being, the vital being and also of the physical being. Normally the purpose of intellectual culture is the growth and individualisation of the mind, the purpose of moral culture is the growth and individualisation of the vital being and the true purpose of physical culture too should be a well-balanced and well-developed physical body, not only in a general sense, but' in a very individualised mode. But all these varieties and modes of culture can be truly individualised and not merely ordered or organised, more or less on the surface, only when they obey and subserve the culture of the soul. The mind, the vital and the physical each has to grow its individuality in the growing individuality of the soul. The soul, otherwise called the psychic being, is man's spiritual being: the growth of the spiritual being means the advent and establishment of the true personality.
There is, of course, a spiritual path that turns the soul away from its instruments and demands that it should concentrate exclusively upon itself, upon its essential essence, upon its transcendent existence; but that is not our path and, according to us, that is only a temporary phase, an intermediate necessity for some persons and at certain stages.
05.06 - The Role of Evil, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The advent or the presence of evil upon earth has introduced certain factors in human life that have enriched it, increased even its value. Certain experiences would not have been there, intimate and revelatory experiences, but for this Dark Shadow. One can, of course, conceive a line of growth and development in which it is all light and delight, everything is good and for the good. But then a whole domain of experience and realisation would have been missed. There are certain experiences that one would not like not to have had at all, even though that may mean paying and paying heavily.
Evil is evil, no doubt; it is not divine and it is not an illusion. It is a real blot on the fair face of creation. Its existence cannot be justified in the sense that it is the right thing and has to be welcomed and maintained, since it forms part of the universal symphony. Not even in the sense that it is a test and a trial set by the Divine for the righteous to prove their merit. It has not been put there with a set purpose, but that once given, it has been the occasion of a miracle, it offered the opportunity for the manifestation of something unique, great and grandiose, marvellous and beautiful. The presence of evil moved the DivineGiustizia masse il mio alto Fattorel1and Grace was born. He descended, the Aloof and the Transcendent, in all his love and compassion down into this vale of tears: he descended straight into our midst without halting anywhere in the infinite gradation that marks the distance between the highest and the lowest, he descended from the very highest into the very lowest, demanding nothing, asking for no condition whatsoever from the soul in Ignorance, from the earth under the grip of evil. Thus it was that Life lodged itself in the home of death, Light found its way into the far cavern of obscurity and inconscience, and Delight bloomed in the core of misery. Hope was lit, a flame rising from the nether gloom towards the Dawn. But for the spirit of denial we would not have seen this close and intimate figure of the gracious Mother.
05.07 - Man and Superman, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Even so mankind, at the crucial parting of the ways, would very naturally look askance at the diminished value of many of its qualities and attri butes in the new status to come. First of all, as it has been pointed out, the intellect and reasoning power will have to surrender and abdicate. The very power by which man has attained his present high status and maintains it in the world has to be sacrificed for something else called intuition or revelation whose value and efficacy are unknown and have to be rigorously tested. Anyhow, is not the known devil by far and large preferable to the unknown entity? And then the zest of life, peculiar to man, that works through contradictionsdelight and suffering, victory and defeat, war and peace, doubt and knowledge, all the play of light and shade, the spirit of adventure, of combat and struggle and heroic effort, will have to go and give place to something, peaceful and harmonious perhaps but monotonous, insipid, unprogressive. The very character of human life is its passion to battle through, even if it is not always through. For it is often said that the end or goal does not matter, the goal is always something uncertain; it is the way, the means, the immediate action that is of supreme consequence: for it is that that tests man's manhood, gives him the value he may have. And above all man is asked to give up the very thing which he has laboured to build up through millenniums of his terrestrial life, his individuality, his personality, for the demand is that he must lose his ego in order to attain the superhuman status.
So, the probability is that a large part of humanity will remain wedded to the normal human life. But this does not lessen in any way the value, the tremendous importance of what happens to the other part, may be, not insignificant or inconsiderable. Along with those that doubt and deny, there will be those who believe and affirm, who will stand for divinisation, whatever dehumanisation it may imply.
Now, one may ask, what would be the relation between the two humanities the human and the divine? And what would be the effect of the appearance of the new race upon the older stock? Here again we can take up the animal analogy. How has the advent of man affected the animal kingdom? It has affected to a certain extent, even to a considerable extent, one may venture to say. First of all, man has parked around him a fairly large group of animals, domesticated them, as it is termed, employing them in his service, using them for his purposes. Furthermore, he has gone out into the woods, the forests and mountains, ice-bound regions and deep seas, and there extended his sphere of influence, hunting and capturing animals that were so long free and unmolested, bringing about a change in the conditions of life even among wild animals. We do not say that the superman will deal with man in the same way (although something of the kind may be found in the Nietzschean ideology). For man was a creature of Ignorance, and his behaviour and influence were naturally of the ignorant kind. The superman, however, being delivered of ignorance and living in perfect knowledge, has a different nature and outlook. He is one with the universe, with all its creatures; united with the Divine, he finds and realises his own self in each and every creature and thing: his character and conduct are the automatic expression of this sense of perfect identity. So he can do nothing that may seek to enslave or do real injury to mankind. On the contrary, his love and his knowledge, being one with the cosmic existence, will inevitably work for the progress and welfare of man too; indeed, his will be the perfect aid that even ordinary humanity can ask for and receive.
In spite of all the achievements he has had in the past, and in spite of the cul-de-sac or the blind alley into which he seems now to be stagnating, there is yet possibility enough for man to progress further, that is to say, even as a human being without taking the more audacious jump into supermanhood. The present miseries of human society, the maldistribution of the necessities of life, the ravages of illness and disease, the prevalence of ignorance, are not and need not after all be a permanent and irrevocable feature of human organisation. They can be remedied to a large extent, and society made more decent to live in, even though it may not be transfigured into the City of God. Man, without foregoing his present human nature, can yet be a more humane and humanistic creature, that is to say, more truly human and less animal and demoniac that he is trying to be. To this end the advent and the presence of the divine race will surely contri bute in a large measure. The influence which the individuals of such a race will exert by the force of their luminous consciousness and the impact of their purified living, the sympathy and knowledge and comprehension which their very presence carries, will materially alter the nature and composition of the normal man and his society. There will emerge a sort of higher humanityan intermediary between the present more or less animal, degraded humanity and the divine humanity of the future. The two humanities may very well live amicably together and be of help and service to each other.
We may mention here the other extreme possibility also. If, for example, the old humanity in a body rejects the New Man and will not allow him an inch of ground on the earth which it holds now as its fief and domainas it may very well doin view of the evidence that we have of the envy, jealousy, hatred, incomprehension moving normal men when they come in contact with men who do not follow their mode of life, who seem to pursue avocations that are meaningless and even perhaps injurious to them; if such is the case, then, we say, it would mean either the end of humanity, in the same way as some species have become in fact extinct, or its reversion to a wild savage state, something like that (or perhaps worse) out of which it came.
05.10 - Children and Child Mentality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What is the very central character of the child consciousness? It is confidence in life, the surety that nothing can baulk the fulfilment of life's purpose, the trust that overrides all set-backs and stumbles, gaily passes through dangers and difficulties. This confidence, this assurance the very body shares in and impels it to movements of daring and adventure. It is this that is the cause of the body's growth, and so long as it is maintained, keeps the body young. So the poet says:
AA simple child
05.12 - The Soul and its Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now the time and occasion for a particular birth of the soul depends naturally on the inner need of that being. But it must be notedas it is a fact in the occult world that the souls are not so many absolutely separate unrelated autonomous self-sufficient entities, each one coming and going as and when it chooses and likes: on the contrary, the souls form groups or families according to some secret affinity. And when they come down, they do so not unoften in company. A call goes, a bell is rung as it were intimating that the hour is come and they rush down. And it may even happen that in rushing down a psychic being is not too careful or fastidious about the instrument, the vehicle he chooses to inhabit; whatever is handy and nearest and on the whole suitable to his purpose he takes up and goes forward. He takes it all as an adventure and has the joy of battle and the warrior spirit that can taste of victory only when hard fought and won. That is how we meet not unoften a considerable discrepancy between the inner being of a man and his earthly tenement, his soul and his external character and physical nature. There is a meaning in the choice, a significance in the utilisation of unfavourable conditions: there is a method in the madness.
This grouping will appear natural and inevitable when we bear in mind the purpose of creation and the role of the psychic consciousness. For it is not a matter of individual salvation, of the unilateral growth and development and fulfilment of an individual psychic being. The soul is a luminous point in an inconscient universe and its role is to make it conscious, at least a representative portion of it. The psychic being's activity is the means of a new creation, the trans-mutation of the earth-consciousness, the growth and advent of a divine race, the manifestation and embodiment of the Divine and his play upon earth. The souls are the warriors, playmates, the beloved of the Lord. They have to assemble and move together for the interest of the play. They have to be in companies and regiments and battalions, in associations and concert and harmonised formations.
IV
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance
And the marvel and surprise of the Unknown
06.15 - Ever Green, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Whenever you go inside and seek your poise, do not look for your old acquaintances, the familiar experiences, do not carry upon your back the load of the past, but go ahead, as if through a virgin tract, making quite new discoveries, and opening unexpected vistas at each step. You can make an experiment even on your physical body, i.e. take the physical consciousness too to share in your adventure of ever new discovery. Thus you may, for example, forget your habit of eating or even walking, truly forget and try to learn over again, even as you did for the first time as a child. You have to acquire consciously a capacity of the body that has become an almost unconscious reflex action. It is a wonderful and exhilarating experience. Naturally you cannot repeat too often or carry too far an experiment of this kind on the physical plane. But you can freely deal with your inner life and consciousness. You can make your mind and your vital a clean slate, as much as you like: not once in your life, but every moment of your life. And then see how the world impinges upon your consciousness, what fresh discoveries and awakenings come to you endlessly! You can always rid yourself of the accustomed vibrations on the normal levels of your existence, the physical, vital and mental; and even you can go beyond your psychic formation and be the wide, the vast, the limitless, the Infinite itself, void of all name and form. And then with that virgin consciousness drop straight into the world of material life and form, into your body and bodily reactions. The world will give itself up to you in its pristine purity, its original beauty and truth, always luminous and glorious. This experience has to be the normal mode of your living, not simply the culmination or acme of your being, a fixed and stagnant status, even if considered the highest, the summum bonum. That is how you can keep yourself and the world around you ever fresh and young and new.
The preacher who speaks of the truth and delivers it to his hearers is usually effective for the first time or for a first few occasions only, when he feels the truth of his truth and is sincere while delivering. But as time wears on, his truth too wears out, for it becomes stereotyped, a matter of mere habit. The experience is no longer lived, but mechanically doled out. You are sincere only when the experience is new and fresh and living, it should be made so every moment, otherwise it is dead letter, letter that killeth.
06.16 - A Page of Occult History, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
At the beginning of creation, four individual formations the first personalitiesmade their appearance. There were: (1) a Being of Light or Consciousness, (2) a Being of Truth or Reality, (3) a Being of Love or Ananda and (4) a Being of Life. And the first law of creation was freedom of decision. These Beings were manifestations in the free movement of the Divine; they themselves moved free, according to their individualised conscious will. They stood out, as if in bold relief, on the background of the Divine Existence. For originally, although they differentiated themselves from each other and from the Divine, yet they formed a unified harmony and lived and moved and had their being as different members of the same divine Body. At first they stood out, but still essentially and apparently linked on to their fount and origin. Soon, however, they stood out no longer on the Divine, but moved out of him, away and separate; they sought to fulfil their individualised will and destiny. The Divine did not impose its will or force these individualities to turn round: that would frustrate the very purpose of creation. He allowed these independent beings to enjoy their full independence, although they were born out of him and essential part and parcel of his own being. They went abroad on a journey of adventure, each carving out its own line of growth and fulfilment. The first fruit, the inevitable reaction of freedom was precisely, as is just said, a separation from the Divine, each one encircled within its ego, limited and bound to its own fund of potency: individualism means limitation. Now, once separated, the connection with the source snapped, that is to say in the outward activity, in dynamic movement or becoming (not in essential being), the Four Independents lapsed into their opposites: Light changed to Darkness, i.e. conscious-ness to unconsciousness, Truth changed to Falsehood, Delight changed to Pain and Suffering, and Life changed to Death. That is how the four undivine principles, the Powers of the Undivine came to rule and fashion the material creation.
Into the heart of this Darkness and Falsehood and Pain and Death, a seed was sown, a grain that is to be the epitome and symbol of material creation and in and through which the Divine will claim back all the elements gone astray, the prodigal ones who will return to recognise and fulfil the Divine. That was Earth. And the earth, in her turn, in her labour towards the Divine Fulfilment, out of her bosom, threw up a being who would again symbolise and epitomise the earth and material creation. That is Man. For, man came with the soul in him, the Psychic Being, the Divine Flame, the spark of consciousness in the midst of universal unconsciousness, a miniature of the original Divine Light-Truth-Love-Life. In the meantime, to help the evolution, to join hands with the aspiring soul in the human being, there was created, on the defection of the First Lords the Asuric Quaternitya second hierarchy of luminous beingsDevas, gods. (Some-thing of this inner history of the world is reflected in the Greek legend of struggle between the Titans and the Olympians.) These gods, however, being a latter creation, perhaps because they were young and inexperienced, could not cope immediately with their strong Elders. It is why we see in the mythological legends the gods very often worsted at the hands of the Asuras: Indra hiding under the sea, Zeus threatened often with defeat and disaster. It is only an intervention from the Supreme (the Greeks called it Fate) that saved them in the end and restored the balance.
07.10 - Diseases and Accidents, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I will tell you a story, I mean a true story, in this connection. There was a pilot who was considered what is called an ace among his fellowmen in the first Great War. He was an extraordinary aviator and the hero of many victories. Nothing had happened to him at any time. But towards the end of his life, an event occurredsome private tragedy and all at once he had the feeling that something was going to happen to him; an accident perhaps, and it was all finished with him. He had come out of the war but was still in the army. He wanted to make a flight to South Africa, from France right up to the south of Africa. He started from France and made for Madagascar, so far as I remember, and then wanted to fly back to France. Now, my brother was at that time the Governor of Congo and needed to join his post as soon as possible. He asked for a place in the aeroplane of the pilot I am speaking about. It was not a regular service plane, but one of those used for trial to show what the machines were capable of and the skills of the airmen. Many tried to dissuade my brother from making the journey, saying that these adventurous trips were, always dangerous. My brother however did not mind the risk. Nothing serious happened, but for a slight breakdown in the middle of the Sahara which was easily got over, and the plane made safe journey and dropped him at his place in Congo. The plane continued further down, to Madagascar, as I said. Now the pilot started back, he did half the journey, his plane crashed and he was killed forthwith. I shall explain to you what really the matter was. What happened had to happen, it was a foregone conclusion. My brother had an absolute faith in his destiny, a certainty that nothing would touch him. The consciousness of the other was on the contrary full of doubt and apprehension. So the mixture of the two atmospheres brought about this that in the first instance the accident could not be prevented, but it stopped short of a catastrophe. But once the destiny of my brother was not there with the machine,like Caesar's destiny that made the boatman row safely across the river through a storm the protection was also withdrawn and the pilot had to go down under the full blast of his bad fate. I can narrate another analogous story, it is with regard to a ship. There were two persons, husb and and wife. They went by air to Indo-China. They had an accident, a very serious accident. All were killed except only these two. Now they had to return to France. They did not want to travel by air, they had had an experience of it. So they took a boat, I mean a ship, which they thought would be quite safe. Now what happened was absolutely unexpected, quite extraordinary. In the middle of the Red Sea, in broad daylight, the ship struck against a reef and sanka thing that does not happen even once perhaps in a million cases. All the passengers were drowned except, miraculous again to say, the couple. There are people like thatthey carry misfortune with them, but the misfortune is for others, they themselves escape some-how.
If you look at the thing in an ordinary way, you do not notice it. But the fact is there. You must be very careful about your associations. An unfortunate association may prove disastrous to you. The karma of others may fall upon you, unless you have the inner knowledge, the vision and the necessary power. If you see a person with something like a dark whirl around avoid him at all cost. The moral of it all is that it is very useful to look into things a little more deeply than to observe the surface only.
07.20 - Why are Dreams Forgotten?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is because dreams do not occur always in the same domain. It is not always the same part of the being that dreams nor is it the same place where one dreams. If one were in conscious communication with all the parts of one's being then one would remember all his dreams. But it is only with a few parts of your being that you remain in conscious contact in sleep. For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, in the domain very near the physical. This generally happens towards the end of the night, in the early hours of the morning just before you get up (say between four and five). Before rising from bed, if you remain very quiet, without making any movement and concentrate a little, you will be able to remember the dreams that you had immediately before: the communication between the physical and the subtle physical being close, you would be able to re-member easily enough. Now if you begin from the beginning what happens is something like this. As you fall into sleep, the body becomes quiet and the vital too goes to rest; but the mind continues to be active, it has not gone to sleep. You have now what are called mental dreams built out of all kinds of ideas and imaginations set free. After a time the mind gets tired and falls silent; the vital has rested sufficiently and wakes up in its turn and moves about. Your dreams of the mental domain are pushed back giving place to vital dreams. When you are active in the vital you very often go out of your body, visit all kinds of places and get involved in various exploits and adventures. If you wake up suddenly then, you would remember your vital exploits in sleep. Some people train themselves to get up at fixed hour of the night. They thus bring to memory the dreams they had just before waking. Now the vital too after having been sufficiently active gets tired and goes to rest. Yet another part of the being now re-places the vital and comes forward. It may be the turn of the subtle physical to enter the arena. The vital is pushed back and you lose contact with it.
To become conscious of all the various movements of your nights, to recover them in your memory, some sort of training is necessary. The different states of the being in which you roam at night are, as you have seen, usually separate from each other. There is a gap in between two states; you jump from one to the other. There is no highway passing through all the domains of your consciousness connecting them without break or interruption. That means forgetfulness. When you leap from one into the other, you push back, that is forget, the one you leave behind. So you have to construct a bridge and very few people know how to do it; it requires more engineering skill than to build a material bridge. You may have very wonderful experiences in sleep, but you forget them all; perhaps you remember, as I have said, the last one, the one nearest to the physical mind. The best way then to remember and become conscious of the whole night is to begin at the end and go backward. Catch hold of the last image that still persists in your memory, like the loose end of a thread and then pull, pull slowly, till image after image comes back: it is something like the unrolling of a cinema film in the reverse direction. When you lose trace, stop and concentrate a little; try to call back whatever stray bit or faint impression still persists or can be more easily revived and then again pull slowly, gently, pick up whatever shows itself, try to join the bits. In this way, after some trial and training you will be able to recover a good part of the lost underworld.
07.29 - How to Feel that we Belong to the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The world progresses. And being in the world you too must progress. It is a progress, however, which the Divine effects in you without your knowledge or collaboration. The progress is therefore very slow; Nature does not calculate the time she takes for her work, she has eternity before her and she is not in a hurry. Centuries and millenniums are mere instants in her march forward. One day she will arrive at the goal she has fixed for her, even at the complete transformation of the body and the advent of the superman. But the work will be hastened if there is conscious collaboration from man. Most people, by far the largest majority indeed, are not conscious of the action of the Divine in them. To be conscious means to be attentive of what is being done, to be receptive and to be passive to its influence. The more you give yourself and the more sincere you are, the swifter and the more assured is your realisation. You can do in a few moments what would otherwise take years. That is the aim of Yoga.
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08.16 - Perfection and Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is evident that the advent of man upon the earth has changed the terrestrial conditions. One cannot say that this has been to the greatest good of all, for it meant much suffering in many places. Also it is evident that the complication which the human being has brought with him into life has not always been favourable to him or to others. But from another point of view it did mean a progress, a marked progress among the lower species. Man mixed himself up with the life of animals, with the life of plants, even with the life of metals and minerals; it was not, as I said, to the great joy of all those with whom he occupied himself; but in any case, their conditions of life were changed by this intervention. In the same way, it is likely that the supramental being, whatever he might be, when he comes, will change considerably the life upon earth. We cherish this hope in our heart and in our mind that all the ills the earth suffers from will be, if not completely cured, at least to a large extent alleviated and that conditions of living here will be more pleasant and harmonious, at least tolerable for all. That is quite possible. In man, the mental consciousness that he embodied acted, by the very force of its nature, for its own satisfaction, for its own growth, without much consideration for the consequences of its actions. The Supramental, on the other hand, will act differently; that is our hope, at least.
Human life, however, is brief and naturally there is a tendency in man to shorten the distances in proportion to his dimensions. Still there will come a time when the thing will happen; there will be a moment or a movement that will at last land into the reality. Once upon a time there came a moment when the mental being could appear upon earth. The start may be poor, very incomplete, very partial, but after all there was the start. Why should not the same thing occur now?
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In that case, if this time it is final, then those who are ready or make themselves ready will naturally be the people who start first on the new path. There will be many such, I hope. But my own standpoint here is this: even if the thing has only half a chance of materialising it is worth the trouble. I think I have told you more than once that a moment comes in the life of many when life as it is, human consciousness as it is, becomes absolutely unbearable, creating only disgust and repulsion; one does not wish to continue it any longer, one can only throw all effort, all force, all life and soul into this single chance, into this singular opportunity given at last, so that one may pass on to the other side. What a relief, to set one's foot on a road that takes you elsewhere! It is worth the trouble of throwing behind all your burdens, freeing yourself of all loads so that you may leap all the better. This is how I look at the thing. It is the sublimest of adventures; if you have in you the true spirit of adventure in the least, you will feel it is worth risking all for all. But they who fear and hesitate, who ask, "Am I not giving away my prey for the shadow?"a most stupid saying, according to methey who are more for profiting by what they possess than for risking to lose all in the hope of something that may or may not happen tomorrow, I assure you, such people will not notice the change even if it happens right under their nose. They will say, "It is all right, we do not care, there is nothing to regret." Quite possibly; but after all, they might have to regret, we do not know.
In any case, that is what I mean by sincerity. That is to say, if you regard the new realisation as the only thing truly worth living for, if what is is intolerable, not only for oneself, perhaps not so much for oneself as for the whole world, one feels the need of it if one is not small and egoistic; one feels that the present has lasted too long and one can do nothing but take up all that one is, all that one can do and hurl oneself completelyhead foremost, without looking backward, without considering what may happen or notinto the adventure. It is far better to jump into the abyss, than to stand on the brink shivering.
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08.17 - Psychological Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We come to the next term. I spoke to you once of courage; I said courage means the taste for adventure, the supreme adventure. This taste for the supreme adventure is Aspirationaspiration that seizes you wholly and throws you without calculation or reserve, without the possibility of withdrawal, into the great adventure of the discovery of the Divine, the great adventure of meeting the Divine and the still greater adventure of realising the Divine. It means plunging into an unknown venture without looking backward, without asking even for a moment what is going to happen for if you ask where you are going to fall, you never start, you remain fixed where you are, both your feet firmly rooted on the spot, fearing lest you lose your balance. That is why I call the thing courage. But truly it is aspiration. The two go together. True aspiration is something full of courage.
We have till now, then, four elements. The fifth one I wish to add is Endurance. For, if you are not capable of facing your difficulties without getting disheartened, without abandoning your effort because it is too difficult, and if you are not able to bear blows, pocket them and go on never minding for the blows come because of your faults and mistakesyou cannot go very far: at the first turning where you lose sight of your petty habitual life, you despair and give up the game.
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Arrested upon dim adventure's brink,
The future ended drowned in nothingness.
10.01 - Cycles of Creation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The present cycle of creation has for its goal the advent of the Supermind, the coming of a supramental race of beings.
The world, it seems, moves in cycles. There are periods of creation with a hiatus or a gap in between of dissolution. Present-day science too speaks of the universe proceeding in pulsations, that is to say, alternate expansion and contraction. Indian mythology speaks of alternate 'Pralaya' and 'Srishti'. The Indian system speaks also of 'Mahpralaya', utter dissolution or 'Yoganidr' of the Supreme. In other words, there are periods when the universe retires altogether into its origin and when it comes out it manifests itself in an entirely new way. In a given creation between two major dissolutions, 'Mahpralaya', that is to say, in a major cycle, there are minor cycles (epicycles) marked by minor dissolutions, 'Khandapralaya'.
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The present cycle, the great cycle that is to say, has, as I have said, for its ultimate motive and purpose the advent and reign of the Supermind. But this proceeds through stages, each stage forming a minor or lesser cycle. The stages of these cycles are the different degrees of what is called evolution. The evolution starts upon the basis of an apparently simple substance and goes on unfolding gradually an inherent complexity. As we know, the different cycles of evolution in the past were at the outset a purely material universe of inorganic elements, then came the cycle of organic combinations, then the manifestation of life and next the mind and at present the mind at its peak capacity, which means the advent of the strange creature that has a miraculous destiny to accomplish. And that is to bring forth out of him the achievement and fulfilment of the next cycle. For the mind is there to bring forth, to usher in the Supermind and man is there as the laboratory and the vanguard as well of the Supermind.
At the present time the human consciousness in general has been so prepared and its dwelling and playfield the earth consciousness made ready to such a degree that it has been possible for the still secreted higher perfection to enter into the arena. The evolution, the growth has been a gradual expression and revelation of the light, the consciousness in a higher and higher degree of purity and potency through an encasement hard and resistant at first but gradually yielding to the impact of the higher status and even transforming itself so as to become its instrument and embodiment. We speak of the present situation, we are concerned with man and what he is to grow into or bring out of himself. Here also there seem to be stages or cycles of creation leading to the final achievement. The whole burden of the present endeavour is how to transcend, transform or modify the animalhood which is the basis of humanity even now and in and through which man is growing and seeking to manifest and incarnate his superior potencies. Man's supramental destiny means that he totally outgrows the animal, outgrows even his manhood in so far as it is merely human; for he has to incorporate the principle of the supramental which wholly transcends the mental.
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The embodiment of the supramental, the supramental consciousness in its supramental body is indeed even now rather a far-off event. But the beginning of a supramentalised humanity, a section of it as the spearhead is quite a possibility in a comparatively near future. A race of elite in whom the grosser elements of humanhood, its physical animality and mentality have been purified of their dross, refined into something of the pure luminous reflection of the higher consciousness that is the immediate end for which the new force seems to be labouring. And the consequence too of this achievement is expected to be also very considerable. The whole human race or even a majority of it is not likely to be transfigured into the elite, the race of the pioneers just referred to. The advent or the preparation of such a body will in its turn naturally influence the rest of mankind and act so effectively and largely that the human race in general will put on a different aspect, the aspect of a humanity not of the Kaliyuga but of the Satyayuga. That is what the general human mind has been aspiring for and calling "Ramarajya". A humanity with a radiant mind, a purified, generous, unegoistic, yet creative vital and a physical consciousness enjoying, revealing, building forms of true beauty seems to be a nearer and intermediary probability and animal-born humanity retaining its normal animal structure, still outgrowing its grosser movements and instincts, controlling and guiding, modifying and utilising them to higher purposes (Pashupati) may well be a happy stage towards the final appearance of the supramental race wholly transcending the frame of animality, born and existing in the purely supramental way.
A supramentalised material universe or rather physical earth may itself put on a different, a radiant appearance and also the beings and creatures of the other levels of life and physical existence may also undergo a sea change, but of that nothing need be or can be previewed at present.
10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
By a divine adventure of heavenly powers
Two strive, constant associates without joy,
10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That the spirit might adventure into Time
And wrestle with adamant Necessity
10.08 - Consciousness as Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Consciousness, however, is not mere consciousness, that is to say, awareness; it is also power, power for organisation and execution. It is unconsciousness that is or invariably leads to disorderliness, disorganisation and confusion. It is the light of consciousness that brings order out of chaos, gives an organised direction to forces moving at random and with no purpose. Man has started organising his life since he acquired the light of consciousness. He has been doing the yoga of the intelligent will (Gita's buddhi-yoga) since his advent upon earth. But even in man this force of light, the energy of consciousness is not fully operative because man is not fully conscious, he is only partially so. His mind is conscious and has developed into intelligence (a little strayed into intellectuality); but there are large domains in him that are wholly unconscious, that is to say, move in mechanical rounds, a passive slave of external impacts. I am referring to his vital being and his physical being. Even like the mind these too must admit into themselves the light of the consciousness in order to free themselves from the influence of other external forces and attain the sense of their own truth and self-fulfilment.
Indeed each part, even each constituent element of our being has an individuality of its own, a personal being and consciousness. And it is because it is not aware of that inner reality, because it has fallen unconscious, therefore it has entered into this life of bondage and slavery and mechanical existence. When life becomes conscious, the life-energy becomes luminous, the vital being gradually gains self-control and self-direction. Instead of being moved about by irresponsible and irrepressible desires and impulses it attains a clarity as to what it should desire and what it should effectuate; and along with that light secures the strength also to act up to the directions of that light.
1.008 - The Principle of Self-Affirmation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
The next step is what we may call 'taking stock of our situation' before we actually embark upon the great adventure of whole-souled meditation. What do we mean by 'taking stock'? Every businessman knows it. We just try to find out what things are there. How much is there on the credit side, or how much on the debit side? How much we owe others, and how much others owe us will be revealed from a stock-taking process. It is said that the true inner structure of a person never gets revealed in ordinary life as long as the mind is pulled in different directions. We know very well that if our right hand is pulled by someone and our left hand is pulled by someone else, and if everyone starts pulling us from all directions, we cannot assess our true state of affairs on account of our diversion of attention in the direction of the pulls exerted upon our personality. Our psychological personality receives the impact of these pulls every day in our life so that we are never ourselves, even for a few minutes of the day. We are always artificial personalities, a fact which will not come to the daylight of understanding because we have never been anything other than that. This artificial personality of ours may become so strong and impetuous that it may persist even in sleep, so that we are artificial even in sleep. The true nature will not get revealed because of the heavy impact of this artificial set-up of our life.
The moment we wake up in the morning, we generally tune ourselves to external conditions rather than be ourself and to go deep into our own needs our weaknesses and our strengths. We are placed in this world under such conditions, fortunately or unfortunately, that we have not a moment's rest from the pressure exerted upon us by conditions outside external circumstances. We are always something in terms of something else; we are nothing by our own self. This is very unfortunate and is going to be a great obstacle before us. We are either a brother or a sister, a father or a mother, a friend or an enemy, an officer or a subordinate, this or that. All this is a false personality, because in our own selves we are neither brothers nor sisters, neither fathers nor mothers, neither bosses nor subordinates or servants, or any such thing; all these are only foisted relationships. But these are the things that make our life, and we are only that, and nothing but that. How happy a person feels when he has the opportunity to go on brooding, thinking and contemplating the social status that he holds. He would not like to think that he is a puny animal, bereft of these relationships, when he is divested of all these contacts.
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
I was very glad to gather from your conversation yesterday afternoon that you have a serious intention of taking up the Great Work in the proper spirit. Your criticisms of previous experience in the course of your adventures appeared to be singularly sane and just. As I promised I am writing this letter to cover a few practical points which we had not time to discuss and which in any case I think it better to arrange by correspondence.
1) It is of the first importance that you should understand my personal position. It is not actually wrong to regard me as a teacher, but it is certainly liable to mislead; fellow-student, or, if you like, fellow-sufferer, seems a more appropriate definition.
1.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
1.00 - PREFACE, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
The age of adventures is over. Even if we reach the seventh galaxy,
we will go there helmeted and mechanized, and it will not change a thing for us; we will find ourselves exactly as we are now: helpless children in the face of death, living beings who are not too sure how they live, why they are alive, or where they are going. On the earth, as we know, the times of Cortez and Pizarro are over; one and the same pervasive Mechanism stifles us: the trap is closing inexorably. But, as always, it turns out that our bleakest adversities are also our most promising opportunities, and that the dark passage is only a passage leading to a greater light. Hence, with our backs against the wall, we are facing the last territory left for us to explore, the ultimate adventure: ourselves.
Indeed, there are plenty of simple and obvious signs. This decade's [the 60's] most important phenomenon is not the trip to the moon, but the "trips" on drugs, the student restlessness throughout the world, and the great hippie migration. But where could they possibly go? There is no more room on the teeming beaches, no more room on the crowded roads, no more room in the ever-expanding anthills of our cities. We have to find a way out elsewhere.
1.00 - Preliminary Remarks, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
St. Paul (again), after his adventure on the road to Damascus, goes into the desert of Arabia for many years, and on his return overturns the Roman Empire. Even in the legends of savages we find the same thing universal; somebody who is nobody in particular goes away for a longer or shorter period, and comes back as the great medicine man; but nobody ever knows exactly what happened to him.
Making every possible deduction for fable and myth, we get this one coincidence. A nobody goes away, and comes back a somebody. This is not to be explained in any of the ordinary ways.
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This is only one of many adventures that may come to you; but it is one of the most typical. By this time your hours of meditation will fill most of the day, and you will probably be constantly having presentiments that something is about to happen. You may also be terrified with the idea that your brain may be giving way; but you will have learnt the real symptoms of mental fatigue, and you will be careful to avoid them. They must be very carefully distinguished from idleness!
At certain times you will feel as if there were a contest between the will and the mind; at other times you may feel as if they were in harmony; but there is a third state, to be distinguished from the latter feeling. It is the certain sign of near success, the view-halloo. This is when the mind runs naturally towards the object chosen, not as if in obedience to the will of the owner of the mind, but as if directed by nothing at all, or by something impersonal; as if it were falling by its own weight, and not being pushed down.
10.14 - Night and Day, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are occasions when the dream experience comes to you with a clear au thenticity as if you were taking part in a real drama. Everything is happening truly and undisputably exactly like a happening in the normal life. Indeed when it is happening you feel it is happening in your waking life. You find the difference only when you wake up. As a matter of fact it is a region very near to the material world running parallel to it. And at times we are lifted bodily as it were into it and the experiences and adventures we go through are very analogous to those in normal life. Still when we are awake and compare the two, we notice there is a difference in pattern and movement. Yet there are other experiences of quite a different nature. You feel and see, you are transported to a region made, it would appear, of elements of a different kind. The atmosphere gives a different feel from the earthly atmosphere, there is a light which seems to have a different vibration, even the earth there, for the earth still exists, is made of different density and solidity. These are the worlds perhaps, which Sri Aurobindo refers to when he speaks of "the other earths." Beings and things have a happy, a pure beauty in their form and movement. This does not come to you merely as a thought or an imagination but a very concrete reality in which you live your being.
Your sleep-world is full of many worlds, rising tier upon tier like hills in a mountain range. Quite at the bottom is an almost physical, a subtle physical world and at the top is the world of the spiritual or psychic being or consciousness. You range through all of them in some way or other but you remember only partially and in snippets and you do not know which is which. It is by focussing your attention upon them and trying to distinguish the different modes of each in regard to your feeling and perception that you gradually begin to unravel them, untie the knots and spread out the threads separately.
1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
were in most cases also adventurous travellers. And mis-
sionaries, e.g. those sent by Emperor Ashoka, were a well-
1.01 - An Accomplished Westerner, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous incessant and hotter fires, and the like. When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now, his vacation from humbler toil having commenced.
The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?for the nobler plants are valued for the fruit they bear at last in the air and light, far from the ground, and are not treated like the humbler esculents, which, though they may be biennials, are cultivated only till they have perfected their root, and often cut down at top for this purpose, so that most would not know them in their flowering season.
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I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough. You will export such articles as the country affords, purely native products, much ice and pine timber and a little granite, always in native bottoms. These will be good ventures. To oversee all the details yourself in person; to be at once pilot and captain, and owner and underwriter; to buy and sell and keep the accounts; to read every letter received, and write or read every letter sent; to superintend the discharge of imports night and day; to be upon many parts of the coast almost at the same time;often the richest freight will be discharged upon a Jersey shore;to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise; to keep up a steady despatch of commodities, for the supply of such a distant and exorbitant market; to keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, prospects of war and peace every where, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civilization,taking advantage of the results of all exploring expeditions, using new passages and all improvements in navigation;charts to be studied, the position of reefs and new lights and buoys to be ascertained, and ever, and ever, the logarithmic tables to be corrected, for by the error of some calculator the vessel often splits upon a rock that should have reached a friendly pier,there is the untold fate of La Perouse;universal science to be kept pace with, studying the lives of all great discoverers and navigators, great adventurers and merchants, from Hanno and the Phnicians down to our day; in fine, account of stock to be taken from time to time, to know how you stand. It is a labor to task the faculties of a man,such problems of profit and loss, of interest, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand a universal knowledge.
I have thought that Walden Pond would be a good place for business, not solely on account of the railroad and the ice trade; it offers advantages which it may not be good policy to divulge; it is a good port and a good foundation. No Neva marshes to be filled; though you must every where build on piles of your own driving. It is said that a flood-tide, with a westerly wind, and ice in the Neva, would sweep St.
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Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearers character, until we hesitate to lay them aside, without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies. No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence. I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this;who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee? Most behave as if they believed that their prospects for life would be ruined if they should do it. It would be easier for them to hobble to town with a broken leg than with a broken pantaloon. Often if an accident happens to a gentlemans legs, they can be mended; but if a similar accident happens to the legs of his pantaloons, there is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected. We know but few men, a great many coats and breeches. Dress a scarecrow in your last shift, you standing shiftless by, who would not soonest salute the scarecrow? Passing a cornfield the other day, close by a hat and coat on a stake, I recognized the owner of the farm. He was only a little more weather-beaten than when I saw him last. I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his masters premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief. It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Could you, in such a case, tell surely of any company of civilized men, which belonged to the most respected class? When Madam Pfeiffer, in her adventurous travels round the world, from east to west, had got so near home as Asiatic Russia, she says that she felt the necessity of wearing other than a travelling dress, when she went to meet the authorities, for she was now in a civilized country, where people are judged of by their clothes.
Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect. But they yield such respect, numerous as they are, are so far hea then, and need to have a missionary sent to them. Beside, clothes introduced sewing, a kind of work which you may call endless; a womans dress, at least, is never done.
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Undoubtedly, in this case, what is true for one is truer still for a thousand, as a large house is not proportionally more expensive than a small one, since one roof may cover, one cellar underlie, and one wall separate several apartments. But for my part, I preferred the solitary dwelling. Moreover, it will commonly be cheaper to build the whole yourself than to convince another of the advantage of the common wall; and when you have done this, the common partition, to be much cheaper, must be a thin one, and that other may prove a bad neighbor, and also not keep his side in repair. The only coperation which is commonly possible is exceedingly partial and superficial; and what little true coperation there is, is as if it were not, being a harmony inaudible to men. If a man has faith, he will coperate with equal faith everywhere; if he has not faith, he will continue to live like the rest of the world, whatever company he is joined to. To coperate, in the highest as well as the lowest sense, means _to get our living together_. I heard it proposed lately that two young men should travel together over the world, the one without money, earning his means as he went, before the mast and behind the plow, the other carrying a bill of exchange in his pocket. It was easy to see that they could not long be companions or coperate, since one would not _operate_ at all. They would part at the first interesting crisis in their adventures. Above all, as I have implied, the man who goes alone can start to-day; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
But all this is very selfish, I have heard some of my townsmen say. I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises. I have made some sacrifices to a sense of duty, and among others have sacrificed this pleasure also. There are those who have used all their arts to persuade me to undertake the support of some poor family in the town; and if I had nothing to do,for the devil finds employment for the idle,I might try my hand at some such pastime as that. However, when I have thought to indulge myself in this respect, and lay their Heaven under an obligation by maintaining certain poor persons in all respects as comfortably as I maintain myself, and have even ventured so far as to make them the offer, they have one and all unhesitatingly preferred to remain poor. While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for any thing else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it. But I would not stand between any man and his genius; and to him who does this work, which I decline, with his whole heart and soul and life, I would say,
1.01 - MAPS OF EXPERIENCE - OBJECT AND MEANING, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
vanished. The forces released by the advent of the experiment have wreaked havoc within the mythic
world. Jung states:
1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
great oceans from a thing of chance and adventure to a regular
understood business. It is the engineering of the mercantilists.
1.01 - the Call to Adventure, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
object:1.01 - the Call to adventure
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The adventure of the Hero
C H A P T E R
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This is an example of one of the ways in which the adventure
can begin. A blunderapparently the merest chancereveals
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Whether dream or myth, in these adventures there is an at
mosphere of irresistible fascination about the figure that appears
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designated the "call to adventure"signifies that destiny has
summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of grav
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go forth of his own volition to accomplish the adventure, as did
Theseus when he arrived in his father's city, Athens, and heard
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angered god, Poseidon. The adventure may begin as a mere
blunder, as did that of the princess of the fairy tale; or still
1.01 - The Castle, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
These thoughts, to tell the truth, occupied me only for a moment; stronger were my relief at being safe and sound in the midst of a select company and my impatience to strike up a conversation (at a nod of invitation from the man who seemed the lord-or the host-I had sat down at the only empty place) and to exchange with my traveling companions tales of the adventures we had undergone. But at this table, contrary to the custom of inns, and also of courts, no one uttered a word. When a guest wished to ask his neighbor to pass the salt or the ginger, he did so with a gesture, and with gestures he also addressed the servants, motioning them to cut him a slice of pheasant pie or to pour him a half pint of wine.
I decided to break what I believed a drowsiness of tongues after the trials of the journey, and I was about to burst forth with a loud exclamation such as "Health to all !" or "Well met!" or "It's an ill wind'.'.'."; but no sound came from my lips. The drumming of spoons, the rattle of goblets and crockery were enough to persuade me I had not gone deaf: I could only presume I had been struck dumb. My fellow diners confirmed this supposition, moving their lips silently in a gracefully resigned manner: it was clear that crossing the forest had cost each of us the power of speech.
1.01 - The Mental Fortress, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
O petty adventurers in an infinite world
And prisoners of a dwarf humanity,
1.02 - Karmayoga, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Yoga is communion with God for knowledge, for love or for work. The Yogin puts himself into direct relation with that which is omniscient and omnipotent within man and without him. He is in tune with the infinite, he becomes a channel for the strength of God to pour itself out upon the world whether through calm benevolence or active beneficence. When a man rises by putting from him the slough of self and lives for others and in the joys and sorrows of others; - when he works perfectly and with love and zeal, but casts away the anxiety for results and is neither eager for victory nor afraid of defeat; - when he devotes all his works to God and lays every thought, word and deed as an offering on the divine altar; - when he gets rid of fear and hatred, repulsion and disgust and attachment, and works like the forces of Nature, unhasting, unresting, inevitably, perfectly; - when he rises above the thought that he is the body or the heart or the mind or the sum of these and finds his own and true self; - when he becomes aware of his immortality and the unreality of death; - when he experiences the advent of knowledge and feels himself passive and the divine force working unresisted through his mind, his speech, his senses and all his organs; - when having thus abandoned whatever he is, does or has to the Lord of all, the Lover and Helper of mankind, he dwells permanently in
Him and becomes incapable of grief, disquiet or false excitement,
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
every particular (that is, historical) adventurer, explorer, creator, revolutionary and peacemaker lurks the
image of the son of god, who sets his impeccable character against tyranny and the unknown. The
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scarecrow the Count as a companion, and has a number of adventures with him. Finally, the two
travelers arrive at the town of Pacanow, and observe the proceedings there in great astonishment:
1.02 - Prayer of Parashara to Vishnu, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
[17]: Or it might be rendered, 'Those two other forms (which proceed) from his supreme nature;' that is, from the nature of Viṣṇu, when he is Nirupādhi, or without adventitious attributes: ### 'other' (###); the commentator states they are other or separate from Viṣṇu only through Māyā, illusion,' but here implying false notion;' the elements of creation being in essence one with Viṣṇu, though in existence detached and different.
[18]: Pradhāna, when unmodified, is, according to the Sā
1.02 - Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
22:When once the object of concentration has possessed and is possessed by the three master instruments, the thought, the heart and the will, -- a consummation fully possible only when the desire-soul in us has submitted to the Divine Law, -- the perfection of mind and life and body can be effectively fulfilled in our transmuted nature. This will be done, not for the personal satisfaction of the ego, but that the whole may constitute a fit temple for the Divine Presence, a faultless instrument for the divine work. For the work can be truly performed only when the instrument, consecrated and perfected, has grown fit for a selfless action, -- and that will be when personal desire and egoism are abolished, but not the liberated individual. Even when the little ego has been abolished, the true Spiritual Person can still remain and God's will and work and delight in him and the spiritual use of his perfection and fulfilment. Our works will then be divine and done divinely; our mind arid life and will, devoted to the Divine, will be used to help fulfil in others and in the world that which has been first realised in ourselves, -all that we can manifest of the embodied Unity, Love, Freedom, Strength, Power, Splendour, immortal Joy which is the goal of the spirit's terrestrial adventure.
23:The Yoga must start with an effort or at least a settled turn towards this total concentration. A constant and unfailing will of consecration of all ourselves to the Supreme is demanded of us, an offering of our whole being and our many-chambered nature to the Eternal who is the All. The effective fullness of our concentration on the one thing needful to the exclusion of all else will be the measure of our self-consecration to the One who is alone desirable. But this exclusiveness will in the end exclude nothing except the falsehood of our way of seeing the world and our will's ignorance. For our concentration on the Eternal will be consummated by the mind when we see constantly the Divine in itself and the Divine in ourselves, but also the Divine in all things and beings and happenings. It will be consummated by the heart when all emotion is summed up in the love of the Divine, -- of the Divine in itself and for itself, but love too of the Divine in all its beings and powers and personalities and forms in the Universe' It will be consummated by the will when we feel and receive always the divine impulsion and accept that alone as our sole motive force; but this will mean that, having slain to the last rebellious straggler the wandering impulses of the egoistic nature, we have universalised ourselves and can accept with a constant happy acceptance the one divine working in all things. This is the first fundamental siddhi of the integral Yoga.
1.02 - The 7 Habits An Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
As you open yourself to the next three habits -- the habits of Public Victory -- you will discover and unleash both the desire and the resources to heal and rebuild important relationships that have deteriorated, or even broken. Good relationships will improve -- become deeper, more solid, more creative, and more adventuresome.
The seventh habit, if deeply internalized, will renew the first six and will make you truly independent and capable of effective interdependence. Through it, you can charge your own batteries.
1.02 - The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
To the adventure, with these words of thine,
That to my first intent I have returned.
1.02 - The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
ual adventure, he wrote. As for the Mother and myself,
we have had to try all ways, follow all methods, to sur-
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and hazards it entails a real adventure of which the goal
is certain victory, but the road to which is unknown and
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the spiritual adventure of discovery to which he had now
irrevocably and totally dedicated himself.
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to what extent their superhuman effort was an adventure
into the unknown. Evolution is always a work in progress,
1.02 - The Eternal Law, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
things were not always this way. Between the end of the Age of the Mysteries and the advent of the great religions, both in the West and in the East, a chasm appeared, a Knowledge that did not make such a formidable distinction between God and the world was obscured; all the traditions, all the legends testify to this. The conflict between Matter and Spirit is a modern creation; the so-called materialists are really the offspring, legitimate or not, of the spiritualists, much as prodigal sons are begotten by miserly fathers. Between the first Upanishads of about three or four thousand years ago themselves
heirs to the Veda, which saw God everywhere in this "marvelous universe" and the last Upanishads, a Secret was lost; it was lost not only in India but in Mesopotamia, in Egypt, in Greece, and in Central America. It is this Secret that Sri Aurobindo was to rediscover,
1.02 - The Necessity of Magick for All, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
But this is only part of the story. As things are, we have all adventured into an Universe of immeasurable, of incalculable, possibilities, of situations never contemplated by the trend of Evolution. Man is a marine monster; when he decided that it would be better for him somehow to live on land, he had to grow lungs instead of gills. When we want to travel over soft snow, we have to invent ski; when we wish to exchange thoughts, we must arrange a conventional code of sounds, of knots in string, of carved or written characters in a word embark upon the boundless ocean of hieroglyphics or symbols of one sort or another. (Presently I shall have to explain the supreme importance of such systems; in fact, the Universe itself is not, and cannot be, anything but an arrangement of symbolic characters!)
Here we are, then, caught in a net of circumstances; if we are to do anything at all beyond automatic vegetative living, we must consciously apply ourselves to Magick, "the Science and Art" (let me remind you!) "of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will." Observe that the least slackness or error means that things happen which do not thus conform; when this is so despite our efforts, we are (temporarily) baffled; when it is our own ignorance of what we ought to will, or lack of skill in adapting our means to the right end, then we set up a conflict in our own Nature: our act is suicidal. Such interior struggle is at the base of nearly all neuroses, as Freud recently "discovered" as if this had not been taught, and taught without his massed errors, by the great teachers of the past! The Taoist doctrine, in particular, is most precise and most emphatic on this point; indeed, it may seem to some of us to overshoot the mark; for nothing is permissible in that scheme but frictionless adjustment and adaptation to circumstance. "Benevolence and righteousness" are actually deprecated! That any such ideas should ever have existed (says Lao-tse) is merely evidence of the universal disorder.
1.02 - The Refusal of the Call, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
Often in actual life, and not infrequently in the myths and popular tales, we encounter the dull case of the call unanswered; for it is always possible to turn the ear to other interests. Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. Walled in boredom, hard work, or "culture," the subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and becomes a victim to be saved.
His flowering world becomes a wastel and of dry stones and his life feels meaninglesseven though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort succeed in building an empire of renown.
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This is the aspect of the hero-problem illustrated in the won drous Arabian Nights adventure of the Prince Kamar al-Zaman and the Princess Budur. The young and handsome prince, the only son of King Shahriman of Persia, persistently refused the repeated suggestions, requests, demands, and finally injunctions, of his father, that he should do the normal thing and take to himself a wife. The first time the subject was broached to him, the lad responded: "O my father, know that I have no lust to marry nor doth my soul incline to women; for that concerning their craft and perfidy I have read many books and heard much talk, even as saith the poet:
Now, an of women ask ye, I reply:
1.02 - The Two Negations 1 - The Materialist Denial, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
11:For the faculties that transcend the senses, by the very fact of their being immeshed in Matter, missioned to work in a physical body, put in harness to draw one car along with the emotional desires and nervous impulses, are exposed to a mixed functioning in which they are in danger of illuminating confusion rather than clarifying truth. Especially is this mixed functioning dangerous when men with unchastened minds and unpurified sensibilities attempt to rise into the higher domains of spiritual experience. In what regions of unsubstantial cloud and semibrilliant fog or a murk visited by flashes which blind more than they enlighten, do they not lose themselves by that rash and premature adventure! An adventure necessary indeed in the way in which Nature chooses to effect her advance, - for she amuses herself as she works, - but still, for the Reason, rash and premature.
12:It is necessary, therefore, that advancing Knowledge should base herself on a clear, pure and disciplined intellect. It is necessary, too, that she should correct her errors sometimes by a return to the restraint of sensible fact, the concrete realities of the physical world. The touch of Earth is always reinvigorating to the son of Earth, even when he seeks a supraphysical Knowledge. It may even be said that the supraphysical can only be really mastered in its fullness - to its heights we can always reach - when we keep our feet firmly on the physical. "Earth is His footing,"2 says the Upanishad whenever it images the Self that manifests in the universe. And it is certainly the fact that the wider we extend and the surer we make our knowledge of the physical world, the wider and surer becomes our foundation for the higher knowledge, even for the highest, even for the Brahmavidya.
1.034 - Sheba, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
46. Say, “I offer you a single advice: devote yourselves to God, in pairs, or individually; and reflect. There is no madness in your friend. He is just a warner to you, before the advent of a severe punishment.”
47. Say, “Whatever compensation I have asked of you, is yours. My compensation comes only from God, and He is Witness over all things.”
1.03 - Hymns of Gritsamada, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
6. When the sister of the Mother comes to him bringing the yield of the Light, the Priest of the pilgrim-sacrifice rejoices in her advent as a field of barley revels in the rain.
15 Or, travels to (reaches)
1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
So, our first task is to find God and base life on that Consciousness; In that process what is necessary for humanity will naturally be done. But that is not our direct aim. Ours is a tremendous task. It is an adventure in which one must be prepared to leave behind his desires and passions, intellectual preferences and mental constructions in order to enable the Higher Power to do its work. You have to see whether you can give your consent to the radical transformation that is inevitable.
Athavale: Yes, I am prepared for the gamble.
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Sri Aurobindo: You need not do it now; it is a thing guaranteed. But you cannot make even that a condition for entering this Yoga. It is a high adventure, as I told you. It is not like the other yogic systems where you get some touch of the Higher Reality and leave the rest untransformed. My Yoga makes demands that have to be met, it is a radical transition from the present state of human consciousness. We accept life but that does not mean that in this Yoga there is no renunciation. It only means we do not annul any of the faculties of the human being. What we put forth is not something mental, vital or physical but that which comes from the Supramental.
Athavale: I would do as you suggest; but at present I do not know any working higher than the Mind. What is to be done till then?
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Sri Aurobindo: Yes. There even I do not know the result. I have received only an indication from within that it is going to be. Yet I myself do not know the end of my adventure. Very few in the past have followed this Yoga and none has conquered the material plane. That is why it is an adventure into the Unknown. One must have faith and make the right choice.
In the evening Sri Aurobindo referred to Prof Athavale.
1.03 - Preparing for the Miraculous, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
called to. The great evolutionary adventure of the past will
be continued in unimaginable ways. Already a century ago,
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ner coherence of the facts of their spiritual adventure into
the unknown, supported by a mass of direct and indirect
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bindo and the Mother was an adventure into the unknown 7
7 See talk 2: The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought.52
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ing the adventure into the miraculous.
Thus will the masked Transcendent mount his throne.
1.03 - Reading, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
The student may read Homer or schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages. The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever. It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard. Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. It is not enough even to be able to speak the language of that nation by which they are written, for there is a memorable interval between the spoken and the written language, the language heard and the language read. The one is commonly transitory, a sound, a tongue, a dialect merely, almost brutish, and we learn it unconsciously, like the brutes, of our mothers. The other is the maturity and experience of that; if that is our mother tongue, this is our father tongue, a reserved and select expression, too significant to be heard by the ear, which we must be born again in order to speak. The crowds of men who merely _spoke_ the
Greek and Latin tongues in the middle ages were not entitled by the accident of birth to _read_ the works of genius written in those languages; for these were not written in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature. They had not learned the nobler dialects of Greece and Rome, but the very materials on which they were written were waste paper to them, and they prized instead a cheap contemporary literature. But when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct though rude written languages of their own, sufficient for the purposes of their rising literatures, then first learning revived, and scholars were enabled to discern from that remoteness the treasures of antiquity. What the Roman and Grecian multitude could not _hear_, after the lapse of ages a few scholars
1.03 - Supernatural Aid, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
crone or old man) who provides the adventurer with amulets
against the dragon forces he is about to pass.
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bolism of the adventure of the hero, see Jeff King, Maud Oakes, and Joseph
Campbell, Where the Two Came to Their Father, A Navaho War Ceremonial,
1.03 - The End of the Intellect, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
The legend as to the origin of these seventy-eight Atus is a most curious and interesting one indeed, although one cannot vouch for its accuracy. It goes that the Adepts of antiquity, seeing that a cycle of spiritual degradation and mental stagnation was about to descend upon Europe with the advent of what is called the Christian Era, were pre- occupied with the making of plans for the preservation of their accumulated knowledge. It would be held in reserve for the age when men would be sufficiently advanced and spiritually unbiased to receive it, and yet available during the intervening period, even during the cycle of complete intellectual slothfulness, so that any member of the com- munity who felt the inner urge to engage in the studies with which the Qabalah, in particular, deals would obtain easy access to it.
In conference assembled within the Sanctuary of the
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Five. Persephone is the virgin Earth and her legends indicate the adventures of the unredeemed soul ; and Ceres is the maiden Goddess of the Earth, too. Other deities are
Lakshmi and the Sphinx, all attri buted as representing the fertility of the earth and of all creatures.
1.03 - The Syzygy - Anima and Animus, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
of every life adventure. He has learnt these lessons only too well,
and remains true to his mother. This naturally causes her the
1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
I gave a sigh, and said, "Boku, come over here. I want you to listen to what I say. In studying Zen, it is necessary to pierce completely through when you penetrate to the source. It is the same with all the workings of heaven and earth. The wonderful transformation of springtime does not take place without the winter's severity, the intense cold that makes the hundred plants and grasses fade and shrivel, the bamboo split and shatter. But with the advent of spring, the ten thousand buds and blossoms emerge, rivaling one another with their charms and beauties. Hence the saying, 'To make something grow and develop, you must cut it back. To make something flourish, you must check its progress.'
"Long ago, when the First Patriarch Bodhidharma was living in seclusion doing zazen at Shao-shih, he had a student named Hui-k'o. Hui-k'o possessed outstanding talent and learning, and a dauntless and heroic spirit. For three years he continued to refine his attainment while serving as
1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And nigh what stars th' advent'rous heroe flew.
At last he silent sate; the list'ning throng
1.04 - Magic and Religion, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
heart of the Australian wilderness and wherever the advent of a
higher civilisation has not crushed it under ground. This universal
1.04 - Reality Omnipresent, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
13:If we thus accept a positive basis for our harmony - and on what other can harmony be founded? - the various conceptual formulations of the Unknowable, each of them representing a truth beyond conception, must be understood as far as possible in their relation to each other and in their effect upon life, not separately, not exclusively, not so affirmed as to destroy or unduly diminish all other affirmations. The real Monism, the true Adwaita, is that which admits all things as the one Brahman and does not seek to bisect Its existence into two incompatible entities, an eternal Truth and an eternal Falsehood, Brahman and not-Brahman, Self and not-Self, a real Self and an unreal, yet perpetual Maya. If it be true that the Self alone exists, it must be also true that all is the Self. And if this Self, God or Brahman is no helpless state, no bounded power, no limited personality, but the self-conscient All, there must be some good and inherent reason in it for the manifestation, to discover which we must proceed on the hypothesis of some potency, some wisdom, some truth of being in all that is manifested. The discord and apparent evil of the world must in their sphere be admitted, but not accepted as our conquerors. The deepest instinct of humanity seeks always and seeks wisely wisdom as the last word of the universal manifestation, not an eternal mockery and illusion, - a secret and finally triumphant good, not an all-creative and invincible evil, - an ultimate victory and fulfilment, not the disappointed recoil of the soul from its great adventure.
14:For we cannot suppose that the sole Entity is compelled by something outside or other than Itself, since no such thing exists. Nor can we suppose that It submits unwillingly to something partial within Itself which is hostile to its whole Being, denied by It and yet too strong for It; for this would be only to erect in other language the same contradiction of an All and something other than the All. Even if we say that the universe exists merely because the Self in its absolute impartiality tolerates all things alike, viewing with indifference all actualities and all possibilities, yet is there something that wills the manifestation and supports it, and this cannot be something other than the All. Brahman is indivisible in all things and whatever is willed in the world has been ultimately willed by the Brahman. It is only our relative consciousness, alarmed or baffled by the phenomena of evil, ignorance and pain in the cosmos, that seeks to deliver the Brahman from responsibility for Itself and its workings by erecting some opposite principle, Maya or Mara, conscious Devil or self-existent principle of evil. There is one Lord and Self and the many are only His representations and becomings.
1.04 - Sounds, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
The whistle of the locomotive penetrates my woods summer and winter, sounding like the scream of a hawk sailing over some farmers yard, informing me that many restless city merchants are arriving within the circle of the town, or adventurous country traders from the other side.
As they come under one horizon, they shout their warning to get off the track to the other, heard sometimes through the circles of two towns.
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Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success. I am refreshed and expanded when the freight train rattles past me, and I smell the stores which go dispensing their odors all the way from Long Wharf to Lake Champlain, reminding me of foreign parts, of coral reefs, and Indian oceans, and tropical climes, and the extent of the globe. I feel more like a citizen of the world at the sight of the palm-leaf which will cover so many flaxen New England heads the next summer, the Manilla hemp and cocoa-nut husks, the old junk, gunny bags, scrap iron, and rusty nails. This car-load of torn sails is more legible and interesting now than if they should be wrought into paper and printed books. Who can write so graphically the history of the storms they have weathered as these rents have done?
They are proof-sheets which need no correction. Here goes lumber from the Maine woods, which did not go out to sea in the last freshet, risen four dollars on the thousand because of what did go out or was split up; pine, spruce, cedar,first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou. Next rolls Thomaston lime, a prime lot, which will get far among the hills before it gets slacked. These rags in bales, of all hues and qualities, the lowest condition to which cotton and linen descend, the final result of dress,of patterns which are now no longer cried up, unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles,
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism.... Our whole European culture is
moving for some time now, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a
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by instinct who has found his advantage in standing aside, outside. Why has the advent of nihilism
become necessary? Because the values we have had hitherto thus draw their final consequence; because
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Preparations were made, to gild his chosen route, to cover the adventurers path with flowers, and to
display for his admiration and preoccupation the fairest women of the kingdom. The prince set out, with
1.04 - The Crossing of the First Threshold, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
the hero goes forward in his adventure until he comes to the
"threshold guardian" at the entrance to the zone of magnified
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ings who by accident adventured into his domain was "panic"
fear, a sudden, groundless fright. Any trifling cause thenthe
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by death and return. The adventure is always and everywhere
a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the
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bold adventurer beyond his depth may be shamelessly undone.
The first is of a caravan leader from Benares, who made bold
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It has been pointed out that this adventure of Prince Five-weapons is the
earliest known example of the celebrated and well-nigh universal tar-baby
1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
If the Mother was thus equipped with all necessities for Sri Aurobindo's comfort, Sri Aurobindo on his part was as solicitous about the Mother's well-being. He followed closely all her outer activities and enveloped her with an aura of protection against the dark forces. His accident was due, he said, to his being busy protecting the Mother and unmindful about himself, under the assumption that the adverse forces would not dare to attack him. "That was my mistake," he said. The Mother herself could take any risk, launch upon any adventure, for she had entire faith and reliance upon Sri Aurobindo's mighty force and protection. Anybody who has come in contact with the Mother knows that her dynamic nature makes light of all difficulties and dangers and she is the least concerned about herself 'when some special work has to be done. At one time her health suffered from a chronic trouble, indicated by a swelling of the feet. I observed that every time the Mother entered or left the room, Sri Aurobindo's eyes were fixed on her feet till after a number of years the limbs regained their normalcy. Not about her health alone, about all her movements and activities the Mother always used to keep him informed: before going to the meditation and after it, before going for a drive and after it, or before seeing any visitor, she would come and see him. Sri Aurobindo also would inquire about her from Champaklal, whether she had finished her food and gone to bed or not, and as I have said, until she had retired, he kept awake. If by chance she was late in returning from a drive Sri Aurobindo would inquire again and again. As the Mother's routine was crammed with activities, quite often she used to be late for her meal. Sometimes she would report the fact. But he would never interfere with her activities, only mildly suggest some change if necessary. Imposition of rules, compulsion of any sort was against his nature, either on the Mother or on sadhaks. So is it with the Mother. Sri Aurobindo did not want us to detain her in any way. He would cut short his walk, or hurry his meal to suit her convenience.
There was a period when the Mother was in a state of almost continuous trance. It was a very trying phase, indeed. She would enter Sri Aurobindo's room with a somnolent walk and go back swaying from side to side leaving us in fear and wonder about the delicate balancing. Sri Aurobindo would watch her intently till she was out of sight, but it was a matter of surprise how she maintained her precarious balance. Sometimes in the midst of doing his hair, her hand would stop moving at any stage; either the comb remained still, or the ribbon tied to his plaits got loose. While serving meals too, the spoon would stand still or the knife would not cut and Sri Aurobindo had to, by fictitious coughs or sounds, draw her out. Fifteen minutes' work thus took double the time and then she would hasten in order to make up for it. Such trance moods were more particularly manifest at night during the collective meditation below, and in that condition she would come to Sri Aurobindo's room with a heap of letters, reports, account-books, etc., to read, sign or answer during Sri Aurobindo's walking time. But her pious intention would come to nothing, for no sooner did she begin than the trance overtook her. Sri Aurobindo took a few extra rounds and sat in his chair watching the Mother while she with the book open, pen in hand, had travelled into another world from whose bourne it was perhaps difficult to return. He would watch her with an indulgent smile and try all devices to bring her down to earth. We would stand by, favoured spectators of the delectable scene. When at last the Mother did wake up, Sri Aurobindo would say with a smile, "We haven't made much progress!" She would then take a firm resolve, and finish all work in a dash or go back if the trance was too heavy. Once Sri Aurobindo saw that she was writing on the book with her fountain pen unopened. He kept on watching. Suddenly she realised her mistake and Sri Aurobindo broke into a gracious smile. During the time of meditation too, her condition was most extraordinary. Someone coming for pranam would remain standing before her trance-mood for fifteen to thirty minutes, another had her hand on his bowed head for a pretty long time; all was unpredictable. There was an exceptional circumstance when Sri Aurobindo intervened in the Mother's work. On her way from Sri Aurobindo's room to the collective meditation below, she went for a while to her room to take some rest, as it was probably too early to go down. But once she sat down, time and space vanished and she was deep in trance, while below the crowd was waiting till it was about 1 a.m. Sri Aurobindo, on being informed, sent word that all should disperse and go home. The Mother, on waking up, prepared herself to go to the meditation when she was told what had happened.
1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This hymn differs greatly, interestingly & instructively, from the hymn in which Varuna first appears. There the object is to ensure the ananda, the rayah & radhas spoken of in this hymn by the advent of the gods of Vitality & Mind-Force, Indra & Vayu, to protect from the attack of disintegrating forces the Soma or Amrita, the juice of immortality expressed in the Yogins system. Varuna & Mitra are then called for a particular & restricted purpose to perfect the discernment & to uphold it in its works by the sustaining force of a calm, wide, comprehensive self-expression full of peace & love. The Rishi of that sukta is using the amrita to feed the activity of a sattwic state of mind for acquiring added knowledge. The present hymn belongs to a more advanced state of the Yoga. It is sadhastuti, a hymn of fulfilment or for fulfilment, in which peace & a calm, assured, untroubled activity of the soul are very near. Varuna here leads. He is here for Indras purposes, but his activity predominates; it is his spirit that pervades the action and purpose of the hymn.
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1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
youth setting forth upon his adventures after receiving the
Wand - or attaining puberty. The magical weapons are the Wand, in which the Freudian significance is clearly perceptible, the Lamp, and the Eucharistic Host. The significance of the Hand of God or the Dhyan-Chohanic consciousness, setting the world-forces in motion, may also be read into this letter Yod.
1.04 - The Silent Mind, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
1.04 - What Arjuna Saw - the Dark Side of the Force, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
retreading of old walks, but a spiritual adventure. 17
Hewing out a new road, broadening and deepening the
1.05 - 2010 and 1956 - Doomsday?, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
thusiasm for the subject. We live in a time of adventure
and high intellectual excitement, but also in the midst of
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there is a meaning: the adventure of the recovering of the
Godhead which is its origin and its sustaining Principle.
1.052 - Yoga Practice - A Series of Positive Steps, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
The great adventure of yoga is not easy for those whose minds are distracted with various occupations. The difficulty with the human mind is that it cannot be wholly interested in anything. While on the one hand there is a pressure of the mind towards taking interest in things, there is, simultaneously, a peculiar cussedness of the mind on account of which it cannot take interest in anything for all times. It has a peculiar twofold rajas, or inability to rest in itself, working behind it, inside it and outside it from all sides as a disturbing factor. There is no harm in taking interest in anything; but the interest should be only in one thing, not in many things.
Anything in this world can be taken as a medium for the liberation of the soul. An object of sense can cause bondage; it also can cause liberation under certain conditions. When an object becomes merely one among the many just one individual in a group and the interest in the object may shift to another object after a period of time, then that object becomes a source of bondage, because it is not true that any single individual object can manifest the wholeness of truth in itself.
1.05 - Christ, A Symbol of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
tension in the world psyche which Christ's advent signified. He
is the "mysterium iniquitatis" that accompanies the "sol iusti-
1.05 - Consciousness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
a job, or a church. Or else the vital captures it and daubs it with more or less lofty sentiments unless it uses it for some personal adventure,
or for domination, conquest or possession. In some cases, this force gets bogged down even lower. And sometimes everything is swallowed up, such that only a diminutive shadow remains beneath an onerous burden. But the seeker who has silenced his mind and no longer falls prey to ideas, who has quieted his vital being and is no longer overcome and scattered at every instant by the great confusion of feelings and desires, discovers in the newly acquired clarity of his nature something like a new youth, a new and unrestrained impetus.
1.05 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
10. Come, O Fire, for the advent; voiced by the word, come for
the gift of the oblation: sit, the priest of our invocation, on
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the advent, aspire bringing his offering to the Fire in the Rite
of the Path; let him with uplifted23 hands and with obeisance
1.05 - The Belly of the Whale, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, VIII. The adventures ascribed by
Longfellow to the Iroquois chieftain Hiawatha belong properly to the Algon
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blance to the adventure of the Symplegades is obvious. But here,
instead of passing outward, beyond the confines of the visible
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
redemptive possibility. Tales of the travelling sage, wandering magician or courageous adventurer
constitute recognition of the utility of such potential. From the perspective of such narratives, a totality of
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and unknown territory, much as the outer. The psychological purpose of the rite-of-passage adventure
(and the reason for the popularity of such journeys, in actuality and in drama) is the development of
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Arisleus (a Byzantine alchemist of the 8th or 9th century) tells of his adventures with the Rex Marinus,
in whose kingdom nothing prospers and nothing is begotten. Moreover, there are no philosophers there.
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unknown]... the perilous adventure of the night sea journey, whose end and aim is the restoration of
life, resurrection, and the triumph over death.638
1.05 - The Universe The 0 = 2 Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
All elements must at one time have been separate that would be the case with great heat. Now when atoms get to the sun, we get that immense extreme heat, and all the elements are themselves again. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the memory of all his adventures in combination. By the way, that atom (fortified with that memory) would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. Therefore, by the lapse of time, and by virtue of memory, a thing could become something more than itself; thus a real development is possible. One can then see a reason for any element deciding to go through this series of incarnations, because so, and only so, can he go; and he suffers the lapse of memory which he has during these incarnations, because he knows he will come through un- changed.
Therefore you can have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme and utterly indestructible. This is also the only explanation of how a "Perfect Being" could create a world in which war, evil, etc., exist. God is only an appearance, because (like "good") it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as mystic monotheism; but all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural.
1.05 - True and False Subjectivism, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The subjective stage of human development is that critical juncture in which, having gone forward from symbols, types, conventions, having turned its gaze superficially on the individual being to discover his truth and right law of action and its relation to the superficial and external truth and law of the universe, our race begins to gaze deeper, to see and feel what is behind the outside and below the surface and therefore to live from within. It is a step towards self-knowledge and towards living in and from the self, away from knowledge of things as the not-self and from the living according to this objective idea of life and the universe. Everything depends on how that step is taken, to what kind of subjectivity we arrive and how far we go in self-knowledge; for here the dangers of error are as great and far-reaching as the results of right seeking. The symbolic, the typal, the conventional age avoid these dangers by building a wall of self-limitation against them; and it is because this wall becomes in the end a prison of self-ignorance that it has to be broken down and the perilous but fruitful adventure of subjectivism undertaken.
A psychic self-knowledge tells us that there are in our being many formal, frontal, apparent or representative selves and only one that is entirely secret and real; to rest in the apparent and to mistake it for the real is the one general error, root of all others and cause of all our stumbling and suffering, to which man is exposed by the nature of his mentality. We may apply this truth to the attempt of man to live by the law of his subjective being whether as an individual or as a social unit one in its corporate mind and body.
1.05 - War And Politics, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
In a talk in 1940, Sri Aurobindo said: "There are forces which are trying to destroy the British and their empire forces above and here in this world, I mean inner forces. I myself had wished for its destruction; but at that time I did not know such forces would arise. These forces are working for the evolution of a new world-order which would come following upon the liquidation of the Empire. But, for the advent of this new arrangement, the Empire needn't be destroyed. The new arrangement can be achieved more quietly by a change in the balance of forces, without much destruction. Had it not been for Hitler, I wouldn't have cared what power remained or went down. Now the question is whether the new world-order is to come after much suffering and destruction or with as little of it as possible. Destruction of England would mean victory for Hitler and in that case, perhaps after a great deal of suffering and oppression, and reaction to them, that world-order may come or may not, or it may come only after pralaya! Of course the issue has been decided by the Divine Vision and there can be no change. But nobody knows what the decision is."
These two long extracts are enoughto show clearly Sri Aurobindo's vision of the play of forces, how they try through the use of human instruments to fulfil their purpose and also what Sri Aurobindo's part was in this mysterious play. I shall now give some extracts from our talks to demonstrate Sri Aurobindo's close watch on the trend of the War, his comments on the military movements of the contending parties, sometimes his anticipation of their strategic moves and the consequences that would ensue, or his own suggestions about the courses that could be followed. And all this came enlivened with a sense of quiet humour that made the grimness of the War itself appear light, even an enjoyable game of forces.
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"Louis Mountbatten's spontaneous decision... on his own initiative was a bombshell. In the corridors of the House of Commons, Downing Street, Buckingham Palace, no one had suspected Mountbatten was ready to ring the curtain down so precipitously on Britain's Indian adventure. In Delhi, the Viceroy's most intimate collaborators had no inkling of what Mountbatten was going to do. Not even the Indian leaders with whom he had spent so many hours had received a hint that he would act with such decisive haste."
Now, people may argue, "There is no mystery here. Mountbatten selected it because, as he says, that date marked a glorious achievement in his life." "But why with such decisive haste?" one may ask. "Because he did not want to face any opposition. If he had disclosed it in advance, there was every possibility of its being rejected on one ground or another." Whatever may be the urge to commemorate his own victory, he was instrumental in linking it with an occasion whose light will grow into a sun with the rolling of the years, while his own victory will pale into a shade. Left to our countrymen, none would have even dreamt of this date, but One who sees and decides everything gave this date the importance it deserved. Those who have some insight can perceive His inscrutable hand behind this memorable identification.
1.06 - Being Human and the Copernican Principle, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
The intellectual adventure of the Renaissance evolving
into the Enlightenment, also called the Age of Reason, is
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long-distance travels after his adventurous five-year voy
age on the Beagle. The ones who did campaign to spread
1.06 - Quieting the Vital, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
1.06 - The Four Powers of the Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
11:And yet it is not easy to meet the demand of this enchanting Power or to keep her presence. Harmony and beauty of the mind and soul, harmony and beauty of the thoughts and feelings, harmony and beauty in every outward act and movement, harmony and beauty of the life and surroundings, this is the demand of Mahalakshmi. Where there is affinity to the rhythms of the secret world-bliss and response to the call of the AllBeautiful and concord and unity and the glad flow of many lives turned towards the Divine, in that atmosphere she consents to abide. But all that is ugly and mean and base, all that is poor and sordid and squalid, all that is brutal and coarse repels her advent. Where love and beauty are not or are reluctant to be born, she does not come; where they are mixed and disfigured with baser things, she turns soon to depart or cares little to pour her riches. If she finds herself in men's hearts surrounded with selfishness and hatred and jealousy and malignance and envy and strife, if treachery and greed and ingratitude are mixed in the sacred chalice, if grossness of passion and unrefined desire degrade devotion, in such hearts the gracious and beautiful Goddess will not linger. A divine disgust seizes upon her and she withdraws, for she is not one who insists or strives; or, veiling her face, she waits for this bitter and poisonous devil's stuff to be rejected and disappear before she will found anew her happy influence. Ascetic bareness and harshness are not pleasing to her nor the suppression of the heart's deeper emotions and the rigid repression of the soul's and the life's parts of beauty. For it is through love and beauty that she lays on men the yoke of the Divine. Life is turned in her supreme creations into a rich work of celestial art and all existence into a poem of sacred delight; the world's riches are brought together and concerted for a supreme order and even the simplest and commonest things are made wonderful by her intuition of unity and the breath of her spirit. Admitted to the heart she lifts wisdom to pinnacles of wonder and reveals to it the mystic secrets of the ecstasy that surpasses all knowledge, meets devotion with the passionate attraction of the Divine, teaches to strength and force the rhythm that keeps the might of their acts harmonious and in measure and casts on perfection the charm that makes it endure for ever.
12:MAHASARASWATI is the Mother s Power of Work and her spirit of perfection and order. The youngest of the Four, she is the most skilful in executive faculty and the nearest to physical Nature. Maheshwari lays down the large lines of the worldforces, Mahakali drives their energy and impetus, Mahalakshmi discovers their rhythms and measures, but Mahasaraswati presides over their detail of organisation and execution, relation of parts and effective combination of forces and unfailing exactitude of result and fulfilment. The science and craft and technique of things are Mahasaraswati's province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker. This Power is the strong, the tireless, the careful and efficient builder, organiser, administrator, technician, artisan and classifier of the worlds. When she takes up the transformation and new-building of the nature, her action is laborious and minute and often seems to our impatience slow and interminable, but it is persistent, integral and flawless. For the will in her works is scrupulous, unsleeping, indefatigable; leaning over us she notes and touches every little detail, finds out every minute defect, gap, twist or incompleteness, considers and weighs accurately all that has been done and all that remains still to be done hereafter. Nothing is too small or apparently trivial for her attention; nothing however impalpable or disguised or latent can escape her. Moulding and remoulding she labours each part till it has attained its true form, is put in its exact place in the whole and fulfils its precise purpose. In her constant and diligent arrangement and rearrangement of things her eye is on all needs at once and the way to meet them and her intuition knows what is to be chosen and what rejected and successfully determines the right instrument, the right time, the right conditions and the right process. Carelessness and negligence and indolence she abhors; all scamped and hasty and shuffling work, all clumsiness and a peu pres and misfire, all false adaptation and misuse of instruments and faculties and leaving of things undone or half done is offensive and foreign to her temper. When her work is finished, nothing has been forgotten, no part has been misplaced or omitted or left in a faulty condition; all is solid, accurate, complete, admirable. Nothing short of a perfect perfection satisfies her and she is ready to face an eternity of toil if that is needed for the fullness of her creation. Therefore of all the Mother s powers she is the most long-suffering with man and his thousand imperfections. Kind, smiling, close and helpful, not easily turned away or discouraged, insistent even after repeated failure, her hand sustains our every step on condition that we are single in our will and straightforward and sincere; for a double mind she will not tolerate and her revealing irony is merciless to drama and histrionics and self-deceit and pretence. A mother to our wants, a friend in our difficulties, a persistent and tranquil counsellor and mentor, chasing away with her radiant smile the clouds of gloom and fretfulness and depression, reminding always of the ever-present help, pointing to the eternal sunshine, she is firm, quiet and persevering in the deep and continuous urge that drives us towards the integrality of the higher nature. All the work of the other Powers leans on her for its completeness; for she assures the material foundation, elaborates the stuff of detail and erects and rivets the armour of the structure.
1.06 - The Sign of the Fishes, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
the seventh seal in the fairly near future, the advent of the
"everlasting gospel" and the reign of the "intellectus spiritu-
1.06 - Wealth and Government, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Money is not meant to make money, money is meant to make the earth ready for the advent of the new creation.
It is to the Divine that all riches belong. It is the Divine who lends them to living beings, and it is to Him that they must naturally return.
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On the contrary, the larger the number of people who have a vital interest in the abolition of war, the more effective the chances towards a stable peace, until the advent of a new consciousness in man makes of war an impossibility.
24 April 1955
1.07 - BOOK THE SEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And whether this advent'rer lives, or dies,
In Fate, and Fortune's fickle pleasure lies.
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While on th' advent'rous youth the monsters turn
Their glaring eyes, and, eager to engage,
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And gen'rously your parts in my adventure take.
Oft by your aid swift currents I have led
1.07 - Bridge across the Afterlife, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
aim to be attained is the advent of a progressive univer-
sal harmony. The means for attaining this aim, in regard
1.07 - Savitri, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
"You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided.'... And the day He actually began it, He told me, 'I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.' And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete, up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages....
"It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal.... Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge and, I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
1.07 - The Prophecies of Nostradamus, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
quae maxime adversa erit et contraria legi Christi; nam licet de adventu sui
determinato tempore vel momento haberi non possit humanitus certitudo. . . .
1.07 - The Psychic Center, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
What other maid, inspir'd with such a flame,
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These past adventures at the temple gate,
Old Baucis is by old Philemon seen
1.08 - Independence from the Physical, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
1.08 - The Change of Vision, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
And we are almost ridiculously inadequate for such a fabulous adventure. What do we have? A little fire inside, whose goal we do not even know, but which burns with us, accompanies our steps, our thousands of steps in the great vain machine; a little clearing that sometimes seems so lovely and light, and so fragile in the midst of the huge empty chaos that's all we have. It is childlike and transparent and almost ridiculous amid the strides of the caparisoned colossi of the mind. And what do we discover? A breath, a nothing, a speck of gold glittering for a moment and then vanishing. There is nothing sensational. It is the opposite of sensational; it is unassuming minuteness; it is perhaps nothing, and it is everything. It is as fluid as the man bending for the first time over the first river in the world and looking at a blade of grass pass by, and then another (come from where, carried away where?), a fugitive reflection of the sky, and that other little cascade in his heart. But it all makes a single whole, and for a fraction of a second, a sort of look opens up and pervades that drop of water and the blade of grass with infinity, and the over there it comes from and the other there it goes to, as if everything had already happened, as if nothing ever happened, nothing ever passed: an eternal meeting between that pink in the sky, this heartbeat and this frail blade of grass. And other blades of grass may come, other pinks or blues or blacks go by, but it is always the same thing meeting itself, at the same point, with other faces and other names. So, something begins to take root in this meeting point of the worlds, as if one and the same look were looking at one and the same story. And everything is tranquil, identical and clear; there is no need to strain toward tomorrow, to grasp at that pink or blue, this blade of grass or that one; there are no other points out there, or else it is the same one and the same things meeting each other; there is only one point at each instant, and the whole world passes through it, along with Sagittarius and Betelgeuse and that twig. All is contained there, for ages upon ages. We just have to listen to the music of that point to hear all other music, we just have to be there to be with all other beings, past, present and future there is but one story in the world and one moment and one being. It is right there; we are in it. There will be nothing more, nothing else, in three thousand years or a hundred thousand.
From then on, each thing is, simply and absolutely. We are at that meeting point of being, and we look at the great world, brand new. There is no hope for anything else, no expectation, no regret or desire if it is not there at that moment, it will never be there! Everything is there, the total totality of all possible futures. Water may flow, and the faces and thunder of the world, the costume of the moment, the cry of the passerby, the flying seed. The great kaleidoscope turns and strews beings, events, countries and their kings, and this fleeting second, colors them blue, red or gold, but there is still the same look at the meeting point, the same second and the same thing in different colors, the same beings with their sorrows, with white skin or dark, in this century or another. There is nothing new under the sun, nothing to expect! There is that one little second to delve into, delve into and deepen, to live totally, as if forever and ever; there is that unique thing that passes, that unique being, that speck of pollen or dust, that unique happening in the world. Then everything begins to be filled with such total meaning, to extend and branch out to the four corners of the world, to vibrate with total significance, as if this face, that chance encounter, that passing blue or black hue, this unexpected stumbling or bird feather floating in the wind brought us a message each thing is a message, a sign of our position and the position of the whole. Nothing exists in relation to this little shadow anymore, to its needs, its desires, its expectation of things or people everything is without plus or minus, good or evil, rejection or choice or preference or will of any kind. What could we possibly want? We already have everything, forever. What else is there! Each passing circumstance divulges its keynote, its pure music, its innermost meaning, without addition or subtraction, without false visual color through things and beings we watch one and the same tranquil eternity unfolding. We are in our point of eternity, in a look of truth. We are at that crossroads of being, which, for a moment, seems to open innumerably upon everything. One full little second. Where is the lack, the vain, the missing? Where is the big, the infinite, the useful or useless? We have arrived; we are right in the Thing. There is no more quest for rosewood in the forest of the great world; everything is rosewood and each thing is the one essence. A kind of warm gold begins to glow everywhere.
1.08 - The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It brooded over the darkness and the inconscience; it was scattered and fragmented in the bosom of unfathomable night. And then began the awakening and the ascent, the slow formation of Matter and its endless progression. It is indeed love, in a corrupted and darkened form, that is associated with all the impulses of physical and vital Nature, as the urge behind all movement and all grouping, which becomes quite perceptible in the plant kingdom. In trees and plants, it is the need to grow in order to obtain more light, more air, more space; in flowers, it is the offering of their beauty and fragrance in a loving efflorescence. Then, in animals, it is love that lies behind hunger and thirst, the need for appropriation, expansion, procreation, in short, behind every desire, whether conscious or not. And among the higher species, it is in the self-sacrificing devotion of the female to her young. This brings us quite naturally to the human race in which, with the triumphant advent of mental activity, this association reaches its climax, for it has become conscious and deliberate. Indeed, as soon as terrestrial development made it possible. Nature took up this sublime force of love and put it at the service of her creative work by linking and mixing it with her movement of procreation. This association has even become so close, so intimate, that very few human beings are illumined enough in their consciousness to be able to dissociate these movements from each other and experience them separately. In this way, love has suffered every degradation, it has been debased to the level of the beast.
From then on, too, there clearly appears in Natures works the will to rebuild, by steps and stages and through ever more numerous and complex groupings, the primordial oneness. Having made use of the power of love to bring two human beings together to form the biune group, the origin of the family, after having broken the narrow limits of personal egoism, changing it into a dual egoism. Nature, with the appearance of children, brought forth a more complex unit, the family. And in course of time, with multifarious associations between families, individual interchanges and mingling of blood, larger groupings were formed: clans, tribes, castes, classes, leading to the creation of nations. This work of group formation proceeded simultaneously in the various parts of the world, crystallising in the different races. And little by little. Nature will fuse these races too in her endeavour to build a real and material foundation for human unity.
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For what functions are they called to the Sacrifice by Madhuchchhanda? First, they have to take delight in the spiritual forces generated in him by the action of the internal Yajna. These they have to accept, to enter into them and use them for delight, their delight and the sacrificers, yajwarr isho .. chanasyatam; a wide enjoyment, a mastery of joy & all pleasant things, a swiftness in action like theirs is what their advent should bring & therefore these epithets are attached to this action. Then they are to accept the words of the mantra, vanatam girah. In fact, vanatam means more than acceptance, it is a pleased, joyous almost loving acceptance; for vanas is the Latin venus, which means charm, beauty, gratification, and the Sanscrit vanit means woman or wife, she who charms, in whom one takes delight or for whom one has desire. Therefore vanatam takes up the idea of chanasyatam, enlarges it & applies it to a particular part of the Yajna, the mantras, the hymn or sacred words of the stoma. The immense effectiveness assigned to rhythmic Speech & the meaning & function of the mantra in the Veda & in later Yoga is a question of great interest & importance which must be separately considered; but for our present purpose it will be sufficient to specify its two chief functions, the first, to settle, fix, establish the god & his qualities & activities in the Sacrificer,this is the true meaning of the word stoma, and, secondly, to effectualise them in action & creation subjective or objective,this is the true meaning of the words rik and arka. The later senses, praise and hymn were the creation of actual ceremonial practice, and not the root intention of these terms of Veda. Therefore the Aswins, the lords of force & joy, are asked to take up the forces of the sacrifice, yajwarr isho, fill them with their joy & activity and carry that joy & activity into the understanding so that it becomes avra, full of a bright and rapid strength.With that strong, impetuously rapid working they are to take up the words of the mantra into the understanding and by their joy & activity make them effective for action or creation. For this reason the epithet purudansas is attached to this action, abundantly active or, rather, abundantly creative of forms into which the action of the yajwarr ishah is to be thrown. But this can only be done as the Sacrificer wishes if they are in the acceptance of the mantra dhishny, firm and steady.Sayana suggests wise or intelligent as the sense of dhishnya, but although dhishan, like dh, can mean the understanding & dhishnya therefore intelligent, yet the fundamental sense is firm or steadily holding & the understanding is dh or dhishan because it takes up perceptions, thoughts & feelings & holds them firmly in their places.Vehemence & rapidity may be the causes of disorder & confusion, therefore even in their utmost rapidity & rapture of action & formation the Aswins are to be dhishnya, firm & steady. This discipline of a mighty, inalienable calm supporting & embracing the greatest fierceness of action & intensity of joy, the combination of dhishny & rudravartan , is one of the grandest secrets of the old Vedic discipline. For by this secret men can enjoy the world as God enjoys it, with unstinted joy, with unbridled power, with undarkened knowledge.
Therefore the prayer to the Aswins concludes: The Soma is outpoured; come with your full bounty, dasr & your fierce intensity, rudravartan. But what Soma? Is it the material juice of a material plant, the bitter Homa which the Parsi priests use today in the ceremonies enjoined by the Zendavesta? Does Sayanas interpretation give us the correct rendering? Is it by a material intoxication that this great joy & activity & glancing brilliance of the mind joined to a great steadfastness is to be obtained? Yuvkavah, says Sayana, means mixed & refers to the mixing of other ingredients in the Soma wine. Let us apply again our usual test. We come to the next passage in which the word yuvku occurs, the fourth rik of the seventeenth Sukta, Medhatithi Kanwas hymn to Indra & Varuna.
1.08 - The Historical Significance of the Fish, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
rise from the sea with the advent of the Messiah. 55 This is prob-
ably the "very great fish" of the Abercius inscription, corre-
1.08 - THE MASTERS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (to the devotees): "Ordinary people do not recognize the advent of an Incarnation of God. He comes in secret. Only a few of His intimate disciples can recognize Him. That Rama was both Brahman Absolute and a perfect Incarnation of God in human form was known only to twelve rishis. The other sages said to Him, 'Rama, we know You only as Dasaratha's son.'
"Can everyone comprehend Brahman, the Indivisible Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute? He alone has attained perfect love of God who, having reached the Absolute, keeps himself in the realm of the Relative in order to enjoy the divine lila. A man can describe the ways and activities of the Queen if he has previously visited her in England.
1.08 - The Plot must be a Unity., #Poetics, #Aristotle, #Philosophy
Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in the Unity of the hero. For infinitely various are the incidents in one man's life which cannot be reduced to unity; and so, too, there are many actions of one man out of which we cannot make one action. Hence, the error, as it appears, of all poets who have composed a Heracleid, a Theseid, or other poems of the kind. They imagine that as Heracles was one man, the story of Heracles must also be a unity. But Homer, as in all else he is of surpassing merit, here too--whether from art or natural genius--seems to have happily discerned the truth. In composing the Odyssey he did not include all the adventures of Odysseus--such as his wound on Parnassus, or his feigned madness at the mustering of the host--incidents between which there was no necessary or probable connection: but he made the
Odyssey, and likewise the Iliad, to centre round an action that in our sense of the word is one. As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one when the object imitated is one, so the plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole, the structural union of the parts being such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an organic part of the whole.
1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
mountains or from his adventures at sea, must necessarily degenerate
into a criminal. Or almost necessarily: for there are cases in which
1.09 - Sleep and Death, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
11.01 - The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To dare too soon the adventure of the Light,
Pushing the bound and slumbering god in man
11.03 - Cosmonautics, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, the discipline that the physical body is made to undergo at present, in order to accustom itself to high flying, may one day point to the way for a new adaptation and disposition for the body. As it is, the disruption that has been made in the earth atmosphere because of Science's new adventure is also a way to acclimatising the human body to new conditions. The new conditions are becoming even more and more new and the body is being forced to follow suit. At the beginning the result is a rupture but that is the way towards a new disposition, a new dispensation.
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The cosmonauts are teaching us at least the possibility of a new, almost a revolutionary acclimatisation of the body, the capability of the human organs to follow a different rhythm of life in place of the old normal way. We know from the past history of the evolutionary stages of life that the advent of a new species is signalled by a change in the conditions of living, and the change in the habitat involves a change in the form, the organs and functions of the body: that is what is meant by the appearance of a new type of creature adapted to the new conditions. Even so today cosmic travels are forcing the human body to adapt itself to new conditions and it is a very conscious discipline. The change in the body of living beings in the previous stages is due to an unconscious pressure brought to bear upon it by an unconscious Nature. But now the situation is different: man is attempting consciously to surpass himself, he has begun to do it in the physical field with remarkable results and a great promise. True, there is another factor, indeed the major factor behind, within the inner consciousness of man and within the inner regions of the world. As I have said, it is a revolutionary change there that is forcing itself upon the outside and the surface of existence.
Thus there is a twofold process for the new man to establish himself here. First, of course, there is the psychological or inner change and reorganisation: man's attempt to reach a new status of being and consciousness not in the category of the mere mental but a supramental status. Its nature and character and formation is being probed into by the new spiritual seekers and aspirants. That work is being done from within outward, and from above downward. This however is supplemented, supported, effectuated or materialised by the other attempt from below going upward and from outside going inward. That is the way of science, of the pragmatic man. The one we may say somewhat philosophically, is the Purusha, the conscious being coming down; the other, Prakriti, pushing up, Nature driving upward or inward.
1.10 - ALICE'S EVIDENCE, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
"Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" said Alice. And she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange adventures of hers that you have just been reading about. Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Did I the fond adventurer persuade?
Alas! I wish thou would'st the course decline,
1.10 - THE FORMATION OF THE NOOSPHERE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
setting out upon a second adventure from the springboard it es-
tablished when it created humankind.
1.10 - Theodicy - Nature Makes No Mistakes, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
and adventure, the will to attempt the impossible, to work
out the incalculable, the will to create the new and the un-
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the adventure of the Ignorance. Sorrow and struggle are a
necessary consequence of the plunge into the Inconscience
1.10 - The Revolutionary Yogi, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
11.14 - Our Finest Hour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
On the contrary, the prison need not be altogether a prison, it may be an occasion, an opportunity for the human consciousness to make a break-through to create a new dimension. Here is then our immediate workto conquer inner domains, the inner truths: for all truths are found first within the consciousness, established there before they become facts. So then let us harness our power and prowess, our aspiration and sincerity, all our life energy to the labour of the inner conquest. Let us stop awhile from the temptation and the urge for destruction and turn it round towards a higher inner adventure that of construction. Yes, the truth that we want to see established in the outer world, let us establish it in ourselves, in each one of us, in our consciousness, in our impulses and activities. We always wanted liberty and equality and fraternity in the world at large, the ideal has not been realised because we did not care to realise it in the consciousness and life of each one of us. In the collective life of mankind that truth will alone become a fact which is a fact in the inner existence and consciousness of every human being.
The inner discovery is indeed a battle and here too a victory has to be won. It needs more than in any physical battle a complete contingent of courage and bravery, calm strength and persevering endurance, skill and energy to gain an absolute success. And there the field is free and vast, one can deploy oneself as largely as possible, move in any direction to any distance as one likes. It is no longer a prison,it is a region where one meets one's soul.
11.15 - Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Standing on the mental plane, immured within the dimensions of Reason and mental intelligence, it is not easy to contemplate the type of consciousness that will be; even as it was difficult for the ape to envisage the advent of his successor, man. But certain characteristic signs, rudimentary or fragmentary movements of the higher status are visible in the mental consciousness even as it is: the ape likewise was not without a glimmer of Reason and logic, even the faculty of ratiocination that seems to be the exclusive property of man. There is, for example, a movement we call Intuition, so different from Reason to which even Scientists and Mathematicians acknowledge their debt of gratitude for so many of their discoveries and inventions. There is also the other analogous movement called Inspiration that rules the poet and the artist disclosing to them a world of beauty and reality that is not available to the normal human consciousness. Again, there is yet another group of human beings at the top of the ladder of evolutionmystics and sageswho see the truth, possess the truth direct through a luminous immediacy of perception, called Revelation. Now, all these functionings of consciousness that happen frequently enough within the domain of normal humanity are still expressions of a higher mode of consciousness: they are not the product or play of Reason or logical intelligence which marks the character, the differentia of human consciousness.
But, as at present, these are mere glimmers and glimpses from elsewhere and man has no comm and or control over them. They are beyond the habitual conscious will, they come and go as they like, happy visitations from another world, they do not abide our question and are not at our beck and call. The Supermind, on the contrary, is in full possession of that consciousness of which these are faint beginnings and distant echoes. The Superman will be born when man has risen above his mind and emerged into the supramental consciousness.
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Man has been striving through his lesser powers, through the grace of the lower gods since his advent upon earth to arrive at a reconstruction of his life and surroundings. That is why he has never attained the full measure of success. Indeed a period of success or progress was always followed by a period of decline and retrogression, a so-called golden age by an age of iron. As a matter of fact today humanity finds itself terribly enclosed in a cage of iron as it were. The earth has become too small for his soaring capacities and multitudinous necessitieshe is already thinking of a place in the moon! That is only the sign and symbol of an inner impasse to which he has arrived. The anguish of the human soul has reached its acme: the problems, social, political, educational, moral it is facing have proved themselves to be totally insoluble. Yes, he has run into a cul-de-sac, where he is caught as in a death-trap. No ordinary rational methods, half-way nostrums can deliver him any more. All the outer doors and issues are now closed for him; the only way is to turn inward, there lies the open road to freedom and fulfilment. That is the way to transcendence and surpassing. To attempt any other way is not only to try the impossible but to head straight towards doomsday.
The time then is now, for the time is ripe. It will not do to say that the way proposed is beyond the reach of the common man. He has neither the capacity nor the knowledge nor even the inclination or impulse to surpass himself, to do anything non-human. First of all, as I said, if man is to survive in any form, this is the only way and there is no second. Next, what do we know of the capacity and impulsion even of the common man? Even in a smaller scale and on the material level, have we not seen to what tremendous acts of heroism he can rise automatically, through what travailstapasyaof concentrated effort he agreed to pass, simply because the occasion demanded it? Man's secret soul is greater than all the limitation of his outward frame.
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It is an adventure for the heroic soul, for the vanguards of humanity; but its fruition will spread abroad a benefit that even the common level shall share, even those that denied shall offer their accession and adhesion.
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1.11 - Correspondence and Interviews, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
All the communications were, however, mostly made orally and did not interfere with Sri Aurobindo's personal work. But gradually correspondence of another sort began to demand his attention. I mean writings on various aspects of his work, either by sadhaks, visitors or outsiders, were sent to him for approval, comment or suggestion, such as Prof. Sisir Maitra's series of articles, Prof. Haridas Chowdhury's thesis on his philosophy, Prof. Sisir Mitra's book on history, books by Prof. Langley, Morwenna Donnelly, Prof. Monod-Herzen, Dr. Srinivas Iyengar, and Lizelle Raymond on Sister Nivedita, to mention a few. In the last three books Sri Aurobindo made extensive additions and changes. Even casual articles from young students were read and received encouragement from him. Arabinda Basu was one of these writers. Poems written by sadhaks, for instance, Dilip, Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna), Nishikanto, Pujalal and Tehmi, or a Goan poet, Prof. Menezies, were also read out. Then came the journals, The advent and Mother India, the latter particularly, being a semi-political fortnightly, needed his sanction before the matter could be published. Most of the editorial articles of Mother India written by Amal Kiran were found impeccable. But on a few occasions small but significant changes were telegraphically made. Sri Aurobindo's famous message on Korea with its prediction of Stalinist communism's designs on South East Asia and India through Tibet, was originally sent in private to Amal Kiran for his guidance. One of the editorials was based on it. Sri Aurobindo declared privately that Mother India was his paper. When the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education was launched, the Mother wanted to initiate it with an article from Sri Aurobindo. Some days passed. She asked him if he had started writing it. He answered with a smile, "No." After a few days, she reminded him of the urgency. Then he began dictating on the value of sports and physical gymnastics. Quite a series commenced and the most memorable of the lot was the article "The Divine Body". It was a long piece and took more than a week, since we daily had just about an hour to spare. As he was dictating, I marvelled at so much knowledge of Ancient Greece and Ancient India stored up somewhere in his superconscious memory and now pouring down at his command in a smooth flow. No notes were consulted, no books were needed, yet after a lapse of so many decades everything was fresh, spontaneous and recalled in vivid detail! This article, like his others, was then read out to the Mother in front of Sri Aurobindo. She exclaimed, "Magnificent!" Sri Aurobindo simply smiled. All of them have appeared in book-form called The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth.
