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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836,
By A. BRONSON ALCOTT,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CAMBRIDGE PRESS:
METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU.
sette.
INSPIRATION OF THE AFFECTIONS.
FAITH.
Practical Value of the Conversations. - First Disciples of Jesus, from
the Sacred Text. Faith in Spirit. Example. - Affability. - Idea
of Conversations. Idea of Sermons and Ministers. - Fraternal Af-
fection. Names of Jesus. - Emblem of Intrepidity. - Guilelessness.
- Intuition of Spirit,
-Spiritual Phenomena. -
CHASTITY.
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Marriage Festival at Cana, from the Sacred Text.-.
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- Affability.- Human
Supremacy. Views of Phenomena. - Idea and Emblem of Purity.-
Views of Phenomena. - Intermission. - Origin and Cause of Miracles
in Spirit. Types of Miraculous Agency. - Apprehension of Pheno-
mena.-Type of Marriage and Chastity. Recorder's Remark,
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tion.
ENTHUSIASM.
Purification of the Temple, from the Sacred Text.-Idea of Indigna-
-Wor-
Emblem of Indignation.- Moral Intimidation. - Awe. - Dra-
matic Emblem. - Religious Enthusiasm. Self-Purification.
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Review.
Sense.
CONVERSATION XXVI.
IMMORTALITY OF SPIRIT.
RESURRECTION.
Jesus in the Temple, from the Sacred Text. - Dominion of
Immortality of Spirit. - Theories of Corporeal Reappearance.
- Revival of Reminiscence and Faith. - Spiritual and Material Re-
ality. Transfiguration of Matter. - Subordination of Body in Death.
- Idea of Immortality,
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ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.
HUMAN NATURE.
Inability
Mission of Jesus, from the Sacred Text. Significance of the Passover.
- Conditions of Self-Insight - Intuition of Duty. - Aspiration after
Holiness. Christ in the Soul. - Faith in Humanity.
of Unbelief. Spiritual Blindness. Subsistence of the Human
Spirit on Holiness. Absolute Good. Phenomenal Existence of
Evil. Good and Evil. - Eternity of Holiness. Immortality of
Holiness. Religion. Trinity of Powers in Conscience. - Order
Instinct.
of Spiritual Growth. -
Faith. Imagination. Reason.
Fruits of Spiritual Growth. Truth.Good.
Beauty. Ele-
ments of Absolute Being. - God. - Elements and Products of Hu-
man Nature. - Destiny of Humanity. - Irregular Growth of Powers.
- Allegory of the Human Faculties. - Synthesis of Being,
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Review. Immortality. -Interview between Jesus and Nicodemus,
from the Sacred Text. -Idea of Nicodemus.- Faith and its Em-
blem. Renewal by Faith.-Spiritual Birth. - Renovation. -End
of Human Life. Renovation of Life. Holiness of Infancy.
Prayer. Fallen Spirits. - Perversion of Childhood.
Emblem of Holiness,
FAITH AND LOVE.
John's Testimony to Jesus, from the Sacred Text.-Efficacy of Faith.
-Supremacy of Spirit. Paternal and Filial Union. - Perpetuity of
- Type of Spiritual Union. -
Retribution.
Idea of Death and Heaven.
Spirit.
Faith in the Supernatural. - Supremacy of Faith. -
Spiritual Union,
SPIRITUAL INTREPIDITY.
COURAGE AND PUSILLANIMITY.
- Connexion be-
Imprisonment of John the Baptist, from the Sacred Text. - Spiritual
Restraint.- - Moral Courage. - Power of Reproof.
tween Self-Indulgence and Cowardice.
Self-Indulgence. - Spiritual Illumination,.
Repentance. Emblem of
CONVERSATION XXXII.
SPIRITUAL PURITY.
HOLINESS.
Interview between Jesus and the Woman of Samaria, from the Sacred
Text. Emblem of Holiness.
- Blindness of Sensualism. - Materi-
alism of the Outward Senses. - Sensuality. -
Emblem of Spiritual
Emblem of Sensuality. Fruits of Purity. Fruits of
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