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...on are the documentation and representation of brain waves. They are mere shadows, symbols of the real presence - our mind. How can we reconcile th... ...njury"? What about being grossly impolite, or psychologically abusive? Or offending religious sensitivities, being politically incorrect - are these... ...The emphasis was on finiteness: a finite number of instructions, a finite number of symbols in each instruction, a finite number of steps to the res... ...s the propaganda-laden cinematic extravaganza, “Avatar”). At the other extreme are religious literalists who regard Man as the crown of creation wi... ...ism. But the obsession with "energy security" is only one example of the almost religious belief in "scarcity". A Comment on Alternative Energi... ...he real world form. We are acquainted with these representations (concepts, images, symbols, language in general) – and mistake them for the world ... ...icient number of observers, they are judged to be true or "to have happened" (e.g., religious miracles). To ask if something is true or not is not ... ...s are looking for confidential information in the wrong place! Finally, dreams use symbols and representations and require interpretations. Even th...

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...tion of the seed" and such a serious offence that it is punishable by the strongest religious penalty: eternal ex- communication ("Karet"). If abort... ...m Godwin and, later, Pierre Joseph Proudhon), radical individualism (Max Stirner), religious anarchism (Leo Tolstoy), anarcho- communism (Kropotkin)... ...ntitative test includes the ability to communicate (manipulate vocal-verbal-written symbols within structured symbol systems). Yet, we ignore the fa... ...ols within structured symbol systems). Yet, we ignore the fact that using the same symbols does not guarantee that we attach to them the same cogni... ...tations and the same emotional resonance ('private languages"). The same words, or symbols, often have different meanings. Meaning is dependent upo... ...ed manner: Argument number one - Being Jewish is a racial distinction - not only a religious one If race is defined in terms of genetic purity, the... ...ews and secular Jews differ, of course, in their perception of this supremacy. The religious attribute it to divine will, intellectuals to the outs... ...lti-ethnic and multi-cultural (an anathema to anti-Semites, I know). Every ethnic, religious, cultural, political, intellectual, and economic or bu... ...y are categorical illusions, the outcomes of limitations inherent in our system of symbols (in our language). We label something "complex" when we...

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...ctory literary and artistic works in scientific spaces (using scientific: symbols, meta-language, matrices, theorems, lemmas, etc.). 2.6. Third Par... ... but what about the 'first' fact or event? Who did cause it? If you are religious, you may answer: God. Then, who caused God? 38 Is the Supreme... ...e a philosopher in order to become a philosopher. Manichaean dualist religious doctrine of eternal fight between good and bad (or light and obs... ...e Deum laudatum! Wouldn't it be possible to set up in the calendar a religious holiday for atheists? We should realize that sometimes the b... ...meneutics... Wanting to support too much, you might deny! From homo religious to homo neutrosophus. A pluri-philosophy means opponent and simi... ...literary and artistic works in scientific spaces (using scientific: symbols, meta-language, matrices, theorems, lemmas, etc.). 83 b) N... ...to the world W if A is a well-formed formula (wff) in W, i.e. a string of symbols from the alphabet of W that conforms to the grammar of the formal l... ...mar is conceived as a set of functions (formation rules) whose inputs are symbols strings and outputs “yes” or “no”. A formal system comprises a for... ...is not, then it is. For a not well-formed formula, nwff, i.e. a string of symbols which do not conform to the syntax of the given logic, NL(nwff) = ...

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..., thought 360 From sources inexhaustible, poured forth To feed the spirit of religious love In which I walked with Nature. But let this SCHOOL TIME (... ...in me. Not of outward things Done visibly for other minds, words, signs, 175 Symbols or actions, but of my own heart Have I been speaking, and my yout... ...t— Works which the enthusiast would perform with love. Youth should be awed, religiously possessed With a conviction of the power that waits 390 On kn... ...ur own. Through several months, In spite of all temptation, we preserved 475 Religiously that vow; but firmness failed, Nor were we ever masters of our... ...lossoms upon one tree; Characters of the great Apocalypse, 640 The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. That ... ...dest visitations of pure thought, When God, the giver of all joy, is thanked Religiously, in silent blessedness; Sweet as this last herself, for such ... ...o face, Face after face; the string of dazzling wares, Shop after shop, with symbols, blazoned names, And all the tradesman’s honours overhead: Here, ... ...kind he was in service bound, As by some tie invisible, oaths professed To a religious order. Man he loved As man; and, to the mean and the obscure, A...