About some of the articles by others which were being read out to him, he asked, "Have you not read them before?" "No!" I replied. He repeated, "Are you sure?" "How could I? I received them only yesterday," I answered. "Very strange!" he added, "They seem so familiar, as if I had heard them already." He appeared much intrigued by this phenomenon and I wonder if he found an explanation of the mystery. Some articles by a former sadhak were filled with so many quotations from Sri Aurobindo's writings that I muttered my protest, "There is hardly anything here except quotations." He smiled and answered, "It doesn't matter." Once he asked me about a long abstruse article, "Probability in Micro-Physics", written by Amal. It was read out to Sri Aurobindo shortly before he passed away. He asked me, "Do you understand anything of it?" I said, "No!" He smiled and said, "Neither do I." Readings and dictated correspondence, as I have stated before, began to swell in volume and absorbed much of his limited time. Consequently the revision of Savitri suffered and had to be, shelved again and again till one day he declared, "My main work is being neglected."
1.11 - Higher Laws, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented. Once or twice, however, while I lived at the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a half-starved hound, with a strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison which I might devour, and no morsel could have been too savage for me. The wildest scenes had become unaccountably familiar. I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good. The wildness and adventure that are in fishing still recommended it to me. I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and to hunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance. Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of
Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them. The traveller on the prairie is naturally a hunter, on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the
1.11 - Oneness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
1.11 - The Kalki Avatar, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
and which will be at the end the divine adventure of con-
sciousness and joy.
1.11 - The Master of the Work, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For that now superconscient Transcendence is a Power as well as an Existence. The supramental Transcendence is not a vacant Wonder, but an inexpressible which contains for ever all essential things that have issued from it; it holds them there in their supreme everlasting reality and their own characteristic absolutes. The diminution, division, degradation that create here the sense of an unsatisfactory puzzle, a mystery of Maya, themselves diminish and fall from us in, our ascension, and the Divine Powers assume their real forms and appear more and more as the terms of a Truth in process of realisation here. A soul of the Divine is here slowly awaking out of its involution and concealment in the material Inconscience. The Master of our works is not a Master of illusions, but a supreme Reality who is working out his self-expressive realities delivered slowly from the cocoons of the Ignorance in which for the purposes of an evolutionary manifestation they were allowed for a while to slumber. For the supramental Transcendence is not a thing absolutely apart and unconnected with our present existence. It is a greater Light out of which all this has come for the adventure of the Soul lapsing into the Inconscience and emerging out of it, and, while that adventure proceeds, it waits superconstient above our minds till it can become conscious in us. Hereafter it will unveil itself and by the unveiling reveal to us all the significance of our own being and our works; for it will disclose the Divine whose fuller manifestation in the world will release and accomplish that covert significance.
In that disclosure the Transcendent Divine will be more and more made known to us as the supreme Existence and the Perfect Source of all that we are; but equally we shall see him as a Master of works and creation prepared to pour out more and more of himself into the field of his manifestation. The cosmic consciousness and its action will appear no longer as a huge regulated Chance, but as a field of the manifestation; there the Divine is seen as a presiding and pervading Cosmic Spirit who receives all out of the Transcendence and develops what descends into forms that are now an opaque disguise or a baffling half-disguise, but destined to be a transparent revelation. The individual consciousness will recover its true sense and action; for it is the form of a Soul sent out from the Supreme and, in spite of all appearances, a nucleus or nebula in which the Divine Mother Force is at work for the victorious embodiment of the timeless and formless Divine in Time and Matter. This will reveal itself slowly to our vision and experience as the will of the Master of works and as their own ultimate significance, which alone gives to world-creation and to our own action in the world a light and a meaning. To recognise that and to strive towards its effectuation is the whole burden of the Way of Divine Works in the integral Yoga.
1.12 - God Departs, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
But Savitri, as I have mentioned, was not his sole preoccupation. Many other adventitious tasks were thrust upon him and he did not say "No" to them out of the magnanimity of his divine nature.
During his last months the symptoms of prostatic enlargement reappeared and began to increase slowly. It was like a tiny dark cloud on the horizon and I fancied it would be blown away by the action of his Force, since he had been made aware of the serious consequence of the disease. Synchronous with this advance, we observed a noticeable change in his mood. Our talks, the only occasion when the Divine would become human and play with us, diminished. He was no longer expansive; humour, wit, sally, fun, all had shrivelled up and we were in front of a temple deity, impassive, aloof and indifferent udsna. However much we tried to draw him out from his impregnable sanctum of silence we were answered by a monosyllabic "yes" or "no" or at most a faint smile. Naturally, such a radical change made us uneasy and set us speculating on its probable causes.
1.12 - The Divine Work, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
the adventure of birth, strikes a chord of weakness and cannot be
the supreme motive. The desire of personal salvation, however
1.12 - The Office and Limitations of the Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is not only that he has to contrive continually some new harmony between the various elements of his being, physical, vitalistic, practical and dynamic, aesthetic, emotional and hedonistic, ethical, intellectual, but each of them again has to arrive at some order of its own disparate materials. In his ethics he is divided by different moral tendencies, justice and charity, self-help and altruism, self-increase and self-abnegation, the tendencies of strength and the tendencies of love, the moral rule of activism and the moral rule of quietism. His emotions are necessary to his development and their indulgence essential to the outflowering of his rich humanity; yet is he constantly called upon to coerce and deny them, nor is there any sure rule to guide him in the perplexity of this twofold need. His hedonistic impulse is called many ways by different fields, objects, ideals of self-satisfaction. His aesthetic enjoyment, his aesthetic creation forms for itself under the stress of the intelligence different laws and forms; each seeks to impose itself as the best and the standard, yet each, if its claim were allowed, would by its unjust victory impoverish and imprison his faculty and his felicity in its exercise. His politics and society are a series of adventures and experiments among various possibilities of autocracy, monarchism, military aristocracy, mercantile oligarchy, open or veiled plutocracy, pseudo-democracy of various kinds, bourgeois or proletarian, individualistic or collectivist or bureaucratic, socialism awaiting him, anarchism looming beyond it; and all these correspond to some truth of his social being, some need of his complex social nature, some instinct or force in it which demands that form for its effectuation. Mankind works out these difficulties under the stress of the spirit within it by throwing out a constant variation of types, types of character and temperament, types of practical activity, aesthetic creation, polity, society, ethical order, intellectual system, which vary from the pure to the mixed, from the simple harmony to the complex; each and all of these are so many experiments of individual and collective self-formation in the light of a progressive and increasing knowledge. That knowledge is governed by a number of conflicting ideas and ideals around which these experiments group themselves: each of them is gradually pushed as far as possible in its purity and again mixed and combined as much as possible with others so that there may be a more complex form and an enriched action. Each type has to be broken in turn to yield place to new types and each combination has to give way to the possibility of a new combination. Through it all there is growing an accumulating stock of self-experience and self-actualisation of which the ordinary man accepts some current formulation conventionally as if it were an absolute law and truth,often enough he even thinks it to be that,but which the more developed human being seeks always either to break or to enlarge and make more profound or subtle in order to increase or make room for an increase of human capacity, perfectibility, happiness.
This view of human life and of the process of our development, to which subjectivism readily leads us, gives us a truer vision of the place of the intellect in the human movement. We have seen that the intellect has a double working, dispassionate and interested, self-centred or subservient to movements not its own. The one is a disinterested pursuit of truth for the sake of Truth and of knowledge for the sake of Knowledge without any ulterior motive, with every consideration put away except the rule of keeping the eye on the object, on the fact under enquiry and finding out its truth, its process, its law. The other is coloured by the passion for practice, the desire to govern life by the truth discovered or the fascination of an idea which we labour to establish as the sovereign law of our life and action. We have seen indeed that this is the superiority of reason over the other faculties of man that it is not confined to a separate absorbed action of its own, but plays upon all the others, discovers their law and truth, makes its discoveries serviceable to them and even in pursuing its own bent and end serves also their ends and arrives at a catholic utility. Man in fact does not live for knowledge alone; life in its widest sense is his principal preoccupation and he seeks knowledge for its utility to life much more than for the pure pleasure of acquiring knowledge. But it is precisely in this putting of knowledge at the service of life that the human intellect falls into that confusion and imperfection which pursues all human action. So long as we pursue knowledge for its own sake, there is nothing to be said: the reason is performing its natural function; it is exercising securely its highest right. In the work of the philosopher, the scientist, the savant labouring to add something to the stock of our ascertainable knowledge, there is as perfect a purity and satisfaction as in that of the poet and artist creating forms of beauty for the aesthetic delight of the race. Whatever individual error and limitation there may be, does not matter; for the collective and progressive knowledge of the race has gained the truth that has been discovered and may be trusted in time to get rid of the error. It is when it tries to apply ideas to life that the human intellect stumbles and finds itself at fault.
1.12 - The Sociology of Superman, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But the very conditions of the uprooting of the old order may for a long time falsify the quest for the new order. And at first, this new order does not exist; it has to be made. A whole world has to be invented. And the aspiring superman or let us simply say the aspirant to something else must confront a primary reality: the law of freedom is a very demanding one, infinitely more demanding than all the laws imposed by the Machine. It is not a coasting into just anything, but a methodical uprooting from thousands of little slaveries; it does not mean abandoning everything, but, on the contrary, taking charge of everything, since we no longer want to depend on anybody or anything. It is a supreme apprenticeship of responsibility that of being oneself, which in the end is being all. It is not an escape, but a conquest; not a vacation from the Machine, but a great adventure into man's unknown. And anything that may hamper this supreme freedom, at whatever level or under whatever appearance, must be fought as fiercely as the police or lawmakers of the old world. We are not leaving the slavery of the old order to fall into the worse slavery of ourselves the slavery of drugs, of a party, of one religion or another, one sect or another, a golden bubble or a white one. We want the one freedom of smiling at everything and being light everywhere, identical in destitution and pomp, in prison and palace, in emptiness and fullness and everything is full because we burn with the one little flame that possesses everything forever.
What will they do, these wanderers, these transhumans of a new country that does not yet exist? In the first place, they will perhaps not move at all. They will perhaps have understood that the change has to be wrought inside and that, if nothing changes inside, nothing will ever change outside for centuries and centuries. They will perhaps stay right where they are, in this little street, this gray country, in a humble disguise, an old routine, but it will no longer be a routine because they will do everything with another look, in another way, with another attitude an inner way that changes all ways. And if they persevere, they will notice that this one little drop of true light they carry within themselves has the power to change everything about them surreptitiously. In their unpretentious little circle, they will have worked for the new world and precipitated a little more truth upon earth. But no circle is little when it has that center, since it is the center of everything. Or else, one day, perhaps they will feel impelled to join with their peers of the new world and with them build some living testimony of their common aspiration, as others built pyramids or cathedrals perhaps a city of the new world. And this is the beginning of a great enterprise, and a great danger.
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Those who know a little, who feel, who have begun to perceive the great Wave of Truth, will therefore not fall into the trap of superman recruiting. The earth is unequally prepared; men are spiritually unequal despite all our democratic protests to the contrary though they are essentially equal and vast in the great Self, and only one body with millions of faces they have not all become the greatness that they are. They are on the way, and some dawdle while others seem to travel more swiftly, but the detours of the former are also part of the great geography of our indivisible domain, their delay or the brake they seem to apply to our motion is part of the fullness of perfection that we seek and which compels us to a greater meticulousness of truth. They too are going there, by their own way and what is outside the way, in the end, since everything is the Way? He who knows a little, who feels, knows first and foremost, from having experienced it in his own flesh, that men are never truly brought together by artifices and when they persist in their artifice, everything finally collapses and the meeting is brief; the beautiful school, the lovely sect, the little iridescent bubble of a moment's enthusiasm or faith is short-lived they are brought together through a finer and more discreet law, a tiny little searchlight across time and space, and touches a similar ray here and there, a twin frequency, a light source with the same intensity and he goes. He goes haphazardly, takes a train, a plane, travels to this country and that one, believes he is searching for this or that, that he is in quest of adventure, the exotic, drugs or philosophy he believes. He believes a lot of things. He thinks he has to have this power or that solution, this panacea or that revolution, this slogan or that one. He thinks he set out because of that thirst or revolt, that unhappy love affair or need for action, this hope or that old insoluble discord in his heart. But then, there is none of that! One day he stops, without knowing why, without planning to be there, without having looked for that place or that face, that insignificant village under the stars of one hemisphere or the other and there it is. He has arrived. He has opened his one door, found his kindred fire, that look forever known; and he is exactly at the right place, at the right time, to do the right work. The world is a fabulous clockwork, if only we knew the secret of those little fires glowing in another space, dancing on a great inner sea where our skiffs sail as if guided by an invisible beacon.
There are ten or twenty, perhaps fifty, here or there, in one latitude or another, who yearn to till a truer plot of land, a small patch of man to grow a truer being within themselves, perhaps create together a laboratory of the superman, lay the first stone of the City of Truth on earth. They do not know, they do not know anything, except that they need something else and that there exists a Law of Harmony, a marvelous something of the Future seeking to be incarnated. They want to find the conditions of that incarnation, to lend themselves to the trial, to offer their substance for that living experiment. They know nothing except that everything must be different: in hearts, in gestures, in matter and the handling of matter. They are not seeking to create a new civilization, but another man; not a supercity among the millions of buildings of the world, but a listening post for the forces of the future, a supreme yantra of Truth, a conduit, a channel to try to capture and inscribe in matter a first note of the great Harmony, a first tangible sign of the new world. They do not pose as the champions of anything; they do not defend any liberty or attack any ism. They simply try together. They are the champions of their own pure little note, which is unlike the next person's and yet is everyone's note. They are no longer from a country, a family, a religion or a party; they belong to their own party, which is no one else's and yet is the party of the world, because what becomes true at one point becomes true for the whole world and brings the whole world together. They are from a family to be invented, from a country yet to be born. They do not try to correct others or anybody, to pour self-glorifying charities over the world, to cure the poor and the lepers; they try to cure the great poverty of smallness in themselves, the gray elf of the inner misery, to reclaim one single parcel of truth from themselves, one single ray of harmony. For if that Disease is cured in our own heart or a few hearts, the world will be that much lighter, and, through our clarity, the Law of Truth will better penetrate matter and radiate all around spontaneously. What liberation, what relief can a man who suffers in his own heart bring to the world? They do not work for themselves, though they are the primary ground of the experience, but as an offering, pure and simple, to that which they do not really know, but which shimmers at the edge of the world like the dawn of a new age. They are the prospectors of the new cycle. They have given themselves to the future, body and soul, the way one jumps into the fire, without a look back. They are the servants of the infinite in the finite, of the totality in the infinitesimal, of eternity in each second and each gesture. They create their heaven with each step and carve the new world out of the banality of the day. And they are not afraid of failure, for they have left behind the failures and success of the prison they live in the sole infallibility of a right little note.
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It is therefore probable that for a long time this City under construction will be a place where negative possibilities will be exacerbated as much as the positive ones, under the relentless pressure of the beacon of Truth. And falsehood is skilled at holding on to insignificant details, resistance at sticking to everyday trifles, which become the very sign of refusal. Falsehood knows how to make great sacrifices. It can follow a discipline, extol an ideal, collect merit badges and Brownie points, but it betrays itself in the insignificant that is its last refuge. It is really in matter that the game is played out. This City of the Future is a battlefield, a difficult adventure. What is decided over there with machine guns, guerrilla warfare and glorious deeds is decided here with sordid details and an invisible warfare against falsehood. But a single victory won over petty human egoism is more pregnant with consequences for the earth than the rearranging of all the frontiers of Asia, for this frontier and this egoism are the original barbed wire that divides the world.
For that matter, the apprentice superman could begin his battle very early, not just in himself but in his children, and not just from their birth but right from their conception.
1.12 - The Superconscient, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
With intuition comes a very special joy, different, it seems, from the illumined joy. No longer is there the sense of a flow coming from outside, but a kind of recognition, as if there were always two of us, a brother of light living in the light and a brother of shadow, ourself, living below, groping awkwardly in the darkness, repeating all the gestures and movements of the brother of light, imitating his knowledge and his great adventure, but in a shabby, stunted, clumsy way. Then, suddenly, there is a coincidence, and we become one. We are one in a point of light. For once, there ceases to be any difference, and this is joy. When we are one in all points, then that will be the life divine.
This point of coincidence brings knowledge, which may translate itself in one form or another depending upon our current preoccupation, but it is always, essentially, a movement of identity, a meeting: we know because we recognize. Sri Aurobindo used to say that intuition is a memory of the Truth.195 As the intuitive flash occurs, one clearly sees that knowledge is not discovering something unknown one only discovers oneself! there is nothing else to discover but a gradual recognition, in time, of that second of Light which we have all seen. Who has not seen, if only once? Who does not have that Memory in his life? Whatever our beliefs or unbeliefs, our capacities or incapacities, our lower or higher altitudes, there is always a moment in life that is our moment. Some lives last but a second, and all the rest is oblivion.
1.13 - And Then?, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But the work is not finished. Evolution has not reached its summit; it has not even entered its solar Truth. If the Work were to stop here, we would have reached the summit of man and produced a super-man, but not the being of the next age. Our widened consciousness, our direct perceptions, our refined senses, our exact gestures and movements, our perfect actions, our right thoughts and right wills, our unalterable joy would still rest upon an animal body an aging, precarious and decaying body, which would threaten our luminous poise with abrupt collapse at every moment, checking the operation of our truth-consciousness with a tiny grain of sand and what kind of truth is that if it is so fragile? Truth is or is not, and it is immortal, infinite, invulnerable. It is light and luminous, incorruptible, and it cannot be prevented from being all that it is, any more than the mango tree can prevent itself from being a full tree with all its flowers and every one of its golden fruits. It will not stop at that limited accomplishment and will not rest until the whole earth and all beings are in its likeness, since the whole earth and all beings are in fact its own seeds. The superman, too, is a transitional being. He is the forerunner of another being on earth, as different from man as we are from the ape, and maybe even more, for man is still made of the same substance as the ape while the new being will be made of another substance immortal, luminous and light as Truth itself. He is the elaborator of the supramental being announced by Sri Aurobindo, and his substance is the humble laboratory of a perilous adventure.
Our body's cells must hold the Immortal's flame.
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It is up to us to unravel this knot, this mortal mixture, up to us to find the key and dare the supreme adventure.
The path of descent is not yet finished.
1.13 - Dawn and the Truth, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But the illumining dawn of the higher or undivided Consciousness is always the dawn of the Truth; if Usha is that illumining dawn, then we are bound to find her advent frequently associated in the verses of the Rig Veda with the idea of the
Truth, the Ritam. And such association we do repeatedly find.
1.13 - System of the O.T.O., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Let us begin at the beginning. What is a Dramatic Ritual? It is a celebration of the adventures of the God whom it is intended to invoke. (The Bacchae of Euripides is a perfect example of this.) Now, in the O.T.O., the object of the ceremonies being the Initiation of the Candi- date, it is he whose Path in Eternity is displayed in dramatic form.
What is the Path?
1.13 - Under the Auspices of the Gods, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
1.14 - The Secret, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Then we will understand that we are unfailingly being guided toward a Goal, that everything has a meaning, even the slightest thing nothing moves without moving everything and that we are on our way to a far greater adventure than we had ever imagined. Soon, a second paradox will strike us, which is perhaps the very same one.
Not only is there a law of ascent and descent, but there is also, it seems, a kind of central contradiction. We all have a goal in this life and through all our lives, something unique to express, since every human being is unique; this is our central truth, our own special evolutionary struggle. This goal appears only gradually, after numerous experiences and successive awakenings, as we begin to be a person with an inner development; we then realize that a kind of thread runs through our life, as well as through all our lives (if we have become conscious of them), indicating a particular orientation, as if everything always propelled us in the same direction a direction that becomes increasingly poignant and precise as we advance. Yet as we become conscious of this goal, we also uncover a particular difficulty that seems to represent the very opposite or contradiction of our goal. It is a strange situation, as if we carried within us the exact shadow of our light a shadow or difficulty or problem that confronts us again and again with a baffling insistence, always the same beneath different masks and in the most diverse circumstances, returning with increasing strength after every battle won and in exact proportion to our new intensity of consciousness as if we had to fight the same battle over and over again on each newly conquered plane of consciousness. The clearer the goal becomes, the stronger the shadow.
1.14 - The Succesion to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
popular tale, which relates how an adventurer, coming to a strange
land, wins the hand of the king's daughter and with her the half or
1.14 - The Victory Over Death, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But how to induce this fire into our matter, how to effect the passage, or transfusion, of this dark and mortal body to that ardent and immortal one? The work is in progress; it is difficult to talk about. We will not really know how it is done until it is done. No one knows the country or the way to it since no one has ever gotten there. No one has ever made a supramental body! But it will be made, as inevitably as man and the ape and the millipede were already made in the great golden Seed of the world. This is the last adventure of the earth, or maybe the first of a more marvelous series on a new earth of truth. We do not know the secret; we only know in what direction to walk though knowing the direction is perhaps already knowing the secret, since it unfolds under our steps and is formed by walking it.
So we can at least indicate the direction, the simple direction, for as usual the secrets are simple. The fire is built by the particle of consciousness we put into an unconscious act. Viewed from above, it is unconsciousness resisting and heating up from the friction of the new consciousness seeking entry it is that futile and automatic gesture which has trouble untwisting its habitual groove and turning differently, under another impulsion; and we have to untwist the old turn a thousand times, insist and persist until a little flame of consciousness replaces the dark routine. Viewed from below, it is that unconsciousness which suffocates and calls out and knocks and seeks. And both are true. It is the memory within which summons the golden ray; it is the great eternal Sun which makes that call for sunlight well up. The process, the great Process, is simple: we must light that little fire by degrees, put the ray into each gesture, each movement, each breath, each body function. Instead of doing things as usual, automatically, mechanically, we must remember Truth there too, yearn for Truth there too, infuse Truth there too. And we meet with resistance, forgetfulness, breakdowns; the machine goes on strike, falls ill, refuses to take the path of light. We must begin again thousands and thousands of times, point by point, gesture by gesture, function by function. We must remember again and again. Then, all of a sudden, in one little point of the body, in that passing little breath, something no longer vibrates in the old way, no longer works as usual; our breathing suddenly follows another rhythm, becomes wide and sunny, like a comfortable lungful of air, a breath of an air never known before, never tasted before, which refreshes everything, cures everything, even nourishes as if we were inhaling the nectar of the immortals. Then everything falls back into the old habit. We must start all over again, on one point, on another point, at each instant life becomes filled with an extreme preoccupation, an intense absorption. A second's minuscule victory streng thens us for another discovery, another victory. And we begin to work in every nook and cranny, every movement; we would like everything to be filled with truth and with that sun which changes everything, gives another flavor to everything, another rhythm, another plenitude. The body itself then begins to awaken, to yearn for truth, for sunshine. It begins to light its own fire of aspiration here and there, begins to want not to forget anymore; and whenever it forgets that new little vibration, it suddenly feels suffocated, as if it were sliding back into death. The process is simple, infinite, perpetual: each gesture or operation accomplished with a particle of consciousness binds that consciousness, that little fire of being, to the gesture or operation, and gradually transforms it. It is an infusion of consciousness, a microscopic and methodical and innumerable infusion of fire, until matter itself, under that conscious pressure, awakens to the need of consciousness as the seed awakens to the need for sunlight. Everything then starts growing together, inevitably, irresistibly, under that golden attraction. By degrees, the fire is lit, the vibration radiates, the note spreads, the cells respond to the Influx. The body inaugurates a new type of functioning, a functioning of conscious truth.
1.15 - Index, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
signified by Christ's advent, 44;
in uroboros, 248/; see also oppo-
1.15 - Prayers, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In short I might say that Realisation Supreme for the individual means identification with the Divine and for the collectivity upon earth the advent of the Supramental, the new creation.
Do not treat this as a dogma, but only as an explanation and Realisateur is the Supreme Power of realisation, the doer and the act.
1.15 - The Supramental Consciousness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
religion, new or old, for humanity in the future. A way to be opened that is still blocked, not a religion to be founded, is my conception of the matter.293 We cannot say whether the supramental adventure will succeed. The Vedic rishis were unable to "unblock the way"; they could not open "the great passage" for everyone and transform their personal realization into a permanent and collective one. There must have been a reason. What remains to be seen is whether that reason still holds true today.
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1.16 - Man, A Transitional Being, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
1.16 - The Season of Truth, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
There still remains the irritating secret of the transition between the body of light and this body of darkness, that body of truth and this mortal body. We have spoken of transfusion or perhaps reabsorption of one into the other, and also of transmutation of one by the other. But these are words that hide our ignorance. How will this husk, as She who continued Sri Aurobindo's work used to call it (and who dared the perilous adventure, the last great saltus of material evolution), be opened, give way to that long-nurtured flower of fire? How will that new material substance the substance of the new world make its appearance, materialize? For it is already there; it will not fall from the sky. It is already radiating for those who have the truth-vision. It has been built, condensed, by the flame of aspiration of a few bodies. It almost seems as if a mere nothing would be enough to bring it out into the open, visible and tangible to all but we do not know what that nothing is, that impalpable veil, that ultimate screen, or what will make it fall. It is nothing, really, scarcely a husk, and behind, throbbing and vibrating, is the new world, so intense, radiant and warm, with such a swift rhythm and vivid light, so much more vivid and true than the earth's present light that one really wonders how living in this old callous, narrow, thick and awkward substance is still possible, and that the entire life as it is does seem like an old dried-up husk, thin and flat and colorless, a sort of caricature of the real life, a two-dimensional image of another material world full of depths and vibrancy, of superimposed and fused meanings, of real life, real joy, real movement. Here, outside, there are only little puppets of being moving about, passing figures in a shadow dance, lit up by something else, cast by something else, which is the life of their shadow, the light of their night, the sacred meaning of their futile little gesture, the real body of their pale silhouette. And yet, it is a material world, absolutely material, not some glorious fiction, not a hallucination with eyes closed, not a vague area of little saints. It is there. It is like real matter, Sri Aurobindo used to say. It is knocking at our doors, seeking to exist for our eyes and in our bodies, hammering away at the world, as if the great eternal Image were trying to enter the small one, the true world to enter this caricature which is coming to grief on all sides, the Truth of matter to enter this false and illusory coating as though the illusion were actually on this side, in this false look at matter, this false mental structure which prevents us from seeing things as they are. For they already are, as the fullness of the moon already is, only hidden to our shadow vision.
This solidity of the shadow, this effectiveness of the illusion, is probably the little nothing that stands in the way. Could the caterpillar have prevented itself from seeing a linear world, so concrete and objective for it, so incomplete and subjective for us? Our earth is not complete; our life is not complete; our matter itself is not complete. It is knocking, knocking to become one and full. It could well be that the whole falsehood of the earth lies in its false look, which results in a false life, a false action, a false being that is not, that cries out to be, that knocks and knocks on our doors and on the doors of the world. And yet, this husk does exist it suffers, it dies. It is not an illusion, even if, behind, lies the light of its shadow, the source of its gesture, the real face of its mask. What prevents the connection?... Perhaps simply something in the old substance that still takes itself for its shadow instead of taking itself for its sun perhaps is it only a matter of a conversion of our material consciousness, of its total and integral changeover from the small shadow to the great Person? A changeover which is like a death, a swing into such a radical otherness that it amounts to a disintegration of the old fellow. An instantaneous death-resurrection? A sudden other view, a plunge into Life true life which abolishes or unrealizes the old shadow?
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7 This ascending path has been described in By the Body of the Earth and the higher planes of the mind have been discussed in Sri Aurobindo or the adventure of Consciousness.
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1.16 - The Suprarational Ultimate of Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
On this a great deal hangs; for if the practical and vitalistic view of life and society is the right one, if society merely or principally exists for the maintenance, comfort, vital happiness and political and economic efficiency of the species, then our idea that life is a seeking for God and for the highest self and that society too must one day make that its principle cannot stand. Modern society, at any rate in its self-conscious aim, is far enough from any such endeavour; whatever may be the splendour of its achievement, it acknowledges only two gods, life and practical reason organised under the name of science. Therefore on this great primary thing, this life-power and its manifestations, we must look with especial care to see what it is in its reality as well as what it is in its appearance. Its appearance is familiar enough; for of that is made the very stuff and present form of our everyday life. Its main ideals are the physical good and vitalistic well-being of the individual and the community, the entire satisfaction of the desire for bodily health, long life, comfort, luxury, wealth, amusement, recreation, a constant and tireless expenditure of the mind and the dynamic life-force in remunerative work and production and, as the higher flame-spires of this restless and devouring energy, creations and conquests of various kinds, wars, invasions, colonisation, discovery, commercial victory, travel, adventure, the full possession and utilisation of the earth. All this life still takes as its cadre the old existing forms, the family, the society, the nation and it has two impulses, individualistic and collective.
The primary impulse of life is individualistic and makes family, social and national life a means for the greater satisfaction of the vital individual. In the family the individual seeks for the satisfaction of his vital instinct of possession, as well as for the joy of companionship, and for the fulfilment of his other vital instinct of self-reproduction. His gains are the possession of wife, servants, house, wealth, estates, the reproduction of much of himself in the body and mind of his progeny and the prolongation of his activities, gains and possessions in the life of his children; incidentally he enjoys the vital and physical pleasures and the more mental pleasures of emotion and affection to which the domestic life gives scope. In society he finds a less intimate but a larger expansion of himself and his instincts. A wider field of companionship, interchange, associated effort and production, errant or gregarious pleasure, satisfied emotion, stirred sensation and regular amusement are the advantages which attach him to social existence. In the nation and its constituent parts he finds a means for the play of a remoter but still larger sense of power and expansion. If he has the force, he finds there fame, pre-eminence, leadership or at a lower pitch the sense of an effective action on a small or a large scale, in a reduced or a magnified field of public action; if he cannot have this, still he can feel a share of some kind, a true portion or fictitious image of participation, in the pride, power and splendour of a great collective activity and vital expansion. In all this there is primarily at work the individualist principle of the vital instinct in which the competitive side of that movement of our nature associates with the cooperative but predominates over it. Carried to an excess this predominance creates the ideal of the arriviste, to whom family, society and nation are not so much a sympathetic field as a ladder to be climbed, a prey to be devoured, a thing to be conquered and dominated. In extreme cases the individualist turn isolates itself from the companion motive, reverts to a primitive anti-social feeling and creates the nomad, the adventurer, the ranger of wilds, or the pure solitary,solitary not from any intellectual or spiritual impulse, but because society, once an instrument, has become a prison and a burden, an oppressive cramping of his expansion, a denial of breathing-space and elbow-room. But these cases grow rarer, now that the ubiquitous tentacles of modern society take hold everywhere; soon there will be no place of refuge left for either the nomad or the solitary, not even perhaps Saharan deserts or the secure remotenesses of the Himalayas. Even, it may be, the refuge of an inner seclusion may be taken from us by a collectivist society intent to make its pragmatic, economic, dynamic most of every individual cell of the organism.
For this growing collectivist or cooperative tendency embodies the second instinct of the vital or practical being in man. It shows itself first in the family ideal by which the individual subordinates himself and finds his vital satisfaction and practical account, not in his own predominant individuality, but in the life of a larger vital ego. This ideal played a great part in the old aristocratic views of life; it was there in the ancient Indian idea of the kula and the kuladharma, and in later India it was at the root of the joint-family system which made the strong economic base of mediaeval Hinduism. It has taken its grossest Vaishya form in the ideal of the British domestic Philistine, the idea of the human individual born here to follow a trade or profession, to marry and procreate a family, to earn his living, to succeed reasonably if not to amass an efficient or ostentatious wealth, to enjoy for a space and then die, thus having done the whole business for which he came into the body and performed all his essential duty in life,for this apparently was the end unto which man with all his divine possibilities was born! But whatever form it may take, however this grossness may be refined or toned down, whatever ethical or religious conceptions may be superadded, always the family is an essentially practical, vitalistic and economic creation. It is simply a larger vital ego, a more complex vital organism that takes up the individual and englobes him in a more effective competitive and cooperative life unit. The family like the individual accepts and uses society for its field and means of continuance, of vital satisfaction and well-being, of aggrandisement and enjoyment. But this life unit also, this multiple ego can be induced by the cooperative instinct in life to subordinate its egoism to the claims of the society and trained even to sacrifice itself at need on the communal altar. For the society is only a still larger vital competitive and cooperative ego that takes up both the individual and the family into a more complex organism and uses them for the collective satisfaction of its vital needs, claims, interests, aggrandisement, well-being, enjoyment. The individual and family consent to this exploitation for the same reason that induced the individual to take on himself the yoke of the family, because they find their account in this wider vital life and have the instinct in it of their own larger growth, security and satisfaction. The society, still more than the family, is essentially economic in its aims and in its very nature. That accounts for the predominantly economic and materialistic character of modern ideas of Socialism; for these ideas are the full rationalistic flowering of this instinct of collective life. But since the society is one competitive unit among many of its kind, and since its first relations with the others are always potentially hostile, even at the best competitive and not cooperative, and have to be organised in that view, a political character is necessarily added to the social life, even predominates for a time over the economic and we have the nation or State. If we give their due value to these fundamental characteristics and motives of collective existence, it will seem natural enough that the development of the collective and cooperative idea of society should have culminated in a huge, often a monstrous overgrowth of the vitalistic, economic and political ideal of life, society and civilisation.
1.17 - Legend of Prahlada, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
Listen, Maitreya, to the story of the wise and magnanimous Prahlāda, whose adventures are ever interesting and instructive. Hiraṇyakaśipu, the son of Diti, had formerly brought the three worlds under his authority, confiding in a boon bestowed upon him by Brahmā[1]. He had usurped the sovereignty of Indra, and exercised of himself the functions of the sun, of air, of the lord of waters, of fire, and of the moon. He himself was the god of riches; he was the judge of the dead; and he appropriated to himself, without reserve, all that was offered in sacrifice to the gods. The deities therefore, flying from their seats in heaven, wandered, through fear of the Daitya, upon the earth, disguised in mortal shapes. Having conquered the three worlds, he was inflated with pride, and, eulogized by the Gandharvas, enjoyed whatever he desired. The Gandharvas, the Siddhas, and the snake-gods all attended upon the mighty Hiraṇyakaśipu, as he sat at the banquet. The Siddhas delighted stood before him, some playing on musical instruments, some singing songs in his praise, and others shouting cries of victory; whilst the nymphs of heaven danced gracefully in the crystal palace, where the Asura with pleasure quaffed the inebriating cup.
The illustrious son of the Daitya king, Prahlāda, being yet a boy, resided in the dwelling of his preceptor, where he read such writings as are studied in early years. On one occasion he came, accompanied by his teacher, to the court of his father, and bowed before his feet as he was drinking. Hiraṇyakaśipu desired his prostrate son to rise, and said to him, "Repeat, boy, in substance, and agreeably, what during the period of your studies you have acquired." "Hear, sire," replied Prahlāda, "what in obedience to your commands I will repeat, the substance of all I have learned: listen attentively to that which wholly occupies my thoughts. I have learned to adore him who is without beginning, middle, or end, increase or diminution; the imperishable lord of the world, the universal cause of causes." On hearing these words, the sovereign of the Daityas, his eyes red with wrath, and lip swollen with indignation, turned to the preceptor of his son, and said, "Vile Brahman, what is this preposterous commendation of my foe, that, in disrespect to me, you have taught this boy to utter?" "King of the Daityas," replied the Guru, "it is not worthy of you to give way to passion: that which your son has uttered, he has not been taught by me." "By whom then," said Hiraṇyakaśipu to the lad, "by whom has this lesson, boy, been taught you? your teacher denies that it proceeds from him." "Viṣṇu, father," answered Prahlāda, "is the instructor of the whole world: what else should any one teach or learn, save him the supreme spirit?" "Blockhead," exclaimed the king, "who is this Viṣṇu, whose name you thus reiterate so impertinently before me, who am the sovereign of the three worlds?" "The glory of Viṣṇu," replied Prahlāda, "is to be meditated upon by the devout; it cannot be described: he is the supreme lord, who is all things, and from whom all things proceed." To this the king rejoined, "Are you desirous of death, fool, that you give the title of supreme lord to any one whilst I survive?" "Viṣṇu, who is Brahma," said Prahlāda, "is the creator and protector, not of me alone, but of all human beings, and even, father, of you: he is the supreme lord of all. Why should you, sire, be offended?" Hiraṇyakaśipu then exclaimed, "What evil spirit has entered into the breast of this silly boy, that thus, like one possessed, he utters such profanity?" "Not into my heart alone," said Prahlāda, "has Viṣṇu entered, but he pervades all the regions of the universe, and by his omnipresence influences the conduct of all beings, mine, fattier, and thine[2]." "Away with the wretch!" cried the king; "take him to his preceptor's mansion. By whom could he have been instigated to repeat the lying praises of my foe?"
1.17 - The Burden of Royalty, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
ambitious adventurer named Mack, who from a fisherman had risen to
be Grand Mandarin. But the king's brother Tring put down the usurper
1.17 - The Divine Soul, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
13:But what will be the conditions in which and by which this nature of the life of the divine soul will realise itself? All experience in relation proceeds through certain forces of being formulating themselves by an instrumentation to which we give the name of properties, qualities, activities, faculties. As, for instance, Mind throws itself into various forms of mind-power, such as judgment, observation, memory, sympathy, proper to its own being, so must the Truth-consciousness or Supermind effect the relations of soul with soul by forces, faculties, functionings proper to supramental being; otherwise there would be no play of differentiation. What these functionings are, we shall see when we come to consider the psychological conditions of the divine Life; at present we are only considering its metaphysical foundations, its essential nature and principles. Suffice it at present to observe that the absence or abolition of separatist egoism and of effective division in consciousness is the one essential condition of the divine Life, and therefore their presence in us is that which constitutes our mortality and our fall from the Divine. This is our "original sin", or rather let us say in a more philosophical language, the deviation from the Truth and Right of the Spirit, from its oneness, integrality and harmony that was the necessary condition for the great plunge into the Ignorance which is the soul's adventure in the world and from which was born our suffering and aspiring humanity.
1.17 - The Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
The manifestation of the Spirit in a supramental consciousness and in a new body, a new race, is something as inevitable as was the advent of Homo sapiens after the primates. The only real question now is whether this new evolution will take place with us or without us. This is how Sri Aurobindo expressed the dilemma: If a spiritual unfolding on earth is the hidden truth of our birth into Matter, if it is fundamentally an evolution of consciousness that has been taking place in Nature, then man as he is cannot be the last term of that evolution: he is too imperfect an expression of the spirit, mind itself a too limited form and instrumentation; mind is only a middle term of consciousness, the mental being can only be a transitional being. If,
then, man is incapable of exceeding mentality, he must be surpassed and supermind and superman must manifest and take the lead of the creation. But if his mind is capable of opening to what exceeds it, then there is no reason why man himself should not arrive at supermind and supermanhood or at least lend his mentality, life and body to an evolution of that greater term of the Spirit manifesting in Nature. 340
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where Mother would resume the work. If we want to understand where the whole story our story is unfolded and to follow the process of the work, we must go back to the evolutionary process itself. The advent of a new stage in evolution, whether it be Life in Matter or Mind in Life, has always resulted from a twofold pressure: a pressure from within or below, from the involved principle seeking to emerge, and a pressure from "outside" or "above," from the same principle as it already exists within its own plane. The conjunction of these two pressures for example, that of the mind involved in certain living forms and that of the Mind as it was created in its own plane in the course of a descending evolution or devolution eventually led to a rupture of the vital limits, and suddenly Mind emerged in Life.
Everything is involved, already there in Matter, but the involution cannot be unlocked except through a pressure from above responding to a call from below and breaking the seal, just as the sun breaks the seed's shell. At present, the supermind involved in Matter pushes from within, in the form of spiritual yearnings, human aspirations for Immortality, Truth, or Beauty, etc.; at the same time, it presses from above, from its own eternal plane, in the form of intuitions,
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first, to become conscious of the Play in order for it to begin. We have exhausted all kinds of adventures since Jules Verne, and they have all gradually closed in on us. What war, what revolution is still worth giving one's blood for? Our Everests have all been deflowered, and the high seas are patrolled night and day; everything is monitored,
precalculated, even the straosphere. Could this be intended to lead us to the only possibility left in this increasingly asphyxiating world? We had assumed we were only shortsighted little moles on a big planet, so we proceeded to rectify the great Eye within, and our wings, by substituting a steel machinery that is now crushing us mercilessly
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O petty adventurers in an infinite world And prisoners of a dwarf humanity,
How long will you tread the circling tracks of mind Around your little self and petty things?
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Sri Aurobindo brings us a message of hope. Ultimately, our present reign of gnomes is the sign of a new emergence. Our darkness and declines always signal the advent of a greater light, which had to descend to break the prevailing limits. There are only two ways of breaking the limits: through an excess of light or an excess of darkness, but while one draws our darkness up into the light and dissolves it, the other precipitates the light into our darkness and transmutes it. One way liberates a few individuals, while the other liberates the whole earth. Ten thousand years ago, a few giants among men had wrestled out the Secret of the world, but this was the privilege of a few initiates, while now we must all become initiates.
Ten thousand years ago reigned the Golden Age, while today everything seems to have been swallowed up in darkness. In truth,
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the Infinite" that we are, the luminous Future that pushes back our past. Evolution is far from being over. It is not an absurd merry-goround, not a fall, nor a vanity fair. It is . . . the adventure of consciousness and joy.405
Pondicherry April 14, 1963
1.18 - The Perils of the Soul, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
wonderful adventures are simply their dreams, which they do not
distinguish from waking realities.
12.01 - This Great Earth Our Mother, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The earth is well-known for its force of gravitation, the force that pulls things downward and at best allows a horizontal trajectory, that is the apparent movement. But it also has another, a contrary movement, the anti-gravity force, the force of levitation and ascension. Earth, clay, never had a warm reception at the hands of spiritual persons or even of ordinary people who lay the whole blame upon this poor element for all the misfortunes of life here belowprecisely because of the earth's gravitating pull. The earth is considered as the very nursery of sin; the consciousness of sin however began with the advent of man upon earth. The creation was governed at the beginning and for long by an eternal unchangeable law, and man came in as an intervention, a breach of the law; He came with the knowledge and force of division and distinction, that between the right and the wrong. He brought in him the will independent of the eternal lawto discover a law of his own. That has been called transgression; in the popular style, that is sin. Apart from the obloquy that the term sin carries with it, it is at bottom, however, the sense of ambiguity, the sense of choice, the sense of liberty. Man has been given this sense so that he may find out that the customary, the habitual, the millennial is not the only rhythm or line of movement but that he may look beyond and find other lines which open the way to progress, which are not bound to mere reiteration. A new sense of direction is behind the spirit of independence that appears as transgression or sinit is this which the human consciousness aims at in the movement. It is an opportunity to move away and upward, to fresh dimensions of consciousness and being.
Progress takes place through a process of dialectics, that is to say, by way of choice between two opposites. The established harmony and uniformity becomes rigid and unalterable, has to be broken in order to start a move towards another harmony richer and higher, and this is done in the human consciousness by the growth of a free will in the individual that disobeys the established law. That is the great Disobedience of which Milton speaks so thunderingly in his famous epic poem and which is at the very centre of the Christian religion. It means a Fall: the sense of separation itself is a falla separate egoism standing out against all and everyone, including God Himself. But this has been necessary to replace the blind obedience of an automaton by the willing and happy collaboration of a free being. That is the psychic with its free choice. The choice lies, as the Upanishad says, between 'reyas' and 'preyas'; the deliberate choice of the 'reyas' by the psychic being at every step is the great dialectic movement of evolution through which the consciousness moves forward and upward towards the supreme reality. The initial separation, disobedience or sin is the price that the individual human being has to pay in order to move towards its final destiny, the freedom and the integrality of its supreme divine fulfilment. Egoism, the fount and origin of sin, is the mask, the camouflage over the visage of God, the Individual.
12.04 - Love and Death, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Perseus the Deliverer is obviously the story of the deliverance of human soul from the siege of the emissaries of Death, the lower consciousness. It is also the legend of the destruction of a darker age of civilisation and the advent of a new age of greater light. The reign of Poseidon represents man in his half animal stage worshipping the dark vital gods. Pitted against that rose later, as the scholars say, the Aryan civilisation represented in Europe by the Greeksworshippers of the solar gods, Gods of Light and Love. The force that transforms darkness into light, passion into pure energy, gloom into happiness, is the touch of Love. Even the human agencies of this divine element acting in the human way express as Sri Aurobindo has shown, something of the magic and beauty and the sense of elevation here below, something from love's higher native state.
In Eric, Love's appeal is to the heroic soul. Love as commonly understood in its human form seems to be nothing else but loose sentiment and feeling, a play of mere emotion. As such it is usually made out to be as sweet as possible and as weak as possible, even in its external violence. Weakness, frailty is promoted as a woman's character and also her charm and beauty. On the other hand, heroism, force and vigour form the masculine character. But that is evidently a superficial and a limited and decadent view. A heroic soul to be genuinely heroic and complete must be a loving soul and in the same way love in a woman must carry in it a strong heroic element. The marriage of love and heroism is the story of Eric, how heroism adds force and strength and nobility to love and how love lends grace and beauty and an other-worldly charm to force and strength. In Eric Love attains a stronger, a larger, a royal fulfilment in its human mould, on this earth.
1.21 - FROM THE PRE-HUMAN TO THE ULTRA-HUMAN, THE PHASES OF A LIVING PLANET, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
with the course of events, how is the adventure likely to conclude?
Can we look forward to nothing but a state of senescence at the end
1.2.1 - Mental Development and Sadhana, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I dont quite know about the novel. People bring in the relations of man and woman because it has been the habit for centuries to make every novel turn around thatexcept in the few which deal with history or adventure or similar things. In a novel based on spiritual philosophy should not the man and woman idea go into the background or disappear, the spiritual love not having anything based at all on sex, but on the relation between soul and soul?
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1.22 - THE END OF THE SPECIES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
With the origin of all things, there began an advent of recol-
lection and work in the course of which the forces of determinism,
--
less, will be conscious of remaining itself, the astonishing adventure
of the world will have ended. The dream of every mystic, the eter-
1.23 - Conditions for the Coming of a Spiritual Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But still a subjective age of mankind must be an adventure full of perils and uncertainties as are all great adventures of the race. It may wander long before it finds itself or may not find itself at all and may swing back to a new repetition of the cycle. The true secret can only be discovered if in the third stage, in an age of mental subjectivism, the idea becomes strong of the mind itself as no more than a secondary power of the Spirits working and of the Spirit as the great Eternal, the original and, in spite of the many terms in which it is both expressed and hidden, the sole reality, ayam tm brahma. Then only will the real, the decisive endeavour begin and life and the world be studied, known, dealt with in all directions as the self-finding and self-expression of the Spirit. Then only will a spiritual age of mankind be possible.
To attempt any adequate discussion of what that would mean, and in an inadequate discussion there is no fruit, is beyond our present scope; for we should have to examine a knowledge which is rare and nowhere more than initial. It is enough to say that a spiritual human society would start from and try to realise three essential truths of existence which all Nature seems to be an attempt to hide by their opposites and which therefore are as yet for the mass of mankind only words and dreams, God, freedom, unity. Three things which are one, for you cannot realise freedom and unity unless you realise God, you cannot possess freedom and unity unless you possess God, possess at once your highest Self and the Self of all creatures. The freedom and unity which otherwise go by that name, are simply attempts of our subjection and our division to get away from themselves by shutting their eyes while they turn somersaults around their own centre. When man is able to see God and to possess him, then he will know real freedom and arrive at real unity, never otherwise. And God is only waiting to be known, while man seeks for him everywhere and creates images of the Divine, but all the while truly finds, effectively erects and worships images only of his own mind-ego and life-ego. When this ego pivot is abandoned and this ego-hunt ceases, then man gets his first real chance of achieving spirituality in his inner and outer life. It will not be enough, but it will be a commencement, a true gate and not a blind entrance.
1.23 - Improvising a Temple, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
* [AC29] "Peace": the glow of satisfaction at achievement. It is not "eternal," rather, it whets the appetite for another adventure. (Peace, = 189 = 7 9 3, the Venusian plus Lunar form of Unity.)[39]
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1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
That the adventurous thoughts that wander near it
Worship, and as they kneel, tremble and fear
--
M.: The Master is within. Meditation is meant for the removal of ignorance, of the wrong idea that he is without. If he be a stranger whose advent you await he is bound to disappear also. Where is the use of transient being like that?
However, as long as you think that you are an individual or that you are the body, so long the master also is necessary and he will appear with a body. When this wrong identification ceases the master will be found to be the Self.
1.24 - The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
object:1.24 - The advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age
author class:Sri Aurobindo
1.26 - The Eighth Bolgia Evil Counsellors. Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses' Last Voyage., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
That man no farther onward should adventure.
111
1.27 - Structure of Mind Based on that of Body, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
He discovered, and he demonstrated, that the history of any animal throughout the course of its evolution is repeated in the stages of the individual. To put it crudely, the growth of a child from the fertilized ovum to the adult repeats the adventures of its species.
This doctrine is tremendously important, and I feel that I do not know how to emphasize it as it deserves. I want to be exceptionally accurate; yet the use of his meticulous scientific terms, with an armoury of quotations, would almost certainly result in your missing the point, "unable to see the wood for the trees."
1.28 - The Killing of the Tree-Spirit, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
flowers and garlands to represent the genial advent of spring.
Formerly the part of Winter was played by a straw-man which the boys
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
That the adventurous thoughts that wander near it
322
--
M.: The Master is within. Meditation is meant for the removal of ignorance, of the wrong idea that he is without. If he be a stranger whose advent you await he is bound to disappear also. Where is the use of transient being like that?
However, as long as you think that you are an individual or that you are the body, so long the master also is necessary and he will appear with a body. When this wrong identification ceases the master will be found to be the Self.
13.02 - A Review of Sri Aurobindos Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There was yet one more crisis, a great crisis the fate of humanity and also his own destiny, the fate of his work depended upon it. The world was nearing the world-shaking war the Second World War. It was the invasion of the asuric forces upon earth to destroy humanity and human civilisation and prevent the advent of that truth which Sri Aurobindo was preparing to bring down. Sri Aurobindo opposed that mighty onrush with his will and divine strength. He broke the hostile downward-speeding force by taking it into himself, even like god Shiva who swallowed poison and harboured it in his throat to release immortality for the Gods. The subtle attack left in him a bruised body and to man a saved world. He followed up his action by a whole-hearted support to the Allies in that war against those who were the instruments of the Hostiles.
We come finally now to the last act, the last decision that he took of an almost complete turn, a full cycle. It was his considerate deliberate decision to move out of the physical material scene and take his station just in the background from where he could move and direct things more effectively.
1.39 - Prophecy, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
We may also refer to the Second advent: "Behold! I come quickly."[72]
There have been quite a few false alarms to date. (It began with Jesus himself, snapping off the disciple's head: "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?" Well, somebody was disappointed.)
--
For when the time came, and the Key was found, the finder's name in the Order was and had been from the moment of his admission as a probationer Achad, the Hebrew word for "One." And he came "after him" in the precise technical sense, that he was in fact the next person to undertake the adventure of the Abyss.
I hope you are not getting the idea that my Prophetic ambit is limited to these high-falutin' metaphysical masterpieces of Runic Lore. In case you do, I now propose to break your "seven green withs that were never dried" altogether, Delilah; for I shall keep my hair on. I shall go forth to war! From 1920 to 1923 my abode for a season was the house called the Horsel of the Abbey of Thelema that lieth upon Santa Barbara, overlooking the town of Telepylus see Homer and Samuel Butler II, but called later by the Romans Cephaloedium, and now Cefal. There did I toil to expand my little Part III of Book 4 to the portentous volume now more generally known as Magick in Theory and Practice. After numerous mis adventures, it was published in 1928.[78]
14.08 - A Parable of Sea-Gulls, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, it happened that one of these sea-gulls thought otherwise. Yes, a thought entered into him. Why should not a thought enter into the head of a bird? A new thought, a faith did enter into the heart of a human child as reported in the Upanishads, so this bird with his questioning thought found the ordinary bird-life quite uninteresting. He wondered: why lay so much stress upon food and sleep and quarrelling and increasing the population? He found flying itself a beautiful adventure. Why fly just a few miles, only to come back, flop down and roost? Why not fly out, out into the vast sea abroad and the limitless sky overhead? Having wings, he thought they were strong enough to fly him far and high; he would try.
So from that time he separated himself from his tribe and went out on his own for the joy of long journeys and long flights. It was pure delight for him and he increased the distance of his flight from day to day, from a hundred to a thousand miles or more. And he found himself gradually incredibly stronger in body, unbelievably happy within. Food or sleep or rest did not trouble him anymore. When he was thus practising this new adventure, two or three of his comrades noticed it and became interested. So these approached him and asked what the matter was. He explained to them what he was about, he was not happy with the old common life, he wanted a new, broader, more vigorous life. The newcomers were allured by the project and they wanted to join the new adventure. They were gladly accepted.
So these three or four friends joined together and resolved to start a new life. These new-comers were first taught the lessons of long flightperhaps now they could fly some thousands of miles at a stretch without rest. One day the pioneer birdlet us give him a name "Shobhanaka", la manire de Panchatantra e.g. Damanaka, Karataka, Bhasunaka etc. for he was very fine to look at, so Shobhanaka told his comrades: Long flight is not sufficient, not only horizontal flight but a vertical flight should be also our asset. So they attempted to fly up and up, up into the clouds and beyond as far as possible, to the extent that earth's atmosphere and gravitation would allow. They achieved this feat also and in doing so they pondered upon another mystery. Shobhanaka said: long-distance flight whether horizontal or vertical is not sufficient, we must increase our speed, the speed of flight. And the way to increase the speed is to speed down from abovedart headlong towards earth. In this way in place of a bare fifty or sixty miles per hour they calculated they could attain the speed of sound. To break the sound-barrier is indeed an achievement for bodily speed. Now they wanted to go farther on. Added to the flight they now learnt all kinds of acrobatic movements of the bodyexactly as expert pilots do with their aeroplane, that is to say, with their gathering speed they went through all movements of vaulting, somersaulting, twirling, twisting and so on. They made their bodies a wonderful mass of supple energy and even radiant energy.
--
The upshot was that the old community gradually changed its habits slowly but inevitably, they took to adventure and far-flights, over the unknown waves into the infinite blue. Many became experts and given to this new life they formed gradually a community by themselves and found for themselves another habitat nearby. Those old experts, Shobhanaka's group, the masters, were with them as teachers and guides. And thus new guides and new teachers arose and community after community leading this new life, a life in which the old and unclean habits were eliminated and there was a life of exquisite beauty and harmony among all.
Here ends my story. It is the story, rather a vision and aspiration in a beautiful symbol of a pilot, 1 a real pilot who was flying real aeroplanes. When he flew with his hard mechanical rigid mechanical wings into other regions free from earth's gravitational control, he imagined or aspired to fly with other wings, golden wings, into other regions, golden regions of another kind of consciousness, supra-human consciousness.
1.41 - Are we Reincarnations of the Ancient Egyptians?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
I found almost at once, that is to say after about a month, that practically every dream that I could remember, could be quite clearly ascribed to one of two causes: (a) the events of the previous day or days, or the subjects which had interested and excited me during that period, and (b) the physical conditions of the moment. For instance, a good deal of the time of the experiment I was sleeping in what might have been euphemistically called a houseboat. It was liable to leak; and on such occasions as I woke to find water trickling down my nose, I found that the dream from which I had wakened was an adventure of some sort in connection with water. (It is quite notorious, I believe, that many asthmatic subjects are pestered by dreams of having been guillotined in a previous incarnation. Alan Bennett, I may mention, was one such.)
As the practice proceeds, you should find not only that your dreams increase in number per night, but also became very much fuller, clearer and more coherent. I assume that the reason is that the fact of your paying attention to them brings them to the surface.
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Mrs. Rosita Forbes was said to be in India. Sri Bhagavan said: The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
13th February, 1938
1.43 - Dionysus, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
celebrated the advent of Dionysus in spring; the god was supposed to
bring the season with him. Deities of vegetation, who are believed
1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Mrs. Rosita Forbes was said to be in India. Sri Bhagavan said: The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
13th February, 1938
1.45 - The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
origin, life, adventures, and character. (_b_) On the other hand
gods, as distinguished from spirits, are not restricted to definite
1.48 - Morals of AL - Hard to Accept, and Why nevertheless we Must Concur, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
* [AC42] The "Master" roughly denotes the able, the adventurous, welcoming responsibility. The "slave:" his motto is "Safety first," with all that this implies. Race, birth, breeding etc. are important but not absolutely essential factors.
[AC43] "Zeugnis der Suchenden:" a declaration she had signed in 1925.
1.49 - Thelemic Morality, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It would really be a little difficult; my rough-and-tumble life was the best possible training for such desperate adventures, so that Nephesch could not enter a protest. As to Neschamah, we nearly all of us (Thank God!) have a secret sympathy, with the nobler type of criminal, whence the universal appeal of Arsne Lupin, Black Star, Raffles and Stingaree. When they can make some show of justice-on-their-side, it is easier still: Scarlet Pimpernel and his tribe. We are now almost within the marches of those heroes of romance that enchanted our adolescence: Hereward the Wake, Robin Hood, Bonnie Prince Charlie. And there are, on the other hand, few of us who do not secretly gloat over the discomfiture of "Money- Bags."
My retort, however, is convincing and final. Robbery in any shape is a breach of the Law of Thelema. It is interference with the right of another to dispose of his property as he will; and if I did so myself, no matter with what tactical justification, I could hardly ask others to respect my own similar right.
15.05 - Twin Prayers, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To follow Sri Aurobindo in the great adventure of his integral yoga, one needed always to be a warrior; but now that he has physically left us, one needs to be a hero.
At present when the Mother too is no more thereapparentlywe seem to be abandoned children, what are we to do or be? It is no longer sufficient to be a warrior, not sufficient even to be a hero. What should we be? Something greater than the hero. One must be a Yogi. The yogi is one who has the Divine Consciousness or the Mother's consciousness. If you find that it is not so easy for one to be a yogi, even if one tries sincerely, I suggest to you another alternative. It is to leap into another dimension: to be a child, a child of the Mother.
1.51 - How to Recognise Masters, Angels, etc., and how they Work, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
(Let me emphasize that this wild adventure had not the remotest connection with Magick. Virakam was utterly ignorant of the subject. She had hardly so much as a smattering of Christian Science. She had never attended a sance or played Planchette.)
... Lassati sed non Satiati[105] by midnight, I expected to sleep; but was aroused by Virakam being apparently seized with a violent attack of hysteria, in which she poured forth a frantic torrent of senseless hallucination. I was irritated and tried to calm her. But she insisted that her experience was real; that she bore an important message to me from some invisible individual. Such nonsense increased my irritation. But after about an hour of it my jaw fell with astonishment. I became suddenly aware of a coherence in her ravings, and further that they were couched in my own language of symbols. My attention being thus awakened, I listened to what she was saying. A few minutes convinced me that she was actually in communication with some Intelligence who had a message for me.
1.56 - Marriage - Property - War - Politics, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
There is just one exception to the general idea of ruthlessness; some shadowy vision of a chivalrous type of warfare is granted to us in AL III, 59: Significant, perhaps, that this and a restatement of Thelema came immediately before "There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's seat, lightening the girders of the soul." (AL III, 61) And this is "As brothers fight ye!" Perhaps the Aeon may give birth to some type of warfare "under Queensbery rules" so to say. A baptism of those who assert their right to belong to the Master class. Something, in short, not wholly dissimilar from the jousts of Feudal times. But on such points I should not care to adventure any very positive opinion.
The last part of your question refers to politics. "The word politics surprises by himself," as Count Smorltork observed. Practically all those parts of the Book which deal with social matters may be considered as political in the old an proper sense of the word; of modern politics it disdains to speak.
1.57 - Beings I have Seen with my Physical Eye, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
When it was a matter of the sense of touch, it was far otherwise; I got it good and hearty but that is not the subject of this letter. I find all this excessively tedious; I resent having to write about it at all; I wonder whether I am breaking some beastly by-law; in fact, I shall ask you to be content with Buer as far as details go; I never saw anything of importance with purely physical sight with anything like the clarity of my adventure on Mont Collon.
Yes, as I think it over, that by-law is to thank. This Spring I saw very plainly, on four separate occasions, various beings of another order than ours. I was ass enough to tell one or two pupils about it...
1.63 - Fear, a Bad Astral Vision, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Well, this is not an example for you to copy, is it? But it gives an idea of the principle "Take the bull by the horns." A practice easier to imitate was this following. In most great cities, always in Eastern cities, are black slums. Here one may find blind alleys, dark doorways open to unlighted houses. One may explore such places, looking for adventure and it was rather a point of honour to accept the challenge in whatever form it took. Again, one may walk with deliberate carelessness into the traffic[118]; this practice does not in my considerable experience, conduce to one's personal popularity. Another idea was to hasten to cholera-stricken cities, to places where Yellow Jack, plague, typhoid and typhus, dysentery (et hc turba malorum) were endemic; and (of course) big-game hunting takes one to the certainty of malarial fever, with no doctors (or worse, Bengali doctors!) within many a league.
The general principle seems to be "This boat carries Caesar and his Fortunes!" and no doubt Pride in its most Satanic degree is one's greatest asset. But the essence of the practice, as a practice, is to seek out and to face what one fears. Do not forget that courage implies fear what else should fear be useful for?
--
So, the noise making work rather difficult, one lies down in Shavasana (the "Corpse-Position" flat on the back, arms by sides, everything relaxed) or the Templar (Sleep of Siloam[119]) position, which is that of the Hanged Man in the Tarot. One then imagines a bomb dropping first in one place, then in another; one imagines the damage, and what one then has to do to counteract the new dangers perhaps a wall of your house has gone, and you must get clear before the roof falls in. And so on close the practice by a block-buster hitting you accurately on the tip of the nose.[120] This must be done realistically enough to make you actually afraid. But presently the fear wears off, and you get interested in your various adventures after each explosion: ambulance taking you to hospital, getting tools and digging out other people and so as far as your imagination takes you. After that comes yet another stage; your interest declines; you find yourself indifferent to the entire proceedings. After a few nights you can no longer distinguish between the real thing and your own private and peculiar Brock's Benefit. The fear will have vanished; familiarity breeds contempt. Finally, one is no longer even aware that the boys are out again on a lark.
Incidentally, one may draw a quite close parallel between these four stages and those accompanying Samadhi (probably listed in Mrs. Rhys David's book on Buddhist Psychology, or in Warren's bran-tub of translations from the Tripitaka, or Three baskets of the Dhamma. I haven't seen either book for forty years or more, don't remember the exact titles; scholars would help us to dig them out, but it isn't worth while. I recall the quintessence accurately enough.
--
Perhaps you thought that I should take circles and pentagrams etc. for granted: but you give no hint of the object of your journey. (No don't quote AL I, 44 at me: it doesn't mean that. I don't expect you to answer the clerk at the booking-office "Where to, madam?" with "I don't mind in the least." Though, even in that case it is magically true, or should be. As in the case of the young lady who got carried on to Crewe. The unplanned adventure may have proved much more amusing.) How am I to tell whether you were seeing correctly? Suppose your chosen hexagram had been VI Sung "Contention" or XXIX "Nourishing"? Where would be the "vision"? You are to set out to explore a country unknown to you: How can I be sure that you have actually been there? How can you be sure yourself? You can't. You can, if you go to a place you have never heard of, and then discover later on, that it actually exists. You have got to display the congruity of your vision with the account of the country given in the Text. If you take Khien I, which is all Lingams and Dragons, and you describe it as a landscape in the Broads, I can only conclude that you did not get anywhere near it.
Then you produce a monk, and never get his name or office. Finally after you return, you get this Caballero dropping in unasked.
--- Overview of noun advent
The noun advent has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) advent, coming ::: (arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer")
2. Advent ::: (the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas)
3. Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Advent, Parousia ::: ((Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun advent
3 senses of advent
Sense 1
advent, coming
=> arrival, reaching
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
Advent
=> season
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Advent, Parousia
INSTANCE OF=> manifestation
=> appearance
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun advent
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun advent
3 senses of advent
Sense 1
advent, coming
=> arrival, reaching
Sense 2
Advent
=> season
Sense 3
Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Advent, Parousia
INSTANCE OF=> manifestation
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun advent
3 senses of advent
Sense 1
advent, coming
-> arrival, reaching
=> attainment
=> advent, coming
Sense 2
Advent
-> season
=> Michaelmastide
=> Lammastide
=> Eastertide
=> Twelfthtide
=> Allhallowtide
=> Christmas, Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide, Noel
=> Advent
=> Shrovetide
=> Lent, Lententide
Sense 3
Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Advent, Parousia
-> manifestation
HAS INSTANCE=> Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Advent, Parousia
=> epiphany
=> theophany
=> Word of God
=> tidal wave
--- Grep of noun advent
advent
advent sunday
adventism
adventist
adventitia
adventitious root
adventure
adventure story
adventurer
adventuress
adventurism
adventurousness
second advent
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Wikipedia - History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
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Wikipedia - Hoard of the Dragon Queen -- D&D adventure module
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Wikipedia - Horton Hears a Who! (film) -- 2008 animated adventure comedy film directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino
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Wikipedia - H. Rider Haggard -- English adventure novelist
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Wikipedia - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- 2008 action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg
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Wikipedia - Just Cause 2 -- 2010 action-adventure game
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Wikipedia - Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth -- 2017 episodal adventure video game
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Wikipedia - King of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Wikipedia - KSDA-FM -- Seventh-Day Adventist radio station in Agana Heights, Guam
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Wikipedia - Kurt Severin -- American photographer, journalist and adventurer
Wikipedia - Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure -- 2001 American direct-to-video animated film
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Wikipedia - Leaving Lyndow -- 2017 first person adventure video game
Wikipedia - Lee's Guide to Interstellar Adventure -- Science-fiction role-playing game supplement
Wikipedia - Legendary Duck Tower -- 1980 dungeon adventure game
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Wikipedia - Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
Wikipedia - Life Is Strange: Before the Storm -- 2017 graphic adventure video game
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Wikipedia - List of adventure films before 1920 -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of adventure films of the 1920s -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of adventure films of the 1930s -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of adventure films of the 1940s -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of adventure films of the 1950s -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of adventure films of the 1960s -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of adventure films of the 1970s -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of adventure films of the 1980s -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of adventure films of the 1990s -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Adventures of Superman episodes -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Adventure Soft games -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Adventure Time characters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Adventure Time episodes -- Episode list for an animated show
Wikipedia - List of Babar and the Adventures of Badou episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Choose Your Own Adventure books -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Conan the Adventurer episodes -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Dungeons & Dragons adventures -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of former Disney California Adventure attractions -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Jackie Chan Adventures episodes -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure video games -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episodes -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of PokM-CM-)mon Adventures characters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Seventh-day Adventists -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award recipients -- List of Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award recipients
Wikipedia - List of The Adventures of Chuck and Friends episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Adventures of Hijitus episodes -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Adventures of Pete & Pete episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Adventures of Puss in Boots episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Adventures of Robin Hood episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers characters -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy characters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes -- List of episodes of American animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
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Wikipedia - List of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The New Batman Adventures episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Sarah Jane Adventures minor characters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Sarah Jane Adventures serials -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Tiny Toon Adventures characters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Tiny Toon Adventures episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Tiny Toon Adventures video games -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of University of Oxford people in sport, exploration, and adventuring -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of villains in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Lists of adventure films -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Little Devil Inside -- Upcoming Action-adventure video game
Wikipedia - Little Misfortune -- 2019 dark fantasy adventure video game
Wikipedia - Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Wikipedia - Litton's Weekend Adventure -- Saturday morning block on ABC
Wikipedia - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (season 1) -- Season 1 of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
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Wikipedia - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman -- American television series 1993-1997
Wikipedia - Lois > Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Wikipedia - Loma Linda Broadcasting Network -- Seventh-day Adventist Christian television network
Wikipedia - Lone Echo -- Virtual reality adventure game
Wikipedia - LooLa Adventure Resort -- Indonesian resort hotel
Wikipedia - Louis Fan (convert) -- Chinese adventurer and writer
Wikipedia - Love Adventure -- Extended play by Cherry Bullet
Wikipedia - Luigi's Mansion 3 -- 2019 action-adventure video game published by Nintendo
Wikipedia - Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon -- 2013 action-adventure video game published by Nintendo
Wikipedia - Luigi's Mansion -- 2001 action-adventure video game published by Nintendo
Wikipedia - Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures) -- Fictional character
Wikipedia - Lupin the 3rd Part IV: The Italian Adventure -- Japanese anime television series
Wikipedia - Mabel Sharman Crawford -- Irish adventurer, feminist and writer
Wikipedia - Macalda di Scaletta -- Italian courtesan, noblewoman and adventurer
Wikipedia - MacGyver (2016 TV series) -- 2016 American action-adventure television series
Wikipedia - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome -- 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic action adventure film
Wikipedia - Mafia III -- 2016 action-adventure video game
Wikipedia - Mafia II -- 2010 action-adventure video game
Wikipedia - Magna Science Adventure Centre -- Educational visitor attraction in Rotherham, England
Wikipedia - Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard -- Fiction series from 2015, American children's fantasy adventure, in the Percy Jackson universe
Wikipedia - Malawi Adventist University -- Private Christian university in Ntcheu, Malawi
Wikipedia - Man-Eater of Kumaon -- 1948 American adventure film by Byron Haskin
Wikipedia - Manfish -- 1956 adventure film directed by W. Lee Wilder
Wikipedia - MapleStory Adventures -- Social network game
Wikipedia - Marga dM-bM-^@M-^YAndurain -- French adventurer and suspected criminal
Wikipedia - Maria Jackson -- Fictional character from the television series The Sarah Jane Adventures
Wikipedia - Marie Herbert -- adventurer and novelist
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Wikipedia - Mario Party Advance -- 2005 adventure video game published by Nintendo
Wikipedia - Mario Super Sluggers -- 2008 sports adventure video game published by Nintendo
Wikipedia - Mark Baumer -- American writer, adventurer, and environmental activist
Wikipedia - Mark Beaumont (cyclist) -- Scottish cyclist, adventurer and documentary filmmaker
Wikipedia - Marvel Adventures
Wikipedia - M-CM-^Meda Herman -- Icelandic author and adventurer
Wikipedia - MediEvil (2019 video game) -- 2019 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - MediEvil 2 -- 2000 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - MediEvil: Resurrection -- 2005 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - Meet Market Adventures -- US company
Wikipedia - Mega Man ZX Advent -- 2007 video game
Wikipedia - M-EM-^Lkami -- 2006 action-adventure video game
Wikipedia - Merlin (2008 TV series) -- 2008 British fantasy-adventure television programme
Wikipedia - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots -- 2008 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker -- 2010 action-adventure stealth video game
Wikipedia - Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops -- 2006 action-adventure stealth video game
Wikipedia - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain -- 2015 open world action-adventure stealth video game
Wikipedia - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes -- 2004 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - Metroid Prime 3: Corruption -- 2007 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and Nintendo
Wikipedia - Metroid Prime -- 2002 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios
Wikipedia - Mickey Mouse Adventures -- 1990-1991 Disney comic book
Wikipedia - Mickey's Halloween Party -- Annual Halloween event at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure
Wikipedia - Microsoft Adventure -- 1979 computer game
Wikipedia - Mighty Joe Young (1998 film) -- 1998 American adventure film by Ron Underwood
Wikipedia - Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures -- American animated television series
Wikipedia - Millican Dalton -- British adventurer
Wikipedia - Ministry of Broadcast -- 2020 adventure platform game
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Wikipedia - Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail -- 2012 Chinese animated film
Wikipedia - Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder -- Advent hymn by Valentin Thilo
Wikipedia - MM-aM-:M-!c CM-aM-;M--u -- Chinese adventurer
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Wikipedia - Mouse (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Wikipedia - Mutazione -- 2019 adventure video game
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Wikipedia - Oakwood University -- American private Seventh-day Adventist university
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Wikipedia - O Come, O Come, Emmanuel -- Christian hymn for Advent and Christmas
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Wikipedia - Oriental Adventures
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Wikipedia - Past Doctor Adventures -- Series of novels based on the Doctor Who television series
Wikipedia - Pat (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Wikipedia - Patrice Franceschi -- French adventurer
Wikipedia - Pee-wee's Big Adventure -- 1985 film directed by Tim Burton
Wikipedia - Percy Jackson & the Olympians -- Children's fantasy adventure series
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Wikipedia - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney -- 2001 visual novel adventure video game by Capcom
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Wikipedia - Pinoy Adventures -- 2012 Philippine television show
Wikipedia - Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned -- Cancelled action-adventure video game
Wikipedia - Pirates of the Caribbean (film series) -- Series of fantasy adventure films
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Wikipedia - Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures -- 1994 Super Famicom game
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Wikipedia - Pre-advent judgment -- Belief that the Last Judgment will occur before the Second Coming
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Wikipedia - Princes of the Apocalypse -- D&D 5e adventure module
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Wikipedia - Project Adventure -- International nonprofit education organization
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Wikipedia - Puppy (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Wikipedia - Radio 74 Internationale -- Adventist Christian radio network
Wikipedia - Raiders of the Lost Ark -- 1981 action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg
Wikipedia - Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog -- 1939-1942 canine adventure hero
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Wikipedia - Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (season 2) -- Season of television series
Wikipedia - Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (season 3) -- Season of Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
Wikipedia - Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure -- American animated television series
Wikipedia - Ravenloft (module) -- 1983 adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons game
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Wikipedia - Red in the Morning -- 1946 adventure novel by Dornford Yates
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Wikipedia - Reinhold Messner -- Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer
Wikipedia - Restless Natives -- 1985 adventure comedy film by Michael Hoffman
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Wikipedia - Ripley's Haunted Adventure -- Haunted houses by Ridley Entertainment
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Wikipedia - Robert S. Folkenberg -- Puerto Rican Seventh-day adventist
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Wikipedia - Saints Row 2 -- 2008 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - Saints Row: Gat out of Hell -- 2015 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - Saints Row IV -- 2013 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - Saints Row: The Third -- 2011 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - Saints Row (video game) -- 2006 action-adventure game
Wikipedia - Saints Row -- Action-adventure video game series
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Wikipedia - The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures -- 1975 film
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SpongeBob SquarePants (1997 - Current) - Nickelodeon's hit cartoon show about a wacky sea sponge named Spongebob and his crazy adventures in the nautical town of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob is a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant, loves "jellyfishing" and annoying his grumpy neighbor Squidward (unintentionally). He lives in a pinapple and...
Animaniacs (1993 - 1998) - Brought to you by the creators of Tiny Toon Adventures, and under the creative eye of Steven Spielberg, Animaniacs is a variety show following several casts of original characters. It stars the Warner Brothers (and sister) Yakko, Wakko,and Dot, causing chaos for everyone they meet. Originally airing...
Family Guy (1999 - Current) - Created by Seth MacFarlane, "Family Guy" shows the daily misadventures of the dysfunctional Griffin Family who live in Quahog, RI. Packed full of religiously and ethnically themed jokes you can't help but laugh at one more signature element of the show is its signature "cutaway gags" where the on-sc...
DuckTales (1987 - 1990) - Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck are left with their rich great-uncle, Scrooge McDuck, after their "Unca Donald" goes to the Navy. They have a rough start, but they get together as a family and go on adventures. They are eventually joined by clumsy, but well-meaning and brave pilot, Launchpad McQuack; yo...
Garfield & Friends (1988 - 1994) - The comedic adventures of the lazy and sassy feline, Garfield, his owner, Jon Arbuckle, and the pup, Odie. The show also features the U.S. Acres gang, a group of talking farm animals from a lesser-known comic strip by Jim Davis, creator of Garfield. The series ran for 7 seasons on CBS. It returned i...
Kenan & Kel (1996 - 2000) - The comic misadventures of teenagers Kenan and his dimwitted buddy Kel. The show would end with Kenan saying he had a plan and rattle off random ingredients.
South Park (1997 - Current) - Staring off as an animated short called "Santa Claus vs. Jesus Christ" in what is perhaps the Internet's first example of a "viral video" that single video quickly grew into an animated series all about the foul-mouthed adventures of four kids in the small town of South Park, Colorado. With every ep...
Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985 - 1991) - Disney's "Adventures of the Gummi Bears" is an action/comedy series about a hidden group of humanoid bears who are the secret defenders of the human kingdom of Dunwyn. Episodes consist of two 11 minute unconnected segments, or one full-length segment (22 minutes) when a storyline warranted.
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (1993 - 1993) - If you're looking for action and excitement, this is the wrong cartoon to watch. AoStH is a fun, light hearted show, the kind of thing you'd expect to watch on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network in the daytime. It takes all the original ideas of Sonic from the early games, and brings them to life, takin...
Tiny Toon Adventures (1990 - 1995) - This is a whole new generation of Looney Tunes, as these Tiny Toons attend Acme Looniversity and learn from the pros on how to be looney. A very funny cartoon with young toons that are a newer generation of Looney Toons! Bugs Bunny and the rest of the old Looney Tunes gang help and mentor the Tiny T...
Bobby's World (1990 - 1998) - Bobby's World premiered on FOX on September 8, 1990. From the wacky mind of comedian Howie Mandel comes the coolest cartoon yet, Bobby's World. Bobby lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but step inside his imagination and discover a world of daring adventure, incredible wonder and lots of laug...
Cow and Chicken (1997 - 1999) - A cow and chicken, are born to human parents and have strange adventures!
The Adventures of Pete and Pete (1993 - 1996) - The Adventures of Pete & Pete was a U.S. television series produced and broadcast by the Nickelodeon cable channel. The show, which featured humorous and surreal elements in its narrative and many recurring themes, centered on two brothers both named Pete Wrigley, along with their family, friends an...
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988 - 1991) - Animated stories of the Hundred Acre Wood forest where Winnie The Pooh Bear, Piglet The Pig, Tigger The Tiger, Owl, Rabbit, Gopher, Mama Kanga, Baby Roo, Eeyore The Donkey, of course Christopher Robin have all the fun and magical adventures.
The Smurfs (1981 - 1989) - Based on the comic books by Pierre Culliford "Peyo," the Hanna-Barbera series tells the adventures of the Smurfs, magical blue creatures who live deep in the forest. More than 100 Smurfs exist, all named after their unique personalities and led by Papa Smurf. Because of their many magical properties...
Rocket Power (1999 - 2004) - the show revolves around the day to day adventures of middle-school age extreme sports enthusiasts who live in the fictitious Southern California beach resort town of Ocean Shores, where they enjoy surfing, roller skating, skateboarding, bicycling, street hockey, and other active pastimes
The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991 - 1996) - Intoducing the crazed chihuahua Ren, and the goofy cat Stimpy, these two go on strange adventures, from selling rubber nipples to flying in space in a rocket.
The Real Ghostbusters (1986 - 1991) - Inspired by the 1984 feature film, The further adventures of the Ghostbusters: Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston and Slimer as they seek to catch ghosts, protect New York City... and make money! They're ready to believe you!
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990 - 1990) - The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 was the second Mario animated series produced by DiC. Based on the Super Mario Bros. 3 video game, the cartoon shows Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad fighting against Bowser Koopa and his Koopalings, who went by different names on the show. On the show...
Gumby (1956 - 1988) - Gumby, the little green guy you see on t.v. He had many fun adventures with his pals Prickle the yellow dinosaur, Goo the blue blob and Pokey the red horse. All thanks to Art Clokey, the maker and creater of gumby and pals. All hand made by clay. CAST WAS GUMBY, POKEY, PRICKLE AND GOO, BLOCKHEADS,...
The Raccoons (1985 - 1991) - Cartoon about the misadventures of Bert Raccoon and his friends who together try stop stop the greedy Aardvark Cyril Sneer from destroying the Evergreen Forest. The series was a spin-off from the popular tv specials The Christmas Raccoons (80), The Raccoons On Ice (81), The Raccoons and the Lost St...
Disney's Doug (1996 - 1999) - Disney's Doug follows 12 1/2 year old Doug Funnie in his town of Bluffington. With his best human friend Skeeter Valentine and best non-human friend (also his dog) Porkchop, they have great adventures! Doug is secretly in love with Patti Mayonnaise but gets bullied by Roger Klotz. Sometimes Doug ima...
Seinfeld (1989 - 1998) - The lifes and misadventures of four friends living in New York City,also known as" the show about nothing!"
Bonkers (1993 - 1995) - This Disney television series follows a cartoon star's misadventures in the police department.
Adventures in Wonderland (1991 - 1995) - A live-action tv series that aired on the original Disney Channel. Alice is a young girl who can travel through her mirror to Wonderlad, where she befriends a variety of characters: The Red Queen, the roller-skating White Rabbit, two rapping brothers Tweedle Dee and Dum, The Mad Hatter, March H...
As Told By Ginger (1999 - 2004) - (Info by Wikipedia.) As Told By Ginger is an American animated series that premiered on Nickelodeon in October 2000. The show focuses on Ginger Foutley and her adventures at Lucky Jr. High, as she records them in her diary. The series was noted for its story lines, character development, and the fac...
The Woody Woodpecker Show (1957 - 1994) - This is a fun little series about this wacky, funny, little woodpecker named woody and he has all kinds of outrageous adventures with his friends and stuff!
My Little Pony (1984 - 1987) - Little ponies with varied abilities and colorful personalities run around and have fun and adventures while exploring the magical world they inhabit and share interesting creatures both kind and cruel.
Adventures of the Little Koala (1987 - 1993) - This show was produced originally in Japan and was later shown on Nick as part of the Nick Jr. block. It was picked up for North American distribution and dubbed into English by Quebec-based Cinar Films (now DHX Media) and Viacom Enterprises (now CBS Television Distribution).
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 - 1994) - Set in the 24th century and 78 years after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise, this new series is the long awaited successor to the original Star Trek series from the 1960's. Under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard the all new Enterprise NCC 1701-D travels out to dis...
The PJs (1999 - 2001) - The Emmy Award winning PJ's was the first primetime stop-motion series produced for television. Thurgood Stubbs lives with his wife Muriel in the housing project where he is the chief superintendent. The show, created by Eddie Murphy (who provides Stubbs' voice), follows the adventures of the Stubbs...
Knight Rider (1982 - 1986) - Its an action/adventure series about a former cop who, during a sting operation, was double-crossed and was left for dead. But luckily, was found by some people who rescued him and took him to The Foundation of Law and Government where doctors (through plastic surgery, since he was shot In The Face)...
Mighty Max (1993 - 1994) - A 1993 action/adventure series that ran a total of 40 episodes, Mighty Max was based loosely on the toys produced by British toy company, BlueBird, makers of the original Polly Pocket. The series focused on the exploits of Max, an American teenager who learns he has been "destined" to protect mankin...
Eek! the Cat (1992 - 1997) - The adventures of a chubby purple cat named Eek! He has a girlfriend who is about five to six times his size. And she has a crazy shark like dog that constantly gives Eek trouble.
Kidd Video (1984 - 1987) - One of the earliest Saturday morning shows to catch the swelling MTV wave, Kidd Video mixed pop music with comic adventure and live action with animation, concocting a rocking hit for NBC.
Fred Penner's Place (1985 - 1997) - Fred Penner lead you through the hollow log and into an adventure of music and singing.
Fantastic Max (1988 - 1989) - Fantastic Max is a cartoon about a 16-month-old boy and his travels through space on adventures. His colleagues are FX, a green alien from the planet Twinkle Twinkle, and A.B. Sitter, the butler/companion he constructed from his toy blocks. His older sister, Zoey, is often oblivious to his other lif...
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin (1987 - 1988) - Illiop Teddy Ruxpin (Illiops being bear-like creatures) leaves his homeland in Rillonia with his friend Grubby, an octopede insect, in search of adventure. They meet up with an inventive scientist named Dr. Newton Gimmick who accompanies them on their quest for the Treasure of Grundo. What the Trio...
Rupert The Bear! (1991 - 1997) - A white bear named Rupert the Bear with a big imagenary adventure
Nick in the Afternoon (1995 - 1998) - An afternoon block on Nickelodeon hosted by Stick Stickly that used to come on right after Nick Jr ended. This block has aired syndicated shows such as Gumby, Inspector Gadget, and Tiny Toon Adventures, Nickelodeon original animated series such as Rocko's Modern Life and Doug and live action shows s...
WKRP in Cincinnati (1978 - 1982) - WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982) was an American situation comedy that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. It premiered September 18, 1978 on CBS and featured Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Jan Smithers, Richard...
Red Dwarf (1988 - 1999) - A hilarious British parody of Star Trek, this series follows the misadventures of the crew of the deep-space mining ship, Red Dwarf. After a severe accident occurs, a beer-guzzling slob named Dave Lister awakens from his cryogenic sleep to find it is three million years later, and he is the last hum...
Pac-Man (1982 - 1985) - Based off of the popular arcade games, the cartoon follows Pac-Man, Mrs. Pac-man, Pac Baby, Chomp-Chomp the dog and Sour Puss the cat through their adventures in Pac-land. Pac-man is now employed to guard the forests power pellet from the evil Mezmaron and his hoard of ghosts, Inky, Blinky, Pinky...
Maya The Honeybee (1975 - 1983) - Maya the Bee was aimed at younger children, and centered around a young female bee named Maya, and her adventures as she learned the standard young child lessons, like the value of friendship (namely with her best friend, a male bee, or another good friend, a grasshopper), how to share, how to prepa...
Home Movies (1999 - 2004) - A cartoon about nine-year-old Brendon Small, who gets away from his akward life by making movies with his best friends Melissa and Jason. The show follows the adventures of the trio as well as Brendan's mother, Paula, and the kids' soccer coach, John McGuirk, and their teacher, Mr. Lynch. Several...
Men In Black: The Series (1997 - 2001) - The adventures of agents Jay and Kay who are members of the Men in Black a top secret agency that polices aliens that live on Earth, some of them are just looking for a place to stay others are just intergalactic terrorists so it's up to these guys and the rest of the MIB to keep them in line and pr...
The Adventures of Tintin (1991 - 1992) - Tintin and his dog Snowy, appear in a variety of world-traveling adventures (from "Tintin in America" to "Tintin and the Picaros"), which are based on the classic comic strip by Geroge "Herge" Remi from Belguim.
Sonic the Hedgehog (1993 - 1994) - Not to be confused with the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog with Tails. This show was a bit different. For one thing, eggman and sonic looked slightly different, and the plots were very different.
Dragon Quest: Dai's Great Adventure (1989 - 1991) - An anime series loosely based on the game Dragon Warrior III. Its english dub by Saban was surprisingly good. It doesn't seem like a hackjob at all heck they even used nicely ochestrated versions of the game's music as well. Unfortunately they never gave Akira Toriyama credit which resulted in a alw...
Sabrina, The Animated Series (1999 - 2000) - This is a spin-off to the live-action "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch" series. These are the adventures of twelve-year-old Sabrina Spellman, her friends and her family as they cast spells and incantations around Greendale if they have problems. Produced by DiC Animation.
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968 - 1970) - The Splits are not cartoon characters they were the hosts of a show that presented great cartoons like The 3 Musketeers, The Arabian Knights, Microventure, The Hillbilly Bears, and the live action Danger Island ("Uh Oh Chongo!"). The show ran on NBC Saturday mornings from September 7, 1968 to Septem...
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996 - 1999) - The much anticipated continuation of one of the most recognized action cartoons of all time, "The Real Adventures..." featured a slightly darker and more supernatural feel, while still reataining the same sense of variety as the original. Villians somtimes suffered brutal (offscreen) death such as b...
C Bear and Jamal (1996 - 1997) - Jamal got into adventures with his talking hip hop teddy bear C Bear
The Berenstain Bears (1985 - 1987) - Based on the popular series of kids books, this series follows the adventures of the Bear family (Mama, Papa, Sister and Brother) living in Bear country.
The Adventures of McGee and Me (1986 - 1995) - The Adventures of McGee and Me! is an American Christian television series created by Ken C. Johnson and Bill Myers. The series premiered on June 4, 1989, spanning twelve episodes until its conclusion on June 11, 1995. Each half-hour long episode centers around Nicholas, his cartoon friend, McGee, a...
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995 - 2001) - Xena And Gabrielle Travel Seeking Adventure And Fighting Off The Forces Of Evil
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1959 - 1973) - "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends" is a show about a squirrel named Rocky and a moose named Bullwinkle which together have some cool adventures. Supporting segments includes "Mr. Know-it All", "Bullwinkle's Corner", "Fractured Fairy Tales", "Aesop and Son", "Peabody's Improbable Hi...
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999 - 1999) - Power-Packed Adventure! Action-Packed Fun! A time in the future. The space colony Terra Venture journeys beyond Earth in search of new worlds. Peace reigns throughout the cosmos...or does it? Far away, in a strange galaxy, the evil Scorpius attacks an innocent planet. Five courageous teens from Terr...
Teen Wolf (1986 - 1989) - Based on the movie starring Michael J Fox, the show follows the further adventures of the budding young werewolf Scott Howard, and for some strange reason, new family members never mentioned in the movie are living in the Howard house.
The New Adventures of Captain Planet (1993 - 1996) - Let's just say this is the original Captain Planet but under production by Hanna-Barbera. In each episode, Captain Planet and the Planeteers face a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life eco-villains, including such despicable characters as Verminous Skumm, whose goal is to spread filth and disease, an...
Noozles (1988 - 1993) - The Noozles was a light cartoon show that made use of Koalas. The show centered on the adventures of Sandy, a twelve year old girl, a stuffed koala bear named Blinky that came to life when you rubbed your nose with his, and Blinky's sister Pinky (who had the same voice as Angelica from Rugrats). Thi...
The Incredible Hulk (1977 - 1982) - It Follows The Further Adventures Of Bruce Banner Who Is A Man Cursed By His Own Inner Evils.
Twisted Tales of Felix The Cat (1995 - 1997) - In 1995, Felix the Cat returned to the small screen with brand new adventures in his all new cartoon series. Beautifully animated and bordered the realm of avant-garde.
A Different World (1987 - 1993) - This fun show was a spin-off of the successful NBC comedy "The Cosby Show". This show featured Denise Huxtable and her adventures at Hillman College. She encountered other unforgettable characters like the rich and spoiled Whitley Gilbert, Resident advisor Jaleesa Vinson, girl crazy but intelligent...
Rurouni Kenshin (1996 - 1998) - The show revolves around the adventures of the legendary samurai known as Battosai the Manslayer. Years after the revolution in Kyoto, during the Meiji era, he reappears in Tokyo as a Rurouni or 'Wanderer' by the name of Kenshin Himura. After getting a place to stay at the Kamiya Dojo with the assis...
SuperBook (1982 - 1984) - "SuperBook" Tells the time traveling adventures of Christopher "Chris" Peepers, his friend Joyeux "Joy" Quantum, his cousin Uriah "Uri" Peepers, his poodle Ruffles, and his winding toy protector, Gizmo The Crusading Robot.
Madeline (1988 - 2002) - A children's show based on the books by Ludwig Bemelmans. The show was about the adventure of Madeline who live in an orphanage with eleven other little girls with a nun. It took place in Paris,France where she got in to all kinds of mischief where she would need help to get out of it. It started o...
Johnny Quest: The Real Adventures (1994 - 1997) - This is the modern version of the 1960s Johnny Quest cartoons. It was first aired on TBS Superstation
Detention (1999 - 2000) - This show is about a group of young pre-teens who tried to escape the detention room out of the clutches of the bossy Ms. Kisskillya. This is gonna be one heck of a mis-adventure (I think).
The Little Mermaid (1992 - 1994) - The adventures of Ariel and her friends at the age of fourteen. From her first known trouble with Ursula to her collection of human objects, the show illustrates her journey as she finishes growing up. It also introduced new characters such as her merboy friend (an orphan named Urchin who her family...
Marsupilami (Disney series) (1993 - 1993) - Marsupilami was a Disney cartoon show on NBC Saturday Mornings that lasted only one season. The show is about Marsupilami, a mystical creature with an extraordinarily long tail, and his adventures with his friend Maurice the gorilla. The show was based on a French comic book series of the same name...
New Kids On The Block (1990 - 1991) - The adventures of America's popular teenage boy band in their first animated series as they tried to get to their concerts in time but somehow always managed to get sidetracked by fans. This show was marketed as "The first MTV cartoon" because it features the fast-paced editing that came to be assoc...
Passions (1999 - 2008) - Passions follows the lives and loves, and various romantic and paranormal adventures of the residents of Harmony. Story-lines center around the interactions among members of its multi-racial core families the African American Russells, white Cranes and Bennetts, and half-Mexican half-Irish Lopez-F...
Dink the Little Dinosaur (1989 - 1990) - The show was about Dink the dinosaur and his friends Amber, Scat, Shyler, Flapper and Crusty.They were always getting into adventures in Dinosaur Vally and being chased by Tyranno the Tyrannosaurus who was always trying to eat them.
SuperTed (1983 - 1988) - SuperTed and his pal a spotted robot "Spotty" have many adventures exploring the galaxies and help all who need it. Originally created in wales by the Welsh version of Channel 4.
Misfits of Science (1985 - 1986) - This series followed the adventures of a group of young superheroe misfits fighting crime. Each member had their own unique power, from shrinking to controlling electricity to telekinetic powers. The team was led by Dr. Billy Hayes. The series lasted for 17 episodes before being canceled.
Conan: The Adventurer (1992 - 1998) - The Hyborian Age
A time of wizards, warriors and kings. From this time of fantasy and magic comes CONAN. He is a warrior, an adventurer, a conquerer, a hero and a legend. In tune with the natural world and constantly alert, CONANs natural strength overcomes the most dangerous situations he faces....
The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (1986 - 1988) - In 2086 two peaceful aliens journeyed to Earth, seeking our help. In return, they gave us the plans for our first hyperdrive, allowing mankind to open the doors to the stars....
Katie and Orbie (1994 - 1994) - A young girl, Katie, discovers an alien, Orbie, in her backyard and her family adopts him. They have adventures and learn valuable life lessons in the process. Leslie Neilson provided the narration.
Kimba the White Lion (1965 - 1993) - Kimba the White Lion (Jungle Emperor in Japan) Was the first anime to ever be broadcast in color.This Series is about a Young, Friendly, Brave White Lion named kimba that has all kinds of adventures with his friends he has a big heart and doesnt believe in getting into Fights or Mischief and he's j...
The Little Lulu Show (1995 - 1999) - Based on the 1940's Paramount cartoons, Little Lulu is the first-ever animated stand-up comic. Her best friend Annie is always there for her, and Lulu always has arguments with Tubby and the boys in his club. They are always tricking each other and get into crazy adventures in school, in the neighbo...
The Flintstones (1960 - 1966) - TV's First Animated Prime Time hit. The wacky prehistoric adventures of Fred Flintsone, and his Neighbor Barney Rubble in the town of bedrock.
Ocean Girl (1994 - 1997) - Jason and Brett Bates have just accompanied thei divorcedr oceanographer mother to the most remote but advanced underwater facility in the world: O.R.C.A., a veritable city-state, where hundreds of people live and work. But for two young adolescents, this is hardly the adventure of a lifetime. Until...
Spider-Man (1967) (1967 - 1970) - This was the first animated series featuring a Marvel superhero. The series was created by Krantz Animation. In the first season, it featured the adventures of Spider-Man combating both his comic book enemies as well as original villains such as the Fly Twins & Dr. Noah Boddy. The second season took...
Hello Kitty and Friends (1987 - 1988) - Each show featured 2 15 minute adventures of Hello Kitty or one of the other cute Sanrio characters.
Miami Vice (1984 - 1989) - The adventures of James "Sonny" Crockett, a veteran undercover detective in the Miami Police Department. Crockett lives the life of his undercover identity, smuggler Sonny Burnett, and lives on a department owned sail boat in the Miami marina with his pet aligator "Elvis", dresses in designer clothe...
Lois & Clark The New Adventures of Superman (1993 - 1997) - Clark Kent is a reporter for a newspaper company. But unbeknownst to everybody he knows, he is Superman. But things get complicated when his partner Lois Lane, starts developing feelings for not only Clark, but Superman as well.
Timon and Pumbaa (1995 - 1997) - Based upon the beloved Lion King, Timon and Pumbaa get the spotlight in their own series. Together, the two have humorus adventures that lead them into tough spots. Sometimes Simba, Rafiki, and Zazu will make their apperances in the series as well.
What-a-Mess! (1995 - 1996) - Based on the popular Frank Muir book series, this delightful animated series follows a scruffy, noble, Afghan puppy on his comical adventures through life. Although this messy, sloppy, clumsy, yet extremely lovable puppy always strives to do right, he somehow always ends up making a bigger mess than...
The New Woody Woodpecker Show (1999 - 1999) - These are The New Adventures of Woody Woodpecker, in this Short Lived 1999 Series It Continued To Follow Woody Woodpecker and His Friends on Their Many Adventures!
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990 - 1991) - Bill and Ted continue to travel through time and have all kinds of adventures.
The Pink Panther (1993 - 1996) - The Pink Panther, who now has the ability to talk, returns with new adventures.
Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (1977 - 1978) - A British children's animated series about the adventures of a young child named Simon, who has a magic chalkboard. Things that Simon draws on the chalkboard become real in the Land of Chalk Drawings, which Simon can enter by climbing over a fence near his home with a ladder. This children's adventu...
The Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Show (1979 - 1981) - Actually 2 hours long its first year, then dropping down ti 90 mins the second, the show ran 4 (then 3) segments. In 1980 the show was shortened to 30 minutes and renamed The Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy Show.
Kissyfur (1986 - 1987) - This was a short-lived cartoon about a circus bear (Kissyfur) and his dad, Gus, who escaped to live in a swamp. This cartoon centered around the cubs of the swamp and their misadventures which most included the gators that were trying to eat them but Gus always came to the rescue just in time.
The Adventures of Batman (1992 - 1995) - In 1992, the birth of Warner Bros. "Batman: The Animated Series" changed the Batman Universe forever. The dynamic series spawned a new technique in animation using black backgrounds that would eventually be dubbed "Dark Deco." Dark Deco gave every scene within Gotham an extraordinary look, redefinin...
Digimon Adventure 01 (1999 - 2000) - Digidestined kids go to the digital world in order to save both the real world and the digital world.
Disney Sing Along Songs (1986 - Current) - A Sing Along Direct-to-Video series for Disney on VHS/Betamax/Laserdisc/DVD/Blu-Ray. It started with "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and finished with "Flik's Musical Adventure at Disney's Animal Kingdom" The series was sometimes shown on The Disney Channel at some time as a special. (For example: "Friend Like...
Adventures from the Book of Virtues (1996 - 2002) - Adventures from the Book of Virtues is an animated television series which originally aired on PTV and PBS Kids in the United States for three seasons, beginning in 1996 and ending in 2000. There was a two-year gap in between the second and third seasons. It sought to illustrate themes of common vir...
Ewoks (1985 - 1987) - This series recounts the adventures of Ewoks years before the Battle of Endor. Here Wicket W. Warrick is a young Ewok struggling to achieve maturity in his community. This leads to a series of adventures with his friends, Princess Kneessa heir to the chieftain, Latara the aspiring musician and Tee...
My Little Pony Tales (1992 - 1992) - Six ponies - Starlight, Sweetheart, Melody, Bright Eyes, Patch, Bon Bon, and Clover - learn everyday lessons in real-life adventure show.
Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy (1988 - 1990) - Siblings Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy are toys that come to life when their owner Marcella isn't around. Together with the other toys, they explore a strange land where anything is possible.
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987 - 1988) - Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures was a revival of the classic Terrytoons character Mighty Mouse. It was produced by the infamous maverick Ralph Bakshi (who got his start in the animation industry working at Terrytoons). Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures is considered by some to be a major truning poi...
