The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its PowersG. Allen, 1904 - 253 ページ |
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act of knowledge action actual affiliation already ancestors animals appear aspect Beauty become body brain caterpillar cells cerebrum comes complex cosmic Cosmic Consciousness countless course Creation creature degree descended devils differentiated distinct divine dreams Edward Carpenter emotion evolution existence experience expression external fact fear feeling figure glamour gods grow growth harmony Herbert Spencer heredity human idea ideal illusion images immense important individual inevitably inner insects instincts kind knower Lafcadio Hearn larva larvæ living look manifestation matter means memory mental mortal nature ness order of consciousness ordinary ourselves outer world perceived perception Pheidippides Plato present primitive race race-consciousness race-life racial memory realised relation represent Schopenhauer sciousness seems sensations sense separate side simple sleep stage of consciousness subject and object suppose Tat tvam asi things Thomas Hardy thought tion transformation trees universal Upanishads vidual vision waking whole wings
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58 ページ - For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there But never yet hath dipt into the abysm, The Abysm of all Abysms, beneath, within The blue of sky and sea, the green of earth, And in the million-millionth of a grain Which cleft and cleft again for evermore, And ever vanishing never vanishes, To me, my son, more mystic than myself, Or even than the Nameless is to me. And when thou sendest thy free soul thro
39 ページ - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
39 ページ - I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind — that their being is to be perceived or known...
57 ページ - When to a man who understands, the Self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity ? 8.
105 ページ - Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there, I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
58 ページ - And more, my son ! for more than once when I Sat all alone, revolving in myself The word that is the symbol of myself. The mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and yet no shade of doubt, But utter clearness, and thro...
105 ページ - It avails not, time nor place — distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd...
65 ページ - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
187 ページ - Here seek a royal love, and when they have found him they do just the same with him; and in like manner the followers of Apollo, and of every other god walking in the ways of their god, seek a love who is to be made like him whom they serve...
138 ページ - But he whose initiation is recent, and who has been the spectator of many glories in the other world, is amazed when he sees any one having a godlike face or form, which is the expression or imitation of divine beauty; and at first a shudder runs through him, and some "misgiving...