It consists mainly in a higher organization of forces, a more subtle distillation of potencies latent in what Thorndike calls "the original nature of man.
I might as well say so as hear you saying it over this letter--somebody that is beauty and mystery and a thousand potencies that take hold on nature itself.
Thus we shall know clearly how to discharge our duty as parents, by repressing evil before it comes to birth and fostering good, so that it may bring forth most abundantly the spiritual potencies of the soul committed to our care.
It is the herald of the Aquarian Age, when the Sun by its precessional passage through the constellation Aquarius will bring out all the intellectual and spiritual potencies in man which are symbolized by that sign.
In hecastotheism the believer finds mysterious properties and potencies everywhere.
Ensample of our bodies that shall be, And witness of the wondrous wisdom God's, And power to work the counsels of His will By many secret potencies of things, Who spirit of matter could capacious make, As matter make to spirit permeable!
Man, in whom the potencies come to rest, can divide their unity again; his fall calls forth a new tension, and thereby the world becomes a world outside of God.
While in the mythological process one or other of the divine potencies (Ground, Son, Spirit) was always predominant, in Christianity they return into unity.
The parallelism of the potencies of nature, as we have developed it by leaving out of account the numerous differences between the various expositions of the Naturphilosophie, may be shown by a table: I.
In the spiritual realm also all three divine original potencies are every, where active, though in such a way that one is dominant.
The three higher faculties correspond to the three potencies in the absolute: Natural Science and Medicine to the real or finite; History and Law to the ideal or infinite; Theology to the eternal or the copula.
First of all, the doctrine of the divine potencies and of creation is repeated in altered form, and then there is given a philosophy of the history of religion as a reflection of the theogonic process in human consciousness.
In resolving the gods by allegory and pseudo-scientific theory into various potencies of the great World-Soul, the follower of Zeno did not seem to do much violence to the vaguely personified abstractions of the old Latin creed.
Irrational as many of these taboos were, they yet implied that the actual world was a strange mixture of favorable and unfavorablepotencies to {154} which man had to adapt himself.
Is it necessary to say that primitive man thought of all evils as due to mysterious potencies which surrounded him on every hand?
The grades or layers of the Three Potencies are the defined, the undefined, that with distinctive mark, that without distinctive mark.
The Three Potencies are the three manifested modifications of the one primal material, which stands opposite to perceiving consciousness.
Pure spiritual life is, therefore, the in- verse resolution of the potencies of Nature, which have emptied themselves of their value for the Spiritual man; or it is the return of the power of pure Consciousness to its essential form.
If the potencies of our nature are not worth realising we had better give up the business of living.
Each of them regards his own potencies in the light of a sacred trust, and strives with untiring energy to realise them.
I have cast my burden on thy shoulder; Unimagined potencies have given That from formless Chaos thou shalt mould her And translate gross earth to luminous heaven.
The native instincts of man are simply potencies or capacities for morality; they must have a life of opportunity for their evolution and exercise.
They are all attempts at showing that a here and now and a beyond have united and become potencies of life, and can become actualities.
Dogmatism and intolerance prevail, and a blight comes over the choicest potencies of the soul.
He is aware that it is necessary for us to carry our whole potencies into religion.
Indeed, the effect of all this is nothing less than an ideal creation of a world consisting of Nature and the spiritualpotencies of man.
For unless that next step is taken, some of the deepest potencies of human nature fail to come to flower and fruit.
There is no half-way house here possible without the deepest potencies of human nature suffering and failing to transform themselves from bud to blossom and fruit.
Man, when he conceives of things in this manner, will be able to bear the indifference of the physical course of existence towards the spiritual potencies of his being.
It is true that the spiritual potencies of his own being are higher and of more value than anything in Nature.
But it is evident that the whole of man's potencies and relations are not confined to the knowing of Nature and framing interpretations concerning it.
Without the presence of a spiritual world [the resultant of the union of the spiritual potencies and external objects], art has no soul and no secure fundamental relationship to reality, and in no way can it develop a fixed style.
Still, that does not mean that Nature has to be discarded or condemned before the potencies of his own being can develop.
When the various systems of Idealism are estimated, they seem to present aspects of reality with vast portions of human potencies and experiences left out of account.
It is within such a world that he has to cultivate the spiritual potencies of his own being.
But none of them knew what potencies of joy and of pain lay wrapped up for them all in that same department of "good cheer.
In the tentative years of its early struggles, the Federation could hope for survival only upon the suffrance of the trade union, and today, when the Federation has become powerful, its potencies rest upon the same foundation.
What were the potencies of a secret organization that had only to post a few mysterious words and symbols to gather hundreds of workingmen in their halls?
I had got behind my own soul and found unguessed potencies and greatnesses.
I was developing unguessed and troubling potencies and proclivities.
There were the rifles and ammunition lying at his feet, potencies irresistible; surely this was the fulness of time.
Armed with these potencieshe might dare and accomplish anything--everything.
None of the European potencies has the idea for the reconstruction of the world, for durable and Godlike world-peace, but the Church.
Weakened in her position in the world and forgetful of her external value, the Church, or some parts or parties of the Church, made even coquetry with the current and transitory potencies in order to make her position stronger.
The few years immediately ahead are endowed with potencies that we can but dimly appreciate.
Evolution began where involution ceased and will end for this manvantara when the last vestige of those powers, capabilities and potencies which were involved shall have been evolved unto kosmic perfection.
But if it be that from the slime, by natural processes, there can grow a St. Francis, surely our dim notions of the potencies of Nature must be exalted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potencies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
