The Idea of Immortality: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the Year 1922Clarendon Press, 1922 - 210 من الصفحات |
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abstract actions animal animistic appears argument Aristotle Aristotle's beauty belief bodily body Brahmanism Buddhism Buddhist conceived conception connexion consciousness continued dead death desire destiny Dionysus distinction divine doctrine of Karma endless Epictetus Epiphenomenalism eschatology Essay eternal ethical evil existence experience fact faith feeling finite individual function future Greek Hero Cults heaven human idea identity immortality Kant Karma knowledge lecture living Lotze material meaning memory ment metaphysical mind moral mystical myths nature ness Nirvana object organism Orphic Orphism pass passage perfect Phaedo Phaedrus philosophical phrase physical Plato present primitive principle Professor Bosanquet punishment pure question quoted reality realized regarded reincarnation religion religious retribution Rhys Davids says seems sense Sheol simply Socrates soul soul-substance speak Spinoza spirit substance suffering supposed Theaetetus theory things thought Timaeus tion transmigration true truth ultimate unity universe virtue whole words
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الصفحة 161 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
الصفحة 18 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
الصفحة 165 - 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...
الصفحة 88 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes ; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze...
الصفحة 16 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
الصفحة 139 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
الصفحة 18 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
الصفحة 131 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
الصفحة 208 - Did both find helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
الصفحة 76 - Had I the same consciousness that I saw the ark and Noah's flood, as that I saw an overflowing of the Thames last winter, or as that I write now ; I could no more doubt that I who write this now, that saw the Thames...