Browning's Paracelsus and Other EssaysRobert Clarke Company, 1897 - 89 pages |
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action age to age alike ancient ancient philosophy aspiring soul Browning's called celsus ciple coming age concealed consciousness Cosmogenesis darkness dawn death despond dethroned discern discords dissevered Divine ecstatic vision Emerson emotions ence Eternal Pilgrim evolves existence experience faculties faith Festus forms of thought frailties Friends of God Germanica grasp guiding light higher evolution human ical ignorance illumined immortality imprisoned splendor inspiring intel intuition involved John Reuchlin journey knowledge laws of harmony learned living Luther man's matter memory mind mysticism Niagara noble organ Over-Soul Paracelsus says perience philosophy plane Plato poem portray possessed potency progress prophetic propositions Protestant Reformation real genius reason result revealer Robert Browning secret seeks self-consciousness selfishness sense Spheres Sphinx spirit star step sublime superstition symphony talent taught theme Theologia Germanica things tion tone Trithemius true truth universal Ideals versal vibrations wander wisdom writings zest
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Page 42 - For these things tend still upward, progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet. Nor shall I deem his object served, his end Attained, his genuine strength put fairly forth, While only here and there a star dispels The darkness, here and there a towering mind O'erlooks...
Page 25 - Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness...
Page viii - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, — but uses these as hands and feet ; is not a faculty, but a...
Page 60 - If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time ; I press God's lamp Close to my breast ; its splendor, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom : I shall emerge one day.
Page 26 - Binds it, and makes all error : and to KNOW Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape. Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Page 58 - The law of life, man is not Man as yet. Nor shall I deem his object served, his end Attained, his genuine strength put fairly forth, While only here and there a star dispels The darkness, here and there a towering mind O'erlooks its prostrate fellows: when the host Is out at once to the despair of night, When all mankind alike is perfected, Equal in full-blown powers — then, not till then, I say, begins man's general infancy.
Page ix - It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Page 70 - Like music heard once by an ear That cannot forget or reclaim it, A something so shy, it would shame it To make it a show, A something too vague, could I name it, For others to know, As if I had lived it or dreamed it, As if I had acted or schemed it, Long ago!
Page 37 - Die not, Aprile ! We must never part. Are we not halves of one dissevered world, Whom this strange chance unites once more? Part? never ! Till thou the lover, know ; and I, the knower, Love — until both are saved.
Page 46 - The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul — a spark of the former — through the Cycle of Incarnation (or "Necessity") in accordance with Cyclic and Karmic law, during the whole term.