This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...every man does have a very sensible difference, not only outwardly, but in his internal qualities from every other, and if the outward body can be so variously diversified into striking individuality, why not much more the spiritual? All this spiritual action must have its tendency outwards through the soul and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...every man does have a very sensible difference, not only outwardly, but in his internal qualities from every other, and if the outward body can be so variously diversified into striking individuality, why not much more the spiritual? All this spiritual action must have its tendency outwards through the soul and the body, where it is recognized by the world as man's acting and individuality. It has to be born through him into good or evil, passing through the other portions of his organism, and becoming tinged with his peculiar receptivity as it comes forth. What in its origin was pure light, becomes decomposed and refracted, and we find it shewing itself in modifications of the secondary colours, according to the prism through HKPATIC THOUGHTS. 149 which it comes. These disturbing causes are all throughout the process. The soul-man in its turn permeates the body as well as the spirit, and equally brings to bear the sensual forces which reside in it; and when we come to the body, with which we are best acquainted, it too must further operate in giving a form and expression to the whole. We know how slight a cause disturbs us in the department of the body--the smallest disorder in any of its functions, how it puts us out, and prevents the free flow of our thoughts, and how our minds are distempered and tinged by our bodily ailments--so that a diseased liver gives us hepatic thoughts, and an overflow of bile jaundices the whole face of nature, whilst a trifling lesion in the brain puts out of gear the whole machine. In looking inwards from the body towards our spirits, the same course prevails, and thus the whole act and react to form the man of the moment. Nevertheless each of the elementary parts of man has its proper and peculiar force, and may, under certa...
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