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Page vii
... idea of performing it at all in the few brief months of leisure which a holiday trip to England enabled me to bestow on it . But the book was easily undertaken while there was only a little to say , and the short story of external facts ...
... idea of performing it at all in the few brief months of leisure which a holiday trip to England enabled me to bestow on it . But the book was easily undertaken while there was only a little to say , and the short story of external facts ...
Page viii
... idea that there may really be something in Heaven and earth not dreamed of in their philosophy - something sufficiently real to be not merely talked about in poetry , but observed at given times and places , and described in ...
... idea that there may really be something in Heaven and earth not dreamed of in their philosophy - something sufficiently real to be not merely talked about in poetry , but observed at given times and places , and described in ...
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... ideas . Occultism , as it is no new invention , is no specific sect , but the professors of no sect can afford to dispense with the side - lights it throws upon the conception of Nature and Man's destinies which they may have been ...
... ideas . Occultism , as it is no new invention , is no specific sect , but the professors of no sect can afford to dispense with the side - lights it throws upon the conception of Nature and Man's destinies which they may have been ...
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... and working always on this idea , has constructed such an elaborate edifice of theory round the facts that he is very reluctant to tolerate the interposition of a new hypothesis which will oblige him to 8 THE OCCULT WORLD .
... and working always on this idea , has constructed such an elaborate edifice of theory round the facts that he is very reluctant to tolerate the interposition of a new hypothesis which will oblige him to 8 THE OCCULT WORLD .
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... ideas through the medium of the phy- sical senses . But to ascend into a realm of immateriality , where cognition becomes a process of pure perception , while the intellectual faculties are in full play and centred in the immaterial man ...
... ideas through the medium of the phy- sical senses . But to ascend into a realm of immateriality , where cognition becomes a process of pure perception , while the intellectual faculties are in full play and centred in the immaterial man ...
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