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971 - 1972) - The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show follows the hijinks of the teen Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble. Bypassing several important growth stages, Bedrock's favorite tots are now teenagers attending Bedrock High where, not surprisingly, they become embroiled in a variety of misadventures along with...
Star Trek (1966 - 1969) - Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew.
The Adventures of T-Rex (1992 - 1993) - The world of T-Rex is inhabited by clothed civilized dinosaurs. In Rep City a gang of thugs, led by Big Boss Graves, is planning to take over the city, but professor Edison asks the help of 5 stand-up comedians, the 5 T-Rex brothers, Bugsy (purple), Bernie (blue), Buck (yellow), Bubba (green) and Br...
Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Animated Series (1997 - 1999) - The Animated Adventures Of A Mysterious Demonic Being Who Uses His Dark Powers Against The Forces Of Evil.
Little Golden Book Land (1989 - 1989) - Adventures from the land of Little Golden Book Land. Characters usually consisted of entities that lacked the ability of higher or basic intelligent thought (Locomotives, Lions, Bears, etc) and were given human facial characteristics. A great children's show that taught morals and always had happy e...
The Secret Life of Toys (1994 - 1994) - This show chronicled the lives and adventures that toys have when their owners arent around, and was a tv show spin-off of the 1986 Jim Henson film the christmas toy. This show featured such lovable characters as rugby the stuffed toy tiger, dotty the doll (who was later replaced by raisin the ragdo...
Jungle Cubs (1996 - 1998) - The comic adventures of the children of the Jungle Book characters as they cope by themselves with life in the wild, search for food, shelter from nature, and learn to get along with each other.
The New Archies (1987 - 1988) - This series follows the adventures of Archie Andrews and his friends as pre-teens in middle school.
The Flying House (1983 - 1985) - "The Flying House" was a sister series to "SuperBook" it tells the incredible adventures of a time machine named The Flying House which is a fusion between a regular house and a big rocketship.
The New Adventures of Speed Racer (1993 - 1994) - The early 90's brought back that 60's anime favorite, Speed Racer, with a bit of a sci-fi twist.
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (1980 - 1981) - A young (purple) woman arrives in 1957 with her time machine and befriends the Fonz and the "Happy Days" gang. They join her in her time machine and have time traveling adventures on Earth and in Space.
Danger Bay (1985 - 1990) - Danger Bay was a half hour-long family adventure series set in and around the city of Vancouver.
The Karate Kid (1989 - 1990) - Based on the hit feature-films, Daniel Larusso, his friend and teacher Mr. Miyagi and his girlfriend Taki traveled the globe for Martial Arts adventure.
The Incredible Hulk (1996 - 1997) - Animated tales of the adventures of the Incredible Hulk!
The Adventures of the Little Prince (1978 - 1979) - An anime based on the 1942 book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Ovide Video (1987 - 1988) - Ovide and his gang of friends live on an island in the middle of no-where and have lots of fun adventures. They also try to outsmart the evil baddie snake "Cy" and his sidekick bobo. The show was originally a production of the Netherlands and 65 episodes were made in 1987.
The Non-Adventures of Safety Queen (1995 - 2012) - Safety Queen helps jump her pogo stick.
Disney's 101 Dalmatians (1997 - 1998) - It's The Show Based on Disney's Famous Animated Movie! See Pongo, Perdita and their 99 Puppies Get Into All Kinds of Adventures. But Watch Out! That Puppy-Snatching Cruella De Vil is Also Hanging Around. Sit Cruella. Sit!
Theodore Tugboat (1993 - 2001) - Theodore Tugboat is a television show for children about a little tugboat, his friends, and their adventures in the Big Harbour. In Canada it aired on CBC Television and here in the United States it aired on Pbs Noggin and qubo.
Harriet's Magic Hats (1980 - 1986) - This series followed the adventures of a young girl named Susan, whose eccentric Aunt Harriet collected hats, from those of bakers, to construction workers, to beekeepers. Whenever Susan put on one of her aunt's hats, she would be transported to whatever workplace it suited.
Breaker High (1997 - 1998) - Join the students of Breaker High, a high school on a cruise ship, while they experience fun and adventure, love and heartache, with good times and bad as they explore the high seas and get an education.
New adventures of he-man (1990 - 1991) - He-man travels to the future in this 65 episode series.
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979 - 1981) - The show takes place in Orly Co. Ga. Sheriff Lobo is the crooked Co. Sheriff that is always trying to get some scheme or another going and someone always screws it up. Almost like an early Rosco P. Coltrain. In later episodes Sheriff Lobo and all his men get sent to Atlanta by the Governor.THE TH...
The Odyssey (1992 - 1994) - Jay Ziegler, a young boy playing in the woods, falls into a coma. While in his coma friends and family must fight to help him. Little do they know that Jay is trying to get back to them as well. In the magical "Downworld" Jay is experiencing the adventure of a lifetime trying to get back home.
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993 - 1994) - A hundred years ago, a young lawyer by the name of Brisco County, Jr. (Bruce Campbell) decides to trade his briefs in for bullets when he receives word that his father, a renowned U.S. Marshall, has been gunned down by the evil Bly gang. Now employed by the robber barons of the Westerfield Club, he...
Round The Twist (1990 - 2001) - The Twist family- Tony and his children Linda, Pete and Benson- move to the isle of Niranda, soon discovering it's not all it seems. The local lighthouse is perpetually enchanted, and the island is a hub for tree spirits, vikings, and all manner of magic, leading to many an adventure. The Twists...
Droids (1985 - 1986) - The animated series, which lasted 15 episodes in 1985. It followed the adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO, along with various masters.
Viper (1993 - 1999) - Viper was an action adventure TV series about a special task force setup by the federal government to fight crime in fictional Metro City, California.
Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973 - 1975) - The animated adventures of the crew of the USS Enterprise.
The New Batman/Superman Adventures (1996 - 2012) - Two WB cartoon shows, Batman and Superman, were combined into one show a few years after they came out called The Batman-Superman Adventures. In some of the episodes of that series,they worked together to fight their arch rivals.
Virtua Fighter (1999 - 2012) - Based on the popular Virtua Fighter video game franchise, this series follows the adventures of Akira, a lone martial artist who has lost his ability to see the mystical constellations that reveal a truly strong man's destiny. Now, his path of wandering has forced him into the fighting ring with sev...
Madeline (1994 - 1997) - A children's show based on the books by Ludwig Bemalmans. It was about the twelve little girls and the precocious and somewhat troblesome Madeline and her adventures in Paris with them and her other friends throughout the city.
Jim Henson's Dog City (1992 - 1994) - The adventures of a canine private eye while he confers with his animator who has his own problems to deal with.
The Adventures of Rupert the Bear! (1971 - 1977) - This is The Original ClayMation Version of Rupert The Bear That Came Out Years Before The Hand Drawn Cartoon Series Came Out!
The New Animated Adventures of Flash Gordon (1979 - 1981) - Flash Gordon had 24 episodes of the 1979-1981 animated series by Filmation. The creation of Alex Raymond, the classic science fiction comic strip character debuted in 1934. Filmation's Flash Gordon is a richly realized, beautifully animated serial, a highpoint for television animation. Few animated...
Monkey Magic (1998 - 1998) - The adventures of a monkey and his journeys with a monk.
Gilligan's Planet (1982 - 1983) - Gilligan's Planet was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by the Filmation animation studio which aired during the 1982-1983 season on CBS. It was the second animated spin-off of the classic television program Gilligan's Island (the first being 1974's The New Adventures of Gilligan), as well as the...
Yogi's Gang (1973 - 1975) - Yogi bear is back in this 1973 installment of Yogi's adventures. He is accompanied by the whole gang: Huckelberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Touche' Turtle, Snagglepuss, Wally Gator, Magilla Gorilla, and the rest, even Boo Boo! They fly on Yogi's Ark, a ship that flies in the air battling villians...
Photon: The Idiot Adventures (1986 - 1987) - Based on the *Lazer Tag-ish* game, the show follows a young teen named Chris Jarvis (who goes by the name, "Bhodi Li") whose a champion at Photon, gets unexpectedly summoned to become a real Photon warrior and join a team of other Photon warriors to take on the evil Warlord of Arr and his evil demin...
Superboy (1988 - 1992) - The adventures of Superman when he was a boy! Actually, as a young man...who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered journalism student at Shuster University, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and...well, you know the rest...
The Wind in the Willows (1984 - 1987) - Follow the adventures of the excitable Mister Toad and his friends Rat, Mole, and Badger.
Bear in the Big Blue House (1997 - 2006) - Bear, a curious brown bear with a good sense of smell, lives in the Big Blue House with his friends Ojo, Tutter, Treelo, Pip, Pop, and Shadow. They are very different looking in appearance but the same at heart. He and his friends have many adventures together.
Roger Ramjet (1965 - 1965) - That's how Roger Ramjet was introduced to his viewers every week in this underappreciated superhero satire. The show followed the adventures of a research scientist who, after taking his Proton Energy Pill, was endowed with the AMAZING power of twenty atom bombs. Each Proton Pill only lasted 20 seco...
The Funtastic World Of Hanna-Barbera (1985 - 1994) - Not since the days of both "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour" and "The Skatebirds" was compared to this one, "The Funtastic World Of Hanna-Barbera" was a weekday/weekend morning variety hour cartoon block that take HB fans and their families to a cartoon universe that is William Hanna and Joseph Bar...
The Jackson 5ive (1971 - 1973) - The adventures of Motown's hit sibling group, The Jackson Five. The 5 got into wacky situations each week, usually instigated by young Michael. Each episode was highlighted by a musical video sequence in the trippy style of "The Yellow Submarine." The show was produced by Rankin/Bass, makers of "...
The Adventures of Corduroy Bear (1997 - 1999) - A little girl, Lisa, wanted to buy something with her money, so she went to the toy shop, and saw Corduroy, and bought him. Lisa and Corduroy have adventure with the other toys, Buckaroo the rocking horse, and the mouse (I forget the name). Lisa's friend is Moppy, and nobody else knows that Corduroy...
Josie and The Pussy Cats (1970 - 1976) - Josie and The Pussy Cats followed the adventures of an all-girl rock and roll group as they traveled the world playing gigs and solving mysteries.
ChuckleVision (1987 - 2009) - ChuckleVision is a popular British children's television series, shown on CBBC, first shown in 1987. It follows the adventures of the two Chuckle Brothers; Barry (the smaller) and Paul, who find themselves in all sorts of situations that they must cope with.
Baby Talk (1991 - 1992) - Ripped-of...I mean inspired by the hit movie "Look Who's Talking", this short-lived sitcom centers around the life and adventures of Mike...I mean..uh Mickey, a baby (voiced by Tony Danza) and his unwed working mom Mol...I mean, Maggie! George Clooney and later Scott Biao, played the John Travolta-t...
The Goodies (1970 - 1982) - This long-running surreal British comedy was in many ways, more like The Monkees, than the more famous Monty Python. It followed the silly and absurd, cartoon-like adventures of a wacky trio called the Goodies, whose motto was to do "Anything, Anytime, Anywhere" and they tried to do just that, (but...
Get a Life (1990 - 1992) - The misadventures of a 30 year old paper boy and his nutty parents...
Problem Child (1993 - 1993) - Problem Child follows the misadventures of Junior Healy. The show continues from the first two movies in which Junior and everybody else including Ben and Mr. Peabody in wild episodes.
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Josie and The Pussy Cats in Outer Space (1972 - 1974) - A continuation of the popular Josie and the Pussycats, this series follows the gang on their adventures through outer space (as they were launched into space accidentally by Alexndra after a gig they played for the launch of the spaceship they're in). As they try to make their way back to Earth, the...
Dora the Explorer (1999 - 2015) - Dora The Explorer is a Nick Jr. show about young Dora Marquez. In each episode she goes out on an adventure to help someone in need. She always asks the viewers for help as well as her talking backpack which has all you'd ever need and her talking map which always knows the way. She values her famil...
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (1988 - 1988) - "Were as doomed as doomed can be.
The Raggy Dolls (1987 - 1989) - The raggy doll is a group a misfit dolls who have been rejected by Their factory owner and live in a Reject box having many adventures from their isolated exsistance.
Ned's Newt (1997 - 1998) - Seven-year-old Ned Flemkin has a newt hungry for adventure (sort of). Ned has a very-rich fantasy in his life and finds himself and Newton in the craziest situations ever experienced. Especially when Newton reverses back to his normal size.
The Puppy's New adventures (1982 - 1984) - The Cartoon starts when Petey and his girlfriend Dolly get seperated and stranded during a sudden thunderstorm while on thier way accross sea. They meet three stray male dogs who stowaway on the curise for adventure seeking. Promising the puppys that they will find their owners, no matter what threa...
Space Stars (1981 - 1981) - Space ghost, herculoids, astro and the space mutts, and teen force all star in new adventures.
The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli (1989 - 1989) - The Jungle Book is an anime based upon a children's book, written by (Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936]) and narrates the story of a boy named Mowgli, a native from India, who was raised by wolves and other wild animals after his parents die. The series revolves around Mowgli's bitter-sweet adventures in...
Robocop (Live Action) (1994 - 1995) - This live-action series, based on the popular movie trilogy, continued the adventures of everyone's favorite cyborg cop. While the movies were quite violent, the violence quotient was toned down considerably for this show to make it more "family friendly." Shot in Toronto, many notable Canadian ac...
Sherlock Hound (1984 - 1985) - Sherlock Hound and his faithful friend, Dr. Watson, experience many great adventures of mystery against the wicked Professor Moriarty. Most of the plots are based off of the original Sherlock Holmes mysteries, except in the show there is more comedy, and the characters are all dogs!
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982 - 1983) - Set on the fictitious South Sea island of Boragora in 1938, Tales of the Gold Monkey follows the adventures of Jake Cutter, a cargo pilot who flies a Grumman seaplane emblazoned with the name, "Cutter's Goose". What should be routine jobs transporting passengers and/or cargo always end up with Jake...
The puppy's Further adventures (1985 - 1986) - This is a continuing debut series to Petey and his friends who have traveld around the world to meet Tommy and his famliy. As the Dogs continue to help people and Solve mysteries in their adventures.
Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure (1980 - 1984) - Combined several different cartoons like "The Fantastic Four", "Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles", "Space Ghost", "Herculoids", "Shazzan," and "Birdman and the Galaxy Trio". Premiered September 1980.
Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam! (1981 - 1982) - This series tells the stories of the students of Hero High, a high school specializing in the education of young superheroes. They have all the typical teenage activities, rivalries and events, but modified for their powers and skills. The companion series is of the adventures of the Marvel Family....
El Chavo del Ocho (1973 - 1979) - This Mexican series followed the misadventures and daily struggles of El Chavo, an eight-year old orphan who lived in a neighborhood in Mexico and his various friends. All the children were played by adults. The series is one of the most popular and longest-running shows in in the Spanish-speaking w...
Mario All-Stars (1993 - 1997) - Promoted as "The Mario Bros. in 40 brand-new adventures!", this compilation of time-compressed (sped-up) episodes of "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" (cartoons only), "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3", and "Super Mario World" shown on the NBC until NBC dropped it in 1993. It was later reran...
Jonny Quest (1964 - 1997) - Jonny Quest tells the story about an adventurous boy, his adopted brother and his dog.
Worzel Gummidge (1979 - 1982) - Based on the books by Barbara Euphon Todd, this series follows the adventures of a scarecrow who comes to life.
Ovide Video and the Gang (1987 - 1988) - Ovide Video and the Gang was a 1980s animated TV show. It stars a blue Platypus named Ovide Video who lives on a non-descript South Seas island, where he has adventures with his friends and thwarts Cyrus and Bobo, the show's villains. Ovide and the Gang was produced by the Canadian animation studio...
Brum (1991 - 2002) - Brum is the name of a children's TV programme about the adventures of a car of the same name. It is produced by Ragdoll Productions for HIT Entertainment and was first broadcast in 1991. It is directed and written by Tom Poole, and is produced by Anne Wood. It was initially narrated by Toyah Willcox...
Adventure Time (2008 - Current) - "Adventure Time" follows the adventures of a boy, Finn the Human (voiced by Jeremy Shada), and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake the Dog (voiced by John DiMaggio), who has magical powers to change shape and size at will. Pendleton Ward, the series' creator, describes Finn as a "fiery little...
Uncle Grandpa (2013 - Current) - Come join uncle grandpa, pizza Steve, Mr. Gus and giant realistic flying Tiger on crazy adventure
Anne of Green Gables (1979) (1979 - 1979) - An anime adaptation from Nippon Animation's "World Masterpiece Theater" anthology, directed by Isao Takahata and based on the "Anne books" by Canadian author Lucy Maude Montgomery. It follows an orphan named Anne Shirley as she goes through hard times, fun adventures, loss and love in the lovely to...
The Ugly Duckling and Me! (2006 - 2006) - The series chronicles the adventures of a spunky named Ugly who looks a little weird and his father (sort of) who happens to be a rat named Ratso.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992) (1990 - 1990) - Short lived live action series based on the movies.
The New Yogi Bear Show (1988 - 1990) - The New Yogi Bear Show (produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1988) was an update of one of the Hanna-Barbera's most classical characters, Yogi Bear, in a new cartoon series. Pared down from some of the other, recent incarnations of the adventures of Yogi and friends, this series featured only Yogi, Boo Boo,...
Wing Commander Academy (1996 - 1997) - Based on the Electronic Arts computer games this series follows the adventures of a group of space cadets on the Terran carrier Tiger's Claw in the war against the Kilrathi. Featured the voices of Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, Thomas F. Wilson and Dana Delany
The Plucky Duck Show (1992 - 1992) - "The Plucky Duck Show" is a short-lived spin-off of "Tiny Toon Adventures" featuring 13 episodes starring Plucky Duck. While twelve consist of re-used shorts from "Tiny Toons", only the first one "The Return of Batduck" was original to the series. (It was later edited and added in as an episode of "...
Button Moon (1980 - 1987) - Mr Spoon is bought a rocket from Mrs Spoon and Tina Spoon and so begins the journeys to Button Moon! The Spoon family partake in, and watch, many adventures on Button Moon with friends - like Eggbert - and make lots more...
El Chapuln Colorado (1973 - 1979) - This series from Latin America, followed the adventures of a klutzy Mexican superhero, it and it's companion show, El Chavo del Ocho are still cult and family favorites in the Spanish speaking world. Simpsons fans, may know that the title hero was the inspiration of the Simpsons favorite, "Bumblebe...
Kung Fu (1972 - 1975) - This series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest, in the American West. Caine was an orphan of a Chinese-American marriage, and was schooled in a Shaolin monastery, by his mentors, Masters Po and Kan. Through his life's journeys, he remembers the lessons and philosophy they i...
New Kids on the Block (TV series) (1990 - 1991) - New Kids on the Block is an animated television series featuring the adventures of the New Kids on the Block. The series lasted a season from 19901991 on ABC. The following year, The Disney Channel showed the series in reruns.
Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot (1967 - 1968) - An ordinary boy, Johnny Sokko, is swept into an extraordinary adventure. While on a voyage he meets a curious but friendly man, Gerry Manno, who secretly works for a TOP SECRET organization known as UNICORN. When an alien terrorist group known as the GARGOYLE gang attacks their ship with a giant mon...
Rex the Runt (1998 - 2001) - It's the crazy life of four dogs made with Plasticine (from left to right on the picture): Bob, Vince, Wendy and Rex. Two seasons of this show were made, with 13 episodes per season. During these episodes, they go all around the world for adventure (and for our fun). Season 1 (1998) was aired all ar...
Rugrats (1990 - 2004) - It's perhaps the most famous Nickelodeon animated hit series not called Sponge bob Square pants. Rugrats is about a group of babies exploring the big world together and having creative adventures. The brave leader Tommy Pickles is never afraid of a good challenge, unlike his friend Chuckie Finster...
Flash Gordon (1996 - 1997) - One of greatest sci-fi superhero gets a unique makeover in an animated space adventure story that takes place as a teenaged version as Flash Gordon against the galaxy's most ruthless lizard/humaine creatures. When a mysterious black hole opens on Earth and transports Alex Gordon, Dale Arden, and Dr...
The Amazing World Of Gumball (2011 - Current) - Meet the Wattersons: Mom, Dad, Anais, Darwin and of course Gumball! He's a twelve-year-old cat with a flair for misadventure
They came from outerspace (1990 - 1991) - Abe & Bo (Stuart Fratkin & Dean Cameron) are two teenage aliens from the planet Crouton ("the most boring planet in the universe") on the sci-fi adventure They Came From Outer Space.
Doctor Dolittle (1970 - 1971) - Loosely based on the "Doctor Dolittle" books, this series focuses on the adventures of the good doctor traveling around the world while trying to avoid Sam Scurvy and his pirates, who wants his secret so he can talk to animals and take over the world.
Man from Atlantis (1977 - 1977) - Show was a science fiction / adventure series about a "man" who was found unconscious on a beach. "Man" may not be the best term for him, however, as his hands and feet were "webbed" between his fingers and his toes! Doctor Elizabeth Merrill "nursed" him back to health and her agency's computer gues...
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993 - 1997) - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was a phenomenal television success. A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis.
Trollkins (1981 - 1982) - Based on the Troll Dolls, the Trollkins were an inspration from the Dukes of Hazard where a group of trolls live in Trolltown where they encounter various adventures in every episode.
Babes in the Wood (1998 - 1999) - "Babes in the Wood" is about the lives of 3 female roommates, Ruth, Leigh and Carolyn, and their neighboor Charlie. The 3 girls have very different personalities, which leads to a lot of misadventures.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964 - 1969) - A spin-off from the Andy Griffith Show focusing on the misadventures of Gomer Pyle, having joined the Marines.
Dark Oracle (2004 - 2006) - This Canadian children's sci-fi series follows the adventures of two 15-year-old twins Cally and Lance Stone who discovers a comic book that gives them clues about the future of their lives.
Wow Wow Wubbzy (2006 - 2010) - Wow Wow Wubbzy! was a preschool children's show that aired on Nick Jr. It follows Wubbzy and his friends Widget, Walden, and Daizy in fun adventures. The series was created by Bob Boyle and lasted from 2006-2010 on Nick Jr.
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1996 - 1999) - Shirley Holmes is the grand-niece of the great detective Sherlock Holmes. She with the help from her friend Bo set to help solve crimes that they come across
Saban's Adventures of The Little Mermaid (1991 - 1991) - A Japanese/French/Korean/Dutch/Belgian/Luxembourgian animated series produced by Saban Entertainment about Marina - a mermaid who fell in love with Prince Justin. Other characters are: Hedwig the Sea Witch, Winnie (seahorse), Bobo (fish).
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1980 TV series) (1980 - 1988) - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( Tomu Sy no Bken) is a Japanese anime series, directed by Hiroshi Sait which was broadcast in 1980. It is based on the well-known and popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
The Persuaders (1971 - 1972) - English Lord Brett Sinclair and American Danny Wilde are both wealthy playboys, they are teamed together by Judge Fullton to investigate crimes which the police can't solve. These two men are complete opposites, but become great friends through their adventures and constantly risk their own lives fo...
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006 - 2013) - Mickey Mouse and his friends have adventures in the clubhouse and all around the land surrounding it, often asking the viewer for help.
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2002 - 2006) - (NOTE: The pilot first appeared in 1998 but the series did not premiere until 2002)
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967 - 1980) - Long running filmation series.
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle (1978 - 1982) - filmation series.
George and Martha (1999 - 2000) - George and Martha is an animated TV series made for HBO Family. The program revolves around the lives of two hippos: George and Martha (voiced by Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin respectively), best friends that spend everyday adventures together.
The Three Stooges (1930 - 1959) - The comedic misadventures of the various Stooge Members Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe and Curly Joe which were produced as theatrical shorts; in which the various Stooges would pursue in their well known physical comedy.
Montana Jones (1994 - 1995) - Montana Jones (モンタナ・ジョーンズ, Montana Jōnzu?) is a comedy adventure anime television series which was broadcast in Japan on NHK from April 2, 1994 through April 8, 1995. Studio Jueno (Japan) and REVER (Italy) created the 52 epis...
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992 - 1994) - The magic world of Peter Rabbit and friends is about a young naughty rabbit named Peter who ends up in trouble with Mr McGregor and ruining his garden. Also followed by other animals adventures too in their humanine world.
WordGirl (2007 - 2015) - A young superhero fights crime with her superpowers, which include super strength, flight, and a colossal vocabulary. In her adventures, she is accompanied by her monkey sidekick, Captain Huggyface. When they are not on the lookout for villains, they are schoolgirl Becky Botsford and her pet monkey,...
Blake and Mortimer (1997 - 1998) - The series, based on the comic books by Edgar Pierre Jacobs, follows an impulsive professor (Mortimer) and a straight-laced officer (Blake) on their adventures.
Black Beauty (1972 - 1974) - original network: ITV1 first aired date: September 23, 1972 last aired date: March 27, 1974 Black Beauty lives in late 19th Century England. This series is about his adventures and how he found "his" family - the Gordon's of York Cottage, in the village of " Five Oaks. Vicky, Kevin and their father,...
Rescue Heroes (1999 - 2000) - Based on the best-selling line of Mattel toys, Rescue Heroes followed the adventures of emergency response professionals equipped with the latest information and cutting-edge technology.
Maxie's World (1987 - 1987) - The series takes place in the fictional seaside town of "Surfside" and follows the adventures of teenager Maxie and her circle of friends. Maxie attends Surfside High School where she is a popular straight "A" student, cheerleader and surfer girl, while after school, she serves as host and investiga...
Les Intrpides (The Intrepids) (1993 - 1996) - Teenage siblings Tom and Julie (aka The Intrepids) were the hosts of a radio show, and unbeknownst to their parents, would personally get involved in their callers' plots of adventure and intrigue. The teenage sleuths had a knack for getting into trouble, but also had a knack for getting out of it,...
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1976 - 1995) - ( Pinocchio Yori Piccolino no Boken)
The Young Rebels (1970 - 1971) - The Young Rebels was an NBC adventure series about youths who formed a secret group opposed to the British during the American Revolution. The show featured a then-unknown Louis Gossett, Jr. as an ex-slave who was a member of the group.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids (1973 - 1974) - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1973 for NBC. Very similar to both Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Josie and the Pussycats, the show depicted the adventures of a team of teenage intelligence agents (Butch, Merilee, Stephanie,...
Sable (1987 - 1988) - Sable is a television program that aired on ABC during the 1987-1988 season, and is based on the comic book, Jon Sable: Freelance, by Mike Grell. Seven episodes of the series aired. The show was a one-hour adventure/drama about mercenary and vigilante Jon Sable (Lewis Van Bergen), who by day was chi...
The Adventures of Sinbad (1996 - 1998) -
The Adventures of the Black Stallion (1990 - 1993) - The show follows the life of fifteen-year-old horse racer Alec Ramsay (Richard Ian Cox), his wild stallion The Black, and their trainer Henry Dailey (Mickey Rooney). In the series, Alec's father died before the series start, leaving Alec and his mother to run Hopeful Farm. The show focuses both on l...
Bearcats! (1971 - 1971) - Bearcats was a very short-lived adventure series in the same vein as Route 66, but it takes place in 1914 & features 2 adventurers who tooled around the country in a Stutz Bearcat (hence the title). The show briefly ran on CBS, starring Rod Taylor & Dennis Cole as the adventurers for hire.
Dark Season (1991 - 1991) - Dark Season is a British science-fiction television serial for children, screened on BBC1 in late 1991. Comprised of six twenty-five minute episodes, the two linked three-part stories tell the adventures of three teenagers and their battle to save their school and their classmates from the actions o...
The Immortal (1970 - 1971) - The Immortal was a adventure series with a sci-fi twist about a man who has blood that makes him immune to all disease & aging. He could never die. He was being pursued by a henchman of an evil tycoon who wants his blood. The show starred Christopher George as race car driver Ben Richards. The show...
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (1987 - 1988) - Bean Baxter's dad, who was a mailman, dissapperars one day (we later find out he was a dvlivery guy for some unnamed govenment agency). Beans then goes on a quest to find him, somehow always staying secret from his mother.He meets many people and goes on many adventures, trying to save his dad from...
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (2010 - 2018) - This is a sequel to The Cat in the Hat and His Amazing Friends [The New Adventures of The Cat in the Hat].
Hope and Gloria (1995 - 1996) - The adventures of Hope (Cynthia Stevenson) and her new best friend Gloria (Jessica Lundy). Hope is a producer on a local talk show anchored by Dennis Dupree (Alan Thicke, Growing Pains); Gloria is a hairdresser. Louis (Enrico Colantoni, Just Shoot Me) is the man whom Hope was married to -- twice.
Sarah Wiener's Culinary Adventures (1991 - 1995) -
Due South (1994 - 1998) - Due South was a cop show that followed the adventures of two policemen. Benton Fraser of the RCMP and Ray Vecchio of the Chicago PD. It was a quirky show with a sublte sense of humor and irony. It also had many other aspects to it from sci-fi to drama...which made it hard for TV networks to pigon ho...
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse Adventures (1998 - 1999) -
Flipper (1995 - 2000) - Flipper (also known as Flipper The New Adventures) is an American revival television series of the original 1964 Flipper television series. The first two seasons aired in first-run syndication; seasons 3 and 4 aired on the PAX network.
The New Lassie (1989 - 1991) - Chris McCullough and his wife Dee live in a small town, Glenridge, California. They live with their two children, Will and Megan, and of course his pet dog, Lassie. Chris is a building contractor. One frequent visiting relative is Uncle Steve. Adventures deal with several subjects related to ecology...
Route 66 (1960 - 1964) - The adventures of two young drifters across America on Highway Route 66.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959 - 1963) - The adventures as well as misadventures of a teenager and his beatnik friend as they follow along a common goal - girls. Features an early yet notable supporting role from a pre-Gilligan's Island Bob Denver.
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera (2007 - 2008) - El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera is Nickelodeon's first ever flash animation series produced for Nickelodeon and Nicktoons.
The Rebel (1959 - 1961) - Underrated western about a traumatized yet adventurous Civil War veteran who seeks inner peace.
The Big Valley (1965 - 1969) - The Wild West adventures of the residents and staff of Barkley Ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley.
The Rifleman (1958 - 1963) - The adventures of a Wild West rancher who wields a customized rapid fire Winchester rifle.
The Yogi Bear Show (1961 - 1962) - The Yogi Bear Show is an animated television series and the first incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's Yogi Bear saga about the misadventures of picnic basket stealing bear Yogi in Jellystone Park. The show debuted in syndication on January 30, 1961, and ran for 33 episodes until January 6, 1962, and incl...
The Ruff and Reddy Show (1957 - 1964) - The Ruff and Reddy Show (also known as Ruff and Reddy) is an American animated television series and the first made by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC. The series follows the adventures of Ruff, a smart and steadfast cat, and Reddy, a good-natured and brave (but not overly bright) dog. The series...
Raindrop. The Water Is Adventure (2002 - 2002) - A Spanish animated series showing ecological problems.
Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus (2002 - 2002) - The mythological adventures of Jason and his best friend Mercury.
McHale's Navy (1962 - 1966) - The misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew during World War II.
Henry HuggleMonster (2013 - 2015) - Fun-loving 5-year-old Henry Hugglemonster, the middle child in a close-knit monster family, goes on adventures where he learns various life lessons like learning to work in a team and helping others.
Rosie and Jim (1990 - 2000) - "Rosie and Jim" is a UK children's TV programme by Ragdoll Productions. The show centered around the misadventures of two rag dolls on a narrowboat who come to life when no one is looking to explore the world.
Coupling (UK) (2000 - 2004) - This British sitcom written by Steven Moffat, centers on the dating, sexual adventures. and mishaps of 6 friends in their early 30s.
The Lone Ranger (1949 - 1957) - The adventures of the masked hero and his Native American partner.
Mayberry R.F.D. (1968 - 1971) - The continuing adventures of the denizens of Mayberry. Spun-off from the Andy Griffith Show.
Space Cobra (1982 - 1983) - Cobra is a manly anime that appeals to those who like to see a space adventure where a manly pirate goes up against robots, aliens,& pirates which also delivers plenty of eye candy with its multicolored universe filled with sexy women
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (2009 - Current) - Dennis and Gnasher is an Australian/British animated television series currently being aired on CBBC Channel. Based on the original comic strips from The Beano, it features the adventures of the rebellious schoolboy Dennis the Menace and his dog Gnasher.
The Mr. Potato Head Show (1998 - 1999) - Mr. Potato Head puts on a show with the help of his Kitchen Crew and presents each show to the TV Guys so that they can air them on television. Mr. Potato Head and his Kitchen Crew also have some misadventures during the productions of each show.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012 - Current) - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Japanese: Hepburn: JoJo no Kimy na Bken), also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation, is a Japanese anime television series produced by David Production based on the manga of the same name by Hirohiko Araki. The series focuses on the mysterious adven...
Dragon Crisis! (2011 - 2011) - A normal high school boy Kisaragi Ryuji's peaceful life is turned into an adventure by the return of his second cousin Eriko. Ryuji and Eriko seize a relic box from a black broker. In the box, they find a red dragon girl Rose. In order to protect Rose from the black organization, Ryuji decides to fi...
Gofrette (2007 - 2008) - Gofrette is about a curious little cat who along with his best friends, Fudge the dog and Ellie the bird, lives through various adventures evoking the program's tag line: "... that busy, busy cat!"
The Ruff & Reddy Show (1957 - 1964) - The series follows the adventures of Ruff, a smart and steadfast cat, and Reddy, a good-natured and brave (but not overly bright) dog. It was the first television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series also featured on camera hosts/performers and puppeteers:Jimmy Blaine(1957-1960),...
Super Adventure Theater (1959 - 1967) - Local:WOR TV Ch.9 NYC Saturday and Sunday Mornings 1959-1967 Ringmaster Host/Puppeteer:Claude Kirchner,Puppet Character:"Clownie".
Milo (2003 - 2005) - Milo is a funny young rabbit with human characteristics similar to those of a 6 years-old child at whom his stories are aimed. Milos adventures illustrate a typical child in his everydays life: the games, the feelings, the new experiences, the dreams and small kids dramas. His play-friend Judith...
Dive Olly Dive! (2005 - 2012) - Dive Olly Dive follows the adventures of Olly, a young submarine-in-training, and Beth, his best friend and fellow sub-in-training. Stationed at the Special Underwater Research Facility (S.U.R.F.) under the guidance of Diver Doug, the young subs explore their spectacular underwater world.
6 0'Clock Adventure/Adventuretime (1958 - 1975) - Local:WTAE TV Ch.4 Pittsburgh,Pa. Weekday afternoons & Sunday mornings,1958-1975.
Delfy and His Friends (1992 - 1994) - Spanish animated series produced by D'Ocon Films. The main character is a little dolphin, Delfy. The plot is about his and his friends' adventures in the underwater world.
Sylvan (1994 - 1995) - Set in the Europe of the Middle Ages, the series details the brave adventures of Sylvan, a young rider who has been chosen to defend the interests of good and keep evil at bay.
Felix The Cat (1960 - 1965) - This tv cartoon series based upon the popular movie animation series created by Otto Mesmer..follows Felix' adventures as he uses his "bag of tricks"to foil his foes..Jack Mercer did all of the voices.
Diver Dan (1961 - 1962) - A series of puppet films that follows the adventures of Diver Dan..A deep sea crusader..who helps protect his fishy friends and "Miss Mirnerva the mermaid queen"from"Baron Barracuda" and "Trigger Fish". Comic/Character actor and mimic Allen Swift did all of the puppet voices and "Diver Dan's Voice'....
The Adventures Of Q.T.Hush. (1960 - 1961) - This tv cartoon series followed the cases of private detective"Q.T.Hush"and his two aides "Shemus and Quincy"..as they try to solve baffling crimes.Dallas McKennon did all of the voices.
The Adventures Of Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse (1960 - 1971) - This campy 1960 tv cartoon series..follows the super crime fighting exploits of"Couageous Cat" and his partner"Minute Mouse"as they use their multi purpose "Cat guns"to foil the crimes of their foes.Dallas McKennon did all of the voices.
The Adventures Of Mickey and Donald (1982 - 1982) - Another collection of short Disney cartoons.
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (1980 - 1989) - It featured Ed Grimley in adventures, which start out as mundane, but turn very surreal and cartoonish, interspersed with science lessons from The Amazing Gustav Brothers, Roger and Emil, and a live-action segment with a "scary story" presented as a show-within-a-show by Grimley's favorite televisio...
Winky Dink and You (1953 - 1973) - A cult classic praised by Bill Gates as "the first interactive TV show". Viewers watching it used a magic window to place over their TV screen, and drew on it with their magic crayons to help Winky Dink and his dog Woofer on their adventures. The CBS TV Network version of this show was seen on sunda...
Britt Allcroft's Magic Adventures of Mumfie (1994 - 2002) - From the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (Britt Allcroft) and the maker of Los Fruittis (D'oCon), this co produced animated show follows the adventures of a young elephant named Mumfie and his friends Scarecrow and Pinkey as they went on adventures and helped their friends.
Peter Potamus (1964 - 1965) - The talking hippopotamus Peter and his monkey companion So-So travel the world through time and have zany adventures together.
Flight 29 Down (2005 - 2007) - The show follows a group of teens stranded on a South Pacific island in the Federated States of Micronesia after they crash their plane (a De Havilland Heron) in a tropical storm while flying to an eco-adventure camping trip in Palau.[3] A plot device of a video diary powered by a solar battery char...
Adventures in Odyssey (1991 - 2003) - Based from Christian Radio Drama and Comedy series created by Focus on the Family. The first Adventures in Odyssey video was released in 1991. This series was created following the success of Focus on the Family's involvement in Tyndale House's video project, McGee and Me. Originally, the Odyssey vi...
Ghost Sweeper Mikami (1993 - 1994) - A 45-episode anime about the adventures of Reiko Mikami, an ambitious ghostbuster and her team, consisting of a porn fan named Tadao Yokoshima, and a ghost girl named Okinu, along with various other characters who add humor to the series.
Delilah and Julius (2005 - 2008) - The adventures of two stylish, teen super spies as they travel the globe stopping covert plots for world domination. They take down sinister villains using their wits and skills, supported by an assortment of super cool gadgets, martial arts training and impeccable killer instincts.
Cedric (2001 - Current) - The adventures of a young rascal, his family and his school. A hero close to the hearts of all children, funny yet tender at the same time. It is hard, very hard to be a little boy... between the mistress, the school shrink, nosy parents, rowdy pals, an odious niece, and a temperamental girl friend,...
Horseland (2006 - 2008) - Far away, in spectacular countryside, there's a fantastic place called Horseland - a complex of stables, arenas, barns, rolling green pastures, and riding trails through verdant mountain forests. A lot of kids board horses here. We follow the adventures of three girls and one boy, all 11-12 years ol...
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1980 - 1981) - Nils Holgersson is a 14 year old farm boy, the son of poor farmers. He is lazy and disrespectful to his fellowman. In his spare time he enjoys abusing the animals in his family farm. One day Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family is at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from...
Farzzle's World (2004 - 2005) - Farzzles World is the real world seen from a babys point of view with a twist. For Farzzle, everyday objects suddenly take on a life of their own and simple explorations always turn into magical adventures.
Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures (2008 - 2009) - The show follows a girl named Betsy as she starts out her school years. The series premiere shows Betsy facing the uncertainty of her first day of school and the adjustments she must make as she meets her new teacher and classmates, encounters unfamiliar rules and routines, and finds herself in an e...
Bo on the Go! (2007 - Current) - Get-up-and-go with Bo as she leads you through amazing adventures! Cheerful, energetic and inquisitive our young heroine along with her young dragon Dezzy encourages young audiences to spring into action while performing various maneuvers in order to help her save the day. Each mythic quest contains...
Elliot Moose (1998 - 1999) - Where could he be? Anywhere his imagination can take him! Elliot Moose is on the loose in this charming series combining live action, puppetry and animation, based on the Elliot Moose book series by author/illustrator Andrea Beck. A children's playroom is the perfect home base for adventure and fun...
Antje (2001 - 2003) - German animated series for children. The main characters (Antje, Little Bear, Little Tiger and Schlter) are making an adventurous travel in each episode.
Wunderkind Little Amadeus (2008 - 2009) - Wunderkind Little Amadeus, commonly referred to as Little Amadeus, is a German animated television series (known as "The Adventures of Young Mozart") that debuted on PBS Kids Go! on September 7, 2008 through March 1, 2009.
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003 - 2007) - "Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (or "Jakers!" in Europe)" is an American-British computer-animated children's television series. The series was broadcast in the United States on PBS Kids from September 7, 2003 to January 24, 2007.
The Nutshack (2007 - 2011) - The misadventures of 2 cousins (Phil and Jack) and their friends in San Fransisco. The show has vulgaric humor and massive gross out.
Car 54, Where Are You? (1961 - 1963) - The misadventures of two of New York's finest (a Mutt and Jeff pair) in the mythical 53rd precinct in the Bronx.
Black Butler (2008 - 2009) - In this dark dramatic comedy adventure anime takes place in a 19th century London when a young boy sells his soul to a demon in order to avenge his family's death and successfully lead their influential toy manufacturing company. The demon takes the form of a loyal butler named Sebastian who's alway...
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957 - 1963) - The adventures of a gentlemanly gunfighter for hire.
F Troop (1965 - 1967) - The misadventures of the staff and neighbors of a remote US Army outpost in the Wild West.
The Lucy Show (1962 - 1968) - The wacky misadventures of a forever scheming woman, her reluctant best friend and her cantankerous boss.
Adventures of Little El Cid (1980 - 1980) - A Japanese/Spanish animated series which action takes place in the Middle Ages. The main character is a real Spanish hero.
Shaun the Sheep (2007 - 2014) - This British stop-motion animated series of short films shown in TV since 2007 is a spin-off of "Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave" animated movie. The protagonist is a young lamb. He and his flock are having fun and adventures on a typical British farm.
Beany and Cecil (Original series) (1962 - 1963) - An adventure goes on with a boy in his Beany Copter and his Sea-Serpent sidekick, Cecil. And their Uncle Captain Huff 'N Puff. As they journey on and watch out for the the evil Dishonest John. The show is created by Bob Clampett.
Tabaluga (1997 - 2003) - "Tabaluga" is a German-Australian animated series showing adventures of a small green dragon and his friends, who fight together against a snowman named Arktos.
Noddy's Toyland Adventures (1992 - 2001) - A British children's TV show based on the series of books by Enid Blyton. It follows the adventures of Noddy a little wooden doll who lives in Toyland with his red and yellow taxi often trying to make sixpence or getting himself in trouble. His best friends Big Ears, Mr Plod and Tessie Bear are alwa...
Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures (1975 - 1976) - Anime series, originally named . The most of international versions were made from German dub titled "Sindbad".
Milly, Molly (2006 - 2009) - Milly, Molly is a series of New Zealand children's books by Gill Pittar. This show follows the adventures of two little girls from different ethnic backgrounds as they face the acceptance of diversity and the learning of life skills as they keep their friendship steady.
The Land Before Time (2007 - 2008) - Join the adventures of the dinosaurs from "The Land Before Time" in this animated series. Do not miss out as they explore their world and have cool adventures in the Great Valley and the Mysterious Beyond.
The Protectors (1972 - 1973) - The Protectors was a British-produced syndicated TV adventure series about 3 international crime fighters who take on organized crime. The show starred Robert Vaughn as the boss Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as a widowed Italian noblewoman & Tony Anholt as Frenchman Paul Bouchet.
LarryBoy The Cartoon Adventures (2002 - 2002) - Big Idea
Nic and Pic (1970 - 2001) - (French: Nic et Pic) is a Canadian children's television show, which aired during the 1970s.[1] Its stories revolved around the adventures of puppet mice Nic and Pic as they travelled around the world in a hot air balloon.[2]
Bear Behaving Badly (2007 - 2010) - a British children's sitcom which ran for four series and was broadcast from 3 September 2007 to 21 December 2010. Re-runs were regularly broadcast on CBBC up until 2016.The programme is centred around the daily adventures of Barney Harwood, his pet bear Nev, his koala friend Crazy Keith and the car...
The Adventures of Oky Doky (1948 - 1949) - an American children's television program that aired on the DuMont Television Network on Thursdays at 7pm ET from November 4, 1948, through May 26, 1949. Sometime in early 1949, the time slot for the show went from 30 minutes to 15 minutes. In March, the show was cut back to Tuesdays and Thursdays a...
The Secret Saturdays (2008 - 2010) - an American animated television series created by Canadian cartoonist Jay Stephens (creator of the Emmy-winning cartoon Tutenstein) for Cartoon Network. It debuted on October 3, 2008, in the United States. The series follows the adventures of the Saturdays, a family of cryptozoologists that work to...
the Adventures of Dudley the Dragon (1993 - 1997) - the show follows Dudley, a dragon who recently woke up from centuries of hibernation and his new ten-year-old friends Matt and Sally. The two kids would guide Dudley around the modern world and the trio would learn about environmentalism, friendship and pro-social values.
Roary the Racing Car (2007 - 2010) - Roary the Racing Car is a British stop-motion children's television series created by David Jenkins and produced by Chapman Entertainment. It follows the adventures of Roary and his racing car friends at Silver Hatch race track.
Hand Maid May (2000 - Current) - an anime series directed by Shinichiro Kimura, produced by Pioneer Animation (now Geneon Entertainment) and animated by TNK. The anime aired ten episodes on WOWOW between July 6 and September 22, 2000, and an OVA was bundled with a DVD box set released on February 21, 2001. It centers on the adventu...
Danger Mouse (2015) (2015 - Current) - Reboot of the 80's cartoon classic from England, where the White Wonder, Danger Mouse and the Hopeless Hamster, Penfold are back with new adventures as they thwart evil. Thrills and hilarity happen.
Mashin Hero Wataru (1988 - 1998) - an Adventure Super Robot multimedia franchise originally created by Sunrise and Red Entertainment. The first series aired on April 15, 1988, replacing the 17:0017:30 timeslot used for Transformers: The Headmasters. Sunrise credited "Hajime Yatate" for the storyline and Shuji Iuchi directed the seri...
Monster Math Squad (2012 - 2016) - a Canadian CGI animated series, created by Jeff Rosen and produced by DHX Media for CBC Television.It follows the adventures of three monsters who go on missions that require math equations. Together, they solve math problems to complete missions.The series takes place in the city of Monstrovia, whe...
Popolocrois (1998 - 2004) - The first anime series of Popolocrois Story was released in 1998, and the story is based immediately after the first PlayStation game PoPoLoCrois Monogatari and before the Poporogue game. There have been two different series. The first series is about the adventure after the defeat of the Ice Demon:...
R.O.D the TV (2003 - 2004) - a 26-episode anime television series, animated by J.C.Staff and Studio Deen and produced by Aniplex, directed by Koji Masunari and scripted by Hideyuki Kurata, about the adventures of three paper-manipulating sisters, Michelle, Maggie and Anita, who become the bodyguards of Nenene Sumiregawa, a famo...
Paul's Miraculous Adventure (1976 - 1977) - Pru no Mirakuru Daisakusen, also known as "Paul's Miracle Strategy Plan") is an action-adventure anime television series created by Tatsunoko Productions in partnership with Topcraft. The series was broadcast on Fuji TV and various other local stations across Japan from October 3, 1976, to Septembe...
The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee (1970 - 1990) - Konch Monogatari: Minashigo Hatchi, lit. A Bug's Tale: Hutch the Orphan) is an anime series produced by Tatsunoko Productions.The series features the adventures of a young bee named Hutch : the son of a Queen bee, Hutch is separated from his mother when his native beehive is destroyed by an attack...
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1980 - 1981) - Nirusu no Fushigi na Tabi) is an anime adaptation of the novel The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlf.[2] The 52 episode series ran on the Japanese network NHK from January 1980 to March 1981.[1] The series was the very first production by Studio Pierrot. The anime was...
Steins;Gate (2011 - 2014) - a 2011 anime television series created by the animation studio White Fox based on 5pb. and Nitroplus's 2009 video game of the same name, and is part of the Science Adventure franchise along with Chaos;head and Robotics;notes. It is set in 2010, and follows Rintaro Okabe, who together with his friend...
Jim Jam and Sunny (2006 - 2008) - a children's television programme that aired on the CITV channel. It first aired on 20 November 2006.Jim Jam is 3, and his older sister Sunny is 4, Whenever they enter their magical room, the toys come to life, and they have many adventures together.Main characters Edit
Hustle Punch (1965 - 1966) - a Japanese adventure anime series created by Yasuji Mori and produced by Toei Animation. Its 26 episodes were aired in November 1, 1965 to April 25, 1966 on TV Asahi.The plot involves the adventures of three friends, Punch (a bear), Touch (a mouse), and Bun (a weasel), who all live in a scrapyard by...
The Emperor's New School (2006 - 2008) - an American animated television series created by Mark Dindal for Disney Channel that aired from January 27, 2006 to November 20, 2008. Based on the 2000 film The Emperor's New Groove, the series follows the adventures of a temporarily-dethroned Kuzco as he completes his education in order to return...
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 - 1987) - This American crime detective drama series that follows the adventures of Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach).
Tensai Bakabon (1971 - 2018) - lit. "Genius Bakabon") is a manga and anime series created by Fujio Akatsuka which began publication on April 9, 1967, in Weekly Shnen Magazine. It is about the misadventures of a dim-witted boy (Bakabon) and his idiotic father, the latter of whom eventually becomes the central character. The offic...
Green Screen Adventures (2009 - Current) - a children's television series which premiered in 2007. The series was originally produced for local broadcast on WCIU-TV (Channel 26) in Chicago, which is the flagship station of Weigel Broadcasting, and is designed to fit the FCC's educational and information programming requirements while also be...
Klonoa phantomile adventures (2014 - 2019) - A Anime tv series base on the psx game by namco bandai,Did you guys think Rango Lango was the easiest boss to fight against on Klonoa: Door to Phantomile which Joker made it oddly mention where his weak point was right before the fight even started right?The game is set in Phantomile, a land fueled...
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA) (1993 - 2002) - This is a 13 episode short lived OVA series (way before a reboot series of Stardust Crusaders) produced by Studio A.P.P.P.. Including Original (1993-94, 6 episodes) and Prequel (2000-02, 7 episodes).
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (2012 - 2014) - a Japanese fantasy adventure manga series written and illustrated by Shinobu Ohtaka. It was serialized in Weekly Shnen Sunday from June 2009 to October 2017, with the individual chapters collected and published into 37 tankbon volumes by Shogakukan. In 2014, the manga received the 59th Shogakukan...
Full-Blast Science Adventure So That's How It Is (2003 - 2004) - a Japanese anime broadcast by TV Tokyo from October 5, 2003 to March 28, 2004.The premise of the story is that a group of children are brought into the "Realm World" when playing an online game, they have to finish a competition in two separated groups before getting back home.Characters
Gunsmith Cats (1995 - 1996) - a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kenichi Sonoda. It was published in Kodansha's Afternoon from 1991 to 1997 and was followed between 2004 and 2008 by a sequel series Gunsmith Cats Burst which included the same characters and situations.The series describes the adventures of...
Tottemo! Luckyman (1994 - 1995) - lit. "Absolutely! Luckyman") a Japanese manga series created by Hiroshi Gam for the shnen anthology magazine Weekly Shnen Jump. Running between 1993 and 1997, this gag comedy series focused on the adventures of a bizarre superhero on his fights against various aliens and other enemies threatening...
Strange Dawn (2000 - Current) - a 13-episode anime television series created by Hal Film Maker for Pioneer LDC (now Geneon) in 2000. The series follows the adventures of Eri and Yuko after they are transported to a strange world where all the people are very short.The series aired on Britain's Channel 5 during their Saturday morni...
Summer Camp Island (2018 - Current) - an American animated television series created for Cartoon Network by Julia Pott, former animator and story/staff writer on Adventure Time, as well as creator of the MTV Liquid Television Online short Valentine's Day Card. It was first announced in January 2017 and later had been shopped around at d...
The Brave of Gold Goldran (1995 - 1996) - a Japanese anime television series begun in 1995, created by Takara and Sunrise under the direction of Shinji Takamatsu, and was the sixth in the Ysha/Brave metaseries. Goldran follows the adventures of three young boys who are tasked with finding alien robot fighters, or Braves, that are sleeping...
Nellie the Elephant (1990 - 1991) - Based on the classic children's song of the same name, this series follows the adventures of a big pink elephant: the titular Nellie. One night, she hears the head of the herd calling to her from far, far away. Tired of performing in the circus & longing for home, Nellie packs her trunk & begins the...
Rick and Morty (2013 - 2018) - an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim.The series follows the misadventures of cynical mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his good-hearted but fretful grandson Morty Smith, who split their t...
Vicky the Viking (1974 - Current) - Vicky the Viking, known as About this sound Wickie und die starken Mnner in Germany and Austria and Chiisana Viking Bikke ( ) in Japan, is a German-Austrian-Japanese animated television series which tells the adventures of Vicky, a young Viking boy who uses his wits to help his Viking fe...
Geronimo Stilton (2009 - 2017) - A mouse goes on amazing adventures.
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (2003 - 2003) - It's back-to-school mayhem with Kaname Chidori and her war-freak classmate Sousuke Sagara as they encounter more misadventures in and out of Jindai High School. But when Kaname gets into some serious trouble, Sousuke takes the guise of Bonta-kunthe gun-wielding, butt-kicking mascot. And while he st...
RPG Densetsu Hepoi (1990 - 1991) - The adventure of Hepoi, a hero of heporis, Ryuuto, the prince of Dragonia, Miiya Miiya a fairy looks like a cat, and Bunzaemon, a merchant, to defeat Dracunes, the King of dark side castles.
Little Einsteins (2005 - 2009) - Leo, Annie, Quincy and June are the Little Einsteins. This preschool series is full of adventures that introduce kids to nature, world cultures and the arts. Each episode has a mission and journey of discovery that incorporates a celebrated piece of classical music and a renowned work of art or worl...
Wild Kratts (2010 - Current) - Join the adventures of Chris and Martin Kratt as they encounter incredible wild animals, combining science education with fun and adventure, while traveling to animal habitats around the globe.
JoJo's Circus (2003 - 2007) - the creative executive for Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs and features songs with music by Jeffrey Zahn and Jim Latham and lyrics done by Judy Rothman.
Om Nom Stories (2011 - Current) - Om Nom Stories are a series of spin-off videos created by ZeptoLab. They tell about Om Nom's adventures outside the video game. pilot episode was released on December 6, 2011. Ten following episodes, making up the first season, are a variety of short stories about Om Nom living at Evan's house. Th...
The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo (1996 - 1996) - The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo is an animated television series based on Victor Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris.
Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown (1998 - 1999) - Skippy the bush kangaroo is a capable, upright 'copter-flying young park ranger in his possible early 20s, who resides in Bushtown. With his friend Matilda the local TV journalist, and the quirky inventions of the eccentric genius Professor Angus McPouch, Skippy good humouredly deals with the many...
George of the Jungle (1967 - 1967) - The classic cartoon series about the adventures of jungle man George as he saves his home from constant peril with then help of his ape friend Ape and the beautiful Ursula.
Adventure Island (1967 - 1972) - an Australian television series for children which screened on the ABC from 11 September 1967 to 22 December 1972 (repeats of the 1969-1972 episodes ran from 19731976). It was jointly created by Godfrey Philipp, who produced the series, and actor-writer John Michael Howson, who also co-starred in t...
Nature Cat (2015 - 2020) - Nature Cat follow the adventures of a house cat named Fred. When his owners leave for the day, he becomes the outdoor expert Nature Cat. He and his friends Hal the dog, Daisy the rabbit, and Squeeks the mouse learn about all of nature all over the world.
Yumeria (2004 - Current) - Studio Deen produced a 12-episode comedy, adventure, anime television series broadcast on TBS in Japan in 2004. The series was originally licensed in North America by ADV Films who initially released the series in three English language DVD volumes in 2005 and 2006.Tomokazu Mikuri, the main characte...
Phantom Thief Jeanne (1999 - 2000) - Kamikaze Kait Jannu, lit. "Divine Wind Phantom Thief Jeanne") is a fantasy shjo manga series written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura. The story is about the adventures of a high school girl, Maron Kusakabe, who is the reincarnation of Jeanne D'Arc and transforms into a phantom thief-magical girl...
D.N.Angel (2003 - Current) - Xebec adapted the manga into a 26-episode anime series which aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3, 2003 until September 25, 2003.follows the adventures of Daisuke Niwa, an average teenage boy. At the story's opening, Daisuke declares love for his crush, a girl named Risa Harada, on his fourteenth...
Shake It Up (2010 - 2013) - This American sitcom follows the adventures of CeCe Jones (Bella Thorne) and Rocky Blue (Zendaya) as they star as background dancers on a local show in Chicago.
Da Capo (2003 - 2013) - Circus described Da Capo as a "ticklish school romance adventure" ( kosobayui gakuen renai adobench). A sequel set 53 years after the end of Da Capo, Da Capo II, was released on May 26, 2006 and features a new cast of characters living two generations after the original. Da Capo is...
Alice SOS (1998 - 1999) - an anime series directed by Shingo Kaneko. It was broadcast every second week from April 6, 1998 until January 28, 1999.Takashi loves reading books and especially loves Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. One day, he buys some used books, and he finds one book thrown in. When Takashi opens the book, t...
Bumpety Boo (1985 - 1986) - an anime children's television show produced by the Nippon Animation company from 1985 to 1986. The series consists of 130 10-minute episodes, distributed as 43 half-hour segments..The show follows the adventures of a young boy named Ken, who has always dreamed of owning a car, and Bumpety Boo, a ta...
Noozles (1984 - Current) - also known as The Wondrous Koala Blinky, is a 26-episode anime by Nippon AnimationCompany that was originally released in Japan in 1984. It depicts the adventures of a 12-year-old girl named Sandy and her koala friends, Blinky and Pinky, who are from the extra-dimensional realm of Koalawalla Land. N...
Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken (1981 - 1982) - lit. Honey Honey's Wonderful Adventures, The anime was released in the English language in the United States as Honey Honey and also broadcast in various European countries and in Latin America.The story begins in the city of Vienna in 1907, as the city holds a lavish birthday celebration for its be...
GeGeGe no Kitar (1968 - 2018) - focuses on the young Kitarthe last survivor of the Ghost Tribeand his adventures with other ghouls and strange creatures of Japanese mythology. Along with: the remains of his father, Medama-Oyaji (a mummified Ghost tribesman reincarnated to inhabit his old eyeball); Nezumi-Otoko (the rat-man); Ne...
Blaze and the Monster Machines (2014 - Current) - Go on an adventure in Axle City with Blaze, the world's most amazing monster truck, and his driver and best friend AJ.
Miracle Giants Dome-kun (1989 - 1990) - a Japanese anime television series based on a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori. It ran for 49 episodes, animated at Studio Gallop, directed by Takashi Watanabe and follows the adventures of Dome Shinjo, a 10-year-old boy who is the son of a deceased legendary player of the Yomiuri Giants.
Yamato Takeru (1994 - 1994) - "Yamato Takeru" (Japanese: ) is a Japanese anime loosely related to both the live action film and legend about a young boy who goes onto a great adventure that would grant him great powers and understanding his destiny is linked to the world. The series is followed up by the two-episode origin...
Rune Soldier (2001 - 2001) - Louie, a brawny student at the mage's guild, is reluctantly accepted by three girls (Merrill-thief, Genie-fighter, and Melissa-priestess) as a companion for their adventuring party. As the foursome explore ruins, battle dark creatures, and make new friends, they also uncover a sinister plot within t...
Bubble guppies (2011 - 2016) - a preschool children's television series produced for Nickelodeon and created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull.[2] The series is produced by using Autodesk Maya 3D software and revolves around the underwater adventures of a group of merperson preschoolers.[3] The program premiered on January 24, 2011...
Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot (2007 - 2009) - an American-Canadian animated television series produced by SD Entertainment and DIC Entertainment that premiered on CBS' KEWLopolis line-up from September 15, 2007 to June 6, 2009. It was the third Care Bears television series made and was produced by Sabella Dern Entertainment, the same company th...
Yo Gabba Gabba! (2007 - 2015) - an American live action/puppet educational children's television show starring five costumed toys come to life and their friend DJ Lance Rock. The series premiered on Nick Jr. August 20, 2007 and ended on November 12, 2015. There is a single topic in each episode, e.g. "Adventure", "Friends", and "D...
Burn-Up W (1996 - 1996) - Burn Up W is about the adventures of Team Warrior, a band of highly-skilled and completely reckless band of female cops. The team features the loose cannon Rio, trigger happy Maya and ace hacker Lilica, who get the job done, regardless of the cost to the Tokyo Police Department or the city.
Chowder (2007 - 2010) - an American animated television series created by C. H. Greenblatt for Cartoon Network. The series follows an aspiring young chef apprentice named Chowder and his day-to-day adventures in Chef Mung Daal's catering company.
Pop Team Epic (2018 - 2018) - An anime television series adaptation animated by Kamikaze Douga and produced by King Records aired between January and March 2018. (Beauty sisters got dank)The manga chronicles the misadventures of two 14-year-old girls named Popuko and Pipimi, who encounter a variety of both mundane and bizarre si...
Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot (2012 - 2016) - an American/Canadian CGI adventure musical animated TV series which is based on the "Care Bears" franchise in honor of their 30th anniversary.[1] It is produced by American Greetings Properties. Unlike its previous predecessor "Care Bears" shows, this is AG's first CGI animated "Care Bears" TV serie...
Tangled: The Series (2017 - Current) - known as Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure in its second season, is an American animated television series developed by Chris Sonnenburg and Shane Pigmore and produced by Disney Television Animation that premiered on Disney Channel as a Disney Channel Original Movie titled Tangled: Before Ever After on M...
Fifi and the Flowertots (2006 - 2010) - a British stop-motion children's television series created by Keith Chapman and produced by Chapman Entertainment. The series originally aired on Five in the United Kingdom.It features a group of flower-based characters and their adventures and activities through the garden. The title character and...
Steel Angel Kurumi (1999 - 2001) - anime series following the adventures of its titular character created by Kaishaku. Directed by Naohito Takahashi, animated by Oriental Light and Magic and produced by Pony Canyon with character designs by Yuriko Chiba and Yuji Ikeda and music by Toshihiko Sahashi, it has been translated and release...
Hello Mrs. Cherrywinkle (1996 - 2004) - a children's educational television program that aired in 1996. It centered on the adventures of the title character, Mrs. Cherrywinkle (portrayed by Kathy "Babe" Robinson, of Philadelphia, PA), a stout woman full of energy who interacted with a variety of puppets in her home and garden. The puppets...
Clarence (2014) (2014 - 2018) - an American animated television series created by Skyler Page for Cartoon Network. The series revolves around a young boy named Clarence and his two best friends Jeff and Sumo. Page, a former storyboard artist for Adventure Time and revisionist for Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, developed the series...
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008 - 2010) - an American animated television series created by Thurop Van Orman for Cartoon Network that premiered in North America on June 5, 2008.[1] It stars creator Thurop Van Orman as the voice of Flapjack, a nave young boy who was raised by a whale named Bubbie and is mentored by a salty sea pirate called...
Lupin the III: Series One (1971 - 1972) - The first series in the franchise was never released in the USA until 2012. The anime follows the adventures of Arsene Lupin's grandson who continues his legacy in a more modern society.
Magic Mongo (1977 - 1978) - When teenagers Donald, Lorraine, and Kristy find an old bottle, they discover it is the home of Mongo, a genie. Mongo's magical attempts to help his young masters lead to many wacky misadventures.
Robin Hood's Great Adventure (Robin Hood) (1990 - 1992) - Several centuries ago in Nottingham County, a cruel and greedy baron by the name of Alwine ordered the destruction of the Huntingtons` castle - from the fire of which Robin and his cousins, Will, Winifred and Barbara, miraculously escaped. The youngsters sought shelter in Sherwood Forest. However, i...
Tube Mice (1988 - 1988) - Tube Mice was a 1988 children's animated series. It was about the adventures of the mice who dwell in the tunnels of the London Underground of London, United Kingdom.
Adventures of Mark & Brian (1991 - 1991) -
Astro Farm (1992 - 1994) - This great spaced-out series followed the adventures of the Foxwood family
Happy Castle (1994 - 1994) - A girl named Hope is transported to another world and has adventures in the magical land of Betwixt to save it's inhabitants from the evil witch Gloomella and her lackeys, Urg and Lolita the cat.
Gadget and the Gadgetinis (2001 - 2003) - Wowsers! Dr. Claw has returned and now it's up the newly promoted Lt. Gadget to stop him. Aided by his niece Penny and his two robotic sidekicks Digit and Fidget, the adventures of Inspector Gadget continue in this spin-off series.
The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil (1988 - 1988) - Direct from the 1960s popular Bob Clampett cartoon "Beany and Cecil" was revived to an all new series with only 5 episodes. Join Beany and Cecil on an adventure to stop the schemes of Dishonest John.
Slayers Special (1996 - 1996) - Fantasy comedy OVA series featuring Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent in 3 episodes of adventures. Lina and Naga take on a clones, training a wimp and destroying a mirror.
Slayers Excellent (1998 - 1999) - Fantasy comedy OVA featuring more adventures of Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent.
Superman (Fleischer Studios Shorts) (1941 - 1943) - Based on the popular and legendary DC Comics character, this was classic early animated adventures of Superman. Disguised as everyday reported, Clark Kent, in times of need he quickly dons the heroic alter ego know as Superman fighting for Truth, Justice and the American Way.
TekWar (1995 - 1995) - Based on William Shatner's TEK novels, this series details the adventures of Jake Cardigan, an ex-cop in the year 2045. Tek is a virtual-reality drug that has become the cocaine of the future. Cardigan was sentenced to 15 years in the freezer as a result of being framed for killing his partners whil...
Super Force (1990 - 1992) - Super Force is an action adventure TV series about a former astronaut who uses an advanced combat suit and motorcycle to fight crime in the city of metroplex during the year 2020. among the features of the suit were enhanced strength and armament where as the motorcycle had an array of james bond ty...
Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour (1980 - 1983) - Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour is an animated television series produced by Filmation that aired on CBS during the early 1980s.
Jason of Star Command (1978 - 1979) - Jason of Star Command was a live action television series by Filmation which ran between 1978 and 1979. The show revolved around the exploits of space adventurer Jason (Craig Littler) and his colleagues, including Professor E.J. Parsafoot (Charlie Dell) and the pocket robot "Wiki" (formally W1K1). T...
Hamtaro (2000 - 2004) - Join HamTaro and the Ham Ham's in all of there exciting adventures, This show first aired in Japan in the year 2000 and then in America on Toonami on June 3rd of 2002.
Funnybones (1992 - 1992) - Funnybones was a Welsh children's television series that was first aired on S4C and the BBC in 1992. It was based on the eponymous series of books by Janet & Allan Ahlberg which were illustrated by Andre Amstutz and focused on the adventures of a gang of skeletons. There was a Big Skeleton (whose ca...
The New Adventures of Gilligan (1974 - 1977) - The New Adventures of Gilligan is an animated series produced by Filmation and was aired on ABC during the 1974-1975 season. It was based on the 1964-1967 CBS television series Gilligan's Island and featured almost all the actors from the show, except for Tina Louise, who was determined to distance...
Woof! (1989 - 1996) - Woof! was a Children's ITV television series produced by Central Independent Television about the adventures of a boy who turns into a dog. It was based on the book by Allan Ahlberg. It was directed by David Cobham (Tarka the Otter). It was written by Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss.
Real Kids, Real Adventures (1998 - 2001) - Based on the true events of children who have to overcome situations to save someone's life.
Mucha Lucha (2002 - 2005) - The show is set in a town centered around Lucha libre (nearly everyone in the town has a mask and costume and a signature move) and is essentially about the adventures of three children, Rikochet, Buena Girl, and The Flea, as they struggle through the world-famous school of wrestling where they stud...
Jimbo and the Jetset (1986 - 1987) - Jimbo and the Jet Set (often shortened to simply Jimbo) was a British animated cartoon series in the 1980s, featuring the adventures of the eponymous Jimbo, a talking aeroplane. Created by Maddocks Cartoon Productions, it originally ran for 25 episodes between 1985 and 1986.
The Adventures of Spot (1986 - 2001) - Based on the best-selling books by Eric Hill, Spot's first book was written in the late '50s. Spot made his deut on T.V. in 1986. When spot came to the US, Jonathan Taylor Thomas (from "Home Improvements" and "The Lion King") did the voice-overs for the US until 1997. Spot came to an end in 2001 whe...
Adventures of Mini-Goddess (1998 - 1999) - Adventures of Mini-Goddess, also known as Ah! My Goddess: Being Small is Convenient ( , Aa Megami-sama: Chicchaitte Kotoha Benridane?), is a 48-episode TV series featuring super deformed versions of Urd, Belldandy, and Skuld of Oh My...
The New Adventures Of Superman (1966 - 1967) -
The Master (1984 - 1984) - The series follows the adventures of American Veteran, John Peter McAllister, who stayed in Japan after World War II and has learned the art of ninjutsu. Years later he leaves Japan to find his long lost daughter, on his journey he meets Max Keller who insists on learning John's ninja skills. Each e...
Inspector Gadget's Field Trip (1996 - 1998) - Grab your maps and hang on to your luggage, because in this History Channel spin-off of the classic cartoon, tour guide Inspector Gadget takes us around the world in search of adventure, with plenty of laughs, thrills and fun facts along the way. Go Go Gadget Field Trip!
The Adventures of Paddington Bear (1997 - 2001) - Produced by Cinar, this is the third and most common TV adaptation based on Michael Bond's stories
Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist (1996 - 1997) - Animated series based on the story of Oliver Twist. All the characters are animals.
Random! Cartoons (2008 - 2009) - A new cartoon showcase program that aired on Nickelodeon for 13 episodes. Unlike the previous "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" this series did not have hosting segments. Three of the shorts, Adventure Time, The Bravest Warriors and Fanboy, would wind up becoming full-length shows.
Bronco (1956 - 1962) - Bronco was a Warner Bros. western originally broadcast on the ABC network from 1958 to 1962. The star was Ty Hardin who played Bronco Layne, an ex-Confederate soldier turned adventurer.
Jacob Two-Two (2003 - 2006) - The series is set in the Canadian city of Montreal and follows Jacob Two-Two and his friends on their wild adventures, most of which are one-shots that are resolved in a single episode. Based from the popular Trilogy of books by Mordecai Richler.
Bumpety Boo (1985 - 1986) - The show follows the adventures of a young boy named Ken, who has always dreamed of owning a car, and Bumpety Boo, a talking yellow car who hatched from an egg in the first episode, as they travel the world in search for Bumpety Boo's mother. Bumpety Boo, the fun-loving car, makes friends with Ken....
Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (2002 - 2003) - The magical adventures of a six-year-old boy with a vivid imagination and a unique talent: everything he draws comes to life in the Land of Chalk Drawings - a colourful world of his own creation! After Simon draws something on his chalkboard, he climbs a ladder and jumps over a fence into the Land o...
George Shrinks (2000 - 2001) - Because of George's tiny size, even mundane activities, such as working around the house or playing outside, often become dramatic adventures. His primary mode of transportation is his Zooper Car, a multi-purpose miniature vehicle he built with his father that can do things like transform into a sub...
The New Adventures of Lucky Luke (2001 - 2001) - French cartoon series.
Super Why! (2007 - 2012) - Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert.
The Secret World of Santa Claus (1997 - 1999) - Curious what Santa Claus, his nine flying reindeer and the Elves do the other 364 days of the year? In this non-stop adventure, Santa and his team are on search for the perfect toys for all the boys and girls on his Nice list.
The New Adventures of Nanoboy (2008 - 2010) - Nine-year-old Oscar often gets picked on for his small size, but he's a little boy hiding a big secret: he's Nanoboy, the world's smallest superhero. When there's trouble in the world of molecules, Oscar shrinks down to be smaller than the average cell to fight off little villains that could mean bi...
3-2-1 Penguins! (2000 - 2008) - Twins Jason and Michelle are spending summer with their English Grandmum in The Poconos region of New York. The ship reveals the four penguins are the crew of a real spaceship. The twins is then pulled into the ship and taken on a galactic adventure.
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2001 - 2008) - The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (also known as Billy & Mandy) is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network. The show began in 2001 as part of the show Grim & Evil and then in 2003 as 'The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
Mrs. Munger's Class (1997 - 1998) - Mrs. Munger's Class was a series of shorts that aired in between shows on ABC's One Saturday Morning. It features Mrs. Munger and her 15 unusual students having adventures in their classroom and field trips. They were in a yearbook setting. But the show got cancelled due to the fact that the student...
The Book of Pooh (2001 - 2003) - The third TV series based off of A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" stories. This is a CGI series following "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" and "Welcome to Pooh Corner". The series appears to take place some time after the events of Milne's original stories since his son Christopher Robin Milne...
Jackie Chan Adventures (2000 - 2005) - Based on fictionalized version of film-maker Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan is an amateur archaeologist living above his uncle's antique shop in San Francisco, California when he comes across a magical artifact in a hidden treasure room of a Bavarian castle. This brings him to the attention of Captain Au...
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000 - 2001) - A spin-off series of Pixar's immensely popular Toy Story films, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an animated action series focusing on Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear. The series is set in the Galactic Federation in the year 8000 A.D. and chronicles the adventures of Buzz trying to fight against the ev...
The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006 - 2010) - Christine Campbell (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a neurotic mother and owner of a women's gym who is in a constant struggle to keep pace with those around her. A fixture in her life is her ex-husband Richard (Clark Gregg), whose new girlfriend (Emily Rutherfurd) is also named Christine, hence the nicknam...
Ranger Rob (2016 - Current) - A British-Canadian animated series. Ranger Rob is about a ranger named Rob, and his fellow friends Stomper and Dakota, who go on outdoor adventures in Big Sky Park.
The Adventures Of Gulliver (1968 - 1970) - The Adventures of Gulliver is a 1968 television cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show is based on the novel Gulliver's Travels. The show aired Saturday mornings on ABC-TV and lasted for one season in its original broadcast.
The New Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1968 - 1969) - The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American live-action and animated television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1968, through February 23, 1969.
Doki (2012 - Current) - Doki (also known as Doki Adventures) is a Canadian animated children's television series produced by Portfolio Entertainment for Discovery Kids. The series debuted on Discovery Kids in Latin America on April 15, 2013. It premiered on Qubo in the USA in 2014.
Pirates: Adventures in Art (2009 - 2012) - An American/Canadian computer-animated children's television show produced by DHX Media and WTTW Chicago. In 2009 it premiered on PBS Kids in USA. Reruns aired on Qubo in 2018.
Shelldon (2009 - Current) - The adventures of a shellfish named Shelldon and his friends Herman and Connie.
Where's Waldo? (2019 - Current) - Young adventurers Waldo and Wenda use their problem-solving skills and the help of an international wizard society to stop a rival globetrotter named Odlulu from using his magic to stir up trouble.
Lilly the Witch (2004 - 2007) - One day Lilly found a book. She discovered it is a magic book, from there start Lilly's adventurous, time-traveler, witch life with her friend Hector the little dragon.
Molly of Denali (2019 - Current) - Molly of Denali follows the adventures of Alaskan native girl and Vlogger Molly Mabray who along with her family and friends learn about everything on their home state of Alaska and their home in the village of Qyah.
Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures (2009 - 2014) - Beginning life as a simple greeting-card character, the always-cheerful Strawberry Shortcake has appeared in hundreds of products, from a memorable children's doll with scented hair to the star of numerous TV shows and video releases. This animated series, the third in the franchise, follows the tit...
Babar (1989 - 2003) - The Elephant king Babar and his family of Celestville join together for so many adventures that teaches them moral issues about life, friendship and love. From Babar's tragic childhood, growing up and succeding as the legendary king of Celelstville. As well as rivaling King Rataxes, Babar must keep...
Rocket Robin Hood (1966 - 1969) - The futuristic adventures of the legendary outlaw and his Merry Men in outer space, where their archnemesis, the evil Sheriff of N.O.T., pursues them.
LoliRock (2014 - 2017) - The adventures of Iris, a teenage girl who must divide her time between gigs with her rock band and life as a princess from a faraway kingdom.
Splash and Bubbles (2016 - 2018) - The Jim Henson series focuses on the adventures of a yellowback fusilier fish named Splash who along with his friends learn about all sorts of marine life.
The Magic School Bus Rides Again (2017 - 2018) - In the sequel to The Magic School Bus, the flagship Ms. Valerie Frizzle (now Professor Frizzle) retires from teaching and passes the keys of the Magic School Bus over to her younger sister, Ms. Fiona Frizzle, to embark on new adventures with her class. As they journey on their exciting new field-tri...
Kate & Mim-Mim (2014 - 2018) - Five year-old Kate has lots of adventures with her toy bunny rabbit, Mim-Mim. Kate heads to the imaginary land of Mimiloo to spend time with her friends when she has problems at home.
Messy Goes to Okido (2015 - 2019) - Messy Goes to Okido is a comedy adventure series starring Messy, a little blue monster. Hes furry and purry and always wants to go to Okido, a magical land where his friends Zoe and Felix live.
Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures (2019 - Current) - The new Mickey series replacing Mickey and the Roadster Racers. When Mixed-Up adventures premiered, reruns of Mickey and The Roadster Racers were renamed "Mickey Mouse Roadster Racers." Mixed-Up Adventures has the new Hot Dog Dance.
Green Eggs and Ham (2019 - Current) - Green Eggs and Ham is an American animated comedy adventure streaming television series loosely based on the 1960 Dr. Seuss book of the same title. It premiered on November 8, 2019 on Netflix. The series has received critical acclaim for its animation, humor, story and voice acting. In December 2019...
Fluffy Gardens (2007 - 2016) - Fun and adventures in a peaceful town inhabited by a host of lovable, cute and crazy animals.
Clifford the Big Red Dog (1988 - 1988) - This direct-to-video series was the first animated adaptation of Clifford The Big Red Dog. Produced by Nelvana and Scholastic, there were 6 episodes and a live-action special titled "Clifford's Sing Along Adventure", which came out two years earlier.
Krazy Kat (1962 - 1964) - This show follows the adventures of Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and Officer Pupp. Ignatz is the mouse that always cause mischief, or mouse-chief. Krazy is the character who loves Ignatz Mouse. Officeer Pupp always arrest him for throwing bricks.
Joe and Jack (2012 - 2014) - Joe and Jack is a Canadian/Irish/British/American children's television series airing on Qubo in the United States, and Tiny Pop in the United Kingdom. The series follows a 4-year-old Irish boy named Joe, and his best friend, a blue cat named Jack. Together, they go on adventures using their imagina...
Babar and the Adventures of Badou (2010 - 2012) - A new remake of Babar.
Guess with Jess (2009 - 2013) - Guess with Jess is a British-Canadian-American interactive animated children's television series featuring Jess the Cat from the TV series Postman Pat. The show follows Jess's adventures with his friends on Greendale Farm in London, England, and how they always try to solve each other's problems wit...
Cat & Keet (2015 - 2016) - Cat & Keet is a comedy cartoon for children which shows the funny adventures of a cat named Cat and a parakeet named Keet. They are usually joined by a funny donkey named Dunks.
Justin Time (2011 - 2016) - The TV series revolves around the adventures of Justin. In every episode, Justin encounters a problem of everyday childhood (such as sharing, teamwork, or paying attention). Then Justin and his shape-shifting sidekick Squidgy solve the problems by tackling them in adventures through time and around...
Manic mansion (1990 - 1993) - The series was based of the hit game with the same name but the difference was it was a comedy the game was more like a action adventure role playing game for 5e nes
DC Super Hero Girls (2019 - Current) - The series follows the adventures of teenage versions of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Batgirl, Zatanna, and Green Lantern who are students at Metropolis High School.
Huckleberry No Bouken (1976 - 1976) - An anime series based on the novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. English dub produced by Saban Enterntainment in 1993.
Disney's Gummi Bears/Winnie the Pooh Hour (1989 - 1991) - Disney's Gummi Bears/Winnie the Pooh Hour was a one-hour television programming block of Adventures of the Gummi Bears and The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episodes which aired on ABC from September 9, 1989 to October 7, 1991.
The Heroic Adventures of Super Zim-Zam (1983 - 1984) - Short-lived cartoon series
What's New Mr. Magoo? (1977 - 1977) - Mr. Magoo goes on new adventures with his pet dog to see what's new
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2017 - 2019) - A popular manga creator becomes enmeshed in paranormal events while conducting research: Stand User Kishibe Rohan visits Italy, goes bankrupt and more. It's the spinoff of Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure takes on Part 4's Diamond is Unbreakable.
Beachy & Friends (2021 - Current) - Upcoming animated TV show being developed by the creators of The Beeps and Jelly Jamm. The show stars a beach ball named Beachy as a main character. His best friends Soccery the Soccer ball, Baskety the Basketball, and Exerciser the Exercise Ball. Together they go on adventures.
The Eggs (2004 - 2008) - The Eggs follows the colourful adventures of the four anthropomorphic egg college graduates as they continue their mission through the Loonyverse to search out valuable new sounds for their music-loving home planet of Kazoo.
Adventures in Booga Booga Land (2006 - 2009) - Finding everything too small in the town of Too-small-for-me, Gerard leaves his hometown for the capital city, Booga. As his bus pulls into the streets of Booga, he meets Marty and they become best friends.
Fantasy Adventure: Nagagutsu-o haita neko-no Boken (1992 - 1992) - Anime series loosely based on the popular fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Bunnicula (2016 - 2019) - Chester and Harold join Bunnicula in adventures involving situations only he can solve.
Secret Millionaire's Club (2010 - 2012) - The series features famed investor Warren Buffett as a secret mentor to a group of kids who learn practical life lessons during fun-filled adventures in business. The show started out with webisodes in 2010 and later received a full series in 2011.
The Adventures of Kid Danger (2018 - 2018) - An animated spinoff off the mega-popular show "Henry Danger". It details the animated adventures of Kid Danger and Captain Man as they fight various villains and threats to Swellview.
Harvey Beaks (2015 - 2017) - The series is about a little boy named Harvey, who is a friendly bird, and his two best friends, the imp twins Fee and Foo, and their lives together as they grow and have adventures. Together, the trio seek adventure and mischief in their home Littlebark Grove.
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018 - Current) - Deep in the sewers of New York City, four mutant turtle brothers lurk. Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo are in their early teen years, and the brothers go on new and exciting adventures. They tap into their mystic ninja powers to learn to work together as a cohesive unit and become a t...
The 7D (2014 - 2016) - A stand alone TV spin-off of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that follows the dwarfs and their adventures.
Robot and Monster (2012 - 2015) - Robot & Monster focuses on the day-to-day adventures of Robot Default, a genius inventor, living with his roommate Monster Krumholtz, a cheerful and enthusiastic purple creature, and their pest-turned-pet Marf.
Ruby Gloom (2006 - 2008) - The adventures of Ruby Gloom, a curiously cheerful girl who lives in a gothic mansion along with her friends Skull Boy, Iris, Misery, Frank & Len, Poe, Boo Boo, and Doom Kitty.
Tom and Vicky (1998 - 1999) - A British stop-frame animation series about the adventures of a brother and sister who come and play in their Grandad's back garden.
Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures (2002 - 2003) - Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures
Evil Con Carne (2001 - 2004) - Evil Con Carne is an American animated television series/spin-off of Grim & Evil and sister show of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, created by Maxwell Atoms.
Adventures from the Book Of Virtues (1996 - 2001) - Adventures from the Book Of Virtues
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003 - 2007) - Jakers!
Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018 - Current) - This web series from Disney follows Donald, Jos, and Panchito as they learned that they are the new Three Caballeros. Aided by Xandra, Goddess of Adventure, they learn to become heroes in order to defend the world against Lord Felldrake.
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013 - 2014) - The short-lived spin-off of Once Upon a Time follows the adventures of Alice as she returns to Wonderland to rescue her lost love Cyrus the Genie.
Crystal Tipps and Alistair (1971 - 1974) - British cartoon series about the adventures of a frizzy haired girl and her dog, Alistair. They also meet up with their friends Birdie and Butterfly. The stories are told without dialogue but have a musical score and Pop-Art design.
Donkey Kong Country Legend of the crystal coconut(1999) - In this film many adventers hapen Since DK was chosen to be ruler of Congo Bongo, he wanted to know EVERYTHING about the Crystal Coconut. When he asked Inka Dinka Doo the secrets of the Coconut, Inka Dinka Doo said "You must give up everything!". DK thought that he had to give up the Coconut to K.Ro...
Toy Story 2(1999) - In "Toy Story 2," the fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to summer camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody who unbeknownst to himself is a highly valued collectable. It's now up to Buzz Lightyear and the g...
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure(1989) - Bill and Ted have spent so much time forming their rock band, The Wyld Stallyns, that they're flunking history. When Ted's dad threatens to send him away to military school, Bill and Ted realize it could mean the most heinous end of The Stallyns! Luckly, a guide from the future, Rufus, has come to...
Stand by Me(1986) - Stand by Me a Rob Reiner film. Tells the tale of Gordie Lachance, a writer who looks back on his preteen days when he and three close friends went on their own adventure to find the body of a kid their age who had gone missing a presumed dead. The stakes are upped when the bad kids in town are clos...
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure(1985) - The love of Pee-wee Herman's life is his bicycle. When it is stolen, he is goes on a wild cross country adventure after a fortune teller tells him his bicycle is in the basement of the Alamo. Along the way, Pee-wee encounters an escaped convict, a waitress with wanderlust and a jealous boyfriend, an...
The Chipmunk Adventure(1987) - Alvin, Simon, and Theadore are challenged by the Chipettes on a race aroun
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation(1992) - As the first day of summer arrives after the last day of school at Acme Acres, Buster, Babs, and the rest of the gang go on their own different vacation and adventures. Babs and Buster turn a water gun fight into a raft trip to the Deep South, Fi Fi Lafume goes on a date with his favorite movie star...
Willow(1988) - The dwarfish Nelwyn Willow Ufgood begins on an adventurous journey to protect the foundling Elora Danan who after a prophesy from the evil tyrant king Bavmorda must prepare for her end. Fantasy film from 1988 written by George Lucas.
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure(1994) - The first sequel to Don Bluth's popular The Land Before Time furthers the adventures of Littlefoot and his pals, who by this time are living in the Great Valley. The young dinos' adventures begin when they set out to prove how grown up they are by solving the mystery of an egg thief. Unfortunately,...
The Pagemaster(1994) - A young boy overcomes his obsessive fears by discovering a love for books in this animated fantasy adventure. In a live action wraparound, Macaulay Culkin stars as Richard Tyler, an easily bullied, nervous wreck of a kid who's an expert on safety statistics. His mother and father (Mel Harris and Ed...
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland(1989) - Film/anime adaption of Winsor McCay weekly comic strips, Little Nemo.
Garfield's Halloween Adventure(1985) - When Garfield is suddenly awoken one lazy morning by the Binky The Clown show, a character who Grafield dislikes, he is enlightened by the painted one when he learns that today is in fact Halloween. Garfield suddenly grows alert when he realizes that tonight is the night when you go knocking on door...
The Flintstones(1994) - A live-action take on the popular Hanna-Barbera sitcom, The Flinstones. The movie follows the adventures of a modern stone-age family.
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird(1985) - When a pesky social worker thinks Big Bird should be with his own kind (other birds) instead of living on the diverse Sesame Street, she sends him to a foster with a family of Dodos, but he is not happy and runs away. Big Bird begins a long adventure wandering the country. In the mean time, his frie...
Adventures In Babysitting(1987) - Chris has a big night out planned when her boyfriend cancels on her. She agrees to babysit for a pre-teen girl and a pubescent boy. She's settled in for a dull night when a girlfriend calls her to say she's marooned at a downtown bus station with very seedy characters around. The three plus one of t...
Puff the Magic Dragon(1978) - Young Jackie Draper is child who can't communicate with anyone. Into his life comes Puff, the Magic Dragon, who takes the boy to the magical land of Honnah Lee, and the adventure changes young Jackie's lif
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey(1991) - Attention all righteous dudes and babes! Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are back and better than ever with a most triumphant sequel to Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure! Everything's excellent for everyone's favourite surf-speaking dudes. With their own apartment, a pair of bodacious princess babes a...
Robin Hood: Men In Tights(1993) - directed and co-wrote this satiric comedy which lampoons a number of cinematic treatments of the legend of Sherwood Forest, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Robin Hood (Cary Elwes) comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard...
Clueless(1995) - Basically the epitome of the 90's teen flick-and one of the best. Loosely based on Jane Austen's Emma, this film follows the life and adventures of upper middle-class Beverly Hills teen Cher Horowitz and her assorted Bronson Alcott High pals. While Cher is busy playing match maker for everyone else,...
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure(1977) - Raggedy Ann and her brother Raggedy Andy with the help of their new friend The Camel with the Wrinkled Knees must save Babette, a homesick French doll, from a lovesick pirate called "The Captain".
Digimon: The Movie(2000) - While some children spend their summer vacation playing ball or going to the beach, seven kids use their free time to help save the world in this feature-length animated adventure adapted from the popular television series. While attending summer camp, a group of kids playing with computers are tran...
The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh(1977) - In the Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh, the roly-poly little bear, and his animal friends plus Christopher Robin find themselves in one tickish situation after another. These adventures included a compilation of "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree", "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" and "Win...
The Jerk(1979) - On Navin Johnson's 18th birthday he discovers he was adopted. (Which should appear obvious since he's the only white person in an all black family.) Navin decides to move out and try to make it in the world. While on his adventure he works at a gas station. But because of an assassination attempt he...
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm(1993) - This stylish animated adventure is based on the '90s animated television series, which in turn is based on the original comics and Tim Burton's live action "Batman" films. Unlike the campy 1960s version of Batman, this version is half-mad from the superhero's obsession with justice. It is only his u...
Mary Poppins(1964) - The Banks children, Jane and Michael, aren't bad. They just need the right nanny to look after them. Enter Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews), the practically perfect nanny who arrives after she finds a letter the children write describing the perfect nanny. Amazing adventures commence, from jumping into...
Problem Child 2(1991) - Junior's back in his first adventure since his last! Junior and Ben move to Mortville which seems like the perfect town to live in. The Healys have a nice new house--and Junior get's a cool new room! And young women have formed a line at Ben's door in order to get a piece of him (romantically). Ben...
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking(1988) - After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and his siste...
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me(1999) - Austin Powers fashion photographer, denizen of Swingin' London, international espionage agent, and bane of dental hygienists everywhere returns in his second screen adventure. Powers (once again played by Mike Myers), a 1960s superspy stranded in the 1990s, discovers that his nemesis, criminal g...
Adventures in Dinosaur City(1992) - A group of kids are pulled though a television set and into an alternate world. The residents of this world are none other than the Stone Age characters of their favorite TV show "Dinosaurs." Timmy, Mick, and Jamie must join forces with their dinosaur heroes Rex and Tops in order to put an end to t...
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin(1997) - Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin are best friends who wish they could be together forever. However Christopher Robin needs to go to school. Christopher Robin has trouble telling Pooh that they will be separated, so he leaves him a note. Pooh, misunderstanding and believing that Christopher Robi...
The Rocketeer(1991) - After getting his start as a visual effects artist on the original Star Wars trilogy, Spielberg protege Joe Johnston found success as a director with his debut film, the blockbuster family adventure Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. For his sophomore outing, Johnston created this action-adventurer, set in 1...
The Punisher(1989) - The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia ca
The Shadow(1994) - The Shadow is a legendary superhero, who because of his unique past, knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. In his newest adventure, he faces his most ruthless enemy Shiwan Khan, a barbarian planning to destroy the city with an atomic bomb.
Judge Dredd(1995) - A violent, effects-heavy science fiction adventure, Judge Dredd depicts a nightmarish future in which overcrowded cities are terrorized by brutal gun battles and policed by "Judges," law officers who act as judge, jury, and executioner. Sylvester Stallone stars as Judge Dredd, a punishing enforcer w...
Galaxy Quest(1999) - team of intrepid adventurers travels through the outer reaches of the galaxy, each week finding excitement and adventure on Galaxy Quest! Or at least that's the way it was in the mid-1970s, when brave if reckless Captain Peter Quincy Taggart, lovely Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and inscrutable alien D...
Alice in Wonderland (Live Animation)(1985) - This movie released in 1985 as a two-part made for tv movie is based on "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll who wrote the story in 1865. However, unlike other "Wonderland" movies, this version closely resembles Lewis's original book. The principal role, Alice, is portrayed by Natalie...
The Black Cauldron(1985) - Young pigkeeper Taran is sworn to look over a pig named Hen Wen, who knows the location of the fabled magical black cauldron. When the Evil Horned King finds out that the pig knows the location, Taran and Hen Wen embark on a frantic adventure to avoid capture by the horned one, encountering witche...
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco(1996) - Two dogs and a cat, separated from their human family, must find their way home and face the dangers of a big city for the first time in this adventure story for the whole family. Bob Seaver (Robert Hays) and his wife Laura (Kim Greist), who live in Northern California, are taking their kids on a ca...
Milo & Otis(1986) - The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane(1990) - Controversial and often offensive stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay made his debut as a feature film star in this crude comedy. Fairlane is a "rock and roll detective" who works in the music business, has an office on Sunset Boulevard, and drives a 1957 Ford, with clothing to match. He floats throu...
Tombstone(1993) - A high-energy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that long-time...
The Ewok Adventure(1984) - The Starcruiser of the Towani-family crashes on the moon Endor. Father and mother Towani get seperated from their 2 children Mace and Cindel. The children are found by Ewoks, inhabitants of Endor. Although communicating is a real pain at first, Mace and Cindel persuade the Ewoks to help them to find...
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home(1995) - Two years ago the boy Jesse helped the whale Willy to jump into freedom. Jesse enjoys the life with his adoptive parents, when his half-brother Elvis arrives because the dead of their mother. During a holiday trip Jesse meets Willy again, as well as his indian friend Randolph. A tender love develope...
The Baby-Sitters Club(1995) - Based on the bestselling book series about seven friends whose babysitting business leads to one adventure after another. When tomboy Kristy, president of the club, has a brilliant idea to run a summer day camp, the girls all agree it's the perfect way to spend their summer--together! But life gets...
Freaked(1993) - The manic writing-directing comedy team of Tom Stern and Alex Winter (the latter of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) followed up their deranged short-film collaborations and the short-lived MTV series The Idiot Box with this comic fantasy, which amounts to a virtual c...
The Adventures of Mark Twain(1986) - Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the Human Race, is intent upon finding Halley's Comet a...
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle(2000) - When enemies Boris, Natasha and Fearless leader escape into the real world with a nefarious scheme, Rocky & Bullwinkle do the same and team up with a young F.B.I. agent to stop the trio.
Rainbow brite san diego zoo adventure (live action)(1983) - Rainbow brite travels to the real world to attend a zoo party but bad guys murky and lurk
Bartok the Magnificent(1999) - Ace animator Don Bluth directed this direct-to-video follow-up to his 1997 hit Anastasia, concentrating on the adventures of Bartok the Albino Bat (voice of Hank Azaria). Bartok and his best friend, Zozi the Bear (voice of Kelsey Grammer), are now making their way as street performers, but they find...
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension(1984) - Buckaroo Banzai is a Neurosurgeon, Rock Star & Superhero to the world. When testing out his oscillation overthruster he re-starts the invasion of the evil Red Lectroids from Planet 10 (lead by Lord John Whorfin/Dr. Emilio Lizardo) who are set not only to rule the entire Earth but the galaxy as well....
The Land Before Time IV: The Journey Through the Mists(1996) - In this lively animated feature, Littlefoot and his cute cadre of prehistoric pals embark on another colorful adventure that is aimed at younger children. This time, the rambunctious reptiles ignore warnings and go stomping off into unexplored territory to find a rare flower. Littlefoot needs it to...
Sonic Christmas Blast(1996) - Sonic Christmas Blast was a Christmas television special for the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series produced by DiC Entertainment, who also produced the Saturday morning cartoon series that had run alongside it. It aired on the USA Network in 1996, nearly three years after the original...
Captain Ron(1992) - A family from Chicago inherits a boat from their dead uncle. They decide to sail it from Ste. Pomme De Terra to Miami. They hire Captain Ron to navigate their voyage and have some crazy adventures on the way. He navigates them from Island to Island in the Caribbean, Partying with locals, befriendin...
Little Nemo:Adventures in slumberland(1989) - nemo goes on an adventure battleing the nightmare king , go to the wikipedia site for more info , i havent seen it in 15 years , chris columbus wrote the movie , goonies
Adventures of the American Rabbit(1986) - Adventures of the American Rabbit (released in the UK as simply The American Rabbit) was an animated film released in 1986 by Clubhouse Pictures an
Timmy the Tooth: Molar Island(1994) - The continuing adventures of Timmy the Tooth. Join Timmy and his best friend Brush Brush on a vacation to molar island. After a rocky plane ride the land on Molar Island! But there's a problem, the island is sinking! And to make matters worse they're kidnapped by the gingivitis tribe! Can Timmy save...
3 Ninjas Kick Back(1994) - They're baaaaaaack! Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum in their first adventure since their last! Now, older, and more advanced. Grandpa now tells them they're ready to learn from a teacher in Japan. But before they can go, the boys have a baseball match which really takes a turn for the worse. Also, a childho...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen(1989) - Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville (as the Baron), Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, and Robi
Starcrash(1979) - Scontri Stellari Oltre la Terza Dimensione (literally translated to Stellar Crash Beyond the Third Dimension) was an Italian 1979 science fiction film, which was also released under the English title Starcrash as well as The Adventures of Stella Star(in the US). The screen play was written by Luigi...
The Amazing Panda Adventure(1995) - Far from home in the lush bamboo forests of China, ten-year-old Ryan Tyler, with the help of a young girl, goes on a wonderful journey to rescue a baby panda taken by poachers.
The Poseidon Adventure(1972) - A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in a...
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue(1998) - In this direct-to-video sequel to Don Bluth's 1982 animated adventure The Secret of NIMH, Timmy (voice of Ralph Macchio) is the son of two courageous mice who helped save the day for the animals of Thorn Valley. While the wise Nicodemus has predicted that Timmy will some day be a great hero and h...
Twice Upon a Time(1983) - "Twice Upon a Time" is an animated cartoon feature from "Star Wars" creator, George Lucas and "Ewok Adventure" director, John Korty. The story involves a battle royal amongst the employees of Murkworks over possession of a "cosmic clock." Whoever controls Time will control the universe, so you can w...
The Adeventures Of Scamper The Penguin(1988) - This movie is about the adventures of a youing penguin named Scamper and his friend Snowflake.
The Wild Geese(1978) - Action-Adventure about a group of 50 steel-nerved British mercenaries, hired by a powerful newspaper magnate, sent on a dangerous succeed-or-die mission in Africa to rescue an imprisoned leader of an African nation from a dictator's jail.
Mr. Magoo(1997) - Action-adventure director Stanley Tong (Supercop, Rumble in the Bronx) did a change of pace by directing this live-action adaptation of UPA's bumbling, near-sighted Mr. Magoo the animated-series character created during the '40s by John Hubley and others for the cartoon short Ragtime Bear (1949). Mi...
ADVENTURES OF BAT-MAN AND ROBIN(alyas batman and robin)(1993) - Really cheesy rip-off film from th
The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland(1987) - The cuddly Care Bears star in this charming feature-length adaption of the classic story of Alice in Wonderland. A young girl named Alice and the Care Bears travel together into the whimsical land of the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. In this magical story about friendship and trust, Alice and the C...
Castle in the Sky(1989) - Pazu, a young engineer, rescues a girl that floats down from the sky with a mysterious glowing pendant. A great adventure ensues as the boy and his new friend, Sheeta, embark on a quest to find the legendary Laputa, the Castle in the Sky, and the secret of the girl's necklace. On the way, they join...
