Reincarnation: A Study of Forgotten TruthJohn W. Lovell Company, 1888 - 350 páginas |
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... existence will some- how bear fruit in coming ones ; and acquired energies will assert themselves whenever they can by the lex parsimoniæ upon which the principles of physics are based . Vice versa , the unconscious habits , the un ...
... existence will some- how bear fruit in coming ones ; and acquired energies will assert themselves whenever they can by the lex parsimoniæ upon which the principles of physics are based . Vice versa , the unconscious habits , the un ...
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... existence in which the strongest wins and the weakest fails , and the devil takes the hindermost . But even if the future life will straighten out this by a just judg- ment , fairness demands that all shall have an even chance here ...
... existence in which the strongest wins and the weakest fails , and the devil takes the hindermost . But even if the future life will straighten out this by a just judg- ment , fairness demands that all shall have an even chance here ...
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... existence after death has no better proof than a pre - natal existence . It is an old declaration that what begins in time must end in time . We have no right to say that the soul is eternal on one side of its earthly period without ...
... existence after death has no better proof than a pre - natal existence . It is an old declaration that what begins in time must end in time . We have no right to say that the soul is eternal on one side of its earthly period without ...
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... existence , it was impossible that they could have had a temporal beginning . The present life must be only one stage of a vast number , stretching backward and forward . Our instinctive belief in immortality implies a sub- conscious ...
... existence , it was impossible that they could have had a temporal beginning . The present life must be only one stage of a vast number , stretching backward and forward . Our instinctive belief in immortality implies a sub- conscious ...
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... existence to an- other . Not an atom but is dancing in lively march from its present condition to a different form , running a ceaseless cycle through mineral , vegetable , and ani- mal existence , though never losing its individuality ...
... existence to an- other . Not an atom but is dancing in lively march from its present condition to a different form , running a ceaseless cycle through mineral , vegetable , and ani- mal existence , though never losing its individuality ...
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ages ancient animal appears atoms beast beautiful behold believe birth body born Brahman Buddhism character Christian clouds consciousness creatures dark death deep descend divine doctrine dreams earth earthly ence eternal evil existence experience faith feeling former Francis Bowen future Giordano Bruno Gnostics Greek hath heart heaven heavenly Hierocles human soul idea immortality incarnation India individual infinite JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Jesus Julius Müller light lives London Manichæans mankind memory ment metempsychosis mind mortal mysteries mystic nations nature nether earth never Nirvana o'er once opinion oriental origin Ovid palingenesis Paris pass past person philosophy physical Plato Plotinus poem poets preëxistence present principle Priscillian punishment Pythagoras Pythagorean race recollection reincarnation religion round says seems sense sleep soul's spirit strange sublime T. B. ALDRICH teaching thee theory things thou thought tion Translated transmigration true truth universe wings
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Página 188 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air...
Página 216 - When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Página 216 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Página 218 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Página 146 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 152 - To lapse far back in some confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair, Ever the wonder waxeth more and more, So that we say, ' All this hath been before, All this hath been, I know not when or where.
Página 328 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Página 314 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Página 189 - Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first Love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a glimpse of his bright face ; When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity...
Página 178 - Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.