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" All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect... "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 270
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide

Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...Reason; with the lowest, she declines towards Sensation. — Proclus All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ but animates and exercises...memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hand and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the...
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The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920

Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 pages
...man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness," Emerson wrote.46 The soul, he explained, "is not the intellect or the will, but the master...is the background of our being, in which they lie." To be true to one's self meant to strip away what Emerson called "the façade" of everyday existence,...
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Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race ...

Monica Maria Tetzlaff - 2002 - 384 pages
...outside the New Testament," quoting it to her son Arthur years later. "All goes to show that the soul is not an organ but animates and exercises all the organs, ... is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will . . . From within or from behind...
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Who Knows?: A Study of Religious Consciousness

Raymond M. Smullyan - 2003 - 160 pages
...the soul itself, Emerson says the following in his essay Immortality: All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect of the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie — an immensity not possessed and that...
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Studies in Classic American Literature, Volume 2

D. H. Lawrence - 2003 - 724 pages
...p. 372. 1 56: 1 3 Emerson . . . tiresome "superiority" of the soul. Emerson insisted that the soul 'is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie . . .' (Essays isl and 2nd Series, P156:15 down among...
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A Dream Too Wild: A Book of Meditations from the Writings of Ralph Waldo ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...agree that "life is a search after power"? What does power mean to you? All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,—an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light...
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The Paganism Reader

Chas Clifton, Graham Harvey - 2004 - 404 pages
...prophet of modern paganism, in his work Oversoul, writes with regard to man, the microcosm: 'The Soul of man is not an organ, but animates, and exercises all the organs: it is not a function like the power of memory, of calculation ... it is not a faculty ... it is the...
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Impersonality: Seven Essays

Sharon Cameron - 2009 - 282 pages
...manifestation, though not always the same particular manifestation: All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,—an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light...
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Paths to Power

Floyd Baker Wilson - 2007 - 233 pages
...most complete in his wonderful revelation of the center: " All goea to show that the soul of man fa not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs;...the master of the intellect and the will ; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie — an immensity that is not possessed and that cannot...
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The Science of Being Great: The Practical Guide to a Life of Power

Wallace D. Wattles - 2007 - 152 pages
...into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, 127 but animates and exercises all the organs; is not...the master of the intellect and the will — is the vast background of our being, in which they lie — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed....
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