Reincarnation
Reincarnation
Julius Müller,[7] Lessing,[8] Edward Beecher,[9] Coleridge, and Kant[10] also sustain it from a religio-philosophical ground. It is the only rational explanation of the theological idea of sin.
Chapters
1. chapter iv., and by other writers mentioned at the close of this book.
Julius Müller,[7] Lessing,[8] Edward Beecher,[9] Coleridge, and Kant[10] also sustain it from a religio-philosophical ground. It is the only rational explanation of the theologi...
2. c. The strongest religious natures have been nourished from timeimmemorial with the feeling that life is a pilgrimage through which we tread our darkened way back to God. The Scriptures are full of it, and the spiritual manhood of every age...
3. Part I. American Poets, (twelve.)4. PART I. AMERICAN POETRY.While sauntering through the crowded street Some half-remembered face I meet, Albeit upon no mortal shore That face, methinks, hath smiled before. Lost in a gay and festal thron...
5. PART II. BRITISH POETRY.Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness And no...
6. PART III. CONTINENTAL POETRY.Ever since the time of Virgil, whose sixth Æneid (verses 724-) contains a sublime version of reincarnation, and of Ovid, whose Metamorphoses beautifully present the old Greek my...
7. PART IV. PLATONIC POETS.The largest inspiration of all western thought is nourished by the Academe. Not only idealism, but the provinces of philosophy and literature hostile to Plato are really indebte...
8. chapter IX, for the East of to-day is essentially a sculptured pictureOf the ancient Indians we learn through Pliny, Strabo, Megasthenes, Plutarch, and Herodotus, who describe the Gymnosophists and Brachmans as ascetic philosophers who made a stud...
9. chapter v.), as to call this lowest phase of the philosophy the realAnd yet there is a sense in which the most intelligent orientals adhere to this, and in which western science endorses it,—namely in the axiomatic truth that human atoms and ema...
10. chapter iii. Brahmanism; chap. iv. Buddhism; chap. vi. The Religion ofBlavatsky, H. P. Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology. New York, 1877. (See references in index to Metempsychosis, Reincarnati...