From our dead selves to higher things : a course of human experience and development / by Frederick James Gant.

Date:
1904
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Credit: From our dead selves to higher things : a course of human experience and development / by Frederick James Gant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTE NTS THE SOUL DYING IN THE LIVING BODY CHAPTER I PAGE The Two Deaths - - - - - - 1-5 Death of the Body ------ 1 Death of the Soul—its contrast with the Soul alive - - 2 The Soul Dying in the Living Body - - 5 The struggle between two natures—the higher self and the lower self ; and in the power of an unseen enemy - 5 The Soul’s dying in the loss of its various Powers—The Analogy with Death of the Body, in the Functions of its constituent Parts ----- 8 Flesh-Life ------- 6 The soul dying in various forms of Sensuality—Personal illustrations : Religious sensuality — Intemperance — Gluttony—Brutality—Cruelty—Vivisection - - 27 Concurrently, the loss of its various Powers - - - 27 Sense-Life - - - - - - - 28 The soul dying in divers forms of Worldliness—Personal illustrations: “Vanity Fair” visited — Religious worldliness - - - - - - 38 Concurrently, the loss of its various Powers - - - 38 CHAPTER II The Soul in Slavery, and its Death - - - 40 Man’s mortal enemy—The personality of evil—Modes of slavery—The Bondage of the Will and possession of the whole moral nature - - - - - 41 The soul dying in the confines of Selfishness ; in Hatred ; in Pride — Of self, of birth, of wealth, of intellect; the soul dying in Religious Pride ; in Hypocrisy - 55 Concurrently, the soul’s loss of its various Powers - - 55 Evil in the Soul - - - - - - 57 The Charnel-House of Soul-Suffering - - - 58 Imprisonment in self — The earthquake of conscience in memory—The self-made soul-sufferer—Further convic- tions ; of evil influence on others, an irretrievable past, and loss of moral capability for a redeeming future— The last agony prospective, sense of abortive existence - 64 CHAPTER III The Soul’s Awakening in its various Powers - - 65 The Soul’s Arprehension of a Supremely Higher Per- sonality - - - - - - 65 The rebirth and evolutionary development - - - 65
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