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6.The presence of God in the world and the soul
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 254The Lord of hosts promises His presence and spirit, and to fill the house with glory.read · scan
6a.God and the world as soul and body
See also: Nature 1a
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 239The power that made natural things abides within them and deserves reverence; living by its will is conformity to intelligence.read · scan
- p. 244One god pervades all things.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 108–109Nature with will and understanding would be God; all men acknowledge a highest divine powerread · scan
- p. 109God commands, knows and loves the good and is the Father of all; confusing God with Nature is impietyread · scan
George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and PhilonousVol. 37
- p. 233–234Malebranche's view that the soul sees material things in God's substance is discussed and criticised.read · scan
Alexander Pope, Solitude; On a Certain Lady at Court; Essay on ManVol. 40
- p. 411–413Nature is God's body and He the soul, pervading all things equally.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 150–152Faust says God cannot be named; the All-embracer sustains all, and feeling is enough, name is sound and smoke.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 635A presence and spirit interfused in sunsets, ocean, air, sky and the mind of man impels all thinking things.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 869–870A divine Light and Power kindles the Universe, drawing the poet's spirit to the abode of the Eternal.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, CharacteristicsVol. 25
- p. 354–355God made and beholds us, and is in us and around us; the age of miracles now is.read · scan
George Long, The Philosophy of AntoninusVol. 2
- p. 324–325God is eternal reason pervading and governing matter, existing independently of it; Stoics did not ask the origin of matter.read · scan
- p. 328–329Antoninus's view of Nature harmonizes with his belief in the all-pervading energy of God.read · scan
- p. 329–330The Deity works unseen and governs Nature; Cleanthes's hymn to Zeus says nothing is done without God save the folly of the wicked.read · scan
- p. 332–333God is united to the world as soul to body, yet not identical; Antoninus knew God exists, governs all, and is known only imperfectly through the divinity within.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationVol. 5
- p. 88–89True omnipresence: God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CirclesVol. 5
- p. 154–155Paul's text that God may be all in all prized against dogmatism.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, WorshipVol. 5
- p. 283–284God delegates his divinity to every particle, so the universe has police and sincerity.read · scan
- p. 284–285God has delegated himself to a million deputies; nature created a police of many ranks.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1259–1260God as the single will behind creation, flinging himself into forms, the essence in every creatureread · scan
Giuseppe Mazzini, Byron and GoetheVol. 32
- p. 384Byron embraces the material universe and through it identifies himself with God, of whom it is a symbol.read · scan
Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of NaishápúrVol. 41
- p. 949–951A hidden Master runs through creation, taking all shapes; things perish but he remains, contriving and beholding the drama for the pastime of eternity.read · scan
- p. 953–955God is the player of the game; the one True Light is better caught in the tavern than lost in the temple.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1003–1005Nature is the Vision of God; God is nearer than breathing; God as law and voice in thunderread · scan
6b.The divine within man: kinship, fragment, Over-Soul
See also: Soul 6 · Miracles 1b · One and Many 3a · Man 4a
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 71–72The divine is that which naturally rules; the soul resembles it.read · scan
Cleanthes, The Hymn of CleanthesVol. 2
- p. 186–187Hymn to the almighty sovereign of Nature who rules by law, whose likeness all mortals bear.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old AgeVol. 9
- p. 72The gods sowed souls in bodies to contemplate the heavens; souls derive from divine intelligence.read · scan
Luke, The Acts of the ApostlesVol. 44
- p. 461–462Paul declares God as creator who needs no temples or service, is near to all, and in whom we live.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 124God gave us a portion of His own nature which cannot be hindered; otherwise He would not be God or caring.read · scan
- p. 129Our souls are fragments of God, who feels their every movement; a guardian spirit watches each man.read · scan
- p. 137God is Intelligence, Knowledge, Right Reason; man is a fragment of God bearing Him within.read · scan
- p. 137God is present within you, seeing and hearing all; shameful thoughts and deeds dishonour Him.read · scan
- p. 137God as Artist fashioned living, judging beings and entrusted man to his own care, to keep modest and faithful.read · scan
