Still there appears to be, linked beneath all, the remnant of an Ophite superstition of a different character which is shown in the general use of the serpent as a symbol of incorporeal powers, of "Manitous" or spirits.
And though the child was placed upon the laps of a thousand kings, one after another, yet that which the incorporeal voice had said came not to pass.
Professor Burnet argues that such words as "thin" and "unmixed" would be meaningless in connection with an incorporeal principle.
The corporeal cannot act on the incorporeal, nor the incorporeal on the corporeal.
The fundamental proposition of the Stoic physics is that "nothing incorporeal exists.
But still the antithesis is conceived, and therefore it is correct to say that the Nous of Anaxagoras is an incorporeal principle.
His doctrine of the world-forming intelligence introduced a new principle into philosophy, the principle of the antithesis between corporeal matter and incorporeal mind, and therefore, by implication, the antithesis between nature and man.
But, as I pointed out in {99} the first chapter, almost all words by which we seek to express incorporeal ideas have originally a physical signification.
Then there were the rainy nights, the stormy nights, the nights when it snowed, and when he chased after the phantom of a melody that was already half his own, and half an incorporeal thing wandering around in boundless space under the stars.
Thus incorporeal Spirits to smallest forms Reduc'd thir shapes immense, and were at large, 790 Though without number still amidst the Hall Of that infernal Court.
How can a corporeal being make an incorporeal being experience incommodious sensations?
Can a theologian ingenuously believe himself more enlightened, for having substituted the vague words spirit, incorporeal substance, &c.
Such a person is styled by the omnipotent, intelligent Spirit as one who is without beginning and without end, self-existent, immutable, incorporeal and incomparable.
Dwelling within the heart, it destroyeth creatures, like a fire of incorporeal origin.
But this it could not have done if it did not possess something naturally akin to the incorporeal forms.
But this it is perhaps worth while to inquire, how the cyclic substance(814) can contain the incorporeal causes of the forms that are embodied in matter.
For in the first place, is not light itself a sort of incorporeal and divine form of the transparent in a state of activity?
The third Synoptic gives evidence that the risen Jesus is not incorporeal by stating that he not only permitted himself to be handled, but actually ate food in their presence.
And this wan idyll of theirs, as nearly incorporeal as though she were indeed an ethereal visitor, took on a new pathos which was accentuated by the withering of the flowers in the garden, the first hints of the rigor of winter.
For I demand whether this Supreme Being that the assertion has recourse to, be a corporeal or an incorporeal substance?
For, in our supposition, the bodies that God moves, either immediately or by the intervention of any other immaterial being, are not moved by a body contiguous, but by an incorporeal spirit.
The substantiality of the unsubstantial body, is as false as the corporeality of an incorporeal spirit).
Scotus maintained that the Cogitable or Incorporeal Universal was the first, the true and complete real; from whence the sensible individuals were secondary, incomplete, multiple, derivatives.
If then the Motum, which is a body, undergoes no change, neither will the Movens, being as it is incorporeal (s.
For every atom, since endued with figure, must consist of parts, though indissolubly cemented together; and the immediate cause of this cement must be something incorporeal or knowledge can have no stability and enquiry no end.
Anima therefore is not air, as certain have thought who have not been able to form a conception of anincorporeal nature.
Some have said it is fire; others, blood; others that it is incorporeal and has no shape.
For even though one may not be able to discuss the incorporeal and the corporeal natures, an upright life with faith makes him blessed.
With reference to incorporeal beings, it denotes (except in the phrase "the Holy Ghost") the reappearance of the dead in disembodied form.
Much powder was expended, but no corporeal or incorporealblood was shed.
These are the philosophers who have believed the soulincorporeal or immaterial, who, as you see, are not in accord with themselves, and consequently do not merit any belief.
So that bodies and spirits were in effect the same thing, and differed neither more nor less, and to be both corporeal and incorporeal is a most incomprehensible thing.
That is now added; and so the argument is complete, and may be compared to an incorporeal law, which is to hold fair rule over a living body.
Objectively they are the immutable principles of being and of the phenomenal world, incorporeal and simple unities which have no relation to space, and which may be predicated of every independent thing.
Evidently it was not one of the four common elements, though we must not, therefore, think it was something incorporeal and immaterial.
Starting with the fixed determination to prove that "Death is nothing, and naught after death," he will not permit any mental phenomena to suggest to him the idea of an incorporeal spiritual substance.
Unquestionably most on them recognized the existence of two first principles, substances essentially distinct, which had co-existed from eternity--an incorporeal Deity and matter.
