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¹ Cf absolute accept Agni Amos argument Assyria atheistic authority Beth-shemesh Brahman Buddhism chapter child Christian Christian mysticism Church concept consciousness course demand described Diksha divine doubt early earth emotional evil existence experience fact faith feeling background feeling mass gion gods heaven Hebrew Hence History of Greenland human hymns ideas ideation impulse India individual Indra influence instinctive intellectual Israel kind less logical means ment mental merely mind monism monotheism moral mystic naïve nature never object pantheistic phenomena philosophy polytheism possession prayer present primitive credulity prophets psychic Psychology psychology of religion question race reality reason region Religion of Feeling Religion of Primitive Religion of Thought religious belief religious feeling rience Rig Veda righteousness Samkhya Savitar seems sensation sense shaman soul spirit Starbuck subconscious tendency thee theology things thou art tion truth Upanishads Varuna whole worship Yahweh
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Page 145 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence ? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
Page 117 - Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. 5 The mountains melted from before the Lord even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
Page 260 - Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know.
Page 166 - God comes to see us without bell"; that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God.
Page 132 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, And will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, And give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles ; To open the blind eyes, To bring out the prisoners from the prison, And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Page 189 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 145 - If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me, Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Page 123 - For three transgressions of Israel, Yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes...
Page 296 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.
Page 295 - For Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee.