 God comes to see us without bell:" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie...  Essays: First Series - Page 216by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1896 - 516 pages
...treasures which man is diligently laying up for himself on earth (externals), " there is no bar nor wall in the soul where man (the effect) ceases and God (the cause) begins." In the law of Life, involution is the spirit and evolution is the letter. By the principle of involution... | |
 | Paul Tyner - 1898 - 580 pages
...particular to let the great soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect,...and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away The soul circumscribeth all things. — Emerson. THE central fact of the external universe is that... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1897 - 160 pages
...new solution ? Have we not arrived once more at the general conclusion of this book; namely, that " we lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God " ? This openness is greater during sleep ; and it is probably then that the mind gets many of its... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, ' God comes to see us without bell : ' that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away." — Essay on the Over-Soul. "Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old but of the... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, "God comes to see us without bell;" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the Canoe, begins.—Emerson. SPIRIT AND MATTER IDENTICAL. BY MARY PLATT PARMELE. The tendency of this... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, "God comes to see us without bell;" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the Cau?e. begrins. — Emerson. SPIRIT AND MATTER IDENTICAL. BY MARY PLATT PARMELE. The tendency of this... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, 'God comes to see us without bell'; that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where LT man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one... | |
 | 1899 - 438 pages
...fly, I am the wings. I am the doubter and the doubt, An'd I the hymn the Brahmin sings." " There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect ceases, and God, the cause, begins." So says he in the Oversoul, and if there is no such bar then the logical conclusion to which Emerson... | |
 | Ebenezer Griffith-Jones - 1899 - 520 pages
...our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in the soul where man,the effcct.ends, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on that side of our nature which is directed to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God."2... | |
 | 1900 - 500 pages
...Divine Reason. Emerson divines similarly in his essay on "The Oversoul" : "As there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...man the effect ceases and God the cause begins. The Sim of Reason shines on and in the lump of earth ; it shines on and in a piece of white chalk, as well... | |
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