The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending... Essays: First Series - Página 241por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1903 - 400 páginas
...divine element. The language is sometimes vague and ambiguous, but one can read between the lines. " Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine ...... | |
| Peter Dodwell - 2000 - 263 páginas
...Oversoul," where he depicts the mind, man himself, as the stream whose source is unknown: The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers...not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment.... | |
| Harry T. Hunt - 2003 - 382 páginas
...takes from Plotinus. It is the Great Nature which in moments of inspiration we sense as our source: Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. . . . We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of... | |
| 156 páginas
...examined "the chambers and magazines of the soul." If we but searched the soul, we'd discover that "man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence." This discovery constrains us to acknowledge "a higher origin for events" than our own will: When I... | |
| Jacob Needleman - 2003 - 194 páginas
...within himself, and to sense throughout his life that this soul is himself. "Man," writes Emerson, "is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence." Then, speaking of man's relationship to time, he goes on: The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past... | |
| Kurt Spellmeyer - 2003 - 328 páginas
...offstage as an embarrassment akin to William James's fascination with the occult. "Man," Emerson wrote, "is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence."25 Emerson's discussion of the oversoul remained tentative and imprecise, and today it may... | |
| Wayne G. Rollins, D. Andrew Kille - 2007 - 312 páginas
...illustrating the range of soul's virtuosity, from creative genius to lunacy and depression. The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson To fathom the unfathomable soul we immediately plunge into mystery. ... If we're... | |
| Wallace D. Wattles - 2007 - 152 páginas
...old, and books of metaphysics worthless? The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched 724 the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments...not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Always our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience... | |
| Joseph Murphy - 2008 - 194 páginas
...is simply the Divine Spirit made manifest. He wrote: Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Always our being is descending into us from we know not whence....has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not baulk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events... | |
| John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 páginas
...be. Let us begin with this notion of the soul's "action." Consider again a line from "The Over-Soul": "Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not where" (CW2, 159). On the one hand, this is a phenomenological claim about the ways in which our being... | |
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