At One with the Invisible: Studies in MysticismElias Hershey Sneath Macmillan, 1921 - 293 páginas |
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... regard to the nature of the experiences that underlie such writings there can hardly be much more doubt or diffi- culty than in the case of the frenzied ecstasies of the earlier period . We have no need to assume any but physiological ...
... regard to the nature of the experiences that underlie such writings there can hardly be much more doubt or diffi- culty than in the case of the frenzied ecstasies of the earlier period . We have no need to assume any but physiological ...
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... regard to these great men . First , what do we find their real message to be ? what truth from God do they de- clare ? what work of God do they accomplish ? The answer to such questions will be fundamental in our decision as to the ...
... regard to these great men . First , what do we find their real message to be ? what truth from God do they de- clare ? what work of God do they accomplish ? The answer to such questions will be fundamental in our decision as to the ...
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... regard to his marriage ( 1 : 2 , 3 : 1 ) , is the prophet's later interpretation of his painful and yet revealing experiences as being from the first the purpose of God . This is far more likely than that the prophet in an ecstatic ...
... regard to his marriage ( 1 : 2 , 3 : 1 ) , is the prophet's later interpretation of his painful and yet revealing experiences as being from the first the purpose of God . This is far more likely than that the prophet in an ecstatic ...
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... regard to his religious and prophetic con- sciousness . In chapter 15 , verses 15-21 , the prophet re- fers to his first finding of the words of Yahweh , to his joy in them , and then the loneliness and perpetual pain which their ...
... regard to his religious and prophetic con- sciousness . In chapter 15 , verses 15-21 , the prophet re- fers to his first finding of the words of Yahweh , to his joy in them , and then the loneliness and perpetual pain which their ...
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... regard to the experi- ences characteristic of these greater prophets , who are also best known and have so great and creative an influence upon the spiritual history of the world ? Among the four whom we have principally considered only ...
... regard to the experi- ences characteristic of these greater prophets , who are also best known and have so great and creative an influence upon the spiritual history of the world ? Among the four whom we have principally considered only ...
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Página 273 - Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime ; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on.
Página 274 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, ' And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Página 278 - I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality.
Página 279 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Página 281 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity ; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,@ Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave...
Página 278 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Página 257 - I dipped my oars into the silent lake, And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat Went heaving through the water like a swan ; When, from behind that craggy steep till then The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge, As if with voluntary power instinct, Upreared its head.
Página 261 - From Nature and her overflowing soul, I had received so much, that all my thoughts Were steeped in feeling ; I was only then Contented, when with bliss ineffable I felt the sentiment of Being...
Página 269 - Magnificent The morning rose, in memorable pomp, Glorious as e'er I had beheld — in front, The sea lay laughing at a distance; near, The solid mountains shone, bright as the clouds, Grain-tinctured, drenched in empyrean light; And in the meadows and the lower grounds Was all the sweetness of a common dawn — Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds, And labourers going forth to till the fields.
Página 141 - tomorrow, and to-morrow?" Why not now? why not is there this hour an end to my uncleanness? So was I speaking and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo! I heard from a neighbouring house a voice, as of boy or girl, I know not, chanting, and oft repeating, "Take up and read; Take up and read.