- p. 142One who apprehends the Administrator of the universe within needs no Athens.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 200–201Man's existence is an efflux of the administrator of the universe; a quiet life is like the gods'.read · scan
- p. 202–203Man comes near the Deity by a part of himself; revere the inner daemon.read · scan
- p. 209–210Events come from God; keep the divine part pure.read · scan
- p. 210Human acts must refer to the divine bond uniting divine and human.read · scan
- p. 228Reverence what is best in the universe, which directs all things, and what is akin to it in oneself.read · scan
- p. 231Not being hindered is common to the soul of God and of man.read · scan
- p. 253–254Man lives under the same law as God.read · scan
- p. 294Respect the ruling faculty and the divinity within.read · scan
- p. 295Live obedient to the daemon, the god within.read · scan
- p. 298A man's mind moves with the deity.read · scan
- p. 299Each man's intelligence is an efflux of the deity; child, body and soul come from god.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 79He asks where God was, having sought Him abroad rather than in the heart.read · scan
- p. 109In God we live, move and have our being; God is his guide and helper.read · scan
- p. 132God is the true Light enlightening every man; souls err in imagining their nature to be God's.read · scan
- p. 180–181Confesses too-late love of God, Beauty ever new, who was within while he searched abroad and who calls and heals him.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. John DonneVol. 15
- p. 369Donne praises God as only and divinely like himself; his soul was breathed by God.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 283–284The Spirit of God is a common spirit within us, the life and heat of spirits, dispelling despair and giving light to the mind.read · scan
Pierre Corneille, PolyeucteVol. 26
- p. 111–115God stamped his image on human dust and can illumine the soul.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 154–155God is both without and within us.read · scan
- p. 160–161The Universal Being is within us; the kingdom of God is within us.read · scan
- p. 219The kingdom of God is within you; where you are not.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 359Christ remains present through his Spirit in our consciences as perpetual preacher.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 274Conscience makes man resemble the Deity.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 240Woolman finds God's internal presence the purest delight, and trusts the Almighty who cares for the helpless and made and governs the deep.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 595God is our home, from whom the soul comes; heaven lies about us in infancy.read · scan
- p. 672–674God is with the unthinking child, whose nature is no less divine.read · scan
William Ellery Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring ClassesVol. 28
- p. 324–325Truth is called the image of God in his creatures.read · scan
George Long, The Philosophy of AntoninusVol. 2
- p. 331God is in man; man knows God's nature by attending to the divinity within and living a divine life, touching him through the intellect.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity CollegeVol. 5
- p. 26–27A just man in so far is God, sharing his safety, immortality and majesty.read · scan
- p. 27–28One spirit and will acts through all things, variously named love, justice, temperance.read · scan
- p. 29The divine nature is wrongly attributed to one or two persons and denied to the rest.read · scan
- p. 30God acts and speaks through man; the law within us is God, in Christ's declaration of divinity.read · scan
- p. 30–31What shows God in me fortifies me; what shows God outside me diminishes me.read · scan
- p. 31–32Our gleams of thought are God's; God's gift to the soul is natural goodness that lets us grow ourselves.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-RelianceVol. 5
- p. 69–70The soul's relation to the divine is direct; when God speaks he fills the world and re-creates all things from the present thought.read · scan
- p. 72–73Declares the divine fact: God is within, and we should remove our shoes.read · scan
- p. 77One should meet God in one's brother rather than recite fables of another's God.read · scan
- p. 82God enters only him who puts off external support.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationVol. 5
- p. 100Virtue is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, FriendshipVol. 5
- p. 106God is called the Beautiful, giver of friends; the Deity in friends dissolves the walls of individual character.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-SoulVol. 5
- p. 134The Over-soul is deity and Highest Law, to which right action is submission.read · scan
- p. 135–136No wall between soul and God, cause and effect; we lie open to God's attributes.read · scan
- p. 137–138Common nature behind all conversation between persons is impersonal, and is God; the heart in the Supreme Mind knows causes.read · scan
- p. 138–139The Maker stands behind us and casts omniscience through us over things.read · scan
- p. 143The Deity shines through the man who has found his centre in God.read · scan