In The Army Now(1994) - Comedian Pauly Shore goes to boot camp in this comedy adventure set in Chad. It was filmed on location in the California and Arizona deserts. Shore is cast as Bones, a dreamer who wants to open his own stereo shop with his best friend Jack. To earn the cash, Bones talks Jack into joining the Army re...
Hot Shots!(1991) - From director Jim Abrahams, one of the minds behind the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, comes another parody. This time around, Abrahams has his sights set on the action-adventure genre, specifically Top Gun. Charlie Sheen stars as Topper Harley, a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in the...
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation(1987) - American Ninja 2: The Confrontation is a 1987 action/adventure sequel starring Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Jeff Weston, Gary Conway, and Larry Poindexter. It was directed by Sam Firstenberg and written by Gideon Amir, James Booth, Gary Conway and Av
Trancers(1985) - With the whimsical tagline "Jack Deth is back and he's never been here before," director Charles Band melds Blade Runner, The Terminator, and Jingle All the Way for this low-budget science fiction adventure. The story takes place in Angel City in the year 2247, when enforcer Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson...
Tom and Huck(1995) - Disney film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Joey Stinson, and Rachel Leigh Cook; it is based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In the film, a mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a bo...
Out Of Africa(1985) - Baroness Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) moves to Africa with her husband Bror/Hans (Klaus Maria Brandauer) to start a coffee plantation. Karen doesn't really feel love for Bror. Instead, she's fascinated with an adventurous man named Denys Finch-Hatton (Robert Redford). Throughout many years of struggl...
Welcome To L.A(1976) - Alan Rudolph's first feature Welcome to L.A. displays his characteristic mood of romantic despair utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around song-writer Carroll Barber(Keith Carradine) which spread out through the city. Barber is an aloof womanizer who c...
Belle's Magical World(1998) - Belle, the Beast, Lumiere, Cogsworth, and the rest of the castle residents use their imagination to enjoy three magical adventures while sharing a storybook. An anthology "sequel" to BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Fortress 2: Re-Entry(2000) - In this follow-up to Fortress, Stuart Gordon's 1993 sci-fi adventure drama, John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Beth Toussaint) are once again on the run in a totalitarian regime of the future, where a multi-national corporation called Men-Tel has taken control of the world. Whil...
Satisfaction(1988) - When a young rock group called The Mystery gets its first gig at a club, it's an opportunity to see what life is all about! Fresh out of high school, the rockers are hired by an exclusive beach resort thanks to a faded '60s songwriter. There, they meet with romance and adventure. But street-smart l...
Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture(1994) - This anime adventure is based on a popular Japanese video game. It centers on a vengeful alien's search for the super-charged armor (lost on Earth during the Crusades) that will make him invincible. His beautiful twin sister fears the worst if he should find it and so begs the assistance of famous m...
Quick(1993) - Quick is based on a series of adventure novels featuring a gorgeous hitwoman. When the title character, played by Teri Polo, is set up by her boss, she takes well quick action. Abducting the mob witness (Martin Donovan) whom she'd been hired to kill, Quick runs off to parts unknown. As t...
Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt(2003) - When the original Batmobile is stolen, there's no time to the call the police. This is a job for Actors! years after the original Batman series went off the air a fiendish mastermind is forcing Adam West and Burt Ward to relive their legendary pasts as the Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder. What we...
Doraemon: Nobita's animal planet(1990) - Nobita went to a world of animals through the "Wherever Gas", the substance to let you travel anywhere, same as the "Wherever Door" Doraemon uses. They came across with Chippo, a boy who looks like a dog and very adventurous. A group called Numiges plans on taking over the animal planet. Doraemon an...
The Gods Must Be Crazy(1981) - Set in the beautiful Kalahari Desert of Botswana Africa,A native named XI,A group of inept terrorist ,A clumsy biologist named Andrew,and A beautiful news reporter,turned teacher,named Kate,share A hilarious Adventure.The movie begins with Xi,finds A coke bottle,believing it to be A gift from the go...
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken(1991) - Based on a true story, Disney's family film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken follows the adventures of a 1920s teenager named Sonora Webster (Gabrielle Anwar), who runs away from her foster home to join a carnival. At the carnival, she gets a job as a stunt rider who leaps with her horse into a tank of w...
The Three Musketeers(1993) - This comedy-adventure is one of several adaptations of Alexadre Dumas' (pere) classic novel. Provincial swordsman D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) travels to Paris to follow in his father's footsteps and become a king's guard, a musketeer. Meanwhile, the evil royal advisor Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry)...
Ernest Goes to Africa(1997) - Slapstick handyman Ernest is in love and wants to buy a bauble for his gal Renee, so he goes to a local flea market and buys a couple of shiny faux jewels. He has no idea that they are real and that they were stolen from a sacred African idol by a crooked adventurer. He also does not know that a vil...
Winnie the Pooh - Pooh Playtime - Cowboy Pooh (1993)(1993) - " Pooh adventure specially themed to popular playtime activities for the whole family to enjoy
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland(1999) - In this movie adoption of "Sesame Street", Elmo loses his beloved blanket in Oscar the Grouch's trashcan, so he must go to Grouchland to get it back. Unfortunately, the greedy Huxley steals it, along with many other things belonging to the Grouches. Elmo must go an quest to Huxley's castle to return...
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins...(1985) - An NYPD cop is 'killed' in an accident. The death is faked, and he is inducted into the organization CURE, dedicated to preserving the constitution by working outside of it. Remo is to become the enforcement wing (assassin) of CURE, and learns an ancient Korean martial art from Chiun, the Master of...
Kingdom Chums - Little David Adventure(1986) - Three kids learn Bible stories from animals playing Bible characters. In this story the kids visit "Little David" who defeats Goliath and learn that the Lord will fight their battles.
Barney's Great Adventure(1998) - Two kids named Cody and Abby plus their best friend Marcella and baby brother Fig come to their grandparents' farm for a visit. Cody bullies by the two girls for believing that their stuffed Barney toy can come to life. After the kids use their imagination and it comes to life, the kids wish to go o...
Dot Goes to Hollywood(1987) - Dot sets out on a mighty adventure that takes her to Hollywood. With the help of Hollywood stars Dot wins a talent quest, is discovered by a famous director and becomes what all Hollywood dreams are made of - a film star! This enables her to raise money for her little friend Gumley the koala who nee...
Heidi's Song(1982) - A Hanna-Barbera animated movie based on the Story of Heidi. Heidi is a young orphaned girl who goes to live with her grumpy grandfather. Adventures and songs ensue. Lorne Green and Sammy Davis jr. do some voices and singing.
Legionnaire(1998) - Action hero Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this globe-trotting adventure set in the 1920s. Van Damme plays Alain, a carefree French playboy who makes the mistake of getting involved with the girlfriend of a notorious Mob kingpin. Running for his life, Alain decides to hide out in a time-tested manne...
Quicksilver Highway(1997) - Body parts take on a life of their own in these two below-par horror stories made for television. In one story, a pair of teeth bite into a nasty hitchhiker at an opportune moment, and in the other, an artificially attached hand leaves the body it belongs to and takes off for a series of adventures.
Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night(1998) - This tuneful animated children's holiday outing chronicles the adventures of two comical 19th-century Austrian mice as they try to save an orphan from evil thieves and provide her with a Christmas miracle.
Swordsman(1990) - In this martial arts adventure set in the Ming Dynasty, a young swordsman named Fox (Sam Hui) gets involved in a quest for a scroll that contains invaluable secrets of swordsmanship. Many warring factions are after the scroll, and they are more than willing to kill Fox to get it. A conflict with the...
eXistenZ(1999) - Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, who has long been fascinated by the ways new technology shapes and manipulates the human beings who believe they are its masters, is in familiar territory with eXistenZ, a futuristic thriller which combines elements of science fiction, horror and action-adventure...
The Frisco Kid(1979) - Gene Wilder takes his most unusual role, a naive 19th-century rabbi sent from his native Poland to the fledgling Jewish community in San Francisco, in this warm-hearted comic adventure. The trusting soul is easy prey for the con men and criminals who prey on the immigrants arriving in the Philadelph...
Art of Fighting(1993) - Based on a popular video game, Art of Fighting is a Japanese animated action adventure story in which Robert and Ryo accidentally witness a mob execution while looking for a lost cat. The gangsters try to kill the pair, but when that fails, they kidnap Ryo's sister, which forces them to get medieval...
800 Leagues Down the Amazon(1993) - In this jungle adventure, based on a Jules Verne novel, Spunky Minha, was born and raised in the Amazon jungle on her father's hemp plantation. After she agrees to marry Dr. Manuel Valdez, they decide to hold the wedding in Brazil so his sickly mother can be there. Unfortunately, the girl's father h...
Gulliver's Travels(1996) - The adventure of a man named Gulliver who tells the story of how he got back home after a long adventure. He talks about all different forms of governments and cultures he experiences on his journey, and how it made him wonder about his own humanity and way of life.
Frankenhooker(1990) - Adventurous viewers not repelled by the title of this horror exploitation-comedy from Frank Henenlotter (director of the splatter cult classic Basket Case) will find a fair share of laughs on display, thanks to Henenlotter's typically energetic devil-may-care brand of gruesome humor. James Lorinz te...
Six Days,Seven Nights(1998) - Ivan Reitman directed this romantic comedy-adventure that opens in New York where fast-paced magazine associate editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) and her boyfriend, Frank (David Schwimmer), leave for a week's vacation on a remote island. They've already been together for three years, so when Frank as...
Prehysteria 2(1994) - This made-for-video adventure is aimed squarely at younger audiences. The energetic quintet of pygmy dinosaurs that formed the basis of Prehysteria, returns, this time with an entirely different cast of people. Their exploits begin after they escape from their pen and leave the farm where they first...
Prehysteria! 3(1995) - In this youthful fantasy-adventure a quintet of miniature dinosaurs try to help a nearly bankrupt miniature golf-course owner get back on his financial feet.
Wee Sing Under the Sea(1994) - Have you ever wanted to spend a day with an octopus, a starfish, a sea otter, or a penguin? Well, now you can with Wee Sing Under the Sea. Enter the beautiful world beneath the waves as you join Devin and his loveable Granny on their sparkling underwater adventure. Peek through the seaweed and meet...
My Summer Story(1994) - My Summer Story, originally released as It Runs in the Family, is a 1994 film that follows the further adventures of Ralphie Parker and his family from the holiday hit A Christmas Story. Like the previous film, it is based on semi-autobiographical stories by Jean Shepherd, primarily from his book In...
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(1994) - It's time to pack your wigs, makeup, dresses, and high heels for the ultimate Australian road trip. By day, Anthony "Tick" Belrose sells cosmetics and by night she's drag queen Mitzi. Bored by the humdrum of Sydney, Tick gets a call one night to put on a show in a resort way out in Alice Springs....
Bump in the night Twas the night befoe Bumpy(1995) - BUMP IN THE NIGHT, a popular animated children`s show that stars Mr. Bumpy, a sock eating green monster, and his friends Squishington and Molly Coddle, is a melange of fanciful claymation, fantastic adventure, and first-class songs. In this special Christmas episode, Bumpy hatches a plan to steal Sa...
Dream a Little Dream 2(1995) - Dinger and Bobby's adventure start when a pair of magical sunglasses arrive at the door. Their mundane lives in L.A. get a crazy twist-but soon enough, they've got thugs on their trail who want the valuable pair for themselves. Under hot pursuit, it's one crazy antic after another as the troublesome...
Robby the Rascal(1985) - In this Taiwanese movie, we follow a cute (if rather dysfunctional and hyperactive) robot and his many adventures with his robot and children pals. Meanwhile, the diabolical megalomaniac robot inventor Horus the Third wants to take advantage of Robby and Robby's inventor, Dr. Art Deco, so he and his...
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone(1983) - A space pirate named Wolff, receives a alert for a reward of 3,000 to rescue 3 survivors from a space cruise liner. He finds out they have landed on a failed colony planet called Terra XI. Despite the dangers he ventures forth along with a local child named Nikki. They find out the 3survivors are be...
Outlaw Blues(1977) - An ex-con country songwriter named Bobby Ogden (Peter Fonda) teams up with his lady friend Tina Waters (Susan Saint James) on an adventure to go after the man who stole one of his songs and made it a big hit.
The Adventures of Hercules(1985) - Lou Ferrigno returns as the man with the strength of a hundred in this action packed sequel that finds the fabled warrior facing his greatest challenge. Created to be the strong arm of Zeus, Hercules must now save his very creator from a coup by other gods.
Gwendoline(1984) - Young Gwendoline (Tawny Kitaen) finds herself in China on the way to find her father. On her adventure, she's assisted by an intrepid adventurer named Willard (Brent Huff) and the equally adventurous Beth (Zabo
The Adventures of the Wilderness Family(1977) - The Robinson family make the decision to leave the big city behind and live a more natural life. This movie details their trials and tribulations living in the forest.
The Adventures Of Captain Zoom In Outer Space (1995) - When the evil dictator Lord Vox of Vestron attempts to once again take over a planet liberated by rebel forces. A boy genius uses his skills in technology and science to transport Captain Zoom, earths greatest and most revered galactic hero to save their planet and put a stop top Lord...
Magic Island(1995) - Jack Carlisle is a disillusioned 13-year old boy. His mother is always away at work since his father left so he decides to run away, believing that his mom won't miss him. As he is ready to leave his nanny convinces him to read this "magic book." The book is about a pirate adventure on Magic Island....
Real Men(1987) - Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs. John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper. The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side.
The Jewel Of The Nile(1985) - Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) and Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) are living an easy-going life after their adventure together in "Romancing The Stone". Unfortunately, their relaxation leads to boredom, both with their lives and with each other. Wilder is invited to the Middle East to write about a sh...
California Suite(1978) - Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Chrono Trigger: Dimensional Adventure Numa Monjar (1996) - Chrono Trigger anime which was broadcast at the Japanese V-Jump Festival of July 31, 1996. It was created by Production I.G, and written by Hiroshi Izawa and Akihiro Kikuchi, while Itsuro Kawazaki served as director, Tensai Okamura as animation director, and Riho Nishino as character designer. It wa...
The Dead Pool(1988) - Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of actors and musicians. By the time Harry learns that the murders are a part of a sick game to predict the deaths of celebrities before they happen, it may be to...
Black Moon Rising(1986) - Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) has stolen something important from a company under investigation. He stashes it in a car called "Black Moon", which is a vehicle that's in the prototype stage. A car thief named Nina (Linda Hamilton) takes the car and Quint is going on an adventure where the stakes are high...
Conquest(1984) - In an ancient time, a young man named Ilias (Andrea Occhipinti) goes on an adventure to rid the land of evil. Armed with a bow and arrows that look very advanced and with an outlaw named Mace (Jorge Rivero) as a fellow fighter, his quest is fraught with violence, sex and all the things that make the...
Romancing The Stone(1984) - Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) writes fantastic stories of love and adventure. Unfortunately, her own life is nowhere near as exciting as what she writes. An opportunity to change all that comes when her sister is kidnapped in Colombia. Her trip down there will lead her into a much bigger adventure t...
The Stoned Age(1994) - Released in 1994, The Stoned Age follows the misadventures of two stoners over one night of cruising the strip.
Wee Sing Train(1993) - All aboard for fun and adventure! Children everywhere will clap, hop, and sing along to the exhilarating song and dance numbers of the Wee Sing Train. Imagine playing with a toy train and suddenly becoming a passenger---this could only happen with a spark of Wee Sing magic! Casey and Carter have fin...
Something Wild(1986) - A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
Firewalker(1986) - In this movie, Chuck Norris plays it light alongside Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr.. The duo play adventurers Max Donigan and Leo Porter, respectively, who team up with a young woman named Patricia Goodwin (Melody Anderson) to seek out a fortune borne of an ancient civilization.
Mad Scientist on vhs(1988) - dr. sly and brian go on "mad" cap adventures with dr. sly'
King Solomon's Mines(1985) - Allan Quatermain is a fortune hunter who is convinced by Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone before she becomes famous) to help her find her father, who's been lost somewhere in the African jungle during his last exploration. This exotic adventure is based in H. Rider Haggard's classic novel
Into the Night(1985) - A cuckolded and bored man named Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum) meets a young woman named Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer) when she runs into his car at an airport, and the two go on an adventure through L.A that involves stolen diamonds and Middle Eastern thugs.
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II(1989) - 1 hr. 19 min. In this magic-filled adventure, a trio of heroes teach a boy wizard the martial arts and other tricks in preparation for his battles with evil sorcerers.
A Whale of a Tale (1976)(1976) - " A heartwarming adventure tale about a young boy who suprises everybody by secretly training a killer whale at Marineland
The White Pony (1999)(1999) - "A fairyland adventure filled with magic, a leprechaun, a beautiful pony, and a princess. Fun for the whole family from Roger Corman's production company
When the North Wind Blows (1974)(1974) - "An adventure tale about a trapper's life in the Alaska wilderness
Winnie the Pooh - Pooh Playtime - Pooh Party (1993)(1993) - "A Pooh adventure specially themed to popular playtime activities for the whole family to enjoy
Winnie the Pooh - Pooh Playtime - Detective Tigger (1993)(1993) - "A Pooh adventure specially themed to popular playtime activities for the whole family to enjoy. Includes four Pooh adventures, featuring Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore, and the whole gang
White-Water Sam (1978)(1978) - "White-Water Sam and his Siberian Husky, Sybar, brave the dangers of the Pacific Northwest as they travel southward down the great river. Cougars, savage Indians, and starving wolves are among the many adventures white-water same courageously faces
Metalstorm The Destruction Of Jared Syn(1983) - It's the science fiction battle of the ages with giant cyclopes and intergalactic magicians in this futuristic adventure set on the desert planet of Lemuria. A miner and his daughter Dhyana (Kelly Preston) fall prey to the evil dictator Jader-Syn's reign of terror. Dogen, (Jeffrey Byron) the brave p...
A Knight in Camelot(1998) - In this romantic fantasy adventure, a lady scientist's experiment whisks her back to King Arthur's court. While there, the plucky lass proves that modern women are as tough as medieval men, and she soon becomes the mythical king's most favored knight.
Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase(1982) - In 1982, filmation wanted to cash in on the star wars: empires strikes back craze. So they took the space chase serial from "the new adventures of mighty mouse" tv show, and made it into
Bringing Up Baby(1938) - David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Marvin: Baby Of The Year(1989) - This animated special based on the popular comic strip follows the adventures of 1-year old Marvin Miller. In this story, Marvin is being babysitted by his grandparents who enter both him and his cousin Megan, in the local "Baby of the Year" contest, while his parents are away for the weekend.
U2: Rattle And Hum(1988) - This movie is a documentary about U2's tour to promote their hit 1987 album "The Joshua Tree". Concert footage is mixed in with U2 engaging in musical adventures like performing a song with B.B King.
Lawrence of Arabia(1962) - Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic adventure drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the titl...
Skateboard Kid 2(1995) - Take a roller coaster ride full of high octane adventure as 12 year old Sammy takes to the skies. With the help of a magical flying skateboard, Sammy ends up the hottest skateboarder in town. But a group of local thrashers don't like the extra competition. They plot to destroy any chance of Sammy co...
SPACE ADVENTURE COBRA: the movie(1982) - The intergalactic bounty hunter Jane Flower is followed home from a nightclub by a man who professes love for her and reveals he is Cobra, one of the most wanted criminals in the galaxy. Jane is one of three triplet sisters who are the princess heirs to the wandering planet Dakobar. She drags him on...
Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All(1982) - Filmation animated movie based on the flash gorde
Big Shots(1987) - Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, he befriends con artist Scam. The two then embark on a Down South adventure involving gangsters, the police, and a search for Scam's father.
Carrotblanca(1995) - Carrotblanca is a 1995 8-minute Looney Tunes cartoon. It was originally shown in cinemas alongside The Amazing Panda Adventure. It subsequently released on video packaged with older Looney Tunes cartoons and was included in the special edition DVD release of Casablanca, the film to which it is both...
The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of Thorn Mansion(1994) - Mystery! Action! Songs! Join Detectives Mary-Kate and Ashley as they undertake daring adventures. Pack your gear and help the Trenchcoat Twins investigate the danger that lurks. Along with their sidekick dog, Clue, Mary-Kate and Ashley promise to "solve any crime by dinner time." In this episode, th...
Hans Christian Andersen(1952) - RKO Radio Pictures Inc./A Sam Goldwyn Prods. Inc. In this fictitious musical/Fantasy..Clown Danny Kaye portrays the famed Danish children's storyteller and author as a struggling cobbler..who's tales lead him into misadventures.
Fool's Gold(2008) - A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure -- and their estranged romance.
The Treasure Planet (1982)(1982) - The Treasure Planet (original: Planetata na sakrovishtata) is a 1982 Bulgarian animated science fiction film directed by Rumen Petkov and produced by Boyana Film. The film is a science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasur
Moana(2016) - An adventurous teenager sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, Moana meets the once-mighty demigod Maui, who guides her in her quest to become a master way-finder. Together they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous monsters and i...
Wolf Children(2012) - Hana marries a wolf man and raises their two children alone after he dies. They move to the countryside and the children have adventures in the woods and at school.
The LEGO Movie(2014) - The Lego Movie (stylized as The LEGO Movie) is a 2014 computer-animated/live-action film adventure-comedy film directed and co-written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, and starring the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick O...
Inside Out(2015) - Emotions run wild in the mind of a little girl who is uprooted from her peaceful life in the Midwest and forced to move to San Francisco in this Pixar adventure from director Pete Docter. Young Riley was perfectly content with her life when her father landed a new job in San Francisco, and the famil...
The Three Stooges Go Around The World In A Daze(1963) - In this parody of The Jules Verne adventure story..A fleeing con man"Vickers Cavendish"(Peter Forster)and his henchman"Flitch"(Walter Burke)devise a scheam to trick "Phinease Fogg The III"(Jay Sheffield)the great grandson of the first world traveler to repeat his famous relation's trip..but without...
In Search of Dr. Seuss(1994) - n Search of Dr. Seuss is a feature film chronicling the adventures of a news reporter (Kathy Najimy) who enters the world of Dr. Seuss by opening a magical book. It came to DVD in 2003 and again in 2008 as a bonus feature for the TV movie Horton Hears a Who!. A reporter named Kathy Lane comes to The...
I'm From Hollywood(1989) - I'm from Hollywood is a 1989 comedy documentary film about the adventures of late performance artist Andy Kaufman in the world of professional wrestling. The film includes interviews with Taxi co-stars Marilu Henner and Tony Danza and interviews with comedian Robin Williams, wrestler Jerry Lawler, w...
Magic Adventures of Mumfie: The Movie(1996) - What do you do when you're a little elephant who lives all alone and has no one to play with? If you're an elephant named Mumfie, you set out for an adventure ... and does he ever find it! Along the way, Mumfie makes two wonderful new friends: the wise Scarecrow and Pinkey, an extraordinary piglet w...
The Little Mermaid 2: Return To The Sea(2000) - To protect her from a sea witch, Ariel's daughter is not allowed in the ocean; but when she becomes 12, she runs away to an adventure under the sea.
Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command(2000) - Subtitle: "The Adventure Begins". Buzz Lightyear must battle Emperor Zurg with the help of three hopefuls who insist on being his partners.
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog(1995) - John and Catherine McCormick relocate from Vancouver, Canada to the coast of British Columbia, where sailing enthusiast John teaches his 16-year-old son Angus and 9-year-old son Silas basic seamanship and outdoor survival skills. Angus has rescued a stray Golden Labrador that he names Yellow, and co...
Wombling Free(1977) - The adventures of The Wombles, strange creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and pick up the litter left by the humans. There's always time for a nice song and dance as well. This was a film version of the popular childrens TV show.
Eloise at the Plaza(2003) - Eloise is a fun-loving six-year-old girl with a knack for finding adventure every place she looks. While under the care of her "rawther" wonderful nanny (Julie Andrews), Eloise tries to play matchmaker to a lonely prince and wrangle an invitation to the society event of the season.
Lost Treasure(2003) - Jay Andrews' action-adventure film "Lost Treasure" stars Stephen Baldwin and Nicolette Sheridan. Brian McBride and his brother have possession of a treasure map of an island in the Caribbean. When bad guys kidnap his brother, Brian enlists the help of a female helicopter pilot to rescue the brother...
Hoot(2006) - Three kids have an unexpected adventure as they try to protect some rare birds in this comedy drama based on a book for young adults by Carl Hiaasen. Roy Eberhardt is a 14-year-old whose family has moved so often he's literally lost count of the number of times he's changed schools in the last ten y...
Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys(2001) - OH NO! Santa's toys are missing. And it's up to Rudolph, Hermey, and Yukon Cornelius to solve the mystery of the toy taker. Get ready for the new CGI adventure ever. From Dreamworks animation. Starring Kathleen Bar as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Tony Bennett as Sam the Narrated Snowman, Ian Jame...
Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure(2006) - Franklin is on holiday and is delighted by a surprise visit from his Aunt Lucy, an explorer whose specialty is finding archaeological treasures. Her presence promises passionate adventures. This family reunion gives Franklins Granny the chance to relive her own childhood, full of happy souvenirs bu...
Smiley Face(2007) - After a young actress unknowingly eats her roommate's marijuana cupcakes, her day becomes a series of misadventures.
Space Raiders(1983) - A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre(1948) - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is an American dramatic adventurous neo-western written and directed by John Huston. It is a feature film adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, about two financially desperate Americans, Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, who in the 1920s join initially r...
The Adventures Of Robin Hood(1938) - The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains. Written by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller, the film is about a Saxon knight who, in King Richar...
Christmas Vacation 2: Eddie's Island Adventure(2003) - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure is an American made-for-TV comedy film. It premiered December 20, 2003 on NBC and stars Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn reprising their roles as Cousin Eddie and Catherine, along with Dana Barron reprising her role as Audrey Grisw...
Jack Frost(1979) - Jack Frost is a stop motion animated television special that premiered on NBC on December 13, 1979. It was directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and written by Romeo Muller. The special tells the tale of Jack Frost, the winter sprite, and his adventures as a human. It airs annually on the AB...
The Positively True Adventures Of The Alleged...(1992) - Texas Cheerleader-Murderin
Tom Jones(1963) - The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea(1954) - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 American Technicolor adventure film and the first science fiction film shot in CinemaScope. The film was personally produced by Walt Disney through Walt Disney Productions, directed by Richard Fleischer, and stars Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas and Peter...
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas(2011) - Six years after their last adventure, stoner pals Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) have grown apart and found new friends. As each is busy making holiday preparations, a mysterious package mistakenly arrives on Kumar's doorstep. Unfortunately, Kumar's attempt to redirect the package to Harold...
Little Einsteins: Our Huge Adventure(2005) - Our Huge Adventure (titled as: Little Einsteins: Our Big Huge Adventure) is a direct-to-video American interactive animated musical adventure film that was released on August 23, 2005 by Walt Disney Home Entertainment. The film was followed by the TV series Littl
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood(2007) - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood ( JoJo no Kimy na Bken Fantomu Buraddo) is a 2007 Japanese anime film based on Part 1 of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series entitled Phantom Blood. The film was released on February 17, 2007, to commemorate JoJo author Hirohiko Ara...
The Magic Serpent(1966) - A Japanese fantasy adventure film from Toei Company loosely based on "The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya".
The Adventures of Tintin(2011) - Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the popular Belgium comic strip character brought to life by Peter Jackson's Weta Digital. The film revolves reporter Tintin who after buying a ship containing a hidden message sets out to find the lost treasure of Red Rackham.
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash(1978) - Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
River Of Death(1989) - An adventurer decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit off more than they can chew. What with a nazi doctor still doi...
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children(2005) - Two years after the end of Final Fantasy VII the world is starting to get back on its feet and is working towards a new future. However, there is a new threat from a new illness called Geo-stigma, and three men that seem to be seeking Jenova. Cloud and his friends from the orginal game must once aga...
Babes in Toyland (1997)(1997) - Everyone's favorite nursery rhyme characters come magically and musically to life in this animated adventure based on the classic holida
The Thomas Crown Affair(1968) - A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III: The Advent(2013) - One year has passed since Guts left the Band of the Hawk and Griffith was imprisoned by the Kingdom of Midland fo
A Thousand and One Nights(1969) - The incredible adventures of Aladdin as he travels through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power. It was directed by Osamu Tezuka as the very first adult animated film before Fritz the Cat.
Cold Fever(1995) - A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
King Solomon's Mines (1950)(1950) - Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
The Mountain Men(1980) - A pair of grizzled frontiersmen fight indians, guzzle liquor, and steal squaws in their search for a legendary valley 'so full of beaver that they jump right into your traps' in this fanciful adventure.
Dreams Come True(1984) - A boy discovers how to dream travel. Only in this scenario he appears in real life at the location of his dreams while his "other" body lies in bed. He then teaches his girlfriend how to dream travel and together they share the adventures of their dreams.
Piglet's Big Movie(2003) - After an act of heroism goes relatively unnoticed, Piglet decides that he is too small to be worth it, and runs away from home. His friends discover a scrapbook of his at his house, all full of stories of his past heroic deeds and decide to go on an adventure to find him. They realize that if he can...
Return To Never Land(2002) - Return to Never Land (also known as Peter Pan 2 or Peter Pan 2: Return to Never Land) is a 2002 American animated musical adventure fantasy film and the sequel to Peter Pan (1953), produced by DisneyToon Studios in Sydney, Australia and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on J. M. Barrie's...
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl(2005) - Max is a lonely child who has created an imaginary world called Planet Drool, which is watched over by Sharkboy, a boy raised by sharks, and Lavagirl, who can produce fire and lava but can't touch objects without setting them on fire. His parents have almost no time for him and he is constantly bull...
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood(1980) - Xaveria Hollander's (Martine Beswick) adventures conclude in the final chapter of the "Happy Hooker" trilogy.
The Arena(1974) - Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.
American Dreamer(1984) - A housewife named Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) escapes the drudgery of her everyday life by reading books about an adventurer named Rebecca Ryan. Palmer enters a Rebecca Ryan story-writing contest, and when she wins, she's off to Paris to accept her honor. One accident later, Palmer thinks she's R...
Dr.No(1962) - The First James Bond Adventure starring Sean Connery based on the Ian Fleming novel. James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the death of a British agent. The trail leads him to Dr. No,a member of SPECTRE(Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) who is plott...
Vice Academy 2(1990) - Ginger Lynn Allen and Linnea Quigley reprise their roles as Holly and Didi from the first Vice Academy film, this time chronicling their adventures after finally joining the police force. The two new recruits argue ceaselessly over who is the better officer, though in reality they both make the same...
The Lost World(1960) - Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
Mr. Bean's Holiday(2007) - After winning the grand prize in a raffle, Mr. Bean(Rowan Atkinson) wins a trip to Cannes. Along his journey, he winds up going from one misadventure to another, including separating a Russian film critic from his son Stepan and trying to bring them back together, to no avail. He soon befriends a fr...
Girls School Screamers(1986) - Seven college girls spend the weekend at an elegant estate which begins as a fun filled adventure but ends in a nightmare of gut-wrenching terror.
The Treasure Of Jamaica Reef(1975) - A suspense filled adventure-drama about the search for a treasure-laden Spanish Galleon that sank over 200 years ago.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull(2008) - Based on characters originally created for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981). Indu is having a quiet life teaching before being thrust into a new adventure.
Maid In Sweden(1971) - Maid in Sweden tells the story of Inga, a 16-year-old Swedish girl who leaves her rural home to spend a weekend in the Swedish capital. An innocent with no experience, but with prodigious physical attributes, she has a series of romantic adventures as she throws off the frustrations of her small-tow...
The Golden Compass(2007) - The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy-adventure film based on Northern Lights (published as The Golden Compass in the U.S.), the first novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Directed by Chris Weitz, it stars Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Lee,...
The Instructor(1983) - A karate expert (Bob Chaney) grows tired of having his self-defense school continually considered second-best to a rival school in this martial arts adventure. The conflict between the two schools steadily escalates, finally culminating in a winner-takes-all battle for supremacy between the schools'...
Mr. North(1988) - Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments. The rumors are magnified by his tendency to collect negative charges and give shocks to anyone he touches. In his adventures he befriends an old man...
It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown(1983) - A one-hour-long Peanuts special which consists of eight different stories. In "Sack" Charlie Brown is having hallucinations about baseball after he gets stitches on the back of his head and tries to get his mind off of it. In "Caddies" Peppermint Patty and Marcie become golf caddies. In "Kite" Charl...
The Young Black Stallion(2003) - A prequel to the 1979 classic The Black Stallion--a family drama that presents the horse's adventures with a young girl named Neera, who has been separated from her father in Arabia by WWII. Left alone in the desert, she befriends the wild colt whom she names Shetan. Once reunited with her father, h...
The Black Stallion Returns(1983) - The Black is stolen from Alec by his former Arabian owners. Alec sets off on an adventure to Arabia to reclaim his beloved horse. Based on the books by Walter Farley.
Tweety's High-Flying Adventure(2000) - After Colonel Rimfire says he thinks cats are the world's most intelligent animal, Granny goes to prove him wrong by sending Tweety around he world, where he has 80 days to collect 80 paw prints and 80 stamps from each country he visits. Meanwhile, Sylvester just as determined to eat that bird tags...
The Three Stooges(2012) - Moe, Larry and Curly return to the modern times on the big screen in a hilarious adventure for the whole family. Growing up in the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage, Larry Moe and Curly are not wanted by anybody, even a new couple who initially take Moe but later switch him with a boy named Teddy. Now grow...
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure(2012) - On Schluufy's birthday, the Oogieloves, Goobie, Zoozie, and Toofie, and their friends J. Edgar, Windy Window, and Ruffy, work on organizing a party. Everything is going as planned until J. Edgar trips and loses the last five magical balloons in all of Lovelyloveville, prompting The Oogieloves to set...
Lady & the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure(2001) - In 1911 on July 2, Lady and Tramp have puppies, three well-behaved children and one mischievous puppy named Scamp. They soon discover that Scamp refuses to calm down and he tells them of his dreams to be a wild dog.
Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure(2003) - The film opens in springtime, about a year after Charlotte has died. Charlotte's three daughters, Nellie, Aranea, and Joy, are now in the stages of adolescence, with Wilbur serving as a companion an
Blood Tide(1982) - An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
The Wild(2006) - In a New York City zoo, Samson the Lion is telling his son Ryan stories of how he used to hunt during his adventures in the wild. Despite his fathers tips, Ryan can only do so much as growl quietly. After even the slightest growl angers a group of gazelles, Samson scolds his son who feels ashamed be...
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything(2008) - George, Sedgwick, and Elliot are three cabin boys who are working on a pirate-themed dinner. They want to live their dreams of being great heroes but feel they are unattainable. After the receive a prophetic vision from an old man, they realize adventure is ahead for them. They soon wind up teleport...
Pinocchio(2002) - After a magical log of wood lands outside the shop of a woodcarver named Geppetto, he carves the block out into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. The puppet comes to live and begins acting mischievously. He refuses to go to school instead going on naughty adventures such as burying his money in the...
Meet the Spartans(2008) - A parody film parodying many medieval adventure films. After Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie adopt a child and notice he already has a beard and a six-pack, they decide to raise him as a Spartan. Years later, the spartan Leonidas is training his own son when he gets a message from a Persian messenger....
Epic Movie(2007) - A comic parody film taking on adventure movies and epics. Lucy finds her adopted father, a museum curator, has been attacked. He tells her of a golden ticket in a candy bar from a museum vending machine. Ignacio lives in a Mexican monastery and has become angered at the living conditions, deciding t...
Adventures in Power(2008) - In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town dreamer must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day.
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad(1949) - The sixth and last of Walt Disney's World War II Era "package films". This film only contains two segments, The Wind in the Willows based on Kenneth Grahme's classic book, and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" based on Washington Irving's tale.
Daddy Day Camp(2007) - Charlie and Phil take their kids to Camp Driftwood for summer vacation, but once there, they discover that Camp Driftwood is no longer the kindhearted camp site of its time. To save the site, Charlie and Phil buy it and turn it into Daddy Day Camp. They run into misadventures along the way, though t...
Ginger Meggs(1982) - A red haired boy has various adventures in as well as round his home town in New South Wales in the 1940s.
Dance Flick(2009) - Suburban girl Megan gets into a series of misadventures when she moves to the inner-city and pursues dance. A nerdy street boy named Thomas is passionate about street dancing, but he is stuck working for a hungry obese gang lord who only loves food. Megan later befriends Thomas' ghetto sister Charit...
Ed, Edd, n Eddy's big picture show(2009) - The Eds Go On A Adventure To Find Eddy's Brother To Avoid Getting Beaten Up By The Kids
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie(1972) - A young Australian man who isn't especially partial to the British has comical adventures in England while visiting with his aunt as part of his inheritance.
The Delos Adventure(1987) - A group of scientists inadvertently stumble on a secret Soviet military operation, and are hunted down by a commando team.
Thumb Tripping(1972) - An adventurous couple of hitchhikers decides to accept every ride that is offered to them. no matter how odd the driver might be. They'll get more than they bargained for.
Boris And Natasha(1992) - The classic cartoon spies, Boris and Natasha, get their very own live-action adventure. Sent to America to find an important microchip, the usually villainous duo begin to question who they're working for and why.
Jason And The Argonauts(1963) - The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird(1952) - In this animated feature, two lovers -- a chimney sweep (Serge Reggiani) and a shepherdess (Anouk Aime) -- live as characters in a painting owned by a ruthless king. In order to escape from the king, who is in love with the shepherdess, the characters emerge into the three-dimensional world outside...
Street People(1976) - A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Pauline At The Beach(1983) - Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emptying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday. Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and drops her soon. Pauline's little romance with a youn...
Crossing The Bridge(1992) - The adventures of three teenage friends in 1970s Detroit.
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)(2004) - Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 American action adventure comedy film based on Jules Verne's novel of the same name and remake of the movie of the same name of 1956. It stars Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Ccile de France. The film is set the nineteenth century and centers on Phileas Fogg (Ste...
The Sea Gypsies(1978) - A man and a woman and 3 children start to sail around the world. They are shipwrecked near an uninhabited isle. This island is full of wild animals and it is very dangerous for them in the beginning. They live through a lot of wonderful adventure together and they become a big family.
Archer(1985) - During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the way, and in the end Archer competes in the Melbourn...
City Lights(1931) - City Lights is a 1931 American pre-Code silent romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic mil...
Barbie in A Mermaid Tale(2010) - Barbie stars as Merliah, a surfer who learns a shocking secret: she's a mermaid! She and her dolphin friend set out for an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oceana.
In Search of Santa(2004) - Even in the coldest places in Earth, the magic of Christmas can warm the heart. Join penguin Princesses Crystal and Lucinda on the adventure of
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus(2000) - A Mark Young Production, based on the original L. Frank Balm novel.
Pokmon: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel(2016) - Released in Japanese theaters in 2016 and also shown on Cartoon Network. In this latest cinematic adventure, Ash meets the Mythical Pokmon Volcanion when it crashes down from the sky, creating a cloud of dustand a mysterious force binds the two of them together! Volcanion despises humans and tries...
Men in Black: International(2019) - The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle(2015) - Curious George goes on an epic adventure to space that crash lands in the jungles of Africa leading to an unforgettable journey with some new animal friends.
Miami Cops(1989) - The adventures of a cop whose father was killed by drug smugglers. With the help of his partner, the officer must follow the murderer and break up the ring.
Little Nemo Adventures In Slumberland(1989) - Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (released in Japan as simply Nemo (, Nimo) and credited in some territories as Little Nemo) is a 1989 Japanese-American animated musical-comedy adventure fantasy film directed by Masami Hata and William Hurtz.[1] Based on the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumbe...
The Mighty Peking Man(1977) - Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad wom...
Smokey And The Good Time Outlaws(1978) - J.D. and The Salt Flat Kid have dreams of country-singer stardom and a habit of getting into trouble. After meeting a talent agent in a jail cell, the two buddies leave their small town and set off for Nashville, with hopes of making it to the Grand Ol' Opry on an adventure full of music, laughs, an...
The Pirates! Band of Misfits(2012) - A crew of amateur pirates take to the seas to try and make a name for themselves as they enter a competition to plunder a secret treasure allegedly buried by scientist Charles Darwin. This film was based off of the "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!" novel and released in England under t...
Space Chimps(2008) - Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Cheryl Hines, and Andy Samberg lend their voices to this computer-animated comedy following the descendants of the first chimps in space as they blast off for fun and adventure on a far-away planet. Ham III (Samberg) is the grandson of Ham, the first-ever chimp astronaut...
Christopher Robin(2018) - The young boy who embarked on countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with his band of spirited and lovable stuffed animals has grown up and lost his way. Christopher Robin is stuck in a job where he is overworked, underpaid, and facing an uncertain future. He has a family of his own, but his...
Tron: Legacy(2010) - Years after Flynn's original adventure, adult son Sam responds to a message from his long-lost father and is transported into a virtual reality called "the Grid," where Sam, his father, and the algorithm Quorra must stop the malevolent program Clu from invading the real world.
UglyDolls(2019) - Based on the mega-popular series of toys this musical adventure stars a few of the titular dolls as they go on a quest to find love in the real world despite the fact they may look ugly.
One Million Years B.C.(1966) - From Hammer Film Productions. Tumak (John Richardson) is banished by the Rock Tribe and he stumbles upon Loana (Raquel Welch) of the Shell Tribe and soon have adventures together such as encountering dinosaurs and rival cavepeople. Featuring stop-motion effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Treasure Of The Four Crowns(1983) - A group of adventurers are gathered together to retrieve some mystical gems which are in the possession of a deadly cult.
Ava's Magical Adventure(1994) - Ava is a 10-year-old girl who runs away from home with her best friend, Nellie, a 2-ton circus elephant. They are pursued by everyone from the police to the circus' owner.
Shanghai Surprise(1986) - Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.
Monkey Kingdom(2015) - Life is an adventure for a young monkey and her son, living among ancient ruins in the jungle. But when her family is forced from their home, she must lead them to safety amidst strange new creatures and surroundings. Released by Disneynature and narrated by Tina Fey.
The Weird Adventures of Mutt & Jeff and Bugoff(1973) - USA government agents Mutt and Jeff have been assigned to track down SMOGPOOs top secret agent Bugoff, a master of disguise attempting to steal secrets all across th
Lucky(2019) - A one-hour made-for-TV special that aired on Nickelodeon in 2019 for St. Patrick's Day. Unlucky leprechaun Happy "Hap" McSweeney is in for the adventure of a lifetime when he and his friends set out on a daring mission to retrieve the the pot of gold that was stolen by the evil Harry Houlihan from t...
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10005/Tetsujin_28-gou__Hakuchuu_no_Zangetsu -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1000/Uchuu_Kaizoku_Captain_Herlock -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10017/Dragon_Ball__Super_Saiya-jin_Zetsumetsu_Keikaku -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Super Power, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1001/Tide-Line_Blue__Kyoudai -- Adventure, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10033/Toriko -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1005/Star_Ocean_EX -- Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10074/Toriko_3D__Kaimaku_Gourmet_Adventure -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1010/Ranma___Chou_Musabetsu_Kessen_Ranma_Team_vs_Densetsu_no_Houou -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10118/Ginga_Tetsudou_999__Jikuu_wo_Koeta_Energy_no_Tabi -- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1011/Ranma__Super -- Adventure, Comedy, Martial Arts, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10155/Dog_Days -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1017/Majutsushi_Orphen -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10189/Hunter_x_Hunter_Pilot -- Action, Adventure, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1018/Majutsushi_Orphen__Revenge -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10194/Bada-ui_Jeonseol_Jangbogo -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10199/Super_Doll_Licca-chan__Licca-chan_Zettai_Zetsumei_Doll_Knights_no_Kiseki -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Kids, Magic, Fantasy, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10202/Kamen_Rider_Den-O__Imagin_Anime_3 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10207/Lily_to_Kaeru_to_Otouto -- Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10218/Berserk__Ougon_Jidai-hen_I_-_Haou_no_Tamago -- Action, Military, Adventure, Demons, Supernatural, Fantasy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10224/Uchuu_Majin_Daikengou -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1022/Generator_Gawl -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1023/Wolfs_Rain_OVA -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Psychological, Supernatural, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10259/Da_Yu_Hai_Tang_Movie -- Adventure, Supernatural, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1025/Kachou_Ouji -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Music, Slice of Life, Space, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10260/Eiyuu_Densetsu__Sora_no_Kiseki_The_Animation -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10263/Sonic_X_Pilot -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1026/Yakumotatsu -- Adventure, Supernatural, Historical, Horror, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10319/Chou_Dendou_Robo_Tetsujin_28-gou_FX -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1032/Kumo_no_You_ni_Kaze_no_You_ni -- Adventure, Historical, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10330/Bakugan_Battle_Brawlers__Mechtanium_Surge -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10334/Rurouni_Kenshin_Recap -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Romance, Samurai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10336/Last_Exile__Ginyoku_no_Fam -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1033/Sennen_Joyuu -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10342/Tetsuwan_Atom__Uchuu_no_Yuusha -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1035/Patalliro_Saiyuuki -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shoujo, Shounen Ai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10370/Metal_Fight_Beyblade_4D -- Adventure, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10391/Kuragehime__Soreike_Amars_Tankentai -- Adventure, Comedy, Josei
https://myanimelist.net/anime/103/Akazukin_Chacha -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10405/Xi_Avant -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10444/Digimon_Xros_Wars__Aku_no_Death_General_to_Nanatsu_no_Oukoku -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1044/Taiyou_no_Ouji__Horus_no_Daibouken -- Adventure, Drama, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1045/Elf_wo_Karu_Mono-tachi -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1046/Elf_wo_Karu_Mono-tachi_II -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10471/Ie_Naki_Ko_Remy_Specials -- Adventure, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/108/Ou_Dorobou_Jing_in_Seventh_Heaven -- Adventure, Fantasy, Psychological, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1090/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_I -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10916/Pokemon__Pikachu_no_Fuyuyasumi_2000 -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10917/Pokemon__Pikachu_no_Fuyuyasumi_2001 -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10924/Queens_Blade_OVA -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1092/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_III__Encounters_in_Space -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/10933/R-15__R15_Shounen_Hyouryuuki -- Adventure, Harem, Comedy, Parody, Romance, Ecchi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1094/One_Piece__Umi_no_Heso_no_Daibouken-hen -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1098/Samurai_Girl_Real_Bout_High_School -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1099/Shadow_Skill__Kurudaryuu_Kousatsuhou_no_Himitsu -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/109/Bakuretsu_Tenshi -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11009/Pokemon_3D_Adventure_2__Pikachu_no_Kaitei_Daibouken -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1100/Soreyuke_Uchuu_Senkan_Yamamoto_Yohko -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11019/Pokemon_3D_Adventure__Mew_wo_Sagase -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11053/Doraemon_Movie_32__Nobita_to_Kiseki_no_Shima_-_Animal_Adventure -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11061/Hunter_x_Hunter_2011 -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11069/Pokemon__Pikachu_no_Fushigi_na_Fushigi_na_Daibouken -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1107/Youjuu_Toshi -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Horror, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1108/Senkaiden_Houshin_Engi -- Magic, Adventure, Fantasy, Supernatural, Historical, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11093/Ziggy__Soreyuke_R_R_Band -- Adventure, Music, Mystery
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1110/Mermaid_Melody_Pichi_Pichi_Pitch_Pure -- Adventure, Music, Comedy, Magic, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1111/Vandread__Gekitou-hen -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1112/Vandread__Taidou-hen -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1117/Pokemon_Movie_02__Maboroshi_no_Pokemon_Lugia_Bakutan -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1118/Pokemon_Movie_03__Kesshoutou_no_Teiou_Entei -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1119/Pokemon_Movie_04__Celebi_Toki_wo_Koeta_Deai -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/111/Corrector_Yui -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1120/Pokemon_Movie_05__Mizu_no_Miyako_no_Mamorigami_Latias_to_Latios -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1121/Pokemon_Movie_06__Nanayo_no_Negaiboshi_Jirachi -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1122/Pokemon_Movie_07__Rekkuu_no_Houmonsha_Deoxys -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1123/Bouken_Ou_Beet_Excellion -- Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11241/Brave_10 -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Super Power, Samurai, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11299/Keroro_Gunsou__KeroZero_Shupattsudayo_Zeninshuugou -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Shounen, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11319/Zero_no_Tsukaima_F -- Adventure, Magic, Romance, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1132/Digimon_Frontier -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1136/Betterman -- Action, Adventure, Psychological, Comedy, Mecha, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11375/hack__The_Movie__Sekai_no_Mukou_ni -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Magic, Mystery, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1137/Mushrambo -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11385/Digimon_Xros_Wars__Toki_wo_Kakeru_Shounen_Hunter-tachi -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1138/Medarot -- Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1139/Monkey_Magic -- Kids, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1140/Giniro_no_Kami_no_Agito -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1141/Palme_no_Ki -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1143/hack__Intermezzo -- Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Magic, Mystery, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1149/Choujuushin_Gravion_Zwei -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1150/Legend_of_Crystania -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1154/Mother__Saigo_no_Shoujo_Eve -- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1155/Melty_Lancer -- Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11561/Sougen_no_Ko_Tenguri -- Adventure, Historical, Kids, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1157/Final_Fantasy__Unlimited -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1158/Geobreeders__File-X_Chibi_Neko_Dakkan -- Adventure, Comedy, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1159/Geobreeders_2__Mouryou_Yuugekitai_File-XX_Ransen_Toppa -- Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/115/El_Hazard__The_Alternative_World -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1161/MazeBakunetsu_Jikuu_TV -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1162/MazeBakunetsu_Jikuu -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1163/Neo_Ranga -- Adventure, Horror, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1164/Mahou_Senshi_Louie -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1165/Sakura_Taisen__Ouka_Kenran -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1166/Sakura_Taisen__Gouka_Kenran -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11685/Takarajima_Memorial__Yuunagi_to_Yobareta_Otoko -- Adventure, Drama, Historical, Mystery, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1168/Musekinin_Kanchou_Tylor_OVA -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Military, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1169/Green_Legend_Ran -- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/116/El_Hazard__The_Wanderers -- Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1170/Slayers_Special -- Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11717/Hoshi_no_Kirby__Pilot -- Adventure, Comedy, Parody, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1171/Slayers_Excellent -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1172/Slayers_Try -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11755/009_Re_Cyborg -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11757/Sword_Art_Online -- Action, Game, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1176/Unkai_no_Meikyuu_Zeguy -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11773/To_Heart_2__Dungeon_Travelers -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Magic, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11777/Lupin_III__Chi_no_Kokuin_-_Eien_no_Mermaid -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11783/Dog_Days -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11787/Toriko__Barbarian_Ivy_wo_Hokaku_Seyo -- Action, Super Power, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1179/Gakuen_Senki_Muryou -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Supernatural, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/117/El_Hazard__The_Magnificent_World -- Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1181/Hikyou_Tanken_Fam___Ihrlie -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1184/Lost_Universe -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11853/Pokemon__Pikachu_no_Summer_Bridge_Story -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11859/Queens_Blade__Rebellion -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1186/Battle_Athletess_Daiundoukai_TV -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Sports, Drama, School, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1189/Edens_Bowy -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/118/El_Hazard_2__The_Magnificent_World -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1190/Tennis_no_Ouji-sama__Sonzoku_Yama_no_Hi -- Adventure, Comedy, Sports, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1194/Coyote_Ragtime_Show -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1195/Zero_no_Tsukaima -- Action, Adventure, Harem, Comedy, Magic, Romance, Ecchi, Fantasy, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12001/One_Piece_3D__Gekisou_Trap_Coaster -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1200/Gun-dou_Musashi -- Adventure, Samurai, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1202/Ar_Tonelico__Sekai_no_Owari_de_Utai_Tsuzukeru_Shoujo -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12049/Fairy_Tail_Movie_1__Houou_no_Miko -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1205/Aru_Tabibito_no_Nikki -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12065/Queens_Blade_OVA_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1208/Tatsu_no_Ko_Tarou -- Adventure, Historical, Demons, Supernatural, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12113/Berserk__Ougon_Jidai-hen_II_-_Doldrey_Kouryaku -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Military, Seinen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12115/Berserk__Ougon_Jidai-hen_III_-_Kourin -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Military, Seinen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12117/Detective_Conan_Movie_16__The_Eleventh_Striker -- Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Police, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1211/Macross_Plus_Movie_Edition -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Military, Romance, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1212/Oban_Star-Racers -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12135/Ra_Radio_NoisePlanet -- Adventure, Psychological, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/121/Fullmetal_Alchemist -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Military, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12223/sCRYed_Alteration_II__Quan -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Super Power, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12231/Dragon_Ball__Episode_of_Bardock -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1224/Aquarian_Age__Sign_for_Evolution -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Music, Super Power, Supernatural, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1225/3x3_Eyes__Seima_Densetsu -- Action, Adventure, Horror, Demons, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12267/Takara-sagashi -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1226/Seihou_Tenshi_Angel_Links -- Action, Adventure, Space, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1230/Innocent_Venus -- Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Military, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1231/Saber_Marionette_J_to_X -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Harem, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12343/Dirty_Pair_Flash_2 -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Police
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12347/Dirty_Pair_Flash_3 -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Police
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1236/SF_Saiyuuki_Starzinger -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1237/One_Piece__Oounabara_ni_Hirake_Dekkai_Dekkai_Chichi_no_Yume -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1238/One_Piece__Mamore_Saigo_no_Dai_Butai -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/123/Fushigi_Yuugi -- Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Martial Arts, Comedy, Romance, Historical, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12413/Jormungand -- Action, Adventure, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12429/Last_Exile__Ginyoku_no_Fam_-_Adjournment -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12471/Eureka_Seven_AO -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12477/Sakasama_no_Patema -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1247/Project_BLUE_Chikyuu_SOS -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1249/Zone_of_the_Enders__Dolores_I -- Action, Adventure, Space, Comedy, Mecha, Military, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/124/Fushigi_Yuugi__Eikouden -- Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1250/Erementar_Gerad -- Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1251/Fushigi_no_Umi_no_Nadia -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1253/Saint_Seiya__Meiou_Hades_Meikai-hen -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1254/Saint_Seiya -- Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1255/Saint_Seiya__Shinku_no_Shounen_Densetsu -- Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1256/Saint_Seiya__Jashin_Eris -- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1257/Saint_Seiya__Meiou_Hades_Juuni_Kyuu-hen -- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12589/3_Choume_no_Tama__Onegai_Momo-chan_wo_Sagashite -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1258/Saint_Seiya__Kamigami_no_Atsuki_Tatakai -- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1259/Saint_Seiya__Tenkai-hen_Josou_-_Overture -- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1260/Saint_Seiya__Saishuu_Seisen_no_Senshi-tachi -- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1262/Macross_II__Lovers_Again -- Adventure, Space, Mecha, Military, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1264/Yoroiden_Samurai_Troopers -- Adventure, Samurai, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1265/Yoroiden_Samurai_Troopers_Gaiden -- Adventure, Fantasy, Samurai, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12663/Patalliro_Stardust_Keikaku -- Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Shoujo, Shounen Ai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1266/Yoroiden_Samurai_Troopers_Kikoutei_Densetsu -- Adventure, Samurai, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12671/Pokemon_Movie_15__Kyurem_vs_Seikenshi -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12677/Ozma -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1267/Yoroiden_Samurai_Troopers_Message -- Adventure, Fantasy, Samurai, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12715/The_Hakkenden__Shin_Shou -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Demons, Martial Arts, Samurai, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1276/Ys -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1277/Ys__Tenkuu_no_Shinden_-_Adol_Christine_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Demons, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12795/Yajikita_Gakuen_Douchuuki -- Adventure, Martial Arts, School, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1279/Taiyou_no_Ko_Esteban -- Adventure, Historical, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1283/Choujuu_Densetsu_Gestalt -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12851/Ultraman_USA -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12859/One_Piece_Film__Z -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12917/Madang-eul_Naon_Amtalg -- Adventure, Kids, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/12929/Saint_Seiya_Omega -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1292/Afro_Samurai -- Action, Adventure, Samurai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1293/Urusei_Yatsura -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1295/A-Ko_The_Versus -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/129/Gensoumaden_Saiyuuki -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Drama, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1301/Ginga_Tetsudou_999_Movie -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13029/Arashi_no_Yoru_ni__Himitsu_no_Tomodachi -- Adventure, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1302/Sayonara_Ginga_Tetsudou_999__Andromeda_Shuuchakueki -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13047/Anime_Koukyoushi__Jungle_Taitei -- Adventure, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/130/Saiyuuki_Reload -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Drama, Josei, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1312/Chikyuu_Bouei_Kigyou_Dai-Guard -- Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1313/Digimon_Adventure_02 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13145/Cardfight_Vanguard__Asia_Circuit-hen -- Action, Game, Adventure, Demons, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13169/Buta -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13185/Juusen_Battle_Monsuno -- Action, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/131/Saiyuuki_Reload_Gunlock -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Drama, Josei, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13201/Monster_Farm__Legend_e_no_Michi -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13203/Lupin_the_Third__Mine_Fujiko_to_Iu_Onna -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Samurai, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13231/Metal_Fight_Beyblade_Zero_G -- Adventure, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13239/Mass_Effect__Paragon_Lost -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13247/Lupin_III__Lupin_Ikka_Seizoroi -- Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13249/Lupin_VIII -- Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13251/Shin_Hikari_Shinwa__Palutena_no_Kagami -- Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13255/Haru_wa_Kuru -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1325/Hamelin_no_Violin_Hiki -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13271/Hunter_x_Hunter_Movie_1__Phantom_Rouge -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13331/Jormungand__Perfect_Order -- Action, Adventure, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1333/Fushigi_na_Koala_Blinky -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1336/Kyoushoku_Soukou_Guyver_II -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1346/AD_Police -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Dementia, Police, Psychological, Thriller, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1347/Bubblegum_Crisis -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1348/Bubblegum_Crash -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1352/Cyber_City_Oedo_808 -- Action, Adventure, Police, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13587/Persona_4_the_Animation__No_One_is_Alone -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Super Power, Supernatural, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1358/Hokuto_no_Ken_Movie -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1363/Detective_Conan_Movie_04__Captured_in_Her_Eyes -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1364/Detective_Conan_Movie_05__Countdown_to_Heaven -- Adventure, Police, Comedy, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1365/Detective_Conan_Movie_06__The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street -- Adventure, Mystery, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13667/Naruto__Shippuuden_Movie_6_-_Road_to_Ninja -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1366/Detective_Conan_Movie_07__Crossroad_in_the_Ancient_Capital -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13679/Tottoko_Hamtarou_Hai -- Kids, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1367/Detective_Conan_Movie_08__Magician_of_the_Silver_Sky -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1369/Detective_Conan_OVA_01__Conan_vs_Kid_vs_Yaiba -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/136/Hunter_x_Hunter -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13709/Afro_Samurai_Movie -- Action, Adventure, Samurai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1371/Hi_no_Tori -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Historical, Supernatural, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13731/Koukyoushihen_Eureka_Seven__New_Order -- Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1374/Kyoushoku_Soukou_Guyver_2005 -- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13789/Little_Nemo_Pilot -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13799/Pokemon__Meloetta_no_Kirakira_Recital -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Music
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1379/Kino_no_Tabi__The_Beautiful_World_-_Nanika_wo_Suru_Tame_ni_-_Life_Goes_On -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/137/Hunter_x_Hunter__Original_Video_Animation -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1380/Blue_Gender__The_Warrior -- Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mecha, Military, Romance, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1382/Yuusha-Ou_GaoGaiGar_Final -- Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/138/Hunter_x_Hunter__Greed_Island -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1391/Future_GPX_Cyber_Formula -- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13931/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon__Sailor_Stars_-_Hero_Club -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/13955/Dennou_Coil_Recaps -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1397/Macross_7 -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Music, Space, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1398/Macross_Dynamite_7 -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Comedy, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/139/Hunter_x_Hunter__Greed_Island_Final -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1400/Macross_7_Movie__Ginga_ga_Ore_wo_Yondeiru -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Music, Comedy, Drama, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14093/Pokemon_Best_Wishes_Season_2 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1411/VS_Knight_Lamune___40_Fresh -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1412/Lupin_III -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1413/Lupin_III__Alcatraz_Connection -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1414/Lupin_III__Tenshi_no_Tactics_-_Yume_no_Kakera_wa_Koroshi_no_Kaori -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1415/Lupin_III__Bye_Bye_Liberty_-_Kiki_Ippatsu -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1416/Lupin_III__Dead_or_Alive -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1417/Lupin_III__Moeyo_Zantetsuken -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1418/Lupin_III__Episode_0_First_Contact -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1419/Lupin_III__Kutabare_Nostradamus -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1420/Lupin_III__Russia_yori_Ai_wo_Komete -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1421/Lupin_III__Hemingway_Paper_no_Nazo -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1422/Lupin_III__1_Money_Wars -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1423/Lupin_III__Napoleon_no_Jisho_wo_Ubae -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1424/Lupin_III__Otakara_Henkyaku_Daisakusen -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1425/Lupin_III__Part_II -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14267/Persona_4_the_Animation__The_Factor_of_Hope -- Adventure, Mystery, Super Power, Supernatural, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1426/Lupin_III__Part_III -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1427/Lupin_III__Ikiteita_Majutsushi -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1428/Lupin_III__Pilot_Film_1978 -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1429/Lupin_III__Nusumareta_Lupin -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/142/Kamikaze_Kaitou_Jeanne -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Mystery, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1430/Lupin_III__Cagliostro_no_Shiro -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1431/Lupin_III__Ai_no_Da_Capo_-_Fujikos_Unlucky_Days -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1432/Lupin_III__Fuuma_Ichizoku_no_Inbou -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14333/Tanken_Driland -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1433/Lupin_III__Babylon_no_Ougon_Densetsu -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14349/Little_Witch_Academia -- Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Fantasy, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1434/Lupin_III__Harimao_no_Zaihou_wo_Oe -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14355/Yama_no_Susume -- Adventure, Slice of Life, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1435/Lupin_III__Lupin_vs_Fukusei-ningen -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1436/Lupin_III__Twilight_Gemini_no_Himitsu -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1437/Lupin_III__Honoo_no_Kioku_-_Tokyo_Crisis -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1438/Lupin_III__Lupin_Ansatsu_Shirei -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1439/Lupin_III__Walther_P38 -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1440/Ninja_Mono -- Adventure, Comedy, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1442/Alexander_Senki -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Sci-Fi, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1443/Sol_Bianca -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1444/Sol_Bianca__Taiyou_no_Fune -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1445/Mach_GoGoGo -- Adventure, Cars, Sports, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1448/Hyakujuu-Ou_GoLion -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1450/Brigadoon__Marin_to_Melan -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14513/Magi__The_Labyrinth_of_Magic -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1456/L_R__Licensed_by_Royal -- Action, Adventure, Police, Mystery
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1458/Uchuu_no_Kishi_Tekkaman -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1459/Uchuu_no_Kishi_Tekkaman_Blade -- Action, Adventure, Space, Mecha, Romance, Military, Drama, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1460/Uchuu_no_Kishi_Tekkaman_Blade_II -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14617/Stranger__Mukou_Hadan_Pilot -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Samurai, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1466/Hakugei_Densetsu -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1469/Monster_Farm__Enbanseki_no_Himitsu -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14719/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken_TV -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Vampire, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14735/Detective_Conan_Movie_17__Private_Eye_in_the_Distant_Sea -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1478/City_Hunter__Goodbye_My_Sweetheart -- Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1481/Urusei_Yatsura__Haru_da_Tobidase -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1482/DGray-man -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Demons, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14833/Maoyuu_Maou_Yuusha -- Adventure, Demons, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14837/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_14__Kami_to_Kami -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1483/Master_Keaton -- Adventure, Drama, Historical, Mystery, Seinen, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14875/Eureka_Seven_AO__Jungfrau_no_Hanabana-tachi -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1487/hack__Unison -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Game, Magic, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1488/Area_88 -- Action, Military, Adventure, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1490/Ginga_Tetsudou_Monogatari -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14913/Battle_Spirits__Sword_Eyes -- Game, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1491/Ginga_Tetsudou_999 -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/14935/Pokemon__Utae_Meloetta_-_Rinka_no_Mi_wo_Sagase -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15015/Shin_KoihimeMusou__Otome_Tairan_OVA_Omake -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1503/Mahou_Shoujo_Pretty_Sammy_Specials -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Parody, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1505/Detective_Conan_Movie_09__Strategy_Above_the_Depths -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1506/Detective_Conan_Movie_10__Requiem_of_the_Detectives -- Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15093/KoihimeMusou_OVA_Omake -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15095/Shin_KoihimeMusou_OVA_Omake -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1509/Mamotte_Lollipop -- Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15133/Aoi_Sekai_no_Chuushin_de -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy, Parody, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1525/Pokemon_Crystal__Raikou_Ikazuchi_no_Densetsu -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1526/Pokemon_Movie_08__Mew_to_Hadou_no_Yuusha_Lucario -- Action, Adventure, Kids, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1527/Pokemon__Senritsu_no_Mirage_Pokemon -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15323/One_Piece__Episode_of_Nami_-_Koukaishi_no_Namida_to_Nakama_no_Kizuna -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1533/Ai_Tenshi_Densetsu_Wedding_Peach -- Adventure, Magic, Comedy, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15347/Meitantei_Holmes__Aoi_Ruby_no_Maki___Kaitei_no_Zaihou_no_Maki -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1537/Genshi_Shounen_Ryuu -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Romance, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/153/Juuni_Kokuki -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1542/Brain_Powerd -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1546/Negima -- Adventure, Harem, Comedy, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, Ecchi, Fantasy, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1549/1000-nen_Joou__Queen_Millennia -- Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/154/Shaman_King -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1553/Queen_Emeraldas -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15611/Cardfight_Vanguard__Link_Joker-hen -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Game, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1563/Magic_Knight_Rayearth_II -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Mecha, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1564/Pokemon_Advanced_Generation -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1565/Pokemon_Diamond___Pearl -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15663/Kero_Kero_Keroppi_no_Gulliver_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1567/Kaitou_Saint_Tail -- Adventure, Magic, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1572/Jungle_Taitei -- Adventure, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15735/Jormungand__Perfect_Order_Recap -- Action, Adventure, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15743/Yuugen_Kaisha__Jiken_File_00_-_Hajimari_wa_Ayashiku_mo_Hanayaka_ni -- Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1574/Get_Ride_AMDriver -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15783/Lupin_III__Touhou_Kenbunroku_-_Another_Page -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1578/Koisuru_Tenshi_Angelique__Kokoro_no_Mezameru_Toki -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1580/Mouryou_Senki_Madara -- Adventure, Demons, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1582/Submarine_707R -- Action, Adventure, Military, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1586/Aoi_Umi_no_Tristia -- Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1590/Legendz__Yomigaeru_Ryuuou_Densetsu -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/15925/Doraemon_Movie_33__Nobita_no_Himitsu_Dougu_Museum -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1598/Casshern__Robot_Hunter -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1599/Eat-Man_98 -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/159/Boukyaku_no_Senritsu -- Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mecha, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Space, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16009/Kamisama_no_Inai_Nichiyoubi -- Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1606/Kekkaishi_TV -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/160/Ima_Soko_ni_Iru_Boku -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Military, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1611/Galerians__Rion -- Adventure, Drama, Horror, Military, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16143/One_Piece__Kinkyuu_Kikaku_One_Piece_Kanzen_Kouryakuhou -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1618/Soreyuke_Uchuu_Senkan_Yamamoto_Yohko_1999 -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1620/Maps -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16239/One_Piece__Episode_of_Luffy_-_Hand_Island_no_Bouken -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16251/Shinkai_no_Kantai__Submarine_707 -- Action, Adventure, Military, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16255/Meisou-Ou_Border -- Adventure, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1625/Soul_Link_Special -- Ecchi, Adventure, Space, Comedy, Romance, Military, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1630/Yousei_Hime_Ren -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16345/Ninkuu__Knife_no_Bohyou -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16363/Vanquished_Queens -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16385/Dog_Days -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1638/Peter_Pan_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/163/Power_Stone -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1645/Herlock_Saga__Nibelung_no_Yubiwa -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16468/One_Piece__Glorious_Island -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/164/Mononoke_Hime -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1650/Uchuu_Senkan_Yamato -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Military, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16518/Arata_Kangatari -- Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1651/Uchuu_Senkan_Yamato_2 -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16524/Suisei_no_Gargantia -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1652/Uchuu_Senkan_Yamato_III -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1660/Kurogane_Communication -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1663/Haha_wo_Tazunete_Sanzenri -- Adventure, Drama, Historical, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1664/Babel_Nisei_2001 -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1666/Babel_Nisei -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16678/Pokemon__Pikachu_to_Eievui_Friends -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16680/Pokemon_Movie_16__Shinsoku_no_Genosect_-_Mewtwo_Kakusei -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1668/Bakuten_Shoot_Beyblade_G_Revolution -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1669/Bakuten_Shoot_Beyblade_2002 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16702/Doraemon__Nobita_to_Mirai_Note -- Kids, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1670/Bakuten_Shoot_Beyblade_the_Movie__Gekitou_Takao_vs_Daichi -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Sports, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1671/Soreyuke_Uchuu_Senkan_Yamamoto_Yohko_II -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16728/Tatakae_Ramenman_Movie -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/16756/Kuiba__Zhi_Shiwanhuoji -- Action, Kids, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1676/Cosmo_Warrior_Zero -- Action, Adventure, Military, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1677/Young_Herlock_wo_Oe_Cosmo_Warrior_Zero_Gaiden -- Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1678/Cyborg_009__The_Cyborg_Soldier -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/167/Scrapped_Princess -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1681/Brave_Story -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Kids, Magic, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1685/Duel_Masters -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1686/Bleach_Movie_1__Memories_of_Nobody -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/168/sCRYed -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Super Power, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1696/Murder_Princess -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1704/Eat-Man -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1706/Gun_Frontier -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical, Sci-Fi, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17088/Agigongryong_Doolie -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1709/Pokemon__Mewtwo_Ware_wa_Koko_ni_Ari -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1710/RockmanEXE -- Action, Game, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17113/Crayon_Shin-chan_Movie_21__Bakauma_B-Kyuu_Gourmet_Survival_Battle -- Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17115/Pokemon_Best_Wishes_Season_2__Episode_N -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1711/Ryuusei_Sentai_Musumet -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17137/Saiyuuki_Gaiden__Kouga_no_Shou -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1713/Submarine_Super_99 -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17165/SF_Saiyuuki_Starzinger_Movie -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17167/Akai_Koudan_Zillion_Recaps -- Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/171/Strange_Dawn -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17205/Cowboy_Bebop__Ein_no_Natsuyasumi -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17221/Shin_Kabukichou_Story_Hana_no_Asukagumi -- Adventure, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17223/Hana_no_Asukagumi_2__Lonely_Cats_Battle_Royale -- Adventure, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1724/Saint_October -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17265/Log_Horizon -- Action, Game, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1731/Tales_of_Symphonia_The_Animation__Sylvarant-hen -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1735/Naruto__Shippuuden -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1736/BT_X_Neo -- Action, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1737/Uchuu_Senshi_Baldios -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17419/Dog_Days_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1744/WagamamaFairy_Mirumo_de_Pon -- Kids, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Comedy, Romance, School, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1746/Zoids_Fuzors -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1747/Freedom -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1759/Jigen_Sengokushi__Kuro_no_Shishi_-_Jinnai-hen -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/175/Tokyo_Underground -- Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1760/Golgo_13 -- Action, Military, Adventure, Drama, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1761/Golgo_13__Queen_Bee -- Action, Adventure, Military, Drama, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1762/Arslan_Senki -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1768/Kikaider_01_The_Animation -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17699/Toriko_Movie__Bishokushin_no_Special_Menu -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/176/Triangle_Heart__Sweet_Songs_Forever -- Adventure, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1773/Hokuto_no_Ken__Raoh_Gaiden_Junai-hen -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17743/Maoyuu_Maou_Yuusha__Kono_Monogatari_wa_Daniku_dake_Dewanai_no_Ja -- Adventure, Demons, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1774/HeatGuy_J_Special -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Police, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1775/Jikuu_Tenshou_Nazca -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1777/Kaze_no_Tairiku -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1778/Dae_Jang_Geum__Jang_Geums_Dream -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/177/Tsubasa_Chronicle -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Romance, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17873/Pokemon_Best_Wishes_Season_2__Decolora_Adventure -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1792/Overman_King_Gainer -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1794/Dirty_Pair_no_Ooshoubu__Nolandia_no_Nazo -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Police
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1795/Dirty_Pair__Bouryaku_no_005-bin -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Police
https://myanimelist.net/anime/17969/Tanken_Driland__1000-nen_no_Mahou -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1796/Dirty_Pair__The_Movie -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Police
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1799/Fatal_Fury__Legend_of_the_Hungry_Wolf -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Martial Arts, Romance, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1800/Fatal_Fury_2__The_New_Battle -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1802/Dirty_Pair_Flash -- Action, Adventure, Police, Comedy, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1803/Dirty_Pair__Lovely_Angels_yori_Ai_wo_Komete -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Police, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1805/Master_Mosquiton -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Supernatural, Vampire
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1806/Master_Mosquiton_99 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Vampire
https://myanimelist.net/anime/18115/Magi__The_Kingdom_of_Magic -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1816/Sonic_X -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1818/Claymore -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Demons, Supernatural, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1820/Power_Dolls -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/18229/Gatchaman_Crowds -- Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1822/The_Hakkenden -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Demons, Martial Arts, Samurai, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1823/Shin_Hakkenden -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1826/Deltora_Quest -- Adventure, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1827/Seirei_no_Moribito -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1829/Ged_Senki -- Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/182/Tenkuu_no_Escaflowne -- Adventure, Psychological, Romance, Fantasy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1831/Iczer-Girl_Iczelion -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1837/Sumeba_Miyako_no_Cosmos-sou_Suttoko_Taisen_Dokkoida -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Parody, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/18393/Fairy_Tail_x_Rave -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1839/Jagainu-kun -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids, Shoujo, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1840/Zero_no_Tsukaima__Futatsuki_no_Kishi -- Action, Adventure, Harem, Comedy, Magic, Romance, Ecchi, Fantasy, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1848/Haou_Taikei_Ryuu_Knight -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1849/Haou_Taikei_Ryuu_Knight__Adeu_Legend -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1850/Haou_Daikei_Ryuu_Knight__Adeu_Legend_II -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1851/Haou_Daikei_Ryuu_Knight__Adeu_Legend_Final -- Parody, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/18533/Jungle_Taitei_Leo__Hon-o-ji -- Adventure, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1853/Cutey_Honey_F -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1854/Rockman_Hoshi_ni_Negai_wo -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/18603/Kennosuke-sama -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1866/Seirei_Tsukai -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1867/Oira_Uchuu_no_Tankoufu -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1868/Giniro_no_Olynsis__Tokito -- Adventure, Drama, Romance, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1872/Saru_Getchu__On_Air -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Romance, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1873/Plawres_Sanshirou -- Adventure, Sports, Mecha, School, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1880/Midnight_Eye__Gokuu_II -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Super Power, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1891/YAT_Anshin_Uchuu_Ryokou -- Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1892/YAT_Anshin_Uchuu_Ryokou_2 -- Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1894/YuGiOh__Hikari_no_Pyramid -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Game
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1897/Zettai_Muteki_Raijin-Oh -- Adventure, Mecha, School, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1899/Masou_Kishin_Cybuster -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1901/11-nin_Iru -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Space, Drama, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/19099/Pokemon__Mewtwo_-_Kakusei_e_no_Prologue -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1910/Master_Keaton_OVA -- Adventure, Drama, Historical, Mystery, Seinen, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/19117/Toaru_Hikuushi_e_no_Koiuta -- Adventure, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/19123/One_Piece__Episode_of_Merry_-_Mou_Hitori_no_Nakama_no_Monogatari -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1914/Saiunkoku_Monogatari_2nd_Season -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1919/Urusei_Yatsura_OVA -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1920/Urusei_Yatsura_Movie_1__Only_You -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/19211/Suisei_no_Gargantia_Specials -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1921/Urusei_Yatsura_Movie_2__Beautiful_Dreamer -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1922/Urusei_Yatsura_Movie_3__Remember_My_Love -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1923/Urusei_Yatsura_Movie_4__Lum_The_Forever -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1924/Urusei_Yatsura_Movie_5__Kanketsu-hen -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1925/Urusei_Yatsura_Movie_6__Itsudatte_My_Darling -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1928/Early_Reins -- Action, Adventure, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/19291/Pokemon_XY -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/192/Love_Hina_Haru_Special__Kimi_Sakura_Chiru_Nakare -- Adventure, Comedy, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/20743/Pokemon_Best_Wishes_Season_2__Decolora_Adventure_-_Dent_to_Takeshi_Gyarados_no_Gekirin --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/23299/Pokemon_Best_Wishes_Season_2__Decolora_Adventure_-_Iris_vs_Ibuki_Dragon_Master_e_no_Michi --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/23915/The_Adventures_of_Hello_Kitty___Friends --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2397/Digimon_Adventure__Bokura_no_War_Game --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2398/Digimon_Adventure_02__Diablomon_no_Gyakushuu --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2452/Space_Adventure_Cobra --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/246/Groove_Adventure_Rave --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/25687/Digimon_Adventure_tri_1__Saikai --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2725/Tenchi_Muyou__Galaxy_Police_Mihoshi_Space_Adventure --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/28957/Mushishi_Zoku_Shou__Suzu_no_Shizuku -- Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, Seinen, Slice of Life, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2895/Kujiratori -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29135/Chiisana_Teien -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2913/Daisougen_no_Chiisana_Tenshi__Bush_Baby -- Adventure, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29233/Ninja_Hattori-kun_Plus_Perman__Ninja_Kaijuu_Jippou_tai_Miracle_Tamago -- Adventure, Martial Arts, Comedy, Super Power, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29235/Ninja_Hattori-kun_Plus_Perman__Chounouryoku_Wars -- Adventure, Martial Arts, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2928/hack__GU_Returner -- Magic, Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Sci-Fi, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2929/Moonlight_Mile_2nd_Season__Touch_Down -- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29413/Dog_Days_Recap -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29419/Pokemon_XY__New_Years_Eve_2014_Super_Mega_Special -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/294/Divergence_Eve -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mecha, Military, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2952/Final_Fantasy_VII__Advent_Children_Complete -- Action, Fantasy, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/295/Divergence_Eve_2__Misaki_Chronicles -- Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Military, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29611/Pa-Pa-Pa_the_ -- Kids, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29613/Perman__Birdman_ga_Yatte_Kita -- Kids, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2961/Digimon_Adventure_Movie -- Action, Fantasy, Kids, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2962/Digimon_Adventure_02_Movies -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2966/Ookami_to_Koushinryou -- Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29687/Duel_Masters_VSR -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/296/Dragon_Drive -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, School, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2970/Night_Wizard -- Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2971/Kyou_kara_Maou_R -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29756/Sinbad__Soratobu_Hime_to_Himitsu_no_Shima -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2978/Shin_Getter_Robo -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Demons, Horror, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/297/Grenadier__Hohoemi_no_Senshi -- Action, Ecchi, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29803/Overlord -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Magic, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2980/Kuusou_Kagaku_Sekai_Gulliver_Boy -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29854/Ushio_to_Tora_TV -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29863/Anata_wo_Zutto_Aishiteru -- Adventure, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2987/Ginga_Hyouryuu_Vifam -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/298/hack__Tasogare_no_Udewa_Densetsu -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Game, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30046/Hadashi_Neko -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3005/Shadow_Skill -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30066/L_R__Licensed_by_Royal_Special -- Action, Adventure, Police, Mystery
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3008/Time_Bokan_Series__Yatterman -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3010/Kaiketsu_Zorro -- Adventure, Historical, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30155/Hoshi_no_Kirby___Taose_Koukaku_Majuu_Ebizou -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3019/Lupin_III__Kiri_no_Elusive -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/301/Cinderella_Boy -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3027/Hokuto_no_Ken__Yuria-den -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/302/Mirai_Shounen_Conan -- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3031/Digimon_Frontier__Ornismon_Fukkatsu -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3032/Digimon_Tamers__Boukensha-tachi_no_Tatakai -- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3033/Digimon_Tamers__Bousou_Digimon_Tokkyuu -- Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30347/Nanatsu_no_Taizai_OVA -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3036/Tobe_Isami -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30410/Gon_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3044/Tetsuwan_Atom_1980 -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30481/Ginga_Tetsudou_999_for_Planetarium -- Adventure, Space, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30503/Noragami_Aragoto -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3054/La_Seine_no_Hoshi -- Adventure, Historical, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3059/Ninja_Senshi_Tobikage -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3061/Kishin_Heidan -- Adventure, Mecha, Historical, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30648/Stitch__Zutto_Saikou_no_Tomodachi_Special -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3065/Ozanari_Dungeon__Kaze_no_Tou -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30679/Queens_Blade__Grimoire -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30694/Dragon_Ball_Super -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3069/Yamato_yo_Towa_ni -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3072/Uchuu_Senkan_Yamato__Kanketsu-hen -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30736/Shingeki_no_Bahamut__Virgin_Soul -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30738/Gamba__Gamba_to_Nakama-tachi -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3075/Tondera_House_no_Daibouken -- Adventure, Historical, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30778/Fairy_Tail_Movie_2__Dragon_Cry -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30831/Kono_Subarashii_Sekai_ni_Shukufuku_wo -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Parody, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30885/Noragami_Aragoto_OVA -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30909/Vivi -- Adventure, Music, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30911/Tales_of_Zestiria_the_Cross -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30925/Gatchaman_Crowds_Insight__Inbound -- Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3101/F-Zero__Falcon_Densetsu -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Cars, Sports, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31049/Beyblade_Burst -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Sports, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31098/Ushio_to_Tora_TV_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31113/Suisei_no_Gargantia__Puchitto_Furikaerintia -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31128/Arslan_Senki_TV__Tsuioku_no_Shou_-_Dakkan_no_Yaiba -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3114/Chiisana_Kyojin_Microman -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31150/Xi_Yang_Yang_Yu_Hui_Tai_Lang -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3115/Toki_no_Tabibito__Time_Stranger -- Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31201/Doraemon_Movie_36__Shin_Nobita_no_Nippon_Tanjou -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31231/Pokemon_Movie_19__Volcanion_to_Karakuri_no_Magearna -- Adventure, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31233/Lu_Shidai -- Action, Game, Adventure, Comedy, Parody
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31238/Stitch_Perfect_Memory -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31246/Choegang_Habche__Mix_Master -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3127/California_Crisis__Tsuigeki_no_Juuka -- Action, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31289/One_Piece__Episode_of_Sabo_-_3_Kyoudai_no_Kizuna_Kiseki_no_Saikai_to_Uketsugareru_Ishi -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31318/Comet_Lucifer -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3132/Boukensha__The_Man_Was_from_Spain -- Adventure, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31339/Drifters -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Samurai, Fantasy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3135/Dragons_Heaven -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31373/Rudolf_to_Ippaiattena -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3137/Tsurikichi_Sanpei -- Adventure, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31427/Zinba -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Demons, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31452/Norn9__Norn_Nonet -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy, Josei
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3146/GR__Giant_Robo -- Adventure, Mecha, Military, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31490/One_Piece_Film__Gold -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31493/Lord_of_Vermilion_III_Special_Anime_Movie -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3151/Genei_Toushi_Bastof_Lemon -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3152/Down_Load__Namu_Amida_Butsu_wa_Ai_no_Uta -- Action, Adventure, Psychological, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3153/Kagaku_Ninja-tai_Gatchaman_Movie -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3154/Gatchaman -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31573/Brave_Beats -- Adventure, Music
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31592/Pokemon_XY_Z -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31593/Rokka_no_Yuusha_Picture_Drama -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31629/Granblue_Fantasy_The_Animation -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3162/Makiba_no_Shoujo_Katri -- Adventure, Drama, Historical, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31637/Gate__Jieitai_Kanochi_nite_Kaku_Tatakaeri_2nd_Season -- Action, Military, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31670/Kaitou_Joker_3rd_Season -- Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31678/Long_Zhi_Gu__Jingling_Wangzuo -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31722/Nanatsu_no_Taizai__Seisen_no_Shirushi -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31741/Magi__Sinbad_no_Bouken_TV -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31750/TV-ban_Pokemon_Special_Masara_Town-hen_Recaps -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3175/Kaitei_Choutokkyuu__Marine_Express -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31764/Nejimaki_Seirei_Senki__Tenkyou_no_Alderamin -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Military
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31765/Sword_Art_Online_Movie__Ordinal_Scale -- Action, Game, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3176/Nessa_no_Haou_Gandalla -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Magic, Music, Sci-Fi, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3178/Hengen_Taima_Yakou_Karura_Mau_Nara_Onryou_Emaki -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Fantasy, Horror, Shoujo, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/317/Final_Fantasy_VII__Advent_Children -- Action, Super Power, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31821/Arslan_Senki_TV__Fuujin_Ranbu -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Supernatural, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31827/Comet_Lucifer__Garden_Indigo_no_Shasou_kara -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31829/Sinbad__Mahou_no_Lamp_to_Ugoku_Shima -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31838/Ze_Tian_Ji -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3183/MAPS__Densetsu_no_Samayoeru_Seijin-tachi -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31859/Hai_to_Gensou_no_Grimgar -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3185/Fortune_Quest_L -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31866/Last_Exile__Ginyoku_no_Fam_Movie_-_Over_the_Wishes -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31911/Pokemon_Fushigi_no_Dungeon__Magnagate_to_Mugendai_Meikyu -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31927/Phantom_of_the_Kill__Zero_kara_no_Hangyaku -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3192/Tobira_wo_Akete -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31933/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken_Part_4__Diamond_wa_Kudakenai -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3193/Asobot_Senki_Gokuu -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3199/Nanatsu_no_Umi_no_Tico -- Slice of Life, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32051/One_Piece__Adventure_of_Nebulandia -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32108/Digimon_Adventure_tri_2__Ketsui -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3214/Kosuke-sama_Rikimaru-sama__Konpeitou_no_Ryuu -- Action, Adventure, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32171/Ange_Vierge -- Adventure, Magic, Fantasy, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3218/Gensoumaden_Saiyuuki_OVA -- Adventure, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3221/Shakugan_no_Shana-tan_Movie -- Adventure, Comedy, Parody, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32230/Xi_You_Ji -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3230/Druaga_no_Tou__The_Aegis_of_Uruk -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32321/Lupin_III_2015__Italian_Game -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3232/Bannou_Bunka_Neko-Musume_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32359/Pokemon_XY_Z__Subete_no_Nazo_wo_Tokiakase -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32370/DGray-man_Hallow -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Demons, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32379/Berserk -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Military, Romance, Seinen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32380/Kono_Subarashii_Sekai_ni_Shukufuku_wo__Kono_Subarashii_Choker_ni_Shukufuku_wo -- Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32437/One_Piece__Long_Ring_Long_Land-hen -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32534/Xiyouji_zhi_Dasheng_Guilai -- Adventure, Historical, Supernatural, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32543/Lu_Shidai_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Game, Parody
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32551/Digimon_Adventure_tri_3__Kokuhaku -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32566/Noblesse__Pamyeol-ui_Sijak -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32595/Seisen_Cerberus__Ryuukoku_no_Fatalits -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32608/Endride -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32681/Uchuu_Patrol_Luluco -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3271/Bakutou_Sengen_Daigunder -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3272/Kinnikuman -- Adventure, Comedy, Sports, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32801/Dungeon_ni_Deai_wo_Motomeru_no_wa_Machigatteiru_Darou_ka_OVA -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32879/Norn9__Norn_Nonet_Recap -- Adventure, Romance, Fantasy, Josei
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32887/Dungeon_ni_Deai_wo_Motomeru_no_wa_Machigatteiru_Darou_ka_Gaiden__Sword_Oratoria -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32888/Sinbad__Mahiru_no_Yoru_to_Fushigi_no_Mon -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32936/Gin_no_Guardian -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32937/Kono_Subarashii_Sekai_ni_Shukufuku_wo_2 -- Adventure, Comedy, Parody, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3295/Yatterman -- Adventure, Comedy, Parody
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32979/Flip_Flappers -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3298/Hatenkou_Yuugi -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Josei
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33026/Time_Bokan_24 -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33032/Drifters__Special_Edition -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical, Samurai, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33074/Lupin_III_2015_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3317/Uchuusen_Sagittarius -- Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33195/Shi_Wan_Ge_Leng_Xiaohua_Movie_1 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Parody, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/331/Mahoujin_Guruguru -- Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33204/Hirune_Hime__Shiranai_Watashi_no_Monogatari -- Adventure, Fantasy, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3322/Wagaya_no_Oinari-sama -- Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33232/Area_88_Movie -- Action, Military, Adventure, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33254/Arslan_Senki_TV_Gaiden -- Adventure, Historical, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3327/Giant_Gorg -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/332/DokidokiDensetsu__Mahoujin_Guruguru -- Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33314/Digimon_Universe__Appli_Monsters -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33338/One_Piece__Heart_of_Gold -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33341/Time_Travel_Shoujo__Mari_Waka_to_8-nin_no_Kagakusha-tachi -- Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33354/Cardcaptor_Sakura__Clear_Card-hen -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33396/Hua_Jiang_Hu_Zhi_Bu_Liang_Ren -- Adventure, Historical, Drama, Romance, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33474/Haha_wo_Tazunete_Sanzenri_Movie -- Adventure, Drama, Historical, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33489/Little_Witch_Academia_TV -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33490/Kaitou_Joker_4th_Season -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3352/Tengen_Toppa_Gurren_Lagann__Mitee_Mono_wa_Miteen_da -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33558/Tales_of_Zestiria_the_Cross__Saiyaku_no_Jidai -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3355/Fortune_Dogs -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33569/Re_Petit_kara_Hajimeru_Isekai_Seikatsu -- Adventure, Comedy, Parody, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33606/One_Piece_Film__Gold_Episode_0_-_711_ver -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34299/Digimon_Adventure_tri_4__Soushitsu --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34792/Yoake_Tsugeru_Lu_no_Uta -- Adventure, Music, Supernatural, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/347/Wild_Arms__Twilight_Venom -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Magic, Vampire, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3486/Yuusha_Tokkyuu_Might_Gaine -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34901/Beyblade_Burst_God -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34905/Duel_Masters_2017 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3493/Ryuusei_no_Rockman_Tribe -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34940/Dongguo_Xiaojie -- Adventure, Historical, Demons, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34941/Queens_Blade__Unlimited -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34955/Kyoudai_Koguma -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34962/Digimon_Adventure_tri_5__Kyousei -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34982/Roba -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3499/DinoZone -- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35009/Berserk_Recap -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Military, Romance, Seinen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3501/Wellber_no_Monogatari__Sisters_of_Wellber_Zwei -- Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3505/Yuusha_Shirei_Dagwon -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Mecha, Super Power, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35063/Dog_Days_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35072/Boruto__Jump_Festa_2016_Special -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35073/Overlord_II -- Action, Game, Adventure, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35079/Kino_no_Tabi__The_Beautiful_World_-_The_Animated_Series -- Action, Adventure, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35134/Koukyoushihen_Eureka_Seven_Hi-Evolution_1 -- Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35135/Koukyoushihen_Eureka_Seven_Hi-Evolution_2__Anemone -- Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35203/Isekai_wa_Smartphone_to_Tomo_ni -- Adventure, Harem, Comedy, Magic, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35204/The_King_of_Fighters__Destiny -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Martial Arts, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35254/Time_Bokan__Gyakushuu_no_San_Akunin -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35313/Kemono_Friends_2 -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3549/Allison_to_Lillia -- Action, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35541/Turning_Mecard -- Game, Adventure, Cars, Kids, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3561/Dennou_Boukenki_Webdiver -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35626/Yao_Shen_Ji -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35650/Hua_Jianghu_Zhi_Bei_Mo_Ting -- Adventure, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35672/Yama_no_Susume__Third_Season -- Adventure, Comedy, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35673/Yama_no_Susume__Omoide_Present -- Adventure, Comedy, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35676/Berserk__Majo_no_Tsuisou -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Magic, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3570/Yadosagashi -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3571/Mach_GoGoGo_1997 -- Adventure, Cars
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35740/Doraemon_Movie_38__Nobita_no_Takarajima -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35757/Gin_no_Guardian_II -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3576/Kodai_Ouja_Kyouryuu_King -- Adventure, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35790/Tate_no_Yuusha_no_Nariagari -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35800/Ginga -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Music
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35838/Shoujo_Shuumatsu_Ryokou -- Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35839/Sora_yori_mo_Tooi_Basho -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35857/Lupin_III__Part_5 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35909/Guruguru_Petit_Anime_Gekijou -- Adventure, Comedy, Slice of Life, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35946/Nanatsu_no_Taizai_Movie_1__Tenkuu_no_Torawarebito -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3594/Tears_to_Tiara -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35972/Fairy_Tail__Final_Series -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35988/Dame_x_Prince_Anime_Caravan -- Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35994/Satsuriku_no_Tenshi -- Adventure, Horror, Psychological, Thriller
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36000/Sora_to_Umi_no_Aida -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36028/Golden_Kamuy -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3603/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Phantom_Blood -- Action, Adventure, Horror, Shounen, Vampire
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3609/Kikou_Kantai_Dairugger_XV -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/360/Himiko-den -- Adventure, Supernatural, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36145/Tottoko_Hamtarou__Anime_Dechu -- Adventure, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36148/Wangu_Xian_Qiong -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36215/One_Piece__Episode_of_East_Blue_-_Luffy_to_4-nin_no_Nakama_no_Daibouken -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36228/Anisama -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3624/Seimei_no_Kagaku__Micro_Patrol -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3626/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_Wing__Operation_Meteor -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Psychological, Drama, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3631/Aoi_Blink -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36368/Katasumi_no_Uroko -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3637/Bouken_Yuuki_Pluster_World -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3638/Kaiketsu_Zorori -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36440/Ku_Pao_Ying_Xiong -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36455/Wo_de_Tian_Jie_Nu_You -- Adventure, Super Power, Supernatural, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36466/Digimon_Adventure_tri_6__Bokura_no_Mirai -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36474/Sword_Art_Online__Alicization -- Action, Game, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36480/Drifters_OVA -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical, Samurai, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36491/Doupo_Cangqiong -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36561/Doupo_Cangqiong_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36587/Granblue_Fantasy_The_Animation_Season_2 -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3659/Majime_ni_Fumajime_Kaiketsu_Zorori__Nazo_no_Otakara_Daisakusen -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36644/Shaonian_Jinyiwei -- Adventure, Mystery, Historical, Romance, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36649/Banana_Fish -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36652/Piano_no_Mori_TV -- Adventure, Music, Comedy, Drama, School, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36661/Dahufa -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36666/An_Ling_Yu_Shi_Di_Qi -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3669/Duel_Masters_Movie_1__Yami_no_Shiro_no_Maryuuou -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/366/AIKa -- Action, Ecchi, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3673/Nijuu_Mensou_no_Musume -- Action, Adventure, Mystery
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36762/Xue_Se_Cang_Qiong -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36816/Godzilla_2__Kessen_Kidou_Zoushoku_Toshi -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36825/Pokemon_Diamond___Pearl__Clip_Show -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36862/Made_in_Abyss_Movie_3__Fukaki_Tamashii_no_Reimei -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36882/Arifureta_Shokugyou_de_Sekai_Saikyou -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Harem
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3689/Hatsumei_Boy_Kanipan -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3690/Chou_Hatsumei_Boy_Kanipan -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36927/Pokemon_Movie_21__Minna_no_Monogatari -- Action, Game, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36936/Mirai_no_Mirai -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36946/Dragon_Ball_Super_Movie__Broly -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36951/YuuYuuHakusho__Two_Shots_Noru_ka_Soru_ka -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Supernatural, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36967/Lupin_III__Lupin_wa_Ima_mo_Moete_Iru_ka -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3701/Kaiba -- Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/370/Burn_Up_Excess -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Police, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3712/Zero_no_Tsukaima__Princesses_no_Rondo -- Action, Adventure, Harem, Comedy, Magic, Romance, Ecchi, Fantasy, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37150/Douluo_Dalu -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Martial Arts, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37154/Grimms_Notes_The_Animation -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37164/Yao_Shen_Ji_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37176/Doupo_Cangqiong_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Demons, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37184/Ze_Tian_Ji_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37185/Ze_Tian_Ji_3rd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37186/Mang_Huang_Ji -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37202/Radiant -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37208/Mo_Dao_Zu_Shi -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Historical, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37232/Merc_Storia__Mukiryoku_no_Shounen_to_Bin_no_Naka_no_Shoujo -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37254/Last_Period__Owarinaki_Rasen_no_Monogatari -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37262/Ta_ga_Tame_no_Alchemist -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3726/Karasu_Tengu_Kabuto__Ougon_no_Me_no_Kemono -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3727/Doraemon_Movie_01__Nobita_no_Kyouryuu -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37283/Beyblade_Burst_Chouzetsu -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Sports, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37293/Wo_Jia_Da_Shixiong_Naozi_You_Keng -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37294/Wangu_Xian_Qiong_II -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37311/Kemurikusa -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37347/Dungeon_ni_Deai_wo_Motomeru_no_wa_Machigatteiru_Darou_ka_II -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37348/Dungeon_ni_Deai_wo_Motomeru_no_wa_Machigatteiru_Darou_ka_Movie__Orion_no_Ya -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37349/Goblin_Slayer -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3737/Usavich -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3738/Usavich_II -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37395/Zoids_Wild -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/373/Bannou_Bunka_Neko-Musume -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37447/Karakuri_Circus_TV -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3745/Crayon_Shin-chan_Movie_02__Buriburi_Oukoku_no_Hihou -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37484/Duel_Masters -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37514/Made_in_Abyss_Movie_1__Tabidachi_no_Yoake -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37515/Made_in_Abyss_Movie_2__Hourou_Suru_Tasogare -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37520/Dororo -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Historical, Samurai, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37521/Vinland_Saga -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3752/Nagagutsu_wo_Haita_Neko__80_Nichikan_Sekai_Isshuu -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37555/Hangyakusei_Million_Arthur -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37563/Di_Wang_Gong_Lue -- Adventure, Mystery, Historical, Drama, Martial Arts, Shounen Ai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37564/Wo_de_Ni_Tian_Shen_Qi -- Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37576/Majutsushi_Orphen_Hagure_Tabi -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Magic, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3757/Sekai_Meisaku_Douwa__Aladdin_to_Mahou_no_Lamp -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3758/Panda_no_Daibouken -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37595/Cardcaptor_Sakura__Clear_Card-hen_Recap -- Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/375/Bannou_Bunka_Neko-Musume_1998 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3760/Grimm_Douwa__Kin_no_Tori -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37618/Meng_Qi_Shi_Shen -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Drama, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3761/Wanwan_Sanjuushi -- Adventure, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37623/Chiisana_Eiyuu__Kani_to_Tamago_to_Toumei_Ningen -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3765/Pygmalio -- Adventure, Fantasy, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/377/eX-Driver -- Action, Adventure, Cars, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37806/Gunjou_no_Magmell -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37822/Douluo_Dalu__Jingying_Sai -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Supernatural, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37865/Pokemon__Aki_no_Special -- Action, Adventure, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37884/Golden_Kamuy_OVA -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37887/Huan_Jie_Wang -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37897/Godzilla_3__Hoshi_wo_Kuu_Mono -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/378/eX-Driver_the_Movie -- Action, Adventure, Cars, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37902/One_Piece__Episode_of_Sorajima -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37937/Wan_Jie_Xian_Zong -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Fantasy, Historical, Martial Arts, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37966/Pokemon_Movie_22__Mewtwo_no_Gyakushuu_Evolution -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37980/Youkoso_Japari_Park -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37984/Kumo_Desu_ga_Nani_ka -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37989/Golden_Kamuy_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37991/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken_Part_5__Ougon_no_Kaze -- Action, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38026/Ookami_to_Koushinryou_VR -- Adventure, Historical, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38040/Kono_Subarashii_Sekai_ni_Shukufuku_wo__Kurenai_Densetsu -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Parody, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3806/Sasuga_no_Sarutobi -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sports, Romance, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38083/Ken_En_Ken__Aoki_Kagayaki -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Magic, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38088/Digimon_Adventure__Last_Evolution_Kizuna -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3809/Shirayuki_Hime_no_Densetsu -- Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/380/Fushigi_Yuugi_OVA -- Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Historical, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3810/Mori_no_Youki_na_Kobito-tachi__Belfy_to_Lillibit -- Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3811/Hoshi_no_Oujisama_Petit_Prince -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3812/Yume_no_Hoshi_no_Button_Nose -- Kids, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38179/Kino_no_Tabi__The_Beautiful_World_-_The_Animated_Series_-_Haikyo_no_Kuni_-_On_Your_Way -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38198/Nanatsu_no_Taizai__Eiyuu-tachi_wa_Hashagu -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/381/Fushigi_Yuugi__Dai_Ni_Bu -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Martial Arts, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38220/Ze_Tian_Ji_4th_Season -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38234/One_Piece_Movie_14__Stampede -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38268/Hangyakusei_Million_Arthur_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38297/Maou-sama_Retry -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38301/Kouya_no_Kotobuki_Hikoutai -- Action, Military, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3834/Hoshi_no_Ko_Chobin -- Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38360/Drifters__The_Outlandish_Knight -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Samurai, Fantasy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3836/Meiken_Jolie -- Adventure, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3837/Mashin_Eiyuuden_Wataru -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38385/Dry_Dry_Try -- Adventure, Music, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38413/Arad__Suming_Zhi_Men -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38419/Tokyo_One_Piece_Tower__Tongari_Shima_no_Dai_Hihou -- Action, Adventure, Super Power, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3842/Doubutsu_Takarajima -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38435/Yao_Shen_Ji_Zhi_Ying_Yao_Pian -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38436/Doupo_Cangqiong_3rd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Supernatural, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3845/Mahoutsukai_Chappy -- Adventure, Kids, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38489/Feng_Yu_Zhou -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Super Power, Demons, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3848/One_Piece_Movie_9__Episode_of_Chopper_Plus_-_Fuyu_ni_Saku_Kiseki_no_Sakura -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38490/Xixing_Ji -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38491/Xing_Chen_Bian -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38520/Inko_Colors_the_Animation -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38530/Doraemon_Movie_39__Nobita_no_Getsumen_Tansaki -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38549/TV_Yarou_Nanaana -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38573/Tsuujou_Kougeki_ga_Zentai_Kougeki_de_Ni-kai_Kougeki_no_Okaasan_wa_Suki_Desu_ka -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3858/Konchuu_Monogatari_Minashigo_Hutch -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38601/Hangyakusei_Million_Arthur_Special -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38650/Hakyuu_Houshin_Engi__Kou-ke_no_Chi -- Adventure, Demons, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38659/Shinchou_Yuusha__Kono_Yuusha_ga_Ore_Tueee_Kuse_ni_Shinchou_Sugiru -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38691/Dr_Stone -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38707/RobiHachi -- Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38710/Golden_Kamuy_2nd_Season_OVA -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38720/Lupin_III__Goodbye_Partner -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38735/7_Seeds -- Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3873/Honey_Honey_no_Suteki_na_Bouken -- Adventure, Historical, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38740/Bai_She__Yuan_Qi -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Martial Arts, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38741/Xue_Ying_Ling_Zhu -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38744/Hangyakusei_Million_Arthur_PV -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3876/Maeterlinck_no_Aoi_Tori__Tyltyl_Mytyl_no_Bouken_Ryokou -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3877/Sasurai_no_Shoujo_Nell -- Adventure, Historical, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38790/Itai_no_wa_Iya_nano_de_Bougyoryoku_ni_Kyokufuri_Shitai_to_Omoimasu -- Action, Game, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38807/Goblin_Slayer__Bouken_Kiroku_Youshi_-_Adventure_Sheet -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38810/Bleach__Gotei_13_Omake -- Action, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3886/Super_Mario_Brothers__Peach-hime_Kyuushutsu_Daisakusen -- Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38916/Battle_Spirits__Saga_Brave -- Game, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Demons