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...­ tions were in the world outside of the South, my life was one of strict religious instruction and good manners. And because both Wallace and Ruby ... ...y night. That was their opportunity to "do the Devil's work," as the more religious townspeople put it. They would go out drinking and chasing women... ...r that voice calling me to become a preacher-man. Just as important as my religious education was the more for­ mal education of reading, writing, an... ...actice religion together; Wallace was Baptist, Ruby was Methodist, and my religious instruction came from both churches, although the one I attended... ...Collection. That hat and shirt, adopted as the (Name­ less) Amos corporate symbols in 1975, were the first memorabilia to be collected by the museum ... ...company. Douglas E. Evelyn, deputy director of the museum, valued them as symbols of being able to create your own destiny-the American Dream. To me... ... goodwill of the business and reputation of Amos, in and to all words and symbols or combinations thereof which present­ ly identify and symbolize Am... ...to speak at O. C. Smith's church near the Los Angeles Airport. O. C. is a Religious Science minister and a top recording artist best known for his h...

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........................................................ 38 CHAPTER IV: The Religious Conception of the World and the Sophiartistic Conception of the ... ...tically compose evil with good and pain with joy. 59 CHAPTER IV The Religious Conception of the World and the Sophiartistic Conception of the... ...ption of the World and the Sophiartistic Conception of the World * THE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD The pre-Christian religions generally... ...e are familiar with so far in our history are of four types: mythological, religious, philosophical and scientific. Generally these cosmologies were ... ...very world view that is created by looking at only one type of data, be it religious or philosophical or scientific, produces a view that is fallible... ...o marry her and stay with her forever. Calypso and Circe are two powerful symbols of the fatal attraction that the intrauterine world and the primo... ...that is superior to that which nature can produce. Helen and Penelope are symbols of primary and secondary beauty; the first is a product of nature...

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...known by the appellation he derived from Marseilles, and at last resumed the religious habit. One of his verses is cited by Dante, De Vulg. Eloq. 1. ... ...the monastery of Bec, in Normandy, where he afterwards devoted himself to a religious life, in his twenty seventh year. In three years he was made p... ...aths, that crown your city’s poop. v. 99. The gilded hilt and pommel.] The symbols of knighthood v. 100. The column cloth’d with verrey.] The arms ... ...f the truth.] Son di lor vero ombriferi prefazii . So Mr. Coleridge, in his Religious Musings, v. 406. Life is a vision shadowy of truth. v. 88. —the...

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...y are categorical illusions, the outcomes of limitations inherent in our system of symbols (in our language). We label something "complex" when w... ...ls (in our language). We label something "complex" when we use a great number of symbols to describe it. But, surely, the choices we make (regard... ...f symbols to describe it. But, surely, the choices we make (regarding the number of symbols we use) teach us nothing about complexity, a real phenom... ...g about complexity, a real phenomenon! A straight line can be described with three symbols (A, B, and the distance between them) - or with three bi... ...e this. Why is Mathematics so Successful? In earlier epochs, people used myths and religious narratives to encode all knowledge, even of a scientif... ...mental, in the mind) and because it is aesthetic (like the mind of the Creator, the religious would add). 7. Finally, mathematics is useful: it wor... ... homogeneity, isotropy, symmetry became enshrined as the cornerstones of an almost religious outlook ("God does not play dice"). These were assumed... ...in Quantum Mechanics "To outward appearance, the modern world was born of an anti religious movement: man becoming self-sufficient and reason supp... ...ld He survive this renunciation? Does God "out there" inspire the belief in God in religious folks' minds? Known things are independent of the exis...

