Arcana of Nature: Or, The History and Laws of Creation, Volume 2William White & Company, 1864 - Animal magnetism |
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Page 225 - And the city lieth four-square, and the length is as large as the breadth ; and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Page 97 - ... and whether there be not, with respect to the heavenly bodies, a true time and an apparent time, no less than a true place and an apparent place, as astronomers say, on account of parallax. For it seems incredible that the species or rays of the celestial bodies can pass through the immense interval between them and us in an instant ; or that they do not even require some considerable portion of time.
Page 35 - The soul of each of us is an immortal Spirit, and goes to other immortals to give an account of its actions. . . . Can the soul be destroyed? No. But if in this present life it has shunned being governed by the body, and has governed itself within itself, and has separated from the body in a pure state, taking nothing sensual away with it, does it not then...
Page 33 - I count the sand, I measure out the sea ; The silent and the dumb are heard by me. E'en now the odours to my sense that rise A tortoise boiling with a lamb supplies, Where brass below and brass above it lies.
Page 135 - His attention at that place was arrested by observing the number of small birds, of different species, flying across the road and then back again, and turning and wheeling in manifold gyrations, and with much chirping, yet making no progress from the particular place over which they fluttered.
Page 68 - Gentle Dauphin,' she added shortly afterwards, ' why will you not believe me ? I tell you that God has pity upon you, upon your kingdom, and upon your people ; for St. Louis and Charlemagne are on their knees before him, praying for you and for them.' Charles then drew her aside, and after some time passed in earnest conversation, declared to his courtiers that the Maid had spoken of secrets known only to himself and to God. Several of the ancient chronicles refer mysteriously to this secret between...
Page 225 - Divide this by 4,096, the cubical feet in a room sixteen feet square, and there will be 30,321,843,750,000,000 rooms. We will now suppose the world always did and always will contain...
Page 168 - The effect of this experiment is very pleasing; the sounds, indeed, have so little intensity as scarcely to be heard at a distance from the reciprocating instrument ; but on placing the ear close to it, a diminutive band is heard, in which all the instruments preserve their distinctive qualities, and the pianos and fortes, the crescendos and diminuendos, their relative contrasts. Compared with an ordinary band heard at a distance through the air, the effect is as a landscape seen in miniature beauty...
Page 24 - Intelligences surround us everywhere. If you look for them, you cannot see them. If you listen, you cannot hear them. Identified with the substance of all things, they cannot be separated from it. They cause men to purify and sanctify their hearts ; to clothe themselves with festive garments, and offer oblations to their ancestors. They are everywhere above us, on the right and on the left.
Page 24 - ... ocean of invisible intelligences surround us everywhere. If you look for them you cannot see them. If you listen for them you cannot hear them. Identified with the substance of all things, they cannot be separated from it. They cause men to sanctify and purify their hearts. * * They are everywhere, above us, on the right, and on the left. Their coming cannot be calculated. How important we do not neglect them !