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38918/Shao_Nian_Ge_Xing -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Historical, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38972/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken_Part_5__Ougon_no_Kaze_Recaps -- Action, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38985/Birthday_Wonderland -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3898/Mazinger_Z_tai_Devilman -- Adventure, Demons, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39024/Wu_Dong_Qian_Kun -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3905/Wanpaku_Ouji_no_Orochi_Taiji -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39066/Karakuri_Circus_TV__Makuai_-_Soshite_Mata_Kaimaku_Bell -- Adventure, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3907/Ginga_Sengoku_Gunyuuden_Rai -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Romance, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39080/Ling_Jian_Zun -- Action, Adventure, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39116/Jue_Ji -- Adventure, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3915/Time_Bokan -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39178/Doupo_Cangqiong_2nd_Season_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39191/Wan_Jie_Shen_Zhu -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39198/Kanata_no_Astra -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/391/Tales_of_Phantasia_The_Animation -- Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39235/Ni_no_Kuni -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39239/Sword_Art_Online__Alicization_-_Recollection -- Action, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3923/Kamen_Rider_Den-O__Imagin_Anime -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39264/Da_Yu_Hai_Tang -- Adventure, Drama, Romance, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39274/Dragon_Quest__Your_Story -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Magic, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39282/Beyblade_Burst_Gachi -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39292/Princess_Connect_Re_Dive -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39315/Kekkaishi_TV__Yoshimori_no_Omoi -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39329/Tenkuu_no_Escaflowne_Recaps -- Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39355/Radiant_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3935/Karakuri_Kiden__Hiwou_Senki -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3936/Personal_Computer_Travel_Tanteidan -- Kids, Adventure, Historical, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/393/Escaflowne -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mecha, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39419/Jian_Wang_3__Xia_Gan_Yi_Dan_Shen_Jianxin -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39456/Sounan_Desu_ka -- Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39487/Lupin_the_IIIrd__Mine_Fujiko_no_Uso -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39514/Giniro_no_Kami_no_Agito_Pilot -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39519/Dragons_Dogma -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39531/Kuutei_Dragons -- Adventure, Fantasy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39575/Somali_to_Mori_no_Kamisama -- Adventure, Slice of Life, Demons, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39576/Goblin_Slayer__Goblins_Crown -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39581/TV_Yarou_Nanaana__Wakuwaku_Doukutsu_Land -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39592/Mobile_Suit_Gundam__The_Origin_-_Advent_of_the_Red_Comet -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Space, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39597/Sword_Art_Online__Alicization_-_War_of_Underworld -- Action, Game, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3962/Chocolate_Underground -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39653/Chokotto_Anime_Kemono_Friends_3 -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3968/Dragoon -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3969/Kagaku_Kyuujo-tai_TechnoVoyager -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39701/Nanatsu_no_Taizai__Kamigami_no_Gekirin -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39792/Eizouken_ni_wa_Te_wo_Dasu_na -- Adventure, Comedy, School, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39806/Mugen_no_Juunin__Immortal -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Supernatural, Drama, Martial Arts, Samurai, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39810/Kyou_Kara_Maou_Recap -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3990/Kumo_to_Tulip -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39912/Wan_Jie_Xian_Zong_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Demons, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3991/Mahou_Shoujo-tai_Arusu_the_Adventure -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40044/Doraemon_Movie_40__Nobita_no_Shin_Kyouryuu -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40052/Great_Pretender -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Psychological
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40056/Deca-Dence -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40059/Golden_Kamuy_3rd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40064/Dungeon_ni_Deai_wo_Motomeru_no_wa_Machigatteiru_Darou_ka_II__Past___Future -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40082/Lupin_III__The_First -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40083/Arifureta_Shokugyou_de_Sekai_Saikyou_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Harem
https://myanimelist.net/anime/400/Seihou_Bukyou_Outlaw_Star -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4013/Paul_no_Miracle_Daisakusen -- Action, Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40181/Look_Plus_One_Piece_Special_Movie -- Adventure, Parody, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40211/Luo_Xiao_Hei_Zhan_Ji_Movie -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40221/Kami_no_Tou -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40233/Da_Zhu_Zai -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40239/Arifureta_Shokugyou_de_Sekai_Saikyou_Recap -- Action, Adventure, Harem, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4024/Sanrio_Anime_Sekai_Meisaku_Gekijou -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40251/Cyborg_009__The_Cyborg_Soldier_-_Kami_no_Ubugoe -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40256/Cannon_Busters -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4025/Asobou_Hello_Kitty -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4026/Pokemon_Movie_11__Giratina_to_Sora_no_Hanataba_Sheimi -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4028/Slayers_Revolution -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/402/Otogi_Juushi_Akazukin_OVA -- Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40327/Mewkledreamy -- Adventure, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40351/Pokemon_2019 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4037/Cowboy_Bebop__Yose_Atsume_Blues -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4039/Golgo_13_TV -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40403/Shin_Sakura_Taisen_the_Animation -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40453/Dungeon_ni_Deai_wo_Motomeru_no_wa_Machigatteiru_Darou_ka_II_OVA -- Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40454/Dungeon_ni_Deai_wo_Motomeru_no_wa_Machigatteiru_Darou_ka_III -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40489/Sword_Art_Online__Alicization_-_War_of_Underworld_Reflection -- Action, Game, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4049/Mafukiden__Pandarian -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Magic, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/404/Bastard__Ankoku_no_Hakaishin -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4051/Net_Ghost_Pipopa -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4052/Medarot_Damashii -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40540/Sword_Art_Online__Alicization_-_War_of_Underworld_2nd_Season -- Action, Game, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40571/Majo_no_Tabitabi -- Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40578/Lupin_III__Prison_of_the_Past -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4058/Makyou_Gaiden_Le_Deus -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40594/Tatoeba_Last_Dungeon_Mae_no_Mura_no_Shounen_ga_Joban_no_Machi_de_Kurasu_Youna_Monogatari -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40602/7_Seeds_2nd_Season -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Psychological, Drama, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4060/Grimm_Meisaku_Gekijou -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4061/Grimm_Masterpiece_Theater_II -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4066/Tytania -- Adventure, Military, Psychological, Romance, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4067/Shin_Megami_Tensei_Devil_Children -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Fantasy, Game, Kids, Magic, Sci-Fi, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4068/Shin_Megami_Tensei_Devil_Children__Light___Dark -- Action, Kids, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Game, Supernatural, Demons, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4071/Black_Jack_TV__Hizouban_Specials -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40730/Tian_Guan_Ci_Fu -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Supernatural, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40734/Yao_Shen_Ji_Zhi_Hei_Yu_Pian -- Action, Adventure, Demons, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4074/Arano_no_Sakebi_Koe__Hoero_Buck -- Adventure, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40783/Shachou_Battle_no_Jikan_Desu -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4080/Kyou_kara_Maou_3rd_Series -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40823/Ni_Zhuan_Ci_Yuan__AI_Jue_Qi -- Action, Game, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40849/Shinchou_Yuusha__Kono_Yuusha_ga_Ore_Tueee_Kuse_ni_Shinchou_Sugiru_Recap -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40852/Dr_Stone__Stone_Wars -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40861/Hakumei_no_Tsubasa -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4086/Muka_Muka_Paradise -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40873/Granblue_Fantasy_The_Animation_Season_2_Extras -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4087/Michiko_to_Hatchin -- Action, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40881/Pokemon_Movie_23__Coco -- Action, Game, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40893/Komatta_Jiisan -- Adventure, Slice of Life, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40897/Marulk-chan_no_Nichijou -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/408/Final_Fantasy_VII__Last_Order -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40906/Dragon_Quest__Dai_no_Daibouken_2020 -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40909/Wan_Jie_Xian_Zong_3rd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Demons, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40934/Bungou_to_Alchemist__Shinpan_no_Haguruma -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4094/Batman__Gotham_Knight -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40961/Hortensia_Saga_TV -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40974/Kuma_Kuma_Kuma_Bear -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4098/Urarochi_Diamond -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40991/Xue_Ying_Ling_Zhu_Zhi_Qi_Yu_Pian -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41062/Tomica_Kizuna_Gattai__Earth_Granner -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4106/Trigun__Badlands_Rumble -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41074/Digimon_Adventure_ -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41094/Xian_Wang_de_Richang_Shenghuo -- Adventure, Slice of Life, Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41109/Log_Horizon__Entaku_Houkai -- Action, Game, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4112/Oyako_Nezumi_no_Fushigi_na_Tabi -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41135/Dream -- Adventure, Music, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/411/Gun_x_Sword -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41206/Digimon_Adventure__20_Shuunen_Memorial_Story -- Adventure, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41210/Wan_Jie_Shen_Zhu_2nd_Season -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41219/Fanren_Xiu_Xian_Chuan_Zhi_Fanren_Feng_Qi_Tian_Nan -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41224/Bai_Yao_Pu -- Adventure, Mystery, Historical, Supernatural, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41283/Cardfight_Vanguard_Gaiden__If -- Action, Game, Adventure, Comedy, Parody, Demons
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41296/Valhait_Rising__Kandou_e -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Game
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41312/Kami-tachi_ni_Hirowareta_Otoko -- Adventure, Slice of Life, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41341/Sword_Art_Online__Alicization_-_War_of_Underworld_Recap -- Action, Game, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41353/The_God_of_High_School -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4138/Chiisana_Penguin_Lolo_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Kids, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41392/Urasekai_Picnic -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy, Shoujo Ai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41401/TV_Yarou_Nanaana__Kaibutsu_Kraken_wo_Oe -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41439/Beyblade_Burst_Sparking -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Sports, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41491/Nanatsu_no_Taizai__Fundo_no_Shinpan -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4151/Blade_of_the_Immortal -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Supernatural, Samurai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41528/Xing_Chen_Bian__Yu_Li_Cang_Hai -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41549/Majutsushi_Orphen_Hagure_Tabi__Tennin_no_Isan -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Magic, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4154/Time_Bokan_Series__Yattodetaman -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41558/Asatir__Mirai_no_Mukashi_Banashi -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4155/One_Piece_Film__Strong_World -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41573/Majutsushi_Orphen_Hagure_Tabi__Kimluck-hen -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Magic, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41574/Guraburu -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/416/Kurenai_no_Buta -- Action, Military, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Drama, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4177/Bounen_no_Xamdou -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41785/Ze_Tian_Ji_5th_Season -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41802/Wan_Jie_Chun_Qiu -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Magic, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41834/Kings_Raid__Ishi_wo_Tsugumono-tachi -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4186/Chrome_Shelled_Regios -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, School, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4188/Mahou_Sensei_Negima__Shiroki_Tsubasa_Ala_Alba -- Adventure, Harem, Comedy, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, Ecchi, Vampire, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41899/Ore_dake_Haireru_Kakushi_Dungeon -- Action, Adventure, Harem, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/418/Ranma___Chuugoku_Nekonron_Daikessen_Okite_Yaburi_no_Gekitou-hen -- Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41911/Hanyou_no_Yashahime__Sengoku_Otogizoushi -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Demons, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41917/Min_Diao_Ju_Yi_Wen_Lu -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Thriller
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4191/Popolocrois_Monogatari -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4197/Blue_Dragon__Tenkai_no_Shichi_Ryuu -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4199/Entaku_no_Kishi_Monogatari__Moero_Arthur -- Adventure, Romance, Historical, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/419/Samurai_Deeper_Kyou -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Supernatural, Samurai, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4200/Dirty_Pair_OVA -- Adventure, Comedy, Police, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/420/Spriggan -- Adventure, Military, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42106/Jiang_Ziya -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42136/Pokemon_Diamond___Pearl_Atsumare_Pokemon_Planet_Center -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42187/Wu_Shang_Shen_Di -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42266/Wu_Dong_Qian_Kun_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42284/Yuan_Long -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42364/Re_Zero_kara_Hajimeru_Break_Time_2nd_Season -- Adventure, Comedy, Parody, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4240/Ginga_Senpuu_Braiger -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4242/Ginga_Reppuu_Baxingar -- Action, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4244/Ginga_Shippuu_Sasuraiger -- Action, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4246/Koukyoushihen_Eureka_Seven__Pocket_ga_Niji_de_Ippai -- Adventure, Mecha, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42496/Douluo_Dalu__Hao_Tian_Yang_Wei -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Supernatural, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42497/Douluo_Dalu__Qian_Hua_Xi_Jin -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42498/Douluo_Dalu__Xiaowu_Juebie -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/424/Dirty_Pair -- Adventure, Comedy, Police, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4262/KoihimeMusou -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Ecchi, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/426/Final_Fantasy -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42723/Deca-Dence__Install -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42832/Tales_of_Crestoria__Toga_Waga_wo_Shoite_Kare_wa_Tatsu -- Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/428/Kaleido_Star__Aratanaru_Tsubasa_-_Extra_Stage -- Adventure, Comedy, Sports, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42947/Qin_Xia -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42950/Wo_Jia_Da_Shixiong_Shi_Ge_Fanpai -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/431/Howl_no_Ugoku_Shiro -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4320/Lupin_III__Green_vs_Red -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/432/Iria__Zeiram_The_Animation -- Action, Adventure, Space, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/434/Legend_of_Lemnear__Kyokuguro_no_Tsubasa_Valkisas -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/43555/Dr_Stone__Stone_Wars_-_Kaisen_Zenya_Special_Eizou -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/435/Magic_Knight_Rayearth -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Mecha, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4375/Kyoro-chan -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4391/Saru_Masamune -- Adventure, Military
https://myanimelist.net/anime/439/RG_Veda -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4415/World_Destruction__Sekai_Bokumetsu_no_Rokunin -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4427/Tatakae_Ramenman -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/442/Naruto_Movie_1__Dai_Katsugeki_Yuki_Hime_Shinobu_Houjou_Dattebayo -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Supernatural, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4443/Duel_Masters_Charge -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4444/Zero_Duel_Masters -- Adventure, Comedy, Game, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4447/Detective_Conan_Movie_12__Full_Score_of_Fear -- Adventure, Police, Comedy, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4450/Chrno_Crusade__Az_demo_Wakaru_Chrno_Crusade_Kouza -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Historical, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4459/Ojarumaru -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/445/Tales_of_Eternia_The_Animation -- Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4468/Nagagutsu_wo_Haita_Neko_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4471/Shin_SOS_Dai_Tokyo_Tankentai -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4476/Gensoumaden_Saiyuuki__Kibou_no_Zaika -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4481/Saiyuuki -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/448/Tenjou_Tenge__The_Ultimate_Fight -- Adventure, Drama, Martial Arts, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/449/InuYasha_Movie_4__Guren_no_Houraijima -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Demons, Supernatural, Drama, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4504/Kinkyuu_Hasshin_Saver_Kids -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4509/Captain_Future__Kareinaru_Taiyokei_Race -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/450/InuYasha_Movie_2__Kagami_no_Naka_no_Mugenjo -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Demons, Supernatural, Drama, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4511/Hoero_Bun_Bun -- Adventure, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4513/Hakujaden -- Adventure, Historical, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4514/Seton_Doubutsuki__Kuma_no_Ko_Jacky -- Adventure, Historical, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/451/InuYasha_Movie_3__Tenka_Hadou_no_Ken -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Demons, Supernatural, Drama, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4521/Watt_Poe_to_Bokura_no_Ohanashi -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4524/Shenmue__The_Movie -- Action, Game, Adventure, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/452/InuYasha_Movie_1__Toki_wo_Koeru_Omoi -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Demons, Supernatural, Drama, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4551/Hakushaku_to_Yousei -- Adventure, Historical, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/45556/Wu_Liuqi_Zhi_Xuanwu_Guo_Pian -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Martial Arts, Mystery, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/455/Fantastic_Children -- Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4563/Bakukyuu_Hit_Crash_B-Daman -- Game, Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/457/Mushishi -- Adventure, Slice of Life, Mystery, Historical, Supernatural, Fantasy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4584/Topo_Gigio -- Kids, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4597/Kouya_no_Shounen_Isamu -- Action, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/459/One_Piece_Movie_1 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/45/Rurouni_Kenshin__Meiji_Kenkaku_Romantan -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Romance, Samurai, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/460/One_Piece_Movie_2__Nejimaki-jima_no_Daibouken -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4614/Moero_Arthur__Hakuba_no_Ouji -- Adventure, Romance, Historical, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4615/Yama_Nezumi_Rocky_Chuck -- Kids, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4616/Yumemiru_Topo_Gigio -- Kids, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/461/One_Piece_Movie_3__Chinjuu-jima_no_Chopper_Oukoku -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/462/One_Piece_Movie_4__Dead_End_no_Bouken -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/463/One_Piece_Movie_5__Norowareta_Seiken -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4646/Cobra_The_Animation__The_Psycho-Gun -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/464/One_Piece_Movie_6__Omatsuri_Danshaku_to_Himitsu_no_Shima -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4651/Yume_no_Crayon_Oukoku -- Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4657/Arad_Senki__Slap_Up_Party -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/465/One_Piece_Movie_7__Karakuri-jou_no_Mecha_Kyohei -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4662/Neo_Angelique_Abyss__Second_Age -- Adventure, Fantasy, Harem, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4663/Tekken_Chinmi -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4667/B-Legend_Battle_B-Daman_Fire_Spirits -- Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/466/One_Piece__Taose_Kaizoku_Ganzack -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Super Power, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4690/Cyborg_009_1979 -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4712/Digimon_Savers__Agumon_Gaomon_Lalamon_Bakuretsu_Jougai_Last_Battle -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4719/Queens_Blade__Rurou_no_Senshi -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4726/Druaga_no_Tou__The_Sword_of_Uruk -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/473/Tide-Line_Blue -- Action, Military, Adventure, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4773/Yamato_Takeru -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4792/Pokemon__Pikachu_Tankentai -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4793/Pokemon__Pichu_to_Pikachu -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4794/Pokemon__Pikachu_no_Dokidoki_Kakurenbo -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4795/Pokemon__Pika_Pika_Hoshizora_Camp -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4798/Druaga_no_Tou__The_Aegis_of_Uruk_-_Jil_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/479/Ueki_no_Housoku -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Supernatural, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/47/Akira -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Horror, Supernatural, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4800/Huckleberry_Finn_Monogatari -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4801/Suhoyojeong_Michel -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4807/Mashin_Eiyuuden_Wataru_2 -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4808/Hurricane_Polymar -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Police, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4810/Shinzou_Ningen_Casshern -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/481/YuGiOh_Duel_Monsters -- Adventure, Game, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4835/Bleach_Movie_3__Fade_to_Black_-_Kimi_no_Na_wo_Yobu -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/484/Gensoumaden_Saiyuuki_Movie__Requiem_-_Erabarezaru_Mono_e_no_Chinkonka -- Adventure, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4851/Lupin_III__Seven_Days_Rhapsody -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/486/Kino_no_Tabi__The_Beautiful_World -- Action, Adventure, Psychological, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4874/Pokemon__Pikachu_no_Fuyuyasumi -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4876/Hashire_Melos_Movie -- Action, Adventure, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4884/Tales_of_the_Abyss -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4886/InuYasha__Kuroi_Tessaiga -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/48/hack__Sign -- Game, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4910/Pokemon__Pikachu_no_Wanpaku_Island -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4917/Ginga_Tansa_2100-nen__Border_Planet -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4921/Ramayana__The_Legend_of_Prince_Rama -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4926/Marco__Haha_wo_Tazunete_Sanzenri -- Adventure, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/492/Armitage_III__Dual-Matrix -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4938/Tsubasa__Shunraiki -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Supernatural, Drama, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/493/Armitage_III__Poly-Matrix -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Police, Romance, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4943/Yousei_Florence -- Adventure, Fantasy, Music
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4948/Shounen_Sarutobi_Sasuke -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/495/Bakuretsu_Hunters -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4961/Mushrambo_2008 -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4962/Rokumon_Tengai_Mon_Colle_Knights -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Magic, Parody
https://myanimelist.net/anime/496/Kamui_no_Ken -- Adventure, Historical, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4970/Afro_Samurai__Resurrection -- Action, Adventure, Samurai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/497/Yami_to_Boushi_to_Hon_no_Tabibito -- Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy, Magic, Mystery, Shoujo Ai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4981/Casshern_Sins -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Psychological, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/4983/Hells -- Adventure, Comedy, Horror
https://myanimelist.net/anime/498/Haja_Taisei_Dangaiou -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/499/Makai_Toshi_Shinjuku -- Adventure, Horror, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5006/Nagagutsu_Sanjuushi -- Kids, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5013/Juugo_Shounen_Hyouryuuki -- Adventure, Historical, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5014/Sango_Shou_Densetsu__Aoi_Umi_no_Elfie -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5019/Lupin_III__Sweet_Lost_Night_-_Mahou_no_Lamp_wa_Akumu_no_Yokan -- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/501/Doraemon -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5023/Ninpuu_Kamui_Gaiden -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Martial Arts, Samurai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5027/Stitch -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/502/Dragon_Ball_Movie_1__Shen_Long_no_Densetsu -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5031/Cobra_The_Animation__Time_Drive -- Action, Adventure, Space, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5032/Cobra_The_Animation -- Action, Adventure, Space, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5037/Terra_e_TV_Specials -- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/503/Eien_no_Aselia -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5041/Guin_Saga -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/504/Fatal_Fury__The_Motion_Picture -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Martial Arts, Romance, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5071/Croket -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5075/Yuusha_Keisatsu_J-Decker -- Action, Adventure, Police, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5084/Mai_Mai_Shinko_to_Sennen_no_Mahou -- Adventure, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/508/Tottoko_Hamtarou -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5091/Manga_Sarutobi_Sasuke -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5096/Doraemon_Movie_28__Nobita_to_Midori_no_Kyojin_Den -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5104/Andes_Shounen_Pepero_no_Bouken -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5114/Fullmetal_Alchemist__Brotherhood -- Action, Military, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/511/Kidou_Shinsengumi_Moeyo_Ken_TV -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5129/Jikuu_Boukenki_Zentrix -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/512/Majo_no_Takkyuubin -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Magic, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/513/Tenkuu_no_Shiro_Laputa -- Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5152/Dragon_Ball__Ossu_Kaettekita_Son_Gokuu_to_Nakama-tachi -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5157/Alexander_Senki_Movie -- Action, Adventure, Dementia, Historical, Military, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/515/Hajimari_no_Boukensha-tachi__Legend_of_Crystania -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5189/Chou_Tokkyuu_Hikarian -- Action, Kids, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5197/Dragon_League -- Adventure, Fantasy, Sports, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5201/Salad_Juu_Yuushi_Tomatoman -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/521/Mermaid_Melody_Pichi_Pichi_Pitch -- Adventure, Music, Comedy, Magic, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5226/Souten_Kouro -- Action, Adventure, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/522/Metropolis -- Adventure, Drama, Police, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5233/Slayers_Evolution-R -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5238/Chocolate_Underground__Bokura_no_Chocolate_Sensou -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/523/Tonari_no_Totoro -- Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5249/Mitsume_ga_Tooru -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5256/Pokemon_Fushigi_no_Dungeon__Toki_no_Tankentai_Yami_no_Tankentai -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/525/Otogizoushi -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5267/Gamba_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Kids, Thriller
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5272/Tondemo_Nezumi_Daikatsuyaku -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5274/Magical -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Magic, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/527/Pokemon -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5287/Ippatsu_Kanta-kun -- Action, Kids, Adventure, Sports, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5289/Beast_Wars_Second_Chou_Seimeitai_Transformers__Lio_Convoy_Kiki_Ippatsu_Movie -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/528/Pokemon_Movie_01__Mewtwo_no_Gyakushuu -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5292/Getter_Robo_Go -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Military, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5293/Time_Slip_Ichimannen__Prime_Rose -- Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5306/Tales_of_Symphonia_The_Animation__Tethealla-hen -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5307/Sora_wo_Kakeru_Shoujo -- Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5314/Rokumon_Tengai_Mon_Colle_Knights_Movie__Densetsu_no_Fire_Dragon -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5337/Bakugan_Battle_Brawlers__New_Vestroia -- Game, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5341/Ookami_to_Koushinryou_II -- Adventure, Historical, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5343/Monkey_Punch__Manga_Katsudou_Daishashin -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Parody, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5348/Detective_Conan_Magic_File_2__Kudou_Shinichi_-_The_Case_of_the_Mysterious_Wall_and_the_Black_Lab -- Adventure, Police, Comedy, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/534/Slayers -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/535/Slayers_Next -- Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5369/Street_Fighter_IV__Aratanaru_Kizuna -- Action, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/536/Slayers__The_Motion_Picture -- Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5372/Seisenshi_Dunbine_OVA -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5440/Ougon_Yuusha_Goldran -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/544/Venus_Senki -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5458/YuGiOh_Duel_Monsters__Battle_City_Special -- Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5475/Time_Bokan_2000__Kaitou_Kiramekiman -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5484/Wagaya_no_Oinari-sama__Kuu-chan_no_Omake_Gekijou -- Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5496/Feng_Yun_Jue -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/552/Digimon_Adventure -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5530/Pandora_Hearts -- Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5535/Tottoi -- Adventure, Slice of Life, Kids, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5538/Tegamibachi__Hikari_to_Ao_no_Gensou_Yawa -- Adventure, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/554/Koutetsu_Tenshi_Kurumi -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Historical, Mecha, Military, Romance, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5578/Gosho_Aoyamas_Collection_of_Short_Stories -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/55/Arc_the_Lad -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5600/Little_El_Cid_no_Bouken -- Kids, Adventure, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/561/Sakura_Taisen -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5624/Biohazard_4D-Executer -- Action, Adventure, Military, Horror
https://myanimelist.net/anime/562/Sakura_Taisen__Le_Nouveau_Paris -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5636/Restol__Teugsu_Gujo_Dae -- Action, Adventure, Police, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5652/Glass_no_Kantai__La_Legende_du_Vent_de_lUnivers_Specials -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/565/Steamboy -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Historical, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5673/Apfelland_Monogatari -- Adventure, Historical, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5688/Gegege_no_Kitarou_1968 -- Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Supernatural, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5689/Eien_no_Filena -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/568/Bubblegum_Crisis_Tokyo_2040 -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5691/Rekka_no_Honoo__Final_Burning -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Martial Arts, School, Sci-Fi, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/56/Avenger -- Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5712/Tanoshii_Muumin_Ikka_Bouken_Nikki -- Kids, Slice of Life, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5725/Kodai_Ouja_Kyouryuu_King__Yokuryuu_Densetsu -- Action, Adventure, Game, Kids, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/572/Kaze_no_Tani_no_Nausica -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/573/Saber_Marionette_J -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Harem, Martial Arts, Mecha, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5742/Space_Cobra_Pilot -- Action, Adventure, Space, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5760/Dororo_to_Hyakkimaru -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5783/Koisuru_Tenshi_Angelique__Chibi_Character_Adventure -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/581/Honoo_no_Labyrinth -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Samurai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5844/Pokemon__Pikachu_no_Obake_Carnival -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/584/Noein__Mou_Hitori_no_Kimi_e -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Slice of Life, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5854/Shin_Chou_Kyou_Ryo__Condor_Hero_III -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5876/Izumo -- Adventure, Historical, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/589/Ginga_Nagareboshi_Gin -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/58/Blue_Gender -- Adventure, Romance, Mecha, Military, Sci-Fi, Horror, Space, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5907/Mujigen_Hunter_Fandora -- Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5920/Xanadu_Dragonslayer_Densetsu -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5923/Utsunomiko__Heaven_Chapter -- Adventure, Demons, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/592/PopoloCrois -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5931/Ai_to_Ken_no_Camelot__Mangaka_Marina_Time_Slip_Jiken -- Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5933/Shiroi_Kiba_White_Fang_Monogatari -- Adventure, Historical, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5935/Animation_Kikou__Marco_Polo_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5940/Seiken_no_Blacksmith -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/594/Naruto__Takigakure_no_Shitou_-_Ore_ga_Eiyuu_Dattebayo -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5962/Metal_Fight_Beyblade -- Adventure, Comedy, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/597/Neko_no_Ongaeshi -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5997/Sabu_to_Ichi_Torimono_Hikae -- Action, Slice of Life, Adventure, Police, Martial Arts, Samurai, Historical, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/599/Yuugen_Kaisha -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Supernatural, Magic, Vampire
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6007/Ookami_to_Koushinryou_II__Ookami_to_Kohakuiro_no_Yuuutsu -- Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/602/KO_Seiki_Beast_Sanjuushi -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mecha, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6033/Dragon_Ball_Kai -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6046/Tales_of_Vesperia__The_First_Strike -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Military
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6050/Mahou_Sensei_Negima__Mou_Hitotsu_no_Sekai -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Magic, Ecchi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6062/Duel_Masters_Movie_2__Lunatic_God_Saga -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6067/Moeru_Oniisan -- Action, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/606/Kazemakase_Tsukikage_Ran -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Martial Arts, Samurai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/607/Otogi_Juushi_Akazukin -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/608/Sakura_Taisen__Katsudou_Shashin -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6115/Lupin_III_vs_Detective_Conan -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/613/Onmyou_Taisenki -- Adventure, Fantasy, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6152/Final_Fantasy_VII__Advent_Children_-_Venice_Film_Festival_Footage -- Action, Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6153/Saint_Seiya_Recap -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6154/Saint_Seiya__Meiou_Hades_Juuni_Kyuu-hen_-_Yomigaerishi_Gold_Saint-tachi_no_Shinwa -- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6156/Xi_Yang_Yang_Yu_Hui_Tai_Lang__Zhi_Niu_Qi_Chong_Tian -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6162/Tailenders -- Action, Adventure, Cars, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6171/Saint_Seiya__The_Lost_Canvas_-_Meiou_Shinwa -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Shounen, Super Power, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6172/Layton_Kyouju_to_Eien_no_Utahime -- Adventure, Mystery
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6178/Pokemon_Movie_12__Arceus_Choukoku_no_Jikuu_e -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/617/Juubee_Ninpuuchou -- Adventure, Historical, Horror, Supernatural, Romance, Samurai, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6189/Baton -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/618/Juubee_Ninpuuchou__Ryuuhougyoku-hen -- Adventure, Horror, Magic, Martial Arts, Samurai, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6202/Daisetsusan_no_Yuusha_Kibaou -- Adventure, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6215/Dr -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Super Power, Music, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/623/Shichinin_no_Nana -- Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Romance, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6262/Manga_Sekai_Mukashibanashi -- Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6275/Pokemon_Fushigi_no_Dungeon__Sora_no_Tankentai_-_Toki_to_Yami_wo_Meguru_Saigo_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6291/Full_Metal_Panic_The_Second_Raid_Episode_00 -- Action, Military, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6297/Kamen_Rider_Den-O__Imagin_Anime_2 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6303/Perman -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6312/Taiho_Shichau_zo__Full_Throttle_-_Watashitachi_no_Iru_Basho -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Police
https://myanimelist.net/anime/633/Legend_of_Basara -- Adventure, Romance, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6344/Shikabane_Hime__Kuro__Soredemo_Hito_to_Shite -- Action, Adventure, Horror, Supernatural, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/635/Juubee-chan__Lovely_Gantai_no_Himitsu -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/636/Juubee-chan_2__Siberia_Yagyuu_no_Gyakushuu -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Martial Arts, Samurai, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6374/Kagaku_Ninja-tai_Gatchaman_II -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6375/Kagaku_Ninja-tai_Gatchaman_F -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6421/Fullmetal_Alchemist__Brotherhood_Specials -- Military, Adventure, Drama, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6437/Sora_wo_Kakeru_Shoujo_Picture_Drama -- Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6438/Detective_Conan_OVA_09__The_Stranger_in_10_Years -- Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6443/AIKa_Zero -- Action, Ecchi, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6444/Tegamibachi -- Adventure, Supernatural, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6460/Crayon_Shin-chan_Movie_05__Ankoku_Tamatama_Daitsuiseki -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/647/Harukanaru_Toki_no_Naka_de__Ajisai_Yumegatari -- Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Demons, Historical, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6489/Zero_no_Tsukaima__Princesses_no_Rondo_Picture_Drama -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Magic, Romance, School
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6496/Cutey_Honey_Flash__The_Movie -- Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6511/Chou_Seimeitai_Transformers_Beast_Wars_Neo -- Action, Adventure, Space, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6554/Kawa_no_Hikari -- Kids, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6555/Pokemon__Pikachu_no_Kirakira_Daisousaku -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6557/Fortune_Quest__Yo_ni_mo_Shiawase_na_Boukensha-tachi -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6594/Katanagatari -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Martial Arts, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6607/Superflat_First_Love -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6633/Queens_Blade__Gyokuza_wo_Tsugu_Mono -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/664/Fullmetal_Alchemist__Reflections -- Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Military, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/665/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Adventure -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Shounen, Supernatural, Vampire
https://myanimelist.net/anime/666/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Shounen, Supernatural, Vampire
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6671/Byeolnala_Samchongsa -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6695/Mangchi -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6702/Fairy_Tail -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6704/Queens_Blade__Rurou_no_Senshi_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6714/Dragon_Ball_Z__Atsumare_Gokuu_World -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6718/Yamato_2520 -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/678/Shadow_Skill__Eigi -- Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Martial Arts, Super Power, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/679/Shadow_Skill_1996 -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/67/Basilisk__Kouga_Ninpou_Chou -- Action, Adventure, Historical, Supernatural, Romance, Samurai, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6811/InuYasha__Kanketsu-hen -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Demons, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6855/Da_Nao_Tiangong -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6872/Cyborg_009 -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6877/Pokemon__Bokutachi_Pichu_Brothers_-_Party_wa_Oosawagi_no_Maki -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6878/Usavich_Special -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6889/Time_Bokan_Series__Zenderman -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6899/Stitch__Itazura_Alien_no_Daibouken -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/68/Black_Cat_TV -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6901/Battle_Spirits__Shounen_Gekiha_Dan -- Game, Military, Adventure, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6909/Jungle_Taitei__Yuuki_ga_Mirai_wo_Kaeru -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6930/Doraemon_Movie_29__Shin_Nobita_no_Uchuu_Kaitakushi -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6941/Toriko__Jump_Super_Anime_Tour_2009_Special -- Action, Super Power, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6951/YuGiOh_Movie__Chou_Yuugou_Toki_wo_Koeta_Kizuna -- Game, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6965/Kaiketsu_Zorori__Mahoutsukai_no_Deshi_Dai_Kaizoku_no_Takara_Sagashi -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6970/Choujin_Sentai_Baratack -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6971/Gegege_no_Kitarou_1971 -- Adventure, Super Power, Demons, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6975/Koro_no_Dai_Sanpo -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6979/Shukufuku_no_Campanella -- Adventure, Fantasy, Harem, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6988/Doraemon_Movie_30__Nobita_no_Ningyo_Daikaisen -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6992/Hoshi_ni_Negai_wo__Fantastic_Cat -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6/Trigun -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7045/Doraemon_Movie_21__Nobita_no_Taiyou_Ou_Densetsu -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical, Kids, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7058/Uragiri_wa_Boku_no_Namae_wo_Shitteiru -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Shoujo, Shounen Ai
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7083/Hakushaku_to_Yousei_Specials -- Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/708/Patapata_Hikousen_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/709/Mujin_Wakusei_Survive -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7106/Ougon_Senshi_Gold_Lightan -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7109/Gyouten_Ningen_Batsealer -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/712/Zoids_Genesis -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Military
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7135/Mahou_Sensei_Negima_Movie__Anime_Final -- Adventure, Supernatural, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7144/Uchuu_Senkan_Yamato__Fukkatsu-hen -- Action, Military, Adventure, Space, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7156/Arei_no_Kagami__Way_to_the_Virgin_Space -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7230/Hoshi_ni_Negai_wo__Cold_Body___Warm_Heart -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7252/Grick_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Kids, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7285/Ginga_Tetsudou_999__Diamond_Ring_no_Kanata_e -- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7290/Cyborg_009__Kaijuu_Sensou -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7294/Licca-chan_Fushigi_na_Mahou_no_Ring -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7303/Detective_Conan__Black_History -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7304/Detective_Conan_Movie_08__Time_Travel_of_the_Silver_Sky -- Adventure, Mystery
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7305/Detective_Conan_Movie_10__Promo_Special -- Adventure, Police, Comedy, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7308/Mirai_Shounen_Conan_Movie -- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7314/Yona_Yona_Penguin -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/731/Interstella5555__The_5tory_of_The_5ecret_5tar_5ystem -- Adventure, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7329/Tottoko_Hamtarou_Movie_1__Ham-Ham_Land_Daibouken -- Kids, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7330/Tottoko_Hamtarou_Movie_2__Ham-Ham_Hamuuja_Maboroshi_no_Princess -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7334/Bakugan_Battle_Brawlers__Gundalian_Invaders -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7364/Dragon_Quest__Dai_no_Daibouken_Buchiyabure_Shinsei_6_Daishougun -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7367/Naruto__The_Cross_Roads -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/738/MR -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7395/Card_Wang__Mix_Master -- Game, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7405/Jankenman -- Adventure, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7430/Konjiki_no_Gash_Bell__Ougon_no_Chichi_wo_Motsu_Otoko -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Kids, Magic, Romance, Super Power, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7435/Dragon_Quest__Dai_no_Daibouken -- Adventure, Demons, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7436/Dragon_Quest__Dai_no_Daibouken_Tachiagare_Aban_no_Shito -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7471/Detective_Conan_Movie_09__Promo_Special -- Adventure, Police, Comedy, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7477/Fusha_no_Sha -- Adventure, Martial Arts, Samurai, Supernatural, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7491/Dragon_Quest_Retsuden__Roto_no_Monshou -- Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7496/Saiyuuki__Son_Gokuu_Monogatari -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/751/Bomberman_Jetters -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7522/Taichi_Senjimon -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/754/Yuki_no_Joou_TV -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7550/Pokemon__Pikachu_Tanken_Club -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7551/Gowapper_5_Gordam -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/757/Kaze_wo_Mita_Shounen -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7605/Parasol_Henbei -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/760/Tenjou_Tenge__The_Past_Chapter -- Adventure, Drama, Martial Arts, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7619/Gegege_no_Kitarou_1996 -- Adventure, Demons, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/761/Naruto__Akaki_Yotsuba_no_Clover_wo_Sagase -- Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7626/Umi_no_Triton_1979 -- Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/762/Bleach__Memories_in_the_Rain -- Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/763/Zoids -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/764/Zoids_Shinseiki_Zero -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7664/Nils_no_Fushigi_na_Tabi_Movie -- Kids, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7695/Pokemon_Movie_13__Genei_no_Hasha_Zoroark -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7729/Hokkyoku_no_Muushika_Miishika -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/773/Tenamonya_Voyagers -- Ecchi, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7740/Queens_Blade__Gyokuza_wo_Tsugu_Mono_Specials -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7752/Bao_Lian_Deng -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/779/Detective_Conan_Movie_01__The_Timed_Skyscraper -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/780/Detective_Conan_Movie_02__The_Fourteenth_Target -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/781/Detective_Conan_Movie_03__The_Last_Wizard_of_the_Century -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7845/Seton_Doubutsuki -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7867/Gon -- Action, Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7876/Oz_no_Mahoutsukai -- Adventure, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7904/Kemono_no_Souja_Erin_Recaps -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/791/Arion -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Drama, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/792/Ranma___Kessen_Tougenkyou_Hanayome_wo_Torimodose -- Adventure, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7939/Animation -- Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Dementia, Music, Mystery
https://myanimelist.net/anime/7953/Defend_Love -- Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Mecha, Romance, Super Power, Supernatural, Music, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/796/Mahoujin_Guru_Guru_Movie -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8026/Super_Street_Fighter_IV -- Action, Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8057/Shin_KoihimeMusou__Otome_Tairan -- Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/807/Tsubasa_Chronicle__Tori_Kago_no_Kuni_no_Himegimi -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8086/Densetsu_no_Yuusha_no_Densetsu -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/808/Bakuretsu_Hunters_OVA -- Action, Adventure, Harem, Comedy, Super Power, Magic, Romance, Ecchi, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8097/Lupin_III__The_Last_Job -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8108/Tottoko_Hamtarou_Movie_3__Ham_Ham_Grand_Prix_Aurora_Tani_no_Kiseki_-_Ribon-chan_Kiki_Ippatsu -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8109/Tottoko_Hamtarou_Movie_4__Hamtaro_to_Fushigi_no_Oni_no_Emon_Tou -- Kids, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8115/Uchuu_Show_e_Youkoso -- Adventure, Space, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/812/Chikyuu_Shoujo_Arjuna -- Adventure, Drama, Magic, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8130/Mighty_Orbots -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8139/Shin_Minashigo_Hutch -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/813/Dragon_Ball_Z -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8140/Konchuu_Monogatari_Minashigo_Hutch_1989 -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8141/Konchuu_Monogatari_Mitsubachi_Hutch__Yuuki_no_Melody -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8149/Gegege_no_Kitarou_1968_Movie -- Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Supernatural, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8150/Gegege_no_Kitarou__Chisougan -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8152/Gegege_no_Kitarou_1985_Movie -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8153/Gegege_no_Kitarou__Youkai_Daisensou -- Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Supernatural, Horror
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8154/Gegege_no_Kitarou__Saikyou_Youkai_Gundan_Nippon_Jouriku -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8155/Gegege_no_Kitarou__Gekitotsu_Ijigen_Youkai_no_Daihanran -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8157/Gegege_no_Kitarou__Youkai_Tokkyuu_Maboroshi_no_Kisha -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8158/Gegege_no_Kitarou__Jigoku-hen -- Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Supernatural, Horror
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8171/One_Piece_Recap -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8180/Koisuru_Tenshi_Angelique__Chibi_Character_Adventure_2 -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8194/Akuma-kun -- Adventure, Horror, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/81/Mobile_Suit_Gundam__The_08th_MS_Team -- Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Military, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8208/Jigoku_Sensei_Nube_Movie -- Adventure, Comedy, Horror, School, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8226/Akuma-kun_Movie -- Adventure, Horror, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8227/Akuma-kun__Youkoso_Akuma_Land_e -- Adventure, Horror, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8228/Jigoku_Sensei_Nube__Gozen_0_Ji_Nube_Shisu -- Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Supernatural, School, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8234/Muumin -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8235/Muumin_1972 -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Slice of Life
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8240/Wanpaku_Oomukashi_Kum_Kum -- Kids, Adventure, Comedy, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8245/Metal_Fight_Beyblade_vs_Taiyou__Shakunetsu_no_Shinryakusha_Sol_Blaze -- Adventure, Comedy, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8247/Bleach_Movie_4__Jigoku-hen -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/825/King_of_Fighters__Another_Day -- Adventure, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8285/Ai_no_Senshi_Rainbowman -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8310/Magic_Kaito -- Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8311/Tegamibachi_Reverse -- Adventure, Supernatural, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/834/Bleach__The_Sealed_Sword_Frenzy -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Supernatural, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8358/Crayon_Shin-chan_Movie_01__Action_Kamen_vs_Haigure_Maou -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8359/Crayon_Shin-chan_Movie_04__Henderland_no_Daibouken -- Adventure, Magic, Ecchi, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8362/Crayon_Shin-chan_Movie_08__Arashi_wo_Yobu_Jungle -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8363/Crayon_Shin-chan_Movie_11__Arashi_wo_Yobu_Eikou_no_Yakiniku_Road -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8364/Crayon_Shin-chan_Movie_12__Arashi_wo_Yobu_Yuuhi_no_Kasukabe_Boys -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Fantasy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8369/Crayon_Shin-chan_Movie_18__Chou_Jikuu_Arashi_wo_Yobu_Ora_no_Hanayome -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8373/Shin_Mitsubachi_Maya_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8375/Chogattai_Majutsu_Robot_Ginguiser -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8394/Cyborg_009_TV -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8410/Metal_Fight_Beyblade__Baku -- Adventure, Comedy, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8438/Pokemon_Ranger__Hikari_no_Kiseki -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/844/Konjiki_no_Gash_Bell__101_Banme_no_Mamono -- Adventure, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8456/Queens_Blade__Utsukushiki_Toushi-tachi -- Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/845/Kiba -- Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8490/Digimon_Adventure_3D__Digimon_Grand_Prix -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Parody, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8491/Digimon_Savers_3D__Digital_World_Kiki_Ippatsu -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Kids, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8493/Gegege_no_Kitarou__Kitarou_no_Yuurei_Densha -- Adventure, Super Power, Demons, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/84/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_0083__Stardust_Memory -- Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Romance, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/854/Soul_Link -- Action, Adventure, Space, Comedy, Romance, Military, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8553/Time_Bokan_Series__Time_Patroltai_Otasukeman -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8598/Yuki -- Adventure, Demons, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/859/Digimon_Savers -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8609/Detective_Conan_OVA_10__Kid_in_Trap_Island -- Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8624/Digimon_Xros_Wars -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/865/Kikou_Senki_Dragonar -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8664/Slime_Boukenki__Umi_da_Yeah -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Game
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8666/Mazinkaiser_SKL -- Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/866/Slayers_Premium -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/867/Slayers_Gorgeous -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/868/Slayers_Great -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/869/Slayers_Return -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8709/Pokemon__Pikachu_Koori_no_Daibouken -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/872/Mahou_Shoujo-tai_Arusu -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/873/hack__Roots -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Game, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8740/One_Piece_Film__Strong_World_Episode_0 -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/874/Digimon_Tamers -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/875/Mind_Game -- Adventure, Comedy, Dementia, Psychological, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/876/Street_Fighter_II_V -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8812/Alice_SOS -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/882/YuuYuuHakusho_Movie -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Supernatural, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8839/Gundam_Neo_Experience_0087__Green_Divers -- Adventure, Space, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/883/YuuYuuHakusho__Meikai_Shitou-hen_-_Honoo_no_Kizuna -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Supernatural, Martial Arts, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8899/Kaitei_Shounen_Marine -- Action, Adventure, Kids, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/890/Yuusha-Ou_GaoGaiGar -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8919/Licca-chan_no_Nichiyoubi -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/891/Dragon_Ball_Movie_2__Majinjou_no_Nemurihime -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/892/Dragon_Ball_Movie_3__Makafushigi_Daibouken -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/893/Dragon_Ball_Movie_4__Saikyou_e_no_Michi -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/894/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_01__Ora_no_Gohan_wo_Kaese -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8950/Akage_no_Anne__Green_Gables_e_no_Michi -- Adventure, Slice of Life, Historical, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8956/Denkou_Chou_Tokkyuu_Hikarian -- Action, Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/895/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_02__Kono_Yo_de_Ichiban_Tsuyoi_Yatsu -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8963/Stitch__Piko_Kara_no_Chousenjou -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8964/Stitch__Zutto_Saikou_no_Tomodachi -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8965/Tottoko_Hamtarou_OVA_3__Hamuchanzu_to_Niji_no_Kuni_no_Oujisama_-_Sekai_de_Ichiban_no_Takaramono -- Kids, Adventure, Comedy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8966/Tottoko_Hamtarou_OVA_4__Hamuchanzu_no_Mezase_Hamuhamu_Kin_Medal_-_Hashire_Hashire_Daisakusen -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/896/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_03__Chikyuu_Marugoto_Choukessen -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/897/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_04__Super_Saiyajin_da_Son_Gokuu -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/898/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_05__Tobikkiri_no_Saikyou_tai_Saikyou -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8995/Tales_of_Symphonia_The_Animation__Sekai_Tougou-hen -- Action, Adventure, Magic, Martial Arts, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/899/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_06__Gekitotsu_100-oku_Power_no_Senshi-tachi -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8/Bouken_Ou_Beet -- Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9000/Toaru_Hikuushi_e_no_Tsuioku -- Adventure, Military, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/900/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_07__Kyokugen_Battle_Sandai_Super_Saiyajin -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/901/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_08__Moetsukiro_Nessen_Ressen_Chougekisen -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/902/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_09__Ginga_Girigiri_Bucchigiri_no_Sugoi_Yatsu -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9035/Lupin_the_Third_x_Monkey_Majik -- Adventure, Music
https://myanimelist.net/anime/903/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_10__Kiken_na_Futari_Super_Senshi_wa_Nemurenai -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9045/Jack_to_Mame_no_Ki_OVA -- Adventure, Kids, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/904/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_11__Super_Senshi_Gekiha_Katsu_no_wa_Ore_da -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Shounen, Super Power
https://myanimelist.net/anime/905/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_12__Fukkatsu_no_Fusion_Gokuu_to_Vegeta -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/906/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_13__Ryuuken_Bakuhatsu_Gokuu_ga_Yaraneba_Dare_ga_Yaru -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9088/Saiyuuki_Gaiden -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9095/Hitomi_no_Naka_no_Shounen__Juugo_Shounen_Hyouryuuki -- Adventure, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/909/Geneshaft -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Space
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9106/Nogsaegjeoncha_Hamos -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9107/Pokemon_Best_Wishes -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/910/Himawari -- Adventure, Comedy, Martial Arts
https://myanimelist.net/anime/911/Konjiki_no_Gash_Bell__Mecha_Vulkan_no_Raishuu -- Adventure, Shounen, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/912/Ninkuu -- Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9130/Saint_Seiya__The_Lost_Canvas_-_Meiou_Shinwa_2 -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Shounen, Super Power, Supernatural
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9135/Fullmetal_Alchemist__The_Sacred_Star_of_Milos -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Military, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/915/Ginga_Densetsu_Weed -- Adventure, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9172/Kaitei_Sanman_Mile -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9200/Dae_Jang_Geum__Jang_Geums_Dream_2 -- Adventure, Comedy, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9204/Omae_Umasou_da_na -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9228/Wan_Wan_Chuushingura -- Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/924/Transformers__Choujin_Master_Force -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/925/Transformers__TheHeadmasters -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/926/Tatakae_Chou_Robot_Seimeitai_Transformers_Victory -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/927/Transformers_Superlink -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/928/Transformers_Galaxy_Force -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/929/Seisenshi_Dunbine -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/92/After_War_Gundam_X -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9314/Fractale -- Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9324/Elf_17 -- Adventure, Martial Arts, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9332/hack__Quantum -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9346/Battle_Spirits__Brave -- Game, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Demons
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9365/Wellber_no_Monogatari__Kanashimi_no_Senshi_Galahad_no_Banka -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/936/Naruto_Movie_2__Dai_Gekitotsu_Maboroshi_no_Chiteiiseki_Dattebayo -- Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9376/Yamato_Takeru__After_War -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Space, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/937/Appleseed -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Police, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9389/Ginga_Hyouryuu_Vifam__Kieta_12-nin -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Comedy, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9390/Ginga_Hyouryuu_Vifam__Keito_no_Kioku_-_Namida_no_Dakkai_Sakusen -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9395/Miyanishi_Tatsuya_Gekijou__Omae_Umasou_da_na -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9403/Shin_Mashin_Eiyuuden_Wataru_Majinzan -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/944/The_Third__Aoi_Hitomi_no_Shoujo -- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/950/Street_Fighter_Alpha__Generations -- Adventure, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9521/Tie_Shan_Gongzhu -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9528/Transformers_Superlink_Special -- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Kids, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9531/Tezuka_Osamu_Monogatari__Boku_wa_Son_Gokuu -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9535/Gongitsune -- Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9539/Cardfight_Vanguard -- Action, Game, Adventure, Demons, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/953/Jyu_Oh_Sei -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Mystery, Drama, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/956/Daikuu_Maryuu_Gaiking -- Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/957/Saiunkoku_Monogatari -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/958/HeatGuy_J -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Police, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/959/Shin_Chou_Kyou_Ryo__Condor_Hero -- Adventure, Drama, Historical, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/95/Turn_A_Gundam -- Action, Military, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Space, Drama, Romance, Mecha
https://myanimelist.net/anime/960/Shin_Chou_Kyou_Ryo__Condor_Hero_II -- Adventure, Drama, Historical, Romance
https://myanimelist.net/anime/961/Virtua_Fighter -- Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9629/Cyborg_009__The_Reopening -- Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9690/Densetsu_no_Yuusha_no_Densetsu__Iris_Report -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/969/Tsubasa_Chronicle_2nd_Season -- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Drama, Mystery, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/96/Mobile_Fighter_G_Gundam -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Martial Arts, Mecha, Romance, Sci-Fi, Space, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/970/Yokoyama_Mitsuteru_Sangokushi -- Action, Adventure, Historical
https://myanimelist.net/anime/971/Astro_Boy__Tetsuwan_Atom -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Super Power, Kids, Mecha, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/973/Glass_no_Kantai__La_Legende_du_Vent_de_lUnivers -- Adventure, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/974/Dead_Leaves -- Adventure, Psychological, Comedy, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9760/Hoshi_wo_Ou_Kodomo -- Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9768/Shima_Shima_Tora_no_Shimajirou -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9785/Detective_Conan__Conan_vs_Kid_-_Shark___Jewel -- Adventure, Comedy, Kids, Mystery, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9786/Detective_Conan__Conan_vs_Kid_-_Jet_Black_Sniper -- Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9789/Nezumi_Monogatari__George_to_Gerald_no_Bouken -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/978/Change_Getter_Robo__Sekai_Saigo_no_Hi -- Action, Psychological, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Horror, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9792/Licca-chan_Fushigi_na_Fushigi_na_Yunia_Monogatari -- Adventure, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9798/Pandane_to_Tamago-hime -- Adventure, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/97/Last_Exile -- Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9839/Detective_Conan__Black_History_2 -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/984/Dragon_Ball_Z__Saiya-jin_Zetsumetsu_Keikaku -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9857/Bakusou_Kyoudai_Lets___Go_Special -- Adventure, Cars, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9858/Bakusou_Kyoudai_Lets___Go_WGP_Bousou_Mini_Yonku_Daitsuiseki -- Adventure, Cars, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/985/Dragon_Ball_Z_Special_2__Zetsubou_e_no_Hankou_Nokosareta_Chousenshi_-_Gohan_to_Trunks -- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/986/Dragon_Ball_Z_Special_1__Tatta_Hitori_no_Saishuu_Kessen -- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9878/Licca-chan_to_Yamaneko_Hoshi_no_Tabi -- Adventure, Fantasy, Kids, Magic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/987/Dragon_Ball_GT__Gokuu_Gaiden_Yuuki_no_Akashi_wa_Suushinchuu -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9917/Pokemon_Movie_14_White__Victini_to_Kuroki_Eiyuu_Zekrom -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Kids
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9963/Detective_Conan_Movie_15__Quarter_of_Silence -- Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Police, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/996/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon__Sailor_Stars -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Romance, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/997/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon_S__Kaguya-hime_no_Koibito -- Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Shoujo
https://myanimelist.net/anime/998/Blue_Seed -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Demons, Drama, Ecchi, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9991/Bremen_4__Jigoku_no_Naka_no_Tenshi-tachi -- Kids, Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9999/One_Piece_3D__Mugiwara_Chase -- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/manga/14994/Advent_of_Snow_White_of_the_Hell
Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/manga/2387/Digimon_Adventure
https://myanimelist.net/manga/32347/JoJos_Bizarre_Adventure__Over_Heaven
https://myanimelist.net/manga/32991/The_Book__JoJos_Bizarre_Adventure_4th_Another_Day
https://myanimelist.net/manga/6043/Super_Mario_Adventures__Mario_no_Daibouken
https://myanimelist.net/manga/6774/Digimon_Adventure__V-Tamer_01
https://myanimelist.net/manga/7120/Adventure_and_Trouble_Diary
https://myanimelist.net/manga/7556/Toto__The_Wonderful_Adventure
12 Monkeys ::: TV-14 | 42min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (2015-2018) Episode Guide 47 episodes 12 Monkeys Poster -- Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will nearly destroy the human race. Creators:
12 Monkeys ::: TV-14 | 42min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (20152018) -- Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will nearly destroy the human race. Creators:
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 34min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 9 October 1992 (USA) -- Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people. Director: Ridley Scott Writer: Rose Bosch (scenario) (as Roselyne Bosch)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 20 July 1955 (USA) -- A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo. Director: Richard Fleischer Writer: Earl Felton (screenplay)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ::: 8.3/10 -- G | 2h 29min | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 12 May 1968 (UK) -- After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000. Director: Stanley Kubrick Writers:
2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 56min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7 December 1984 (USA) -- A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery, and H.A.L. Director: Peter Hyams Writers: Arthur C. Clarke (novel), Peter Hyams (screenplay)
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) ::: 6.4/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 22min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | June 1957 (USA) -- The first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows gigantic. Director: Nathan Juran Writers:
3Below: Tales of Arcadia ::: TV-Y7-FV | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20182019) -- A pair of teenage royals and their bodyguard escape from their home planet and try to blend in on Earth. Creator: Guillermo del Toro
55 Days at Peking (1963) ::: 6.7/10 -- Unrated | 2h 34min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6 May 1963 (UK) -- During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive. Directors: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green (uncredited) | 1 more credit Writers:
7Seeds ::: TV-MA | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 24 episodes 7Seeds Poster -- In the immediate future, a giant meteorite has collided with earth. All living organisms, including mankind, have been wiped off the face of the planet. The government, who had foreseen ... S Stars:
9 (2009) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 19min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 9 September 2009 -- 9 Poster -- A rag doll that awakens in a postapocalyptic future holds the key to humanity's salvation. Director: Shane Acker Writers:
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) ::: 6.4/10 -- Passed | 1h 19min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 23 June 1955 (USA) -- Two bumbling Americans stumble on the discovery of a lifetime when their search for a mummy leads them to a sacred medallion that holds the key to buried treasure. Director: Charles Lamont Writers: Lee Loeb (story), John Grant (screenplay) Stars:
Abominable (2019) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 27 September 2019 (USA) -- Three teenagers must help a Yeti return to his family while avoiding a wealthy man and a zoologist who want him for their own needs. Directors: Jill Culton, Todd Wilderman (co-director) Writer: Jill Culton
Absolutely Fabulous ::: TV-14 | 45min | Comedy | TV Series (19922012) -- The wild misadventures of Edina "Eddy" Monsoon and her best friend Patsy Stone, who live in a nearly constant haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. Stars:
A Bug's Life (1998) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 35min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 November 1998 (USA) -- A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. Directors: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton (co-director) Writers:
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 10 November 1995 (USA) -- Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, returns from a spiritual quest to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the sacred animal of a tribe in Africa. Director: Steve Oedekerk Writers:
Across the Pacific (1942) ::: 6.9/10 -- Passed | 1h 37min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5 September 1942 (USA) -- In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone. Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman (uncredited) Writers:
Act of Valor (2012) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 24 February 2012 (USA) -- An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent. Directors: Mike McCoy (as Mouse McCoy), Scott Waugh Writer: Kurt Johnstad
Ad Astra (2019) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | 20 September 2019 (USA) -- Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe. Director: James Gray Writers:
A Dog's Journey (2019) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG | 1h 49min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 17 May 2019 (USA) -- A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets. Director: Gail Mancuso Writers: W. Bruce Cameron (screenplay by), Cathryn Michon (screenplay by) | 3
A Dog's Purpose (2017) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 27 January 2017 (USA) -- A dog looks to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes and owners. Director: Lasse Hallstrm Writers: W. Bruce Cameron (screenplay by), Cathryn Michon (screenplay by) | 4
A Dog's Way Home (2019) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 11 January 2019 (USA) -- A female dog travels four hundred miles in search of her owner throughout a Colorado wilderness. Director: Charles Martin Smith Writers: W. Bruce Cameron (screenplay by), Cathryn Michon (screenplay by) | 1
Adrift (2018) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Biography | 1 June 2018 (USA) -- A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. Director: Baltasar Kormkur Writers:
Adventure, Fantasy | TV Series ::: Connections -- 9 episodes -- Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. Creators: Patrick McKay, John D. Payne Stars: Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn
Adventureland (2009) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 3 April 2009 (USA) -- In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world. Director: Greg Mottola Writer:
Adventures in Babysitting (1987) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 42min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 3 July 1987 (USA) -- A babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after. Director: Chris Columbus Writer: David Simkins
Adventures of Superman ::: TV-G | 30min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (19521958) -- The Man of Steel fights crime with help from his friends at the Daily Planet. Stars: George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson
Adventure Time: Distant Lands ::: TV-PG | 42min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Mini-Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 4 episodes Adventure Time: Distant Lands Poster -- Adventure Time has a sequel with new adventures around other worlds. Creators: Adam Muto, Pendleton Ward
Adventure Time ::: TV-PG | 11min | Animation, Short, Action | TV Series (20102018) -- A 12-year-old boy and his best friend, wise 28-year-old dog with magical powers, go on a series of surreal adventures with each other in a remote future. Creator:
Adventure Time ::: TV-PG | 11min | Animation, Short, Action | TV Series (2010-2018) Episode Guide 289 episodes Adventure Time Poster -- A 12-year-old boy and his best friend, wise 28-year-old dog with magical powers, go on a series of surreal adventures with each other in a remote future. Creator:
A Far Off Place (1993) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 12 March 1993 (USA) -- When a gang of African poachers raid her family's farm, young Nonni, visiting American teenager Harry Winslow and a local bushman guide must escape into the Kalahari desert and reach the nearest town. Director: Mikael Salomon Writers: Laurens van der Post (books), Robert Caswell (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009) ::: 7.2/10 -- TV-MA | 1h 37min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 25 January -- Afro Samurai: Resurrection Poster -- When his father's body is stolen from its grave, Afro takes up his sword again to tear through an army of deadly foes led by a sadistic leader. Director: Fuminori Kizaki Writers:
Agent Carter ::: TV-PG | 42min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (20152016) -- In 1946, Peggy Carter is relegated to secretarial duties in the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). When Howard Stark is accused of treason, he secretly recruits Peggy to clear his name with the help of his butler, Edwin Jarvis. Creators:
A Goofy Movie (1995) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 1h 18min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 7 April 1995 (USA) -- When Max makes a preposterous promise to a girl he has a crush on, his chances to fulfilling it seem hopeless when he is dragged onto a cross-country trip with his embarrassing father, Goofy. Director: Kevin Lima Writers:
Agora (2009) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 7min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 9 October 2009 (Spain) -- A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. Director: Alejandro Amenbar Writers:
Airwolf (1984) ::: 6.8/10 -- 14A | 1h 25min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Movie 22 January 1984 -- A scientist who has created a super helicopter has defected to Libya and taken the machine with him. A secretive government agency hires an ex-Vietnam War pilot to go to Libya, steal the chopper and bring it back. Director: Donald P. Bellisario Writer:
AJ and the Queen ::: TV-14 | 52min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2020) -- Ruby Red, a down-on-her-luck drag queen traveling across America, develops an unlikely sidekick named AJ. Creators: Michael Patrick King, RuPaul
Ajin ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2016- ) Episode Guide 29 episodes Ajin Poster A high school student discovers he is an Ajin, a demi-human being. He ends up a fugitive on the run because of his powers. Creators: Tsuina Miura, Gamon Sakurai Stars:
A Knight's Tale (2001) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 11 May 2001 (USA) -- After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight. Director: Brian Helgeland Writer: Brian Helgeland
Aladdin (1992) ::: 8.0/10 -- G | 1h 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 November 1992 (USA) -- A kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker Writers: Ron Clements (screenplay by), John Musker (screenplay by) | 18 more
Aladdin (2019) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 2h 8min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 24 May 2019 (USA) -- A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. Director: Guy Ritchie Writers: John August (screenplay by), Guy Ritchie (screenplay by)
Aladdin ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19941995) Aladdin, the clever hero of Agrabah, continues his adventures with the help of his fiancee Princess Jasmine, his pet monkey Abu, Magic Carpet, Iago the greedy parrot, and of course his best friend the semi-cosmic Genie. Stars: Scott Weinger, Linda Larkin, Dan Castellaneta
Aldnoah.Zero ::: TV-14 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2014- ) Episode Guide 24 episodes Aldnoah.Zero Poster In 1972, an ancient alien hypergate was discovered on the surface of the moon. Using this technology, humanity began migrating to Mars and settling there. After settlers discovered ... S Stars: Zach Aguilar, Sora Amamiya, Sandy Fox
Alex Rider ::: TV-14 | 45min | Action, Adventure, Family | TV Series (2020 ) -- Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy. Creator:
Alice in Wonderland (1951) ::: 7.4/10 -- G | 1h 15min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 14 September 1951 (USA) -- Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way. Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson | 2 more credits Writers: Lewis Carroll (adaptation) (as Lewis Carrol), Winston Hibler (story) |
Alice in Wonderland (1999) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 2h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | TV Movie 28 February 1999 -- Alice falls down a rabbit hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas. Director: Nick Willing Writers: Lewis Carroll (novel), Peter Barnes (teleplay)
Alice in Wonderland (2010) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 5 March 2010 (USA) -- Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror. Director: Tim Burton Writers:
Alien: Covenant - Advent (2017) ::: 6.8/10 -- 7min | Short, Sci-Fi | Video 15 August 2017 -- Advent is a sequel to Alien: Covenant in which David sends a transmission from the Covenant to Weyland-Yutani on Earth, elaborating upon the genetic experimentation he has been conducting on Planet 4. Director: Luke Scott Writer: Will Melton Stars:
Alien: Isolation (2014) ::: 8.7/10 -- Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | Video game released 7 October 2014 -- In this first person survival horror adventure set fifteen years after the events of Alien (1979), Ripley's daughter becomes trapped on an alien-infested space station which holds answers to the mystery of her mother's disappearance. Director: Alistair Hope (as Al Hope) Writers:
Aliens (1986) ::: 8.3/10 -- R | 2h 17min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 18 July 1986 (USA) -- Fifty-seven years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, Officer Ripley awakens from hyper-sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators. Director: James Cameron Writers:
Alita: Battle Angel (2019) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 2min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 14 February 2019 (USA) -- A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is. Director: Robert Rodriguez Writers: James Cameron (screenplay by), Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay by) | 1
A Little Romance (1979) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 27 April 1979 (USA) -- An American teenager living in Paris meets and falls in love with a local. Director: George Roy Hill Writers: Allan Burns (screenplay), Claude Klotz (novel) (as Patrick Cauvin)
All Creatures Great and Small ::: TV-PG | Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2020 ) -- The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire. Stars: Nicholas Ralph, Anna Madeley, Samuel West
All Is Lost (2013) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 46min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 25 October 2013 (Canada) -- After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face. Director: J.C. Chandor Writer:
Almost Famous (2000) ::: 7.9/10 -- R | 2h 2min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 22 September 2000 (USA) -- A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour. Director: Cameron Crowe Writer:
Alpha (2018) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 17 August 2018 (USA) -- In the prehistoric past, a young man struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe during a buffalo hunt. He finds a similarly lost wolf companion and starts a friendship that would change humanity. Director: Albert Hughes Writers:
A Man Called Horse (1970) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 1 May 1970 (USA) -- In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and aspires to become their leader. Director: Elliot Silverstein Writers: Jack DeWitt (screenplay) (as Jack De Witt), Dorothy M. Johnson (story) | 1 more credit
Amazing Stories -- PG | 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19851987) ::: Truly amazing, fantastical, funny, and odd, and sometimes scary, sad, and endearing stories are portrayed. Many famous actors, actresses, and directors made guest appearances. Creators:
American Honey (2016) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 2h 43min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 14 October 2016 (UK) -- A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits. Director: Andrea Arnold Writers:
American Ninja Warrior ::: TV-PG | 40min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2009 ) -- Contestants run, jump, crawl, climb, hang, and swing through crazy obstacles as they compete to become the next American Ninja champion. Creator: Ushio Higuchi
A Monster Calls (2016) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 48min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 6 January 2017 (USA) -- A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's terminal illness. Director: J.A. Bayona Writers: Patrick Ness (screenplay by), Patrick Ness (based upon the novel
An Adventure in Space and Time (2013) ::: 8.3/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 30min | Biography, Drama, History | TV Movie 22 November -- An Adventure in Space and Time Poster A dramatisation of the early years of Doctor Who (1963), with the story revolving around BBC executive Sydney Newman, novice producer Verity Lambert and actor William Hartnell. Director: Terry McDonough Writer: Mark Gatiss
An American Tail (1986) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 1h 20min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 21 November 1986 (USA) -- While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country. Director: Don Bluth Writers: Judy Freudberg (screenplay), Tony Geiss (screenplay) | 3 more credits Stars:
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) ::: 6.5/10 -- G | 1h 15min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 22 November 1991 (USA) -- A family of Emigre mice decide to move out to the West, unaware that they are falling into a trap perpetrated by a smooth-talking cat. Directors: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells Writers: Flint Dille (screenplay), Charles Swenson (story) | 1 more credit
Anastasia (1997) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 34min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 21 November 1997 (USA) -- The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death. Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman Writers:
Andromeda ::: TV-PG | 43min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20002005) -- Captain Dylan Hunt and the crew of the Andromeda Ascendant set out on a mission to rebuild the Systems Commonwealth 300 years after its fall. Creators: Gene Roddenberry, Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Andromeda ::: TV-PG | 43min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20002005) -- Trailer
An Idiot Abroad ::: TV-14 | 43min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20102012) -- Brit Karl Pilkington has led a sheltered life. Not having done any traveling, he enjoys living within the comforts of what he knows, basically that being what is purely British. As such, ... S Stars:
Animaniacs ::: TV-Y7 | 21min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19931998) -- The zany adventures of a trio of 1930s animated characters in the modern world. Creator: Tom Ruegger
Anne with an E ::: Anne (original tit ::: TV-PG | 1h | Drama, Family | TV Series (20172019) -- The adventures of a young orphan girl living in the late 19th century. Follow Anne as she learns to navigate her new life on Prince Edward Island, in this new take on L.M. Montgomery's classic novels. Creator:
Annie (1982) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 2h 7min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 18 June 1982 (USA) -- A young orphan girl's adventures in finding a family that will take her. Director: John Huston Writers: Carol Sobieski (screenplay), Thomas Meehan (book) | 1 more credit
Annihilation (2018) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 55min | Adventure, Drama, Horror | 23 February 2018 (USA) -- A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply. Director: Alex Garland Writers: Alex Garland (written for the screen by), Jeff VanderMeer (based on the
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day ::: Ano hi mita hana no namae o bokutachi wa mada shiranai. (original tit ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2011) Five childhood companions reunite when the ghost of their dead friends appears, and demands they grant her final wish. Stars: Miyu Irino, Ai Kayano, Haruka Tomatsu
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Reality-TV | TV Series (20052012) Anthony Bourdain, chef, writer, traveler, visits places all around the world sampling various foods. Stars: Anthony Bourdain, Tom Vitale, Zamir Gotta Available on Amazon
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown ::: TV-PG | 42min | Documentary, Adventure | TV Series (20132018) -- Anthony Bourdain visits countries, delving into their political issues as well as indigenous food and culture. Stars: Anthony Bourdain, Tom Vitale, David Scott Holloway | See full cast &
Ant-Man (2015) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 17 July 2015 (USA) -- Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, cat burglar Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world. Director: Peyton Reed Writers:
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 58min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 6 July 2018 (USA) -- As Scott Lang balances being both a superhero and a father, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds the Ant-Man fighting alongside The Wasp to uncover secrets from their past. Director: Peyton Reed Writers:
Antz (1998) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 2 October 1998 (USA) -- A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves. Directors: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson Writers: Todd Alcott (screenplay), Chris Weitz (screenplay) | 1 more credit
A Passage to India (1984) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 2h 44min | Adventure, Drama, History | 1 February 1985 (USA) -- Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. Director: David Lean Writers:
A Place Further Than the Universe ::: Sora yori mo Tooi Basho (original title) 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2018- ) Episode Guide 13 episodes A Place Further Than the Universe Poster Mari Tamaki is in her second year of high school and wants to start something. It's then that she meets Shirase, a girl with few friends who's considered weirdo by the rest of the class and... S Stars: Inori Minase, Kana Hanazawa, Yuka Iguchi
Apollo 13 (1995) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 2h 20min | Adventure, Drama, History | 30 June 1995 (USA) -- NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. Director: Ron Howard Writers:
Appare-Ranman! ::: TV-14 | Animation, Adventure | TV Series (2020) Episode Guide 13 episodes Appare-Ranman! Poster In the late 19th century, two Japanese, an inventor and a samurai guard, get stranded in America. They enter a cross-country race from Los Angeles to New York to earn money to get home. Stars: Kellen Goff, Ace Anderson, Jaltiza Delgado
Appleseed Alpha (2014) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 33min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 15 July 2014 (USA) -- A tough, cute woman and a cyborg arrive at a depopulated, post WW3 Times Sq. They leave the ruins of NYC with 2 on a secret mission. Director: Shinji Aramaki Writers: Marianne Krawczyk (screenplay), Shirow Masamune (original story) (as
Aquaman (2018) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 23min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 21 December 2018 (USA) -- Arthur Curry, the human-born heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, goes on a quest to prevent a war between the worlds of ocean and land. Director: James Wan Writers:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 26min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 13 April 2007 (USA) -- An action epic that explores the origins of Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad, better known as the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment. Directors: Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis Writers:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force ::: TV-14 | 15min | Animation, Comedy | TV Series (20002015) -- The misadventures of a milkshake, an order of fries, a meatball, and their retired next door neighbor in the suburbs of New Jersey. Creators: Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro
Arabesque (1966) ::: 6.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 18 August 1966 -- Arabesque Poster Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics. Director: Stanley Donen Writers: Julian Mitchell (screenplay), Stanley Price (screenplay) | 2 more credits
A Rainy Day in New York (2019) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance | 10 November 2020 (USA) -- A young couple arrives in New York for a weekend where they are met with bad weather and a series of adventures. Director: Woody Allen Writer: Woody Allen
Arctic (2018) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 38min | Adventure, Drama | 31 January 2019 (Denmark) -- A man stranded in the Arctic after a plane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown. Director: Joe Penna Writers:
Are You Being Served? ::: TV-PG | 28min | Comedy | TV Series (19721985) -- The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store. Creators: Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft
Armageddon (1998) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 31min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 1 July 1998 (USA) -- After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet. Director: Michael Bay Writers:
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) ::: 6.8/10 -- G | 2h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 17 October 1956 (USA) -- A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. Directors: Michael Anderson, John Farrow (uncredited) Writers: James Poe (screenplay), John Farrow (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Arrow ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (20122020) -- Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow. Creators:
Arthur Christmas (2011) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 23 November 2011 (USA) -- Santa's clumsy son Arthur sets out on a mission with Grandsanta to give out a present they misplaced to a young girl in less than two hours. Directors: Sarah Smith, Barry Cook (co-director) Writers: Peter Baynham (screenplay), Sarah Smith (screenplay)
Arthur ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (1996 ) -- Based on the books by Marc Brown, these are the adventures of Arthur, an 8-year-old aardvark, and his family and friends as they grow up and learn how to be good neighbors to one another. Stars:
Ascendance of a Bookworm ::: Honzuki no Gekokujou (original tit ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 27 episodes Ascendance of a Bookworm Poster Urano, a young Japanese soon-to-be librarian, dies in an earthquake. She is reincarnated in another world as a young girl named Mayne, but learns that books are scarce and only provided to ... S Stars: Reba Buhr, Yuka Iguchi, Lizzie Freeman
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 17 December 2004 (USA) -- When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, who is secretly plotting to steal their parents' vast fortune. Director: Brad Silberling Writers:
A Series of Unfortunate Events ::: TV-PG | 50min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (20172019) -- After the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three Baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets. Stars:
A Series of Unfortunate Events ::: TV-PG | 50min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2017-2019) Episode Guide 25 episodes A Series of Unfortunate Events Poster -- After the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three Baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets. Stars:
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 1h 26min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 14 February 2020 (USA) -- When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her. Directors: Will Becher, Richard Phelan Writers:
Assassin's Creed (2016) ::: 5.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 21 December 2016 (USA) -- Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society. Director: Justin Kurzel Writers:
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 15 June 2001 (USA) -- A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis. Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Writers: Tab Murphy (screenplay by), Kirk Wise (story by) | 6 more credits
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 15 June 2001 (USA) -- A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.
Atlantis ::: TV-PG | 45min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (20132015) -- Far from home, Jason washes up on the shores of the ancient and mysterious city of Atlantis. Creators: Howard Overman, Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy
Attack on Titan ::: Shingeki no kyojin (original tit ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2013- ) Episode Guide 84 episodes Attack on Titan Poster -- After his hometown is destroyed and his mother is killed, young Eren Jaeger vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Stars:
Attack the Block (2011) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 13 May 2011 (UK) -- A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. Director: Joe Cornish Writer: Joe Cornish
Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun ::: TV-MA | 20min | Comedy | TV Series (2020 ) -- In their new sketch series, Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun take viewers along for an absurdist adventure through their everyday lives. Creator: Aunty Donna
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 29min | Adventure, Comedy | 2 May 1997 (USA) -- A world-class playboy and part-time secret agent from the 1960s emerges after thirty years in a cryogenic state to battle with his nemesis Dr. Evil. Director: Jay Roach Writer:
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 35min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 11 June 1999 (USA) -- Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless". Director: Jay Roach Writers:
Australia (2008) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 26 November 2008 (USA) -- Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand. Director: Baz Luhrmann
Avatar (2009) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 42min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 18 December 2009 (USA) -- A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. Director: James Cameron Writer:
Avatar: The Last Airbender ::: TV-Y7-FV | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2005-2008) Episode Guide 62 episodes Avatar: The Last Airbender Poster -- In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world. Creators:
Avatar: The Last Airbender ::: TV-Y7-FV | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20052008) -- In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world. Creators:
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 21min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 1 May 2015 (USA) -- When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plan. Director: Joss Whedon Writers:
Avengers Assemble ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20132019) -- The further adventures of the Marvel Universe's mightiest general membership superhero team. Creators: Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Stan Lee
Avengers: Endgame (2019) ::: 8.4/10 -- PG-13 | 3h 1min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 26 April 2019 (USA) -- After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe. Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Writers:
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) ::: 8.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 29min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 27 April 2018 (USA) -- The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Writers:
A View to a Kill (1985) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 2h 11min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 24 May 1985 (USA) -- The recovery of a microchip off the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley. Director: John Glen Writers:
Avonlea ::: Road to Avonlea (original tit ::: TV-G | 1h | Drama, Adventure, Family | TV Series (19901996) A young rich girl is sent to live with relatives on Prince Edward Island in the early 1900s. Creator: Fiona McHugh Stars:
A Walk in the Woods (2015) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 44min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy | 2 September 2015 (USA) -- After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte). Director: Ken Kwapis Writers:
Away We Go (2009) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 38min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 26 June 2009 (USA) -- A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time. Director: Sam Mendes
Babar ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19892002) -- The adventures of the King of the elephants, his family, and friends. Stars: Richard Binsley, Gordon Pinsent, Dawn Greenhalgh
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999) ::: 7.2/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 34min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Movie 3 January 1999 -- The Drakh, allies of the Shadows, seek revenge against humanity after the Second Shadow War. Director: Michael Vejar Writers: J. Michael Straczynski (creator), J. Michael Straczynski Stars:
Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998) ::: 7.7/10 -- Unrated | 1h 34min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Movie 4 January 1998 -- Emperor Londo Mollari of the Centauri Republic tells the story of the Earth-Minbari War that almost destroyed humanity and later inspired its last best, hope for peace. Director: Michael Vejar Writers: J. Michael Straczynski (creator), J. Michael Straczynski Stars:
Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998) ::: 6.7/10 -- 1h 34min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Movie 8 November 1998 -- A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them. Director: Janet Greek Writers: J. Michael Straczynski (creator), J. Michael Straczynski Stars:
Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998) ::: 7.0/10 -- 1h 34min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Movie 19 July 1998 -- The crew of Babylon 5 discover an ancient artifact floating in hyperspace. Director: Jess Salvador Trevio Writers: J. Michael Straczynski (creator), J. Michael Straczynski Stars:
Babylon 5 ::: TV-PG | 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (1993-1998) Episode Guide 111 episodes Babylon 5 Poster -- In the mid 23rd century, the Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5, located in neutral territory, is a major focal point for political intrigue, racial tensions and various wars over the course of five years. Creator:
Babylon 5 ::: TV-PG | 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19931998) -- In the mid 23rd century, the Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5, located in neutral territory, is a major focal point for political intrigue, racial tensions and various wars over the course of five years. Creator:
Baccano! ::: TV-MA | 6h 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20072008) -- A crazy fantasy caper involving alchemists, immortals, gangsters, outlaws and an elixir of immortality, spread over several decades. Creator: Rygo Narita
Baccano! ::: TV-MA | 6h 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2007-2008) Episode Guide 16 episodes Baccano! Poster -- A crazy fantasy caper involving alchemists, immortals, gangsters, outlaws and an elixir of immortality, spread over several decades. Creator: Rygo Narita
Back to the Future (1985) ::: 8.5/10 -- PG | 1h 56min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 3 July 1985 (USA) -- Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writers:
Back to the Future Part II (1989) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 22 November 1989 (USA) -- After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writers:
Back to the Future Part III (1990) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 58min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 25 May 1990 (USA) -- Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is murdered. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writers:
Bacurau (2019) ::: 7.4/10 -- 2h 11min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery | 19 March 2020 (USA) -- After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents. Directors: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendona Filho Writers:
Bad Boy Bubby (1993) ::: 7.4/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 54min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 26 April 2005 (USA) -- Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape, and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into the modern and nihilistic life begins. Director: Rolf de Heer Writer: Rolf de Heer
Bad Company (1972) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 22 December 1972 (West -- Bad Company Poster A God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west Director: Robert Benton Writers: David Newman, Robert Benton
Balto (1995) ::: 7.1/10 -- G | 1h 18min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 22 December 1995 (USA) -- An outcast Husky risks his life with other sled dogs to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska. Director: Simon Wells Writers: Cliff Ruby (screenplay), Elana Lesser (screenplay) | 2 more credits Stars:
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 47min | Comedy | 12 February 2021 (USA) -- Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time - ever. Director: Josh Greenbaum Writers:
Barry Lyndon (1975) ::: 8.1/10 -- PG | 3h 5min | Adventure, Drama, History | 18 December 1975 (USA) -- An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. Director: Stanley Kubrick Writers: Stanley Kubrick (written for the screen by), William Makepeace
Batman (1989) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 6min | Action, Adventure | 23 June 1989 (USA) -- The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker. Director: Tim Burton Writers:
Batman Begins (2005) ::: 8.2/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 20min | Action, Adventure | 15 June 2005 (USA) -- After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption. Director: Christopher Nolan Writers: Bob Kane (characters), David S. Goyer (story) | 2 more credits
Batman Beyond ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19992001) -- Fuelled by remorse and vengeance, a high schooler named Terry McGinnis revives the role of Batman. Under supervision of an elderly Bruce Wayne, he fights crime in a harsh, futuristic Gotham. Creators:
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 18min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 23 January 2018 (USA) -- In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while he investigates a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper. Director: Sam Liu Writers: James Krieg (as Jim Krieg), Brian Augustyn (graphic novel: "Gotham by Gaslight") | 5 more credits Stars:
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 18min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 11 October 2016 (USA) -- Batman and Robin of the 1960s live action series are back in action to take down their fiendish foes united once more against them. Director: Rick Morales Writers: Michael Jelenic (screenplay by), James Tucker (screenplay by) | 4 more
Batman: The Animated Series ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1992-1995) Episode Guide 85 episodes Batman: The Animated Series Poster -- The Dark Knight battles crime in Gotham City with occasional help from Robin and Batgirl. Creators: Bob Kane, Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm | 2 more credits
Batman: The Animated Series ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19921995) -- The Dark Knight battles crime in Gotham City with occasional help from Robin and Batgirl. Creators: Bob Kane, Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm | 2 more credits
Batman: The Brave and the Bold ::: TV-Y7-FV | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20082011) -- An updated animated series centering on the Caped Crusader himself as he partners and deals with his fellow superheroes in the DC Comics universe. Creators:
Batman: The Movie (1966) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 30 July 1966 (USA) -- The Dynamic Duo faces four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people. Director: Leslie H. Martinson Writers:
Batman ::: TV-G | 25min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19661968) -- The Caped Crusader and his young ward battle evildoers in Gotham City. Creators: Lorenzo Semple Jr., William Dozier
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 32min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 25 March 2016 (USA) -- Fearing that the actions of Superman are left unchecked, Batman takes on the Man of Steel, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs. Director: Zack Snyder Writers:
Battlestar Galactica (1978) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 2h 28min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 18 May 1979 (USA) -- After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. Directors: Richard A. Colla, Alan J. Levi (uncredited) Writer:
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012) ::: 7.0/10 -- Unrated | 1h 31min | Action, Sci-Fi | TV Movie 9 November 2012 -- The adventures of young William Adama in the First Cylon War. Director: Jonas Pate Writers: Michael Taylor (creator), David Eick (creator) | 6 more credits
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012) ::: 7.0/10 -- Unrated | 1h 31min | Action, Sci-Fi | TV Movie 9 November 2012 -- The adventures of young William Adama in the First Cylon War. Director: Jonas Pate Writers: Michael Taylor (creator), David Eick (creator) | 6 more credits
Battlestar Galactica ::: TV-14 | 3h 3min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Mini-Series (2003) Episode Guide 2 episodes Battlestar Galactica Poster -- Following the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol by the Cylons, a rag-tag fugitive fleet of the last remnants of mankind flees the pursuing Cylons while simultaneously searching for their true home: Earth. Stars:
Battlestar Galactica ::: TV-14 | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20042009) -- When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Creators:
Bean (1997) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 29min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7 November 1997 (USA) -- The bumbling Mr. Bean travels to America when he is given the responsibility of bringing a highly valuable painting to a Los Angeles museum. Director: Mel Smith Writers:
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 5 July 2012 (Russia) -- Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love. Director: Benh Zeitlin Writers:
Beat the Devil (1953) ::: 6.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 29min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 17 December 1953 -- Beat the Devil Poster -- On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen... Director: John Huston Writers:
Beau Geste (1939) ::: 7.6/10 -- Passed | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 24 July 1939 (USA) -- Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire. Director: William A. Wellman Writers: Robert Carson (screen play), Percival Christopher Wren (based on the novel by)
Beauty and the Beast ::: TV-PG | 1h | Crime, Fantasy, Drama | TV Series (19871990) -- The adventures and romance of a sensitive and cultured lion-man and a crusading assistant district attorney in Manhattan, New York City. Creator: Ron Koslow
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 21min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 20 December 1996 -- Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Poster -- Our intrepid adolescent heroes wake up to find their beloved television stolen, and embark on an epic journey across America to recover it, and, who knows, maybe even score. Directors: Mike Judge, Mike de Seve (as Mike DeSeve) | 2 more credits Writers:
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) ::: 7.1/10 -- G | 1h 57min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 13 December 1971 (USA) -- An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II. Directors: Robert Stevenson, Ward Kimball (uncredited) Writers:
Beetlejuice ::: TV-Y | 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19891991) -- Adventures of the ghostly con-artist and his 12-year-old pal, Lydia. Stars: Stephen Ouimette, Alyson Court, Tabitha St. Germain
Before I Disappear (2014) ::: 7.2/10 -- Unrated | 1h 33min | Adventure, Drama | 28 November 2014 (USA) -- At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours. Director: Shawn Christensen Writer:
Before We Go (2014) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 21 July 2015 (USA) -- Two strangers stuck in Manhattan for the night grow into each other's most trusted confidants when an evening of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives. Director: Chris Evans Writers:
Being Erica ::: TV-14 | 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (20092011) -- "Therapist" Dr. Tom - who is constantly spouting famous and not so famous historical quotes - is Erica Strange's savior and worst enemy. Creator: Jana Sinyor
Ben 10: Alien Force ::: TV-Y7 | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20082010) -- Fifteen-year-old Ben Tennyson must utilize the Omnitrix yet again in order to locate his missing Grandpa Max, accompanied by his cousin Gwen and former enemy Kevin 11. Creators:
Ben 10 ::: TV-Y7-FV | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20052008) -- The story of Ben Tennyson, a typical kid who becomes very atypical after he discovers the Omnitrix, a mysterious alien device with the power to transform the wearer into ten different alien species. Creators:
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien ::: TV-Y7 | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20102012) With his secret identity now revealed to the world, Ben Tennyson continues to fight evil as a superhero with the help of the newly acquired Ultimatrix. Creators: Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau | 1 more credit Stars:
Bend of the River (1952) ::: 7.3/10 -- Approved | 1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 15 April 1952 -- Bend of the River Poster -- When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them. Director: Anthony Mann Writers:
Ben-Hur (1959) ::: 8.1/10 -- G | 3h 32min | Adventure, Drama, History | 18 November 1959 (Canada) -- After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. Director: William Wyler Writers: Lew Wallace (A Tale of Christ) (as General Lew Wallace), Karl Tunberg
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) ::: 7.8/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 23min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 8 October 1927 (USA) -- A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. Directors: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin (uncredited) | 3 more credits Writers: Lew Wallace (novel) (as General Lew Wallace), June Mathis (adaptation) | 3 more credits Stars:
Berserk ::: Kenp Denki Berserk (original tit ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19971998) -- Guts is a skilled swordsman who joins forces with a mercenary group named 'The Band of the Hawk', lead by the charismatic Griffith, and fights with them as they battle their way into the royal court. Creators:
Berserk ::: Kenp Denki Berserk (original tit ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1997-1998) Episode Guide 25 episodes Berserk Poster -- Guts is a skilled swordsman who joins forces with a mercenary group named 'The Band of the Hawk', lead by the charismatic Griffith, and fights with them as they battle their way into the royal court. Creators:
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent (2013) ::: 7.9/10 -- Berserk: Ougon jidai-hen III - Kourin (original title) -- (Japan) Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent Poster A year has passed since Guts parted ways with Griffith. The Band of the Hawks is plotting a rescue mission to save Griffith who is confined to prison. Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka Writers: Kentaro Miura (manga), Ichir kouchi (screenplay)
Beware the Batman ::: TV-PG | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20132014) -- Batman, a crime-fighting vigilante of Gotham City, goes up against the underworld. Creator: Mitch Watson
Beyond Borders (2003) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 24 October 2003 (USA) -- The world's cruelty is confronted with the love of two different people who try to save mankind from poverty and war. Director: Martin Campbell Writer: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Beyond Rangoon (1995) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 40min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 25 August 1995 (USA) -- Laura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son, and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she... S Director: John Boorman Writers:
Big Fish (2003) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 5min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 9 January 2004 (USA) -- A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life. Director: Tim Burton Writers: Daniel Wallace (novel), John August (screenplay)
Big Hero 6 (2014) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 7 November 2014 (USA) -- A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who together team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. Directors: Don Hall, Chris Williams Writers:
Big Trouble in Little China (1986) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 2 July 1986 (USA) -- A rough-and-tumble trucker helps rescue his friend's fiance from an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown. Director: John Carpenter Writers: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein | 1 more credit
Biker Mice from Mars ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19931996) -- When three alien motorcycle riding mice are forced to leave their home planet of Mars thanks to the evil mining Plutarkians, they rebel against their enemies on planet Earth and the city of Chicago. Creators:
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2015) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 45min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 2 February 2018 (USA) -- A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history. Directors: Khurram H. Alavi, Ayman Jamal
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Music | 17 February 1989 (USA) -- Two seemingly dumb teens set off on a quest to prepare the ultimate historical presentation with the help of a time machine. Director: Stephen Herek Writers: Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon
Billy Budd (1962) ::: 7.8/10 -- Approved | 2h 3min | Adventure, Drama, War | 12 November 1962 (USA) -- Billy Budd is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried. Director: Peter Ustinov Writers:
Birds of Prey ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20022003) -- In the future, long after the Batman has driven himself into exile, his legacy lives on in the form of the Birds of Prey--Black Canary, Oracle, and the Huntress. Creator:
Bite the Bullet (1975) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Western | 25 June 1975 (USA) -- A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert. Director: Richard Brooks Writer: Richard Brooks
Black Beauty (1994) ::: 6.6/10 -- G | 1h 28min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 29 July 1994 (USA) -- The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life. Director: Caroline Thompson Writers: Anna Sewell (novel), Caroline Thompson (screenplay)
Black Books ::: TV-PG | 25min | Comedy | TV Series (20002004) -- Bernard Black runs a book shop, though his customer service skills leave something to be desired. He hires Manny as an employee. Fran runs the shop next door. Between the three of them many adventures ensue. Creator:
Black Clover ::: TV-PG | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2017-2021) Episode Guide 170 episodes Black Clover Poster -- Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next Emperor Magus. Stars:
Black Dynamite ::: TV-MA | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20112015) -- The Black Dynamite animated series further chronicles the exploits of the central character, Black Dynamite and his crew. Action comedy-spoof that follows ex-C.I.A. Agent and full-time ... S Creators:
Black Panther (2018) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 14min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 16 February 2018 (USA) -- T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past. Director: Ryan Coogler Writers:
Black Robe (1991) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 41min | Adventure, Drama, History | 4 October 1991 (USA) -- In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions. Director: Bruce Beresford Writers:
Black Sails ::: TV-MA | 56min | Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2014-2017) Episode Guide 38 episodes Black Sails Poster -- Follows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Treasure Island." Creators: Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg
Black Sails ::: TV-MA | 56min | Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20142017) -- Follows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Treasure Island." Creators: Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg
Black Sea (2014) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 23 January 2015 (USA) -- In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold. Director: Kevin Macdonald Writer:
Black Sunday (1977) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 2h 23min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 1 April 1977 (USA) -- Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance. Director: John Frankenheimer Writers: Thomas Harris (based on the novel by), Ernest Lehman (screenplay by) | 2 more credits
Blackthorn (2011) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Western | 1 July 2011 (Spain) -- In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike. Director: Mateo Gil Writer:
Blake's 7 ::: Not Rated | 50min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Series (19781981) A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship. Creator: Terry Nation Stars:
Blood Diamond (2006) ::: 8.0/10 -- R | 2h 23min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 8 December 2006 (USA) -- A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. Director: Edward Zwick Writers: Charles Leavitt (screenplay), Charles Leavitt (story) | 1 more credit
Blood Drive ::: TV-MA | 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2017) -- In a dystopian alternate 1999, a former cop is forced to take part in a death race in which cars run on human blood as fuel. Creator: James Roland
Blood & Treasure ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019 ) -- An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts. Creators: Matthew Federman, Stephen Scaia
Bobby's World ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (19901998) -- A boy named Bobby Generic creates adventures using his overactive imagination. Creators: Howie Mandel, Jim Staahl, Jim Fisher
Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, So I'll Max Out My Defense ::: Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu (original tit ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 12 episodes Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, So I'll Max Out My Defense Poster Honjou Kaede is invited by her friend Shiramine Risa to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. Stars: Jad Saxton, Megan Shipman, Anthony Bowling
Bolt (2008) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 21 November 2008 (USA) -- The canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just as real. Directors: Byron Howard, Chris Williams Writers:
Boom Town (1940) ::: 7.1/10 -- Passed | 1h 59min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 30 August 1940 (USA) -- Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. Director: Jack Conway Writers: John Lee Mahin (screen play), James Edward Grant (based on a story by)
Born Free (1966) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 22 June 1966 (USA) -- The story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt. Directors: James Hill, Tom McGowan (uncredited) Writers: Joy Adamson (book), Lester Cole (screenplay)
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2017- ) Episode Guide 191 episodes Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Poster -- Son of Naruto Uzumaki, Boruto, follows his father's footsteps along with his friends to become great ninja. Throughout all their adventures, Boruto is determined to make his mark in the ninja world and live outside of his father's shadow. Stars:
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2017 ) -- Son of Naruto Uzumaki, Boruto, follows his father's footsteps along with his friends to become great ninja. Throughout all their adventures, Boruto is determined to make his mark in the ninja world and live outside of his father's shadow. Stars:
Brave (2012) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 June 2012 (USA) -- Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse. Directors: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman | 1 more credit Writers:
Bravest Warriors ::: TV-PG | 5min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2012 ) Four teenage heroes-for-hire warp through the universe to save adorable aliens and their worlds using the power of their emotions. Creators: Pendleton Ward, Will McRobb, Breehn Burns | 1 more credit Stars:
Bravo Two Zero (1999) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 2h 2min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Movie 15 June 1999 -- This is the true story of the most highly decorated British patrol since the Boer war: an eight man SAS team inserted behind Iraqi lines during the Gulf War in January 1991. Their mission ... S Director: Tom Clegg Writers:
Breathe (2017) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 58min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 27 October 2017 (UK) -- The inspiring true love story of Robin (Andrew Garfield) and Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis. Director: Andy Serkis Writer:
Broken Lance (1954) ::: 6.9/10 -- Approved | 1h 36min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 25 September 1954 -- Broken Lance Poster -- The saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880's Arizona. Director: Edward Dmytryk Writers: Richard Murphy (screenplay), Philip Yordan (story)
Brother Bear (2003) ::: 6.8/10 -- G | 1h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 1 November 2003 (USA) -- When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back. Directors: Aaron Blaise (as Aarn Blaise), Robert Walker (as Rbert Walker) Writers:
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 29min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 30 March 1979 (USA) -- A 20th century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time where Earth is threatened by alien invaders. Director: Daniel Haller Writers: Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens | 1 more credit Stars:
Bumblebee (2018) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 21 December 2018 (USA) -- On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. On the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, Charlie Watson discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. Director: Travis Knight Writer:
Camelot (1967) ::: 6.7/10 -- G | 2h 55min | Adventure, Fantasy, Musical | 25 October 1967 (USA) -- The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights. Director: Joshua Logan Writers:
Camp Lazlo! ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (20042008) Bean Scout Lazlo, a fun-loving, free-spirited monkey, and his two bunkmates Raj and Clam, wreak havoc on a very structured summer camp. Creator: Joe Murray Stars:
Candleshoe (1977) ::: 6.8/10 -- G | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 16 December 1977 (USA) -- Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find. Director: Norman Tokar Writers:
Capricorn One (1977) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 2 June 1978 (USA) -- When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched. Director: Peter Hyams Writer:
Captain America: Civil War (2016) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 27min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6 May 2016 (USA) -- Political involvement in the Avengers' affairs causes a rift between Captain America and Iron Man. Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Writers: Christopher Markus (screenplay by), Stephen McFeely (screenplay by) | 2
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 22 July 2011 (USA) -- Steve Rogers, a rejected military soldier, transforms into Captain America after taking a dose of a "Super-Soldier serum". But being Captain America comes at a price as he attempts to take down a war monger and a terrorist organization. Director: Joe Johnston Writers:
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 4 April 2014 (USA) -- As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Writers:
Captain Blood (1935) ::: 7.7/10 -- Passed | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, History | 28 December 1935 (USA) -- A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean. Director: Michael Curtiz Writers: Rafael Sabatini (based on novel by), Casey Robinson (screen play)
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels ::: TV-G | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19771980) The adventures of a superhero caveman and a trio of female amateur detectives. Creators: Joe Ruby, Ken Spears Stars:
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) ::: 7.3/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 10 April 1951 (UK) -- During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters. Director: Raoul Walsh Writers: Ivan Goff (screenplay), Ben Roberts (screenplay) | 3 more credits
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 31min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery | 14 June 1974 (USA) -- A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires. Director: Brian Clemens Writer: Brian Clemens Stars:
Captain Marvel (2019) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8 March 2019 (USA) -- Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Writers:
Captain Phillips (2013) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 14min | Adventure, Biography, Crime | 11 October 2013 (USA) -- The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. Director: Paul Greengrass Writers:
Captain Planet and the Planeteers ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19901996) -- A quintet of teenagers work together to encourage environmentally responsible behavior and can summon a superhero to deal with ecological disasters. Creators:
Captains Courageous (1937) ::: 8.0/10 -- G | 1h 57min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 25 June 1937 (USA) -- A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work. Director: Victor Fleming Writers:
Carmen Sandiego ::: TV-Y7-FV | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20192021) -- The adventures of Carmen Sandiego, a globe-hopping master thief. Creator: Duane Capizzi
Carry on Camping (1969) ::: 6.7/10 -- Carry On Camping (original title) -- Carry on Camping Poster Farcical misadventures by guests in an English holiday centre. Director: Gerald Thomas Writer: Talbot Rothwell (screenplay) Stars:
Cars 3 (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- G | 1h 42min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 16 June 2017 (USA) -- Lightning McQueen sets out to prove to a new generation of racers that he's still the best race car in the world. Director: Brian Fee Writers: Brian Fee (original story by), Ben Queen (original story by) | 5 more
Casanova (2005) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 52min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 6 January 2006 (USA) -- The fabled romantic Giacomo Casanova, after failing to win the affection of the Venetian woman Francesca Bruni, strives to discover the real meaning of love. Director: Lasse Hallstrm Writers:
Casino Royale (2006) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 24min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 17 November 2006 (USA) -- After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro. Director: Martin Campbell Writers:
Cast Away (2000) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 23min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 22 December 2000 (USA) -- A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writer: William Broyles Jr.
