A Stellar Key to the Summer Land, Volumen49;Volumen435Colby & Rich, Banner of Light Publishing House, 1867 - 198 páginas |
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A Stellar Key to the Summer Land. Part I, Parte1 Andrew Jackson Davis Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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50 cents ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS animal appear ascend asteroids astronomers atmosphere atoms attraction beautiful become belt bodies cause celestial cents CHAPTER chemical chemical affinity Clairvoyance colors condition degrees discovery distance Divine earth electricity emanations essence eternal ether existence eyes fact fluid force gravity harmony heat heavenly heavens higher highest human hundred Ideas immense immortal inductive reasoners infinite inhabitants intellectual intelligent interior invariable plane iodine law of attraction light magnetic magnitude man's manifestations material matter ment millions mind motion nature Negative odylic orbit orbs organic particles perceive perfect Philosophy phosphorus physical planetary positive possible postage principles pure reason retrograde motion revolve rings scale scientific senses society solar system solid soul space sphere spheroidal spirit spiritual universe SPIRITUAL ZONE stars stellar sublime substance Summer Land testimony things thought thousand tion tricity truth unfolded Uranus vapors vast vegetable visible wisdom Zodiacal Light
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Página 128 - Tis in the gentle moonlight ; 'Tis floating midst day's setting glories ; Night, Wrapped in her sable robe, with silent step Comes to our bed and breathes it in our ears : Night, and the dawn, bright day, and thoughtful eve^ All time, all bounds, the limitless expanse, As one vast mystic instrument, are touch'd By an unseen, living Hand, and conscious chords Quiver with joy in this great jubilee.
Página 90 - All heaven and earth are still— though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep: — All heaven and earth are still: From the high host Of stars, to the lull'd lake and mountain-coast, All is concenter'd in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being, and a sense Of that which is of all Creator and defence.
Página 92 - Except ye become as little children ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven...
Página 127 - Celestial voices Hymn it unto our souls : according harps, By angel fingers touched when the mild stars Of morning sang together, sound forth still The song of our great immortality...
Página 73 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them? Is not the love of these deep in my heart With a pure passion?
Página 42 - ... a ball round by a string and make the string wind up round our fingers, the ball always flies quicker and quicker as the string is shortened Two eddies in a stream, as has been stated, fall into a mutual revolution at the distance of a couple of inches, through the same cause which makes a pair of suns link in mutual revolution at the distance of millions of miles. There is, we might say, a sublime simplicity in this indifference of the grand regulations to the vastness or minuteness of the field...
Página 59 - Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the intellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton.
Página 60 - ... nothing can be added ; from Nature nothing can be taken away ; the sum of her energies is constant, and the utmost man can do in the pursuit of physical truth, or in the applications of physical knowledge, is to shift the constituents of the nevervarying total, and out of one of them to form another.
Página 108 - ... and leaping under the fire of the Northern Light ? Place any material body whatever by the side of another, do they not immediately enter into relations of interchange, of molecular attraction, of electricity, of magnetism ? In the inorganic part of matter, as in the organic, all is acting, all is promoting change, all is itself undergoing transformation. And thus, though this life of the globe, this physiology of our planet, is not the life of the tree or the bird, is it not also a life ? Assuredly...
Página 71 - These masses should assume a spheroidical form, with a rotatory motion in the direction of that of their revolution, because their inferior particles have a less real velocity than the superior ; they have therefore constituted so many planets in a state of vapour.