Hours with the mystics: a contribution to the history of religious opinion. , revised by the author, Volumen2Strahan, 1880 |
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Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious ..., Volumen2 Robert Alfred Vaughan Vista de fragmentos - 1879 |
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Página 20 - And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Página 131 - And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Página 306 - Now was I come up in spirit through the flaming sword into the paradise of God. All things were new, and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter.
Página 328 - We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Página 16 - The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.
Página 307 - I was come up to the state of Adam, which he was in before he fell. The creation was opened to me ; and it was showed me how all things had their names given them according to their nature and virtue.
Página 22 - Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul. The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God ; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.
Página 321 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Página 18 - ... name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.
Página 22 - Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.