Beyond The Clouds Sunday Evening Lectures On The Spiritual Science Of Life Given Before The Alliance Of Divine Unity PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. AN OUTLINE OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. Detached, separated! I say there is no such separation: nothing hitherto was ever stranded, cast aside; but all, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless, shoreless flood of action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses. The withered leaf is not dead and lost; there are forces in it and around it, though working in inverse order; else how could it rot? Despise not the rag from which man makes paper, or the litter from which the earth makes corn. Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows, through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.--Carlyle. "J DIE DAILY," said a New Testament writer. The same writer also said: "This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." In the study of any subject, if we would know of it understandingly, we must approach it with unbiased minds. We must be willing to lay aside prejudice, in order to prove the truth or the falsity it contains. Truth is eternal and unchanging. It is the same yesterday, to-day and forever. But man's ideas in relation to the truth are ever changing. Day by day is he dying to the things that he conceived to be truth in the past; day by day is he living, as his mental vision discerns new scenes in the spiritual realm of truth. To-day we have an ideal of what we should like to do and be, and we strive to attain to it. On the morrow, again our ideal has expanded. There is no finality to our conceptions of truth. Do not be deceived; there is no permanent camping ground on which we can pitch...