Spiritual longing

It was really in poetry, however, that symbolism achieved its fullest expression. Poets such as Gustave Kahn, Paul Verlaine, and Arthur Rimbaud crafted images to convey spiritual longings and mystical ideals. But it was another of Des Esseintes s favored artists, Stephane Mallarme, who... 

Why, even interplanetary travel, long the dream of dreamers, could, with the aid of atomic power, at last be seriously attempted thus enabling mankind to exploit the illimitable resources of the whole Solar System and beyond, to the glorification and material as well as spiritual enrichment of all humanity. (99)... 

Healing isn t always dramatic. It can take a long while. And there is all this fear in the meantime. I ve learned to keep my fear at bay by holding a receptive heart, keeping my boundaries close, and hanging onto God for dear life. If it hadn t been for the spiritual experiences I ve had, I don t think I d be alive today. 

Arguments and disputes about the various incumbents of this office of Messiah—the sectarian intolerance that has plagued humankind for so long—have no place in the Royal Art. They indicate a spiritual immaturity that reveals an unfitness for the Work of Unification. 

I used to kid him mercilessly about his pedigree, and he seemed to enjoy it. After we lost touch, I was delighted to see his name on the covers of best-selling books about spiritual growth. Every now and then, I have a recurring urge to write to Scotty, and kid him some more about his pre-celebrity days. Sadly, I waited too long - his death in 2005 was a sad loss to me as well as his many other admirers. 

Interviews with millionaires have stated that "honesty" is the most important element to their success. Honesty builds trast and is essential in maintaining long-term relationships. Research indicates 98% of millionaires have a supportive spouse and have been married for over ten years. From a spiritual perspective, all the great philosophies have preached the value of honesty and integrity as having its own rewards in this lifetime and after this lifetime. 

By A.D. 300, Alexandrian alchemy had become almost entirely mystical, perhaps because the alchemists were influenced by the currents of mystical thought they encountered, perhaps because attempts to transform base metals into gold had failed. One suspects that the latter played at least some role. It is certainly easier to dwell on the idea of the spiritual gold in one s soul than to follow long complex procedures in an attempt to actually make the metal. 

Boyle was above all a religious man. Furthermore he was wealthy. Because he believed that atheism was a threat to Christianity, he longed to discover ways that atheistic ideas could be refuted. In particular, he thought that if it were possible to communicate with spirits, the existence of a spiritual world, and hence of God, would be demonstrated. 

Fig. XIV. p. 93, is interesting it is an apparatus for rectifying spirits, by distilling, and liquefying only the most volatile portions of the distillate. The spirituous liquor was heated, and the vapours caused to traverse a long zigzag tube, wherein the less volatile portions condensed to liquid, which flowed back into the vessel the vapour then passed into another vessel, and then through a second zigzag tube, and was finally cooled by water, and the condensed liquid collected. This apparatus was the forerunner of that used to-day, for effecting the separation of liquids which boil at different temperatures, by the process called fractional distillation.

My own belief is that. .. these new mind changers (the psychedelic drugs) will tend in the long run to deepen the spiritual life. .., and this revival of religion will be at the same time a revolution. .. religion will be transformed into an activity con-... 

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