Castlevania ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2017 ) -- A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly creatures controlled by Dracula. Creator: Warren Ellis
Castlevania ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2017- ) Episode Guide 22 episodes Castlevania Poster -- A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly creatures controlled by Dracula. Creator: Warren Ellis
CatDog ::: TV-Y | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19982005) -- The comic misadventures of a tidy, refined Cat and a goofy, uncouth Dog joined at the abdomen. Creator: Peter Hannan
Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious ::: Shinch ysha ~ kono ysha ga ore TUEEE kuse ni shinch sugiru ~ (original tit ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 12 episodes Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious Poster The goddess Rista summons a hero to help her hard mode video game-like world. The hero, Seiya, is exceptional in every way, but he is incredibly cautious. He does things like buy three sets... S Stars:
Celda 211 (2009) ::: 7.6/10 -- 13+ | 1h 53min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 6 November 2009 (Spain) -- The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal. Director: Daniel Monzn Writers:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 15 July 2005 (USA) -- A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker. Director: Tim Burton Writers: Roald Dahl (book), John August (screenplay)
Charlie's Angels ::: TV-PG | 1h | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (19761981) -- A wealthy mystery man named Charlie runs a detective agency via a speakerphone and his personal assistant, John Bosley. His detectives are three beautiful women, who end up in a variety of difficult situations. Creators:
Chef (2014) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 30 May 2014 (USA) -- A head chef quits his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family. Director: Jon Favreau Writer:
Chicken Run (2000) ::: 7.0/10 -- G | 1h 24min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 23 June 2000 (USA) -- When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners. Directors: Peter Lord, Nick Park Writers: Peter Lord (original story), Nick Park (original story) | 3 more
Children of Dune -- Unrated | 4h 26min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Mini-Series (2003) Episode Guide 3 episodes Children of Dune Poster ::: The twins of Paul "Muad'dib" Atreides become embroiled in the political landscape of Arrakis ("Dune") and the rest of the universe. Stars: Alec Newman, Julie Cox, Ian McNeice
Children of Men (2006) ::: 7.9/10 -- R | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 5 January 2007 (USA) -- 1 -- In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. Director: Alfonso Cuarn Writers:
Children of Men (2006) ::: 7.9/10 -- R | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 5 January 2007 (USA) -- 1 -- In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. Director: Alfonso Cuarn Writers:
Children of Men (2006) ::: 7.9/10 -- R | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 5 January 2007 (USA) -- 1 -- In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ::: TV-14 | 1h | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | TV Series (20182020) -- As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic. Creator:
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers ::: TV-Y | 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19881990) Disney's fun-loving chipmunks are re-imagined as the leaders of a team of pint-sized crime-fighters. Stars: Peter Cullen, Tress MacNeille, Corey Burton Available on Amazon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 2h 24min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 18 December 1968 (USA) -- A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. Director: Ken Hughes Writers:
Chowder ::: TV-Y7-FV | 11min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (20072010) -- In Marzipan City, the young, excitable food-loving Chowder is the apprentice of Mung Daal, a very old chef who runs a catering company with his wife, Truffles and assistant, Shnitzel. Creator:
Christopher Robin (2018) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 3 August 2018 (USA) -- A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life. Director: Marc Forster Writers: A.A. Milne (based on characters created by), Ernest Shepard (based on
City of Ember (2008) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 10 October 2008 (USA) -- For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Director: Gil Kenan Writers:
Clarence ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (20132018) -- The adventures of a 4th grader named Clarence along with his two best friends, Sumo and Jeff. Creator: Skyler Page
Clash of the Titans (1981) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 58min | Action, Adventure, Family | 12 June 1981 (USA) -- Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda. Director: Desmond Davis Writer: Beverley Cross
Claymore ::: Kureimoa (original tit ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2007) Episode Guide 26 episodes Claymore Poster -- In a world rife with deadly creatures called "youma", a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organization that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability... S
Clerks -- R | 22min | Animation, Comedy | TV Series (20002001) ::: The continuing adventures of clerks Dante and Randal, who try to make the best of their menial labor, with no help from Jay and Silent Bob. Creators: David Mandel, Scott Mosier, Kevin Smith
Cliffhanger (1993) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 53min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 28 May 1993 (USA) -- A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains. Director: Renny Harlin Writers: John Long (premise), Michael France (screen story) | 2 more credits
Clifford the Big Red Dog ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Short, Comedy | TV Series (20002003) -- The adventures of a larger-than-life red dog on Bridwell Island. Stars: Antonio Delli, John Ritter, Grey Griffin Available on Amazon
Cloak & Dagger (1984) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 10 August 1984 (USA) -- A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget. Director: Richard Franklin Writers: Tom Holland (screen story), Tom Holland (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
Cloak & Dagger ::: TV-14 | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20182019) -- Two teenagers from very different backgrounds find themselves burdened and awakened to newly acquired superpowers while growing closer together every day. Creator:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 18 September 2009 (USA) -- A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know, that things are about to take a turn for the worst. Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Writers:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 27 September 2013 (USA) -- Flint Lockwood now works at The Live Corp Company for his idol Chester V. But he's forced to leave his post when he learns that his most infamous machine is still operational, and is churning out menacing food-animal hybrids. Directors: Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn Writers:
Coco (2017) ::: 8.4/10 -- PG | 1h 45min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 22 November 2017 (USA) -- Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer. Directors: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina (co-director) Writers:
Code Lyoko ::: TV-Y7 | 26min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2003-2007) Episode Guide 97 episodes Code Lyoko Poster -- When a group of four boarding school students discover a supercomputer housed inside an abandoned factory, they find a virtual world called Lyoko and awaken a sentient multi-agent system virus that tries to take over the real world. Creator:
Code Lyoko ::: TV-Y7 | 26min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20032007) -- When a group of four boarding school students discover a supercomputer housed inside an abandoned factory, they find a virtual world called Lyoko and awaken a sentient multi-agent system virus that tries to take over the real world. Creator:
Codename: Kids Next Door ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20022008) The adventures of a group of ten-year-old friends who fight for the right to do everything that adults restrict from them. Creator: Tom Warburton Stars:
Cold Mountain (2003) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 34min | Adventure, Drama, History | 25 December 2003 (USA) -- In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart. Director: Anthony Minghella Writers:
Colony ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20162018) -- In the wake of a mysterious alien invasion, a family fights to stay together in a new world order. Creators: Ryan J. Condal, Carlton Cuse
Commando (1985) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 4 October 1985 (USA) -- A retired Special Forces colonel tries to save his daughter, who was abducted by his former subordinate. Director: Mark L. Lester Writers: Jeph Loeb (story) (as Joseph Loeb III), Matthew Weisman (story) | 2 more credits Stars:
Companeros (1970) ::: 7.4/10 -- Vamos a matar, compaeros (original title) -- Companeros Poster A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way. Director: Sergio Corbucci Writers: Dino Maiuri, Massimo De Rita | 3 more credits
Conan the Barbarian (1982) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 2h 9min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 14 May 1982 (USA) -- A young boy, Conan, becomes a slave after his parents are killed and tribe destroyed by a savage warlord and sorcerer, Thulsa Doom. When he grows up he becomes a fearless, invincible fighter. Set free, he plots revenge against Thulsa Doom. Director: John Milius Writers:
Constantine: City of Demons -- R | 6min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror | TV Series (20182019) ::: An animated series centering on the adventures of supernatural detective John Constantine. Stars: Matt Ryan, Damian O'Hare, Laura Bailey
Cool Runnings (1993) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 38min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 1 October 1993 (USA) -- When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. Director: Jon Turteltaub Writers: Lynn Siefert (story), Michael Ritchie (story) | 3 more credits Stars:
Copenhagen (2014) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 38min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 3 October 2014 (USA) -- When the girl of your dreams is half your age, it's time to grow up. Director: Mark Raso Writer: Mark Raso
Coraline (2009) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Animation, Drama, Family | 6 February 2009 (USA) -- An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets. Director: Henry Selick Writers: Henry Selick (screenplay), Neil Gaiman (book)
Count Duckula ::: TV-Y | 22min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19881993) The misadventures of a vegetarian vampire duck and his servants. Stars: Barry Clayton, Jack May, Brian Trueman Available on Amazon
Courage the Cowardly Dog ::: TV-Y7 | 11min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19992002) -- The offbeat adventures of Courage, a cowardly dog who must overcome his own fears to heroically defend his unknowing farmer owners from all kinds of dangers, paranormal events and menaces that appear around their land. Creator:
Courage the Cowardly Dog ::: TV-Y7 | 11min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19992002) -- Trailer
Cow and Chicken ::: TV-PG | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19971999) The program focuses on the misadventures of two unlikely yet somehow biological siblings: Cow and Chicken. Creator: David Feiss Stars:
Cowboy Bebop ::: Kaubi bibappu (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19981999) -- The futuristic misadventures and tragedies of an easygoing bounty hunter and his partners. Creator:
Cowboy Bebop ::: Kaubi bibappu (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19981999) Trailer
Cowboy Bebop ::: Kaubi bibappu (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1998-1999) Episode Guide 26 episodes Cowboy Bebop Poster -- The futuristic misadventures and tragedies of an easygoing bounty hunter and his partners. Creator:
Crime Scene Cleaner ::: Der Tatortreiniger (original title) 26min | Comedy, Crime | TV Series (20112018) The bizarre everyday adventures of Heiko "Schotty" Schotte, whose profession is to clean up crime scenes. Stars: Bjarne Mdel, Peer Martiny, Jrg Pose
Critical Role ::: TV-14 | 3h | Adventure, Fantasy | TV Series (2015 ) A live weekly show, where a band of professional voice actors improvise, role-play and roll their way through an epic Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Stars: Liam O'Brien, Taliesin Jaffe, Marisha Ray
Critical Role ::: TV-14 | 3h | Adventure, Fantasy | TV Series (2015- ) Episode Guide 273 episodes Critical Role Poster A live weekly show, where a band of professional voice actors improvise, role-play and roll their way through an epic Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Stars: Liam O'Brien, Taliesin Jaffe, Marisha Ray
Crocodile Dundee (1986) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 37min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 26 September 1986 (USA) -- An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City. Director: Peter Faiman Writers: Paul Hogan (original story), Paul Hogan (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Crossbones -- 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2014) ::: Set during the golden age of piracy in the 1700s and centers on legendary pirate Blackbeard. Creators: Neil Cross, James V. Hart, Amanda Welles
Crusade ::: 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (1999) Set right after the events of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999), a team of soldiers and scientists led by Capt. Matthew Gideon have five years to find a cure for an alien plague decimating Earth. Creator: J. Michael Straczynski Stars:
Curious George (2006) ::: 6.5/10 -- G | 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 10 February 2006 (USA) -- The Man in the Yellow Hat is an oddball museum employee who looks after his pet monkey, an inquisitive and wonderful creature whose enthusiasm often gets the best of him. Director: Matthew O'Callaghan Writers: Ken Kaufman (screenplay), Ken Kaufman (story) | 3 more credits Stars:
Cursed ::: TV-MA | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 10 episodes Cursed Poster -- A teenage sorceress named Nimue encounters a young Arthur on her quest to find a powerful and ancient sword. Creators: Frank Miller, Tom Wheeler
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) ::: 7.5/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 53min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5 November 1951 -- Cyrano de Bergerac Poster -- The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play. Director: Michael Gordon Writers:
Da 5 Bloods (2020) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 2h 34min | Adventure, Drama, War | 12 June 2020 (USA) -- Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide. Director: Spike Lee Writers:
Dances with Wolves (1990) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG-13 | 3h 1min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 21 November 1990 (USA) -- Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. Director: Kevin Costner Writers:
Danger 5 ::: 24min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20112015) It's Christmas in the 1980s, Adolf Hitler is alive and has two Yuletide wishes: Danger 5 dead and the world under his Christmas tree. Creators: David Ashby, Dario Russo Stars:
DanMachi: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side - ::: Sword Oratoria: Dungeon ni deai o motomeru no wa machigatteiru no dar ka? Gaiden (original tit ::: TV-14 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2017- ) Episode Guide 12 episodes DanMachi: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side - Sword Oratoria Poster Sword princess Aiz Wallenstein. Today, once again, the strongest female swordsman heads to the giant labyrinth known as the "Dungeon" along with her allies. On the 50th floor where ... S Stars:
Danny Phantom ::: TV-Y7-FV | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20042007) -- A 14-year-old receives ghost powers and uses them to save the world Creators: Butch Hartman, Steve Marmel, Kevin Sullivan
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 33min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 22 June 1960 (USA) -- A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker. Director: Robert Stevenson Writers:
Dark Matter ::: TV-14 | 42min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (2015-2017) Episode Guide 39 episodes Dark Matter Poster -- In the dystopian 27th century, six people wake up on a deserted spaceship with no memory of who they are or what they're doing there. They reluctantly team up and set off to find answers with the help of a female android. Creators:
Dark Matter ::: TV-14 | 42min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (20152017) -- In the dystopian 27th century, six people wake up on a deserted spaceship with no memory of who they are or what they're doing there. They reluctantly team up and set off to find answers with the help of a female android. Creators:
Darkwing Duck ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19911992) -- A bumbling superhero battles crime with the help of his daughter and pilot sidekick. Stars: Jim Cummings, Terence McGovern, Christine Cavanaugh | See full cast &
David Copperfield (1935) ::: 7.4/10 -- The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David -- Passed | 2h 10min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 20 June 1935 (Argentina) David Copperfield Poster -- A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world. Director: George Cukor Writers:
Da Vinci's Demons ::: TV-MA | 59min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | TV Series (2013-2015) Episode Guide 28 episodes Da Vinci's Demons Poster -- Follows Leonardo Da Vinci during his early days in Florence, as a young artist, inventor and dreamer, trying to change the future. Creator: David S. Goyer
Da Vinci's Demons ::: TV-MA | 59min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | TV Series (20132015) -- Follows Leonardo Da Vinci during his early days in Florence, as a young artist, inventor and dreamer, trying to change the future. Creator: David S. Goyer
Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 25 May 1955 (USA) -- American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo. Director: Norman Foster Writer: Thomas W. Blackburn (as Tom Blackburn) Stars:
Dawn of the Dead (1978) ::: 7.9/10 -- Unrated | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Horror | 24 May 1979 (USA) -- Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. Director: George A. Romero Writer:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 11 July 2014 (USA) -- A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. Director: Matt Reeves Writers:
Daybreakers (2009) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 38min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 8 January 2010 (USA) -- In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind. Directors: Michael Spierig (as The Spierig Brothers), Peter Spierig (as The Spierig Brothers)
Daybreak ::: TV-MA | 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2019) -- High school outcast Josh is searching for his missing girlfriend in post apocalyptic Glendale. He's joined by a group of misfits Angelica and his former bully Wesley. On the way they'll face many weird things. Creators:
Dazed and Confused (1993) ::: 7.6/10 -- R | 1h 42min | Comedy | 24 September 1993 (USA) -- The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976. Director: Richard Linklater Writer: Richard Linklater
DC's Legends of Tomorrow ::: Legends of Tomorrow (original tit ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2016 ) -- Time-travelling rogue Rip Hunter has to recruit a rag-tag team of heroes and villains to help prevent an apocalypse that could impact not only Earth, but all of time. Creators:
Dead End (2003) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 25min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery | 9 November 2004 (Canada) -- Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life. Directors: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa Writers:
Deadliest Catch ::: TV-PG | 55min | Documentary, Adventure, Reality-TV | TV Series (2005 ) -- A documentary series chronicling the real-life high-sea adventures of the Alaskan crab fishermen. This is the most deadly profession in the world. Stars:
Deadly Class ::: TV-MA | 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20182019) -- A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of late 1980s counterculture, which follows a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Creators:
Dead Man (1995) ::: 7.6/10 -- R | 2h 1min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 10 May 1996 (USA) -- On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange aboriginal American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world. Director: Jim Jarmusch Writer:
Deadpool (2016) ::: 8.0/10 -- R | 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 12 February 2016 (USA) -- A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal but ugly, and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks. Director: Tim Miller Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Deadpool 2 (2018) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 18 May 2018 (USA) -- Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool), brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg Cable. Director: David Leitch Writers:
Dead Space: Downfall (2008) ::: 6.3/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 14min | Animation, Action, Adventure | Video 28 October -- Dead Space: Downfall Poster -- A prequel to the hit video game chronicling the discovery of the Red Marker and the first Necromorph outbreak. Directors: Chuck Patton, Curt Geda | 1 more credit Writers:
Death Hunt (1981) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 37min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 21 May 1981 (USA) -- In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness. Director: Peter R. Hunt (as Peter Hunt) Writers:
Death Proof (2007) ::: 7.0/10 -- TV-MA | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 5 October 2007 (Canada) -- Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer:
Deca-Dence ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020) Episode Guide 12 episodes Deca-Dence Poster Humanity was driven to the brink of extinction by unknown life forms Gadoll. Until one day, Natsume, a girl who dreams of becoming a warriors meets Kaburagi, an armor repairman. They will shake the future of this world. Stars: Dani Chambers, Kimberly Grace, Gabe Kunda
Deliverance (1972) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 18 August 1972 (USA) -- Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. Director: John Boorman Writers:
Descendants 2 (2017) ::: 6.5/10 -- TV-G | 1h 51min | Action, Adventure, Family | TV Movie 21 July 2017 -- Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay try to adjust to life in Auradon, but Mal becomes overwhelmed with pressure and returns to her roots. Director: Kenny Ortega Writers: Sara Parriott, Josann McGibbon
Descendants 3 (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- TV-G | 1h 46min | Adventure, Family, Musical | TV Movie 2 August 2019 -- The teenagers of Disney's most infamous villains return to the Isle of the Lost to recruit a new batch of villainous offspring to join them at Auradon Prep. Director: Kenny Ortega Writers: Josann McGibbon, Sara Parriott Stars:
Designing Women ::: TV-PG | 30min | Comedy | TV Series (19861993) -- The misadventures of four women and their handyman running a design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. Creator: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Despicable Me 2 (2013) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 38min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 3 July 2013 (USA) -- When Gru, the world's most super-bad turned super-dad has been recruited by a team of officials to stop lethal muscle and a host of Gru's own, He has to fight back with new gadgetry, cars, and more minion madness. Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Writers:
Destination Tokyo (1943) ::: 7.1/10 -- Approved | 2h 15min | Adventure, History, War | 31 December 1943 (USA) -- In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore. Director: Delmer Daves Writers: Steve Fisher (original story), Delmer Daves (screen play) | 1 more
Detective Conan ::: Meitantei Conan (original tit ::: TV-14 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1996 ) -- The cases of a detective whose physical age was chemically reversed to that of a prepubescent boy but must hide his true mental development. Creator:
Dexter's Laboratory ::: TV-G | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19962003) -- The misadventures of a boy genius and his annoying sister. Creators: Genndy Tartakovsky, Chris Savino, John McIntyre | 5 more credits
Diamonds Are Forever (1971) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 2h | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 17 December 1971 (USA) -- A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. Director: Guy Hamilton Writers: Richard Maibaum (screenplay by), Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay by) Stars:
Digimon: Digital Monsters ::: TV-Y7 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19992003) -- A group of young teens is unexpectedly sent to the mysterious Digital World and paired up with their own powerful, morphing monster called the Digimon. Together the entire group set out on an adventure to fight evil and save the world. Stars:
Digimon: Digital Monsters ::: TV-Y7 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19992003) -- Trailer
Dinosaur (2000) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 22min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 19 May 2000 (USA) -- An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home. Directors: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag Writers: Thom Enriquez (story), John Harrison (story) | 10 more credits Stars:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20162017) -- Holistic detective Dirk Gently investigates cases involving the supernatural. Creator: Max Landis
Disenchantment ::: TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2018 ) -- Princess Tiabeanie, 'Bean', is annoyed at her imminent arranged marriage to Prince Merkimer. Then she meets Luci, a demon, and Elfo, an elf, and things get rather exciting, and dangerous. Creators:
Divergent (2014) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 19min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 21 March 2014 (USA) -- In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late. Director: Neil Burger Writers:
Doctor Strange (2016) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 4 November 2016 (USA) -- While on a journey of physical and spiritual healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts. Director: Scott Derrickson Writers: Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson | 3 more credits
Doctor Strange (2016) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 4 November 2016 (USA) -- While on a journey of physical and spiritual healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts. Director: Scott Derrickson Writers: Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson | 3 more credits
Doctor Who (1996) ::: 6.4/10 -- 1h 29min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Movie 14 May 1996 -- The newly-regenerated Doctor takes on the Master on the turn of the millennium, 31 December 1999. Director: Geoffrey Sax Writer: Matthew Jacobs Stars:
Doctor Who ::: TV-PG | 45min | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (19631989) -- The adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs. Creator:
Doctor Who ::: TV-PG | 45min | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2005- ) Episode Guide 198 episodes Doctor Who Poster -- The further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and their companions from planet Earth. Creator: Sydney Newman
Doctor Who ::: TV-PG | 45min | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2005 ) -- The further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and their companions from planet Earth. Creator: Sydney Newman
Dogma (1999) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 2h 10min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 12 November 1999 (USA) -- An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven. Director: Kevin Smith Writer:
Donovan's Reef (1963) ::: 6.9/10 -- Approved | 1h 49min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 19 July 1963 (Japan) -- Comedy subtly dealing with moral issues such as racial bigotry, corporate greed, American belief of societal superiority and hypocrisy. Director: John Ford Writers: Frank S. Nugent (screenplay) (as Frank Nugent), James Edward Grant
Doom Patrol ::: TV-MA | 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 25 episodes Doom Patrol Poster -- The adventures of an idealistic mad scientist and his field team of superpowered outcasts. Creator: Jeremy Carver
Doom Patrol ::: TV-MA | 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2019 ) -- The adventures of an idealistic mad scientist and his field team of superpowered outcasts. Creator: Jeremy Carver
Dope (2015) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 43min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 19 June 2015 (USA) -- Life changes for Malcolm, a geek who's surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure. Director: Rick Famuyiwa Writer:
Doug ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19911994) The life of a young boy as he meets friends, falls in love, maneuvers his way through grade 6 and writes all about it in his journal. Creator: Jim Jinkins Stars:
Dragon Ball Super ::: Dragon Ball Super: Doragon bru cho (original tit ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2015-2018) Episode Guide 131 episodes Dragon Ball Super Poster -- Six months after the defeat of Majin Buu, The mighty Saiyan Son Goku continues his quest on becoming stronger. Creator:
Dragon Ball ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19952003) -- Dragon Ball tells the tale of a young warrior by the name of Son Goku, a young peculiar boy with a tail who embarks on a quest to become stronger and learns of the Dragon Balls, when, once all 7 are gathered, grant any wish of choice. Stars:
Dragon Ball Z ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19962003) -- After learning that he is from another planet, a warrior named Goku and his friends are prompted to defend it from an onslaught of extraterrestrial enemies. Stars:
Dragon Ball Z ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19962003) -- Trailer
DragonHeart (1996) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 31 May 1996 (USA) -- The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying Knight must cooperate to stop an evil King, who was given partial immortality. Director: Rob Cohen Writers: Patrick Read Johnson (story by), Charles Edward Pogue (story by) | 1
Dragon Lord (1982) ::: 6.5/10 -- Lung siu yeh (original title) -- Dragon Lord Poster -- The adventures of a restless martial arts student called Dragon, who, while constantly pursuing a girl, gets involved in the affairs of a gang of thieves. Director: Jackie Chan Writers:
Dragonslayer (1981) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 49min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 26 June 1981 (USA) -- A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom. Director: Matthew Robbins Writers: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins Stars:
Dragons: Race to the Edge ::: TV-Y7-FV | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20132018) -- Unlock the secrets of the Dragon Eye and come face to face with more dragons than anyone has ever imagined as Hiccup, Toothless and the Dragon Riders soar to the edge of adventure. Stars:
Dragon Tales ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19992005) -- Two children find a dragonscale, and have fun socializing with dragons. Creators: Ron Rodecker, Wesley Eure, James Coane
Drake and Josh Go Hollywood (2006) ::: 6.8/10 -- TV-G | 2h | Adventure, Comedy, Family | TV Movie 6 January 2006 -- When Drake and Josh accidentally send their little sister Megan on a plane to L.A., they soon find themselves in the middle of a dangerous situation. Director: Steve Hoefer Writers: Dan Schneider (creator), Steven Molaro (story) | 1 more credit Stars:
DreamWorks Dragons ::: Dragons: Riders of Berk (original tit ::: TV-Y7 | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20122014) -- The further adventures of Hiccup and his friends on the Island of Berk. Stars: Jay Baruchel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller | See full cast &
Drive (1997) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 40min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6 August 1997 (Philippines) -- A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time. Director: Steve Wang Writer:
Drive ::: 1h | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (2007) A drama about various people competing in an illegal cross-country road race. Creators: Tim Minear, Ben Queen Stars:
Dr. No (1962) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 10 October 1962 (UK) -- A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. Director: Terence Young Writers:
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ::: TV-Y7 | 1h | Drama, Family, Western | TV Series (19931998) -- The trials and adventures of a female doctor in a small wild west town. Creator: Beth Sullivan
Dr. Stone ::: Dokutaa Sutoon (original tit ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019 ) -- Awakened into a world where humanity has been petrified, scientific genius Senku and his brawny friend Taiju use their skills to rebuild civilization. Stars:
Dr. Stone ::: Dokutaa Sutoon (original tit ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 35 episodes Dr. Stone Poster -- Awakened into a world where humanity has been petrified, scientific genius Senku and his brawny friend Taiju use their skills to rebuild civilization. Stars:
Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man ::: TV-PG | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19941997) A crass, womanizing duck works as a private eye with his level-headed pig sidekick, all the while raising a family as a single dad. Creators: Everett Peck, Gabor Csupo, Arlene Klasky | 5 more credits Stars:
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 1h 14min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 3 August 1990 (USA) -- Scrooge McDuck takes Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Egypt to find a pyramid and magic lamp. Director: Bob Hathcock Writer: Alan Burnett (animation screenplay) Stars:
DuckTales ::: TV-G | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19871990) -- The globe-trotting treasure-hunting money-making adventures of billionaire Scrooge McDuck and his nephews. Creator: Jymn Magon
DuckTales ::: TV-Y | 21min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20172021) Next Episode Monday, March 15 -- The comedy-adventure series chronicles the high-flying adventures of trillionaire Scrooge McDuck, his grandnephews - Huey, Dewey, and Louie - and temperamental nephew Donald Duck, Launchpad McQuack, Mrs. Beakley, and her granddaughter Webby.
Due South ::: TV-PG | 46min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | TV Series (19941999) -- The adventures of an impossibly upright Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable and his American colleagues in the city of Chicago. Creator: Paul Haggis
Duma (2005) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 27 May 2005 (UK) -- An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa. Director: Carroll Ballard Writers: Carol Cawthra Hopcraft (book), Xan Hopcraft (book) | 4 more credits
Dune (1984) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 17min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 14 December 1984 (USA) -- A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule. Director: David Lynch Writers:
Dune -- Not Rated | 4h 25min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Mini-Series (2000) Episode Guide 3 episodes Dune Poster ::: A three-part miniseries on politics, betrayal, lust, greed and the coming of a Messiah. Based on Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel. Stars:
Dungeons & Dragons ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (1983-1985) Episode Guide 28 episodes Dungeons & Dragons Poster A group of kids are thrown into a fantasy world where they must search for a way home, armed with magic weapons that an evil tyrant wants. Stars: Katie Leigh, Frank Welker, Willie Aames Available on Amazon
Early Edition ::: TV-PG | 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19962000) -- His name is Gary Hobson. He gets tomorrow's newspaper today. He doesn't know how. He doesn't know why. All he knows is when the early edition hits his doorstep, he has twenty-four hours to set things right. Creators:
Earth 2 ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (19941995) -- Colonists, crash-landed on an alien planet, begin the long trek to their originally designated landing place, facing alien and human threats. Creators:
Easy Rider (1969) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 35min | Adventure, Drama | 14 July 1969 (Canada) -- Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware. Director: Dennis Hopper Writers:
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 53min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6 June 2014 (USA) -- A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies. Director: Doug Liman Writers: Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay by), Jez Butterworth (screenplay by)
Eerie, Indiana ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19911992) -- Teenage weirdness investigator Marshall Teller adventures through his new small-town home with his friends, geeky Simon Holmes and mysterious Dash X. Creators:
Eight Below (2006) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 2h | Adventure, Drama, Family | 17 February 2006 (USA) -- Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival. Director: Frank Marshall Writers: David DiGilio (screenplay), Toshir Ishid (film Nankyoku Monogatari) |
Elf (2003) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7 November 2003 (USA) -- Buddy, a human, is raised amongst elves at the North Pole. When he discovers that he is not an elf, he travels to New York to search for his biological father. Director: Jon Favreau Writer:
El Norte (1983) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 2h 21min | Adventure, Drama | 27 January 1984 (USA) -- After their family is killed in a government massacre, brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States. Director: Gregory Nava Writers:
Emerald City ::: TV-14 | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (20162017) -- A modern reimagining of the stories that led to 'The Wizard of Oz'. Creators: Matthew Arnold, Josh Friedman
Emerald City ::: TV-14 | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (2016-2017) Episode Guide 10 episodes Emerald City Poster -- A modern reimagining of the stories that led to 'The Wizard of Oz'. Creators: Matthew Arnold, Josh Friedman
Ender's Game (2013) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 1 November 2013 (USA) -- Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, an insectoid alien race who had previously tried to invade Earth and had inflicted heavy losses on humankind. Director: Gavin Hood Writers:
End of the Spear (2005) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 48min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 20 January 2006 (USA) -- Two people come to the end of a spear in order to realize that the divisions between them are not real. Director: Jim Hanon Writers: Bill Ewing, Bart Gavigan | 1 more credit
Enemy Mine (1985) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 December 1985 (USA) -- During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust. Director: Wolfgang Petersen Writers: Barry Longyear (story), Edward Khmara (screenplay) (as Ed Khmara)
Enola Holmes (2020) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 23 September 2020 (USA) -- When Enola Holmes-Sherlock's teen sister-discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord. Director: Harry Bradbeer Writers:
Epic (2013) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 24 May 2013 (USA) -- A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group of characters in order to save their world -- and ours. Director: Chris Wedge Writers:
Ergo Proxy ::: TV-14 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2006) Episode Guide 23 episodes Ergo Proxy Poster In a post-apocalyptic future humans live in peace with androids in a domed city. However, a strange series of murders has intruded into bored inspector Re-l Mayer's life. Stars: Kji Yusa, Akiko Yajima, Rachel Hirschfeld
Escaflowne ::: Tenk no Esukafurne (original tit ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1996) -- Hitomi is a girl with psychic abilities who gets transported to the magical world of Gaea. She and her friends find themselves under attack from the evil Zaibach empire, and the Guymelf ... S Stars:
Escaflowne ::: Tenk no Esukafurne (original tit ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1996) Episode Guide 26 episodes Escaflowne Poster -- Hitomi is a girl with psychic abilities who gets transported to the magical world of Gaea. She and her friends find themselves under attack from the evil Zaibach empire, and the Guymelf ... S Stars:
Escape from New York (1981) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 10 July 1981 (USA) -- In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him. Director: John Carpenter Writers:
Escape Room (2019) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Horror | 4 January 2019 (USA) -- Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive. Director: Adam Robitel Writers: Bragi F. Schut (screenplay by) (as Bragi Schut), Maria Melnik
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) ::: 6.4/10 -- G | 1h 37min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 21 March 1975 (USA) -- Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home? Director: John Hough Writers: Robert Malcolm Young (screenplay by), Alexander Key (based on the book
Eureka ::: TV-14 | 1h | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (20062012) -- A U.S. Marshall becomes the sheriff of a remote cozy little Northwestern town of Eureka where the best minds in the US have secretly been tucked away to build futuristic inventions for the government which often go disastrously wrong. Creators:
EuroTrip (2004) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 32min | Comedy | 20 February 2004 (USA) -- Dumped by his girlfriend, a high school grad decides to embark on an overseas adventure in Europe with his friends. Directors: Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg (co-director) (uncredited) | 1 more credit Writers: Alec Berg, David Mandel | 1 more credit
Everest (2015) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 1min | Action, Adventure, Biography | 25 September 2015 -- Everest Poster -- The story of New Zealand's Robert "Rob" Edwin Hall, who on May 10, 1996, together with Scott Fischer, teamed up on a joint expedition to ascend Mount Everest. Director: Baltasar Kormkur Writers:
Everybody's Fine (2009) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 39min | Adventure, Drama | 4 December 2009 (USA) -- A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children. Director: Kirk Jones Writers:
Every Which Way but Loose (1978) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 54min | Action, Comedy | 20 December 1978 (USA) -- The San Fernando Valley adventures of trucker turned prize-fighter Philo Beddoe and his pet orangutan Clyde. Director: James Fargo Writer: Jeremy Joe Kronsberg
Evil Dead (2013) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 5 April 2013 (USA) -- Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods. Director: Fede Alvarez Writers:
Excalibur (1981) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 2h 20min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 10 April 1981 (USA) -- Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart. Director: John Boorman Writers: Thomas Malory (book), Rospo Pallenberg (adaptation) | 2 more credits
Executive Decision (1996) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 2h 13min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 15 March 1996 (USA) -- When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation. Director: Stuart Baird Writers: Jim Thomas, John Thomas
Explorers (1985) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 49min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 12 July 1985 (USA) -- A boy obsessed with 50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what? Director: Joe Dante Writer:
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 9min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | 20 January 2012 (USA) -- A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Director: Stephen Daldry Writers:
Fallen (2006) ::: 6.6/10 -- 1h 21min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Movie 23 July 2006 -- Aaron is a high school jock with a promising future. But on his 18th birthday, his life forever changes when his incredible powers emerge, revealing the terrifying truth of his identity. As... S Director: Mikael Salomon Writers:
Falling Skies ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2011-2015) Episode Guide 52 episodes Falling Skies Poster -- Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back. Creator: Robert Rodat
Falling Skies ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20112015) -- Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back. Creator: Robert Rodat
Family Matters ::: TV-G | 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19891998) -- The Winslow family deal with various misadventures, many of them caused by their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. Creators: William Bickley, Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller | 1 more credit
Fanboys (2009) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 13 February 2009 -- Fanboys Poster -- Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release. Director: Kyle Newman Writers:
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 18 November 2016 (USA) -- The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Director: David Yates Writer:
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 14min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 16 November 2018 (USA) -- The second installment of the "Fantastic Beasts" series featuring the adventures of Magizoologist Newt Scamander. Director: David Yates Writers: J.K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling (based upon characters created by)
Fantastic Four: The Animated Series -- Fantastic Four (original title) 22min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi | TV Series (19941996) ::: The adventures of Marvel Comic's greatest superhero team. Creators: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG | 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 November 2009 (USA) -- An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. Director: Wes Anderson Writers: Roald Dahl (novel), Wes Anderson (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG | 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 November 2009 (USA) -- An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. Director: Wes Anderson Writers: Roald Dahl (novel), Wes Anderson (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Fantastic Voyage (1966) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 23 September 1966 (Japan) -- A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter it. Director: Richard Fleischer Writers:
Fantasy Island ::: TV-G | 1h | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19771984) -- The mysterious Mr. Roarke runs a unique resort island in the Pacific Ocean that can fulfill literally any fantasy requested by guests, but they rarely turn out as expected. Creator:
Far and Away (1992) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 20min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 22 May 1992 (USA) -- A young Irish couple flee to the States, but subsequently struggle to obtain land and prosper freely. Director: Ron Howard Writers: Bob Dolman (story), Ron Howard (story) | 1 more credit Stars:
Farscape ::: TV-14 | 50min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (1999-2003) Episode Guide 88 episodes Farscape Poster -- Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew. Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
Farscape ::: TV-14 | 50min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19992003) -- Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew. Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
Farscape ::: TV-14 | 50min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19992003) -- Trailer
Fast Five (2011) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 29 April 2011 (USA) -- Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lord and a dangerous federal agent. Director: Justin Lin Writers:
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 17min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 2 August 2019 (USA) -- Lawman Luke Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) and outcast Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity. Director: David Leitch Writers:
Fate/stay night ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2006) Episode Guide 24 episodes Fate/stay night Poster -- Amateur mage Shirou Emiya gets involved in a fight between mages using mythological heroes. Stars: Noriaki Sugiyama, Kate Higgins, Candice Moore
Fate: The Winx Saga ::: TV-MA | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2021 ) -- A live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon's Winx Club (2004). It follows Bloom as she adjusts to life in the Otherworld, where she must learn to control her dangerous magical powers. Creator:
Father Goose (1964) ::: 7.4/10 -- Approved | 1h 58min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 24 December 1964 -- Father Goose Poster During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female. Director: Ralph Nelson Writers: Peter Stone (screenplay), Frank Tarloff (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) ::: 7.6/10 -- R | 1h 58min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 22 May 1998 (USA) -- An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades. Director: Terry Gilliam Writers: Hunter S. Thompson (book), Terry Gilliam (screenplay) | 3 more
Ferdinand (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 15 December 2017 (USA) -- After Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure. Director: Carlos Saldanha Writers:
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) ::: 6.5/10 -- G | 1h 16min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 10 April 1992 (USA) -- The magical inhabitants of a rainforest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus. Director: Bill Kroyer Writers:
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 46min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 11 July 2001 (USA) -- A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms. Directors: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara (co-director) Writers: Hironobu Sakaguchi (story), Al Reinert | 4 more credits
Final Space ::: TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2018 ) Season 3 Premiere Saturday, March 20 -- An astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick called Mooncake embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of where the universe actually ends and if it actually does exist.
Final Space ::: TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2018- ) Season 3 Premiere Saturday, March 20 Episode Guide 36 episodes Final Space Poster -- An astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick called Mooncake embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of where the universe actually ends and if it actually does exist.
Finding Dory (2016) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 17 June 2016 (USA) -- Friendly but forgetful blue tang Dory begins a search for her long-lost parents, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way. Directors: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane (co-director) Writers:
Finding Nemo (2003) ::: 8.1/10 -- G | 1h 40min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 30 May 2003 (USA) -- After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home. Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich (co-director) Writers: Andrew Stanton (original story by), Andrew Stanton (screenplay by) | 2
Fire and Ice (1983) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 21min | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure | 26 August 1983 (USA) -- At the end of the ice age, an evil queen and her son are set on conquering the world using magic and warriors. The lone survivor of a crushed village fights back as does the king of Fire Keep. Directors: Ralph Bakshi, Tom Tataranowicz Writers: Ralph Bakshi (characters created by), Frank Frazetta (characters created by) | 2 more credits
Firefly ::: TV-14 | 44min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2002-2003) Episode Guide 14 episodes Firefly Poster -- Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them. Creator:
Firefly ::: TV-14 | 44min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Series (20022003) -- Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them. Creator:
First Blood (1982) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 1h 33min | Action, Adventure | 22 October 1982 (USA) -- A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. Director: Ted Kotcheff Writers:
First Men in the Moon (1964) ::: 6.6/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 43min | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 20 November 1964 (USA) -- When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor. Director: Nathan Juran Writers:
First Wave ::: 44min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (19982001) Framed for murder and on the run, a former thief struggles to expose the vanguard of an alien invasion with the help of a conspiracy theorist and newly discovered prophecies of Nostradamus. Creator: Chris Brancato Stars:
Fitzcarraldo (1982) ::: 8.1/10 -- PG | 2h 38min | Adventure, Drama | 10 October 1982 (USA) -- The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle. Director: Werner Herzog Writer: Werner Herzog Stars:
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h 15min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 October 2006 (USA) -- The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II. Director: Clint Eastwood Writers: William Broyles Jr. (screenplay), Paul Haggis (screenplay) | 2 more
Flash Gordon (1980) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 51min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 5 December 1980 (USA) -- A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth. Director: Mike Hodges Writers: Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay), Michael Allin (adaptation) | 1 more
Flashpoint ::: TV-14 | 41min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (20082012) -- The missions and trials of a Toronto police tactical unit. Creators: Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern
Flesh+Blood (1985) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama | 30 August 1985 (USA) -- In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners. Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: Gerard Soeteman (screenplay), Gerard Soeteman (story) | 1 more credit Stars:
Flight of the Navigator (1986) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 1 August 1986 (USA) -- In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship. Director: Randal Kleiser Writers: Mark H. Baker (story), Michael Burton (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Flora & Ulysses (2021) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 19 February 2021 (USA) -- The adventures of a young girl and a squirrel with superpowers. Director: Lena Khan Writers: Brad Copeland (screenplay by), Kate DiCamillo (novel)
Flushed Away (2006) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 3 November 2006 (USA) -- The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life. Directors: David Bowers, Sam Fell Writers:
Fly Away Home (1996) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 13 September 1996 (USA) -- A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air. Director: Carroll Ballard Writers: Bill Lishman (autobiography), Robert Rodat (screenplay) | 1 more
Flyboys (2006) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 20min | Action, Drama, History | 22 September 2006 (USA) -- The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots. Director: Tony Bill Writers:
Follow That Bird (1985) ::: 6.8/10 -- G | 1h 28min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 2 August 1985 (USA) -- Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker named Miss Finch. Unhappy, he runs away from there, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him. Director: Ken Kwapis Writers:
Forbidden Planet (1956) ::: 7.6/10 -- G | 1h 38min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 13 June 1958 (USA) -- A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has. Director: Fred M. Wilcox (as Fred McLeod Wilcox) Writers: Cyril Hume (screen play), Irving Block (based on a story by) | 1 more
Fort Apache (1948) ::: 7.5/10 -- Passed | 2h 8min | Action, Adventure, Western | 14 June 1948 (Brazil) -- At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe. Director: John Ford Writers:
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) ::: 6.9/10 -- Passed | 2h 50min | Adventure, Drama, History | 16 July 1943 (USA) -- During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge. Director: Sam Wood Writers: Dudley Nichols (screen play), Ernest Hemingway (from the celebrated novel by)
For Your Eyes Only (1981) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 26 June 1981 (USA) -- James Bond is assigned to find a missing British vessel, equipped with a weapons encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Director: John Glen Writers:
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20042009) -- A boy and his beloved imaginary friend are able to stay together at an orphanage of sorts for imaginary friends that children have outgrown to be adopted by new children. Creators:
Friendship! (2010) ::: 6.5/10 -- 1h 50min | Adventure, Comedy | 14 January 2010 (Germany) -- A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Director: Markus Goller Writers: Oliver Ziegenbalg (screenplay), Tom Zickler (stories)
From Russia with Love (1963) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 27 May 1964 (USA) -- James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Director: Terence Young Writers:
From the New World ::: Shin Sekai Yori (original tit ::: TV-14 | 25min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2012-2013) Episode Guide 25 episodes From the New World Poster -- In a post-apocalyptic world set a thousand years after our era, the remaining humans, now with telekinesis, live in a seemingly peaceful society, but dark secrets of the past will soon be discovered by a small group of friends.
From Time to Time (2009) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 32min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 24 September 2010 (UK) -- A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, more than a century apart. When 13-year-old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations. Director: Julian Fellowes Writers: Lucy M. Boston (novel), Julian Fellowes (adaptation)
Frontier ::: TV-MA | 1h | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Series (20162018) -- Follows Declan Harp, a half-Irish/half Cree Native-Canadian outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade in Canada. Creators:
Frozen (2013) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 27 November 2013 (USA) -- When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister Anna teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition. Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Writers:
Frozen II (2019) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 43min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 November 2019 (USA) -- Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa's powers in order to save their kingdom. Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Writers:
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood ::: Hagane no renkinjutsushi (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2009-2012) Episode Guide 69 episodes Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Poster -- Two brothers search for a Philosopher's Stone after an attempt to revive their deceased mother goes awry and leaves them in damaged physical forms. Creator:
Fullmetal Alchemist ::: Hagane no renkinjutsushi (original tit ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2003-2004) Episode Guide 51 episodes Fullmetal Alchemist Poster -- When a failed alchemical ritual leaves brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric with severely damaged bodies, they begin searching for the one thing that can save them; the fabled philosopher's stone. Stars:
Future Man ::: TV-MA | 30min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20172020) -- Josh Futturman, a janitor by day and a gamer by night, is recruited by mysterious visitors to travel through time to prevent the extinction of humanity. Creators:
Galavant ::: TV-PG | 22min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | TV Series (20152016) -- A musical comedy adventure featuring a knight on a quest for love who helps a childish king to see the error of his ways. Creator: Dan Fogelman
Galaxy Quest (1999) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 25 December 1999 (USA) -- The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord. Director: Dean Parisot Writers:
Gallipoli (1981) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Adventure, Drama, History | 28 August 1981 (USA) -- Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I. Director: Peter Weir Writers: David Williamson (screenplay), Peter Weir (story)
Game of Thrones ::: TV-MA | 57min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2011-2019) Episode Guide 73 episodes Game of Thrones Poster -- Nine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia. Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
Game of Thrones ::: TV-MA | 57min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20112019) -- Nine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia. Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
Gandahar (1987) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 18min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 20 September 1989 (USA) -- An evil force from a 1000 years in the future begins to destroy an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature. Director: Ren Laloux Writers: Ren Laloux (adaptation), Jean-Pierre Andrevon (novel) | 2 more credits
Garden of Evil (1954) ::: 6.7/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 40min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 4 October 1954 -- Garden of Evil Poster A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory. Director: Henry Hathaway Writers: Frank Fenton (screenplay), Fred Freiberger (story) | 1 more credit
Garfield and Friends ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19881995) -- Stories about Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, their owner Jon and the trouble they get into, and Orson the Pig and his adventures on a farm with fellow farm animals. Creator:
Gargoyles ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19941996) -- A clan of heroic night creatures pledge to protect modern New York City as they did in Scotland one thousand years earlier. Creator: Greg Weisman
Gate ::: Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2015- ) Episode Guide 24 episodes Gate Poster -- A gate appears in modern-day Tokyo which allows access to a fantasy world. A Japanese military squad is formed to establish ties between both worlds. Stars:
Generator Rex ::: TV-PG | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20102013) In a future where humans are infected by untested, microscopic robots, a young man with the ability to control the bots helps a government agency control the tech's vicious creations. Creators: Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau | 1 more credit Stars:
Gen: Lock ::: TV-PG | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 8 episodes Gen: Lock Poster -- Earth, 2068. City by city, free society is being forcibly absorbed into a vast autocracy. One military force holds the line. One pilot could turn the tide. Creators:
Get Him to the Greek (2010) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 49min | Adventure, Comedy, Music | 4 June 2010 (USA) -- A record company intern is hired to accompany out-of-control British rock star Aldous Snow to a concert at L.A.'s Greek Theater. Director: Nicholas Stoller Writers: Nicholas Stoller, Jason Segel (characters)
Get on the Bus (1996) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 2h | Adventure, Drama, History | 16 October 1996 (USA) -- A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March. Director: Spike Lee Writer: Reggie Rock Bythewood
Get Shorty ::: TV-MA | 1h | Comedy, Crime | TV Series (20172019) -- The adventures of a mobster-turned-movie producer in Hollywood. TV show based on Elmore Leonard's novel and subsequent film. Creator: Davey Holmes
Get Smart (2008) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 20 June 2008 (USA) -- Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, is tasked with preventing a terrorist attack from rival spy agency KAOS. Director: Peter Segal Writers:
Get Smart ::: TV-G | 25min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19651970) -- Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99. Creators:
Ghost Adventures ::: TV-PG | 45min | Documentary, History, Reality-TV | TV Series (2008 ) -- Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley, and Jay Wasley investigate the scariest, most notorious, haunted places in the world. Creators: Zak Bagans, Nick Groff
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006) ::: 8.0/10 -- Kkaku kidtai: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society (original -- Not Rated | 1h 48min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 23 November 2012 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society Poster A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new ... S Director: Kenji Kamiyama Writers:
Gladiator (2000) ::: 8.5/10 -- R | 2h 35min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5 May 2000 (USA) -- A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery. Director: Ridley Scott Writers: David Franzoni (story), David Franzoni (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Goblin Slayer ::: TV-MA | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2018- ) Episode Guide 13 episodes Goblin Slayer Poster -- In a fantasy world, a lone hero makes his living by exterminating all goblins he encounters. But one day he meets a friend, and his life begins to become more intense. Stars:
Godzilla (2014) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 16 May 2014 (USA) -- The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity. Director: Gareth Edwards Writers: Ishir Honda (based on the character: Godzilla, owned and created by)
Gold (2016) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 2h | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 27 January 2017 (USA) -- Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Director: Stephen Gaghan Writers:
GoldenEye (1995) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 17 November 1995 (USA) -- Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a secret space based weapons program known as "GoldenEye" is stolen. James Bond sets out to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using the weapon. Director: Martin Campbell Writers:
Goldfinger (1964) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 9 January 1965 (USA) -- While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. Director: Guy Hamilton Writers: Richard Maibaum (screenplay by), Paul Dehn (screenplay by)
Good Boys (2019) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy | 16 August 2019 (USA) -- Three 6th grade boys ditch school and embark on an epic journey while carrying accidentally stolen drugs, being hunted by teenage girls, and trying to make their way home in time for a long-awaited party. Director: Gene Stupnitsky Writers:
Goof Troop ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19921993) The classic Disney character Goofy is a single father raising his son, Max, in Spoonerville. Pete, a frequent antagonist from the old cartoons, lives next door with his family. Stars: Rob Paulsen, April Winchell, Jim Cummings Available on Amazon
G.O.R.A. (2004) ::: 8.0/10 -- 2h 7min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 12 November 2004 (Turkey) -- A slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great humanitarian spirit by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A. Director: mer Faruk Sorak Writers:
Gravity Falls ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2012-2016) Episode Guide 40 episodes Gravity Falls Poster -- Twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines spend the summer at their great-uncle's tourist trap in the enigmatic Gravity Falls, Oregon. Creator: Alex Hirsch
Gravity Falls ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20122016) -- Twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines spend the summer at their great-uncle's tourist trap in the enigmatic Gravity Falls, Oregon. Creator: Alex Hirsch
Great Expectations (1946) ::: 7.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 58min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | 22 May 1947 (USA) -- A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. Director: David Lean Writers: Charles Dickens (by), David Lean (adapted for the screen by) | 4 more credits Stars:
Great Pretender ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 23 episodes Great Pretender Poster -- A Japanese conman crosses paths with a French rival, and gets entangled in conspiracies and scams beyond his wildest dreams. Stars: Wolf Williams, Alan Lee, Aaron Phillips
Green Lantern: The Animated Series ::: TV-PG | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20112013) -- The further adventures of Hal Jordan and his comrades of the Green Lantern Corps. Stars: Josh Keaton, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jason Spisak | See full cast &
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 2h 23min | Adventure, Drama | 30 March 1984 (USA) -- A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant. Director: Hugh Hudson Writers: Edgar Rice Burroughs (novel), Robert Towne (as P.H. Vazak) | 1 more credit
Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions ::: Hai to gens no Grimgar (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2016) Episode Guide 13 episodes Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions Poster Haruhiro suddenly wakes up, with no memory but his name. There are a lot of people around, but noone seems to know anything. Haruhiro forms a party of some of the people and start exploring. Stars: Ricco Fajardo, Jarrod Greene, Orion Pitts
Guardian of the Sacred Spirit ::: Seirei no moribito (original tit ::: TV-PG | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2007- ) Episode Guide 26 episodes Guardian of the Sacred Spirit Poster -- The Second Empress hires a spear-wielding woman to save her son from the Mikado (emperor) who believes the young prince is possessed by a water demon foretold to bring a terrible drought upon the land should he live.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 1min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 1 August 2014 (USA) -- A group of intergalactic criminals must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior with plans to purge the universe. Director: James Gunn Writers: James Gunn, Nicole Perlman | 9 more credits
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 5 May 2017 (USA) -- The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father the ambitious celestial being Ego. Director: James Gunn Writers:
Gulliver's Travels (1939) ::: 6.7/10 -- Passed | 1h 16min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 December 1939 -- Gulliver's Travels Poster A doctor washes ashore on an island inhabited by little people. Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky (uncredited) | 10 more credits Writers: Jonathan Swift (based on immortal tale), Edmond Seward (story adaptation) | 5 more credits Stars:
Gunga Din (1939) ::: 7.3/10 -- Approved | 1h 57min | Adventure, Comedy, War | 17 February 1939 (USA) -- In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land. Director: George Stevens Writers:
.hack//SIGN ::: TV-14 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2002-2003) Episode Guide 28 episodes .hack//SIGN Poster -- A strange boy named Tsukasa appears in the online video game "The World". He claims to be alive, and without a computer. Stars: Megumi Toyoguchi, Kazuhiro Nakata, Amanda Winn Lee | See full cast &
Half in the Bag ::: Unrated | 40min | Comedy, Talk-Show | TV Series (2011 ) Two VCR repairmen, Mike and Jay, scam an elderly man out of his fortune by discussing movies while on the job, and occasionally go on eccentric misadventures. Creators: Jay Bauman, Mike Stoklasa Stars:
Halloweentown (1998) ::: 6.7/10 -- TV-G | 1h 24min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | TV Movie 17 October 1998 -- When a young girl living with her good-witch grandmother learns she too is a witch, she must help her grandmother save Halloweentown from evil forces. Director: Duwayne Dunham Writers:
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001) ::: 6.5/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 21min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | TV Movie 12 October -- Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge Poster A young witch and her grandmother work together to foil the plans of a wicked warlock's son before he can use powerful spells to create chaos in the world. Director: Mary Lambert Writers: Jon Cooksey, Ali Marie Matheson | 1 more credit
Hanna (2011) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 51min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 8 April 2011 (USA) -- A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives. Director: Joe Wright Writers:
Happy Feet (2006) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 17 November 2006 (USA) -- Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce! Directors: George Miller, Warren Coleman (co-director) | 1 more credit Writers:
Hardcore Henry (2015) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8 April 2016 (USA) -- Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers. Director: Ilya Naishuller Writers: Ilya Naishuller, Will Stewart (additional writing by)
Hard Times (1975) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Sport | 13 August 1975 (France) -- The adventures of a drifter turned illegal prize-fighter during the Depression Era in New Orleans. Director: Walter Hill Writers: Walter Hill (screenplay), Bryan Gindoff (screenplay) | 3 more credits
Harir Hotel ::: 2h 24min | Animation, Adventure, Horror | TV Mini-Series (2018-2020) Episode Guide 7 episodes Harir Hotel Poster A man started for his friend's house to attend a ceremony, and in the middle of the journey ate at a hotel. After some time he noticed some ghostly figures following him. Star: Sujiv Das
Harley Quinn ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019 ) -- The series focuses on a single Harley Quinn, who sets off to make it on her own in Gotham City. Creators: Justin Halpern, Dean Lorey, Patrick Schumacker
HarmonQuest ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2016-2019) Episode Guide 30 episodes HarmonQuest Poster -- Dan Harmon and his celebrity friends get together to play a fantasy role playing game. Stars: Dan Harmon, Spencer Crittenden, Jeff Bryan Davis | See full cast &
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Adventure, Comedy | 25 April 2008 (USA) -- After being mistaken for terrorists and thrown into Guantnamo Bay, stoners Harold and Kumar escape and return to the U.S., where they proceed to flee across the country with federal agents in hot pursuit. Directors: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg Writers:
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 28min | Adventure, Comedy | 30 July 2004 (USA) -- A Korean-American office worker and his Indian-American stoner friend embark on a quest to satisfy their desire for White Castle burgers. Director: Danny Leiner Writers: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Harry and Tonto (1974) ::: 7.4/10 -- R | 1h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 12 August 1974 (USA) -- When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto. Director: Paul Mazursky Writers: Paul Mazursky, Josh Greenfeld
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 2h 41min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 15 November 2002 (USA) -- An ancient prophecy seems to be coming true when a mysterious presence begins stalking the corridors of a school of magic and leaving its victims paralyzed. Director: Chris Columbus Writers:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 26min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 19 November 2010 (USA) -- As Harry, Ron, and Hermione race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows. Director: David Yates Writers:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) ::: 8.1/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 15 July 2011 (USA) -- Harry, Ron, and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts. Director: David Yates Writers:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 37min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 18 November 2005 (USA) -- Harry Potter finds himself competing in a hazardous tournament between rival schools of magic, but he is distracted by recurring nightmares. Director: Mike Newell Writers: Steve Kloves (screenplay), J.K. Rowling (novel)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 2h 33min | Action, Adventure, Family | 15 July 2009 (USA) -- As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past. Director: David Yates Writers:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 18min | Action, Adventure, Family | 11 July 2007 (USA) -- With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts. Director: David Yates Writers:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG | 2h 22min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 4 June 2004 (USA) -- Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard. Director: Alfonso Cuarn Writers:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 2h 32min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 16 November 2001 (USA) -- An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Director: Chris Columbus Writers:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 2h 32min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 16 November 2001 (USA) -- An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Director:
Hatari! (1962) ::: 7.2/10 -- Approved | 2h 37min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 19 June 1962 (USA) -- A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways. Director: Howard Hawks Writers:
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) ::: 7.4/10 -- Approved | 1h 47min | Adventure, Drama, War | 13 March 1957 (USA) -- During World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another as the two hope for a rescue. Director: John Huston Writers:
Heaven's Gate (1980) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 3h 39min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 24 April 1981 (USA) -- During the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests. Director: Michael Cimino Writer:
Heavy Metal (1981) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 26min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 7 August 1981 (USA) -- A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. Directors: Gerald Potterton, John Bruno | 8 more credits Writers:
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 14 August 2014 (Germany) -- A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness. Director: Peter Chelsom Writers: Maria von Heland (screenplay), Peter Chelsom (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007) ::: 6.7/10 -- Unrated | 1h 15min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 10 March -- Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron Poster Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and his team face off against a new supernatural threat, while Professor Bruttenholm (Sir John Hurt) must investigate the possible reemergence of a vampire he had slain decades prior. Directors: Victor Cook, Tad Stones Writers: Mike Mignola (based on the Dark Horse comic book "Hellboy" created by), Mike Mignola (story by) | 2 more credits
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 17min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 28 October 2006 -- Hellboy travels to Japan to fight an ancient demon. Directors: Phil Weinstein, Tad Stones Writers: Mike Mignola (based on characters created by), Mike Mignola (story by) | 3 more credits
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 11 July 2008 (USA) -- A prince of the mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, and Hellboy his team must fight to stop him from locating the all-powerful Golden Army. Director: Guillermo del Toro Writers:
Hellfighters (1968) ::: 6.6/10 -- G | 2h 1min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 27 November 1968 (USA) -- The telling of Chance Buckman an oil rig fire fighter who becomes hospitalized and has to come to grips with how his job interfered with his marriage, after being laid up in a hospital bed ... S Director: Andrew V. McLaglen Writer: Clair Huffaker (screenplay)
Hell in the Pacific (1968) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 43min | Adventure, War | 18 December 1968 (USA) -- During World War II, an American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain are deserted on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must cease their hostility and cooperate if they want to survive, but will they? Director: John Boorman Writers: Alexander Jacobs (screenplay), Eric Bercovici (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Hello, Dolly! (1969) ::: 7.1/10 -- G | 2h 26min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical | 16 December 1969 (USA) -- Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way. Director: Gene Kelly Writers:
Help! (1965) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 32min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical | 25 August 1965 (USA) -- Sir Ringo Starr finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult, and his fellow members of The Beatles must try to protect him from it. Director: Richard Lester Writers: Marc Behm (screenplay), Charles Wood (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
Helstrom ::: TV-MA | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2020) -- Daimon and Ana Helstrom are the son and daughter of a mysterious and powerful serial killer. The siblings have a complicated dynamic as they track down the terrorizing worst of humanity - each with their attitude and skills. Creator:
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19831985) The most powerful man in the universe, He-Man, goes against the evil forces of Skeletor to save the planet Eternia and to protect the secrets of Castle Grayskull. Stars: John Erwin, Alan Oppenheimer, Linda Gary Available on Amazon
Hercules (1997) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 27 June 1997 (USA) -- The son of Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it. Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker Writers: Ron Clements (animation screenplay by), John Musker (animation
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ::: TV-G | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19951999) -- Hercules, aided by his best friend Iolaus, goes on many adventures helping people and slaying mythical monsters using his half-god strength. Creator:
Hercules ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19981999) This spin-off of Disney's Hercules (1997) follows Hercules' many labors during the years he spent training how to be a hero under the tutelage of satyr Philoctetes. Olympian Gods and Goddesses, as well as Hades and Pegasus, often visit him. Stars: Tate Donovan, French Stewart, Sandra Bernhard
Hidalgo (2004) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Biography | 5 March 2004 (USA) -- In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race. Director: Joe Johnston Writer: John Fusco
Highlander (1986) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 7 March 1986 (USA) -- An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponent, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize". Director: Russell Mulcahy Writers:
Highlander ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | TV Series (19921998) -- Duncan MacLeod is Immortal, and must live in modern society, concealing his true nature while fighting other Immortals. Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes
High Sierra (1941) ::: 7.5/10 -- Passed | 1h 40min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 25 January 1941 (USA) -- After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort. Director: Raoul Walsh Writers:
Hilda ::: TV-Y7 | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20182020) -- A fearless blue-haired girl named Hilda leaves the forest to go to town and find new friends, great adventures, magic and mysterious creatures who might be dangerous. Creators:
His Dark Materials ::: TV-14 | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2019 ) -- A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons. Stars:
His Dark Materials ::: TV-14 | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 23 episodes His Dark Materials Poster -- A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons. Stars:
Hold That Ghost (1941) ::: 7.5/10 -- Passed | 1h 26min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror | 8 August 1941 (USA) -- After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house. Director: Arthur Lubin Writers: Robert Lees (screenplay), Frederic I. Rinaldo (screenplay) (as Fred Rinaldo) | 3 more credits Stars:
Holes (2003) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 57min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 18 April 2003 (USA) -- A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason. Director: Andrew Davis Writers: Louis Sachar (novel), Louis Sachar (screenplay)
Hollywoodland (2006) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 2h 6min | Biography, Crime, Drama | 8 September 2006 (USA) -- A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952). Director: Allen Coulter Writer: Paul Bernbaum
Home (2015) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 34min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 27 March 2015 (USA) -- An alien on the run from his own people makes friends with a girl. He tries to help her on her quest, but can be an interference. Director: Tim Johnson Writers: Tom J. Astle (screenplay by), Matt Ember (screenplay by) | 1 more
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 2h | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 20 November 1992 (USA) -- One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind. Director: Chris Columbus Writers:
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) ::: 7.0/10 -- G | 1h 24min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 12 February 1993 (USA) -- A fun-loving American bulldog pup, a hilarious Himalayan cat, and a wise old golden retriever embark on a long trek through the rugged wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountains in a quest to reach home and their beloved owners. Director: Duwayne Dunham Writers:
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 23 June 1989 (USA) -- The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them. Director: Joe Johnston Writers: Stuart Gordon (story), Brian Yuzna (story) | 3 more credits Stars:
Hong Kong Phooey ::: TV-G | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19741975) A kung-fu-fighting pup and his snickering cat sidekick battle crime. Creators: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna Stars: Scatman Crothers, Joe E. Ross, Don Messick
Hook (1991) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 2h 22min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 11 December 1991 (USA) -- When Captain James Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
Hopscotch (1980) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 46min | Adventure, Comedy | 10 October 1980 (Finland) -- Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them. Director: Ronald Neame Writers:
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001) ::: 8.2/10 -- 1h 38min | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Movie 8 April 2001 -- Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny. Director: Andrew Grieve Writers: T.R. Bowen (screenplay), C.S. Forester (books) Stars:
Horton Hears a Who! (2008) ::: 6.8/10 -- G | 1h 26min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 14 March 2008 (USA) -- Horton the Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists. Directors: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino Writers: Cinco Paul (screenplay by), Ken Daurio (screenplay by) | 1 more
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) ::: 6.3/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 13 July 2018 (USA) -- Count Dracula and company participate in a cruise for sea-loving monsters, unaware that their boat is being commandeered by the monster-hating Van Helsing family. Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Writers:
House of Anubis ::: TV-G | 15min | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (20112013) -- When one of their number disappears on the same day that an American girl joins their ranks, a group of English boarding school students embarks on solving a mystery. Creators:
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord ::: Isekai Mao to Shokan Shojo no Dorei Majutsu (original tit ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2018- ) Episode Guide 13 episodes How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord Poster An elite player is summoned by two maidens to save a fantasy game. Stars: Masaaki Mizunaka, Y Serizawa, Azumi Waki
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) ::: 8.1/10 -- PG | 1h 38min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 26 March 2010 (USA) -- A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. Directors: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders Writers:
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 13 June 2014 (USA) -- When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace. Director: Dean DeBlois Writers:
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG | 1h 44min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 22 February 2019 (USA) -- When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn't the only Night Fury, he must seek "The Hidden World", a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first. Director: Dean DeBlois Writers:
Human Target ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (20102011) -- A unique bodyguard protects his clients by secretly infiltrating their lives in order to draw out and eliminate threats. Creator: Jonathan E. Steinberg
Hunter x Hunter ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2011-2014) Episode Guide 148 episodes Hunter x Hunter Poster -- Gon Freecss aspires to become a Hunter, an exceptional being capable of greatness. With his friends and his potential, he seeks for his father who left him when he was younger. Creator:
Hunter x Hunter ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20112014) -- Gon Freecss aspires to become a Hunter, an exceptional being capable of greatness. With his friends and his potential, he seeks for his father who left him when he was younger. Creator:
Hunter x Hunter ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1999-2001) Episode Guide 62 episodes Hunter x Hunter Poster The history of Gon Freecs, a boy who left home alone to become a Hunter. In the hard test, Gon meets Leorio, Kurapika and Killua. Stars: Hozumi Gda, Yuki Kaida, Junko Takeuchi
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 1 July 2016 (USA) -- A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. Director: Taika Waititi Writers: Taika Waititi, Barry Crump (based on the book "Wild Pork and
I Am David (2003) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Adventure, Drama | 3 December 2004 (USA) -- A twelve-year-old boy escapes from a Bulgarian Communist concentration camp and sets out on a journey to reach Denmark. Director: Paul Feig Writers: Anne Holm (novel), Paul Feig (screenplay)
I Am Legend (2007) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 14 December 2007 (USA) -- Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. Director: Francis Lawrence Writers:
I Am Weasel ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (19971999) The adventures of a highly intelligent, talented and rather generous weasel and a stupid baboon who has no talent at most things. Creator: David Feiss Stars:
I Am Weasel ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (19971999) The adventures of a highly intelligent, talented and rather generous weasel and a stupid baboon who has no talent at most things.
Ice Age (2002) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG | 1h 21min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 15 March 2002 (USA) -- Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe. Directors: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha (co-director) Writers:
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 28min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 13 July 2012 (USA) -- Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world. Directors: Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier (as Michael Thurmeier) Writers:
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 34min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 1 July 2009 (USA) -- When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him. Directors: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier (co-director) Writers:
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 31min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 31 March 2006 (USA) -- Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths. Director: Carlos Saldanha Writers:
Ice Cold in Alex (1958) ::: 7.8/10 -- Approved | 2h 10min | Adventure, Drama, War | 27 June 1958 (UK) -- During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria. Director: J. Lee Thompson Writers: Christopher Landon (novel), T.J. Morrison (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Ice Station Zebra (1968) ::: 6.6/10 -- G | 2h 28min | Adventure, Thriller | 23 October 1968 (USA) -- USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station. Director: John Sturges Writers: Alistair MacLean (novel), Douglas Heyes (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Idiocracy (2006) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 24min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 25 January 2007 (Germany) -- Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes five centuries in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive. Director: Mike Judge
ImMATURE -- 25min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Series (2019 ) ::: A 5-episode coming-of-age story about the many first adventures in a young man's life. Dhruv is 16, and in a hurry to grow up. With a little help from his school friends, the wannabe ... S Creator:
ImMATURE -- 25min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Series (2019 ) ::: A 5-episode coming-of-age story about the many first adventures in a young man's life. Dhruv is 16, and in a hurry to grow up. With a little help from his school friends, the wannabe ... S Creator:
I'm Standing on a Million Lives ::: 100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatte Iru (original tit ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 13 episodes I'm Standing on a Million Lives Poster Yotsuya Yuusuke along with his classmates Shindou Iu and Hakozaki Kusue have been transported to a strange and unknown world inhabited by mythological creatures. As soon as they arrive, ... S Stars: Tara Sands, Makoto Koichi, Risa Kubota
Inception (2010) ::: 8.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 28min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 16 July 2010 (USA) -- A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O. Director: Christopher Nolan Writer:
In China They Eat Dogs (1999) ::: 7.4/10 -- I Kina spiser de hunde (original title) -- (Denmark) In China They Eat Dogs Poster Two brothers, one cold and ruthless, the other sensitive and reluctant, and their brutal misadventures. Director: Lasse Spang Olsen Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen (screenplay)
Incident at Loch Ness (2004) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 34min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 17 September 2004 (USA) -- A documentary exploring the myth of the Loch Ness monster. Director: Zak Penn Writer: Zak Penn Stars: Werner Herzog, Kitana Baker, Gabriel Beristain
Incredibles 2 (2018) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 1h 58min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 15 June 2018 (USA) -- The Incredibles family takes on a new mission which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world. Director: Brad Bird Writer:
Independence Day (1996) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 25min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 3 July 1996 (USA) -- The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive. Director: Roland Emmerich Writers:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ::: 8.2/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure | 24 May 1989 (USA) -- In 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. finds himself up against Adolf Hitler's Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ::: 8.4/10 -- Raiders of the Lost Ark (original title) -- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Poster -- In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 1h 58min | Action, Adventure | 23 May 1984 (USA) -- In 1935, Indiana Jones arrives in India, still part of the British Empire, and is asked to find a mystical stone. He then stumbles upon a secret cult committing enslavement and human sacrifices in the catacombs of an ancient palace. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
Infinity Train ::: TV-PG | 11min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 31 episodes Infinity Train Poster -- Various people find themselves on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one being its own universe, and they must find a way to get home in this animated anthology series. Creator:
Infinity Train ::: TV-PG | 11min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019 ) -- Various people find themselves on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one being its own universe, and they must find a way to get home in this animated anthology series. Creator:
Inglourious Basterds (2009) ::: 8.3/10 -- R | 2h 33min | Adventure, Drama, War | 21 August 2009 (USA) -- In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer:
Innerspace (1987) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 2h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 1 July 1987 (USA) -- A test pilot is miniaturized in a secret experiment, and accidentally injected into a hapless store clerk. Director: Joe Dante Writers: Chip Proser (story), Jeffrey Boam (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Inside Out (2015) ::: 8.1/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 19 June 2015 (USA) -- After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. Directors: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen (co-director) Writers:
Inspector Gadget ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19831986) -- A bumbling bionic police inspector stumbles about on his cases, while his niece and dog secretly do the real investigative work. Creators: Jean Chalopin, Andy Heyward, Bruno Bianchi
Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 1h 56min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 10 September 2003 -- Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road Poster Neal Oliver, a very confused young man and an artist, takes a journey of a lifetime on a highway I60 that doesn't exist on any of the maps, going to the places he never even heard of, searching for an answer and his dreamgirl. Director: Bob Gale Writer: Bob Gale
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003) ::: 7.8/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 8min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 28 May 2003 -- Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem Poster A continuation of the story told in the Daft Punk music videos "One More Time," "Aerodynamic," "Digital Love," and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger." Directors: Daisuke Nishio, Hirotoshi Rissen | 2 more credits Writers: Thomas Bangalter, Cdric Hervet (as Cedric Hervet) | 1 more credit
Interstellar (2014) ::: 8.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 7 November 2014 (USA) -- A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival. Director: Christopher Nolan Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
In the Heart of the Sea (2015) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 2min | Action, Adventure, Biography | 11 December 2015 (USA) -- A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick. Director: Ron Howard Writers: Charles Leavitt (screenplay), Charles Leavitt (story) | 3 more
In the Heat of the Night -- 1h | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (19881995) ::: The cases and adventures of the police forces in and around Sparta, Mississippi. Creator: James Lee Barrett
Into the Badlands ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20152019) -- A mighty warrior and a young boy search for enlightenment in a ruthless territory controlled by feudal barons. Creators: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Into the Badlands ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2015-2019) Episode Guide 32 episodes Into the Badlands Poster -- A mighty warrior and a young boy search for enlightenment in a ruthless territory controlled by feudal barons. Creators: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Into the Wild (2007) ::: 8.1/10 -- R | 2h 28min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 19 October 2007 (USA) -- After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. Director: Sean Penn
Inuyasha ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20002004) A teenage girl periodically travels back in time to feudal Japan to help a young half-demon recover the shards of a jewel of great power. Creator: Rumiko Takahashi Stars:
Inuyasha ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2000-2004) Episode Guide 167 episodes Inuyasha Poster A teenage girl periodically travels back in time to feudal Japan to help a young half-demon recover the shards of a jewel of great power. Creator: Rumiko Takahashi Stars:
Invader ZIM: Enter the Florpus (2019) ::: 7.5/10 -- TV-Y7-FV | 1h 11min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 16 August -- Invader ZIM: Enter the Florpus Poster -- ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for. Directors: Hae Young Jung (as Haeyoung Jung), Young Kyun Park | 1 more credit
Invader ZIM ::: TV-Y7 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20012006) -- An alien named Zim from the planet Irk is sent on a secret mission to conquer Earth, not realising that his leaders were just trying to get rid of him and hoped that he would die. Once there, Zim manages to disguise himself as a human child, but one boy named Dib sees through his disguise.
Invader ZIM ::: TV-Y7 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20012006) -- Trailer
Iron Fist ::: TV-MA | 55min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (20172018) -- A young man is bestowed with incredible martial arts skills and a mystical force known as the Iron Fist. Creator: Scott Buck
Iron Fist ::: TV-MA | 55min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (2017-2018) Episode Guide 23 episodes Iron Fist Poster -- A young man is bestowed with incredible martial arts skills and a mystical force known as the Iron Fist. Creator: Scott Buck
Iron Man (2008) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 2 May 2008 (USA) -- After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil. Director: Jon Favreau Writers: Mark Fergus (screenplay), Hawk Ostby (screenplay) | 6 more credits
Iron Man 2 (2010) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7 May 2010 (USA) -- With the world now aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must contend with both his declining health and a vengeful mad man with ties to his father's legacy. Director: Jon Favreau Writers:
Iron Man: Armored Adventures ::: TV-Y7 | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20082012) -- A teenage Tony Stark battles evil with his revolutionary power armor technology. Creators: Craig Kyle, Christopher L. Yost, Romain van Liemt | 1 more credit
Iron Will (1994) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Adventure, Family | 14 January 1994 (USA) -- A brave young man is thrust into adulthood as he and his courageous team of sled dogs embark on a grueling and treacherous cross-country marathon. Director: Charles Haid Writers:
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? ::: Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2015 ) -- Commonly known as the "Dungeon," the city of Orario possesses a huge labyrinth in the underground. Its strange name attracts excitement, illusions of honor, and hopes of romance with a ... S
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? ::: Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2015- ) Episode Guide 41 episodes Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Poster -- Commonly known as the "Dungeon," the city of Orario possesses a huge labyrinth in the underground. Its strange name attracts excitement, illusions of honor, and hopes of romance with a ... S
Island in the Sky (1953) ::: 6.9/10 -- Approved | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama | 5 September 1953 (USA) -- A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue. Director: William A. Wellman Writers:
Isle of Dogs (2018) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 13 April 2018 (USA) -- Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog. Director: Wes Anderson Writers: Wes Anderson (story by), Roman Coppola (story by) | 3 more credits
Isle of Dogs (2018) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 13 April 2018 (USA) -- Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog. Director: Wes Anderson Writers: Wes Anderson (story by), Roman Coppola (story by) | 3 more credits
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) ::: 7.5/10 -- G | 3h 30min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 7 November 1963 (Canada) -- A group of motorists hear about a crook's hidden stash of loot, and race against each other across the country to get to it. Director: Stanley Kramer Writers: William Rose (story), Tania Rose (story) | 2 more credits
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | TV Movie 29 November 2002 -- 'Twas the night before Christmas and the Muppet Theatre is in danger of being torn down, but with hilarious send-ups of just about every holiday movie ever made, the Muppets discover that what matters most is their love for each other. Director: Kirk R. Thatcher Writers: Tom Martin, Jim Lewis
Ivanhoe (1952) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 46min | Adventure, Drama, History | 20 February 1953 -- Ivanhoe Poster -- A knight seeks to free the captive King Richard and put him back on the throne. Director: Richard Thorpe Writers:
Ivanhoe (1982) ::: 6.7/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 22min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | TV Movie 23 February -- Ivanhoe Poster Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars. He finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds ... S Director: Douglas Camfield Writers: John Gay, Walter Scott (novel) (as Sir Walter Scott)
Jack Frost (1979) ::: 7.0/10 -- TV-G | 48min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 13 December 1979 -- The Groundhog tells the story of how, for once, Jack Frost became human, and helped a knight win his lady love. Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Writer: Romeo Muller
Jackie Chan Adventures ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20002005) Jackie Chan and his extended family must fight a criminal organization for magic talismans that could release an evil spirit. Creator: John Rogers Stars:
Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father ::: TV-MA | 30min | Documentary, Comedy | TV Series (2017 ) -- Follows Jack Whitehall as he embarks on the trip of a lifetime with his father, Michael. The two set off on a journey across South East Asia to partake in a series of adventures, mishaps and escapades with two very different perspectives. Stars:
Jamaica Inn (1939) ::: 6.4/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 38min | Adventure, Crime | 13 October 1939 (USA) -- In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Sidney Gilliat (screen play), Joan Harrison (screen play) | 2 more
James and the Giant Peach (1996) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 19min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 12 April 1996 (USA) -- An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City. Director: Henry Selick Writers: Roald Dahl (based on the book by), Karey Kirkpatrick (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, Family | 19 June 1963 (USA) -- The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece. Director: Don Chaffey Writers: Jan Read (screenplay), Beverley Cross (screenplay) Stars:
Jaws (1975) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG | 2h 4min | Adventure, Thriller | 20 June 1975 (USA) -- When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) ::: 7.6/10 -- GP | 1h 48min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 10 September 1972 (Sweden) -- A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier. Director: Sydney Pollack Writers:
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 2h 2min | Family, Fantasy, Musical | 13 November 2020 (USA) -- An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever. Director: David E. Talbert Writer:
John Carter (2012) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 9 March 2012 (USA) -- Transported to Barsoom, a Civil War vet discovers a barren planet seemingly inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Woola and a princess in desperate need of a savior. Director: Andrew Stanton Writers:
Johnny Bravo ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19972004) -- The misadventures of a dumb blond egomaniac who is deluded about his own manliness. Creators: Van Partible, Jed Spingarn, Butch Hartman | 5 more credits
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ::: JoJo no kimy-na bken (original tit ::: TV-MA | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2012- ) Episode Guide 156 episodes JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Poster -- The story of the Joestar family, who are possessed with intense psychic strength, and the adventures each member encounters throughout their lives. Stars:
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002) ::: 6.5/10 -- G | 1h 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 4 October 2002 (USA) -- When the singing Veggies encounter some car trouble, they are stranded at an old rundown seafood joint, where nothing is quite as it seems. Directors: Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vischer Writers: Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki
Jonny Quest ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19641965) -- The Quest family and their bodyguard investigate strange phenomena and battle villains around the world. Creator: Doug Wildey
JonTron ::: TV-14 | Comedy | TV Series (2010 ) The ongoing adventures of JonTron, as he takes it upon himself to review games of all kinds (and some movies), under the watchful eye of his friend and overlord, the cyborg bird, Jacques. Creator: Jon Jafari Stars:
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 2h 9min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | December 1959 (UK) -- An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center. Director: Henry Levin Writers: Walter Reisch (screenplay), Charles Brackett (screenplay) | 1 more
Jumanji (1995) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 15 December 1995 (USA) -- When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades - and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game. Director: Joe Johnston Writers:
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 13 December 2019 (USA) -- In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world's most dangerous game. Director: Jake Kasdan Writers:
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 20 December 2017 (USA) -- Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game. Director: Jake Kasdan Writers: Chris McKenna (screenplay by), Erik Sommers (screenplay by) | 9 more
Jungle (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Biography | 20 October 2017 (USA) -- A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be. Director: Greg McLean (as Greg Mclean) Writers:
Jupiter Ascending (2015) ::: 5.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6 February 2015 (USA) -- A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry. Directors: Lana Wachowski (as The Wachowskis), Lilly Wachowski (as The Wachowskis) Writers:
Jurassic Park (1993) ::: 8.1/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 11 June 1993 (USA) -- A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
Jurassic World (2015) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 12 June 2015 (USA) -- A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree. Director: Colin Trevorrow Writers:
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020 ) -- Six teens attending an adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar must band together to survive when dinosaurs wreak havoc on the island. Creator:
Justice League (2017) ::: 6.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 17 November 2017 (USA) -- Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his new-found ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Director: Zack Snyder Writers:
Justice League Dark (2017) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 15min | Animation, Action, Adventure | Video 7 February 2017 -- Beings with supernatural powers join together to fight against supernatural villains. This team of supernatural beings include John Constantine, Zatanna and Jason Blood also known as the demon Etrigan. Director: Jay Oliva Writers:
Justice League ::: TV-PG | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2001-2004) Episode Guide 52 episodes Justice League Poster -- Seven of the most formidable heroes form arguably the most powerful team ever. Creators: Bob Kane, William Moulton Marston, Joe Shuster | 7 more credits
Justice League ::: TV-PG | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20012004) -- Seven of the most formidable heroes form arguably the most powerful team ever. Creators: Bob Kane, William Moulton Marston, Joe Shuster | 7 more credits
Justice League Unlimited ::: TV-Y7-FV | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20042006) -- A continuation of the Justice League animated series finds the original members of the team joined in their battle against crime and evil by dozens of other heroes from the DC comics universe. Creator:
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress ::: Kotetsujo no Kabaneri (original tit ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Mini-Series (2016- ) Episode Guide 12 episodes Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Poster A large group of survivors seek shelter while travelling on a train after their station was attacked by aggressive, undead creatures called Kabane. Stars: Robbie Daymond, Ben Diskin, Richard Epcar
Kabul Express (2006) ::: 6.8/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 15 December 2006 (UK) -- A thrilling story spanning 48 hours of five individuals linked by hate and fear but brought together by fate to finally recognize each other. Director: Kabir Khan Writers: Kabir Khan, Sandeep Shrivastava (additional dialogue) (as Sandeep
Kaiba ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Mini-Series (2008) Episode Guide 12 episodes Kaiba Poster In a futuristic dystopian world where memories are literally stored, bought and sold and rich have all the privileges, a young amnesiac is trying to find out who he is. Stars: Houko Kuwashima, Mamiko Noto, Romi Pak
Kelly's Heroes (1970) ::: 7.6/10 -- GP | 2h 24min | Adventure, Comedy, War | 23 June 1970 (USA) -- A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure. Director: Brian G. Hutton Writer: Troy Kennedy-Martin (as Troy Kennedy Martin)
Kenny (2006) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 39min | Comedy | 11 July 2008 (USA) -- This hilarious mockumentary film follows the numerous misadventures of a porta-john worker through both his personal and professional life, including an oddly glamorous excursion to the Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville, TN. Director: Clayton Jacobson Writers:
Key and Peele ::: TV-14 | 30min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2012-2015) Episode Guide 55 episodes Key and Peele Poster -- Project sees Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele in front of a live studio audience bantering about a topic weaved between filmed shorts and sketches. Creators:
Key and Peele ::: TV-14 | 30min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20122015) -- Project sees Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele in front of a live studio audience bantering about a topic weaved between filmed shorts and sketches. Creators:
Khartoum (1966) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 2h 8min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 15 June 1966 (USA) -- In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier). Directors: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon Writer:
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20102012) A satirical look at an 8 year old boy that aspires to be the most hardcore daredevil in existence. Creator: Sandro Corsaro Stars:
Kicks (2016) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 20min | Adventure, Drama | 9 September 2016 (USA) -- Brandon is a 15 year old whose dream is a pair of fresh Air Jordans. Soon after he gets his hands on them, they're stolen by a local hood, causing Brandon and his two friends to go on a dangerous mission through Oakland to retrieve them. Director: Justin Tipping Writers:
Killer Bean Forever (2009) ::: 6.5/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 30 October 2009 -- Killer Bean Forever Poster Killer Bean is sent on a mission in Beantown, but when he attacks one of the warehouses owned by the mafia boss, Cappuccino, he gets the attention of Detective Cromwell, a bean who's trying to put Cappuccino, and possibly Killer Bean, behind bars. Director: Jeff Lew Writer: Jeff Lew
Killing Eve ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2018 ) -- After a series of events, the lives of a security operative and an assassin become inextricably linked. Creator: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Killing Eve ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2018- ) Season 4 Premiere 2021 Episode Guide 26 episodes Killing Eve Poster -- After a series of events, the lives of a security operative and an assassin become inextricably linked. Creator:
Killjoys ::: TV-MA | 42min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (20152019) -- In the Quad, a planetary system on the brink of a bloody interplanetary class war, a fun loving trio of bounty hunters attempt to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants. Creator:
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (2003) ::: 7.0/10 -- TV-G | 1h 6min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 28 November -- Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time Poster -- The new school year starts off terrible for Kim. In her ordinary life her best friend is moving away, and in her heroic crime-fighting life, three of the most notorious villains in her world plan to use time travel as a weapon against her. Director: Steve Loter
Kim Possible: So the Drama (2005) ::: 7.2/10 -- TV-G | 1h 11min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 8 April 2005 -- Kim's heart is quickly captured by the new boy, Eric, who soon becomes her boyfriend. Unknown to Kim, her best friend and sidekick, Ron has developed stronger feelings toward her. Director: Steve Loter Writers:
Kim Possible ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20022007) -- A high school cheerleader and her accident-prone best friend balance their duties as global crime-fighters with the typical challenges of adolescence. Creators:
Kim's Convenience ::: TV-14 | 22min | Comedy | TV Series (20162021) -- The misadventures of a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store. Stars: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 12 May 2017 (USA) -- Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy - whether he likes it or not. Director: Guy Ritchie Writers:
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 24min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6 May 2005 (USA) -- Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people. Director: Ridley Scott Writer:
King Kong (1933) ::: 7.9/10 -- Passed | 1h 40min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7 April 1933 (USA) -- A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. Directors: Merian C. Cooper (uncredited), Ernest B. Schoedsack (uncredited) Writers:
King Kong (2005) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 3h 7min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 14 December 2005 (USA) -- A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives. Director: Peter Jackson Writers:
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 50min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 9 July 2016 (Japan) -- King Regis, who oversees the land of Lucis, commands his army of soldiers to protect the kingdom from the Niflheim empire's plans to steal the sacred crystal which gives Lucis its magic and power. Director: Takeshi Nozue Writers:
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 2h 21min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 22 September 2017 (USA) -- After the Kingsman's headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, an allied spy organisation in the United States is discovered. These two elite secret organisations must band together to defeat a common enemy. Director: Matthew Vaughn Writers:
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 2h 9min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 13 February 2015 (USA) -- A spy organisation recruits a promising street kid into the agency's training program, while a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. Director: Matthew Vaughn Writers:
King Solomon's Mines (1950) ::: 6.8/10 -- Passed | 1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 24 November 1950 (USA) -- Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. Directors: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton Writers:
Kino's Journey ::: Kino no tabi (original tit ::: TV-PG | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2003) Episode Guide 14 episodes Kino's Journey Poster -- Young world-weary sharpshooter girl Kino and her talking inquisitive motorcycle Hermes travel around her unusual world, visiting various city-states for three days each to learn about their culture, history and ruling philosophy.
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts ::: TV-Y7 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020) -- A girl explores the possibilities in a post-apocalyptic world. Creators: Radford Sechrist, Bill Wolkoff
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts ::: TV-Y7 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020) Episode Guide 30 episodes Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Poster -- A girl explores the possibilities in a post-apocalyptic world. Creators: Radford Sechrist, Bill Wolkoff
Klaus (2019) ::: 8.2/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 15 November 2019 (USA) -- A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg's new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions. Directors: Sergio Pablos, Carlos Martnez Lpez (co-director) Writers:
Knightfall ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20172019) -- A look at the final days of the Knights Templar during the 14th century. Creators: Don Handfield, Richard Rayner
Knight of Cups (2015) ::: 5.7/10 -- R | 1h 58min | Drama, Romance | 4 March 2016 (USA) -- A writer indulging in all that Los Angeles and Las Vegas has to offer undertakes a search for love and self via a series of adventures with six different women. Director: Terrence Malick Writer:
Knights of Sidonia ::: Sidonia no Kishi (original tit ::: TV-MA | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2014-2015) Episode Guide 24 episodes Knights of Sidonia Poster -- A thousand years after the destruction of Earth by gigantic aliens called Gauna, mankind is living on massive spaceships. One of these space ships is Sidonia, which is protected by large pilot controlled exosuits called Gardes.
Knights of the Zodiac ::: Seinto Seiya (original tit ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1986-1989) Episode Guide 114 episodes Knights of the Zodiac Poster -- A group a young warriors known as 'Saints', each in possession of a 'cloth' guarded by a different constellation, must protect the reincarnation of the goddess Athena as she attempts to keep the Earth from being destroyed by evil forces.
