The Personal Atmosphere: Ten Studies in Pose and Power

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Pelton publishing Company, 1920
 

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Page 30 - I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of...
Page 30 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to. another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 50 - A shadow never falls upon a wall without leaving thereupon a permanent trace, a trace which might be made visible by resorting to proper processes.
Page 13 - ... instantaneously viewed in the dark, the key being removed, a fading spectre of the key will be visible. Let this paper be put aside for many months where nothing can disturb it, and then in darkness be laid on a plate of hot metal, the spectre of the key will again appear.
Page 50 - Upon the walls of our most private apartments, where we think the eye of intrusion is altogether shut out, and our retirement can never be profaned, there exist the vestiges of all our acts, silhouettes of whatever we have done.
Page 51 - You cannot lift your hand, or wink your eye, or the wind stir a hair 'of your head, but each movement is infallibly registered for coming ages. The pane of glass in the window, the brick in the wall, and the paving-stone in the street, catch the pictures of all passers-by, and faithfully preserve them. Not a leaf waves, not an insect crawls, not a ripple moves, but each motion is recorded by a thousand faithful scribes in infallible and indelible scripture.
Page 85 - For the ceaseless endeavor to realize this identity (this harmony) with the great Self, there is no substitute. No teaching, no theorizing, no philosophizing, no rules of conduct or life will take the place of actual experience. This is the Divine yoga or union, from which all life, all creation, proceeds...
Page 33 - Thought stays at home, as the chemical action of a battery remains in the battery; it is represented abroad by its dynamic correlate, called in the case of the battery, a current, and in the case of the brain — I know not what; but whatever its name may be, it is the dynamic correlate of thought. " I have chosen to use the term dynamic correlate.
Page 12 - If on a cold, polished piece of metal any object, as a "wafer, is laid, and the metal then breathed upon, and when the moisture has had time to disappear, the wafer be thrown off, though now upon the polished surface the most critical inspection can discover no trace of any form, if we breathe upon it a spectral figure of the wafer comes into view ; and this may be done again and again. Nay, even more ; if the polished metal be carefully put aside where nothing can deteriorate its surface...

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