Since the soul perpetually runs and passes through things in a certain space of time
which being performed, it is presently compelled to run back again through all things,
and unfold the same web of generation in the world. For as often as the same causes
return, the same effects will like manner be returned. Chaldean Oracles.
The more powerful souls perceive truth through themselves, and are of a more
inventive nature. Such souls are saved through their own strength according
to the Oracle. Proclus.
If not to some peculiar end assigned
Study's the specious trifling of the mind. Young.
" Stoop not down, for a precipice lies below the earth, drawing under a descent
of seven steps, beneath which is the throne of dire necessity." Precepts of Psellus.
Strange conditions of the human mind, which seems to require that it should
long exercise itself in Error, before it dare approach the Truth. Magendie.
" Can the theologian derive no light from the pure primeval faith that glimmers
from Egyptian hieroglyphics, to illustrate the immortality of the soul?
Will not the historian deign to notice the prior origin of every art and science
in Egypt,a thousand years before the Pelasgians studded the isles and capes
of the Archipelago with their forts and temples ? " Gliddon.
" Direct not the mind to the vast measures of the earth,for the plant of truth
is not upon ground. Nor measure he measures of the sun, collecting rules,
for He is carried by the eternal will of the Father, not for your sake.
Dismiss the impetuous course of the moon; for she runs always of necessity.
The progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. Precepts of Zoroaster.
We have now, so far as it is required of our design, considered the Nature
and functions of the soul; and have plainly demonstrated that she is a
substance distinct from the body. Dr. Henry More; Immortality of the Soul.
Ding dong! The hammer strokes fall long and fast, until the iron turns to steel at last;
Now shall the long ,long day of rest begin, the Land of Bliss Eternal calls me in!
The last words of a blacksmith.
" The first great cause , least understood" Pope.
" Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, this longing after immortality ?
Or whence this secret dread and inward horror of falling into naught.?
Why shrinks the soul back on herself, and startles at destruction ?
it is the divinity that stirs within us; it is heaven itself that points out
our hereafter and intimates eternity to man.
Eternity! Thou pleasing, dreadful thought." Addison.
Why should the operations of nature be changed? There may be a deeper
philosophy than we dream of. A philosophy that discovers the secrets of nature,
but does not alter, by penetrating them, its course. Bulwer.
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