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... cosmic side), and the Suitors on the other (the human side), are powerful symbols that Homer uses to portray the dark negative forces. i. At the... ...ternative that I propose comes neither from a scientific truth, nor from a religious one. It comes from a poetic-existential truth that I believe is ... ...es the gods they venerated in his poem. He utilizes the gods as powerful symbols of the cosmic forces that are within human beings, but, through t... ... ideas avoids creating a scandal, and so they can easily circulate without religious or political censure attacking them, as instead happens later o... ...he Eastern tradition. While the Bible and the books of Buddha speak of religious teachings that over time became sacred texts, Homer’s poems are... ...igious teachings that over time became sacred texts, Homer’s poems are not religious texts, they are not sacred to anyone. They are books in poetic... ... still deeply instilled in the mentality of those who belong to any type of religious faith, except for Buddhism. 138 It is true that Poseidon ... ...lf from his mother without first possessing her? Circe and Calypso are two symbols of the mother that first possesses her son and then is possessed ...

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...e stands at the top, but it also presents with clarity and warmth the simple religious interest of the Christian soul. It is sharp in its attitude to... ...h is the people of God. But now I ask, where is the necessity, where is the religious duty, where is the practical use of denying both kinds, that i... ...eatise by Stephen of Autun (d. 1139). The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (12 volumes) [hereinafter cited as Schaff-Herzog], X... ...nk, which is penance. This has given rise to those endless burdens of vows, religious orders, works, satisfactions, pilgrimages, indulgences, and mo... ... 16:16]. This promise must be set far above all the glitter of works, vows, religious orders, and whatever else man has introduced, for on it all ou... ... to the patriarchs and fathers must be clearly distinguished from the legal symbols [figurae] which Moses instituted in his law, such as the priestly... ... given which required faith in God. The difference, then, between the legal symbols and the new and old signs is that the legal symbols do not have ... ...s and the same spirit of faith, although they do differ vastly from the old symbols—on account of the word of promise, which is the sole effective me...

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...Assisi. .......................................................................................... 42 CANTO XII. Second circle of the spirits of wise religious men, doctors of the Church and teachers.?St. Bonaventura narrates the life of St. Dominic, and tells the names of those who form the circle with him. ..... 46...

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.......................... 42 CANTO XII. Second circle of the spirits of wise religious men, doctors of the Church and teachers.—St. Bonaventura narrates... ...ANTO XII. O XII. O XII. O XII. O XII. Second circle of the spirits of wise religious men, doctors of the Church and teachers.—St. Bonaventura narrates... ... in color, with a lighted torch in its mouth, which set the world on fire; symbols of the black and white robe of the Or- der, and of the flaming zeal... ... The Count Guido married Gualdrada, the daughter of Bellincione Berti. 24 Symbols of knighthood; the use of gold in their accoutre- ments being reser... ...ay to Calvary, wherewith to wipe the sweat and dust from his face, and now religiously preserved at Rome, and shown at St. Peter’s, on certain holyday...

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...uld it not be as free for him to go out as it was to enter? No member of a religious society can be tied with any other bonds but what proceed from th... ...ld never yet find in any of the books of the New Testament. The end of a religious society (as has already been said) is the public worship of God a... ... then presently peace and charity are to be laid aside. Otherwise they are religiously to be observed. Where they have not the power to carry on perse... ... to pass that the lords of the earth should differ so vastly as they do in religious matters? But let us grant that it is probable the way to eternal ... ...tuted in this liberty “Toleration” — John Locke 25 are to enter into some religious society, that they meet together, not only for mutual edification... ...m. Nor does it signify anything for them to say that their confessions and symbols are agreeable to Scripture and to the analogy of faith; for if they...

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...nd never trans- gressing the ideal serenity; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convul- sive pain or mortal... ...ages of a market had induced to build towns. Ag- riculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism. And... ...Anglo and Italo- mania of Boston Bay. Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending t... ... a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols. I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called Hist... ...d ill, of success and falsehood. I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the liter- ary... ...e a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended. They are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his conscious- ness ... ...eserve the smile of beauty, and follows some giddy girl, not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene, oracular... ...iting, empty,—knowing, possibly, that we can be full, surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then comet... ...that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols. What is a man but nature’s finer success in self-explication? What...

