"Spiritualistic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... error in time. Nevertheless, the instinctive part of me—that part of us which refuses to fraternize with reason, and which we call the superstitious because we cannot explain it—would not let go the spiritualistic theory, and during all my life has never quite surrendered it to the ...
— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett
... Demiourgos into Man, 563-m. Spiritual purity shown through the efficaciousness of the will, 684-l. Spiritual victory over the earthly nature symbolized by the Master's Compass, 854-l. Spiritual world, the world of human consciousness, has a law, 828-l. Spiritualist doctrine denied by Pythagoras, 667-m. Spiritualistic doctrine separated God from the Universe, 667-m. Spirituality of the person its identity, indivisibility, absolute unity, 706-m. Splendor Excelsus in contradistinction to Simple Splendor, 748-u. Splendor, ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... invisible nonentity. I have affinities and am subtle. I am electric, magnetic, and spiritualistic. I am the great ethereal sigh-heaver. I kill dogs. Mortal, wilt thou ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Mystic-Humorous Stories • Various
... objections to belief in the usefulness of spiritualistic mystery,—in fact, by temperament, perhaps inclining to hope that such phenomena may be tamed and yoked, and made to work for human happiness,—yet there seems to be something about me which these ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
... foul community at Oneida. There and then the Millerite madness sent whole congregations into the cemeteries, in white gowns, to await the sounding of the trump of Gabriel. There and then arose the great spiritualistic movement that began in Wayne County with the Fox family, became famous as the Rochester Knockings, and blossomed into communities in which "Free Love" grew out of "Individual Sovereignty." Then and ...
— Woman and the Republic • Helen Kendrick Johnson
... temper the condemnation passed on it. There was a radical opposition of nature between him and Borne; to use his own distinction, Heine is a Hellene—sensuous, realistic, exquisitely alive to the beautiful; while Borne was a Nazarene—ascetic, spiritualistic, despising the pure artist as destitute of earnestness. Heine has too keen a perception of practical absurdities and damaging exaggerations ever to become a thoroughgoing partisan; and with a love of freedom, a faith in ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... the less, however, does he, mingling consolation with admonition, recommend us to plunge boldly into the materialistic slough, promising to point out a way of escape from it, and insisting, indeed, that through it lies the only path to genuine spiritualistic truth. ...
— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton
... acquainted, that is planned with a view to the presentation of a general body of doctrine, is the unfinished Encyclopedie Nuevelle of Pierre Leroux and Jean Reynaud. This work was intended to apply the socialistic and spiritualistic ideas of its authors over the whole field of knowledge and speculation. The result is that it furnishes only a series of dissertations, and is not an encyclopaedia in the ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley
... complaining now. Listen: 'Disheartening—most disheartening.' It's quite pathetic. Have you ever seen a spiritualistic seance? It reminds me of that sometimes—odds and ends of messages coming out of nowhere—a word here and ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... of beauty and longing for possession are not love Afraid to enjoy to-day for fear he might not enjoy tomorrow All else, then, was but preliminary to this! But they could not keep his eyebrows down Can you stand this spiritualistic racket? Clear eyes and an almost depressing amount of common sense Could fear go with a smile? Delicacy became a somewhat minor consideration Determination not to know when he was beaten Difficult it is for elders to give themselves away to the young Dinner—consecrated to the susceptibilities ...
— Quotations from the Works of John Galsworthy • David Widger
... it," said Mr. Guffins with relief. "A man gets so interested in his work—and there is a lot you can learn in books about this Hindoo mumbo-jumbo business—but of course I couldn't bring Mr. Lippett back. I'm no spiritualistic medium. I couldn't materialize the ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... such a statement acceptable. It cleverly indicated the weak places in the metaphysical methods, and it presented the advantages of the inductive method with great eloquence and ingenuity. Its satire, and its contempt for the more spiritualistic systems, also helped to ...
— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke |
