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“There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress. One class lives to the utility of the symbol, as the majority of men do, regarding health and wealth as the chief good. Another class live about this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet and artist and the sensual school in philosophy. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified and these are wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third spiritual perception. I see in society the neophytes of all these classes, the class especially of young men who in their best knowledge of the sign have a misgiving that there is yet an unattained substance and they grope and sigh and aspire long in dissatisfaction, the sand-blind adorers of the symbol meantime chirping and scoffing and trampling them down. I see moreover that the perfect man - one to a millennium - if so many, traverses the whole scale and sees and enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty; and lastly wears it lightly as a robe which he can easily throw off, for he sees the reality and divine splendor of the inmost nature bursting through each chink and cranny.”

MenSpiritualLife LessonsNatureSocietyMankindTastePerceptionCommon SenseNature Of ManSymbolSignifiedSpiritual PerceptionHealth And WealthThe Perfect Man
Book:Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1836-1838
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“Each human beings has the sense organs that can experience Spirit; it is just that these organs go undeveloped in most people. The capability of perception is there, but various are the reasons it lies undeveloped. Some people are unaware that these supra-realities exist, others are aware but do not know how to develop the supersensible organs to perceive them, and finally there are those who know but who are afraid.”

Sense OrgansSpiritual PerceptionSupersensible OrgansSuprareality
Book:The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
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