| 1890 - 944 pages
...feeling literally, it bids the individual aim at nothing less than an interpenetration of essence. And, as this goal is unattainable while reason and...consciousness of self is the condition under which we posse* a world to know and to enjoy ; but it likewise isolates us from all the world beside. Reason... | |
| Dawsonne Melancthon Strong - 1899 - 152 pages
...created in the tissue of the world." Under " Mysticism," in the Encyclopedia Britannica, we read : " Our consciousness of self is the condition under which...world beside. Reason is the revealer of nature and God ; but, by its acts, reason seems the thing reasoned about. Hence mysticism demands a faculty above... | |
| William Ralph Inge - 1899 - 402 pages
...feeling literally, it bids the individual aim at nothing less than an interpenetration of essence. And as this goal is unattainable while reason and...mystic begins to consider these as impediments to be thrown aside. . . . Hence Mysticism demands a faculty above reason, by which the subject shall be placed... | |
| 1907 - 944 pages
...feeling literally, it bids the individual aim at nothing ¡ess than an interpénétration of essence. And, as this goal is unattainable while reason and...mystic begins to consider these as impediments to be east aside. Our consciousness of self is the condition under which we possess a world to know and to... | |
| 1911 - 384 pages
...most justly remarks, "as this goal (interpenetration of the essence) is unattainable while reason and consciousness of self remain, the mystic begins to consider these as impediments to be cast aside." Hence underlying all real mysticism is a metaphysical pantheism as the ultimate reality, and a phenomenal... | |
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