Corruptions

According to the "Ahl al-Haqq" the universe consists of only one substance, and all that we name generations and corruptions, death and life, is a mere combination or dissolution of modes.

"He had been 30 years, or whatever it was, plowing a lonely furrow and finding that, actually, what he was being confronted with were the small compromises — looking the other way, the small corruptions — and that he didn't get the test he wanted to get, so he had become quite disillusioned and quite aggressive," explains Gleeson.

The simplicity of its republican origin had so far affected the external character and expression of the imperial office, that in the midst of luxury the most unbounded, and spite of all other corruptions, a majestic plainness of manners, deportment, and dress, had still continued from generation to generation, characteristic of the Roman imperator in his intercourse with his subjects.