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... Doctrine . 255 Defects in Plato .... 256 Plato summed up ... 258 Swedenborg the Mystic . On Mysticism ..... Emanuel Swedenborg .. The Genius of Swedenborg .. 258 259 260 262 His Universality and Unity . 262 Some of his Teachings ...
... Doctrine . 255 Defects in Plato .... 256 Plato summed up ... 258 Swedenborg the Mystic . On Mysticism ..... Emanuel Swedenborg .. The Genius of Swedenborg .. 258 259 260 262 His Universality and Unity . 262 Some of his Teachings ...
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... doctrines of Tran- substantiation and Consubstantiation , for which so many men have been sent to the stake , and have sent others to the stake . He was quite will- ing to let others understand in their own way the meaning of the words ...
... doctrines of Tran- substantiation and Consubstantiation , for which so many men have been sent to the stake , and have sent others to the stake . He was quite will- ing to let others understand in their own way the meaning of the words ...
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... doctrine of Consubstantiation , taught by Luther , was denied by Calvin . In the Church of England , Arch- bishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements were an eucharist or sacrifice of thanksgiving to God ; IN THE MINISTRY . 29 ...
... doctrine of Consubstantiation , taught by Luther , was denied by Calvin . In the Church of England , Arch- bishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements were an eucharist or sacrifice of thanksgiving to God ; IN THE MINISTRY . 29 ...
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... doctrine of the Trinity - that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ , or that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an individual worship was given nowhere . The service does not stand upon the basis of a ...
... doctrine of the Trinity - that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ , or that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an individual worship was given nowhere . The service does not stand upon the basis of a ...
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... a Unitarian . ' ' Yes , ' he said , ' I supposed so , ' and continued as before : ' It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestion- ing acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul -- the VISITS TO EUROPE . 45 Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
... a Unitarian . ' ' Yes , ' he said , ' I supposed so , ' and continued as before : ' It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestion- ing acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul -- the VISITS TO EUROPE . 45 Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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Page 172 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 174 - Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you ; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 94 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
Page 309 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Page 153 - We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.
Page 100 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Page 120 - Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
Page 159 - Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Page 118 - When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; — before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane; the sea behind; and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture? Does not the New World clothe his form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?
Page 175 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.