The chief representative of Christ-mysticism among the early Protestants, Kaspar Schwenckfeld, held that Christ was from all eternity the God-man, and as such he possessed a body of spiritual flesh in which he lived on Earth and which he now possesses in heaven.
"History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed".
Having enlisted at 17 during World War II, he was deemed too young to be sent right away into Pacific combat and was sent first, instead, to a military-sponsored college program at Duke University, "which then, as now, possessed one of the great college libraries of America".
The opening sentence of the book reads: "History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed" (1962/1970, 1).
And importantly there are those who see in science a prospect for intellectual and social reform and who see in their own study of science some hope for freeing us all from the merely habitual ways of thinking "by which we are now possessed" (Kuhn 1962, 1).
His 1998 collection, "Ten Commandments," includes a meditation on Auden's O.E.D., which he now possesses, and his new book, "Hazmat," ends with an elegy for James Merrill.
Have the manufacturers in the Potteries, in Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, and elsewhere, become so heedless of their own interests, and those of the millions of hard-working people around them, that they disregard the loss of the fourth largest foreign market which they now possess?
Ancillary Justice is narrated by what used to be the military space ship Justice of Toren, which now animates one possessed soldier.
The vast amount of money now possessed by the 1percentt with which to influence, if not "buy" politicians scares the hell out of us, as it should.
Jennifer, now possessed by a demon and subsequently altered into a succubus, sets out on a bloody rampage in which she devours boys, and it is up to Needy to stop her.
