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... Ecstasy Clairvoyance Dreams Symbolic Language Universal Language Primal Truth · Varieties of Language The Prevalent Divine Idea Christ the Mediator Soothsaying Seers Somnambulism Catalepsy Convulsionairs Benvenuto Cellini's Vision ...
... Ecstasy Clairvoyance Dreams Symbolic Language Universal Language Primal Truth · Varieties of Language The Prevalent Divine Idea Christ the Mediator Soothsaying Seers Somnambulism Catalepsy Convulsionairs Benvenuto Cellini's Vision ...
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... ecstatic seers and mystic philosophers , which are treasured up by persons initiated into the mysteries , will now become more intelligible by means of magnetism . The reader who is so inclined , may convince himself of this , if he ...
... ecstatic seers and mystic philosophers , which are treasured up by persons initiated into the mysteries , will now become more intelligible by means of magnetism . The reader who is so inclined , may convince himself of this , if he ...
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... ecstasy - reaching exercises , from subjective illusory chimeras , many saints have obviously not been free , and the separation of the natural - sensuous and the super- natural divine leads us into a field where doubts and con ...
... ecstasy - reaching exercises , from subjective illusory chimeras , many saints have obviously not been free , and the separation of the natural - sensuous and the super- natural divine leads us into a field where doubts and con ...
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... ecstasy , spectres , and clairvoyance , have not physiologically similar causes and manifestations , how is it possible that all these phenomena , and those of delirium and fever , the halluci- nations of insanity , hypochondriasis ...
... ecstasy , spectres , and clairvoyance , have not physiologically similar causes and manifestations , how is it possible that all these phenomena , and those of delirium and fever , the halluci- nations of insanity , hypochondriasis ...
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... ecstatic states manifest themselves , and that not only new ideas are formed but a new power of looking into the future . Fernel tells us of a patient who in sleep spoke Latin and Greek , which he was unable to do when awake ; he aso ...
... ecstatic states manifest themselves , and that not only new ideas are formed but a new power of looking into the future . Fernel tells us of a patient who in sleep spoke Latin and Greek , which he was unable to do when awake ; he aso ...
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Page 310 - And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, and saying ; Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
Page 319 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Page 110 - And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it, and were beyond measure astonished, saying, "He hath done all things well. He maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.
Page 316 - And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple ; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Page 288 - I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 179 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 313 - Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto Him, Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four days.
Page 317 - Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Page 323 - Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord : 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Page 110 - Brother Saul, the Lord, (even Jesus that appeared unto thee in the way as thou earnest,) hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales ; and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.