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...divine things, becomes requisite; for all the direct terms, expressing the religious tem- per, are preoccupied by a taint of scorn. The word [Greek te... ...en [Greek text], though not used sneeringly, is a world short of our word ‘religious.’ This condition of language we need not wonder at: the language ... ...logical Essays and Other Papers – V olume One none so much as in habits of religious demeanor under a Pagan [that is, a degrading] religion. T o be a ... ...e the ancient religions of Paganism. Because the gods were wicked, man was religious; because Olympus was cruel, earth trembled; because the divine be... ...here was a sort of truce, indeed, between the parties; temples, with their religious services, and their votive offerings, recorded this truce. But be... ...hat particular mode of theopneustia which appeals to the eye by mouldering symbols, in favor of that other mode which ap- peals to the heart by incorr...

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... who could compel it to change its daily course. (97) Thus, partly through religious motives, partly through pre- conceived opinions, they conceived o... ...litical Treatise: Part Two of fire; all these things were assuredly merely symbols adapted to the opinions of those who have handed them down to us as... ...hets really saw or heard, not what they desired to signify or represent by symbols. (72) The latter may be guessed at but cannot be inferred with cert... ...rst only sought to amuse, the second had a politi- cal object, the third a religious object. (131) We gather this simply from the opinions we had prev... ...hat all the people might learn it), was the only one which he caused to be religiously guarded and pre- served. (67) In the first covenant he had only... ...Dent. xxix:14), and therefore ordered this covenant with future ages to be religiously preserved, to- gether with the Song, which was especially addre... ...tion every word in the Bible: they say that the vari- ous readings are the symbols of profoundest mysteries, and that mighty secrets lie hid in the tw... ...mar- gin, I attach little weight to it, for I am not concerned to say what religious motive the scribes may have had for acting as they did: possibly ...

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...re is embodied the Wisdom which is proper to this time; the beautiful, the religious Wisdom, which 6 Autobiography may still, with something of its o... ... the mirror up to Nature; no longer reflected, in many-coloured expressive symbols, the actual passions, the hopes, sorrows, joys of living men; but d... ...prung from. Locke, himself a clear, humble- minded, patient, reverent, nay religious man, had paved the way for banishing religion from the world. Min... ...en were to experience in Eu- rope for a time. So it is always in regard to Religious Belief, how degraded and defaced soever: the delight of the Destr... ...he spirit in which he cultivates his Art; the noble, disinterested, almost religious love with which he looks on Art in general, and strives towards i... ...irst in general terms, but finally with dreadful particulars. Hereupon the religious were neither wanting in reflections, nor the philo- sophic in gro... ... behold earthly majesty before our eyes, surrounded by all 191 Goethe the symbols of its power; but, while it bends before that of heaven, it brings ... ...to it alone did I owe my moral culture: and the events, the doctrines, the symbols, the similes, had all impressed themselves deeply upon me, and had ... ...reatly edified by it. The sacraments are the highest part of religion, the symbols to our senses of an extraordinary divine favor and grace. In the Lo...

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...pper-class occupations may be roughly comprised under government, warfare, religious observances, and sports. At an earlier, but not the earliest, sta... ...higher plane already spoken of, these employments are government, warfare, religious observances, and sports. These four lines of activity govern the ... ...exceptions to the rule are met with, espe- cially among people with strong religious convictions. But these apparent exceptions are scarcely real exce... ...ivities and entertainments may continue in some slight degree to serve the religious need and in a higher degree the needs of recreation and con- vivi... ...s dress especially, to discon- tinue methods of expenditure and the use of symbols of lei- sure which must have been irksome, which may have served a ... ...y to be made in this connection on what would colloquially be known as the religious life. The last paragraph incidentally touches upon the fact that ... ...sion to the use of colored lights and brilliant spectacles, a freer use of symbols, 218 The Theory of the Leisure Class orchestral music and incense,...