- p. 145–146Union of man and God in every act of the soul; the idea of God consoles and enlarges the heart.read · scan
- p. 146–147The Highest dwells within man; God is not manifest to cowards.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CirclesVol. 5
- p. 153–154We learn that God is, is in me, and all things are shadows of him.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England ReformersVol. 5
- p. 269A power over and behind us, an open channel to the highest life, speaks through us as the first and last reality.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1248The artist could not free himself from God; the Holy Ghost's accent is never lost.read · scan
- p. 1251The wise man's road is illumined and foreshowed by God's own light.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1101The musician's gift is the finger of God, a flash of will existing behind all laws that made them.read · scan
Emily Brontë, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1110–1111Addresses God as ever-present Deity within the breast, infinite, in whom every existence exists and who cannot be destroyed.read · scan
6c.The Bhagavad-Gita's Lord who dwells in all things
See also: Religion 14d · The Sublime 4b · One and Many 3a · Labor 1d
The Bhagavad-Gita; or, Song CelestialVol. 45
- p. 785–786Krishna the God drives Arjuna's chariot and blows his conch.read · scan
- p. 804–805The Lord, unborn and undying, takes visible shape from age to age by Maya, to succor the good and restore righteousness.read · scan
- p. 809–813God is both revealed, heeding sacrifice and worship, and unrevealed, Lord of Worlds and lover of all that lives.read · scan
- p. 814–816The Lord dwells in all things and all in him; whoever sees him in all is never lost to him.read · scan
- p. 817–818The Lord promises to teach the utmost lore and declares that only a rare few know him as the very Truth.read · scan
- p. 818–819The Lord is the womb and maker of the universe, the essence in all things, above the three qualities, eternal.read · scan
- p. 820–822The Lord declares Himself unborn, changeless, unmanifest, knowing all things yet unknown by the world; He grants faith even to worshippers of lesser gods.read · scan
- p. 822–823Krishna reveals Himself as Brahma, Soul of Souls, Lord of Lives, gods and sacrifice, the Uttermost Purusha.read · scan
- p. 823–825The Lord spreads the universe, contains all existences yet dwells outside them; He is Purusha, reached by unwandering faith.read · scan
- p. 825–827The Lord is source, sustainer and ruler of all: sacrifice, prayer, father, mother, death and immortal life; creating yet detached.read · scan
- p. 827–828The Lord is impartial, receiver of every sacrifice, loving those who love Him and sheltering all who trust Him.read · scan
- p. 830Neither gods nor sages know the Lord, who made them; He is unborn, undying, and the source of all natures and creatures.read · scan
- p. 831Arjuna hails Krishna as Parabrahm, eternal creator, Lord of gods, whom none but Himself knows; Krishna lists His manifestations in all excellence.read · scan
- p. 831–834The Lord is the source of all glory and existence, and abides as separate Lord; He shows Arjuna His divine form.read · scan
- p. 835–837Krishna displays His vast Almighty form of countless eyes, mouths and glories; Arjuna sees all beings in Him, with no beginning, centre or end.read · scan
- p. 837–839The awesome cosmic form is worshipped by gods, sages and worlds in fear; Arjuna sees only the Lord, and begs mercy.read · scan
- p. 839–841Arjuna praises the God of gods, Infinite Creator, Soul of souls, who fashions and devours creatures; Krishna declares Himself Time.read · scan
- p. 841–843Arjuna extols the Lord as All, Father of all, Guru of gurus, without equal in the three worlds, and begs to see his familiar form.read · scan
- p. 843–846Krishna reveals his divine form, restores his gentle human semblance, and declares God is known only through faith, surrender and love.read · scan
- p. 846God described as the invisible, unrevealed, unthinkable, all-pervading Highest who lifts devotees from life's distress.read · scan
- p. 850–851Describes Para-Brahm: uncreated, everywhere, within and beyond all beings, near and far, sustainer who ends and re-creates the worlds.read · scan
- p. 851–853One Living Lord is seen in all forms; God is the Womb of the universe and father of all beings.read · scan
- p. 855–858God declares himself the source of Immortality and perfect felicity, of which Brahma is the likeness.read · scan
- p. 858–859God is the source of sun, moon and fire, gives life to plants and bodies, and is the Highest beyond the Divided and Undivided.read · scan
- p. 870–871Krishna is the Source of all and the hidden Master in hearts; the devotee attains Him by love, worship and grace.read · scan
- p. 872–874Krishna as the divine beloved and single refuge who frees the soul from all sins.read · scan
- p. 874Sanjaya recalls Krishna's visible divine splendor and his talk with Arjuna, filled with marvel, love and bliss.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 285God's glory moves all things, pervading the universe with more or less splendor.read · scan
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