...that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture. Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is...themselves are the beautiful type of all influence. Hundreds of writers may be found in every long-civilized nation, who for a short time believe, and...

...statements : " Each mind lives in the Grand mind," " There in one mind common to all individual men," and " Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life. " In his opinion, man is made in the image of God and is just a little less than Him. This is as much...

...mind back to the universal mind and through the universal mind, ultimately, to one another. He writes: "Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and...of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul, he calls Reason: it is not mine, or thine, or his, but we are its; we are its...

...expedient the customary." 94 In Nature, Emerson describes the collective or transpersonal aspect of Reason. "Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life," he notes. "This universal soul, he calls Reason." 95 Like the power of love, affection, or Eros of...

...heat for love. Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope. Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is...of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul, he calls Reason: it is not mine, or thine, or his, but we are its; we are its...