Reincarnation: A Study of Forgotten TruthJohn W. Lovell Company, 1888 - 350 páginas |
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... sleeps in the stone , breathes in the plant , moves in the animal , and wakes up to con- sciousness in man . " It is this thought which makes Novalis so reverent to a human being as a Microdeus , and elevates the dig- nity of the soul ...
... sleeps in the stone , breathes in the plant , moves in the animal , and wakes up to con- sciousness in man . " It is this thought which makes Novalis so reverent to a human being as a Microdeus , and elevates the dig- nity of the soul ...
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... sleep , and all the obstacles of matter . This incessant self - assurance suggests the idea of the soul being independent of the changing body , its tem- porary prison . Then follows the conception that , as the soul has once appeared ...
... sleep , and all the obstacles of matter . This incessant self - assurance suggests the idea of the soul being independent of the changing body , its tem- porary prison . Then follows the conception that , as the soul has once appeared ...
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... Sleep , somnambulism , trance , and similar conditions open up a world of super - sensuous reality to illustrate how erroneous are our common notions of memory . Experimental evidence demonstrates that we actually forget nothing ...
... Sleep , somnambulism , trance , and similar conditions open up a world of super - sensuous reality to illustrate how erroneous are our common notions of memory . Experimental evidence demonstrates that we actually forget nothing ...
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... sleep which lasted many hours , and on awakening she had forgotten every bit of her former knowledge , and her memory had become a complete tabula rasa . She again learned to spell , read , write , and reckon , and made rapid progress ...
... sleep which lasted many hours , and on awakening she had forgotten every bit of her former knowledge , and her memory had become a complete tabula rasa . She again learned to spell , read , write , and reckon , and made rapid progress ...
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... sleep is for the individual , death is for the will [ character ] . It would not endure to continue the same actions and sufferings throughout an eternity , without true gain , if memory and individuality re- mained to it . It flings ...
... sleep is for the individual , death is for the will [ character ] . It would not endure to continue the same actions and sufferings throughout an eternity , without true gain , if memory and individuality re- mained to it . It flings ...
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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.