Reincarnation: A Study of Forgotten TruthJohn W. Lovell Company, 1888 - 350 страници |
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ages ancient Apollonius of Tyana appears beast behold believe birth body born Brahman Buddhism Cambridge Platonists celestial character charioteer Christian circuit clouds creatures dark death deep descend Diogenes Laertius divine doctrine dreams earth earthly Egypt eleven bands ence enters eternal ethereal evil evolution existence experience former future glory Gnostics gods Greek hath heart heaven heavenly HENRY VAUGHAN Hierocles Hindu human soul idea immortality incarnation India individual infinite Jesus karma Laws of Manu light lives London Manichæans mankind memory ment metempsychosis mind mortal mysteries nature never once opinion oriental origin palingenesis Paris pass past perfect persons philosophy physical Plato Plotinus poem poets preëxistence present principle Pythagoras Pythagorean race reincarnation religion round says seems sense seven soul's spirit sub-race T. B. Aldrich teaching thee things thou thought tion Translated TRANSMIGRATION THROUGH ANIMALS truth universe vast whence wings
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Страница 158 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air...
Страница 188 - When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Страница 188 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Страница 180 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Страница 116 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Страница 74 - When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment. When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Страница 217 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Страница 159 - Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first, love, And looking back — at that short space — Could see a glimpse of his bright face...
Страница 148 - Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
Страница 216 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...