Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, Volume 10

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American Society for Psychical Research, 1916
List of members in v. 1, 6, 12.
 

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Page 267 - Spirit is given to every man to profit withal ; for to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit ; to another faith by the same Spirit, to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit, to 'another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally...
Page 263 - So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth : and himself believed, and his whole house.
Page 269 - Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not : but prophesying serveth not for them ! that believe not, but for them which believe.
Page 531 - ... once as it were out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being — and this not a confused state but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, utterly beyond words — where death was an almost laughable impossibility — the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction but the only true life.
Page 268 - And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
Page 268 - Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
Page 531 - This has generally come upon me through repeating my own name two or three times to myself silently, till all at once, as it were out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being, and this not a confused state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the weirdest of the weirdest, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility, the loss of personality (if so it were)...
Page 531 - ... utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility, the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction but the only true life. ' 1 ' This might,' he said, 'be the state which St. Paul describes, "Whether in the body I cannot tell, or whether out of the body I cannot tell." ' He continued : ' I am ashamed of my feeble description. Have I not said the state is utterly beyond words...
Page 268 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken ? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 196 - How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! "We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.

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