...grounded? ... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. The relations of the Soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose...

...Emerson writes, "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." Our surprise at such sentences comes from having accepted an idea of Emerson as himself a later prophet...

...of spirit, submissively allowing the spirit to pass through a transparent medium. As Emerson posits: "When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves," but allow a passage to the "beams" of spirit (CW 2:37). Yet even this mode of submission marks a form of communicative action...

...pie, writes : ** We Me IB the lap of immense intellfc gence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of our$ehre?s but allow a passage to its be,anas." [Self-Keltsn£tt p. |6.] But it is aot necessary to...

...it that they mark the "last fact behind which analysis cannot go"? And is he right to also insist: "If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into...the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault" (CW2, 37)? I do not understand Emerson to be claiming that under no conditions can one analyze involuntary...

...exist and afterwards see them as appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause." But "if we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into...Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm" (11,64,65). Because of Emerson's so constant insistence upon this merely mystical point of view, especially...