The Philosophy of Fire

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Philosophical publishing Company, 1907 - 254 strán (strany)

The Philosophy of Fire by Reuben Swinburne Clymer, first published in 1907, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation.

Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

 

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Strana 63 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Strana 125 - in this supernaturally magnificent element — fell down and worshipped it ; making of it the visible representation of the very truest ; but yet, in man's speculation, and in his philosophies — nay, in his commonest reason — impossible God : God being everywhere, and in us, and, indeed, us, in the God-lighted man ; and impossible to be contemplated or known outside — being All ! Lights and flames, and the torches, as it were, of fire (all fire in this world, the last background on which all...
Strana 114 - And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
Strana 114 - Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
Strana 114 - Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, 39 and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Strana 121 - In regard to the supernatural — using the word in its widest sense — it may be said that " all the difficulty in admitting the strange things told us lies in the nonadmission of an internal causal world as absolutely real : it is said, in intellectually admitting, because the influence of the arts proves that men's feelings always have admitted, and do still admit, this reality.
Strana 122 - Regard Fire, then, with other eyes than with those soulless, incurious ones, with which thou hast looked upon it as the most ordinary thing. Thou hast forgotten what it is — or rather thou hast never known. Chemists are silent about it; or, may we not say that it is too loud for them ? Therefore shall they speak fearfully of it in whispers.
Strana 12 - Language still bears the impress of the earliest thoughts of man, obliterated, it may be, buried under new thoughts, yet here and there still recoverable in their sharp original outline.
Strana 66 - The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal OverSoul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul — a spark of the former — through the Cycle of Incarnation (or " Necessity ") in accordance with Cyclic and Karmic law, during the whole term.
Strana 156 - THRONE," entered into the man Jesus, at the moment of his baptism in the Jordan. From that time forth, being supernaturally gifted, Jesus began to work miracles. Before that, he had been completely ignorant of his mission. When on the cross, Christos and Sophia left his body, and returned to their own sphere. Upon his death, the two took the man "Jesus...

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