...experience that seems to fall not very far short of ecstasy: As I was speaking [on spiritual matters] the whole system rose up before me like a vague destiny...waver to and fro with the presence of Something, I know not what. I spoke with the calmness and clearness of a prophet.16 In many of these experiences...

...letters, reproduced by William James, an experience that seems to fall not very far short of ecstasy: full of God. The air seemed to waver to and fro with the presence of Something, I know not what. I spoke with the calmness and clearness of a prophet." In many of these experiences...

...I said I was often dimly aware), Mr. Putnam entered into an argument with me on spiritual matters. As I was speaking the whole system rose up before...God in me and around me. The whole room seemed to be full of God. The air seemed to waver to and fro with the presence of something, I knew not what....

...were visits of the Holy Ghost." Russell Lowell tells that once when conversing on spiritual things, " the whole system rose up before me like a vague destiny...what. I spoke with the calmness and clearness of a prophet." Tennyson, too, refers to similar meltings of the frontiers of his consciousness into the...

...of one of the high moments in his life, says : " I never before so closely felt the spirit of God. The whole room seemed to me full of God. The air seemed...what. I spoke with the calmness and clearness of a prophet." The naturalistic theories of social progress are the outcome of a philosophy of materialism...

...visions, one of which William James has recorded in his Varieties of Religious Experience, in which " the whole room seemed to me full of God. The air seemed...with the presence of something, I knew not what." Much of Lowell's mysticism is nature mysticism. He had a subtle sympathy with nature by which he seemed...

...entered into an argument with me on spiritual matters. As I was speaking, the whole system seemed to rise up before me, like a vague destiny looming from the abyss. I never before felt the spirit of God so keenly in me, and around me. The whole room seemed to me full of God. The...

...revelation last Friday evening. Mr. Pitman entered into an argument with me on spiritual matters. ... I never before so clearly felt the Spirit of God in me and around me. The air seemed to waver to and fro with the presence of Something I knew not what." These examples, cited...

...one momentous hour which he thus described : "I had never before felt so clearly the Spirit of God in and around me. The whole room seemed to me full of God. The air seemed to quiver with the hovering presence of Something, I knew not what." To spell that Something with a capital...

...I said, I was often dimly aware), Mr. Putnam entered into an argument with me on spiritual matters. As I was speaking the whole system rose up before...what. I spoke with the calmness and clearness of a prophet.' Note in this account that 'something' — Lowell did not know exactly what — filled the...