Our EternityMethuen, 1913 - 243 頁 |
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able abyss admit annihilation become believe birth body boundless CHAPTER Colonel de Rochas communications conceive cosmic consciousness cross correspondence darkness dead death dread dreams earth eternity everything existence experiments eyes F. W. H. Myers facts familiar spirits fate Florence Cook grave Hodgson human hypnotic hypothesis idea imagination impossible imposture incomprehensible infinite infinity instance intelligence Joséphine Katie King least less limits living longer manifestations matter medium memory mind Myers mystery naught never nothingness ourselves pain perceive perhaps phenomena Piper possess possible present probable proof question reason recognize reincarnation religions remain replies revelations Richard Hodgson scientific seems senses side Sir Oliver Lodge Sir William Crookes sleep sorrow space speak spirit spiritualistic Stainton Moses subliminal sufferings survival telepathy theosophists theosophy thing thought thousand to-day torture total annihilation truth unconscious understand unhappy universe unknown Voiron wherein William James word
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第 203 頁 - By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as The Unknowable.
第 202 頁 - Perpetually to construct ideas requiring the utmost stretch of our faculties, and perpetually to find that such ideas must be abandoned as futile imaginations, may realize to us more fully than any other course, the greatness of that which we vainly strive to grasp.
第 222 頁 - ... believe in the heats of the carboniferous era. The motions of organic beings would be so slow to our senses as to be inferred, not seen. The sun would stand still in the sky, the moon be almost free from change and so on. But now reverse the hypothesis, and suppose a being to get only one...
第 11 頁 - All the doctors consider it their first duty to protract as long as possible even the most excruciating convulsions of the most hopeless agony. Who has not, at a bedside, twenty times wished, and not once dared, to throw himself at their feet and implore them to show mercy? They are filled with so great...
第 29 頁 - It has enlarged itself with all that we have learnt to know nothing of. While waiting for a scientific certainty to break through its darkness — for man has the right to hope for that which he does not yet conceive — the only point that interests us, because it is situated in the little circle which our actual intelligence traces in the thickest blackness of the night, is to know whether the unknown for which we are bound will be dreadful or not. Outside the religions, there are four imaginable...
第 21 頁 - They declare, in expounding it to the world, that it is a foolishness, stultitiam? and then you complain that they do not prove it! If they proved it, they would not keep their word; it is in lacking proofs that they are not lacking in sense.
第 65 頁 - It is not improbable that other sentient beings have organs of sense which do not respond to some or any of the rays to which our eyes are sensitive, but are able to appreciate other vibrations to which we are blind. Such beings would practically be living in a different world to our own. Imagine, for instance, what idea we should form of surrounding objects were we endowed with eyes not sensitive to the ordinary rays of light, but sensitive to the vibrations concerned in electric and magnetic phenomena....
第 11 頁 - ... tears, curb their revolt and recoil before a law which all recognize and revere as the highest law of man's conscience. One day, this prejudice will strike us as barbarous. Its roots go down to the unacknowledged fears left in the heart by religions that have long since died out in the intelligence of men. That is why the doctors act as though they were convinced that there is no known torture but is preferable to those awaiting us in the unknown. They seem persuaded that every minute gained...
第 65 頁 - ... crystal would be among the most opaque of bodies. Metals would be more or less transparent, and a telegraph wire through the air would look like a long narrow hole drilled through an impervious solid body. A dynamo in active work would resemble a conflagration, whilst a permanent magnet would realise the dream of mediaeval mystics and become an everlasting lamp with no expenditure of energy or consumption of fuel.
第 177 頁 - Since we have been able to acquire our present consciousness, why should it be impossible for us to acquire another? For that ego which is so dear to us and which we believe ourselves to possess was not made in a day ; it is not at present what it was at the hour of our birth. Much more chance than purpose has entered into it; and much more alien substance than any inborn substance which it contained. It is but a long series of acquisitions and transformations, of which we do not become aware until...