The Adventure BeautifulLittle, Brown,, 1917 - 243 pages |
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achievement Adventure Beautiful Annie Besant Archdeacon atmosphere become communication consciousness continuity creative definite degree desire divine Doctor Hyslop earth Edward Everett Hale electrical energy enter entire environment EPES SARGENT eternal ethereal body ethereal realm ethereal world evolutionary existence fact faith finer force George Frederic Watts happiness higher human immortality individual infinite intelligent interpene Jesus joyous Katie King larger less light Livermore living manifestations material matter mediumship ment mental messages mind mortal nature ness never one's outer passed period phenomena Phillips Brooks philosophy physical body physical world plane poet present progress psychic experience psychical research reality realization recognized relations religious revealed scientific séances seems sense Sir Oliver Lodge Sir William Crookes sojourn soul speak Stead subtle teach telepathy theory Theosophy things thought tion true truth universe unseen unseen universe vibrations visible vision wonderful
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Page 223 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 225 - Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
Page 1 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life...
Page 210 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Page 57 - WE see but half the causes of our deeds, Seeking them wholly in the outer life, And heedless of the encircling spirit-world, Which, though unseen, is felt, and sows in us All germs of pure and world-wide purposes. From one stage of our being to the next We pass unconscious o'er a slender bridge, The momentary work of unseen hands, Which crumbles down behind us ;/ looking back, We see the other shore, the gulf between, And, marvelling how we won to where we stand.
Page 164 - Sometimes a breath floats by me, An odor from Dreamland sent, That makes the ghost seem nigh me Of a splendor that came and went, Of a life lived somewhere, I know not In what diviner sphere, Of memories that stay not and go not, Like music heard once by an ear That cannot forget or reclaim it...
Page 162 - The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapors dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.
Page 187 - I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore.
Page 227 - Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines ! I plead for my brothers and sisters. Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death— it is form, union, plan— it is eternal life— it is Happiness.