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 294by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1904 - 294 pages
...or relative existence, relative to that aforesaid Unknown Centre of him." And elsewhere : "There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." " That great nature... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1904 - 292 pages
...elsewhere : "There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." " That great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of... | |
| James Bissett Pratt - 1906 - 354 pages
...light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all." "As there is no screen or ceiling between our heads...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." "For this communication is an efflux of the Divine Mind into our mind. It is... | |
| 1906 - 150 pages
...virtue, and power, and beauty.' ' Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.' ' There is no bar or wall in the Soul, where man, the effect,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God,' and to the spirit of God himself. On the one side we are limited and finite.... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 pages
...having a subjective or relative existence—relative to that aforesaid Unknown Center of him. There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." Emerson's point... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...pervades and contains us. We know that all spiritual being is in man. A wise old proverb says, ' God comes to see us without bell ' ; that is; as there is no...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got... | |
| 1907 - 384 pages
...and put myself in the attitude of reception, but from some alien energy the visions come." " There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature." " If he have not found his home in God, his manners, his form of speech, the turn of his sentences,... | |
| 1908 - 812 pages
..."As there is no screen nor ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar nor wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. We lie open on the one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Ineffable is... | |
| Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1911 - 300 pages
...shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.' . . . ' We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God,' and 'the sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency... | |
| William Allingham - 1912 - 186 pages
...eloquence the doctrine which is the real root of Christianity — that the Divinity descends into man. " We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." The Essay on Prudence is solid and luminous as a precious stone. Emerson's... | |
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