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Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Over-soul - Ascension
Identifier
000831
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
W. B. Yeats, Emerson plus others have noted that the Spiritual path can be viewed like a sort of irregular gyre
A description of the experience
Emerson – The Over-Soul
After its own law, and not by arithmetic; is the rate of its progress to be computed. The soul's advances are not to be made by gradation, such as can be represented by motion in a straight line; but rather by ascension of state; such as can be represented by metamorphoses – from the egg to the worm, from the worm to the fly.
The source of the experience
Emerson, Ralph WaldoConcepts, symbols and science items
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Beauty, art and musicBeing left handed
Communing with nature
Contemplation and detachment