The mystic, nurtured in religion and nourished with dogma, refers his shadowy impressions to his beliefs, and interprets them as revelations of the nature of the Trinity, or of the condition of existence before birth or after death.
He is attentive to them, interprets them; they provoke in him all kinds of sensations and associations.
Consciousness, aware of the spectrally transparent shapes, seeks in vain to grasp them, and interprets them without confidence, as when one fancies in a cloud resemblances to creatures or things.
Hence it comes that in most cases mysticism distinctly takes on a decidedly erotic colouring, and the mystic, if he interprets his inchoate liminal presentations, always tends to ascribe to them an erotic import.
And the reader fancies that he understands the strophe, while he, as a matter of fact, only interpretshis own emotion according to his own level of culture, his character, and his recollections of what he has read.
Theophylact, says that Peter confirms not only the Apostles, but all the faithful to the end of the world, 52 interprets John xxi.
Basil St. calls Peter underlying the building of the Church, 15 interprets John, xxi.
It interprets what it sees around it by this previous inward teaching, as the true key of that maze of vast complicated disorder; and thus it gains a more and more consistent and luminous vision of God from the most unpromising materials.
The answer, which names the thing, interprets and thereby limits the notions under which it has been represented.
The seer interprets in literal or artful ways the language of prophetic scriptures regarded as divine oracles, or he is translated in ecstasy to heaven and shown the secrets of the upper world and the future.
This would require a religious school organization, with a curriculum that interprets religion as ethical in its aim.
Liszt accordingly does not follow the poem word for word, but interprets the feelings which it suggests, 'feelings which almost all of us have felt in the progress of life.
He, too, is an eclectic; all schools appeal to him and his range is from Bach to Caesar Franck, both of whom he interprets with reverence and authority.
Grangæus interprets this of the meteoric fires seen in the Mediterranean, which, when seen single, were supposed to be fatal.
The Greek, it is said, sees things on his own level, and adds to them a god who is human; it is by the human spirit that he interprets them.
Man, when he interprets the kindly influences of nature as the blessings of the good god, naturally interprets the agencies which blight or ruin as being also the manifestation of a living power, but of an evil one.
He interprets death after the analogy of dreams, in which he judges that the spirit leaves the body and traverses distant regions, coming back to the body again when the journey is ended.
The wise and prudent interprets God by himself, and does not understand him; the child interprets God by himself, and does understand him.
Let no one persuade thee that there is in him a little darkness, because of something he has said which his creature interprets into darkness.
Look at the glorious way in which Jesus interprets the scripture that went before him.
St. John, too, in his prologue and other places, brings the Gospel into relation with current speculation, and interprets it in philosophical language.
It is the home which interprets the whole universe for you.
Emerson has pointed out that the great speaker--yes, and the great man--is he who best interprets the common feeling and tendency of the masses.
And although afflictions still remain, yet Scripture interprets these as the mortifications of present sin [to kill and humble the old Adam], and not as the compensations of eternal death or as prices for eternal death.
For Christ interprets Himself [this very passage] when He adds: Thy faith hath saved thee.
And thus Ambrose interprets this passage: Just as a building is said to be perfect or entire when all its parts are fitly joined together with one another.
On this principle Mr. Max Muller interprets the myth of Urvasi and Pururavas, their loves, separation, and reunion.
If Wissowa interprets this rightly,[678] as I think he does, it marks a turning-point in the religious history of Rome.
He goes to the shades with a conscience clear of guilt or of impietas; as the ancient scholiast interprets the word, it is equivalent to incorrupta.
For thatinterprets beauty and consecrates the spell of beauty over us.
The whole creation indeed groaneth and travaileth in pain, but for a final cause, which alone interprets or justifies it, and which eventually shall set it free.
But Emanuel de Sa interprets it, Plantas semini noxias, and so accordingly some others.
The Trojans assail the rampart, and Hector, despite an omen, which Polydamas interprets unfavourably, attacks and forces the gate, and opens a way to the ships.
He rereads himself, he interprets himself, he comments on himself; he tortures himself to find a deep meaning in every part of his contract, and in the clearest phrases the opposite of what they say.
I should unhesitatingly pronounce it the correct version, except for the fact that Proudhon, in the succeeding paragraph, interprets Garnier as supposing income to be assessed instead of capital.
The dialect of Persian has somewhat changed, and Aziz Khan now interprets the strange accounts of maladies to Mirza, and he interprets to me.
I often wonder at the quiet gravity of Mirza's face as he interprets their grotesque accounts of their ailments.
He usually appears when a number of sick people come, interprets their dialect into good Persian for Mirza, and beats and pelts them with stones when they crowd too closely, but they do not care.
Jacobs interprets ὡς by quàm, as equivalent to quàm turpiter!
He interprets them in another: that sufficeth me; I receive all as He presents it; I see not the reason thereof, but I know He is the infallible Truth.
To know what God asks of them, they have but to consult this unction, to sound the heart, to heed its voice; it interprets the will of God according to their present needs.
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