The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of PhilosophyBooks on Demand, 1874 - 37 páginas |
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according Anæsthetic Revelation ANESTHETIC antagonism antithesis apodal sufficiency assertion aught color and form condition confess consciousness contrast courage critical deception declare definition deny dignity or faith distinguished divine double doubt duplexity edge Eleatics equal eternal exceeding and unfinished faculty the spacic Fichte form and color formal knowledge formula A=A genius GIST OF PHILOSOPHY ground hath seen heaven Hegel Hegelian Heracleitus hypothecation identity and difference ignore illusion individual infers Jacobi Jesus kingdom Kingdom of God kingdom of heaven knowl knowledge Number known limit means metalogical mystery necessity normal sanity nought object outward pain Parmenides particulars of thought peace perpetual motion philoso Plato Plotinus possess possibility present tense proposition of identity qualities question reason safety same,-and satisfaction of philosophy secret seems sense and understanding Socrates soul spacic universe spoken stands substance sustenance Thou tion topic transcended uncondition unity wise wiser than knowledge word world,-for Zeno
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Página 36 - The Gods, who haunt The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind, Nor ever falls the least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans, Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm...
Página 22 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 35 - Into this pervading genius," writes one of them, " we pass, forgetting and forgotten, and thenceforth each is all, in God. There is no higher, no deeper, no other, than the life in which we are founded. ' The One remains, the many change and pass ; ' and each and every one of us is the One that remains. . . . This is the ultimatum. . . . As sure as being — whence is all our care — so sure is content, beyond duplexity, antithesis, or trouble, where I have triumphed in a solitude that God is not...
Página 34 - ... invariably fail in a lost mood of introspection. . . . But most will accept this as the central point of the illumination that sanity is not the basic quality of intelligence, . . . but that only in sanity is formal or contrasting thought, while the naked life is realised outside of sanity altogether. It is the instant contrast of this tasteless water of souls with formal thought as we come to...
Página 35 - To minds of sanguine imagination there will be a sadness in the tenor of the mystery, as if the key-note of the universe were low ; for no poetry, no emotion known to the normal sanity of man, can furnish a hint of its primeval prestige, and its ail-but appalling solemnity; but for such as have felt sadly the instability of temporal things there is a comfort of serenity and ancient peace; while for the resolved and imperious spirit there are majesty and supremacy unspeakable.
Página 35 - This has been my moral sustenance since I have known of it. In my first printed mention of it I declared: 'The world is no more the alien terror that was taught me. Spurning the cloud-grimed and still sultry battlements whence so lately Jehovan thunders boomed, my gray gull lifts her wing against the nightfall, and takes the dim leagues with a fearless eye.
Página 33 - After experiments ranging over nearly fourteen years I affirm — what any man may prove at will — that there is an invariable and reliable condition (or uncondition) ensuing about the instant of recall from anaesthetic stupor to sensible observation, or "coming to...
Página 34 - ... 1874). The author, who is a writer abounding in verbal felicities, thinks we may all grasp the secret of Being if we only intoxicate ourselves often enough with laughing-gas. " There is in the instant of recall from the anaesthetic stupor a moment in which the genius of being is revealed. . . . Patients try to speak of it but invariably fail in a lost mood of introspection. . . . But most will accept this as the central point of the illumination that sanity is not the basic quality of intelligence,...
Página 34 - ... absurd are of equal dignity. The astonishment is aggravated as at a thing of course, missed by sanity in overstepping, as in too foreign a search, or with too eager an attention : as in finding one's spectacles on one's nose, or in making in the dark a step higher than the stair. My first experiences of this revelation had many varieties...
Página 34 - Patients try to speak of it but invariably fail in a lost mood of introspection. . . . But most will accept this as the central point of the illumination that sanity is not the basic quality of intelligence, . . . but that only in sanity is formal or contrasting thought, while the naked life is realised outside of sanity altogether. It is the instant contrast of this tasteless water of souls...