Psychic Philosophy as the Foundation of a Religion of Natural LawRedway, 1896 - 342 pages |
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action ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Altruism analogy animal animal magnetism Anna Kingsford anthropomorphic atom beauty believe body called cause chemical affinity Christ Christian Church clairvoyant communications creed death desire Divine dogma earth effect electricity energy eternal ether ethereal body ethical evidence evil experience express fact faculty force GEORGE REDWAY give given heat heaven Herbert Spencer higher human idea images intellectual intelligence falls intelligent Jesus Kabbalah knowledge labour less light living magnetism manifest material matter means medium mediumship mental mind miracle modern moral motion nature necessarily object observed orders of existence passed perceive perception perfect persons pheno phenomena physical plane present principle produced progress properties psychic realise reason religion result revealed séance seen selfish sense soul spirit substance symbolism teaching theory things thought tion true truth universe unseen Upanishad vibrations vortex ring wealth whole woman women words
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Page 339 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.
Page 22 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 64 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 239 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 257 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 192 - For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.
Page 96 - How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all.
Page 31 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen ; and ye receive not our witness.
Page 267 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 205 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.