The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 101
... ideas of renunciation and otherworldly fulfillment of a supernal kind were already visible in the fifth century mystery cults : baptism , initiation , conversion , all were practiced ; and the believer was " saved " by these practices ...
... ideas of renunciation and otherworldly fulfillment of a supernal kind were already visible in the fifth century mystery cults : baptism , initiation , conversion , all were practiced ; and the believer was " saved " by these practices ...
Page 207
... ideas , to speak with candor , he is not one of the greatest luminaries . But his intuitions are better integrated than his reasons ; and the transformation effected in the life and work of Schweitzer is more profound and more widely ...
... ideas , to speak with candor , he is not one of the greatest luminaries . But his intuitions are better integrated than his reasons ; and the transformation effected in the life and work of Schweitzer is more profound and more widely ...
Page 216
... ideas , de - polarized and freed from the pat- tern that can no longer use them , become re - united around a new or- ganizing idea : the farther the disintegration has gone , the wider is the area on which the new idea can draw for ...
... ideas , de - polarized and freed from the pat- tern that can no longer use them , become re - united around a new or- ganizing idea : the farther the disintegration has gone , the wider is the area on which the new idea can draw for ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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