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...tarte! Derceto! Astoreth! Mylitta! Athara! Elissa! Tiratha!— By the hidden symbols, by the resounding sistra,—by the furrows of the earth,—by the eter... ...e warm atmosphere pressed down upon him by the cedar partitions. All these symbols of fecun- dation, these perfumes, radiations, and breathings over- ... ...claimed that he accepted the alliance. A white bull and a black sheep, the symbols of day and night, were then brought, and their throats were cut on ... ... with lofty poops and swelling prows, and covered with gildings and mystic symbols. The chimaeras had lost their wings, the Pataec Gods their arms, th... ...future creations. He strove to banish from his thoughts all forms, and all symbols and appellations of the gods, that he might the better appre- hend ... ...s were accustomed to re- spect these shackles as something that was almost religious, and Salammbo, blushing, rolled the two pieces of the golden 173... ...y felt that the hate with which he had persecuted her was something almost religious,—and she would fain have seen in Narr’ Havas’s person a reflectio... ...this victim was something pecu- liarly theirs, and was adorned with almost religious splendour. They bent forward to see him, especially the women. Th...

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...roadbent across the table] It’s all dreaming, all imagination. He can’t be religious. The inspired Churchman that teaches him the sanctity of life and... ...tion of a big Commonwealth, not a Robinson Crusoe island. Then there’s the religious difficulty. My Catholicism is the Catholi- cism of Charlemagne or... ...m generally: also perhaps with the view that the Round T owers are phallic symbols]. CORNELIUS [remonstrating]. Father Dempsey is the priest of the pa... ...like to have enlarged on the services rendered by the Liberal Party to the religious faith of the great majority of the people of Ireland; but I shall... ...ne of the community. As you know, I claim the right to think for myself in religious matters: in fact, I am ready to avow myself a bit of a—of a—well,...

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...s, could it have been said in a sufficient sense at that time that I was a religious man: yet, undoubtedly, I had all the foundations within me upon w... ...ne of unaffected piety; and thus far, at least, I might have been called a religious man, that in the simplic- ity of truth I could have exclaimed, ‘O... ...d not to reel like a creature wanting discourse of reason, or incapable of religious hopes under the burden which it has pleased God to impose, and wh... ...shortest notice. But behind you, I see a worse fellow; a gloomy fanatic; a religious sycophant 108 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers that seeks to p... ... police-office translate themselves, insen- sibly, into the ethics even of religious people. But I tell that sycophantish fanatic—not this only, viz.,... ...ar below— oh! summer and spring, flowers and blossoms, to which, as to his symbols, God has given the gorgeous privilege of re- hearsing for ever upon... ... amongst all animals, by the visible impression upon its back of Christian symbols —seems reasonable even to the infantine understanding when made acq...

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...mal as well as infi nite, of all creation. The divine mind is the lead ing religious thought of the later works of Plato. 19 Sophist – Plato The hu... ...each of human thought, like stars shining in a distant heaven. They were the symbols of different schools of philosophy: but in what relation did they... ...een handed down from one phi losopher to another until they have acquired a religious character. They seem also to derive a sacredness from their ass... ... in the his tory of philosophy would be as much disarranged as his order of religious thought by recent dis coveries in the history of religion. Heg... ...r. Many ideas of development, evolution, reciprocity , which have become the symbols of another school of thinkers may be traced to his speculations. ...

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...they have asserted the premises without examining the terms. The passions of religious parties have been roused to the utmost about words of which the... ...inct meaning. One sort of them, faith, grace, justifi cation, have been the symbols of one class of dis putes; as the words substance, nature, perso... ...respecting Him and ourselves are apt to be sceptical. For we can analyze our religious as well as our other ideas; we can trace their history; we can ...

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... plum- pudding tied into its cloth so tightly. Yet he knew that both these symbols of hilarity had cost money, and it went to his heart when Mr. Silt ... ...racted by fresh people, and Stephen was almost fresh: they had been to him symbols of the unknown, and all that they did was interesting. But now he c... ...ld have to take orders some time, if he hoped for a school of his own. His religious convictions were ready to hand, but he spent several uncomfortabl... ...re ready to hand, but he spent several uncomfortable days hunt- ing up his religious enthusiasms. It was not unlike his attempt to marry Mrs. Orr. But... ...t fifteen.” And so, at eight ten, Rickie put on his cap and gown,—hitherto symbols of pupilage, now to be 151 EM Forster symbols of dignity,—the very... ...y one criticize the exhorta- tions to be patriotic, athletic, learned, and religious, that flowed like a four-part fugue from Mr. Pembroke’s mouth. He...

