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Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Over-Soul - The growths of genius
Identifier
004105
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Emerson – The Over-Soul
The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard and give to each the pain of discovered inferiority, but by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works, passing, at each pulsation, classes, populations of men. With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air …
Thus is the law of moral and of mental gain. The simple rise as by specific levity, not into particular virtue, but into the region of all virtues. They are in the spirit which contains them all.
The source of the experience
Emerson, Ralph WaldoConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Beauty, art and musicBeing left handed
Communing with nature
Contemplation and detachment