The Great harmonia v. 2, 1880, Volume 2Colby & Rich, 1880 |
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A. J. DAVIS action affections angel animal attri attributes beautiful believe body boundless causes celestial character CHARLES FOURIER Christ Clairvoyant comprehend conceive Conjugal-Love consequently constitution contemplate cosmogony creation Deity desire Devil Divine Mind doctrine earth elements elevate Emanuel Swedenborg essence eternal evil existence experience feel female Filial-Love flow Fraternal-Love happiness harmony heart heaven Hence human mind human soul immortal impressed impulses individual infinite influence innumerable intellectual interior Justice laws living Love manifestation mankind marriage Marteville material matter ment mighty mission modes moral moved nations Nature organization outer Parental-Love perceive perfect philosophy Phrenology physical Pisistratus planets Plato Positive Mind possession Poughkeepsie present principles progressive reason refinement religious render scientific Self-Love sensation social society Solon soul sphere spirit Stahlhammer structure sublime substances suns superior Swedenborg teaches theology thing thought tion true Reformer truth unfolded universal vidual Wisdom Woman Zoroaster
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Page 137 - The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 139 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part. As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns.
Page 21 - This news occasioned great commotion through the whole city, and particularly among the company in which he was. . It was announced to the governor the same evening. On the Sunday morning, Swedenborg was sent for by the governor, who questioned him concerning the disaster. Swedenborg described the fire precisely, how it had begun, in what manner it had ceased, and how long it had continued. On the same day the news was spread through the city, and, as the governor had thought it worthy of attention,...
Page 369 - O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds 130 Fearless, endangered heaven's perpetual king; And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate, Too well I see and rue the dire event, That with sad overthrow and foul defeat...
Page 139 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 139 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro
Page 138 - God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre...
Page 25 - Queen had not left her apartment called the white room, where she was conversing with her maids of honor and other ladies of the court. Swedenborg did not wait for the Queen's coming out, but entered directly into her apartment, and whispered in her ear. The Queen, struck with astonishment, was taken ill, and did not recover herself for some time. After she was come to herself she said to those about her, " There is only God and my brother who can know what he has just told me...
Page 21 - Sudermalm, (Gottenburg is about fifty miles* from Stockholm,) and that it was spreading very fast. He was restless, and went out often. He said that the house of one of his friends, whom he named, was already in ashes, and that his own was in danger. At eight o'clock, after he had been out again, he joyfully exclaimed, "thank God! the fire is extinguished, the third door from my house.
Page 371 - And from the day, He first set foot on earth — of rancour full, And pride, and hate, and malice, and revenge — He set himself, with most felonious aim, And hellish perseverance, to root out All good, and in its place to plant all ill...