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... to after ages. With a sort of 14 Phaedo irony he remembers that a trifling religious duty is still un fulfilled, just as above he desires before he... .... Heaven and hell are not realities to them, but words or ideas; the outward symbols of some great mystery, they hardly know what. Many noble poems an... ...y know. There is perhaps no important subject about which, at any time, even religious people speak so little to one another. In the fulness of life t... ... we may fairly translate the dialectical into the language of Hegel, and the religious and mythological into the lan guage of Dante or Bunyan, the et... ...ived from the teaching of Socrates. It may be fairly urged that the greatest religious interest of mankind could not have been wholly ignored by one w...

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... expressions of truth by the latest posterity, con tent with slightly and religiously retouching the old mate rial, is the most impressive proof of ... ...made to wear. It is like striving to make the sun, or the wind, or the sea symbols to signify exclusively the particular thoughts of our day. But what... ...l and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man’s religious or moral nature, or in man even. I 56 AWeekontheConcordandMerrim... ...oners in their Retreat or Sailor’s Sung Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather. Let not the appre hen... ...r his unusually meditative mood. It is as the sound of many catechisms and religious books twanging a canting peal round the earth, seeming to issue f... ... nuts and berries, and gather apples by the wayside at their leisure. Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay t... ...ng, the sedentary travellers whose legs hang dangling the while, mere idle symbols of the fact, any more than when we speak of sitting hens we mean th...

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...ho had advised her about the affair with La Dolciquita, and the one or two religious, who had guided her through life. The Colonel’s wife was at that ... ...ided her through life. The Colonel’s wife was at that time in Madeira; the religious she now avoided. Her visitors’ book had seven hundred names in it... ... the burning logs were just logs that were burning and not the comfortable symbols of an indestructible mode of life. The flame fluttered before the h...

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... certainly signify heaven and heavenly things, by the same very tokens and symbols that white signifieth joy and pleasure. Chapter 1.XI. Of the youthf... ... wear, I will here make you a cardinal. What! do you use to pay ransoms to religious men? Y ou shall therefore have by-and-by a red hat of my giving. ... ...rod upon; therefore was it ordained, that if any man or woman entered into religious orders should by chance come within this new abbey, all the rooms... ...k, and to make shirts and smocks. Therefore was it ordained that into this religious order should be admitted no women that were not fair, well- featu... ...here be not women. Item, Because both men and women that are received into religious orders after the expiring of their noviciate or proba- tion year ... ...ntment whensoever it should seem good to them so to do. Item, for that the religious men and women did ordinarily make three vows, to wit, those of ch...

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...ans; they were to act as mediators; they had internal regulations like other religious bodies. The above mentioned M. Loderingo was the founder of th... ...erpent brake, hope to appease the anger of the Deity by any outward acts of religious, or rather superstitious, ceremony, such as was that, in our po... ...known by the appellation he derived from Marseilles, and at last resumed the religious habit. One of his verses is cited by Dante, De Vulg. Eloq. 1. ... ...the monastery of Bec, in Normandy, where he afterwards devoted himself to a religious life, in his twenty seventh year. In three years he was made p... ...aths, that crown your city’s poop. v. 99. The gilded hilt and pommel.] The symbols of knighthood v. 100. The column cloth’d with verrey.] The arms ... ...f the truth.] Son di lor vero ombriferi prefazii . So Mr. Coleridge, in his Religious Musings, v. 406. Life is a vision shadowy of truth. v. 88. —the...

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...d there is another and higher education, intellectual as well as moral and religious, of science as well as of art, and not of youth Plato’s The Repub... ...ons of Socrates. To him, as to other great teachers both philosophical and religious, when they looked upward, the world seemed to be the embodi men... ... commit adultery, or to dishonour his father and mother, or to fall in his religious duties? No one. And the reason is that each part of him is doing ... ... them to de scend by the lower way on the left hand; these also bore the symbols of their deeds, but fastened on their backs. He drew near, and the...