Kkaku kidtai: Stand Alone Complex ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Crime | TV Series (2002-2005) Episode Guide 52 episodes Kkaku kidtai: Stand Alone Complex Poster -- The futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team. Stars: Shir Sait, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, William Frederick Knight | See
Kong: Skull Island (2017) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 58min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 10 March 2017 (USA) -- After the Vietnam war, a team of scientists explores an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden. Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Writers:
Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! ::: Kono subarashii sekai ni shukufuku o! (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2016-2017) Episode Guide 21 episodes Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Poster It was a happy day for Kazuma - right up to the moment he died. A goddess intervenes and offers him a second chance in a magical land. Stars: Jun Fukushima, Sora Amamiya, Rie Takahashi
Kon-Tiki (2012) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 58min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 26 April 2013 (USA) -- Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. Directors: Joachim Rnning, Espen Sandberg Writer:
Krrish (2006) ::: 6.4/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 34min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 23 June 2006 (India) -- Krishna is forced by circumstances to use his superpowers and become the masked superhero Krrish, before getting drawn towards his lost legacy. Director: Rakesh Roshan Writers:
Krypton ::: TV-14 | 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2018-2019) Episode Guide 20 episodes Krypton Poster -- The untold story of Superman's grandfather as he fights for justice on his home planet. Creators: David S. Goyer, David S. Goyer, Damian Kindler
Krypton ::: TV-14 | 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20182019) -- The untold story of Superman's grandfather as he fights for justice on his home planet. Creators: David S. Goyer, David S. Goyer, Damian Kindler
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 19 August 2016 (USA) -- A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past. Director: Travis Knight Writers: Marc Haimes (screenplay by), Chris Butler (screenplay by) | 2 more
Kung Fu Panda (2008) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG | 1h 32min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 6 June 2008 (USA) -- The Dragon Warrior has to clash against the savage Tai Lung as China's fate hangs in the balance. However, the Dragon Warrior mantle is supposedly mistaken to be bestowed upon an obese panda who is a novice in martial arts. Directors: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson Writers:
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 26 May 2011 (USA) -- Po and his friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon, but first the Dragon Warrior must come to terms with his past. Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Writers:
Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 29 January 2016 (USA) -- Continuing his "legendary adventures of awesomeness", Po must face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to home. Directors: Alessandro Carloni, Jennifer Yuh Nelson Writers:
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness ::: TV-Y7 | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20112016) -- The further adventures of Po the Dragon Warrior and his friends. Stars: Mick Wingert, Kari Wahlgren, Fred Tatasciore Available on Amazon
Labyrinth (1986) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 27 June 1986 (USA) -- Sixteen-year-old Sarah is given thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother Toby when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King Jareth. Director: Jim Henson Writers:
Lady and the Tramp (1955) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 16min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 June 1955 (USA) -- The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt. Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson | 2 more credits Writers: Ward Greene (from the story by), Erdman Penner (story) | 3 more
Lady and the Tramp (2019) ::: 6.3/10 -- PG | 1h 51min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 12 November 2019 (USA) -- The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt. Director: Charlie Bean Writers: Kari Granlund (screenplay by), Andrew Bujalski (screenplay by)
Ladyhawke (1985) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 1min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 12 April 1985 (USA) -- The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston. Director: Richard Donner Writers:
Land of the Pharaohs (1955) ::: 6.6/10 -- Approved | 1h 46min | Adventure, Drama, History | 24 June 1955 (USA) -- A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life. Director: Howard Hawks Writers: William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz | 1 more credit Stars:
Lassie (2005) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 1 September 2006 (USA) -- A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home. Director: Charles Sturridge Writers:
Lassie Come Home (1943) ::: 7.1/10 -- Passed | 1h 29min | Adventure, Drama, Family | December 1943 (USA) -- After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie (Pal) escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home. Director: Fred M. Wilcox Writers:
Last Action Hero (1993) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 18 June 1993 (USA) -- With the help of a magic ticket, a young movie fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie character. Director: John McTiernan Writers: Zak Penn (story), Adam Leff (story) | 2 more credits
Last Cab to Darwin (2015) ::: 7.2/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 3min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 10 June 2016 (USA) -- When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is told he doesn't have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms. Director: Jeremy Sims Writers:
Last Holiday (2006) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 52min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 13 January 2006 (USA) -- Upon learning of a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to sell off all her possessions and live it up at a posh Central-European hotel. Director: Wayne Wang Writers: Jeffrey Price (screenplay), Peter S. Seaman (screenplay) | 1 more
Last of the Dogmen (1995) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 58min | Adventure, Western | 8 September 1995 (USA) -- A Montana bounty hunter and an anthropologist discover a tribe of Native Americans living in a settlement isolated from the rest of the world. Director: Tab Murphy Writer:
Lawman (1971) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 39min | Adventure, Western | 4 August 1971 (USA) -- A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man. Director: Michael Winner Writer: Gerald Wilson Stars:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) ::: 8.3/10 -- Approved | 3h 48min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 30 January 1963 -- Lawrence of Arabia Poster -- The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. Director: David Lean Writers:
Lean on Pete (2017) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 1min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 6 April 2018 (USA) -- A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete. Director: Andrew Haigh Writers: Andrew Haigh, Willy Vlautin (based on the novel by)
Leave It to Beaver ::: TV-G | 30min | Comedy, Family | TV Series (19571963) -- The misadventures of a suburban boy, family and friends. Creators: Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher, Dick Conway
Leave No Trace (2018) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama | 29 June 2018 (UK) -- A father and his thirteen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever. Director: Debra Granik Writers:
Legacies ::: TV-14 | 45min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (2018 ) -- Hope Mikaelson, a tribrid daughter of a Vampire/Werewolf hybrid, makes her way in the world. Creator: Julie Plec
Legend (1985) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 34min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | 18 April 1986 (USA) -- A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves. Director: Ridley Scott Writer: William Hjortsberg
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 24 September 2010 (USA) -- When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace. Director: Zack Snyder Writers: John Orloff (screenplay), Emil Stern (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Legend of the Seeker ::: TV-14 | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20082010) -- After the mysterious murder of his father, a son's search for answers begins a momentous fight against tyranny. Creators: Stephen Tolkin, Kenneth Biller
Legend of the Seeker ::: TV-14 | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2008-2010) Episode Guide 44 episodes Legend of the Seeker Poster -- After the mysterious murder of his father, a son's search for answers begins a momentous fight against tyranny. Creators: Stephen Tolkin, Kenneth Biller
Legends of the Hidden Temple ::: TV-G | 30min | Adventure, Family, Game-Show | TV Series (19931995) Teams compete in elimination challenges with the final team going on to search for the treasure inside the titular Mesoamerican "Hidden Temple". Stars: Kirk Fogg, Dee Bradley Baker, Jennifer Holtz
Le Mans (1971) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 46min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 23 June 1971 (USA) -- Almost at the verge of documentary, film depicts a single auto race from the ground up. Director: Lee H. Katzin Writer: Harry Kleiner
Les vampires (1915) ::: 7.3/10 -- Not Rated | 7h 1min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 23 November 1916 (USA) -- An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires. Director: Louis Feuillade Writer: Louis Feuillade Stars:
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) ::: 7.9/10 -- R | 2h 21min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 2 February 2007 (USA) -- The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. Director: Clint Eastwood Writers:
Letters to Juliet (2010) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 14 May 2010 (USA) -- Sophie dreams of becoming a writer and travels to Verona, Italy where she meets the "Secretaries of Juliet". Director: Gary Winick Writers: Jose Rivera, Tim Sullivan
Lexx -- R | 1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19962002) ::: A group of disparate fugitives from an interplanetary tyranny find themselves in control of a massively powerful starship. Creators: Jeffrey Hirschfield, Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff
Licence to Kill (1989) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 13min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 14 July 1989 (USA) -- After capturing a drug lord, Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. James Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates an organisation posing as a hitman. Director: John Glen Writers:
Life of Pi (2012) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG | 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 21 November 2012 (USA) -- A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger. Director: Ang Lee Writers:
Life with Louie ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (1994 ) Adventures of Louie Anderson as a child, growing up with his sweet-hearted mother, his loud and war crazed father, his 10 siblings, and children at school who love to tease him. Creator: Louie Anderson Stars:
Lilo & Stitch (2002) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 21 June 2002 (USA) -- A Hawaiian girl adopts an unusual pet who is actually a notorious extra-terrestrial fugitive. Directors: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders Writers: Chris Sanders (based on an idea by), Chris Sanders | 1 more credit
Lilo & Stitch: The Series ::: TV-Y | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20032006) -- The rambunctious human and alien duo must hunt down Dr. Jumba Jookiba's 625 other experimental creatures infesting Hawaii. Creators: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Limbo (1999) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7 July 1999 (France) -- In an economically devastated Alaskan town, a fisherman with a troublesome past dates a woman whose young daughter does not approve of him. When he witnesses the murder of his shady brother, he, the woman and the kid run to the wilderness. Director: John Sayles Writer:
Little Bear ::: TV-Y | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Family | TV Series (19952003) -- Based upon a series of children's books, a grizzly cub has many misadventures with his friends. Creators: Else Holmelund Minarik, Maurice Sendak
Little Big Man (1970) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 19min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 23 December 1970 (USA) -- Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer. Director: Arthur Penn Writers: Thomas Berger (novel), Calder Willingham (screenplay) Stars:
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989) ::: 7.2/10 -- Little Nemo (original title) -- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Poster -- Each night, young Nemo goes to Slumberland and has adventures and befriends the king of Slumberland, Morpheus. But one night Nemo discovers Nightmare Land, and the evil nightmare king, throwing Slumberland and Nemo himself into danger. Directors: Masami Hata, William T. Hurtz (as William Hurtz)
Live and Let Die (1973) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 2h 1min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 27 June 1973 (USA) -- James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. Director: Guy Hamilton Writer:
Lizzie McGuire ::: TV-G | 30min | Comedy, Drama, Family | TV Series (20012004) -- The daily adventures of an adolescent girl whose real thoughts and emotions are expressed by her sarcastic animated alter ego. Creator: Terri Minsky
Loafing and Camouflage (1984) ::: 7.7/10 -- Loufa kai parallagi (original title) -- Loafing and Camouflage Poster The "adventures" of some friends during their military service. Director: Nicos Perakis Writer: Nicos Perakis Stars:
Logan's Run (1976) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 23 June 1976 (USA) -- A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth. Director: Michael Anderson Writers: David Zelag Goodman (screenplay by), William F. Nolan (based on the
Log Horizon ::: TV-PG | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2013- ) Episode Guide 62 episodes Log Horizon Poster -- Elder Tale is an online fantasy RPG that has become popular worldwide. But when its twelfth expansion package, "Novasphere Pioneers" is installed, thirty thousand players in Japan are ... S Creator:
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ::: TV-PG | 46min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19931997) -- In addition to fighting evil, Superman has a burning romance with Lois Lane in both of his identities. Creators: Deborah Joy LeVine, Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel
London (2005) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 32min | Drama, Romance | 10 February 2006 (USA) -- London is a drug laden adventure that centers on a party in a New York loft where a young man is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend. Director: Hunter Richards Writer: Hunter Richards
Lord Jim (1965) ::: 6.8/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 34min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 25 February 1965 -- Lord Jim Poster After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Director: Richard Brooks Writers: Joseph Conrad (novel), Richard Brooks (written for the screen by) Stars:
Lord of the Flies (1963) ::: 6.9/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 32min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 13 August 1963 -- Lord of the Flies Poster -- Schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization. Director: Peter Brook Writer:
Lord of the Flies (1990) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 30min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 16 March 1990 (USA) -- Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery. Director: Harry Hook Writers: William Golding (novel) (as Sir William Golding), Jay Presson Allen (screenplay) (as Sara Schiff)
Lost Horizon (1937) ::: 7.7/10 -- Approved | 2h 12min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 1 September 1937 -- Lost Horizon Poster -- When a wise diplomat's plane crashes in the snows of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay. Director: Frank Capra Writers:
Lost in Space ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2018 ) -- After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fight against all odds to survive and escape, but they're surrounded by hidden dangers. Creators:
Lost in Space ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2018- ) Season 3 Premiere 2021 Episode Guide 30 episodes Lost in Space Poster -- After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fight against all odds to survive and escape, but they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
Lost ::: TV-14 | 44min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (2004-2010) Episode Guide 118 episodes Lost Poster -- The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island. Creators: J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof
Lost ::: TV-14 | 44min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (20042010) -- The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island. Creators: J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof
Love and Monsters (2020) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 49min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 16 October 2020 (USA) -- In a monster-infested world, Joel learns his girlfriend is just 85 miles away. To make the dangerous journey, Joel discovers his inner hero to be with the girl of his dreams. Director: Michael Matthews Writers:
Lucky Luke ::: 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19831984) An animated series based on the European comic book about an American cowboy described as "The man who shoots faster than his shadow." Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old... S Stars: Jacques Thbault, Robert Ridgely, William Callaway
MacGyver ::: TV-PG | 48min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (19851992) -- The adventures of a secret Agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness. Creator: Lee David Zlotoff
Mackenna's Gold (1969) ::: 6.8/10 -- M | 2h 8min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 10 May 1969 (USA) -- A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed. Director: J. Lee Thompson Writers:
Madagascar (2005) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 26min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 27 May 2005 (USA) -- A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild. Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath Writers: Mark Burton, Billy Frolick | 2 more credits
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 8 June 2012 (USA) -- The Madagascar animals join a struggling European circus to get back to New York, but find themselves being pursued by a psychotic animal control officer. Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath | 1 more credit Writers:
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 29min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 7 November 2008 (USA) -- The Madagascar animals fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African nature reserve, where they meet others of their own kind, and Alex especially discovers his royal heritage as prince of a lion pride. Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath Writers:
Made in Abyss ::: TV-14 | 5h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2017- ) Episode Guide 13 episodes Made in Abyss Poster -- A girl and her robot companion search for her mother, who's lost within a vast chasm. Stars: Miyu Tomita, Mariya Ise, Luci Christian
Mad Max (1979) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 21 March 1980 (USA) -- In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang. Director: George Miller Writers: James McCausland (screenplay), George Miller (screenplay) | 2 more
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) ::: 8.1/10 -- R | 2h | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 15 May 2015 (USA) -- In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max. Director: George Miller Writers:
Major Dundee (1965) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Adventure, War, Western | 15 March 1965 (Denmark) -- In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts. Director: Sam Peckinpah Writers: Harry Julian Fink (story), Harry Julian Fink (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Mako Mermaids ::: TV-G | 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2013 ) -- A young man is magically turned a merman, and discovers his underwater origins, after he comes in contact with the magic waters at the mysterious Mako Island guarded by a trio of mermaids. Creators:
Maleficent (2014) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Action, Adventure, Family | 30 May 2014 (USA) -- A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land. Director: Robert Stromberg Writers:
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 59min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 18 October 2019 (USA) -- Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies and dark new forces at play. Director: Joachim Rnning Writers:
Man of Steel (2013) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 23min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 14 June 2013 (USA) -- An alien child is evacuated from his dying world and sent to Earth to live among humans. His peace is threatened, when other survivors of his home planet invade Earth. Director: Zack Snyder Writers:
Man vs. Wild ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Reality-TV | TV Series (20062020) Bear Grylls travels the world in search of challenges to his survival skills. Stars: Bear Grylls, Will Ferrell, Sean Lacoste Available on Amazon
Map of the Human Heart (1992) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 14 May 1993 (USA) -- Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal, where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins WWII in UK. Director: Vincent Ward Writers:
Marco Polo ::: TV-MA | 1h | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Series (2014-2016) Episode Guide 20 episodes Marco Polo Poster -- In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, "Marco Polo" is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in 13th century Mongolia. Creator:
Marco Polo ::: TV-MA | 1h | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Series (20142016) -- In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, "Marco Polo" is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in 13th century Mongolia. Creator:
Mars ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Series (20162018) -- The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet. Creators: Andr Bormanis, Mickey Fisher, Karen Janszen | 3 more credits
Mary Poppins (1964) ::: 7.8/10 -- G | 2h 19min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 18 June 1965 (USA) -- In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father. Director: Robert Stevenson Writers: Bill Walsh (screenplay), Don DaGradi (screenplay) (as Don Da Gradi) | 1
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 18min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 14 November 2003 (USA) -- During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America. Director: Peter Weir Writers:
Maverick (1994) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 20 May 1994 (USA) -- Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief. Director: Richard Donner Writers: Roy Huggins (television series Maverick), William Goldman
Max (2015) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 51min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 26 June 2015 (USA) -- A military dog that helped American Marines in Afghanistan returns to the United States and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience. Director: Boaz Yakin Writers:
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) ::: 6.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 23min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 26 January 2018 (USA) -- Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare". Director: Wes Ball Writers: T.S. Nowlin (screenplay by), James Dashner (based upon the novel by)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) ::: 6.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 11min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 18 September 2015 (USA) -- After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Director: Wes Ball Writers:
Meek's Cutoff (2010) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 44min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 15 April 2011 (UK) -- Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions. Director: Kelly Reichardt Writer: Jonathan Raymond (screenplay) (as Jon Raymond)
Meet the Robinsons (2007) ::: 6.8/10 -- G | 1h 35min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 30 March 2007 (USA) -- Lewis is a brilliant inventor who meets mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson, whisking Lewis away in a time machine and together they team up to track down Bowler Hat Guy in a showdown that ends with an unexpected twist of fate. Director: Stephen J. Anderson (as Stephen Anderson) Writers:
Megalo Box ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Mini-Series (2018- ) Episode Guide 14 episodes Megalo Box Poster Junk Dog, an underground fighter with the alias of "Gearless Joe" sets out to join the worlds most prestigious mecha boxing championship, Megalonia. Stars: Yoshimasa Hosoya, Shir Sait, Hiroki Yasumoto
Men at Work ::: TV-14 | 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Series (20122014) Featurette 2:03 | Featurette -- Comedy following the misadventures of four buddies who work together at a magazine. Creator: Breckin Meyer
Men in Black (1997) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 38min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 2 July 1997 (USA) -- A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth. Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Writers: Lowell Cunningham (comic), Ed Solomon (screen story) | 1 more credit
Men in Black 3 (2012) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 46min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 25 May 2012 (USA) -- Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history. Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Writers: Etan Cohen, Lowell Cunningham (based on the Malibu comic by)
Men in Black: The Series ::: TV-Y7 | 25min | Animation, Action, Comedy | TV Series (19972001) The continuing adventures of Agents K and J as they deal with problems with extraterrestrials in New York City. Creators: Duane Capizzi, Jeff Kline, Richard Raynis Stars:
Merlin ::: TV-PG | 45min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (20082012) -- These are the brand new adventures of Merlin, the legendary sorcerer as a young man, when he was just a servant to young Prince Arthur on the royal court of Camelot, who has soon become his best friend, and turned Arthur into a great king and a legend. Creators:
Merry Madagascar (2009) ::: 6.7/10 -- TV-PG | 28min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 17 November -- Merry Madagascar Poster -- When Santa and his reindeer crash onto Madagascar it's up to Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melvin, and the penguins to save Christmas. Director: David Soren Writers:
Metallica Through the Never (2013) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 33min | Music | 4 October 2013 (USA) -- Trip, a young roadie for Metallica, is sent on an urgent mission during the band's show. But what seems like a simple assignment turns into a surreal adventure. Director: Nimrd Antal Writers:
Metalocalypse ::: TV-MA | 11min | Animation, Comedy, Music | TV Series (20062013) -- The epic and over-the-top adventures of Dethklok, the world's most successful death metal band. Creators: Tommy Blacha, Brendon Small
Midway (2019) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 18min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 8 November 2019 (USA) -- The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it. Director: Roland Emmerich Writer: Wes Tooke
Mighty Joe Young (1949) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 34min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 29 August 1949 -- Mighty Joe Young Poster -- A young woman who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood years later seeking her fortune. Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack Writers:
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Action, Adventure, Family | TV Series (19931996) -- A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters. Creators:
Mike Tyson Mysteries ::: TV-14 | 12min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20142020) -- In this macabre comedy, retired boxing champion Mike Tyson, his brainy adopted Asian-American daughter, a friendly but wimpy gay gentleman ghost and a cursed perverse mean-spirited talking pigeon solve weird mysteries together. Creators:
Mimino (1977) ::: 8.2/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama | 27 March 1978 (Soviet Union) -- Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue. Director: Georgiy Daneliya Writers: Revaz Gabriadze, Viktoriya Tokareva | 1 more credit
Minecraft Epic ::: TV-14 | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2019 ) Pewdiepie has epic adventures in Minecraft. With the help of his friends, he can conquer the hostile world, and maybe learn some life lessons. Stars: Felix Kjellberg, Joergen, Water Sheep
Minions (2015) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 31min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 10 July 2015 (USA) -- Minions Stuart, Kevin, and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a supervillain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world. Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin Writer:
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir ::: TV-Y7 | 20min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2015 ) -- Marinette and Adrien, two normal teens, transform into superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir when an evil threatens their city. Stars: Cristina Valenzuela, Bryce Papenbrook, Mela Lee | See full cast &
Mirrormask (2005) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Adventure, Fantasy | 28 October 2005 (Canada) -- In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a fifteen-year-old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home. Director: Dave McKean Writers: Neil Gaiman (story), Dave McKean (story) | 1 more credit
Missing Link (2019) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 12 April 2019 (USA) -- Mr. Link recruits explorer Sir Lionel Frost to help find his long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. Along with adventurer Adelina Fortnight, this trio of explorers travel the world to help their new friend. Director: Chris Butler Writer:
Mission Hill ::: TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19992002) The misadventures of a group of disparate roomates who live in a hip neighborhood in a major city. Creators: Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein Stars:
Mission Hill ::: TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19992002) The misadventures of a group of disparate roomates who live in a hip neighborhood in a major city.
Mission: Impossible (1996) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 22 May 1996 (USA) -- An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization. Director: Brian De Palma Writers: Bruce Geller (television series), David Koepp (story) | 3 more
Mission: Impossible ::: 47min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (19881990) An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture. Creator: Bruce Geller Stars:
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 27min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 27 July 2018 (USA) -- Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. Director: Christopher McQuarrie Writers: Bruce Geller (based on the television series created by), Christopher
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 21 December 2011 (USA) -- The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. Director: Brad Bird Writers:
Mission: Impossible III (2006) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 5 May 2006 (USA) -- IMF agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiance in response. Director: J.J. Abrams Writers: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci | 2 more credits
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 11min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 31 July 2015 (USA) -- Ethan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF. Director: Christopher McQuarrie Writers:
Mississippi Grind (2015) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 48min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 13 August 2015 (USA) -- Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's been lost. Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Writers:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 30 September 2016 (USA) -- When Jacob (Asa Butterfield) discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across time, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers. Director: Tim Burton Writers:
Mistress America (2015) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 24min | Comedy, Drama | 4 September 2015 (USA) -- A lonely college freshman's life is turned upside-down by her impetuous, adventurous stepsister-to-be. Director: Noah Baumbach Writers: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig
Moana (2016) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 23 November 2016 (USA) -- In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right. Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | 2 more credits Writers:
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ::: Shin kid senki Gundam W (original tit ::: TV-PG | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19951996) A squadron of giant robot pilots of a beleaguered Earth colony bring the war to their oppressive home planet. Stars: Hikaru Midorikawa, Toshihiko Seki, Ryz Ishino Available on Amazon
Moby Dick (1956) ::: 7.3/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 56min | Adventure, Drama | 3 April 1959 (USA) -- The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. Director: John Huston Writers:
Mogambo (1953) ::: 6.7/10 -- Approved | 1h 56min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 9 October 1953 (USA) -- On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda. Director: John Ford Writers:
Monos (2019) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 15 August 2019 (Colombia) -- On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. Director: Alejandro Landes Writers: Alejandro Landes (screenplay), Alexis Dos Santos (screenplay) | 1 more
Monster Hunter (2020) ::: 5.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 18 December 2020 (USA) -- When Lt. Artemis and her loyal soldiers are transported to a new world, they engage in a desperate battle for survival against enormous enemies with incredible powers. Feature film based on the video game by Capcom. Director: Paul W.S. Anderson Writers:
Monsters (2010) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 34min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 3 December 2010 (UK) -- Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border. Director: Gareth Edwards Writer:
Monsters, Inc. (2001) ::: 8.1/10 -- G | 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 2 November 2001 (USA) -- In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, 2 monsters realize things may not be what they
Monsters, Inc. (2001) ::: 8.1/10 -- G | 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 2 November 2001 (USA) -- In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, 2 monsters realize things may not be what they think. Directors: Pete Docter, David Silverman (co-director) | 1 more credit Writers:
Monsters University (2013) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 44min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 21 June 2013 (USA) -- A look at the relationship between Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. "Sully" Sullivan (John Goodman) during their days at Monsters University, when they weren't necessarily the best of friends. Director: Dan Scanlon Writers:
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 34min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 27 March 2009 (USA) -- A woman transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day becomes part of a team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth. Directors: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon Writers:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) ::: 8.2/10 -- PG | 1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 25 May 1975 (UK) -- King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles. Directors: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones Writers:
Moonfleet (1955) ::: 6.7/10 -- Approved | 1h 27min | Adventure, Drama | June 1955 (UK) -- A young orphan is sent to the village of Moonfleet, in Dorset, England to stay with his mother's former lover, who has the facade of a gentleman but is a leader of a gang of swashbuckling bootleggers. The duo went on a treasure hunt. Director: Fritz Lang Writers:
Mortal Engines (2018) ::: 6.1/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 8min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 14 December 2018 (USA) -- In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy. Director: Christian Rivers Writers:
Mortal Kombat (1995) ::: 5.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 18 August 1995 (USA) -- Three unknowing martial artists are summoned to a mysterious island to compete in a tournament whose outcome will decide the fate of the world. Director: Paul W.S. Anderson (as Paul Anderson) Writers:
Mortal Kombat: Legacy ::: Mortal Kombat (original tit ::: TV-MA | 10min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (20112013) The first season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy is a prequel to the original game, explaining the background stories of several characters from the series and demonstrating their reasons for ... S Stars: Casper Van Dien, Ian Anthony Dale, Samantha Win
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020) ::: 7.4/10 -- R | 1h 20min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 12 April 2020 (USA) -- Coming Soon Releases April 12, 2021 Hanzo Hasashi loses his clan, family, and his life during an attack by a rival ninja clan. He is given the chance to compete in an interdimensional tournament to save his loved ones while ... S Director:
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020) ::: 7.4/10 -- R | 1h 20min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 12 April 2020 (USA) -- Coming Soon Releases April 12, 2021 Hanzo Hasashi loses his clan, family, and his life during an attack by a rival ninja clan. He is given the chance to compete in an interdimensional tournament to save his loved ones while ... S Director:
Motocrossed (2001) ::: 6.6/10 -- TV-G | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Family | TV Movie 16 February 2001 -- A young girl secretly poses as her twin brother to win the big motocross race for him after he breaks his leg. Director: Steve Boyum Writers: Ann Austen, Douglas Sloan Stars:
Mountains of the Moon (1990) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 16min | Adventure, Drama, History | 23 February 1990 (USA) -- The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river. Director: Bob Rafelson Writers:
Mr. Belvedere ::: TV-G | 30min | Comedy, Family | TV Series (19851990) -- The humourous adventures of an English housekeeper working for an American family. Creators: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 7 March 2014 (USA) -- The time-travelling adventures of an advanced canine and his adopted son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift they created. Director: Rob Minkoff Writers: Jay Ward (based on the series produced by), Craig Wright (screenplay) |
Mulan (1998) ::: 7.6/10 -- G | 1h 28min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 19 June 1998 (USA) -- To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process. Directors: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook Writers:
Muppets Most Wanted (2014) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 21 March 2014 (USA) -- While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick. Director: James Bobin Writers:
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) ::: 7.0/10 -- G | 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 16 February 1996 (USA) -- The Muppets' twist on the classic tale. Directors: Brian Henson, David Lane (uncredited) Writers: Robert Louis Stevenson (novel), Jerry Juhl (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Murphy Brown ::: TV-PG | 30min | Comedy | TV Series (19882018) -- The personal and professional misadventures of an opinionated but beloved woman working as a television journalist. Creators: Diane English, Diane English
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) ::: 7.7/10 -- Passed | 2h 12min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 12 January 1936 -- Mutiny on the Bounty Poster -- First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1788 mutiny. Director: Frank Lloyd Writers:
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) ::: 7.3/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 58min | Adventure, Drama, History | 8 November 1962 -- Mutiny on the Bounty Poster -- In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian. Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed (uncredited) Writers:
My Fellow Americans (1996) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy | 20 December 1996 (USA) -- Two former U. S. Presidents, hated rivals, join forces to expose the current, corrupt President at the risk of their lives. Director: Peter Segal Writers: E. Jack Kaplan (story), Richard Chapman (story) | 3 more credits
My Hero Academia ::: Boku no hr akademia (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2016- ) Episode Guide 93 episodes My Hero Academia Poster -- A superhero-loving boy without any powers is determined to enroll in a prestigious hero academy and learn what it really means to be a hero. Stars:
My Life as a Teenage Robot ::: TV-Y | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20032009) The escapades of a super-powered robot who happens to resemble a teenage girl that tries to balance high school and teen problems while trying to save the world from danger. Creator: Rob Renzetti Stars:
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic ::: TV-Y | 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20102020) -- After learning that her friends, as well as herself, are the magical Elements of Harmony, studious unicorn Twilight Sparkle is sent by her mentor, Princess Celestia, to Ponyville to study the magic of friendship with help from her friends. Creators:
My One and Only (2009) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 48min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy | 25 September 2009 -- My One and Only Poster -- After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life. Director: Richard Loncraine Writer:
Mysterious Island (1961) ::: 6.8/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 41min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 20 December 1961 -- Mysterious Island Poster -- During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates escape the stockade using a hot air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island. Director: Cy Endfield Writers:
My Virtual Escape ::: TV-MA | 40min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (2017-2018) Episode Guide 25 episodes My Virtual Escape Poster -- A troubled teen named Isaac struggles to find meaning in his life until he comes across a cutting-edge Virtual Reality Helmet called: "E.V.E". Creator: Jesse Ridgway
Naked and Afraid ::: TV-14 | 43min | Adventure, Reality-TV | TV Series (2013 ) -- Reality show where two strangers (typically 1 male, 1female) try to survive in the wild for 21 days, naked. Stars: Michael Brown, Amanda Kaye, E.J. Snyder
Naruto: Shippden ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20072017) -- Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, adolescent ninja who constantly searches for approval and recognition, as well as to become Hokage, who is acknowledged as the leader and strongest of all ninja in the village. Creator:
Naruto: Shippden ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2007-2017) Episode Guide 502 episodes Naruto: Shippden Poster -- Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, adolescent ninja who constantly searches for approval and recognition, as well as to become Hokage, who is acknowledged as the leader and strongest of all ninja in the village. Creator:
Naruto ::: TV-Y7-FV | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2002-2007) Episode Guide 220 episodes Naruto Poster -- Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and strongest ninja. Creator:
Naruto ::: TV-Y7-FV | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20022007) -- Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and strongest ninja. Creator:
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) ::: 7.4/10 -- R | 1h 38min | Adventure, Comedy | 29 July 1983 (USA) -- The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated. Director: Harold Ramis Writers: John Hughes (screenplay), John Hughes (short story "Vacation '58")
National Treasure (2004) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 2h 11min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 19 November 2004 (USA) -- A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries. Director: Jon Turteltaub Writers: Jim Kouf (screenplay), Cormac Wibberley (screenplay) | 4 more credits
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 21 December 2007 (USA) -- Benjamin Gates must follow a clue left in John Wilkes Booth's diary to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Director: Jon Turteltaub Writers: Marianne Wibberley (screenplay) (as The Wibberleys), Cormac Wibberley
Nebraska (2013) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 1h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 24 January 2014 (USA) -- An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. Director: Alexander Payne Writer:
Ned Kelly (2003) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Biography | 26 March 2004 (USA) -- An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known. Director: Gregor Jordan Writers: Robert Drewe (novel), John Michael McDonagh (screenplay) Stars:
Nerve (2016) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 36min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 27 July 2016 (USA) -- A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers." Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Writers:
Never Cry Wolf (1983) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG | 1h 45min | Adventure, Drama | 27 January 1984 (USA) -- A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species. Director: Carroll Ballard Writers: Farley Mowat (based on the book by), Curtis Hanson (screenplay) | 5 more credits
News of the World (2020) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 58min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 25 December 2020 (USA) -- A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home. Director: Paul Greengrass Writers:
Next Gen (2018) ::: 6.6/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 46min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 7 September 2018 -- Next Gen Poster -- A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl's life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman. Directors: Kevin R. Adams, Joe Ksander | 1 more credit Writers:
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 2h 12min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 27 June 2003 (UK) -- A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle. Director: Douglas McGrath Writers: Charles Dickens (novel), Douglas McGrath (screenplay)
Night at the Museum (2006) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 22 December 2006 (USA) -- A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc. Director: Shawn Levy Writers:
Night Passage (1957) ::: 6.7/10 -- Approved | 1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 26 August 1957 -- Night Passage Poster A fired railroad man is re-hired and trusted to carry a ten thousand dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws. Director: James Neilson Writers: Borden Chase (screenplay), Norman A. Fox (based on a story by)
Night Train to Lisbon (2013) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6 December 2013 (USA) -- Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself. Director: Bille August Writers:
Noah (2014) ::: 5.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 18min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 28 March 2014 (USA) -- Noah is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world. Director: Darren Aronofsky Writers: Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel
Noelle (2019) ::: 6.3/10 -- G | 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 12 November 2019 (USA) -- Santa's daughter must take over the family business when her father retires and her brother, who is supposed to inherit the Santa role, gets cold feet. Director: Marc Lawrence Writer:
No Game, No Life ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Mini-Series (2014) Episode Guide 12 episodes No Game, No Life Poster -- Siblings Sora and Shiro together make up the most feared team of pro gamers in the world, The Blank. When they manage to beat god himself in a game of chess, they are sent to a world where all disputes are settled with games. Stars:
Noragami ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20142016) -- A minor god seeking to gain widespread worship teams up with a human girl he saved to gain fame, recognition and at least one shrine dedicated to him. Stars:
Noragami ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2014-2016) Episode Guide 29 episodes Noragami Poster -- A minor god seeking to gain widespread worship teams up with a human girl he saved to gain fame, recognition and at least one shrine dedicated to him. Stars:
North by Northwest (1959) ::: 8.3/10 -- Approved | 2h 16min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller | 18 December 1959 -- North by Northwest Poster -- A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writer:
Nothing to Lose (1997) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 38min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 18 July 1997 (USA) -- Nick's wife's in bed with his boss. He later gets a gun to his head by a carjacker but steps on the gas pedal. They end up friends after adventures together - holdups, burglary, reckless driving, revenge etc. Twists follow. Director: Steve Oedekerk Writer: Steve Oedekerk
Now You See Me 2 (2016) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 9min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 10 June 2016 (USA) -- The Four Horsemen resurface, and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. Director: Jon M. Chu Writers: Ed Solomon (screenplay by), Ed Solomon (story by) | 3 more credits
Objective, Burma! (1945) ::: 7.3/10 -- Approved | 2h 22min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 17 February 1945 (USA) -- A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy. Director: Raoul Walsh Writers:
Oblivion (2013) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 19 April 2013 (USA) -- A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself. Director: Joseph Kosinski Writers: Karl Gajdusek (screenplay), Michael Arndt (screenplay) (as Michael
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 47min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 2 February 2001 (USA) -- In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (uncredited) Writers: Homer (epic poem "The Odyssey"), Ethan Coen | 1 more credit
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 47min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 2 February 2001 (USA) -- In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Octopussy (1983) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 2h 11min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 10 June 1983 (USA) -- A fake Faberg egg, and a fellow Agent's death, lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Director: John Glen Writers:
Off the Map ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2011) -- 1 -- A trio of doctors seek a new start. Creator: Jenna Bans
Of Mice and Men (1939) ::: 7.9/10 -- Passed | 1h 46min | Adventure, Drama | 12 January 1940 (USA) -- A mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America. Director: Lewis Milestone Writers: John Steinbeck (by), Eugene Solow (screen play) Stars:
Okja (2017) ::: 7.3/10 -- TV-MA | 2h | Action, Adventure, Drama | 28 June 2017 (USA) -- A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja. Director: Bong Joon Ho Writers:
Old Yeller (1957) ::: 7.3/10 -- Approved | 1h 23min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 10 July 1959 (USA) -- A teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by all. Director: Robert Stevenson Writers:
Oliver & Company (1988) ::: 6.7/10 -- G | 1h 14min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 18 November 1988 (USA) -- A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City. Director: George Scribner Writers: Jim Cox (animation screenplay), Tim Disney (animation screenplay) (as
O Lucky Man! (1973) ::: 7.8/10 -- R | 2h 58min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 20 June 1973 (USA) -- An apprentice coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism. Director: Lindsay Anderson Writers: David Sherwin (screenplay), Malcolm McDowell (based on an original idea
Once Upon a Forest (1993) ::: 6.5/10 -- G | 1h 11min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 18 June 1993 (USA) -- A young mouse, mole and hedgehog risk their lives to find a cure for their badger friend, who's been poisoned by men. Director: Charles Grosvenor Writers: Rae Lambert (story), Mark Young | 1 more credit Stars:
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland ::: TV-PG | 42min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (2013-2014) Episode Guide 13 episodes Once Upon a Time in Wonderland Poster -- In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. Creators: Jane Espenson, Zack Estrin, Adam Horowitz | 1 more credit
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland ::: TV-PG | 42min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (20132014) -- In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. Creators: Jane Espenson, Zack Estrin, Adam Horowitz | 1 more credit
Once Upon a Time ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | TV Series (20112018) -- A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed. Creators: Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
Once Upon a Time ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | TV Series (2011-2018) Episode Guide 156 episodes Once Upon a Time Poster -- A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed. Creators: Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 19min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 January 1961 (USA) -- When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella de Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske (as Hamilton S. Luske) | 1 more credit Writers:
One Piece ::: One Piece: Wan psu (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1999- ) Episode Guide 968 episodes One Piece Poster -- Follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his pirate crew in order to find the greatest treasure ever left by the legendary Pirate, Gold Roger. The famous mystery treasure named "One Piece". Creator:
One Piece: Stampede (2019) ::: 7.6/10 -- TV-14 | 1h 41min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 24 October 2019 (USA) -- Pirates from around the world gather at the Pirates Expo to join the hunt for Gol D. Roger's lost treasure. Director: Takashi Otsuka Writers: Eiichiro Oda (creator), Eiichiro Oda (story) | 2 more credits
One Week (2008) ::: 7.0/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 34min | Adventure, Drama | 6 March 2009 (Canada) -- Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life. Director: Michael McGowan Writer:
on Flux ::: TV-MA | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (19911995) Leather-bound and lethal, Aeon Flux secret agent, saboteur engages in a never-ending battle of wills with her nemesis/love, Trevor Goodchild. Creator: Peter Chung Stars:
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 2h 22min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 19 December 1969 (USA) -- James Bond woos a mob boss' daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps involving beautiful women from around the world. Director: Peter R. Hunt (as Peter Hunt) Writers:
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) ::: 7.7/10 -- Passed | 2h 1min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 25 May 1939 (USA) -- At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract. Director: Howard Hawks Writer:
On the Rocks (2020) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 23 October 2020 (USA) -- A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York. Director: Sofia Coppola Writer: Sofia Coppola
Onward (2020) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 6 March 2020 (USA) -- Two elven brothers embark on a quest to bring their father back for one day. Director: Dan Scanlon Writers: Dan Scanlon (original story by), Keith Bunin (original story by) | 4
Our Girl ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Drama, Thriller | TV Series (20132020) -- Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army. Creator: Tony Grounds
Our Man Flint (1966) ::: 6.5/10 -- Unrated | 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 16 January 1966 (USA) -- When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint. Director: Daniel Mann Writers:
Outlaw Star ::: TV-MA | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1998 ) -- The adventures of an outlaw crew of an advanced starship. Creator: Hajime Yatate
Overlord (2018) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Horror | 9 November 2018 (USA) -- A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day. Director: Julius Avery Writers: Billy Ray (screenplay by), Mark L. Smith (screenplay by) | 1 more
Overlord ::: TV-MA | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2015- ) Episode Guide 39 episodes Overlord Poster A young man is trapped within a video game as a warrior king, and sets out to make this new world his own empire. Stars: Satoshi Hino, Chris Guerrero, Elizabeth Maxwell
Over the Garden Wall ::: TV-PG | 1h 50min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Mini-Series (2014) Episode Guide 10 episodes Over the Garden Wall Poster -- Two brothers find themselves lost in a mysterious land and try to find their way home. Creators: Katie Krentz, Patrick McHale
Over the Hedge (2006) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 19 May 2006 (USA) -- A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself. Directors: Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick Writers:
Over the Moon (2020) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 23 October 2020 (USA) -- In this animated musical, a girl builds a rocket ship and blasts off, hoping to meet a mythical moon goddess. Directors: Glen Keane, John Kahrs (co-director) Writers: Audrey Wells, Jennifer Yee McDevitt (additional screenplay material by)
Owari no serafu ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2015) -- In 2012, the world allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a human-made virus, ravaging the global populace and leaving only children untouched. It is at this time that vampires emerge from the recesses of the earth. Stars:
Pacific Rim (2013) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 11min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 12 July 2013 (USA) -- As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. Director: Guillermo del Toro Writers:
Paddington (2014) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 16 January 2015 (USA) -- A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven. Director: Paul King Writers:
Paddington 2 (2017) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 43min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 12 January 2018 (USA) -- Paddington (Ben Whishaw), now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. Director: Paul King Writers:
Papillon (2017) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 13min | Adventure, Biography, Crime | 24 August 2018 (USA) -- Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Director: Michael Noer Writers:
Paranormal ::: TV-14 | 45min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 6 episodes Paranormal Poster -- Set in the 1960s, the series, packed with mystery and suspense, depicts the adventures of PARANORMAL leading character Dr. Refaat Ismail, a single hematologist who finds himself faced with a series of supernatural events. Stars:
Paranormal ::: TV-14 | 45min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | TV Series (2020 ) -- Set in the 1960s, the series, packed with mystery and suspense, depicts the adventures of PARANORMAL leading character Dr. Refaat Ismail, a single hematologist who finds himself faced with a series of supernatural events. Stars:
ParaNorman (2012) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 17 August 2012 (USA) -- A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse. Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell Writer: Chris Butler
Passage to Marseille (1944) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama, War | 11 March 1944 (USA) -- Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis. Director: Michael Curtiz Writers:
Paul (2011) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 18 March 2011 (USA) -- Two English comic book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51. Director: Greg Mottola Writers: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 48min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 23 March 2018 (USA) -- Luke travels Roma looking for apostle Paul, turned in Nero's prisoner, to tell his story before his execution. Director: Andrew Hyatt Writers: Terence Berden, Andrew Hyatt
Paulie (1998) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 17 April 1998 (USA) -- Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey. Director: John Roberts Writer: Laurie Craig
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 9 August 1985 (USA) -- When eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life. Director: Tim Burton Writers:
Penguins of Madagascar (2014) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 26 November 2014 (USA) -- Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it. Directors: Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith Writers:
Peter Pan (1953) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 17min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 5 February 1953 (USA) -- Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan. Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson | 2 more credits Writers: J.M. Barrie (play) (as Sir James M. Barrie), Ted Sears (story) | 7 more
Peter Pan (2003) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 53min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 25 December 2003 (USA) -- The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place. Director: P.J. Hogan Writers:
Peter Rabbit (2018) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 9 February 2018 (USA) -- Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer's vegetable garden. Director: Will Gluck Writers: Rob Lieber (screen story by), Will Gluck (screen story by) | 3 more
Pete's Dragon (1977) ::: 6.4/10 -- G | 2h 8min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 3 November 1977 (USA) -- An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit. Directors: Don Chaffey, Don Bluth (uncredited) Writers: Malcolm Marmorstein (screenplay), Seton I. Miller (story) | 1 more
Pete's Dragon (2016) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 12 August 2016 (USA) -- The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who happens to be a dragon. Director: David Lowery Writers: David Lowery (screenplay by), Toby Halbrooks (screenplay by) | 3 more
Phil of the Future ::: TV-G | 25min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | TV Series (20042006) -- A family from 2121 is stuck in 2004, trying desperately to fit in. Creators: Tim Maile, Douglas Tuber
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011) ::: 7.4/10 -- TV-G | 1h 18min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 5 August 2011 -- 1 -- Phineas and Ferb discover that Perry is a secret agent, and they all get stuck in an alternate dimension where Doofenschmirtz is the ruler of the tri-state area. Directors: Robert Hughes (as Robert F. Hughes), Dan Povenmire | 3 more credits Writers:
Phoenix Nights ::: 25min | Comedy | TV Series (20012002) The misadventures of club owner Brian Potter who is determined to make The Phoenix Club the best working men's club in Greater Manchester. Stars: Peter Kay, Dave Spikey, Justin Moorhouse Available on Amazon
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 49min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 25 May 2007 (USA) -- Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle. Director: Gore Verbinski Writers:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 31min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 7 July 2006 (USA) -- Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well. Director: Gore Verbinski Writers:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 9min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 26 May 2017 (USA) -- Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have escaped from the Devil's Triangle. They're determined to kill every pirate at sea...notably Jack. Directors: Joachim Rnning, Espen Sandberg Writers:
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 20 May 2011 (USA) -- Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too. Director: Rob Marshall Writers:
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 23min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 9 July 2003 (USA) -- Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead. Director: Gore Verbinski Writers:
Planescape: Torment (1999) ::: 9.4/10 -- Adventure, Fantasy | Video game released 12 December 1999 -- In the city of Sigil, the only place from which all realities of the Planescape universe can be reached, an immortal amnesiac, the Nameless One, must uncover his past, the mystery of his immortality as well as who's trying to kill him. Writers: Chris Avellone, Colin McComb Stars: Michael T. Weiss, Rob Paulsen, Jennifer Hale
Planet of the Apes (1968) ::: 8.0/10 -- G | 1h 52min | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 3 April 1968 (USA) -- An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved. Director: Franklin J. Schaffner Writers:
Planet of the Apes ::: 47min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | TV Series (1974) Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. Creator: Anthony Wilson Stars:
Planet Terror (2007) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 12 October 2007 (Canada) -- After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release. Director: Robert Rodriguez Writer:
Play Dirty (1969) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 58min | Adventure, Drama, War | 15 January 1969 (USA) -- During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot. Director: Andr De Toth (as Andre De Toth) Writers: Melvyn Bragg (screenplay), Lotte Colin (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
Please Stand By (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 33min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 26 January 2018 (USA) -- A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500-page manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition at Paramount Pictures. Director: Ben Lewin Writers:
Plunkett & Macleane (1999) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 2 April 1999 (UK) -- Two robbers are persecuted by the law, whose servants are not much better and even worse. Director: Jake Scott Writers: Selwyn Roberts (earlier screenplay), Robert Wade (screenplay) | 2 more
Pocahontas (1995) ::: 6.7/10 -- G | 1h 21min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 23 June 1995 (USA) -- An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia. Directors: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg Writers: Carl Binder, Susannah Grant | 25 more credits
Pokemon Abridged ::: Connections -- Episode Guide 33 episodes Pokemon the 'Bridged Series Poster Ash along with Lazy Brock and Crazy Misty set out on rambunctious adventures in the wonderful world of Pokemon. Stars: Michael Hecht, Jesse Nowack, Jerry Pakalinsky Add to Watchlist
Pokmon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005) ::: 6.9/10 -- Gekijouban Poketto monsut Adobansu jenershon: Myuu to hadou no yuusha -- Unrated | 1h 43min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 19 September 2006 (USA) Pokmon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew Poster -- When Pikachu is taken to the Tree of Beginnings by the playful Mew, Ash Ketchum and friends are guided to the tree by Lucario, a time-displaced Pokmon who seeks answers regarding the betrayal of his master. Directors: Kunihiko Yuyama, Darren Dunstan
Pokmon the Movie: I Choose You! (2017) ::: 6.3/10 -- Pokmon the Movie: I Choose You (original title) -- Pokmon the Movie: I Choose You! Poster Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town is 10 years old today. This means he is now old enough to become a Pokmon Trainer. Ash dreams big about the adventures he will experience after receiving his first Pokmon from Professor Oak. Director: Kunihiko Yuyama Writers: Takeshi Shudo (earlier screenplay), Takeshi Shudo | 3 more credits
Popeye the Sailor ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19601962) The continuing animated adventures of Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Swee'pea and Popeye. Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Jackson Beck Watch on Plex Go to plex.tv
Preacher ::: TV-MA | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (20162019) -- After a supernatural event at his church, a preacher enlists the help of a vampire and his ex to find God. Creators: Sam Catlin, Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Predator (1987) ::: 7.8/10 -- R | 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 12 June 1987 (USA) -- A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior. Director: John McTiernan Writers: Jim Thomas, John Thomas
Predators (2010) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 9 July 2010 (USA) -- A group of elite warriors parachute into an unfamiliar jungle and are hunted by members of a merciless alien race. Director: Nimrd Antal Writers: Alex Litvak, Michael Finch | 2 more credits
Primal ::: TV-MA | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019 ) -- A caveman and a dinosaur bond over shared tragedy and work together to survive in a perilous prehistoric world. Creator: Genndy Tartakovsky
Primeval: New World -- 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20122013) ::: A Canadian/UK spin-off of the hit U.K. television series, PRIMEVAL: NEW WORLD follows a specialized team of animal experts and scientists that investigates the appearance of temporal ... S Creators:
Primeval ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20072011) -- When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future. Creators:
Prince Avalanche (2013) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama | 19 September 2013 (Netherlands) -- Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind. Director: David Gordon Green Writers:
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 28 May 2010 (USA) -- A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time. Director: Mike Newell Writers:
Princess Connect! Re: Dive ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 13 episodes Princess Connect! Re: Dive Poster The protagonist wakes up with no memories in an unfamiliar location. The protagonist then meets girls and comes closer to uncovering a hidden mystery. Stars: Mao Ichimichi, Miku Itou, Rika Tachibana
Prometheus (2012) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 2h 4min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8 June 2012 (USA) -- Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone. Director: Ridley Scott Writers: Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof | 2 more credits
Prometheus (2012) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 2h 4min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8 June 2012 (USA) -- Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone. Director: Ridley Scott Writers: Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof | 2 more credits
Proxima (2019) ::: 6.4/10 -- 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6 November 2020 (USA) -- An astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station. Director: Alice Winocour Writers: Alice Winocour (screenplay), Jean-Stphane Bron (collaboration)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945) ::: 6.9/10 -- Approved | 1h 5min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery | 26 October 1945 (USA) -- Holmes is recruited to escort the heir to a European throne safely back to his homeland after his father's assassination. Director: Roy William Neill Writers: Arthur Conan Doyle (story collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"), Leonard Lee (original screenplay) Stars:
Puss in Boots (2011) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 28 October 2011 (USA) -- An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor and regain the trust of his mother and town. Director: Chris Miller Writers:
Quack Pack ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (19961997) The misadventures of Donald Duck and his rebellious teenage nephews with attitude, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Creator: Toby Shelton Stars:
Quantum Leap ::: TV-PG | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19891993) -- During a government experiment into time travel, a scientist finds himself trapped in the past, "leaping" into the bodies of different people on a regular basis and sorting out their problems whilst trying to get back home to his own time. Creator:
Quantum of Solace (2008) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 46min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 14 November 2008 (USA) -- James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource. Director: Marc Forster Writers: Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis | 1 more credit
Queen (2013) ::: 8.2/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 26min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7 March 2014 (India) -- A Delhi girl from a traditional family sets out on a solo honeymoon after her marriage gets cancelled. Director: Vikas Bahl Writers: Vikas Bahl (story and screenplay), Chaitally Parmar (story and
Quigley Down Under (1990) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 19 October 1990 (USA) -- Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems. Director: Simon Wincer Writer:
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 34min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 31 January 2003 (USA) -- In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback. Director: Phillip Noyce Writers:
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) ::: 7.4/10 -- G | 1h 16min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 24 August 1977 (USA) -- The Peanuts gang goes to summer camp, and they participate in a river-raft race against some cheating bullies. Directors: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman (co-director) Writers: Charles M. Schulz, Charles M. Schulz (creator) Stars:
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 52min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 21 November 2018 (USA) -- Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph," Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure. Directors: Phil Johnston, Rich Moore Writers:
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 22 May 1985 (USA) -- Rambo returns to the jungles of Vietnam on a mission to infiltrate an enemy base-camp and rescue the American POWs still held captive there. Director: George P. Cosmatos Writers: David Morrell (based on characters created by), Kevin Jarre (story by)
Ramona and Beezus (2010) ::: 6.5/10 -- G | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 23 July 2010 (USA) -- An adventurous young girl uses her imagination to escape her reality, that is quickly spinning out of reach. Director: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (as Elizabeth Allen) Writers: Laurie Craig (screenplay), Nick Pustay (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Random Harvest (1942) ::: 8.0/10 -- Passed | 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 31 August 1943 -- Random Harvest Poster -- An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life. Director: Mervyn LeRoy Writers:
Rango (2011) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 4 March 2011 (USA) -- Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. Director: Gore Verbinski Writers:
Rapa Nui (1994) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 9 September 1994 (USA) -- Love between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island. Director: Kevin Reynolds Writers: Kevin Reynolds (story), Tim Rose Price (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Rare Exports (2010) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 24min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | 3 December 2010 (Finland) -- In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus. Director: Jalmari Helander Writers:
Ratatouille (2007) ::: 8.0/10 -- G | 1h 51min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 29 June 2007 (USA) -- A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant. Directors: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava (co-director) Writers: Brad Bird (screenwriter), Jan Pinkava (original story by) | 5 more
Rat Race (2001) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 17 August 2001 (USA) -- A Las Vegas casino magnate, determined to find a new avenue for wagering, sets up a race for money. Director: Jerry Zucker Writer: Andy Breckman
Ravenous (1999) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror | 19 March 1999 (USA) -- In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal. Director: Antonia Bird Writer:
Rawhide ::: TV-PG | 50min | Western | TV Series (19591965) -- Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive. He is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way. Creator:
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 5 March 2021 (USA) -- In a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon. Directors: Don Hall, Carlos Lpez Estrada | 2 more credits Writers:
Ready Player One (2018) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 20min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 29 March 2018 (USA) -- When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
Reaper ::: TV-14 | 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (20072009) -- On his 21st birthday, Sam discovers his parents sold his soul to the devil before birth and he must now be a bounty hunter for the devil until he dies. Creators:
ReBoot ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19942001) -- In the inner computer world of Mainframe, a guardian program sprite and his friends defend the system from threats from viruses and the User. Creators: Gavin Blair, John Grace, Philip Mitchell | 1 more credit
Recess ::: TV-Y | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19972001) -- Comic tales of a group of good friends, four boys and two girls, during breaks in primary school, as they grow up, relate to each other, and have brushes with authority. Creators:
Record of Grancrest War ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2018- ) Episode Guide 24 episodes Record of Grancrest War Poster In the Atlatan continent, demons from another dimension called Chaos invaded which the nobility fought back using Crests, which gave them superhuman powers. However, rather than join forces... S Stars: Jeannie Tirado, Brandon Winckler, Erika Harlacher
RED 2 (2013) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 19 July 2013 (USA) -- Retired CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. Director: Dean Parisot Writers:
Red Dwarf ::: TV-14 | 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | TV Series (1988 ) -- The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf. Creators: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
Red River (1948) ::: 7.8/10 -- Passed | 2h 13min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 17 September 1948 (USA) -- Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son. Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson (co-director) Writers:
Regular Show: The Movie (2015) ::: 7.4/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 9min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 14 August 2015 (USA) -- To save the universe, and their friendship, Mordecai and Rigby must defeat an evil volleyball coach. Director: J.G. Quintel Writers: J.G. Quintel (creator), Sean Szeles | 16 more credits Stars:
Regular Show ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Short, Action | TV Series (20092017) -- The daily surreal adventures of a blue jay and raccoon duo that attempt to deal with their mundane jobs as groundskeepers at the local park. Creator: J.G. Quintel
Reign of the Supermen (2019) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 27min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 10 January 2019 (USA) -- After the death of Superman, several new people present themselves as possible successors. Director: Sam Liu Writers: James Krieg (as Jim Krieg), Tim Sheridan | 17 more credits
Relic Hunter ::: TV-14 | 1h | Fantasy, Mystery, Adventure | TV Series (19992002) -- Sydney Fox is a university professor and black belt who globe-trots after lost, stolen and rumored to exist artifacts and antiquities. Creator: Gil Grant
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 1min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 11 October 1985 (USA) -- An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President. Director: Guy Hamilton Writers: Richard Sapir (novel), Warren Murphy (novel) | 1 more credit
Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017) ::: 6.3/10 -- R | 1h 37min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 19 June 2017 (USA) -- Chris Redfield enlists the help of Leon S. Kennedy and Rebecca Chambers to stop a death merchant, with a vengeance, from spreading a deadly virus in New York. Director: Takanori Tsujimoto Writers:
Return to Oz (1985) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 53min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 21 June 1985 (USA) -- Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful. Director: Walter Murch Writers:
Revolution ::: TV-14 | 43min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20122014) -- Fifteen years after a permanent global blackout, a group of revolutionaries seeks to drive out an occupying force posing as the United States Government. Creator:
Re: Zero, Starting Life in Another World ::: Re: Zero kara hajimeru isekai seikatsu (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2016- ) Episode Guide 78 episodes Re: Zero, Starting Life in Another World Poster -- Shortly after being summoned to a new world, Subaru Natsuki and his new female companion are brutally murdered. But then he awakes to find himself in the same alley, with the same thugs, the same girl, and the day begins to repeat.
Rick and Morty ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2013 ) -- An animated series that follows the exploits of a super scientist and his not-so-bright grandson. Creators: Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland
Rick and Morty ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2013- ) Episode Guide 42 episodes Rick and Morty Poster -- An animated series that follows the exploits of a super scientist and his not-so-bright grandson. Creators: Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland
Riddick (2013) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6 September 2013 (USA) -- Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past. Director: David Twohy Writers:
Rio (2011) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 1h 36min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 15 April 2011 (USA) -- When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams. Director: Carlos Saldanha Writers:
Rio Lobo (1970) ::: 6.8/10 -- G | 1h 54min | Adventure, Romance, War | 18 December 1970 (USA) -- After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend. Director: Howard Hawks Writers: Burton Wohl (screenplay), Leigh Brackett (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
Rise of the Guardians (2012) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 21 November 2012 (USA) -- When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world. Director: Peter Ramsey Writers:
River Monsters -- 42min | Documentary, Adventure, Mystery | TV Series (20092017) ::: Jeremy Wade searches the world for legendary and flesh-eating freshwater fish. Stars: Jeremy Wade, David Buckmeier, Vic Hislop
River of No Return (1954) ::: 6.6/10 -- Approved | 1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 9 August 1954 (Sweden) -- The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others. Directors: Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco (uncredited) Writers:
Road to Bali (1952) ::: 6.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 8 April 1953 -- Road to Bali Poster Two unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble. Director: Hal Walker Writers: Frank Butler (screenplay), Hal Kanter (screenplay) | 3 more credits Stars:
Road to Morocco (1942) ::: 7.1/10 -- Passed | 1h 22min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 8 April 1943 (Mexico) -- Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar. Director: David Butler Writers: Frank Butler (original screenplay), Don Hartman (original screenplay) Stars:
Road to Rio (1947) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical | 25 December 1947 -- Road to Rio Poster Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. Director: Norman Z. McLeod Writers: Edmund Beloin (original story), Jack Rose (original story) | 2 more credits
Road to Utopia (1945) ::: 7.2/10 -- Passed | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 22 March 1946 (USA) -- Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer. Director: Hal Walker Writers: Norman Panama (original screenplay), Melvin Frank (original screenplay)
Robin and Marian (1976) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 46min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 12 March 1976 (USA) -- Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time. Director: Richard Lester Writer: James Goldman
Robin Hood (1973) ::: 7.6/10 -- G | 1h 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 8 November 1973 (USA) -- The story of the legendary British outlaw is portrayed with the characters as humanoid animals. Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, David Hand (uncredited) Writers: Larry Clemmons (story), Ken Anderson (based on: character and story
Robin Hood (2010) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 20min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 14 May 2010 (USA) -- In twelfth-century England, Robin Longstride and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. Director: Ridley Scott Writers:
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical | 28 July 1993 (USA) -- A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular. Director: Mel Brooks Writers: J.D. Shapiro (story) (as J. David Shapiro), Evan Chandler (story) | 3
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 23min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 14 June 1991 (USA) -- When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw. Director: Kevin Reynolds Writers: Pen Densham (story), Pen Densham (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Robin Hood ::: TV-PG | 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20062009) -- After 5 years of fighting in the crusades, Robin returns to England and leads a band of outlaws to outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham. Creators: Foz Allan, Dominic Minghella
Robinson Crusoe (1954) ::: 6.7/10 -- Approved | 1h 30min | Adventure, Drama | 5 August 1954 (USA) -- The classic story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck. Director: Luis Buuel (as Luis Bunuel) Writers: Daniel Defoe (novel), Hugo Butler (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) ::: 6.5/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 50min | Adventure, Sci-Fi | June 1964 (USA) -- Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet. Director: Byron Haskin Writers: Ib Melchior (screenplay), John C. Higgins (screenplay) (as John Higgins) | 1 more credit Stars:
Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007) ::: 8.1/10 -- TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 17 June 2007 -- The first of three Star Wars themed Robot Chicken parodies. Director: Seth Green Writers: Douglas Goldstein (head writer) (as Doug Goldstein), Tom Root (head writer) | 10 more credits
Robot Chicken ::: TV-MA | 11min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2005- ) Episode Guide 206 episodes Robot Chicken Poster -- Pop culture references fly thick and fast as stop-motion animation is featured in sketches lampooning everything from television movies to comic books. Creators:
Robot Chicken ::: TV-MA | 11min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2005 ) -- Pop culture references fly thick and fast as stop-motion animation is featured in sketches lampooning everything from television movies to comic books. Creators:
Robotech ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1985) -- An alien spaceship crash lands on Earth and the technology and secrets she bears lead Earth into three destructive interplanetary wars. Creator: Carl Macek
Rob Roy (1995) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 2h 19min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 14 April 1995 (USA) -- In 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite. Director: Michael Caton-Jones Writer:
Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (2019) ::: 7.0/10 -- TV-Y7 | 45min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 9 August 2019 -- After being in space for 20 years, Rocko and his friends attempt to adjust to an even more modern life in the 21st century. However, when he learns that his favorite 90s cartoon isn't on the air anymore, Rocko tries locating its creator. Directors: Joe Murray, Cosmo Segurson Writers:
Rocko's Modern Life ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Comedy | TV Series (19931996) -- The wacky misadventures of an Australian wallaby and his friends as he finishes his transition to American life. Creators: Joe Murray, Stephen Hillenburg, Mr. Lawrence | 1 more credit
Romancing the Stone (1984) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 46min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 30 March 1984 (USA) -- A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writer:
Rooster Cogburn (1975) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Adventure, Drama, Western | November 1975 (USA) -- Marshal Rooster Cogburn unwillingly teams up with Eula Goodnight to track down her father's murderers. Director: Stuart Millar Writers: Charles Portis (suggested by the character "Rooster Cogburn" from the
Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976) ::: 6.6/10 -- TV-G | 1h | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 10 December 1976 -- Rudolph must find Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight on New Year's Eve. Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Writer: Romeo Muller Stars:
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) ::: 8.0/10 -- TV-G | 47min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 6 December 1964 -- A misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them. Director: Larry Roemer Writers: Romeo Muller, Robert May (story) | 1 more credit
Rugrats ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19902006) -- The cartoon misadventures of four babies and their snotty older cousin as they face the things in life they don't understand. Creators: Gabor Csupo, Paul Germain, Arlene Klasky | 7 more credits
Runaway Train (1985) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 17 January 1986 (USA) -- Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving. Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy (as Andrei Konchalovsky) Writers: Djordje Milicevic (screenplay), Paul Zindel (screenplay) | 2 more
Rupert ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Family | TV Series (1991-2020) Episode Guide 79 episodes Rupert Poster The adventures of a young bear named Rupert who unintentionally ends up in faraway/mystical places, but at the end manages to make it back safely to his home of Nutwood. Stars: Julie Lemieux, Valerie Boyle, Guy Bannerman Available on Amazon
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal ::: Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Tsuioku Hen (original tit ::: TV-MA | 1h 58min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Mini-Series (1999) Episode Guide 4 episodes Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal Poster -- In the era of Japan's Meiji Restoration, an assassin regains his humanity. Stars:
Rurouni Kenshin: Wandering Samurai ::: Rurni Kenshin - Meiji kenkaku romantan (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1996-1999) Episode Guide 95 episodes Rurouni Kenshin: Wandering Samurai Poster -- The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan. Stars:
Russian Doll ::: TV-MA | 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2019 ) -- A cynical young woman in New York City keeps dying and returning to the party that's being thrown in her honor on that same evening. She tries to find a way out of this strange time loop. Creators:
Russian Doll ::: TV-MA | 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 16 episodes Russian Doll Poster -- A cynical young woman in New York City keeps dying and returning to the party that's being thrown in her honor on that same evening. She tries to find a way out of this strange time loop. Creators:
RWBY ::: TV-14 | 13min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2012 ) -- 4 Teenage girls form Team RWBY and train to fight crime and monsters known as the Grimm, while the world of Remnant remains on the brink of an all out war. Creator:
RWBY ::: TV-14 | 13min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2012- ) Episode Guide 147 episodes RWBY Poster -- 4 Teenage girls form Team RWBY and train to fight crime and monsters known as the Grimm, while the world of Remnant remains on the brink of an all out war. Creator:
Safety Last! (1923) ::: 8.1/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 14min | Action, Comedy, Thriller | 1 April 1923 (USA) -- A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures. Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer (as Fred Neymeyer), Sam Taylor Writers: Hal Roach (story), Sam Taylor (story) | 2 more credits Stars:
Sailor Moon ::: Bishjo senshi Sr Mn (original tit ::: TV-PG | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19921997) -- A group of schoolgirls discover they are incarnations of super-powered alien princesses, and use their abilities to defend the earth. Creator:
Sailor Moon ::: TV-Y | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19952000) -- The magical action-adventures of a teenage girl who learns of her destiny as the legendary warrior Sailor Moon and must band together with the other Sailor Scouts to defend the Earth and Galaxy. Stars:
Samurai 7 ::: TV-PG | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2004) -- Set in an alternate feudal Japan where mechas and giant airships are a common thing for humans to see. With in this time period is a small village that gets raided by bandits during every ... S Stars:
Samurai Champloo ::: Samurai chanpur (original tit ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2004-2005) Episode Guide 26 episodes Samurai Champloo Poster -- Fuu, a waitress who works in a teahouse, rescues two master swordsmen, Mugen and Jin, from their execution to help her find the "samurai who smells of sunflowers." Stars:
Samurai Jack ::: TV-14 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20012017) -- A samurai sent through time fights to return home and save the world. Creator: Genndy Tartakovsky
Samurai Jack ::: TV-14 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2001-2017) Episode Guide 62 episodes Samurai Jack Poster -- A samurai sent through time fights to return home and save the world. Creator: Genndy Tartakovsky
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970) ::: 7.7/10 -- TV-G | 48min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 14 December 1970 -- A mailman reveals the origin of Santa Claus. Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Writer: Romeo Muller (teleplay by)
Scaramouche (1952) ::: 7.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 27 June 1952 (USA) -- In France during the late 18th Century, a man sets out to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of a master swordsman. Director: George Sidney Writers: Ronald Millar (screenplay), George Froeschel (screenplay) | 1 more
Scared Shrekless (2010) ::: 6.7/10 -- TV-PG | 26min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 28 October 2010 -- Shrek gets in the Halloween spirit by challenging his fairytale friends to come up with scary stories for a contest. But the gang learn that they'll have to spend the night in Lord Farquaad's haunted castle before the winner is named. Directors: Gary Trousdale, Raman Hui (co-director) Writers:
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19791983) The adventures of the mystery solving dog and his nephew. Stars: Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Heather North Add to Watchlist
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 18 -- Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers Poster -- After the death of Shaggy's Uncle Beaureguard, he, Scooby, and Scrappy arrive at his uncle's plantation to collect the inheritance. But as
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 18 -- Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers Poster -- After the death of Shaggy's Uncle Beaureguard, he, Scooby, and Scrappy arrive at his uncle's plantation to collect the inheritance. But as soon as they arrive, they find it is haunted by ... S Directors: Paul Sommer, Carl Urbano | 1 more credit Writer:
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated ::: TV-Y7-FV | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20102013) -- Scooby-Doo and the gang attempt to solve creepy mysteries in the town of Crystal Cove, a place with a history of eerie supernatural events. Creators: Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
Scooby Doo, Where Are You! ::: TV-G | 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19691970) -- A group of teenage friends and their Great Dane (Scooby-Doo) travel in a bright green van solving strange and hilarious mysteries, while returning from or going to a regular teenage function. Creators:
Scrapped Princess ::: Sukurappudo purinsesu (original tit ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2003) Episode Guide 24 episodes Scrapped Princess Poster The adventures of a princess prophesized to destroy the world and her magic using sibling warrior bodyguards determined to protect her. Stars: Mari Devon, Crispin Freeman, Kari Wahlgren
SeaQuest 2032 ::: Seaquest DSV (original tit ::: TV-PG | 1h | Action, Adventure, Family | TV Series (19931996) -- In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 22 June 2012 (USA) -- As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan. Director: Lorene Scafaria Writer:
See You Up There (2017) ::: 7.5/10 -- Au revoir l-haut (original title) -- See You Up There Poster -- November 1919. Two soldiers - a disfigured but brilliant artist and an ex-accountant - start a memorial con. But in the France of the Roaring Twenties, their adventures soon turn dangerous. Director: Albert Dupontel Writers:
Seinfeld ::: TV-PG | 22min | Comedy | TV Series (1989-1998) Episode Guide 173 episodes Seinfeld Poster -- The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends. Creators: Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld
Serenity (2005) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 30 September 2005 (USA) -- The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture one of their members who is telepathic. Director: Joss Whedon Writer: Joss Whedon
Sesame Street ::: TV-Y | 55min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (1969 ) -- On a special inner city street, the inhabitants, human and muppet, teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games, and songs. Stars: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 16min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 10 October 1997 (USA) -- True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet. Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Writers: Heinrich Harrer (book), Becky Johnston (screenplay)
Shaman King ::: Shaman Kingu (original tit ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20012005) SHAMAN KING follows the adventures of a 13-year-old shaman and his teammate a samurai warrior spirit, who traverse the world fighting evil spirits and misguided shamans on their journey to be the next Shaman King. Stars: Oliver Wyman, Andrew Rannells, Michael Sinterniklaas | See full cast &
Shanghai Express (1932) ::: 7.3/10 -- Approved | 1h 22min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 12 February 1932 -- Shanghai Express Poster A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved. Director: Josef von Sternberg Writers: Jules Furthman (screen play), Harry Hervey (based on the story by) Stars:
Shanghai Noon (2000) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 26 May 2000 (USA) -- A Chinese man travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped Princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss. Director: Tom Dey Writers:
Shanghai Noon (2000) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 26 May 2000 (USA) -- A Chinese man travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped Princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss.
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 5 August 2015 (USA) -- When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home. Directors: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
Shazam! (2019) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 5 April 2019 (USA) -- A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy. Director: David F. Sandberg Writers: Henry Gayden (screenplay by), Henry Gayden (story by) | 3 more
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power ::: TV-Y7-FV | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20182020) -- She-Ra, Princess of Power, leads a rebellion to free her land of Etheria from the monstrous invaders the Horde. Creator: Noelle Stevenson
Sherlock Holmes (2009) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 8min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 25 December 2009 (USA) -- Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. Director: Guy Ritchie Writers:
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 9min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 16 December 2011 (USA) -- Detective Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, who is carrying out a string of random crimes across Europe. Director: Guy Ritchie Writers:
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) ::: 6.6/10 -- Approved | 1h 8min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 12 February 1943 (USA) -- Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands. Director: Roy William Neill Writers: Edward T. Lowe Jr. (screenplay) (as Edward T. Lowe), Scott Darling (screenplay) (as W. Scott Darling) | 4 more credits Stars:
Shogun (1980) ::: 7.9/10 -- 2h 5min | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Movie 15 September 1980 -- An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan. Director: Jerry London Writers: James Clavell (novel), Eric Bercovici Stars:
Shogun Assassin (1980) ::: 7.4/10 -- R | 1h 25min | Action, Adventure | 7 November 1980 (USA) -- When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death. Directors: Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi Writers:
Shoot to Kill (1988) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 12 February 1988 (USA) -- An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group. Director: Roger Spottiswoode Writers: Harv Zimmel (story), Harv Zimmel (screenplay) | 2 more credits Stars:
Shrek (2001) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 18 May 2001 (USA) -- A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back. Directors: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson Writers:
Shrek 2 (2004) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 19 May 2004 (USA) -- Shrek and Fiona travel to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where Fiona's parents are King and Queen, to celebrate their marriage. When they arrive, they find they are not as welcome as they thought they would be. Directors: Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury | 1 more credit Writers:
Siberia -- Adventure, Drama, Horror | TV Series (2013 ) ::: In 1908, an unexplained event occurred deep in the remote Siberian territory of Tunguska. Now, 100+ years later, 16 reality-show participants descend on Tunguska unknowing of the land's ... S Creator:
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h 2min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 29 June 2018 (USA) -- The drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro. Director: Stefano Sollima Writer:
Sightseers (2012) ::: 6.5/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 28min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 10 May 2013 (USA) -- Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn. Director: Ben Wheatley Writers:
Silent Hill (2006) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 2h 5min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 21 April 2006 (USA) -- A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill. Director: Christophe Gans Writer: Roger Avary
Sinbad -- 1h | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | TV Series (20122013) ::: A Persian prisoner sets out to find his dead brother with help from his misfit group. Stars: Elliot Knight, Marama Corlett, Elliot Cowan
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) ::: 6.4/10 -- G | 1h 53min | Action, Adventure, Family | 14 July 1977 (UK) -- Sinbad The Sailor sails to deliver a cursed prince to a dangerous island in the face of deadly opposition from a powerful witch. Director: Sam Wanamaker Writers: Beverley Cross (screenplay), Beverley Cross (story) | 1 more credit
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 26min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 2 July 2003 (USA) -- The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus. Directors: Patrick Gilmore, Tim Johnson Writer:
Six-String Samurai (1998) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 18 September 1998 (USA) -- In the post-apocalyptic world of 1960s Nevada, a rock 'n' roll samurai on his way to Lost Vegas takes a young orphan boy under his protection as Death and his metalhead Horsemen chase after them. Director: Lance Mungia Writers: Jeffrey Falcon, Lance Mungia Stars:
Skyfall (2012) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 23min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 9 November 2012 (USA) -- James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. Director: Sam Mendes Writers:
Sleepy Hollow ::: TV-14 | 45min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (20132017) -- Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers. Creators:
Sliders ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | TV Series (19952000) -- A boy genius and his comrades travel to different parallel universes, trying to find their way back home. Creators: Tracy Torm, Robert K. Weiss
Slow West (2015) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 24min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 16 April 2015 (USA) -- A young Scottish man travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to serve as a guide. Director: John Maclean Writer:
Smallfoot (2018) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 28 September 2018 (USA) -- A Yeti is convinced that the elusive creatures known as "humans" really do exist. Directors: Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig (co-director) Writers: Karey Kirkpatrick (screenplay by), Clare Sera (screenplay by) | 4 more
Smallville ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Romance | TV Series (20012011) -- A young Clark Kent struggles to find his place in the world as he learns to harness his alien powers for good and deals with the typical troubles of teenage life in Smallville, Kansas. Creators:
Smokey and the Bandit (1977) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 27 May 1977 (USA) -- The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff. Director: Hal Needham Writers: Hal Needham (story), Robert L. Levy (story) | 3 more credits
Snoopy Come Home (1972) ::: 7.5/10 -- G | 1h 21min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 9 August 1972 (USA) -- When Snoopy receives a letter from a girl named Lila, who's in a hospital, he goes on a journey with Woodstock to see her. Director: Bill Melendez Writer: Charles M. Schulz (created & written by)
So I'm a Spider, So What? ::: Kumo Desu ga, Nanika? (original title) 24min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2021- ) Episode Guide 10 episodes So I'm a Spider, So What? Poster The world where the Hero and the Demon King continue to oppose each other. The grand magic from the Hero and the Demon King cross over worlds and exploded in the classroom of a certain high... S Stars: Aoi Yki, Shun Horie, Eri Kitamura
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 15min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 25 May 2018 (USA) -- During an adventure into the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion. Director: Ron Howard Writers:
Somali and the Forest Spirit ::: 24min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 12 episodes Somali and the Forest Spirit Poster When a golem discovers a young human girl in the forest that he protects, the two set out on a journey in search of other humans, whom are considered to be nearly extinct. Stars: Inori Minase, Daisuke Ono, Hiroki Nanami
Something Wild (1986) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 7 November 1986 (USA) -- A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up. Director: Jonathan Demme Writer:
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 2 March 1972 (USA) -- A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times. Director: Paul Newman Writers: Ken Kesey (novel), John Gay (screenplay) Stars:
Song of the Sea (2014) ::: 8.1/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 20 November 2015 (USA) -- Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world. Director: Tomm Moore Writers:
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 14 February 2020 (USA) -- After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help him defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on him. Director: Jeff Fowler Writers:
Sonic the Hedgehog ::: TV-Y7-FV | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19931994) -- In a post-apocalyptic and dystopian future, all life has been challenged by oppression and tyranny, as the evil Dr. Robotnik is on the wake of controlling Mobius. Stars:
Son of Rambow (2007) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 23 May 2008 (USA) -- During a long English summer in the early 1980s, two schoolboys from differing backgrounds set out to make a film inspired by First Blood (1982). Director: Garth Jennings Writer:
Sorcerer (1977) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG | 2h 1min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 24 June 1977 (USA) -- Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle. Director: William Friedkin Writers:
Soul (2020) ::: 8.1/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 December 2020 (USA) -- After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife. Directors: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers (co-director) Writers:
Soul Eater ::: Sru ta (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2008-2009) Episode Guide 51 episodes Soul Eater Poster -- Set in the Shinigami technical school for weapon meisters, the series revolves around 3 duo's. These pairs are a partnership between a weapon meister and a human weapon. Trying to reach a ... S Stars:
Soul Eater ::: Sru t (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20082009) -- Set in the Shinigami technical school for weapon meisters, the series revolves around 3 duo's. These pairs are a partnership between a weapon meister and a human weapon. Trying to reach a ... S Stars:
South Park ::: TV-MA | 22min | Animation, Comedy | TV Series (1997 ) Season 24 Returns Today -- Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado. Creators:
Space: 1999 ::: TV-14 | 50min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Series (19751977) -- The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space. Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Nick Tate
Space: Above and Beyond -- G | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19951996) ::: The Earth is embroiled in a desperate war against alien invaders, and this series focuses on one squadron of Marine pilots involved in it. Creators: Glen Morgan, James Wong
Spaceballs (1987) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 24 June 1987 (USA) -- A hero and his trusty half-man, half-dog set out to rescue a kidnapped princess from the clutches of an evil despot. Director: Mel Brooks Writers: Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan | 1 more credit
Space Cowboys (2000) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 4 August 2000 (USA) -- When retired engineer Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood) is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space. Director: Clint Eastwood Writers:
Space Cowboys (2000) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 4 August 2000 (USA) -- When retired engineer Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood) is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.
Space Dandy ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2014) The cosmic and comic adventures of Space Dandy, a handsome space explorer tasked to tour the universe and discover new alien beings. Stars: Jun'ichi Suwabe, Uki Satake, Hiroyuki Yoshino
Space Jam (1996) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 28min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 15 November 1996 (USA) -- In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan. Director: Joe Pytka Writers:
Spartacus (1960) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 3h 17min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 17 November 1960 -- Spartacus Poster -- The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic. Director: Stanley Kubrick Writers:
Spartacus ::: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (original tit ::: TV-MA | 55min | Action, Adventure, Biography | TV Series (20102013) -- The life of Spartacus, the gladiator who lead a rebellion against the Romans. From his time as an ally of the Romans, to his betrayal and becoming a gladiator, to the rebellion he leads and its ultimate outcome.
Spectre (2015) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 28min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6 November 2015 (USA) -- A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. With a new threat dawning, Bond learns the terrible truth about the author of all his pain in his most recent missions. Director: Sam Mendes Writers:
Speed (1994) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 10 June 1994 (USA) -- A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph. Director: Jan de Bont Writer: Graham Yost
Spice and Wolf ::: kami to kshinry (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | TV Series (20082009) -- Kraft Lawrence goes from town to town to make profits as a travelling merchant, with the help of a wolf deity by the name of Holo. Stars:
Spider-Man (2002) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 1min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 3 May 2002 (USA) -- When bitten by a genetically modified spider, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high school student gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family. Director: Sam Raimi Writers:
Spider-Man 2 (2004) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 30 June 2004 (USA) -- Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a brilliant scientist named Doctor Otto Octavius. Director: Sam Raimi Writers: Stan Lee (comic book), Steve Ditko (comic book) | 4 more credits
Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 9min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 2 July 2019 (USA) -- Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. Director: Jon Watts Writers: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers | 2 more credits
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 13min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7 July 2017 (USA) -- Peter Parker balances his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter-ego Spider-Man, and finds himself on the trail of a new menace prowling the skies of New York City. Director: Jon Watts Writers:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) ::: 8.4/10 -- PG | 1h 57min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 14 December 2018 (USA) -- Teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe, and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities. Directors: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey | 1 more credit Writers:
Spider-Man: The Animated Series ::: Spider-Man (original tit ::: TV-Y | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19941998) -- A young man with spider-like abilities fights crime as a superhero in New York City while trying to have a normal personal life. Creators:
Spider-Man ::: TV-PG | 21min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2003) -- A young man with spider like abilities fights crime as a superhero in New York City while trying to have a normal personal life. Creators: Steve Ditko, Stan Lee
Spider-Man ::: TV-Y7 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19671970) -- Original cartoon series based on the web-slinging Marvel comic book character, Peter Parker, who, after being bit by a radioactive spider, assumes extraordinary powers. Creators:
Spies in Disguise (2019) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 25 December 2019 (USA) -- When the world's best spy is turned into a pigeon, he must rely on his nerdy tech officer to save the world. Directors: Nick Bruno, Troy Quane Writers: Lucas Martell (inspired by: the animated short film "Pigeon:
Spies Like Us (1985) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Adventure, Comedy | 6 December 1985 (USA) -- Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War. Director: John Landis Writers: Dan Aykroyd (story), Dave Thomas (story) | 3 more credits
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 23min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 24 May 2002 (USA) -- A wild stallion is captured by humans and slowly loses the will to resist training, yet, throughout his struggles for freedom, the stallion refuses to let go of the hope of one day returning home to his herd. Directors: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook Writers:
SpongeBob SquarePants ::: TV-Y | 23min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (1999- ) Episode Guide 275 episodes SpongeBob SquarePants Poster -- The misadventures of a talking sea sponge who works at a fast food restaurant, attends a boating school, and lives in an underwater pineapple. Creators:
SpongeBob SquarePants ::: TV-Y | 23min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (1999 ) -- The misadventures of a talking sea sponge who works at a fast food restaurant, attends a boating school, and lives in an underwater pineapple. Creators:
Spun (2002) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 41min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7 February 2003 (Norway) -- A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a 'speed freak', to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues. Director: Jonas
Squidbillies ::: TV-14 | 11min | Animation, Comedy | TV Series (2005 ) -- Follows the adventures of the Cuylers, an impoverished and dysfunctional family of anthropomorphic, air-breathing, redneck squids who live in a rural Appalachian community in the state of Georgia. Creators:
Stagecoach (1939) ::: 7.8/10 -- Passed | 1h 36min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 3 March 1939 (USA) -- A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. Director: John Ford Writers:
Stand by Me (1986) ::: 8.1/10 -- R | 1h 29min | Adventure, Drama | 22 August 1986 (USA) -- After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy. Director: Rob Reiner Writers: Stephen King (novel), Raynold Gideon (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Stardust (2007) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 7min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 10 August 2007 (USA) -- In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. Director: Matthew Vaughn Writers:
Stargate (1994) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 28 October 1994 (USA) -- An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra. Director: Roland Emmerich Writers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich Stars:
Stargate: Atlantis ::: TV-PG | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20042009) -- An international team of scientists and military personnel discover a Stargate network in the Pegasus Galaxy and come face-to-face with a new, powerful enemy, The Wraith. Creators:
Stargate SG-1 ::: TV-14 | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19972007) -- A secret military team, SG-1, is formed to explore other planets through the recently discovered Stargates. Creators: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright
Stargate SG-1 ::: TV-14 | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (1997-2007) Episode Guide 213 episodes Stargate SG-1 Poster -- A secret military team, SG-1, is formed to explore other planets through the recently discovered Stargates. Creators: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright
Stargirl ::: TV-PG | 9h 26min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (2020 ) Season 2 Premiere 2021 -- Teenager Courtney Whitmore joins the Justice Society of America. Based on the character from DC Comics. Creators:
Starship Troopers (1997) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 9min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7 November 1997 (USA) -- Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs. Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: Edward Neumeier (screenplay) (as Ed Neumeier), Robert A. Heinlein
Star Trek (2009) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8 May 2009 (USA) -- The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time. Director: J.J. Abrams Writers:
Star Trek Beyond (2016) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 2min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 22 July 2016 (USA) -- The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test. Director: Justin Lin Writers:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ::: TV-PG | 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19931999) -- In the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, the Federation space station Deep Space Nine guards the opening of a stable wormhole to the far side of the galaxy. Creators:
Star Trek: Discovery ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2017- ) Episode Guide 49 episodes Star Trek: Discovery Poster -- Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien. Creators:
Star Trek: Discovery ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2017 ) -- Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien. Creators:
Star Trek: Enterprise ::: Enterprise (original tit ::: TV-PG | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20012005) -- A century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 51min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 22 November 1996 (USA) -- The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed. Director: Jonathan Frakes Writers:
Star Trek: Generations (1994) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 58min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 18 November 1994 (USA) -- With the help of long presumed dead Captain Kirk, Captain Picard must stop a deranged scientist willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix. Director: David Carson Writers:
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 1 June 1984 (USA) -- Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock's body. Director: Leonard Nimoy Writers:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG | 1h 53min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 4 June 1982 (USA) -- With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon. Director: Nicholas Meyer Writers:
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 11 December 1998 (USA) -- When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Federation conspiracy against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Captain Picard begins an open rebellion. Director: Jonathan Frakes Writers:
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 16 May 2013 (USA) -- After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. Director: J.J. Abrams Writers:
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 26 November 1986 (USA) -- To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales. Director: Leonard Nimoy Writers:
Star Trek: Lower Decks ::: TV-MA | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020 ) Season 2 Premiere 2021 -- The support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, have to keep up with their duties, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 13 December 2002 (USA) -- The Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan homeworld Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a peace treaty. Captain Picard and his crew discover a serious threat to the Federation once Praetor Shinzon plans to attack Earth. Director: Stuart Baird Writers:
Star Trek: Picard ::: TV-MA | 46min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 11 episodes Star Trek: Picard Poster -- Follow-up series to Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) that centers on Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) in the next chapter of his life. Creators:
Star Trek: Picard ::: TV-MA | 46min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2020 ) -- Follow-up series to Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) that centers on Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) in the next chapter of his life. Creators:
Star Trek: The Animated Series ::: Star Trek (original tit ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19731975) The further adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise, as they explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets. Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) ::: 6.4/10 -- G | 2h 12min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8 December 1979 (USA) -- When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it. Director: Robert Wise Writers:
Star Trek: The Next Generation ::: TV-PG | 44min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | TV Series (1987-1994) Episode Guide 176 episodes Star Trek: The Next Generation Poster -- Set almost 100 years after Captain Kirk's five-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers set off in the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on their own mission to go where no one has gone before. Creator:
Star Trek: The Next Generation ::: TV-PG | 44min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | TV Series (19871994) -- Set almost 100 years after Captain Kirk's five-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers set off in the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on their own mission to go where no one has gone before. Creator:
Star Trek: The Original Series ::: Star Trek (original tit ::: TV-PG | 50min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (1966-1969) Episode Guide 80 episodes Star Trek: The Original Series Poster -- In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets. Creator:
Star Trek: The Original Series ::: Star Trek (original tit ::: TV-PG | 50min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (19661969) -- In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets. Creator:
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6 December 1991 (USA) -- On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace. Director: Nicholas Meyer Writers:
Star Trek: Voyager ::: TV-PG | 44min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (19952001) -- Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is seventy-five years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home. Creators:
Star vs. the Forces of Evil ::: TV-Y7 | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20152019) -- Star Butterfly arrives on Earth to live with the Diazes, a Mexican-American family. She continues to battle villains throughout the universe and high school, mainly to protect her extremely powerful wand, an object that still confuses her. Creators:
Star Wars: Clone Wars ::: TV-Y7 | 2h 13min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20032005) -- The events and battles of the Galactic Republic's last major war are recounted. Stars: Mat Lucas, James Arnold Taylor, Andr Sogliuzzo | See full cast &
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 2h 22min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 16 May 2002 (USA) -- Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padm Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. Director: George Lucas Writers:
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 20min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 19 May 2005 (USA) -- Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy. Director: George Lucas Writer:
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 19 May 1999 (USA) -- Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their original glory. Director: George Lucas Writer:
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 21min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 20 December 2019 (USA) -- The surviving members of the resistance face the First Order once again, and the legendary conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its peak bringing the Skywalker saga to its end. Director: J.J. Abrams Writers:
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 32min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 15 December 2017 (USA) -- Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order. Director: Rian Johnson Writers:
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 18min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 18 December 2015 (USA) -- As a new threat to the galaxy rises, Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, an ex-stormtrooper, must join Han Solo and Chewbacca to search for the one hope of restoring peace. Director: J.J. Abrams Writers:
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) ::: 8.3/10 -- PG | 2h 11min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 25 May 1983 (USA) -- After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. Director: Richard Marquand Writers:
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ::: 8.7/10 -- PG | 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 20 June 1980 (USA) -- After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy. Director: Irvin Kershner Writers:
Star Wars Rebels ::: Star Wars: Rebels (original tit ::: TV-Y7-FV | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20142018) -- A brave and clever ragtag starship crew stands up against the evil Empire as it tightens its grip on the galaxy and hunts down the last of the Jedi Knights. Creators:
Star Wars Rebels ::: Star Wars: Rebels (original tit ::: TV-Y7-FV | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2014-2018) Episode Guide 76 episodes Star Wars Rebels Poster -- A brave and clever ragtag starship crew stands up against the evil Empire as it tightens its grip on the galaxy and hunts down the last of the Jedi Knights. Creators:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2008-2020) Episode Guide 133 episodes Star Wars: The Clone Wars Poster -- Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists. Creator: George Lucas
Star Wars: The Clone Wars ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20082020) -- Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists. Creator: George Lucas
Static Shock ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20002004) In the city of Dakota, a teenage boy with electricity based powers, with the help of his inventive friend, fights crime as a superhero. Creators: Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, Derek Dingle | 2 more credits Stars:
Stella -- 30min | Comedy | TV Series (2005) ::: A sketch comedy show that follows the absurd adventures of Michael, Michael and David. Creators: Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, David Wain
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) ::: 7.8/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 2 September -- Steven Universe: The Movie Poster -- Steven thinks his time defending the Earth is over, but when a new threat comes to Beach City, Steven faces his biggest challenge yet. Directors: Rebecca Sugar, Joseph D. Johnston (co-director) | 1 more credit Writers:
Stone of Destiny (2008) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 19 December 2008 (UK) -- The story of Ian Hamilton, a dedicated nationalist who reignited Scottish national pride in the 1950s with his daring raid on the heart of England to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland. Director: Charles Martin Smith Writers:
Storks (2016) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 23 September 2016 (USA) -- Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby. Directors: Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland Writer:
Strange Brew (1983) ::: 6.7/10 -- The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (original title) -- Strange Brew Poster -- Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it. Directors: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas Writers:
Stranger Than Paradise (1984) ::: 7.5/10 -- Stranger than Paradise (original title) -- Stranger Than Paradise Poster -- A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure. Director: Jim Jarmusch Writer:
Strings (2004) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 31min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 27 May 2005 (UK) -- A Prince leaves his city and sets off to avenge his father, not aware his father wasn't murdered, and in reality, committed suicide, and soon learns the truth about his people from a warrior woman. Director: Anders Rnnow Klarlund Writers: Naja Marie Aidt, Anders Rnnow Klarlund (story) Stars:
Sullivan's Travels (1941) ::: 7.9/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 6 February 1942 (USA) -- A Hollywood director, John L Sullivan, sets out to experience life as a poor, homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie. Director: Preston Sturges Writer:
Superman (1978) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 2h 23min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 15 December 1978 (USA) -- An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero. Director: Richard Donner Writers: Jerry Siegel (character created by: Superman), Joe Shuster (character
Superman and Lois -- 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2021 ) ::: Follow the world's most famous super hero and comic books' most famous journalist as they deal with all the stress, pressures, and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society. Creators:
Superman II (1980) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 19 June 1981 (USA) -- Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth. Directors: Richard Lester, Richard Donner (uncredited) Writers:
Superman: The Animated Series ::: Superman (original tit ::: TV-PG | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19962000) -- The last son of the planet Krypton protects his adoptive home of Earth as the greatest of the superheroes. Creators:
Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town? ::: Tatoeba Last Dungeon Mae no Mura no Shounen ga Joban no Machi de Kurasu Youna Monogatari (original title) Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | TV Series (2021- ) Episode Guide 10 episodes Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town? Poster Considered a weakling his entire life, novice adventurer Lloyd leaves his village located at the fringe of the mortal world to fulfill his dream of becoming a soldier. Stars:
Surface ::: TV-14 | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (20052006) -- A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teen-aged boy find their lives fundamentally changed by the emergence of a new, and often dangerous, species of sea life, while government agents work to keep the affair under wraps. Creators:
Survivorman ::: TV-14 | 44min | Documentary, Adventure | TV Series (2004 ) -- No food, no shelter, no fresh water - one man alone in the wild for seven days with only his wits and stamina to sustain him. Creator: Les Stroud
Survivor ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Game-Show, Reality-TV | TV Series (2000 ) Season 41 Premiere 2021 -- A reality show where a group of contestants are stranded in a remote location with little more than the clothes on their back. The lone survivor of this contest takes home a million dollars.
Survivor ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Game-Show, Reality-TV | TV Series (2000 ) -- Trailer
Swamp Thing ::: TV-MA | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2019) -- Abby Arcane returns home to Marais, Louisiana to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, only to discover the dark, terrifying mysteries of the swamp. Creators:
S.W.A.T. ::: TV-14 | 43min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (2017 ) -- Follows a locally born and bred S.W.A.T. sergeant and his team of highly-trained men and women as they solve crimes in Los Angeles. Creators: Shawn Ryan, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas
Sweet Country (2017) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 53min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 6 April 2018 (USA) -- Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down. Director: Warwick Thornton Writers:
Swiss Family Robinson (1960) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 2h 6min | Adventure, Family | 21 December 1960 (USA) -- A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island. Director: Ken Annakin Writers: Lowell S. Hawley (screenplay), Johann David Wyss (novel) (as Johann Wyss)
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017) ::: 7.4/10 -- Gekij-ban Sdo to Onrain: Sword Art Online - dinaru sukeru - -- TV-14 | 1h 59min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 18 February 2017 (Japan) Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale Poster -- Kirito uncovers a conspiracy within Ordinal Scale, a popular AR game developed for a new system called The Augma. Director: Tomohiko It
Sword Art Online ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2012- ) Episode Guide 98 episodes Sword Art Online Poster -- In the year 2022, thousands of people get trapped in a new virtual MMORPG and the lone wolf player, Kirito, works to escape. Stars: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Bryce Papenbrook | See full cast &
Taboo ::: TV-MA | 59min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (2017 ) -- Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London during the War of 1812 to rebuild his late father's shipping empire. However, both the government and his biggest competitor want his inheritance at any cost - even murder. Creators:
Taboo ::: TV-MA | 59min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (2017- ) Episode Guide 16 episodes Taboo Poster -- Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London during the War of 1812 to rebuild his late father's shipping empire. However, both the government and his biggest competitor want his inheritance at any cost - even murder. Creators:
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) ::: 7.5/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 26min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 1 August 1931 (USA) -- On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin. Director: F.W. Murnau Writers: F.W. Murnau (told by), Robert J. Flaherty (told by) (as R.J. Flaherty) Stars:
Tales from the Darkside ::: TV-14 | 30min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (19831988) -- A horror anthology series where the viewer is taken through ghost stories, science fiction adventures, and creepy, unexplained events. Stars: Paul Sparer, Catherine Battistone, John Marzilli | See full cast &
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ::: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (original tit ::: TV-Y7-FV | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20122017) -- Four ninja turtles, mutated by a mysterious alien substance, must rise up out of the sewers and defend their city against evil forces from both the past and present. Creators:
TaleSpin ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19901991) -- Baloo the Bear from The Jungle Book (1967) is cast as a 1930s Pacific Islands bush pilot. Stars: Ed Gilbert, R.J. Williams, Sally Struthers
Tangled (2010) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 24 November 2010 (USA) -- The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is. Directors: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard Writers:
Taras Bulba (1962) ::: 6.4/10 -- Approved | 2h 2min | Adventure, Drama, History | 19 December 1962 (USA) -- In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe. Director: J. Lee Thompson Writers: Waldo Salt (screenplay), Karl Tunberg (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
Tarzan (1999) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 28min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 18 June 1999 (USA) -- A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he discovers he is a human. Directors: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima Writers: Tab Murphy (screenplay), Bob Tzudiker (screenplay) | 23 more credits Stars:
Tarzan and His Mate (1934) ::: 7.3/10 -- Passed | 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 April 1934 (USA) -- The idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well. Directors: Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay (uncredited) | 1 more credit Writers: Edgar Rice Burroughs (based upon the characters created by), James Kevin McGuinness (screen play) | 2 more credits Stars:
Tarzan Escapes (1936) ::: 6.6/10 -- Passed | 1h 29min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 6 November 1936 (USA) -- An expedition seeking to bring Jane back to civilization, and Tarzan into captivity, gets more than it's bargained for. Directors: Richard Thorpe, John Farrow (uncredited) | 3 more credits Writers: Cyril Hume (screen play), Edgar Rice Burroughs (based upon the characters created by) Stars:
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) ::: 6.6/10 -- Passed | 1h 22min | Action, Adventure, Family | 16 June 1939 (USA) -- Tarzan finds a boy from a crashed plane and raises him with Jane in the jungle. A search party comes looking for the plane. Director: Richard Thorpe Writers: Cyril Hume (screen play), Edgar Rice Burroughs (based upon the characters created by) Stars:
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) ::: 6.6/10 -- Passed | 1h 11min | Action, Adventure | May 1942 (USA) -- Tarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus. Director: Richard Thorpe Writers: Myles Connolly (screenplay), William R. Lipman (screenplay) | 2 more credits Stars:
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) ::: 7.0/10 -- Passed | 1h 40min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 2 April 1932 (USA) -- A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes. Director: W.S. Van Dyke Writers:
Taz-Mania ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19911995) The daily satirical adventures of the Looney Tunes star The Tazmanian Devil, along with his extended family, friends, and enemies on the island of Tasmania. Stars: Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 30 March 1990 (USA) -- Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas. Director: Steve Barron Writers: Kevin Eastman (characters), Peter Laird (characters) | 3 more credits
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19871996) -- The adventures of a quartet of humanoid warrior turtles and their friends. Creators: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, David Wise | 1 more credit
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20032010) -- The continuing adventures of a quartet of turtle superheroes. Creators: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Lloyd Goldfine
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006) ::: 7.1/10 -- TV-Y7 | 1h 15min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 15 September -- Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo Poster After a battle with a high-tech villain named, Saiko-Tek, the Teen Titans travel to the city of Tokyo where they find themselves embroiled in a conflict with an ancient enemy. Directors: Michael Chang, Ben Jones | 1 more credit Writer: David Slack
Teen Titans ::: TV-Y7-FV | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20032006) -- A team of five teenaged superheroes save the world from many villains around their city while experiencing things normal teens face today. Creators: David Slack, Bob Haney, Bruno Premiani | 4 more credits
Ten Canoes (2006) ::: 7.0/10 -- Unrated | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 29 June 2006 -- Ten Canoes Poster -- In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife. Directors: Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr
Tenchi Muy! ::: TV-PG | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (1992- ) Episode Guide 71 episodes Tenchi Muy! Poster -- Every man needs a good woman. Tenchi Masaki has six. Creator: Masaki Kajishima
Terra Nova ::: TV-14 | 46min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (2011) -- Centers on the Shannons, an ordinary family from 2149 when the planet is dying, who are transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth where they join Terra Nova, a colony of humans with a second chance to build a civilization. Creators:
That Man from Rio (1964) ::: 7.1/10 -- L'homme de Rio (original title) -- (France) That Man from Rio Poster -- A young man comes to the rescue of his girlfriend abducted by thieves and brought to Rio. An extravagant adventure ensues. Director: Philippe de Broca Writers:
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ::: TV-PG | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2018- ) Episode Guide 43 episodes That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Poster -- Lonely thirty-seven-year-old Mikami Satoru is stuck in a dead-end job, unhappy with his mundane life, but after dying at the hands of a robber, he awakens to a fresh start in a fantasy ... S Stars:
The 13th Warrior (1999) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, History | 27 August 1999 (USA) -- A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land. Directors: John McTiernan, Michael Crichton (uncredited)
The 300 Spartans (1962) ::: 6.6/10 -- Approved | 1h 54min | Adventure, Drama, History | October 1962 -- The 300 Spartans Poster -- A small Army of Greeks spearheaded by three hundred Spartans do battle with the whole invading Persian Army. Director: Rudolph Mat Writers:
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) ::: 7.1/10 -- G | 1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Family | 23 December 1958 (USA) -- When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war. Director: Nathan Juran Writer: Ken Kolb (as Kenneth Kolb)
The Abominable Snowman (1957) ::: 6.4/10 -- 1h 25min | Adventure, Horror | October 1957 (USA) -- A kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti. Director: Val Guest Writer: Nigel Kneale (story and screenplay)
The Abyss (1989) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 20min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | 9 August 1989 (USA) -- A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. Director: James Cameron Writer: James Cameron
The Addams Family ::: TV-G | 30min | Comedy, Family, Horror | TV Series (19641966) -- The misadventures of a blissfully macabre but extremely loving family. Creator: David Levy
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 2h 6min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 10 March 1989 (USA) -- An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. Director: Terry Gilliam Writers: Charles McKeown (screenplay), Terry Gilliam (screenplay) Stars:
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. ::: TV-14 | 45min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19931994) -- A bounty hunter rides the Old West, fighting bad guys, many with futuristic-type gadgets. Creators: Jeffrey Boam, Carlton Cuse
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 11 July 1990 (USA) -- A vulgar private detective is hired to find a missing groupie and is drawn into a mystery involving a series of murders tied to the music industry. Director: Renny Harlin Writers: Daniel Waters (screenplay), James Cappe (screenplay) | 4 more credits Stars:
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 8min | Animation, Comedy, Family | 6 January 1950 (USA) -- An animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" followed by an adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Directors: James Algar, Clyde Geronimi | 1 more credit Writers: Washington Irving (story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"), Kenneth
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius ::: TV-G | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20022006) -- A young boy, who happens to be a genius, lives in a small town with his family and friends and often gets into crazy adventures with them involving the things he invents. Creators:
The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986) ::: 7.0/10 -- Koneko monogatari (original title) -- The Adventures of Milo and Otis Poster The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek. Director: Masanori Hata Writers: Masanori Hata (story), Mark Saltzman (screenplay) Stars:
The Adventures of Pete & Pete ::: TV-Y | 30min | Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19921996) This delightfully quirky show looks at the lives and adventures of two red-headed brothers with the same name. Creators: Will McRobb, Chris Viscardi Stars:
The Adventures of Picasso (1978) ::: 7.4/10 -- Picassos ventyr (original title) -- The Adventures of Picasso Poster Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso show talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is ... S Director: Tage Danielsson Writers: Hans Alfredson, Tage Danielsson | 1 more credit
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 1h 44min | Comedy, Music | 10 August 1994 (USA) -- Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret. Director: Stephan Elliott Writer: Stephan Elliott
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 14 May 1938 (USA) -- When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army. Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley Writers:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) ::: 7.4/10 -- Approved | 1h 25min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 1 September 1939 (USA) -- The master sleuth hunts his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who is planning the crime of the century. Director: Alfred L. Werker (as Alfred Werker) Writers: Edwin Blum (screenplay), William Absalom Drake (screenplay) (as William Drake) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ::: TV-PG | 1h | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (19841985) -- Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of copper beeches, a Greek interpreter, the Norwood builder, a resident patient, the red-headed league, and one final problem. Creator:
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 21 December 2011 (USA) -- Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Herg (based on "The Adventures of Tintin" by), Steven Moffat
The Adventures of Tintin ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19911992) -- The adventures of the young reporter, his faithful dog and friends as they travel around the world on adventures. Stars: Colin O'Meara, Thierry Wermuth, Christian Pelissier | See full cast &
The Aeronauts (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 40min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6 December 2019 (USA) -- A balloon pilot and a scientist find themselves in a fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon in the 1860s. Director: Tom Harper Writers: Richard Holmes (inspired by the book 'Falling Upwards' by), Tom Harper
The African Queen (1951) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG | 1h 45min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 21 March 1952 (USA) -- In WWI Africa, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. Director: John Huston Writers: C.S. Forester (novel), James Agee (adapted for the screen by) | 1 more
The Alamo (1960) ::: 6.9/10 -- Passed | 2h 42min | Adventure, Drama, History | 27 October 1960 (UK) -- In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas. Director: John Wayne Writer:
The All-New Popeye Hour ::: TV-G | 1h | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (19781983) The new adventures of Popeye the Sailor Man and his friends.
