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 249by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Bissett Pratt - 1906 - 354 pages
...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....deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God." "For this communication is an efflux of the Divine Mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 pages
...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 of view, though familiar to students of philosophy, is strange to the popular understanding,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods. lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. IF a man should dedicate... | |
| 1907 - 384 pages
...reception, but from some alien energy the visions come." " There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins....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
...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 the union of man and God in every act of the soul. The simplest person who in his integrity... | |
| 1909 - 540 pages
...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....open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 pages
...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....open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever... | |
| 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 of those limitations... | |
| 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 writings have already achieved... | |
| Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere"; "the background of our being, in which they lie"; "we lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature." There are the marks of the severer Emerson, the baffling paradoxes such as the abrogation of time,... | |
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