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... a universal tale condensed to combine the world’s stories, which renders Jesus life into Buddhist concepts in an ancient Indian setting. It is not a religious book, and so will appeal to open-minded Atheists, Animists, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Judaists, Muslims, Taoists … and Zoroastrians. Its fluid style is uninterrupted by the copious endnotes and glossary which d...

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... Page Acknowledgements vi One Great Story 2 Our Hero Enters Our World 8 Growing in Spirit 17 Symbols of Transcendence 23 Explaining Old Stories 30 Living the Truth 41 The Great Therapist 57 Fellow-Wayfarers 66 Mara in Our Midst 74 Returning Home 87 ...

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...er, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religious festivals next year. Theatre means meeting people I seldom see ... ... Romans have crucified as many as two thousand men at one time because of religious dedication. Al- most every single one of us has witnessed a cruci... ...he right. There were reasons for my mirror writing: for abbreviations and symbols, the prying of idle appren- tices, the intrusion of rivals, the cir... ...say it briefly, is the dignity of man. White House May 9 Can a truly religious person support war, I query? I am my brother’s keeper, I am ins...

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...ll of this going on, this enclosure movement of the mind, this locking up of symbols and themes and facts and genes and ideas (and eventually people),... ...y patent. What about the legal protection of trademarks, the little words or symbols or product shapes that identify products for us? Why do we have t... ... Imagine a person staring at an infinite roll of paper tape. On the paper are symbols in some alphabet or number system. The reader carries out simple,... ...ories of intellectual property? We have “writing,” fixation in some medium of symbols that can be read by Chapter 7 162 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qx... ...different kind, books which are the rally- ing points of great political and religious parties. What is likely to happen if the copy- right of one of ... ...her hand, turn more frequently than the farmers of the eighteenth century to religious and ethical arguments about the sanctity of life and the incomp... ...usses—among many other things—the issue of borrowing between the secular and religious musical traditions, some- thing that helped me work through tha... ...sty- listic evolution of, 130–132, 135; substi- tution of erotic passion for religious passion, 135. source code, 97, 167–168, 186, 288n3. space-shift...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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............................................................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF ?THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE? ............................................................................................................................................................ 508...

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...ames A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publica... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, the Pennsyl... ... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIENCE” ...................................................... .................................................... 508 4 The V arieties of Religious Experience The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human... ... documents— Questions of fact and questions of value—In point of fact, the religious are often neurotic— Criticism of medical materialism, which conde... ...saints about the Eucharist? Religious language clothes itself in such poor symbols as our life affords, and the whole or- ganism gives overtones of co... ...es as “the tendency to draw near to the Absolute morally and by the aid of symbols.” See his Fondements de la Connaissance mystique, Paris, 1897, p. 6... ... so long as we deal with the cosmic and the general, we deal only with the symbols of reality, but as soon as we deal with private and personal phe- n... ...exists on which she carries on her principal business, while the ideas and symbols and other institutions form loop-lines which may be perfections and...

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...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created a...

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...CTION THE K ORAN admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works... ... into a nation of he- roes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organisations of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great ... ...ractically the same as speaking of Muhammed, and in trying to appraise the religious value of the book one is at the same time attempting to form an o... ...lies between the two extremes. The rela- tive value of any given system of religious thought must de- pend on the amount of truth which it embodies as... ... the first-named criterion, there is a grow- ing opinion among students of religious history that Muhammed may in a real sense be regarded as a prophe... ...(v. 48). The fact, however, is that the meaning of this and of the similar symbols, throughout the Koran, was unknown to the Muhammadans themselves ev...

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...comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poem may be the better understood....

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...ion of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poe... ... to appreciate them. He failed to see their intimate con nection with the religious worship of the Finns in paganism. The next to study the Finnish p... ...garian by Ferdinand Barna, and who, familiar with the habits, customs, and religious no tions of the Finns, has furnished much valuable material used... ...els!” Spake the ancient Wainamoinen: 172 The Kalevala “Now I see the evil symbols, See misfortune hanging o’er me, In the darksome Hisi hurdles, In t...

