The Temple ...: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Fuller Unfoldment of the Divinity of Humanity, Volume 1

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Paul Tyner
Temple Publishing Company, 1897
 

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Page 246 - This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then? And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
Page 90 - On examining the surface of the skin with a low magnifying power, especially on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, the...
Page 125 - ... ideas abandoned and higher models coming to the front. And when you get to the top you find the last great act was but to present to the world a physiologically perfect type. It is a fact which no human Mother can regard without awe, which no man can realize without a new reverence for woman and a new belief in the higher meaning of Nature, that the goal of the whole plant and animal kingdoms seems to have been the creation of a family, which the very naturalist has had to call Mammalia.
Page 209 - Nothing makes the soul so pure, so religious, as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives for it strives for something that is godlike. True painting is only an image of God's perfection, — a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
Page 203 - We are always in these days endeavouring to separate the two; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas die workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen, in the best sense.
Page 258 - We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. The tissue of the Life to be We weave with colors all our own, And in the field of Destiny We reap as we have sown.
Page 245 - With every day the identity between the animal and physical man, between the plant and man, and even between the reptile and its nest, the rock and man — is more and more clearly shown. The physical and chemical constituents of all being found to be identical, chemical science may well say that there is no difference between the matter which composes the ox and that which forms man. But the Occult doctrine is far more explicit. It says : Not only the chemical compounds are the same, but the same...
Page 203 - It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread ^ud therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure.
Page 92 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 223 - The scene is the same — that is to say, the world of the twentieth century— and the same characters reappear. But while the new book tells us much that is fresh about the institutions of the world of tomorrow, its...

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