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abides achievement affinity alembic altruism ambition animal Aphrodite atoms beauty become behold betimes bosom brain breast breath Breath of Heaven butyric acid Call of Eden cerned chemical affinities conjure consciousness cosmic cosmic dust death Deity despair discerns divine dream earth echo emotions eternal evil existence faith fate fear flesh flowers force forever genius gloom glory gods happiness harmony hate heaven hell hope humankind hydrogen Ideal individual infinite inspiration instinct invisible knows light lives love's mankind mind mother love mutual mystic Nature nature's naught needs ness never offspring ourselves oxygen pain palpitates Paradise passions pathy peace plant primal principle race redeemers Religion Resurrection saviors secret seed seeks selfishness Silence skies social song soul spirit splendor stars substance suffering supreme sway sympathy tears thee things thou thought thyself tion toil triumph Truth unconsciously universal unselfish voice voice of peace wealth Wings of Hope
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Page 88 - For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
Page 128 - Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
Page 150 - If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Page 150 - AND I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Myself
Page 2 - ... nature; it passes beyond the limited plane of human relations and takes its place in the procession of the stars. All the forces of nature are but the transmutations of a single energy, and that energy is the infinite and eternal selfgiving of Original Being.
Page 241 - All life is here — all history already written and yet to be indited on the scrolls of time. Who shall ever reveal the mysteries, the impenetrable possibilities of the nether, the unconscious self! Comprehensive as humanity, potent as Deity, vast as the infinite, in prophecy and promise, is every human being.
Page 46 - twixt soul and body. When with love's force thought sways the wires of the nervous system, it stirs the body, thrills each atom, radiates from its surface, and like a divine energy — a living principle — compels the physical organs to function in unison, and restore the normal situation. The mightier the flow of love the more effective its potent presence.
Page 98 - ... thereafter. Earth engenders but few seers who pierce the veil of time, and behold the dissolution of temporal motives before the indissoluble ideals of the race. Most men are cast in moulds of clay and have but stony eyes.
Page 99 - ... when it is passed, and a century affords but time for a single lesson. Hence the Great Teachers of the race can be counted almost on the fingers of the hand. From the beginning of time to the present hour they have sought to inculcate a few simple precepts and death[100] less truths, which still are caviare to the masses, — but vain enigmas and babbling verbosity.
Page 65 - Yon great progenitor of solar spheres and planetary constellations, who builds from fleeting atoms the slime of sea and soil of earth, and the soul of living things, whose bosom holds the chemic secrets of a universe, and toils eternally and hourly achieves, beats no audible note upon the vibratory air, but noiselessly commands the infinite.