The All-New Popeye Hour ::: TV-G | 1h | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (19781983) The new adventures of Popeye the Sailor Man and his friends. Stars: Marilyn Schreffler, Jack Mercer, Hal Smith Available on Amazon
The Amazing Race ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Family, Game-Show | TV Series (2001 ) -- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations. Creators: Elise Doganieri, Bertram van Munster
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 3 July 2012 (USA) -- After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe. Director: Marc Webb Writers:
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 22min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 2 May 2014 (USA) -- When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones. Director: Marc Webb Writers: Alex Kurtzman (screenplay), Roberto Orci (screenplay) | 7 more
The Amazing World of Gumball ::: TV-Y7-FV | 11min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20112019) -- The life of a twelve-year-old boy who happens to be a blue cat as he lives with his family and other strange creatures. Creator: Ben Bocquelet
The Angry Beavers ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19972001) -- The wacky and sometimes surreal adventures of Norbert and Daggett Beaver. Creators: Mitch Schauer, Keith Kaczorek
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 14 August 2019 (USA) -- The flightless birds and scheming green pigs take their feud to the next level. Directors: Thurop Van Orman, John Rice (co-director) Writers: Peter Ackerman (screenplay by), Eyal Podell (screenplay by) | 1 more
The Animals of Farthing Wood ::: 25min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19931995) A group of wild animal friends are forced to move to a park after humans drive them away from their old home. Stars: Rupert Farley, Stacey Gregg, Ron Moody Available on Amazon
The Animatrix (2003) ::: 7.4/10 -- Unrated | 1h 40min | Animation, Action, Adventure | Video 3 June 2003 -- A collection of nine short films featuring stories related to The Matrix (1999). Directors: Peter Chung, Andrew R. Jones | 5 more credits Writers: Lilly Wachowski (screenplay "The Matrix") (as The Wachowski Brothers),
The A-Team (2010) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 11 June 2010 (USA) -- A group of Iraq War veterans look to clear their name with the U.S. Military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed. Director: Joe Carnahan Writers:
The A-Team ::: TV-PG | 1h | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (19831987) -- Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military. Creators: Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo
The Avengers (2012) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 23min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 4 May 2012 (USA) -- Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are going to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity. Director: Joss Whedon Writers:
The Bank Dick (1940) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 12min | Comedy | 29 November 1940 (USA) -- Henpecked Egbert Sous has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard. Director: Edward F. Cline (as Edward Cline) Writer: W.C. Fields (original screen play) (as Mahatma Kane Jeeves) Stars:
The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997) ::: 7.8/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 4min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 4 October -- The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest Poster Joker goes to Metropolis with an offer and plan to kill Superman for Lex Luthor while Batman pursues the clown to Superman's turf. Director: Toshihiko Masuda Writers: Alan Burnett (story "World's Finest"), Paul Dini (story "World's Finest") | 8 more credits
The Batman ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20042008) -- Billionaire Bruce Wayne fights crime and evil as the mysterious Batman. Stars: Rino Romano, Alastair Duncan, Evan Sabara Available on Amazon
The Battery (2012) ::: 6.4/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 41min | Adventure, Drama, Horror | 4 June 2013 (USA) -- The personalities of two former baseball players clash as they traverse the rural back roads of a post-plague New England teeming with the undead. Director: Jeremy Gardner Writer: Jeremy Gardner Stars:
The Beach (2000) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 59min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 11 February 2000 (USA) -- On vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise. Director: Danny Boyle Writers: John Hodge (screenplay), Alex Garland (novel)
The Beast of War (1988) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Adventure, Drama, War | 7 September 1988 (France) -- A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks. Director: Kevin Reynolds Writers:
The BFG (1989) ::: 6.7/10 -- 1h 31min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 17 December 1992 (Netherlands) -- A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams. Director: Brian Cosgrove Writers: Roald Dahl (novel), John Hambley (adaptation) Stars:
The BFG (2016) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 57min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 1 July 2016 (USA) -- An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
The Big Trail (1930) ::: 7.2/10 -- Passed | 2h 5min | Adventure, Romance, Western | 1 November 1930 (USA) -- Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West. Directors: Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler (uncredited) Writer: Hal G. Evarts (story) Stars:
The Black Cat (1934) ::: 7.0/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 5min | Adventure, Crime, Horror | 7 May 1934 (USA) -- American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident. Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Writers: Edgar Allan Poe (suggested by a story by), Peter Ruric (screenplay) | 2 more credits
The Black Cauldron (1985) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 20min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 26 July 1985 (USA) -- A young boy and a group of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can. Directors: Ted Berman, Richard Rich Writers: Lloyd Alexander (novel), David Jonas (story) | 17 more credits
The Black Stallion (1979) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 58min | Adventure, Family, Sport | 17 October 1979 (USA) -- A boy encounters a horse and bonds with him, later training him to race. Director: Carroll Ballard Writers: Melissa Mathison (screenplay), Jeanne Rosenberg (screenplay) | 2 more
The Black Swan (1942) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 4 December 1942 (USA) -- An ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love-hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems. Director: Henry King Writers: Ben Hecht (screenplay), Seton I. Miller (screenplay) (as Seton
The Blues Brothers (1980) ::: 7.9/10 -- R | 2h 13min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 20 June 1980 (USA) -- Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised. Director: John Landis Writers: Dan Aykroyd, John Landis
The Book of Eli (2010) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 58min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 15 January 2010 (USA) -- A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. Directors: Albert Hughes (as The Hughes Brothers), Allen Hughes (as The Hughes Brothers) Writer:
The Book of Life (2014) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 17 October 2014 (USA) -- Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears. Director: Jorge R. Gutirrez (as Jorge R. Gutierrez) Writers:
The Boondocks ::: TV-MA | 22min | Animation, Action, Comedy | TV Series (20052014) -- Adventures of two boys, Riley and Huey Freeman, who undergo a culture clash when they move from Chicago to the suburbs to live with their grandfather. Creator:
The Bounty (1984) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 2h 12min | Adventure, Drama, History | 4 May 1984 (USA) -- Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action. Director: Roger Donaldson Writers: Robert Bolt (screenplay by), Richard Hough (based upon book "Captain
The Bourne Legacy (2012) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 15min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 10 August 2012 (USA) -- An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films. Director: Tony Gilroy Writers:
The Boxtrolls (2014) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 26 September 2014 (USA) -- A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Directors: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi Writers: Irena Brignull (screenplay), Adam Pava (screenplay) | 4 more credits
The Brave Little Toaster (1987) ::: 7.3/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 30min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 10 July 1987 -- The Brave Little Toaster Poster A group of dated appliances embark on a journey to the city to find their master after being abandoned in a cabin in the woods. Director: Jerry Rees Writers: Thomas M. Disch (based on the novella by), Jerry Rees (screenplay by) | 4 more credits
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) ::: 8.1/10 -- PG | 2h 41min | Adventure, Drama, War | 14 December 1957 (USA) -- British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it. Director: David Lean Writers:
The Brothers Bloom (2008) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 19 June 2009 (USA) -- The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world. Director: Rian Johnson
The Bucket List (2007) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 11 January 2008 (USA) -- Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die. Director: Rob Reiner Writer: Justin Zackham
The Bullwinkle Show ::: Rocky and His Friends (original tit ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19591963) -- Rocky, a plucky flying squirrel and Bullwinkle, a bumbling but lovable moose, have a series of ongoing adventures. Creators:
The Call of the Wild (2020) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 21 February 2020 (USA) -- A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon. Director: Chris Sanders Writers: Michael Green (screenplay by), Jack London (based upon the novel by) | 1 more credit
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) ::: 7.1/10 -- Approved | 1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 20 October 1936 -- The Charge of the Light Brigade Poster -- A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children. Director: Michael Curtiz Writers:
The Chipmunk Adventure (1987) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 17min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 May 1987 (USA) -- The Chipmunks compete with the Chipettes in a round the world race. Director: Janice Karman Writers: Janice Karman, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. (as Ross Bagdasarian) Stars: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Janice Karman, Dody Goodman | See full cast &
The Christmas Chronicles (2018) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 22 November 2018 (USA) -- The story of sister and brother, Kate and Teddy Pierce, whose Christmas Eve plan to catch Santa Claus on camera turns into an unexpected journey that most kids could only dream about. Director: Clay Kaytis Writers:
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 2h 30min | Action, Adventure, Family | 16 May 2008 (USA) -- The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian. Director: Andrew Adamson Writers:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 2h 23min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 9 December 2005 (USA) -- Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion. Director: Andrew Adamson Writers: Ann Peacock (screenplay), Andrew Adamson (screenplay) | 3 more
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 11 June 2004 (USA) -- The wanted criminal Richard Bruno Riddick (Vin Diesel) arrives on a planet called Helion Prime and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe. Director: David Twohy Writers: Jim Wheat (characters), Ken Wheat (characters) | 1 more credit
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 11 June 2004 (USA) -- The wanted criminal Richard Bruno Riddick (Vin Diesel) arrives on a planet called Helion Prime and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe. Director: David Twohy Writers: Jim Wheat (characters), Ken Wheat (characters) | 1 more credit
The Comancheros (1961) ::: 6.9/10 -- Approved | 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 29 November 1961 -- The Comancheros Poster Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros. Directors: Michael Curtiz, John Wayne (uncredited) Writers: James Edward Grant (screenplay), Clair Huffaker (screenplay) | 1 more
The Confirmation (2016) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 18 March 2016 (USA) -- A divorced father and his eight-year-old son are about to spend a somewhat predictable weekend together, nevertheless, when a valuable toolbox gets stolen, the search for the thieves will soon turn into a true family bonding. Director: Bob Nelson Writer:
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975) ::: 7.0/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 43min | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Movie 10 January -- The Count of Monte-Cristo Poster A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge. Director: David Greene Writers: Sidney Carroll (screenplay), Alexandre Dumas (based on the novel by) Stars:
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 11min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 25 January 2002 (USA) -- A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge. Director: Kevin Reynolds Writers: Alexandre Dumas (novel) (as Alexandre Dumas pre), Jay Wolpert
The Court Jester (1955) ::: 7.9/10 -- Approved | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 27 January 1956 (USA) -- A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King. Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama Writers: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
The Cowboys (1972) ::: 7.4/10 -- GP | 2h 14min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 13 January 1972 (USA) -- Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of cattle rustlers is trailing them. Director: Mark Rydell Writers:
The Crazies (2010) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 41min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | 26 February 2010 (USA) -- After a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple are quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people. Director: Breck Eisner Writers:
The Crimson Pirate (1952) ::: 7.3/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 27 September 1952 -- The Crimson Pirate Poster During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo. Director: Robert Siodmak Writer: Roland Kibbee
The Croods (2013) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 38min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 March 2013 (USA) -- After their cave is destroyed, a caveman family must trek through an unfamiliar fantastical world with the help of an inventive boy. Directors: Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders Writers: Chris Sanders (screenplay by), Kirk DeMicco (screenplay by) | 3 more
The Croods: A New Age (2020) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 November 2020 (USA) -- The prehistoric family the Croods are challenged by a rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved. Director: Joel Crawford Writers: Kevin Hageman (screenplay by), Dan Hageman (screenplay by) | 4 more
The Crossing ::: TV-PG | 42min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2018) Episode Guide 11 episodes The Crossing Poster -- Refugees from a war-torn country 180 years in the future start showing up in the present to seek asylum in an American town. Creators: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin
The Crossing ::: TV-PG | 42min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2018) -- Refugees from a war-torn country 180 years in the future start showing up in the present to seek asylum in an American town. Creators: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin
The Cruel Sea (1953) ::: 7.5/10 -- Approved | 2h 6min | Drama, War | 19 August 1953 (USA) -- The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers. Director: Charles Frend Writers: Nicholas Monsarrat (by), Eric Ambler (screenplay)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 26 October 2007 (USA) -- A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other. Director: Wes Anderson Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola | 1 more credit
The Dark Crystal (1982) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 17 December 1982 (USA) -- On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world. Directors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz Writers:
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2019) Episode Guide 10 episodes The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Poster -- Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power, and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world. Creators:
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2019) -- Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power, and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world. Creators:
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) ::: 8.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 44min | Action, Adventure | 20 July 2012 (USA) -- Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, Batman, with the help of the enigmatic Catwoman, is forced from his exile to save Gotham City from the brutal guerrilla terrorist Bane. Director: Christopher Nolan Writers:
The Dark Tower (2017) ::: 5.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 35min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 4 August 2017 (USA) -- A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell. Director: Nikolaj Arcel Writers:
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 28 May 2004 (USA) -- Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age. Director: Roland Emmerich Writers:
The Defenders ::: TV-MA | 50min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Mini-Series (2017) Episode Guide 8 episodes The Defenders Poster -- Set a few months after the events of the second season of Daredevil, and a month after the events of Iron Fist, the vigilantes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist team up in New York City to fight a common enemy: The Hand. Creators:
The Descent (2005) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 39min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller | 4 August 2006 (USA) -- A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. Director: Neil Marshall Writer: Neil Marshall
The Desert Rats (1953) ::: 6.7/10 -- Approved | 1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 May 1953 (USA) -- Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them. Director: Robert Wise Writer: Richard Murphy Stars:
The Detour ::: TV-MA | 30min | Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20162019) -- A contemporary father takes his family on a road trip across America, but a set of crazy, unforeseen circumstances causes them to end up on the run from the FBI. Creators:
The Dick Van Dyke Show ::: TV-G | 30min | Comedy, Family | TV Series (19611966) -- The misadventures of a TV writer both at work and at home. Creator: Carl Reiner
The Dirty Dozen (1967) ::: 7.7/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 30min | Action, Adventure, War | 22 October 1967 (UK) -- During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. Director: Robert Aldrich Writers:
The Dogs of War (1980) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 13 February 1981 (USA) -- Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup. Director: John Irvin Writers: Gary DeVore (screenplay), George Malko (screenplay) | 1 more credit
The Dragon Prince ::: TV-Y7 | 26min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2018- ) Episode Guide 27 episodes The Dragon Prince Poster -- Two human princes forge an unlikely bond with the elfin assassin sent to kill them, embarking on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands. Creators:
The Dragon Prince ::: TV-Y7 | 26min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2018 ) -- Two human princes forge an unlikely bond with the elfin assassin sent to kill them, embarking on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands. Creators:
The Dukes of Hazzard -- PG | 1h | Action, Comedy | TV Series (19791985) ::: The adventures of the fast-drivin', rubber-burnin' Duke boys of Hazzard County. Creator: Gy Waldron
The Eagle Has Landed (1976) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 2h 3min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 25 December 1976 (Finland) -- A German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II. Director: John Sturges Writers: Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay), Jack Higgins (novel) Stars:
Theeb (2014) ::: 7.2/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 40min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 19 March 2015 -- Theeb Poster -- In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination. Director: Naji Abu Nowar
The Edge (1997) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 26 September 1997 (USA) -- An intellectual billionaire and two other men struggle to band together and survive after getting stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with a blood-thirsty Kodiak Bear hunting them down. Director: Lee Tamahori Writer:
The Emerald Forest (1985) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 3 July 1985 (USA) -- After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him. Director: John Boorman Writer:
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) ::: 7.4/10 -- G | 1h 18min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 15 December 2000 (USA) -- Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder. Director: Mark Dindal Writers:
The Emperor's New School ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (20062008) Continuation of 2000's The Emperor's New Groove, showcasing Kuzco's attempts to graduate from his kingdom's school, and his former advisor Yzma's evil attempts to keep him from his goal. Creator: Mark Dindal Stars:
The End of the F***ing World ::: TV-MA | 25min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | TV Series (20172019) -- James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a road trip in search of her real father. Stars:
The Enemy Below (1957) ::: 7.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 38min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 17 January 1958 (West -- The Enemy Below Poster -- During World War II, an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, thus ensuing in a deadly duel between the two ships. The American Captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander. Director: Dick Powell
The Expendables (2010) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 13 August 2010 (USA) -- A CIA operative hires a team of mercenaries to eliminate a Latin dictator and a renegade CIA agent. Director: Sylvester Stallone Writers: Dave Callaham (screenplay) (as David Callaham), Sylvester Stallone
The Expendables 2 (2012) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 17 August 2012 (USA) -- Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat. Director: Simon West Writers:
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir (2018) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 32min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 20 June 2019 (USA) -- Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure. Director: Ken Scott Writers:
The Fairly OddParents ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20012017) -- After being tortured and humiliated by his babysitter, a ten year old boy is put under the care of two fairy godparents, who can grant him almost any wish, which leads to dire consequences. Creator:
The Fairly OddParents ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2001-2017) Episode Guide 159 episodes The Fairly OddParents Poster -- After being tortured and humiliated by his babysitter, a ten year old boy is put under the care of two fairy godparents, who can grant him almost any wish, which leads to dire consequences. Creator:
The Fairly OddParents ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20012017) -- Trailer
The Fall (2006) ::: 7.9/10 -- R | 1h 57min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 30 May 2008 (USA) -- In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances. Director: Tarsem Singh (as Tarsem)
The Far Country (1954) ::: 7.2/10 -- Passed | 1h 37min | Action, Romance, Western | 20 August 1954 (Denmark) -- A self-minded adventurer (Jeff Webster) locks horns with a crooked lawman (Mr. Gannon) while driving cattle to Dawson. Director: Anthony Mann Writer: Borden Chase (story and screenplay) Stars:
The Fate of the Furious (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 14 April 2017 (USA) -- When a mysterious woman seduces Dominic Toretto into the world of terrorism and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before. Director: F. Gary Gray Writers:
The Fifth Element (1997) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 9 May 1997 (USA) -- In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay. Director: Luc Besson Writers:
The Flame and the Arrow (1950) ::: 7.0/10 -- Passed | 1h 28min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 9 July 1950 (USA) -- Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors. Director: Jacques Tourneur Writer:
The Flash ::: TV-PG | 43min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2014 ) -- After being struck by lightning, Barry Allen wakes up from his coma to discover he's been given the power of super speed, becoming the next Flash, fighting crime in Central City. Creators:
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) ::: 7.5/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 22min | Adventure, Drama | 15 December 1965 (USA) -- After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage. Director: Robert Aldrich Writers: Lukas Heller (screenplay), Trevor Dudley Smith (novel) (as Elleston
The Flintstones ::: TV-G | 26min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19601966) -- The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles. Creators: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
The Florida Project (2017) ::: 7.6/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Drama | 10 November 2017 (UK) -- Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World. Director: Sean Baker Writers:
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 18 April 2008 (USA) -- A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King. Director: Rob Minkoff Writer:
The Four Feathers (1939) ::: 7.5/10 -- Passed | 2h 9min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 4 August 1939 (USA) -- A timid British Army officer has quit and burns his last day summons to a war in Egypt. Calling him a coward, his girl friend and 3 officer friends give him a white feather. In redemption, he shadows his friends in war to save their lives. Director: Zoltan Korda Writers:
The Four Feathers (2002) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 September 2002 (USA) -- A British officer resigns his post just before battle and subsequently receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they believe to be his cowardice. Director: Shekhar Kapur Writers:
The Four Feathers (2002) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 September 2002 (USA) -- A British officer resigns his post just before battle and subsequently receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they believe to be his cowardice.
The Fox and the Hound (1981) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 23min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 10 July 1981 (USA) -- A little fox named Tod, and Copper, a hound puppy, vow to be best buddies forever. But as Copper grows into a hunting dog, their unlikely friendship faces the ultimate test. Directors: Ted Berman, Richard Rich | 3 more credits Writers:
The Frisco Kid (1979) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 59min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 13 July 1979 (USA) -- A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws. Director: Robert Aldrich Writers: Michael Elias, Frank Shaw Stars:
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 14 August 2008 (USA) -- Lodge, a gaming geek, takes his playing very seriously, unlike his babyish friends who'd rather be immature. He decides to shake things up by introducing two unconventional people to their group. Director: Matt Vancil Writer: Matt Vancil Stars:
The General (1926) ::: 8.1/10 -- Passed | 1h 7min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 2 January 1927 (USA) -- When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines. Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton Writers: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman | 2 more credits
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 50min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 11 October 1996 (USA) -- A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers. Director: Stephen Hopkins Writer: William Goldman
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 26 January 2017 (USA) -- A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. Director: Colm McCarthy Writers: Mike Carey, Mike Carey (novel)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 49min | Adventure, Comedy | 26 October 1984 (USA) -- A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries. Director: Jamie Uys Writer: Jamie Uys Stars:
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) ::: 6.8/10 -- G | 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 25 January 1974 (UK) -- Sinbad and the vizier of Marabia, followed by evil magician Koura, seek the three golden tablets that can gain them access to the ancient temple of the Oracle of All Knowledge. Director: Gordon Hessler Writers:
The Gold Rush (1925) ::: 8.2/10 -- Passed | 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 27 September 1925 -- The Gold Rush Poster -- A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more. Director: Charles Chaplin Writer:
The Good Dinosaur (2015) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 November 2015 (USA) -- In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side-by-side, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. Director: Peter Sohn Writers: Bob Peterson (original concept & development by), Peter Sohn (story by)
The Goonies (1985) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 54min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7 June 1985 (USA) -- A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure. Director: Richard Donner Writers:
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) ::: 8.1/10 -- R | 1h 39min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 28 March 2014 (USA) -- A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge. Director: Wes Anderson Writers:
The Grand Tour ::: TV-14 | 1h | Comedy, Talk-Show | TV Series (2016- ) Episode Guide 41 episodes The Grand Tour Poster -- Follow Jeremy, Richard, and James, as they embark on an adventure across the globe, driving new and exciting automobiles from manufacturers all over the world. Stars:
The Grand Tour ::: TV-14 | 1h | Comedy, Talk-Show | TV Series (2016 ) -- Follow Jeremy, Richard, and James, as they embark on an adventure across the globe, driving new and exciting automobiles from manufacturers all over the world. Stars:
The Great Buck Howard (2008) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 10 April 2009 (USA) -- A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline. Director: Sean McGinly Writer: Sean McGinly
The Great Escape (1963) ::: 8.2/10 -- Approved | 2h 52min | Adventure, Drama, History | 4 July 1963 (USA) -- Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. Director: John Sturges Writers: Paul Brickhill (book), James Clavell (screenplay) | 1 more credit
The Great Indoors ::: TV-PG | 30min | Comedy | TV Series (20162017) -- An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine. Creator: Mike Gibbons
The Great Mouse Detective (1986) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 14min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 2 July 1986 (USA) -- Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy maker and uncovers its link to his archenemy, Professor Ratigan. Directors: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson | 2 more credits Writers: Peter Young (story adapted by) (as Pete Young), Vance Gerry (story
The Great Muppet Caper (1981) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 26 June 1981 (USA) -- Kermit the Frog, The Great Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy. Director: Jim Henson Writers:
The Great Race (1965) ::: 7.3/10 -- Passed | 2h 40min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 17 December 1965 (USA) -- In the early 20th century, two rivals, the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate, engage in an epic automobile race from New York to Paris. Director: Blake Edwards Writers:
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Adventure, Drama | 13 March 1975 (USA) -- After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights. Director: George Roy Hill Writers: George Roy Hill (story), William Goldman (screenplay) Stars:
The Grey (2011) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 27 January 2012 (USA) -- After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step. Director: Joe Carnahan Writers:
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy ::: Grim & Evil (original tit ::: TV-Y7-FV | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20012007) -- The ill-tempered Grim Reaper gets into a wager that forces him to become the life-long companions of two scheming youngsters after he loses. Creator:
The Guardian (2006) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 19min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 29 September 2006 (USA) -- A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice. Director: Andrew Davis Writer:
The Guns of Navarone (1961) ::: 7.5/10 -- TV-PG | 2h 38min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 28 April 1961 (UK) -- A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers. Director: J. Lee Thompson Writers:
The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter ::: Ore dake Haireru Kakushi Dungeon (original title) 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2021- ) Episode Guide 9 episodes The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter Poster The Hidden Dungeon is a place of legend where rare treasures and items are hidden. Nor, the third son of an impoverished noble family who's lost the one job offer he had, was lucky enough to hear about this dungeon. Stars: Ryta saka, Miyu Tomita, Rumi Okubo
The High and the Mighty (1954) ::: 6.8/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 27min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 3 July 1954 (USA) -- When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely. Director: William A. Wellman Writers:
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Horror | 10 March 2006 (USA) -- A family falls victim to a group of mutated cannibals in a desert far away from civilization. Director: Alexandre Aja Writers: Wes Craven (based upon his film), Alexandre Aja (screenplay) | 1 more
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 49min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 29 April 2005 (USA) -- Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Director: Garth Jennings Writers:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ::: TV-PG | 2h 32min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | TV Series (1981) Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect escape the destruction of Earth only to face incredible trials, tribulations and adventures in space and time. Stars: Simon Jones, David Dixon, Peter Jones Available on Amazon
The Hobbit (1977) ::: 6.8/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 30min | Animation, Adventure, Family | TV Movie 27 November -- The Hobbit Poster A homebody hobbit in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon. Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien (novel), Romeo Muller (adapted for the screen by) Stars:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 49min | Adventure, Fantasy | 14 December 2012 (USA) -- A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug. Director: Peter Jackson Writers:
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 24min | Adventure, Fantasy | 17 December 2014 (USA) -- Bilbo and company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness. Director: Peter Jackson Writers:
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 41min | Adventure, Fantasy | 13 December 2013 (USA) -- The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring. Director: Peter Jackson Writers:
The Horse Soldiers (1959) ::: 7.2/10 -- Approved | 2h | Adventure, Romance, War | July 1959 (USA) -- In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks. Director: John Ford Writers:
The House of Fear (1945) ::: 7.3/10 -- Passed | 1h 9min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery | 16 March 1945 (USA) -- Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims. Director: Roy William Neill Writers: Roy Chanslor (screenplay), Arthur Conan Doyle (story "The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips") (as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Stars:
The Huckleberry Hound Show ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19581962) -- The adventures of a blue dog with a southern accent. Stars: Daws Butler, Don Messick, Doug Young Available on Amazon
The Hunger Games (2012) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 22min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 23 March 2012 (USA) -- Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death. Director: Gary Ross Writers:
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 26min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 22 November 2013 (USA) -- Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Panem. Director: Francis Lawrence Writers:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 21 November 2014 (USA) -- Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage. Director: Francis Lawrence Writers:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 17min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 20 November 2015 (USA) -- Katniss and a team of rebels from District 13 prepare for the final battle that will decide the fate of Panem. Director: Francis Lawrence Writers: Peter Craig (screenplay), Danny Strong (screenplay) | 2 more credits
The Hunter (2011) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 40min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6 October 2011 (Australia) -- Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger. Director: Daniel Nettheim Writers:
The Hunt for Red October (1990) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 2h 15min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 2 March 1990 (USA) -- In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine Captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the U.S. Is he trying to defect or to start a war? Director: John McTiernan Writers:
The Hunting Party (2007) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 21 September 2007 (USA) -- A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the No.1 war criminal in Bosnia. However, their extremely dangerous target decides to come after them. Director: Richard Shepard Writers:
The Illusionist (2010) ::: 7.5/10 -- L'illusionniste (original title) -- The Illusionist Poster -- A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young woman. Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever. Director: Sylvain Chomet Writers:
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 8 January 2010 (USA) -- A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting. Director: Terry Gilliam Writers: Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown
The Incredible Hulk (2008) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 13 June 2008 (USA) -- Bruce Banner, a scientist on the run from the U.S. Government, must find a cure for the monster he turns into whenever he loses his temper. Director: Louis Leterrier Writers: Zak Penn (screenplay), Zak Penn (screen story) | 2 more credits
The Incredible Journey (1963) ::: 7.1/10 -- G | 1h 20min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 20 November 1963 (USA) -- The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home? Director: Fletcher Markle Writers: James Algar (screenplay), Sheila Burnford (book) Stars:
The Incredibles (2004) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG | 1h 55min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 5 November 2004 (USA) -- A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world. Director: Brad Bird Writer: Brad Bird
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 16 June 1995 (USA) -- An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance. Director: Maria Maggenti Writer:
The In-Laws (1979) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 12 September 1979 (France) -- On the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators. Director: Arthur Hiller Writer:
The Interview (2014) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 24 December 2014 (USA) -- Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Jong-Un Kim, they are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. Directors: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen Writers:
The Iron Giant (1999) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG | 1h 26min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 6 August 1999 (USA) -- A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy. Director: Brad Bird Writers: Tim McCanlies (screenplay by), Brad Bird (screen story by) | 1 more
The IT Crowd ::: TV-14 | 25min | Comedy | TV Series (20062013) -- The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie. Stars:
The Jetsons ::: TV-Y7 | 25min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19621963) -- The misadventures of a futuristic family. Stars: George O'Hanlon, Janet Waldo, Mel Blanc Available on Amazon
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Adventure, Family | 27 September 1985 (USA) -- In the 1930s, a tomboy runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, where he has found work. Director: Jeremy Kagan Writer: Jeanne Rosenberg
The Jungle Book (1967) ::: 7.6/10 -- G | 1h 18min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 18 October 1967 (USA) -- Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization. Director: Wolfgang Reitherman Writers: Larry Clemmons (story), Ralph Wright (story) | 3 more credits
The Jungle Book (2016) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 46min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 15 April 2016 (USA) -- After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther Bagheera and free-spirited bear Baloo. Director: Jon Favreau Writers:
The Kings of Summer (2013) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 23 August 2013 (UK) -- Three teenage friends, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land. Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Writer:
The Knock Out Cop (1973) ::: 6.8/10 -- Piedone lo sbirro (original title) -- The Knock Out Cop Poster Adventures of the police inspector "Flatfoot" Rizzo in the slums of Naples. Director: Steno Writers: Nicola Badalucco (story), Lucio De Caro (script) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Land Before Time (1988) ::: 7.4/10 -- G | 1h 9min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 18 November 1988 (USA) -- An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley. Director: Don Bluth Writers: Stu Krieger (screenplay), Judy Freudberg (story) | 1 more credit
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 25 September 1992 (USA) -- Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War. Director: Michael Mann Writers: James Fenimore Cooper (novel), John L. Balderston (adaptation) | 5 more
The Last Starfighter (1984) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 13 July 1984 (USA) -- Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack. Director: Nick Castle Writer:
The Last Unicorn (1982) ::: 7.5/10 -- G | 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 19 November 1982 (USA) -- A beautiful unicorn sets out to learn if she truly is the last of her kind in this sparkling animated musical. Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Writers: Peter S. Beagle (screenplay), Peter S. Beagle (novel)
The Legend of Korra ::: TV-Y7-FV | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20122014) -- Avatar Korra fights to keep Republic City safe from the evil forces of both the physical and spiritual worlds. Creators: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
The Lego Movie (2014) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 7 February 2014 (USA) -- An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as "special", is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis. Directors: Christopher Miller, Phil Lord Writers:
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 8 February 2019 (USA) -- It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild. Director: Mike Mitchell Writers:
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (2020) ::: 6.4/10 -- TV-G | 44min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 17 November 2020 -- Rey leaves her friends to prepare for Life Day as she sets off on an adventure to gain a deeper knowledge of the Force. At a mysterious temple, she is hurled into a cross-timeline adventure. Will she make it back in time for Life Day? Director: Ken Cunningham Writers:
The Leisure Seeker (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 52min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 3 January 2018 (France) -- A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call "The Leisure Seeker". Director: Paolo Virz Writers: Michael Zadoorian (novel), Stephen Amidon (screenplay) | 3 more
The Librarians ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20132018) -- A group of librarians sets off on adventures in an effort to save mysterious, ancient artifacts. Creator: John Rogers
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 25 December 2004 (USA) -- With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, Oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son. Director: Wes Anderson Writers:
The Lion King (1994) ::: 8.5/10 -- G | 1h 28min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 24 June 1994 (USA) -- Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself. Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff Writers: Irene Mecchi (screenplay by), Jonathan Roberts (screenplay by) | 27
The Lion King (2019) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 58min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 19 July 2019 (USA) -- After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery. Director: Jon Favreau Writers: Jeff Nathanson (screenplay by), Irene Mecchi (based on "The Lion King"
The Little Mermaid ::: TV-Y | 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19921994) -- The 1989 animated feature adapted by Disney for television in a prequel that leads up to the events of the movie. Creator: Peter S. Beagle
The Living Daylights (1987) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 31 July 1987 (USA) -- James Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications. Director: John Glen Writers:
Thelma & Louise (1991) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 2h 10min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 24 May 1991 (USA) -- Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed. Director: Ridley Scott Writer:
The Lone Ranger (2013) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 30min | Action, Adventure, Western | 3 July 2013 (USA) -- Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice. Director: Gore Verbinski Writers: Justin Haythe (screenplay), Ted Elliott (screenplay) | 4 more credits
The Looney Tunes Show ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (20112014) -- An updated iteration of the classic Looney Tunes characters focusing on their satirical misadventures living in suburbia. Stars: Jeff Bergman, Bob Bergen, Fred Armisen
The Lorax (2012) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 26min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 2 March 2012 (USA) -- A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. Directors: Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda (co-director) Writers:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) ::: 8.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 58min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 19 December 2001 (USA) -- A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron. Director: Peter Jackson Writers:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) ::: 8.9/10 -- PG-13 | 3h 21min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 17 December 2003 (USA) -- Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. Director: Peter Jackson Writers:
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) ::: 8.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 59min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 18 December 2002 (USA) -- While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. Director: Peter Jackson Writers:
The Lost City of Z (2016) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 21min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 21 April 2017 (USA) -- A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s. Director: James Gray Writers:
The Lost Patrol (1934) ::: 6.8/10 -- Passed | 1h 13min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 16 February 1934 (USA) -- A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies. Director: John Ford Writers: Dudley Nichols (screen play), Garrett Fort (adaptation) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 9min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 23 May 1997 (USA) -- A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Michael Crichton (novel), David Koepp (screenplay)
The Lost World ::: TV-PG | 1h | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (19992002) -- The adventures of a band of explorers stranded in a mysterious land inhabited by dinosaurs and other dangers. Stars: Peter McCauley, Rachel Blakely, Jennifer O'Dell | See full cast &
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The Loud House ::: TV-Y7 | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2016 ) -- Lincoln Loud is an eleven-year-old boy who lives with ten sisters. With the help of his right-hand man Clyde, Lincoln finds new ways to survive in such a large family every day. Creators:
The Lucky Ones (2008) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 26 September 2008 (USA) -- Three different soldiers - a woman and two men - return from war and facing the peaceful life's problems of each other. Director: Neil Burger Writers: Neil Burger, Dirk Wittenborn
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) ::: 7.4/10 -- Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob (original title) -- The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob Poster -- A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police. Director: Grard Oury Writers:
The Magic School Bus ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19941997) -- An eccentric school-teacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus. Creators: Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen, Kristin Laskas Martin
The Magnificent Seven (1960) ::: 7.7/10 -- Approved | 2h 8min | Action, Adventure, Western | 12 October 1960 (USA) -- Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits. Director: John Sturges Writer: William Roberts (screenplay)
The Magnificent Seven (2016) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Western | 23 September 2016 (USA) -- Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist. Director: Antoine Fuqua Writers:
The Mandalorian ::: TV-14 | 40min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 24 episodes The Mandalorian Poster -- The travels of a lone bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic. Creator: Jon Favreau
The Mandalorian ::: TV-14 | 40min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2019 ) -- The travels of a lone bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic. Creator: Jon Favreau
The Man from Snowy River (1982) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5 November 1982 (USA) -- In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, Jim takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man. Director: George Miller Writers: A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson (poem), John Dixon (screenplay) | 1 more credit
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 14 August 2015 (USA) -- In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. Director: Guy Ritchie Writers:
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 13 March 1998 (USA) -- The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother whom he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king? Director: Randall Wallace Writers: Alexandre Dumas (novels), Randall Wallace (screenplay) Stars:
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) ::: 6.4/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 12min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 10 April 2019 -- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Poster -- Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality. Director: Terry Gilliam Writers:
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 2h 9min | Adventure, History, War | 19 December 1975 (UK) -- Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great. Director: John Huston Writers: John Huston (screenplay), Gladys Hill (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 2h 5min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 20 December 1974 (USA) -- James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. Director: Guy Hamilton Writers:
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) ::: 7.6/10 -- G | 1h 14min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 11 March 1977 (USA) -- In this collection of animated shorts based on the stories and characters by A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh, a honey-loving teddy bear, embarks on some eccentric adventures. Directors: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman | 1 more credit Writers:
The Mark of Zorro (1940) ::: 7.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 34min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 8 November 1940 -- The Mark of Zorro Poster A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California. Director: Rouben Mamoulian Writers: John Taintor Foote (screenplay), Garrett Fort (adaptation) | 2 more credits
The Martian (2015) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 24min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 2 October 2015 (USA) -- An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Director: Ridley Scott Writers:
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack ::: TV-Y7-FV | 11min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (20082010) -- The comical seafaring adventures of a young, enthusiastic boy, his pirate captain mentor, and the talking whale that raised him from birth. Creator:
The Mask of Zorro (1998) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 17 July 1998 (USA) -- A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own. Director: Martin Campbell Writers:
The Mask ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19951997) The further adventures of Stanley Ipkiss (Rob Paulsen) and his magic reality defying mask. Creator: Mark Badger Stars:
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ::: Suzumiya Haruhi no yutsu (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy | TV Series (20062009) The crazy adventures of the SOS Brigade, led by the insane but charismatic Haruhi. Stars: Tomokazu Sugita, Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ::: Suzumiya Haruhi no yutsu (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy | TV Series (2006-2009) Episode Guide 28 episodes The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Poster The crazy adventures of the SOS Brigade, led by the insane but charismatic Haruhi. Stars: Tomokazu Sugita, Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara
The Midnight Gospel ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2020 ) -- Clancy, a spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator, leaves the comfort of his home to interview beings living in dying worlds. Creator:
The Midnight Gospel ::: TV-MA | 23min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 8 episodes The Midnight Gospel Poster -- Clancy, a spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator, leaves the comfort of his home to interview beings living in dying worlds. Creator:
The Mighty Boosh ::: TV-PG | 30min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical | TV Series (20032007) -- Surreal British comedy in which Vince Noir and Howard Moon have adventures filled with oddball characters while working as Zoo Keepers, before pursuing a musical career and running a second-hand shop. Stars:
The Missing (2003) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 2h 17min | Adventure, Thriller, Western | 26 November 2003 (USA) -- In 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo. Director: Ron Howard Writers:
The Mission (1986) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 2h 5min | Adventure, Drama, History | 31 October 1986 (USA) -- Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. Director: Roland Joff Writer: Robert Bolt (original story & screenplay) Stars:
The Moaning of Life ::: TV-14 | 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Reality-TV | TV Series (20132015) Karl is faced with the different aspects of life by travelling around the world and discovering how different people face life's challenges. Stars: Karl Pilkington, John Montgomery, Richard Yee
The Monkees ::: TV-G | 30min | Comedy, Music | TV Series (19661968) -- The misadventures of a struggling rock band. Creators: Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
The Mosquito Coast (1986) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 57min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 26 November 1986 (USA) -- An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia. Director: Peter Weir Writers: Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 3min | Action, Adventure, Horror | 16 September 1932 (USA) -- An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers. Directors: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack Writers: James Ashmore Creelman (screen play), Richard Connell (from the O.Henry prize winning collection story by) Stars:
The Mountain Between Us (2017) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6 October 2017 (USA) -- Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness. Director: Hany Abu-Assad Writers:
The Mummy (1959) ::: 6.8/10 -- Unrated | 1h 28min | Adventure, Horror | 16 December 1959 (USA) -- In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences. Director: Terence Fisher Writer: Jimmy Sangster (screenplay) Stars:
The Mummy (1999) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 7 May 1999 (USA) -- At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love. Director: Stephen Sommers Writers:
The Mummy Returns (2001) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 4 May 2001 (USA) -- The mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror. Director: Stephen Sommers Writer: Stephen Sommers
The Mummy Returns (2001) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 4 May 2001 (USA) -- The mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror.
The Munsters ::: TV-PG | 30min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | TV Series (19641966) -- A family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely. Creators: Ed Haas, Norm Liebmann
The Muppet Movie (1979) ::: 7.6/10 -- G | 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 22 June 1979 (USA) -- Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit. Director: James Frawley Writers: Jerry Juhl, Jack Burns
The Muppets (2011) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 43min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 23 November 2011 (USA) -- A Muppet fanatic with some help from his 2 human compatriots must regroup the Muppet gang to stop an avaricious oil mogul from taking down one of their precious life-longing treasures. Director: James Bobin Writers:
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 1h 34min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 13 July 1984 (USA) -- Kermit and his friends go to New York City to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated. Director: Frank Oz Writers: Tom Patchett (story by), Jay Tarses (story by) | 3 more credits
The Musketeers ::: TV-14 | 55min | Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20142016) -- Set on the streets of 17th-century Paris, "The Musketeers" gives a contemporary take on the classic story about a group of highly trained soldiers and bodyguards assigned to protect King and country. Creator:
The Naked Jungle (1954) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 35min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 3 March 1954 (USA) -- The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants. Director: Byron Haskin Writers: Philip Yordan (screenplay), Ranald MacDougall (screenplay) | 2 more credits Stars:
The Naked Prey (1965) ::: 7.3/10 -- Approved | 1h 36min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 1966 (Norway) -- During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen. Director: Cornel Wilde Writers: Clint Johnston, Don Peters Stars:
The Nativity Story (2006) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 1 December 2006 (USA) -- A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus. Director: Catherine Hardwicke Writer: Mike Rich
The New Adventures of Old Christine ::: TV-PG | 22min | Comedy | TV Series (20062010) -- A divorced mom tries to keep pace with everyone around her. Creator: Kari Lizer
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19881991) Follow Winnie the Pooh's adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood. Stars: John Fiedler, Jim Cummings, Ken Sansom Add to Watchlist
The New Batman Adventures ::: TV-PG | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19971999) The further and darker adventures of Batman with a new Robin, a closer association with Batgirl and the previous Robin now as Nightwing. Creator: Bob Kane Stars:
The New Legends of Monkey ::: TV-PG | 24min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2018 ) -- Entering the mythical world of the Monkey King, where a young monk and his group of disciples are on a journey to collect scrolls of Buddhist wisdom. Stars:
The New Tom & Jerry Show ::: 1h 39min | Animation, Family, Comedy | TV Series (19751977) A modern continuation of the original Tom and Jerry cartoon, where the cat-and-mouse duo are now close friends through a series of adventures and chaos. Stars: Henry Corden, Kathy Gori, Don Messick
The Nightingale (2018) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 2h 16min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 19 November 2019 (Canada) -- Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past. Director: Jennifer Kent
The Oblongs ::: The Oblongs... (original tit ::: TV-14 | 4h 44min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi | TV Series (20012002) The misadventures of a goofy family deformed by toxic waste. Creators: Jace Richdale, Angus Oblong Stars:
The Oblongs ::: The Oblongs... (original tit ::: TV-14 | 4h 44min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi | TV Series (20012002) The misadventures of a goofy family deformed by toxic waste.
The Odd Couple II (1998) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy | 10 April 1998 (USA) -- Oscar and Felix take a road trip to their son and daughter's wedding. Director: Howard Deutch Writer: Neil Simon
The Odyssey (2016) ::: 6.6/10 -- L'odysse (original title) -- The Odyssey Poster -- The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life. Director: Jrme Salle
The Old Guard (2020) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 2h 5min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 10 July 2020 (USA) -- A covert team of immortal mercenaries is suddenly exposed and must now fight to keep their identity a secret just as an unexpected new member is discovered. Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood Writers:
The Old Man and the Sea (1958) ::: 7.0/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 26min | Adventure, Drama | 11 October 1958 (USA) -- An old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea. Directors: John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann (uncredited) Writers: Ernest Hemingway (novel), Peter Viertel (screenplay)
The One and Only Ivan (2020) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 21 August 2020 (USA) -- A gorilla named Ivan tries to piece together his past with the help of an elephant named Ruby as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity. Director: Thea Sharrock Writers: Mike White (screenplay by), Katherine Applegate (book)
The Orville ::: TV-14 | 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2017 ) -- An exploratory ship from Earth faces intergalactic challenges 400 years in the future. Creator: Seth MacFarlane
The Orville ::: TV-14 | 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2017- ) Episode Guide 37 episodes The Orville Poster -- An exploratory ship from Earth faces intergalactic challenges 400 years in the future. Creator: Seth MacFarlane
The Other Side of Heaven (2001) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 53min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 12 April 2002 (USA) -- John Groberg, a farm kid from Idaho Falls, crosses an ocean to become a missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan islands during the 1950s. Director: Mitch Davis Writers: Mitch Davis, John H. Groberg (book) Stars:
The Owl House ::: TV-Y7-FV | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 20 episodes The Owl House Poster -- Accidentally sent to the world of the Boiling Isles before a trip to summer camp, a teenage human named Luz longs to become a witch, with the rebellious Eda and pint-sized demon King at her aid. Creator:
The Parent Trap (1998) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 2h 8min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 29 July 1998 (USA) -- Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, later discover each other for the first time at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together. Director: Nancy Meyers Writers:
The Passage ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2019) -- When a botched U.S. government experiment turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, an orphan girl might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis. Creators:
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 23 August 2019 (USA) -- Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true. Directors: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz Writers: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
The Penguins of Madagascar ::: TV-Y7 | 11min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20082015) -- The daily adventures of penguins living in New York's Central Park Zoo. Creators: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
The Perfect Storm (2000) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 30 June 2000 (USA) -- An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger. Director: Wolfgang Petersen Writers: Sebastian Junger (book), William D. Wittliff (screenplay) (as Bill
The Persuaders! -- 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19711972) ::: Two worlds collide when the titled Englishman, Lord Brett Sinclair, and the Bronx-raised, self-made American Danny Wilde, reluctantly join forces to right wrongs, and to protect the innocent. Stars:
The Physician (2013) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 35min | Adventure, Drama, History | 5 December 2014 (USA) -- In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians. Director: Philipp Stlzl Writers: Noah Gordon (based on the novel by), Jan Berger (screenplay by) | 3
The Pink Panther Show ::: TV-Y | 1h 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19692011) A classy, resourceful panther has plenty of hilarious misadventures, outwitting those who annoy him with his clever tricks. Stars: Larry D. Mann, Frank Welker, Rich Little Available on Amazon
The Pirate (1948) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 42min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical | 11 June 1948 (USA) -- A girl is engaged to the local rich man, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate. Director: Vincente Minnelli Writers:
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) ::: 6.7/10 -- The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (original title) -- The Pirates! Band of Misfits Poster -- Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Directors: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt (co-director)
The Plague Dogs (1982) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 43min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 9 January 1985 (USA) -- Two dogs escape from a laboratory and are hunted as possible carriers of the bubonic plague. Director: Martin Rosen Writers: Richard Adams (novel), Martin Rosen Stars:
The Polar Express (2004) ::: 6.6/10 -- G | 1h 40min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 10 November 2004 (USA) -- On Christmas Eve, a young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express, while learning about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writers:
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 13 December 1972 (USA) -- Nine people explore a cruise ship at sea in a manner that turns their whole lives upside down. Director: Ronald Neame Writers: Paul Gallico (novel), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay by) | 1 more
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 13min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 3 July 2002 (USA) -- The movie shows the origin of the Powerpuff Girls before the cartoon series. It explains why they were born and why they dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil. Directors: Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky (uncredited) Writers:
The Powerpuff Girls ::: TV-Y7-FV | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19982005) -- Three super-powered little girls constantly save the world (or at least the city of Townsville) from monsters, would-be conquerers and a few other gross things. Creators:
The Prince of Egypt (1998) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 39min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 18 December 1998 (USA) -- Egyptian Prince Moses learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people. Directors: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner | 1 more credit Writers: Philip LaZebnik, Nicholas Meyer (additional screenplay material)
The Princess and the Frog (2009) ::: 7.1/10 -- G | 1h 37min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 11 December 2009 (USA) -- A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him. Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker Writers:
The Princess Bride (1987) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG | 1h 38min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 9 October 1987 (USA) -- While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love. Director: Rob Reiner Writers:
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) ::: 7.7/10 -- Approved | 1h 41min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 3 September 1937 -- The Prisoner of Zenda Poster An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped. Directors: John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke (uncredited) Writers: Anthony Hope (celebrated novel), John L. Balderston (screen play) | 3 more credits
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 36min | Adventure | 14 November 1952 (USA) -- An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped. Director: Richard Thorpe Writers:
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 5min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 29 October 1970 (USA) -- When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster. Director: Billy Wilder Writers:
The Professionals (1966) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Western | 4 November 1966 (USA) -- An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit. Director: Richard Brooks Writers: Frank O'Rourke (novel), Richard Brooks (written for the screen by)
The Promise (2016) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 13min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 21 April 2017 (USA) -- Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris. Director: Terry George Writers:
The Promised Neverland ::: Yakusoku no Neverland (original tit ::: TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 23 episodes The Promised Neverland Poster -- When three gifted kids at an isolated idyllic orphanage discover the secret and sinister purpose they were raised for, they look for a way to escape from their evil caretaker and lead the other children in a risky escape plan.
The Proud Family ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (20012005) -- Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny Proud as she does her best to navigate through the early years of teend-dom. Creators: Bruce W. Smith, Doreen Spicer
The Railway Children (1970) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 49min | Drama, Family | 22 December 1970 (UK) -- After the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance. Director: Lionel Jeffries Writers: E. Nesbit (from the celebrated novel by), Lionel Jeffries (screenplay) Stars:
The Razor's Edge (1946) ::: 7.4/10 -- Approved | 2h 25min | Drama, Romance | 25 December 1946 (USA) -- An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiance in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married. Director: Edmund Goulding Writers: Lamar Trotti (screen play), W. Somerset Maugham (from the novel by)
The Ren & Stimpy Show ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (1991-1996) Episode Guide 55 episodes The Ren & Stimpy Show Poster -- Ren, a psychotic Chihuahua, and Stimpson J. Cat, a dimwitted Manx cat who goes by the nickname Stimpy, have a host of unusual adventures. Creators: John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, Jim Gomez | 5 more credits
The Ren & Stimpy Show ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19911996) -- Ren, a psychotic Chihuahua, and Stimpson J. Cat, a dimwitted Manx cat who goes by the nickname Stimpy, have a host of unusual adventures. Creators: John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, Jim Gomez | 5 more credits
The Rescuers (1977) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 1h 18min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 June 1977 (USA) -- Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters. Directors: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman | 1 more credit Writers: Margery Sharp (suggested by "The Rescuers" and "Miss Bianca" by), Larry
The Rescuers Down Under (1990) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 1h 17min | Animation, Adventure, Crime | 16 November 1990 (USA) -- The R.A.S. agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a little boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher. Directors: Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel Writers: Jim Cox (animation screenplay by), Karey Kirkpatrick (animation
The Revenant (2015) ::: 8.0/10 -- R | 2h 36min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 8 January 2016 (USA) -- A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. Director: Alejandro G. Irritu Writers:
The Rifleman ::: TV-PG | 30min | Family, Western | TV Series (19581963) -- The adventures of a Wild West rancher, wielding a customized rapid-fire Winchester rifle, and his son. Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix
The Right Stuff (1983) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 3h 13min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 17 February 1984 (USA) -- The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program. Director: Philip Kaufman Writers: Philip Kaufman (written for the screen by), Tom Wolfe (based on the
The River ::: TV-14 | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2012) -- The crew of a research vessel are on a quest to find a missing TV explorer in the Amazon. Creators: Oren Peli, Michael R. Perry
The River Wild (1994) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 51min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller | 30 September 1994 (USA) -- Rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river. Director: Curtis Hanson Writer: Denis O'Neill Stars:
The Road to El Dorado (2000) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 29min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 31 March 2000 (USA) -- Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. Directors: Bibo Bergeron (as Eric 'Bibo' Bergeron), Don Paul | 1 more credit Writers: Terry Rossio (screenplay), Ted Elliott (screenplay) | 2 more credits
The Road to El Dorado (2000) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 29min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 31 March 2000 (USA) -- Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. Directors: Bibo Bergeron (as Eric 'Bibo' Bergeron), Don Paul | 1 more credit Writers: Terry Rossio (screenplay), Ted Elliott (screenplay) | 2 more credits
The Road Within (2014) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 4 June 2015 (Singapore) -- A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes. Director: Gren Wells Writers: Florian David Fitz (based on an original screenplay by), Gren Wells
The Rock (1996) ::: 7.4/10 -- R | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7 June 1996 (USA) -- A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco. Director: Michael Bay Writers:
The Rocketeer (1991) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Family | 21 June 1991 (USA) -- A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero. Director: Joe Johnston Writers: Dave Stevens (graphic novel "The Rocketeer"), Danny Bilson (story) | 4
The Rundown (2003) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 26 September 2003 (USA) -- A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure. Director: Peter Berg Writers:
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) ::: 7.4/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 16min | Comedy, Music | TV Movie 22 March 1978 -- Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time. Directors: Eric Idle, Gary Weis Writer: Eric Idle (conceived and written by) Stars:
The Sandlot (1993) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7 April 1993 (USA) -- In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many adventures. Director: David Mickey Evans Writers:
The Sand Pebbles (1966) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG-13 | 3h 2min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 20 December 1966 (USA) -- In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China. Director: Robert Wise Writers: Richard McKenna (novel), Robert Anderson (screenplay)
The Sarah Jane Adventures ::: TV-PG | 1h | Family, Sci-Fi | TV Series (20072020) -- Investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith, with the help of her adopted son, his friends, and an intelligent supercomputer, combats evil alien forces here on Earth. Creator:
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) ::: 7.4/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 37min | Adventure, Drama | 7 February 1935 (USA) -- A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine. Director: Harold Young Writer: Baroness Emmuska Orczy (by) (as The Baroness Orczy) Stars:
The Sea Hawk (1940) ::: 7.7/10 -- Approved | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, History | 31 August 1940 (USA) -- Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword. Director: Michael Curtiz Writers:
The Searchers (1956) ::: 7.9/10 -- Passed | 1h 59min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 26 May 1956 (USA) -- An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches. Director: John Ford Writers: Frank S. Nugent (screenplay), Alan Le May (from the novel by) (as Alan
The Sea Wolf (1941) ::: 7.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 40min | Adventure, Drama | 21 March 1941 (USA) -- After being fished out of the sea by a sealer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny. Director: Michael Curtiz Writers:
The Secret Life of Pets (2016) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 8 July 2016 (USA) -- The quiet life of a terrier named Max is upended when his owner takes in Duke, a stray whom Max instantly dislikes. Directors: Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney (co-director) Writers: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio | 1 more credit
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 26min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 7 June 2019 (USA) -- Continuing the story of Max and his pet friends, following their secret lives after their owners leave them for work or school each day. Directors: Chris Renaud, Jonathan del Val (co-director) (as Jonathan Del Val) Writer: Brian Lynch
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 54min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 25 December 2013 (USA) -- When both he and a colleague are about to lose their job, Walter takes action by embarking on an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. Director: Ben Stiller Writers:
The Secret of Kells (2009) ::: 7.6/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 15min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 22 June 2016 -- The Secret of Kells Poster -- A young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids is beckoned to adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives with an ancient book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. Directors: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey (co-director) Writers:
The Secret of NIMH (1982) ::: 7.6/10 -- G | 1h 22min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 16 July 1982 (USA) -- To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected. Director: Don Bluth Writers: Robert C. O'Brien (novel), Don Bluth (story adaptation) | 3 more
The Seven Deadly Sins ::: Nanatsu no taizai (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2014- ) Next Episode Today Episode Guide 86 episodes The Seven Deadly Sins Poster -- The legend of the confrontation between the Seven Deadly Sins and the Holy Knights.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 53min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | May 1977 (UK) -- To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud. Director: Herbert Ross Writers: Nicholas Meyer (screenplay), Nicholas Meyer (novel) | 1 more credit
The Shannara Chronicles ::: TV-14 | 42min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | TV Series (20162017) -- Series of adventures, war, and evil that occur throughout the history of the Four Lands. Creators: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
The Shape of Water (2017) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 2h 3min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 22 December 2017 (USA) -- At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. Director: Guillermo del Toro Writers:
The Sheik (1921) ::: 6.4/10 -- Passed | 1h 26min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 20 November 1921 (USA) -- A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert. Director: George Melford Writers: Edith Maude Hull (from the novel by) (as Edith M. Hull), Monte M. Katterjohn (adaptation)
The Sheltering Sky (1990) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 2h 18min | Adventure, Drama | 12 December 1990 (USA) -- An American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile. Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Writers:
The Sign of Four (1987) ::: 8.1/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 43min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | TV Movie 27 October 1988 -- The disappearance of a young woman's father and a mysterious note years later after the strange regular annual delivery of valuable pearls to her puts Sherlock Holmes on the case. Director: Peter Hammond Writers: Arthur Conan Doyle (by) (as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), John Hawkesworth (dramatised by)
The Simpsons Movie (2007) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 27 July 2007 (USA) -- After Homer pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives. Director: David Silverman Writers: James L. Brooks (screenplay), Matt Groening (screenplay) | 13 more
The Simpsons ::: TV-PG | 22min | Animation, Comedy | TV Series (1989 ) Next Episode Sunday, March 14 -- The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield. Creators:
The Six Million Dollar Man (1973) ::: 7.0/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 15min | Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Movie 7 March 1973 -- After an astronaut and test pilot is catastrophically mutilated in a test plane crash, he is rebuilt and equipped with nuclear powered bionic limbs and implants. Director: Richard Irving Writers: Terrence McDonnell, Martin Caidin (novel) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Smurfs ::: Smurfs (original tit ::: TV-Y | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19811989) -- The Smurfs are tiny blue creatures that live in mushroom houses in a peaceful forest. They repeatedly try to outwit Gargamel, an evil sorcerer, his apprentice, Scruple, and his mangy cat, Azrael. Creator:
The Snow Walker (2003) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 43min | Adventure, Drama | 5 March 2004 (Canada) -- A pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing in the Arctic tundra. Director: Charles Martin Smith Writers: Charles Martin Smith, Farley Mowat (based on the story "Walk Well My
The Space Between Us (2017) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 3 February 2017 (USA) -- The first human born on Mars travels to Earth for the first time, experiencing the wonders of the planet through fresh eyes. He embarks on an adventure with a street-smart girl to discover how he came to be. Director: Peter Chelsom Writers:
The Spectacular Spider-Man ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20082009) -- An animated television show that focuses on a sixteen-year-old Peter Parker, and the origins of Spider-Man. Creators: Victor Cook, Steve Ditko, Stan Lee | 1 more credit
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 14 February 2008 (USA) -- Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Director: Mark Waters Writers:
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) ::: 7.2/10 -- Approved | 2h 15min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 20 April 1957 (USA) -- Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing. Director: Billy Wilder Writers:
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 27min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 19 November 2004 (USA) -- SpongeBob SquarePants takes leave from the town of Bikini Bottom in order to track down King Neptune's stolen crown. Directors: Stephen Hillenburg, Mark Osborne Writers: Derek Drymon, Stephen Hillenburg (television series SpongeBob
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 2h 5min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 3 August 1977 (USA) -- James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed. Director: Lewis Gilbert Writers:
The Stand -- Not Rated | 6h 1min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | TV Mini-Series (1994) Episode Guide 4 episodes The Stand Poster ::: After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil. Stars:
The Star (2017) ::: 6.3/10 -- PG | 1h 26min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 17 November 2017 (USA) -- A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas. Director: Timothy Reckart Writers: Carlos Kotkin (screenplay by), Simon Moore (story by) | 1 more credit
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman ::: TV-14 | 1h | Documentary, Adventure, History | TV Series (20162019) -- Morgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act of creation and other big questions that mankind has continuously asked. Stars:
The Storyteller ::: TV-Y7 | 3h 45min | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (19871989) -- An old storyteller tells European folk tales to his sarcastic dog. Creator: Jim Henson
The Sundowners (1960) ::: 7.1/10 -- Unrated | 2h 13min | Adventure, Drama | 9 December 1960 (USA) -- In Australia's Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it. Director: Fred Zinnemann Writers:
The Sword in the Stone (1963) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 19min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 21 June 1964 (USA) -- A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in English history. Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi (uncredited) | 1 more credit Writers:
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19952001) -- Sylvester Cat, Tweety Bird, and Hector the Bulldog are the pets of Granny, a gingerly matron with a penchant for solving mysteries. Granny is a Jessica Fletcher-like traveling detective who... S Stars:
The Tarnished Angels (1957) ::: 7.1/10 -- Passed | 1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 31 December 1957 (USA) -- Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot. Director: Douglas Sirk Writers: William Faulkner (novel), George Zuckerman (screenplay) Stars:
The Ten Commandments (1956) ::: 7.9/10 -- G | 3h 40min | Adventure, Drama | 5 October 1956 (USA) -- Moses, an Egyptian Prince, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people. Director: Cecil B. DeMille (as Cecil B. de Mille) Writers: Dorothy Clarke Wilson (this work contains material from the book
The Terror ::: TV-14 | 1h | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Series (2018- ) Episode Guide 20 episodes The Terror Poster -- Supernatural, semihistorical, horror anthology series, where each season is inspired by a different infamous or mysterious real life historical tragedy. Creators:
The Terror ::: TV-14 | 1h | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Series (2018 ) -- Supernatural, semihistorical, horror anthology series, where each season is inspired by a different infamous or mysterious real life historical tragedy. Creators:
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) ::: 7.1/10 -- G | 1h 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 25 August 1995 (USA) -- A lonely princess and a poor cobbler fall in love while trying to retrieve three magical orbs that were stolen by a bumbling thief, all while outwitting a powerful sorcerer as adventure and comedic pop culture references abound. Director: Richard Williams Writers:
The Thief of Bagdad (1940) ::: 7.5/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 46min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 25 December 1940 -- The Thief of Bagdad Poster -- After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves. Directors: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell | 4 more credits Writers:
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 42min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 26 June 1968 (USA) -- A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man. Director: Norman Jewison Writer: Alan Trustman (as Alan R. Trustman) Stars:
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) ::: 7.4/10 -- R | 2h 1min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 24 February 2006 (USA) -- Ranch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico. Director: Tommy Lee Jones Writer: Guillermo Arriaga
The Three Musketeers (1948) ::: 7.2/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 5min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 October 1948 (USA) -- D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly) and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu (Vincent Price) to usurp King Louis XIII's (Frank Morgan's) power. Director: George Sidney Writers:
The Three Musketeers (1973) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 46min | Action, Adventure | 29 March 1974 (USA) -- A young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends. Director: Richard Lester Writers: George MacDonald Fraser (screenplay), Alexandre Dumas (novel)
The Three Musketeers (1993) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 12 November 1993 (USA) -- France, 1625: Young d'Artagnan heads to Paris to join the Musketeers but the evil cardinal has disbanded them - save 3. He meets the 3, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and joins them on their quest to save the king and country. Director: Stephen Herek Writers: Alexandre Dumas (based on the novel by), David Loughery (screenplay by)
The Tick ::: TV-MA | 29min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20162019) -- In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an accountant with no superpowers comes to realize his city is owned by a super villain. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero. Creator:
The Tick ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19941997) -- 1 -- An invulnerable, somewhat dim, superhero protects The City from all manner of evil-doers. Creator: Ben Edlund
The Time in Between ::: El tiempo entre costuras (original title) 14h 13min | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Series (20132014) Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing ... S Stars: Adriana Ugarte, Mari Carmen Snchez, Tristn Ulloa | See full cast &
The Time Machine (1960) ::: 7.6/10 -- G | 1h 43min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi | 25 August 1960 (Canada) -- A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society. Director: George Pal Writers: David Duncan (screenplay), H.G. Wells (novel)
The Transformers: The Movie (1986) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 8 August 1986 (USA) -- The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons. Director: Nelson Shin Writer:
The Transformers ::: Transformers (original tit ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19841987) -- Two opposing factions of transforming alien robots engage in a battle that has the fate of Earth in the balance. Stars:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) ::: 8.2/10 -- Passed | 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 24 January 1948 (USA) -- Two Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Director: John Huston Writers: John Huston (screenplay), B. Traven (based on the novel by)
The Trip (2002) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5 May 2002 (USA) -- Romance, politics, sex and humor all collide during two men's 11-year journey of passion, self-discovery and adventure. Director: Miles Swain Writer: Miles Swain
The Trip to Spain (2017) ::: 6.6/10 -- Unrated | 1h 48min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 11 August 2017 (USA) -- Actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a six-part episodic road trip through Europe. This time they're in Spain, sampling the restaurants, eateries, and sights along the way. Director: Michael Winterbottom Stars:
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat ::: TV-G | 25min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (1995-1997) Episode Guide 21 episodes The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat Poster -- The beyond surreal adventures of Felix The Cat and his friends set in an incredibly weird and fantastical toon world where everything is alive and only dream logic rules. Each episode has three segments. Creators:
The Umbrella Academy ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2019- ) Episode Guide 30 episodes The Umbrella Academy Poster -- 3 -- A family of former child heroes, now grown apart, must reunite to continue to protect the world. Creators: Steve Blackman, Jeremy Slater
The Undefeated (1969) ::: 6.7/10 -- Passed | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 27 November 1969 (USA) -- After the Civil War, ex-Confederate soldiers heading for a new life in Mexico run into ex-Union cavalrymen selling horses to the Mexican government but they must join forces to fight off Mexican bandits and revolutionaries. Director: Andrew V. McLaglen Writers:
The Venture Bros. ::: TV-MA | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20032018) -- The bizarre escapades of pseudo-heroic scientist Dr. Rusty Venture, his competent, high-strung bodyguard, and his two overenthusiastic sons. Creator: Christopher McCulloch
The Vikings (1958) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, History | 28 June 1958 (USA) -- A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess. Director: Richard Fleischer Writers: Calder Willingham (screenplay), Dale Wasserman (adaptation) | 1 more credit
The Walk (2015) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Biography | 9 October 2015 (USA) -- In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writers:
The Water Horse (2007) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 52min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 25 December 2007 (USA) -- A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend. Director: Jay Russell Writers: Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay), Dick King-Smith (book)
The Way (2010) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 19 November 2010 (Spain) -- A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the "El camino de Santiago," and decides to take the pilgrimage himself. Director: Emilio Estevez Writers:
The Way Back (2010) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 13min | Adventure, Drama, History | 21 January 2011 (USA) -- Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India. Director: Peter Weir Writers: Slavomir Rawicz (novel), Peter Weir (screenplay) | 1 more credit
The Wild Bunch (1969) ::: 7.9/10 -- R | 2h 15min | Action, Adventure, Western | 19 June 1969 (USA) -- An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. Director: Sam Peckinpah Writers: Walon Green (screenplay), Sam Peckinpah (screenplay) | 2 more credits
The Wild Geese (1978) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 2h 14min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 11 November 1978 (USA) -- A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator. Director: Andrew V. McLaglen Writers: Reginald Rose (screenplay), Daniel Carney (novel) Stars:
The Wilds ::: TV-14 | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (2020 ) A group of teens must survive after a crash leaves them stranded. There's just one twist to this thrilling drama - these girls did not end up on this island by accident. Creator: Sarah Streicher Stars:
The Wild Thornberrys ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19982004) -- The life of an adventurous family, from the point of view of an eleven-year-old girl gifted with animal language. Creators: Jeff Astrof, Gabor Csupo, Arlene Klasky | 6 more credits
The Willoughbys (2020) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 April 2020 (USA) -- Convinced they'd be better off raising themselves, the Willoughby children hatch a sneaky plan to send their selfish parents on vacation. The siblings then embark on their own high-flying adventure to find the true meaning of family. Directors: Kris Pearn, Cory Evans | 1 more credit Writers:
The Wind and the Lion (1975) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 26 June 1975 (UK) -- An Arab chief triggers an international incident when he kidnaps an American widow and her children. Director: John Milius Writer: John Milius
The Witcher ::: TV-MA | 1h | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | TV Series (2019 ) -- Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. Creator: Lauren Schmidt
The Witches (1990) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 24 August 1990 (USA) -- A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse. Director: Nicolas Roeg Writers: Roald Dahl (book), Allan Scott (screenplay)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG | 1h 42min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 25 August 1939 (USA) -- Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well. Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited) | 4 more credits Writers:
The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex (2013) ::: 6.5/10 -- TV-G | 1h | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 15 March 2013 -- While visiting Tuscany, Italy, a young wizard accidentally creates an evil version of herself. Director: Victor Gonzalez Writers: Todd J. Greenwald (based on the series created by), Ben Montanio | 2 more credits Stars:
The Woman in Green (1945) ::: 6.7/10 -- Approved | 1h 8min | Drama, Mystery | 27 July 1945 (USA) -- Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot. Director: Roy William Neill Writers: Bertram Millhauser (original screenplay), Arthur Conan Doyle (based on the story "The Adventures of the Empty House" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Woody Woodpecker Show ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19401972) A various of incredible adventures involving a cheerful woodpecker with an unforgettable laugh. Stars: Walter Lantz, Grace Stafford, Daws Butler
The World Is Not Enough (1999) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 8min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 19 November 1999 (USA) -- James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot while protecting an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain. Director: Michael Apted Writers: Neal Purvis (story), Robert Wade (story) | 3 more credits
The World of Henry Orient (1964) ::: 6.7/10 -- Approved | 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama | 20 March 1964 (Canada) -- A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him. Director: George Roy Hill Writers:
The Yellow Handkerchief (2008) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 19 November 2009 -- The Yellow Handkerchief Poster -- A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness. Director: Udayan Prasad Writers:
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 31 July 2015 (USA) -- A ten-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, escapes home, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute. Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Writers:
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ::: TV-G | 45min | Action, Adventure, Family | TV Series (19921993) The adventures of the archaeological treasure hunter in his youth as related by an elderly Indiana Jones. Creator: George Lucas Stars:
The Young Offenders (2016) ::: 7.1/10 -- 1h 23min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 16 September 2016 (Ireland) -- Two teenage boys cycle 160km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro. Director: Peter Foott Writers: Peter Foott, Jocelyn Clarke (story editor) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Young Offenders ::: 30min | Comedy | TV Series (2018 ) Coming-of-age drama about lovable rogues Conor and Jock as they navigate their awkward teenage years, hatching plans and adventures to help distract from their tough home lives and their inability to stay out of trouble at school. Creator: Peter Foott
The Young Ones ::: 6h 50min | Comedy | TV Series (19821984) The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain. Stars: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer Available on Amazon
Third Star (2010) ::: 7.5/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 32min | Drama | 25 June 2011 (USA) -- James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a touching and comical adventure dealing with friendship, heroism and love. Director: Hattie Dalton Writer:
This Must Be the Place (2011) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 58min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 24 August 2011 (France) -- Cheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II. Director: Paolo Sorrentino Writers:
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ::: TV-Y | 11min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (1984 ) -- This series follows the adventures of Thomas the Tank Engine and all of his engine friends on the Island of Sodor. Creators: Britt Allcroft, Philip D. Fehrle, Ross Hastings | 4 more credits
Thor (2011) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 6 May 2011 (USA) -- The powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. Director: Kenneth Branagh Writers:
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 3 November 2017 (USA) -- Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnark, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela. Director: Taika Waititi Writers:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 8 November 2013 (USA) -- When the Dark Elves attempt to plunge the universe into darkness, Thor must embark on a perilous and personal journey that will reunite him with doctor Jane Foster. Director: Alan Taylor Writers:
Three Kings (1999) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 1 October 1999 (USA) -- In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help. Director: David O. Russell Writers:
Thunderball (1965) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 22 December 1965 (USA) -- James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. Director: Terence Young Writers:
Thunderbirds ::: TV-G | 50min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19651966) -- In either the year 2026 or 2065, the Tracy family run International Rescue - a top-secret organization whose ongoing mission is to rescue people trapped in extraordinarily dangerous situations. Creators:
Thundercats ::: TV-PG | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20112012) -- After his home kingdom is destroyed by the ancient devil priest Mumm-Ra, the young Thundercat Lord Lion-O leads a team of survivors as they fight evil on Third Earth. Stars:
Thundercats ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19851989) -- A team of humanoid cats fight evil in their adopted home world. Stars: Bob McFadden, Larry Kenney, Earl Hammond Available on Amazon
Time After Time (1979) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 52min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 28 September 1979 (USA) -- H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period. Director: Nicholas Meyer Writers:
Time After Time ::: TV-14 | 1h | Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2017) -- The adventures of young H.G. Wells and his time machine. Creator: Kevin Williamson
Time Bandits (1981) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 6 November 1981 (USA) -- A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal. Director: Terry Gilliam Writers: Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
Timeless ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20162018) -- An unlikely trio travel through time in order to battle unknown criminals and protect history as we know it. Creators: Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan
Timeless ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2016-2018) Episode Guide 27 episodes Timeless Poster -- An unlikely trio travel through time in order to battle unknown criminals and protect history as we know it. Creators: Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan
Time Trap (2017) ::: 6.3/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 2 November 2018 -- Time Trap Poster -- A professor enters a cave and goes missing. Some of his students come looking for him and get trapped in the cave as well. Directors: Mark Dennis, Ben Foster Writer:
Timon & Pumbaa ::: TV-Y | 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19951999) -- The further misadventures of the lovable warthog Pumbaa and his meerkat buddy Timon from The Lion King (1994). Stars: Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon, Jim Cummings
Tiny Toon Adventures ::: TV-G | 21min | Animation, Short, Adventure | TV Series (19901995) -- The wacky adventures of the new young hip generation of Warner Brothers Looney Tunes characters, most of them descendants of the original classic toon cast. Stars:
Titan A.E. (2000) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 34min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 16 June 2000 (USA) -- A young man learns that he has to find a hidden Earth ship before an enemy alien species does in order to secure the survival of humanity. Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman Writers: Hans Bauer (story), Randall McCormick (story) | 3 more credits
Titans ::: TV-MA | 45min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (2018 ) -- A team of young superheroes combat evil and other perils. Creators: Greg Berlanti, Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns
Titans ::: TV-MA | 45min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (2018- ) Season 3 Premiere 2021 Episode Guide 34 episodes Titans Poster -- A team of young superheroes combat evil and other perils. Creators:
Todd McFarlane's Spawn ::: Spawn (original tit ::: TV-MA | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19971999) -- After being betrayed and murdered by his employer, a government trained assassin named, Al Simmons, is resurrected as a Hellspawn and is forced to become the reluctant leader of Hell's army. Creator:
Todd McFarlane's Spawn ::: Spawn (original tit ::: TV-MA | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1997-1999) Episode Guide 18 episodes Todd McFarlane's Spawn Poster -- After being betrayed and murdered by his employer, a government trained assassin named, Al Simmons, is resurrected as a Hellspawn and is forced to become the reluctant leader of Hell's army. Creator:
Togo (2019) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG | 1h 53min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 20 December 2019 (USA) -- The story of Togo, the sled dog who led the 1925 serum run yet was considered by most to be too small and weak to lead such an intense race. Director: Ericson Core Writer:
To Have and Have Not (1944) ::: 7.8/10 -- Passed | 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir | 20 January 1945 -- To Have and Have Not Poster -- During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer. Director: Howard Hawks Writers:
Tom Jones (1963) ::: 6.5/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 9min | Adventure, Comedy, History | 27 June 1963 (UK) -- The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England. Director: Tony Richardson Writers: John Osborne (screenplay), Henry Fielding (based on the novel by)
Tommy Boy (1995) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy | 31 March 1995 (USA) -- After his auto-parts tycoon father dies, the overweight, underachieving son teams up with a snide accountant to try and save the family business. Director: Peter Segal Writers:
Tomorrowland (2015) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Family | 22 May 2015 (USA) -- Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory. Director: Brad Bird Writers:
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 19 December 1997 (USA) -- James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage. Director: Roger Spottiswoode Writer: Bruce Feirstein
Top Gear ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Comedy, Reality-TV | TV Series (2002 ) -- The hosts talk about everything car-related. From new cars to how they're fueled, this show has it all. Stars: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May
Topkapi (1964) ::: 7.0/10 -- Unrated | 2h | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 2 September 1964 (France) -- A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger. Director: Jules Dassin Writers: Monja Danischewsky (screenplay), Eric Ambler (based on the novel "The
Totally Spies! ::: TV-Y7 | 22min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20012014) -- Three teenage girls from Beverly Hills attempt to balance their lives as high school (later university) students with their undercover work as super-spies, battling an array of bizarre criminals. Creators:
Tower of God ::: TV-14 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 13 episodes Tower of God Poster Reach the top, and everything will be yours. At the top of the tower exists everything in this world, and all of it can be yours. Stars: Matthew David Rudd, Johnny Yong Bosch, Chris Hackney
Toy Story (1995) ::: 8.3/10 -- G | 1h 21min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 November 1995 (USA) -- A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. Director: John Lasseter Writers: John Lasseter (original story by), Pete Docter (original story by) | 6
Toy Story 2 (1999) ::: 7.9/10 -- G | 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 24 November 1999 (USA) -- When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends set out on a rescue mission to save Woody before he becomes a museum toy property with his roundup gang Jessie, Prospector, and Bullseye. Directors: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon (co-director) | 1 more credit Writers:
Toy Story 3 (2010) ::: 8.2/10 -- G | 1h 43min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 18 June 2010 (USA) -- The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home. Director: Lee Unkrich Writers:
Toy Story 4 (2019) ::: 7.8/10 -- G | 1h 40min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 21 June 2019 (USA) -- When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy. Director: Josh Cooley Writers:
Toy Story of Terror (2013) ::: 7.5/10 -- TV-G | 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 16 October 2013 -- Woody and the gang are held up at a roadside motel and members of the group start to disappear from everywhere. Woody and set about getting to the bottom of the mystery. Director: Angus MacLane Writer: Angus MacLane Stars:
Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014) ::: 7.2/10 -- TV-G | 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 2 December 2014 -- It's a post-Christmas play-date and the toys have to go up against the fearsome and aggressive new dino toys. Director: Steve Purcell Writer: Steve Purcell Stars:
Tracker (2010) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 29 April 2011 (UK) -- An Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War has just immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his ... S Director: Ian Sharp Writer:
Tracks (2013) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 52min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 6 March 2014 -- Tracks Poster -- A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog. Director: John Curran Writers:
Transamerica (2005) ::: 7.4/10 -- R | 1h 43min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 3 March 2006 (USA) -- A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York. Director: Duncan Tucker Writer:
Transformers (2007) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 24min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 3 July 2007 (USA) -- An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager. Director: Michael Bay Writers:
Transformers Prime ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20102013) -- In this new set of adventures the Autobots live on Earth and maintain their secret identity. They are joined by 3 teens as they battle the Decepticons. Stars:
Trash (2014) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 9 October 2015 (USA) -- Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong. Directors: Stephen Daldry, Christian Duurvoort (co-director) Writers:
Treasure Island (1950) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Adventure, Family | 19 July 1950 (USA) -- The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver. Director: Byron Haskin Writers: Lawrence Edward Watkin (screenplay), Robert Louis Stevenson (story) Stars:
Treasure Island (1990) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Movie 22 January -- Treasure Island Poster The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate Captain Long John Silver. Director: Fraser C. Heston (as Fraser Clarke Heston) Writers: Fraser C. Heston (as Fraser Clarke Heston), Robert Louis Stevenson (novel)
Treasure Planet (2002) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 27 November 2002 (USA) -- A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that this movie is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders. Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker Writers:
Tribes of Europa ::: TV-MA | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2021 ) -- 2074. In the wake of a mysterious global disaster, war rages between the Tribes that have emerged from the wreckage of Europe. Three siblings from the peaceful Origine tribe are separated and forced to forge their own paths. Creator:
Trick (1999) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 29min | Comedy, Music, Romance | 23 July 1999 (USA) -- The misadventures of two young gay men, trying to find a place to be alone, one night in Manhattan. Director: Jim Fall Writer: Jason Schafer
Triple Frontier (2019) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 2h 5min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 13 March 2019 (USA) -- Loyalties are tested when five friends and former special forces operatives reunite to take down a South American drug lord, unleashing a chain of unintended consequences. Director: J.C. Chandor Writers:
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia ::: Trollhunters (original tit ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20162018) -- An ordinary boy finds a magic amulet that chooses him to be a Trollhunter, a guardian that defends the world of humans and the secret world of trolls. Creator:
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia ::: Trollhunters (original tit ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2016-2018) Episode Guide 54 episodes Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia Poster -- An ordinary boy finds a magic amulet that chooses him to be a Trollhunter, a guardian that defends the world of humans and the secret world of trolls. Creator:
Trolls (2016) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 4 November 2016 (USA) -- After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the curmudgeonly Branch set off on a journey to rescue her friends. Directors: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn (co-director) Writers:
TRON (1982) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 9 July 1982 (USA) -- A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program. Director: Steven Lisberger Writers:
TRON: Uprising ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20122013) -- In the computer world of the Grid, a young program joins Tron's fight against their world's tyranny. Creators: Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, Steven Lisberger | 1 more credit
True Grit (1969) ::: 7.4/10 -- G | 2h 8min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 21 June 1969 (Japan) -- A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory. Director: Henry Hathaway Writers: Charles Portis (novel), Marguerite Roberts (screenplay)
Truth Seekers ::: TV-14 | 3h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (2020) -- A team of part-time paranormal investigators use homemade gizmos to track the supernatural, sharing their adventures online. As their haunted stake outs become more terrifying they begin to uncover an unimaginable, apocalyptic conspiracy. Creators:
Turbo (2013) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 17 July 2013 (USA) -- A freak accident might just help an everyday garden snail achieve his biggest dream: winning the Indy 500. Director: David Soren Writers: Darren Lemke (screenplay by), Robert Siegel (screenplay by) | 2 more
Turbo Kid (2015) ::: 6.7/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 33min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 28 August 2015 (USA) -- In a post-apocalyptic wasteland in 1997, a comic book fan adopts the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord. Directors: Franois Simard, Anouk Whissell | 1 more credit Writers: Anouk Whissell, Franois Simard | 1 more credit Stars:
Turtles Forever (2009) ::: 7.8/10 -- G | 1h 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Movie 21 November 2009 -- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meet their match -- Literally! The modern, gritty Ninja Turtles must team up with their classic cartoon counterparts to stop two Shredders and their plans of multi-dimensional scale. Directors: Roy Burdine, Lloyd Goldfine (co-director) Writers: Kevin Eastman (character), Peter Laird (character) | 3 more credits
Twister (1996) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 53min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 10 May 1996 (USA) -- Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes. Director: Jan de Bont Writers:
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) ::: 7.0/10 -- GP | 1h 56min | Adventure, Romance, War | 16 June 1970 (USA) -- Nun Sara (Shirley MacLaine) is on the run in Mexico and is saved from cowboys by Hogan (Clint Eastwood), who is preparing for a future mission to capture a French fort. The pair become good friends, but Sara never does tell him the true reason behind her being outlawed. Director: Don Siegel Writers:
Ultimate Spider-Man ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20122017) -- Spider-Man battles evil with a new team of teen colleagues and training from S.H.I.E.L.D. Creators: Todd McFarlane, David Michelinie, Bill Mantlo | 12 more credits
Ulzana's Raid (1972) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 43min | Adventure, Western | 27 October 1972 (USA) -- After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down. Director: Robert Aldrich Writer: Alan Sharp Stars:
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend (2020) ::: 7.0/10 -- TV-14 | 1h 20min | Comedy | TV Movie 12 May 2020 -- Kimmy sets off on her biggest adventure yet. Three states. Explosions. A dancing hamburger. And you, the viewer, get to decide how the story goes. Director: Claire Scanlon Writers:
Underdogs (2013) ::: 6.5/10 -- Metegol (original title) -- Underdogs Poster -- A young man named Amadeo sets off on an unexpected adventure with the players of his beloved Foosball game. Director: Juan Jos Campanella (as Juan J. Campanella) Writers:
Underground ::: TV-MA | 43min | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Series (20162017) -- With the country on the brink of Civil War, the struggle for freedom is more dangerous than ever. Underground follows the story of American heroes and their moving journey to freedom. Creators:
Unleashed (2005) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 13 May 2005 (USA) -- A man enslaved by the mob since childhood and raised into behaving like a human attack dog escapes his captors and attempts to start a new life. Director: Louis Leterrier Writer: Luc Besson Stars:
Up (2009) ::: 8.2/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 29 May 2009 (USA) -- 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson (co-director) Writers: Pete Docter (story by), Bob Peterson (story by) | 3 more credits
Urusei Yatsura ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1981-1986) Episode Guide 195 episodes Urusei Yatsura Poster The series begins when aliens from the planet Oniboshi invade Earth. They agree to leave only if Earth's champion can defeat the Oni champion in a game of tag within a ten-day time limit. ... S Creator: Rumiko Takahashi
Valami Amerika (2002) ::: 6.9/10 -- 1h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 31 January 2002 (Hungary) -- Tams is a young, Budapest-based director of video clips and commercials who dreams of directing his first feature film with the title 'The Guilty City'. He has already written the script ... S Director: Gbor Herendi Writers: Gbor Herendi, Gyula Mrton
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 21 July 2017 (USA) -- A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. Director: Luc Besson Writers:
Venom (2018) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 5 October 2018 (USA) -- A failed reporter is bonded to an alien entity, one of many symbiotes who have invaded Earth. But the being takes a liking to Earth and decides to protect it. Director: Ruben Fleischer Writers:
Vera Cruz (1954) ::: 7.1/10 -- Approved | 1h 34min | Adventure, Western | 25 December 1954 (USA) -- During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz. Director: Robert Aldrich Writers: Roland Kibbee (screenplay), James R. Webb (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Vikings ::: TV-MA | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (2013-2020) Episode Guide 93 episodes Vikings Poster -- Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore - and raid - the distant shores across the ocean. Creator:
Vikings ::: TV-MA | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (20132020) -- Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore - and raid - the distant shores across the ocean. Creator:
Vinland Saga ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2019) Episode Guide 24 episodes Vinland Saga Poster -- Thorfinn pursues a journey with his father's killer in order to take revenge and end his life in a duel as an honorable warrior and pay his father a homage. Stars:
Viva Maria! (1965) ::: 6.4/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 59min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 18 December 1965 -- Viva Maria! Poster Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus,... S Director: Louis Malle Writers: Louis Malle (scenario and dialogue), Jean-Claude Carrire (scenario and dialogue) (as Jean-Claude Carriere)
Vixen ::: TV-PG | 5min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20152016) Vixen is based on the DC Character Mari McCabe / Vixen, a costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to mimic the abilities of any animal that has ever lived on Earth. Creator: Marc Guggenheim Stars:
Voltron: Legendary Defender ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20162018) -- Five teenagers become the last line of defense for the galaxy in an intergalactic battle against the evil alien force led by King Zarkon. Stars: Jeremy Shada, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Tyler Labine
Von Ryan's Express (1965) ::: 7.1/10 -- Approved | 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, War | 23 June 1965 (USA) -- An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII. Director: Mark Robson Writers: David Westheimer (novel), Wendell Mayes (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Wagon Master (1950) ::: 7.1/10 -- Approved | 1h 26min | Adventure, Western | 22 April 1950 (USA) -- Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey. Director: John Ford Writers: Frank S. Nugent (as Frank Nugent), Patrick Ford Stars:
Walkabout (1971) ::: 7.6/10 -- GP | 1h 40min | Adventure, Drama | 1 July 1971 (USA) -- Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe. Director: Nicolas Roeg Writers:
WALLE (2008) ::: 8.4/10 -- G | 1h 38min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 27 June 2008 (USA) -- In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. Director: Andrew Stanton Writers:
Wander Over Yonder ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20132016) Wander is is eager to help anyone in the galaxy, together with his friend Sylvia. Wander's friendliness often angers Lord Hater, who is bent on galactic domination, and his army of Watchdogs. Creator: Craig McCracken Stars:
Warcraft (2016) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 10 June 2016 (USA) -- As an Orc horde invades the planet Azeroth using a magic portal, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war. Director: Duncan Jones Writers:
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 20min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 14 July 2017 (USA) -- After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. Director: Matt Reeves Writers: Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves | 2 more credits
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 20min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 14 July 2017 (USA) -- After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. Director: Matt Reeves Writers: Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves | 2 more credits
WarGames (1983) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 3 June 1983 (USA) -- A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. Director: John Badham Writers: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
War Horse (2011) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 26min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 25 December 2011 (USA) -- Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
War of the Buttons (1994) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 34min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 29 September 1995 (USA) -- The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with ... S Director: John Roberts Writers: Louis Pergaud (novel), Colin Welland (adapted for the screen by) | 1 more credit
War of the Worlds (2005) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 29 June 2005 (USA) -- An updated version of H.G Wells' seminal sci-fi classic about an alien invasion threatening the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers:
Watership Down (1978) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 1h 31min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 1 November 1978 (USA) -- Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren. Directors: Martin Rosen, John Hubley (uncredited) Writers: Richard Adams (novel), Martin Rosen Stars:
We Bare Bears ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20142019) -- Three bear brothers do whatever they can to be a part of human society by doing what everyone around them does. Creator: Daniel Chong
Weekend at Bernie's (1989) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 5 July 1989 (USA) -- Two losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, leading the hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off. Director: Ted Kotcheff Writer: Robert Klane
Welcome (2009) ::: 7.5/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 50min | Drama | 11 March 2009 (France) -- Bilal sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe and wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Director: Philippe Lioret Writers: Philippe Lioret (original scenario), Emmanuel Courcol (original
Were the World Mine (2008) ::: 6.9/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 14 May 2009 -- Were the World Mine Poster -- A bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower derived from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream' to turn many in his community gay, including a comely rugby player for himself. Director: Tom Gustafson
What Dreams May Come (1998) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 53min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 2 October 1998 (USA) -- Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her. Director: Vincent Ward Writers:
What Happened to Monday (2017) ::: 6.9/10 -- TV-MA | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 18 August 2017 (USA) -- In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own. Director: Tommy Wirkola Writers:
What's New, Scooby-Doo? ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20022006) -- Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang are launched into the 21st century, with new mysteries to solve. Stars: Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Casey Kasem
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama | 16 August 2019 (USA) -- A loving mom becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Her leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery. Director: Richard Linklater Writers:
Where Eagles Dare (1968) ::: 7.7/10 -- M | 2h 38min | Action, Adventure, War | 12 March 1969 (USA) -- Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on. Director: Brian G. Hutton Writers:
Where the Red Fern Grows (1974) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 1h 37min | Drama, Family | 21 June 1974 (USA) -- Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs. Director: Norman Tokar Writers:
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 16 October 2009 (USA) -- Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king. Director: Spike Jonze Writers:
Whiskey Cavalier ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2019) -- An FBI agent and his new partner, a CIA operative, embark on missions to save the world, but have to put up with each other first. Creator: David Hemingson
White Fang (1991) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Adventure, Drama | 18 January 1991 (USA) -- Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him. Director: Randal Kleiser Writers: Jack London (novel), Jeanne Rosenberg (screenplay) | 2 more credits Stars:
White Fang (2018) ::: 7.0/10 -- Croc-Blanc (original title) -- White Fang Poster -- Based on the timeless novel by Jack London. A loyal wolfdog's curiosity leads him on the adventure of a lifetime while serving a series of three distinctly different masters. Director: Alexandre Espigares Writers:
White Hunter Black Heart (1990) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 52min | Adventure, Drama | 14 September 1990 (USA) -- A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa. Director: Clint Eastwood Writers: Peter Viertel (novel), Peter Viertel (screenplay) | 2 more credits Stars:
White Squall (1996) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 9min | Adventure, Drama | 2 February 1996 (USA) -- Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage. Director: Ridley Scott Writers: Charles Gieg Jr. (book), Felix Sutton (book) | 1 more credit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG | 1h 44min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 22 June 1988 (USA) -- A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writers: Gary K. Wolf (novel), Jeffrey Price (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Wild (2014) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 55min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 19 December 2014 (USA) -- A chronicle of one woman's one thousand one hundred mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy. Director: Jean-Marc Valle Writers: Nick Hornby (screenplay by), Cheryl Strayed (memoir "Wild: From Lost to
Wild America (1997) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 46min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 2 July 1997 (USA) -- Three brothers who are obsessed with animals are given permission from their parents to travel around America with a camera documenting wildlife. Director: William Dear Writer:
Wildboyz ::: TV-MA | 30min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20032006) The "Wildboyz", Steve-O and Chris Pontius, interact with different animals and travel around the globe. Creators: Sean Cliver, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Chris Pontius | 2 more credits Stars:
Wildlike (2014) ::: 6.6/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 44min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 25 September 2015 -- Wildlike Poster -- After conditions in her new home become unbearable, a teenage girl runs away and befriends an older man preparing for a hike through the Alaskan wilderness. Director: Frank Hall Green Writer:
Will (2011) ::: 6.9/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 4 November 2011 (UK) -- An orphan journeys across Europe to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul. Director: Ellen Perry Writers: Zack Anderson (screenplay), Ellen Perry
Willow (1988) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 May 1988 (USA) -- A young farmer is chosen to undertake a perilous journey in order to protect a special baby from an evil queen. Director: Ron Howard Writers: George Lucas (story by), Bob Dolman (screenplay by)
Winnie the Pooh (2011) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 3min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 15 July 2011 (USA) -- While searching for honey, Pooh and his friends embark on an adventure to find Eeyore's missing tail and rescue Christopher Robin from an unknown monster called The Backson. Directors: Stephen J. Anderson (as Stephen Anderson), Don Hall Writers:
Winter's Bone (2010) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 40min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | 16 July 2010 (USA) -- An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. Director: Debra Granik Writers:
Winx Club ::: TV-Y7 | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2004 ) -- At Alfea College, fairy warriors from all over the universe study to improve their supernatural powers. Bloom from planet Earth joins them upon discovery of her magical ability. Creator:
Wishbone ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19951998) -- An intelligent and witty dog imagines himself in the role of characters from classic books and gets involved in similar real-life adventures. Creator: Rick Duffield
W.I.T.C.H. ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20042006) Five teenage girls learn that they have been chosen to guard the walls between parallel universes. For this purpose, they have been given the powers of the elements. Stars: Kelly Stables, Candi Milo, Liza Del Mundo
W.I.T.C.H. ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2004 ) Five teenage girls learn that they have been chosen to guard the walls between parallel universes. For this purpose, they have been given the powers of the elements. Stars: Kelly Stables, Candi Milo, Liza Del Mundo
Wizards (1977) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 20min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 9 February 1977 (USA) -- On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest. Director: Ralph Bakshi Writer: Ralph Bakshi
Wizards of Waverly Place ::: TV-G | 22min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (20072012) -- The Russo family may be an ordinary family with an average restaurant, but behind close doors, all three children must compete to be the next family wizard. Creator:
Wolverine and the X-Men ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20082009) -- After an explosion at the school, the X-Men went their separate ways. But they must unite once again under the leadership of Wolverine to prevent an inevitable war while also dealing with present problems. Stars:
Wonder Woman (2017) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 21min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 2 June 2017 (USA) -- When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny. Director: Patty Jenkins Writers:
Wonder Woman ::: TV-G | 1h | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19751979) -- The adventures of the greatest of the female superheroes. Creators: William Moulton Marston, Stanley Ralph Ross
World War Z (2013) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Horror | 21 June 2013 (USA) -- Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself. Director: Marc Forster Writers:
Would I Lie to You? (1997) ::: 6.4/10 -- La vrit si je mens! (original title) -- Would I Lie to You? Poster -- The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community. Director: Thomas Gilou Writers:
Wrecked ::: TV-MA | 30min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20162018) -- When a plane crashes on a deserted island on the way to Thailand, the remaining survivors of the crash struggle to get along and heads clash as they have differing views on how to stay alive and how they will get off the island. Creators:
Wreck-It Ralph (2012) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG | 1h 41min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 2 November 2012 (USA) -- A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives. Director: Rich Moore Writers: Rich Moore (story by), Phil Johnston (story by) | 3 more credits
Wyatt Earp (1994) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 3h 11min | Adventure, Biography, Crime | 24 June 1994 (USA) -- From Wichita to Dodge City to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, a man becomes a myth in this thrilling journey of romance, adventure and desperate, heroic action. Director: Lawrence Kasdan Writers:
Xavier: Renegade Angel ::: TV-MA | 12min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20072009) -- Xavier is a faun-like wanderer/seeker who is traveling across the land to find out the truth about his mysterious origin. Facing rednecks, inflicting righteousness and preaching about the 'strong, silent types' and morality, this hero has his work cut out for him. Creators:
Xena: Warrior Princess ::: TV-PG | 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19952001) -- Xena, a mighty Warrior Princess with a dark past, sets out to redeem herself. She is joined by small town bard, Gabrielle. Together they journey the ancient world and fight for the greater good against ruthless Warlords and Gods. Creators:
Xiaolin Showdown ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20032006) -- A young Xiaolin monk named Omi with a giant yellow head leads a trio of other students to collect powerful items known as Shen Gong Wu while battling the evil Jack Spicer who is also after the artifacts Creator:
X-Men (2000) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 14 July 2000 (USA) -- In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men. Director: Bryan Singer Writers:
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 24min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 27 May 2016 (USA) -- In the 1980s the X-Men must defeat an ancient all-powerful mutant, En Sabah Nur, who intends to thrive through bringing destruction to the world. Director: Bryan Singer Writers:
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 23 May 2014 (USA) -- The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. Director: Bryan Singer Writers:
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 26 May 2006 (USA) -- The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Gray becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men. Director: Brett Ratner Writers:
Yellow Submarine (1968) ::: 7.4/10 -- G | 1h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 13 November 1968 (USA) -- The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies. Director: George Dunning Writers: Lee Minoff (original story), John Lennon (based upon a song by) | 5
Young Justice ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2010 ) Season 4 Premiere 2021 -- Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League. Creators:
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Yu-Gi-Oh! ::: TV-Y | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20002006) -- Yugi Moto solves an Ancient Egyptian Puzzle and brings forth a dark and powerful alter ego. Whenever he and his friends are threatened by evil in Duel Monster Card Game, this alter ego breaks out to save them. Creator:
Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files ::: Yu yu hakusho (original tit ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (1992-1995) Episode Guide 112 episodes Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files Poster -- One day, 14-year-old Yusuke Urameshi suddenly finds himself dead, having died pushing a child out of the way of oncoming traffic. Since he has such a bad personality, even the Spirit World ... S
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999) ::: 6.4/10 -- TV-G | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | TV Movie 23 January 1999 -- An inquisitive teenager pries into suspected dodgy dealings on her space station home - and ends up being sent down to Earth. Director: Kenneth Johnson Writers: Marilyn Sadler (book), Roger Bollen (book) | 1 more credit Stars:
Zombieland (2009) ::: 7.6/10 -- R | 1h 28min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 2 October 2009 (USA) -- A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. Director: Ruben Fleischer Writers:
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 18 October 2019 (USA) -- Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family. Director: Ruben Fleischer Writers:
Zootopia (2016) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 4 March 2016 (USA) -- In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy. Directors: Byron Howard, Rich Moore | 1 more credit Writers: Byron Howard (story by), Rich Moore (story by) | 7 more credits
Zorro (1975) ::: 6.5/10 -- G | 2h | Action, Adventure, Comedy | June 1976 (USA) -- In the New World, a new Spanish governor finds the province of Nueva Aragn under the iron fist of the corrupt Colonel Huerta and vows to bring justice under the guise of a masked avenger. Director: Duccio Tessari Writers: Giorgio Arlorio (story), Giorgio Arlorio (screenplay) Stars:
Zorro ::: TV-G | 30min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19571959) -- 1 -- Don Diego de la Vega opposes the corrupt tyrants of Spanish California as the masked swordsman, Zorro. Stars: Guy Williams, Gene Sheldon, Henry Calvin
Zulu Dawn (1979) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 38min | Adventure, Drama, History | 15 May 1979 (USA) -- A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation. Director: Douglas Hickox Writers: Cy Endfield (original story and scenario), Cy Endfield (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
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