 ... centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, -means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now. and absorbs past and future into the present hour.  Select Essays and Poems - Page 26by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 pages
...even into trivial seek to interpose helps. It must be that and impure actions, if the least mark of when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should God himself unless he speak the phrasefill the world with his voice ; should scat- ology of I know... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature,...souls, from the center of the present thought; and new-date and newcreate the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple, and... | |
 | Anthony John Harding - 1985 - 208 pages
...mind of the individual and to justify his belief that such inspiration is necessarily benign — that "the relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps" (EESS, p. 54). Principally, Emerson believes that the mind shares with the universe around us the attribute... | |
 | Eberhard Alsen - 1996 - 312 pages
...Nettie agree with Emerson that each person's spirit must seek God directly and individually because "[t]he relations of the soul to the divine spirit...pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps" tSelf Reliance l56l. Strengthened by her rejection of a patriarchal notion of God and her new sense... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes ua receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. 4 The relations of the soul to the Divine Spirit are...pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. 5 Whenever a mind is simple, and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, — means, teachers,... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...to divinity, however defined. The Emersonian self extends beyond itself, acting as a figure for God. "The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps," he writes in "Self-Reliance." Emerson is free to "sit at home" because the "Supreme Cause" sits there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...scatter forth light, nature, time, souls. from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and... | |
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