...to lead back the individual to it. As a plant upon the earth so a man rests upon the bosom of God. The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remote and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious. Nature is unconscious...

...other'.4 This Over-Soul or eternal One or God is the sole ultimate reality, and Nature is its projection. 'The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior projection of God, a projection of God in the unconscious. But it differs from a body in one important...

...learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator, is himself the creator in the f1nite. This view, which admonishes me where the sources of wisdom and power lie, and points to virtue as to 42 NATURE; ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES "The golden key Which opes the palace of eternity," carries upon...

...Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us but puts it forth through us." This view, he says, "animates me to create my own world through the purification of my soul.'" That Emerson's essay was a beginning of his work rather than a final judgment, and was an expression...

...learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator, is himself the creator in the finite. This view, which admonishes me where the sources of...virtue as to "The golden key Which opes the palace of eternity,"1 carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth, because it animates me to create...

...being(s) on "the fearful extent and multitude of objects." He has lost his earlier faith. For example: "The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. . . . But it differs from the body in one important respect. It is not, like that, now subjected to...

...spirit." Exactly the same ideas Emerson conveys in the chapter "Spirit," when he writes that although "the world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man," "as we degenerate, the contrast between us and our house is more evident."43 By implication, then,...

...according to Emerson, virtue is "the golden key / Which opes the palace of eternity," a truth that "animates me to create my own world through the purification of my soul."46 This relationship between the realm of spirit and the realm of nature takes place through...

...mind when he says, "This view, which admonishes me where all the sources of wisdom and power lie [...] animates me to create my own world through the purification of my soul" (Porte 41-2). And this statement is, I think, the key to Emerson's particular and often-misunderstood...