Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around
Quotes about vassal (10 Quotes)
... Ibn Arabi distinguishes between Allah as God in general and Rabb as the particular Lord, personalized in an individualized and undivided relation with his vassal of love. This individualized relationship on both sides is the foundation of the mystic and chivalric ethic of the fedel d'amore in the service of the personal Lord whose divinity depends on the adoration of his faithful vassal.... It is the passion that the fedele d'amore feels for his Lord which reveals the Lord to Himself. And this always individually, in an 'alone to alone,' which is something very different from universal logic or from a collective participation, because only the knowledge which the fedele has of his Lord is the knowledge which this personal Lord has of him.
The total being is the union of this Lord and of His vassal. The two dimensions refer indeed to the same being, but to the totality of that being one is added to (or multiplied by) the other, they cannot negate one another, one cannot be confounded with, or substituted for the other.
The divine Names are shared by the Lord and His vassal. The Lord is the vassal's higher self it is the Lord who acts in him and through him 'When you see the creature, you see the First and the Last, the Manifested and the Hidden.'
Nor are mine cars with thy tongue's tune delighted,
Nor tender feeling to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone;
But my five wits, nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,
Who leaves unswayed the likeness of a man,
Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be.
In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.
'Tis the life of waters:-Ocean
And all its vassal streams, pools numberless,
May rage, and foam, and fret, but never can
Subside, if not to dark-blue nativeness.
That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure!
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.