Immortality: An Essay in Discovery, Co-ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Apocalyptic Apocalyptic literature B. H. STREETER beatific vision beauty become belief body brain Buddhism character Christ Christian Church clairvoyance communications conception condition consciousness dead death desire discarnate spirit Divine doctrine dream earth emotion Esdras Essay eternal everlasting evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith feel friends future punishment Gospel Heaven hell human hypnosis hypnotic idea immortality individual influence judgment Karma knowledge LILY DOUGALL living Lord means medium ment mental merely mind moral nature neurasthenia Old Testament ourselves pain passage patient person philosophers physical possible prayer present produced psychic Purgatory question realise reality reason recognise regard religion religious resurrection righteous Sadducees sense shell shock Sheol sinner Sir Oliver Lodge soul spiritualists stage suffering suggestion suppose teaching telepathy Testament theology theory Theosophists Theosophy things thought tion trance true truth universe vision words Zoroastrianism
Popular passages
Page 175 - And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me : for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched ; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Page 358 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment. That ye may approve things that are excellent ; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page 340 - He will swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces ; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth : for the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 95 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Page 358 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit...
Page 347 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me.
Page 121 - Solvet saeclum in favilla ; Teste David cum Sibylla. Quantus tremor est futurus, Quando judex est venturus, Cuncta stricte discussurus ! Tuba mirum spargens sonum Per sepulchra regionum, Coget omnes ante thronum. Mors stupebit et natura, Cum resurget Creatura, Judicanti responsura. Liber scriptus proferetur, In quo totum continetur, Unde mundus judicetur. Judex ergo cum sedebit, Quidquid latet apparebit : Nil inultum remanebit.
Page 110 - Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes.
Page 58 - My theory, on the contrary, is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion.
Page 87 - Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone; or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him...