 | Alexander Gilchrist - 1863 - 460 pages
...greater subjection can be ? ' I heard this with some wonder, and must confess my own conviction. ***»*» If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern. A Memorable... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 354 pages
...salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away and displaying the infinite which was hid. " If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. " For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern." After... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 334 pages
...I flung myself upon the grass beneath an overshadowing tree, and read the sentences which follow : If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern. How do... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1890 - 268 pages
...conviction that " first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged," and that " if the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man, as it is, infinite." This most extraordinary book is, in his own phraseology, the Bible of Hell. Whitman appeared at a time... | |
 | William Blake - 1893 - 324 pages
...salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it Is, infinite. For man has closed himself up. till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern. • A MEMORABLE... | |
 | William Blake - 1906 - 596 pages
...salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. method in... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 500 pages
...die and are no more. All deities reside in the human breast. Marriage of Heaven and Hell, page 11. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything...in existing beings, or Men. Marriage of Heaven and Hell, page 16. The Infinite alone resides in Definite and Determined Identity. Jerusalem, page 55,... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 500 pages
...life one of his favourite figures of speech. Already in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell he had said, " If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man, as it is, infinite." In his last book, Milton, he says, on the last line of page 42, " To cleanse the Face of my Spirit... | |
 | Evelyn Underhill - 1915 - 190 pages
...PEOPLE BY EVELYN UNDERBILL Author of "Mysticism^' "The Mystic Way,' "Immanence: A Book of Verses." "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern." WILLIAM... | |
 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - 1916 - 482 pages
...but has just so much significance as the degree of our enlightenment allows us to discover in it. " If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." From this point of view the doctrine of Avidya or Maya, ignorance or glamour, does not and should not... | |
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. 