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...THES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 ii SARTOR RESARTUS CHAPTER III — SYMBOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 CHAPTER IV — HELO... ...urmised at. But, at all events, nothing Moral, still less anything Didactico Religious, was looked for from him. Well do we recollect the last words h... ...s heart, and fine though uncultivated sense, was in the strictest acceptation Religious. How indestructibly the Good grows, and propagates itself, even... ...paroxysms of Doubt;” his Inquiries concerning Miracles, and the Evidences of religious Faith; and how “in the silent night watches, still darker in hi... ...visibly and audibly hovered round him wheresoever he went; and they had that religious worship in his thought, though as yet it was by their mere eart... ...an everlasting demand for Intellect, in the chemical, mechanical, political, religious, educational, commercial departments? In Pagan countries, canno... ...te the singular chapter on Church Clothes! 140 SARTOR RESARTUS CHAPTER III SYMBOLS P ROBABLY it will elucidate the drift of these foregoing obscure ... ...re utterances, if we here insert somewhat of our Professor’s speculations on Symbols. To state his whole doctrine, indeed, were beyond our compass: no... ...ood manners and good morals? Like other plants, Virtue will not grow unless SYMBOLS 141 its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun. Let the s...

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...y social institution, economic, domestic, 11 John Dewey political, legal, religious, is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; yet this ef... ...t of its original motive, which is limited and more immediately practical. Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favo... ...up their training in informal association with others, since books and the symbols of knowledge are mastered. But there are conspicuous dangers attend... ...ests. But in an advanced culture much which has to be learned is stored in symbols. It is far from translation into familiar acts and objects. Such ma... ...fe, but which remain largely matters of technical information expressed in symbols, are made con- spicuous in schools. Thus we reach the ordinary noti... ...f the social store is committed to writing and transmitted through written symbols. Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spok... ... inti- mate groups, there is in a country like our own a variety of races, religious affiliations, economic divisions. Inside the modern city, in spit... ...street; a 27 John Dewey third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. As a person passes from one of the environ- ments to... ...nor groups: not only political sub- divisions, but industrial, scientific, religious, associations. There are political parties with differing aims, s...

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...ejudices, forcing their judgment, or employing any of the weapons of quasi-religious sedition; indeed, such seditions only spring up, when law en- ter... ...at the holders of sovereign power are the depositories and interpreters of religious no less than of civil ordinances, and that they alone have the ri... ... a certain variation in the visions vouchsafed to the prophets, and in the symbols by which they expressed them, for Isaiah saw the glory of the Lord ... ...y chosen the Canaanites, for these last, as we have shown, had priests who religiously worshipped God, and whom God at length rejected because of thei... ...re good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among ... ...to Christ’s mind immediately, and not as to the prophets through words and symbols, we must needs suppose that Christ perceived truly what was reveale... ...ter is understood when it is perceived simply by the mind without words or symbols. (71) Christ, then, perceived (truly and adequately) what was revea...

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...with her she talked and glowed over the English classics, and sometimes held religious and political controversies. Edna often wondered at one propens... ...ning with their wives. This had been the programme which Mrs. Pontellier had religiously followed since her marriage, six years before. Certain evenin... ... clouds and a few dumb animals. True, I feel at home in the society of these symbols of life’s immutability. In the procession I should feel the crush...

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... simple age considered alike the necessities of all ranks, anddepicted the symbols of good cheer so as to be obvious to all capacities; well judging t... ...in behalf of Sir William and Lady Ashton and their family con- cluded this religious address, which thus embraced every in- dividual present excepting...

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...ssity frequently recurring must tend to lessen his idea of the sanctity of symbols. Meanwhile the dog is clear in his own conscience, and draws, with ... ...essential truth. Of his punning perversions, his legitimate dexterity with symbols, he is even vain; but when he has told and been detected in a lie, ... ...efforts to outdo Sir Philip Sidney. For the ideal of the dog is feudal and religious; the ever-present polytheism, the whip-bearing Olympus of mankind... ...rs. Of two readers, again, one shall have been pained by the morality of a religious memoir, one by that of the Vicomte de Bragelonne. And the point i...