...enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which...associations of men, and makes society possible." But this glow rapidly becomes extinct unless it kindles a flame in the will and intellect. All mysticism...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the. state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been ' blasted with excess of light.' The trances of Socrates, the ' union ' of Plotinus,...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstacy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...emotion, in which form it warms, like our household flres, all the families and associations of men, and makes society possible. . . . The trances of Socrates...

...than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History. Intellect. — n— A CERTAIN tendency to insanity has always attended...of light." The trances of Socrates; the "union" of Plotinus;the vision of Porphyry; the conversion of Paul; the aurora of Behmen; the convulsions of George...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...

...peculiarity as insanity. Emerson speaks of this also. "A certain tendency to insanity," he writes, "has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been 'blasted with excess of light.' The trances of Socrates, the 'union' of Plotinus, the...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...

...or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man." "A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been 'blasted with excess of light.' " "Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and...