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" 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... "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 271
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide

Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...Srains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. — Percy Bysshc Shelley As there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.. ..We...
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Emerson As Spiritual Guide: A Companion to Emerson's Essays for Personal ...

156 pages
...aware of the truth of Emerson's remarks. We are, after all, spiritual beings who know intuitively that "as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins." The...
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Coleridge and Emerson: A Complex Affinity

Sanja Sostaric - 2003 - 364 pages
...we see plain enough in what direction it lies. First we see plainly that the All is in Man; [...]. That is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads & the infinity of heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the Soul where man the effect ceases & God...
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The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...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 screen or ceiling between...the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God.Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower...
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Impersonality: Seven Essays

Sharon Cameron - 2009 - 282 pages
...what we are when the will stops executing its claims. When we give ourselves up to the involuntary, "the walls are taken away. We lie open on one side...deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God" (O 387). I take Emerson's spatial image as testifying to the necessarily divided nature of our allegiance...
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Voyages of the Self : Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and ...

Barbara Novak Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University - 2007 - 233 pages
..."circumscribes all things . . . contradicts all experience . . . abolishes time and space," Lane's works allow "no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The...
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Washington News Letter, Volume 15

1909 - 806 pages
...and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again. There is no bar or wall in the Soul where man, the effect,...deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. "Talk prosperity. When times are bad, man himself must make them better, and he can make them better...
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Eclectic and Congregational Review

1862 - 746 pages
...which every part and particle ife equally related ; the eternal ONE ' (Ib. 1 s. p. 138). ' There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect,...walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deep of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God ' (Ib. 1 sp 139). ' A man is the facade of a temple...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 28

1920 - 540 pages
...nearly pantheism that it would not be incorrect to call him a pantheist. Here he tells us that "there is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins." He insists that God is not far off, but omnipresent; that "one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless...
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The Monthly Miscellany, Volumes 4-5

1841 - 768 pages
...forever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable." " There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins." This doctrine of course annihilates prayer ; for if I am God, how can I pray to him ? In this Mr. Emerson...
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