At One with the Invisible: Studies in MysticismElias Hershey Sneath Macmillan, 1921 - 293 páginas |
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... writing , but were passive human instruments through whom God spoke and wrote . This way of regarding them may , no doubt , at first seem to exalt and honor them , forbidding their classifi- cation with other men . The idea that we can ...
... writing , but were passive human instruments through whom God spoke and wrote . This way of regarding them may , no doubt , at first seem to exalt and honor them , forbidding their classifi- cation with other men . The idea that we can ...
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... writing . In 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 ...
... writing . In 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 ...
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... writing prophets , although they speak first and only write afterwards , or are written about by their disciples . We cannot accept the books that now bear their names as directly the work of their pens . The analysis of these books and ...
... writing prophets , although they speak first and only write afterwards , or are written about by their disciples . We cannot accept the books that now bear their names as directly the work of their pens . The analysis of these books and ...
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... writing indicates that they put emphasis upon the con- tents of their preaching and not chiefly on the mysterious- ness of its form . These are , above all things , prophets who have something to say , and something to accomplish by ...
... writing indicates that they put emphasis upon the con- tents of their preaching and not chiefly on the mysterious- ness of its form . These are , above all things , prophets who have something to say , and something to accomplish by ...
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... ( writing largely in verse ) and as poets they become emotional mystics . The vision of the eternal is one that causes not only immortality , that is , con- joins them with the immutable immortal , but is the well- spring of ineffable joy ...
... ( writing largely in verse ) and as poets they become emotional mystics . The vision of the eternal is one that causes not only immortality , that is , con- joins them with the immutable immortal , but is the well- spring of ineffable joy ...
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Página 279 - 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 280 - 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 284 - 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 285 - 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 287 - 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 284 - 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 263 - 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 267 - 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 139 - 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.
Página 269 - From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer, tended cattle on the hills...