Christianity, the logic of Creation [letters]. |
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absolute Adam angel animal atheism becomes body bosom Christ Christian conception conscience consciousness consequently constitutes copula created creative creative source creature DEAR W Deity derived destitute distinction Divine creation Divine Love Divine NATURAL humanity essential eternal evil exclusively experience fact feel finite freedom give God's heaven hell hence human form human nature individual infinitude influx instinct intel intelligence interior inverse letter literal looking-glass Lord love and wisdom marriage means Mediumship menstruation merely mind mineral mirror moral natural selfhood never object orthodox outward Pantheism perfect person Pharisaism phenomenal philosophy physical purely racter rational realm reason reflected relation retina revelation ritual scientific sciousness self-love sense sensible sensuous shews short simply soul space sphere spiritual existence spiritual world spontaneous strictly substance Swedenborg Swedenborgians symbolic theology things tion tree of knowledge true truly truth tural uncon unity universal utterly vegetable veritable vidual vivified words
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Page 122 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 110 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Page 123 - He was not only sightless : he became utterly deaf. All light/ all reason/ all sound of human voices/ all the pleasures of this world of God/ were taken from him. Some slight lucid moments he had ; in one of which/ the Queen/ desiring to see him/ entered the room/ and found him singing a hymn/ and accompanying himself at the harpsichord.
Page 124 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 123 - What preacher need moralize on this story; what words save the simplest are requisite to tell it ? It is too terrible for tears. The thought of such a misery smites me down in submission before the Ruler of kings and men, the Monarch Supreme over empires and republics, the inscrutable Dispenser of life, death, happiness, victory.
Page 123 - Some slight lucid moments he had ; in one of which the queen, desiring to see him, entered the room and found him singing a hymn and accompanying himself at the harpsichord. When he had finished he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that it might please God to avert his heavy calamity from him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled.
Page 124 - Hush ! Strife and Quarrel, over the solemn grave ! Sound, trumpets, a mournful march. Fall, dark curtain, upon his pageant, his pride, his grief, his awful tragedy.
Page 124 - I said to those who heard me first in America, — " O brothers, speaking the same dear mother tongue; O comrades, enemies no more, let us take a mournful hand together as we stand by this royal corpse, and call a truce to battle! Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once, and who was cast lower than the poorest: dead, whom millions prayed for in vain. Driven off his throne; buffeted by rude hands; with his children in revolt; the darling of his old age killed before him untimely; our Lear...
Page 96 - Divine-natural humanity, or to the life of God in nature, which is a life of perfect freedom or spontaneity. In that life self-love freely subordinates itself to neighborly love, or promotes its own ends by promoting the welfare of all mankind. But so long as this life is wholly unsuspected by men...
Page 129 - ... thought conjoins all, and dissimilar separates. It is owing to this circumstance, that the speaking spirit is in the same principles with the man to whom he speaks, whether they be true or false...