Kant had denied the existence of any faculty that could guarantee the existence of either a sensual or a supersensual world.
In his supersensual way he had cared for her; and her nature, with all its murkiness, had responded to the supersensual appeal.
If he looked happy, he looked it in his own supersensual way.
Mere dreaming and imagining about the supersensual only result in confusion, for they are not calculated to satisfy opponents.
Yet another weighty objection may be raised by the conscientious seeker after truth who desires to find his way to facts and has no experience of his own in the supersensual world.
In almost every action the savage feels himself to be in touch with a supersensual world of living beings that exert a direct and inescapable influence.
In connection with religious belief alone, it is held that they bring the subject into touch with a supersensual world of reality.
It alone extends the narrow horizon of their thoughts, supplies the images of their dreams, allures them to the supersensual and the ideal.
It coloured the whole moral teaching of the time, and led the chief moralists to regard virtue simply as the highest kind of supersensual beauty.
Yet here as everywhere we discover that the sexual refinement on which the capacity for supersensual love depends comes last of the virtues.
I for my part cannot find in them even a hint at supersensualaltruistic sentiment.
The reader has the key in his hands now--the altruistic and supersensual ingredients of love pointed out in this volume; and if he can find those ingredients in any of these poems, he will be luckier than I have been.
The progress--like the Evolution of Romantic Love--has been from the sensual and selfish to the supersensual and unselfish.
Such Sentimentalität existed, I am convinced, in Alexandrian life as well as in Alexandrian literature; but of the existence of true supersensualaltruistic sentiment I can find no evidence.
Supersensual charms are not alluded to in the Song of Songs, for the simple reason that Orientals never did, and do not now, care for such charms in women or cultivate them.
Their literature attests that they considered love a degrading, sensual passion, not an ennobling, supersensual sentiment, as we do.
Such is romantic love--a supersensual feeling of crystalline purity from which all gross matter has been distilled.
Yet he had no conception of supersensual love; marriage was to him, as to all Hindoos, a union of bodies, not of souls.
It treats a woman not as a toper does a whiskey bottle, applying it to his lips as long as it can intoxicate him with pleasure and then throwing it away, but cherishes her for supersensualattributes that survive the ravages of time.
What was most humiliating was that at first I felt a certain wild, supersensual stimulation under Apollo's whip and the cruel laughter of my Venus, no matter how horrible my position was.
She extended her foot beyond the hem of white satin, and I, the supersensual fool, pressed my lips upon it.
Only too soon did she discover my supersensual folly and innocence, and it pleased her to make me happy.
On the contrary, they were supersensual men, who found enjoyment in suffering.
The margin of the manuscript bore as motto a variation of the well- known lines from Faust: "Thou supersensual sensual woer A woman leads you by the nose.
I avoided all contact with the fair sex; in short, I was supersensual to madness.
Behold this is the true Supersensual Ground of Life.
For it shall receive the stamp, image and impression of the Supersensual and Supernatural, so that the sensual and rational life will hence be brought into the most perfect order and harmony.
The title "Supersensual Life" is not altogether a good one, but it is that which is used in former editions of Behmen.
Thomas's exposition of angelic knowledge and modes of knowing is a logical and consistent presentation of a supersensual psychology and theory of knowledge.
Supreme dogmatic truth is set forth, and the furthest strainings of reason are stilled in supersensual and super-rational vision, which satisfies all intellectual desire.
Sensual images of various kinds are mixed up in them withsupersensual ideas and superstitions.
His supersensual or "intelligible" world is, on his own definition, the object of faith, not knowledge.
In his observations on the supersensual world Kant lays stress on the fact that it lies beyond the range of experience, and is known only by faith.
The miracle supposes a supersensualand transcendent cause.
For himself he knew, that, in spite of all the Englishmen that ever lived, he would be forced to enter supersensual chaos if he meant to find out what became of British science -- or indeed of any other science.
If this view was correct, the mind could gain nothing by flight or by fight; it must merge in its supersensual multiverse, or succumb to it.
Poincare in an attic at Paris, a centre of supersensual chaos.
At last their universe had been wrecked by rays, and Karl Pearson undertook to cut the wreck loose with an axe, leaving science adrift on a sensual raft in the midst of a supersensual chaos.
At the supersensual consummation of his love, Shelley sinks back, only half conceiving of it, and cries, Woe is me!
But our writers have been able partially to vindicate poets by pointing out that Dante was able to travel the whole way toward absolute beauty, and to sublimate his perceptions to supersensual fineness without losing their poetic tone.
Often the greatest poets, as Sappho herself, are represented as having no more than a blind and instinctive apprehension of the supersensual beauty which is shining through the flesh, and which is the real object of desire.
The poet's worship is so supersensual as to be inoffensive.
The poet sometimes regards it as a proof of the supersensual nature of his passion that he is, willing to marry another woman.
When this transition took place, he peered with the same intense scrutiny into supersensual things, and brought to bear on them a mind formed and informed by science and scientific methods.
Swedenborg never gave any serious consideration to the catholic theory, but supplied its place out of the store of his supersensual revelations.
We know by his repeated references in his long poems that St Theresa, Madame Guyon, Paracelsus and Jacob Boehme fed his supersensual life.
Any stirring of his feeling immediately set his supersensual faculty vigorously to work.
It also helped him to formulate a theoretic explanation of his own supersensual vision.
It is true that that term is usually applied to those who have no supersensual vision, and even deny its existence.
In no merely figurative sense did she regard herself as the spouse of Christ, but dwelt upon the bliss, beyond all mortal happiness, which she enjoyed in supersensual communion with her Lord.
This meditation is the means by which supersensual knowledge is attained.
But as long as this higher being is not awakened, the higher faculties that might lead to supersensual knowledge, must lie dormant or remain hidden in every man.
The same thing has happened in almost all ages; the greater part of the most famous minds in literature adhere to the doctrines of a supersensual philosophy.
The Scholar said to his Master: How may I come to the supersensual life, that I may see God and hear Him speak?
Then we discover that, placed as we certainly are in a world of succession, most of the seeking and finding has got to be done there; that the times of pure abstraction in which we touch the non-successive and supersensual must be few.
Since perfect proof of the supersensual is beyond the span of human consciousness, the element of risk can never be eliminated: we are obliged in the end to trust the universe and live by faith.
Consider the opening of Jacob Boehme's great dialogue on the Supersensual Life.
By it we can best link up the actual and the ideal, and demonstrate the single character of human greatness; whether it be exhibited, in the physical or the supersensual sphere.
Though joy and inward peace even in desolation are dominant marks of those who have grown up into it, still it offers to none a succession of supersensual delights.
On the contrary, its comprehension gives us the clue to many theological puzzles; whilst its existence enables us to lay hold of supersensual experiences we should otherwise miss, because it gives to us the means of interpreting them.
Even the hope of posthumous fame--the most refined and supersensual of all that can be called reward--could exist only for the most conspicuous leaders.
Hence followed an ascetic morality, and a supersensual philosophy.
