...the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God ... I become a transparent eye ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.58 Guenon would be altogether more pessimistic. These, then, were the origins of Guenon's...

...and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. 1 become a transparent eye-ball; ! am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of parcel of God. From Popular to Profound While neither the Romantics nor the Transcendentalists were...

...all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. —NATURE Can you recall a mystical experience you have had? What did you leam from it? How did you...

...(1575-1624) (33. od is an artist, and the universe is His work of art. Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225-1274) LJ n the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil...

...importance for American writers: In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nodiing can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. Nineteenth-century American poets and painters regarded Emerson's lines as fundamental...

...reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity . . . which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.21 Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson here speaks of the tremendous regenerative power that nature holds...

...quasi-pantheistic notion of an "Over-Soul" (divine spirit) of which humanity is but an extension or projection: "Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...circulate through me: I am part or particle of God." He borrowed the notion of the transcendental from Kant, who used it to characterize a class of ideas...

...observer spiritual enlightenment and a pathway to the deity. As Emerson famously declared in Nature: "Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Although the Darwinian revolution revealed a nature indifferent to human desires and meanings, an amoral...

...when most alone. In a famous passage from his essay "Nature" he describes an epiphany in the forest: Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend then sounds foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to...

...forebears, believed in a direct experience of divinity. In one classic passage Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God. Clarke, Emerson, and Channing wrote that the nineteenth-century feminist writer...