Reincarnation: A Study of Forgotten TruthJohn W. Lovell Company, 1888 - 350 páginas |
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... , And we wrap round us , for defence , Our purple manners , moods of sense , As angels , from the face of God , Stand hidden in their wings . MRS . BROWNING . INTRODUCTION . ONCE the whole civilized world embraced reincar nation.
... , And we wrap round us , for defence , Our purple manners , moods of sense , As angels , from the face of God , Stand hidden in their wings . MRS . BROWNING . INTRODUCTION . ONCE the whole civilized world embraced reincar nation.
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A Study of Forgotten Truth Edward Dwight Walker. INTRODUCTION . ONCE the whole civilized world embraced reincar nation , and found therein a complete answer to that riddle of man's descent and destiny which the inex- orable sphinx Life ...
A Study of Forgotten Truth Edward Dwight Walker. INTRODUCTION . ONCE the whole civilized world embraced reincar nation , and found therein a complete answer to that riddle of man's descent and destiny which the inex- orable sphinx Life ...
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... once the descent and the destiny of the soul by so natural and forcible a method that it has not only dominated the ingenuous minds of all the primitive races , but has become the most widely spread and most permanently influential of ...
... once the descent and the destiny of the soul by so natural and forcible a method that it has not only dominated the ingenuous minds of all the primitive races , but has become the most widely spread and most permanently influential of ...
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... once received by his contemporaries . But the deeper studies of Copernicus and Galileo had to wait a century before they were accepted , although they in- troduced an astronomy of immeasurably nobler scale . Is it not a relic of the old ...
... once received by his contemporaries . But the deeper studies of Copernicus and Galileo had to wait a century before they were accepted , although they in- troduced an astronomy of immeasurably nobler scale . Is it not a relic of the old ...
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... once all the caterpillars and butterflies were alike , and that by repeated incarnations they have reached the bewildering differences . When they started off from the procession of life on their own road from one or a few similar ...
... once all the caterpillars and butterflies were alike , and that by repeated incarnations they have reached the bewildering differences . When they started off from the procession of life on their own road from one or a few similar ...
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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.