Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 5, 2025
Consider, in this respect, the following passage from Traherne's poem The Praeparative, quoted earlier. In describing the state of soul at a time when the physical senses are not yet in operation, Traherne says: 'Then was my Soul my only All to me,
For while the body floats in the mother's foetal fluid it is virtually exempt from the influence of the earth's field of gravity. History has given us a source of information from these early periods of man's existence in Traherne's recollections of the time when his soul was still in the state of cosmic consciousness.
In the stanza following upon this, Traherne makes a statement which is of particular importance in the context of our present discussion. After some additional description of the absence of all bodily needs he says: 'Without disturbance then I did receiv The tru Ideas of all Things' The manuscript of this poem shows a small alteration in Traherne's hand in the second of these two lines.
Where we now read 'true Ideas', there originally stood 'fair Ideas'. 'Fair' described Traherne's experience as he immediately remembered it; the later alteration to 'true' shows how well aware he was that his contemporaries might miss what he meant by 'Idea', through taking it in the sense that had already become customary in his time, namely, as a mere product of man's own mental activity.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking