Member of GSAnet Banner Swap Emerson - the transparent eyeball. A history of pantheism and scientific pantheism by Paul Harrison. Are you a pantheist? Find out now at Scientific Pantheism. I am nothing! I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. Stonecrop on limestone, Kerry, Ireland. Photo ©Paul Harrison 1993 Born in 1803, Emerson began his working life as a Unitarian preacher. Early widowhood plunged him into an exploration of alternative spiritual faiths, and he resigned his ministry in 1832. After visiting the Romantic writers in England, he returned to a career of public lecturing, essay-writing and poetry. His essays are among the most brilliantly lucid, flowing and alive in the English language. Emerson had an ambivalent viewpoint towards nature. He had a powerful and passionate delight in real concrete natural things: woods and sunsets and warm days and melons. Emotionally and practically, his position appears to be one of pantheistic nature-worship. But he was also a Platonist: he believed that the outward world was only appearance or dream, and had no real substance. It was the manifestation of the spiritual world, the solidified thoughts of God. | |
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