For in their best moods and at their highest points of mental efficiency these have only succeeded in vaguely symbolizing what they have conceived of the realities of the supersensuous realm in terms of their own experiences.
It is not only that which may be said to transcend experience but that which is the organ of contact with the supersensuous realities as well as of expression through the brain-consciousness.
We must, nevertheless, blaze a rough footpath through the jungle of scientific theories, and, at the outset, put on record our opposition to that school of scientific workers who deny to man a supersensuous constitution.
And in proceeding to submit this presumption of a supersensuousconsciousness to the further test of science we shall at the same time be testing the statements made by wholly reliable seer-witnesses, like the Irish mystic and seer (p.
It is an article of the common creed that every attempt which the world has made to bring them together has resulted in denial, or at the best in doubt, regarding all supersensuous facts.
But this view of the weakness of the intelligence when applied to supersensuous facts, is held along with an undisturbed conviction of the validity of our knowledge of ordinary objects.
It consists of ideas of an imaginary and an essentially supersensuous world that constitutes a background for the phenomena of sensuous reality.
The religious destiny of man is thought to lie outside his own control: it is imposed upon him from without, and is communicated to him in the form of an illumination which he receives from the supersensuous world.
True, there are no peoples without some sort of supersensuous beings.
Thus, religious development itself becomes a supersensuous process, which falls beyond the possibilities of the ordinary means of human knowledge.
As its goal lies in the supersensuous, so also is the development itself a supersensuous process that extends over into the world of sense.
This supersensuous world is created by the imagination exclusively from sensuous materials.
During the last half-century, however, there has been considerable discrepancy of opinion among the adepts as to the way in which all these supersensuous wonders are perceived.
Works of art were valuable merely for the supersensuous thoughts that they conveyed, for the devotion with which they were conceived and which they revealed, not for the mastery of form.
The heavenly beings are supersensuous sensuous, immaterial material beings, i.
God, nay, identical with God, consequently God also is a supersensuous sensuous, an immaterial material being.
In that which is sensuous, Christ is supersensuous; but for that reason, in the supersensuous he is sensuous.
The supersensuous nature of Yahweh must, therefore, be taken to be a fundamental part of the Mosaic religion.
A'kasa, the subtle supersensuous matter which pervades all space.
Jiva, as has already been stated, is subtle supersensuous matter, permeating the entire physical structure of the living being, and when it is separated from such structure life is said to become extinct.
From supersensuousknowledge originates ecstasy which is the Samadhi of the ancient Hindu sages.
From the suspension of breath originates tranquillity of mind, which engenderssupersensuous knowledge.
I presume this supersensuous reasoning, preceeding independently in the mind, arises from preceptions too delicate for analysis.
Sometimes it has happened that the supersensuous reasoning has been correct, and the most faultless argument wrong.
Supersensuous sentiment, chaste and honourable regard, too colourless almost to deserve the name of love, natural and unrestrained desire, and violent lust, all these are clearly typified.
We nowhere find any approach to supersensuous passion, indifferent to its own consummation; Silvia and Silvio are either entirely careless, or else touched with a genuine human love.
This idea is often found in the common conception of God—where permanence is attributed to the world and where men often represent two kinds of actuality to themselves, a sensuous and a supersensuous world of equal standing.
The fashioning of the supersensuous world comes out very clearly in primitive man's views about the soul and life after death.
Nor was it only class-names that belonged to thesupersensuous world.
Number, too, is part of the supersensuous world that is thoroughly religious.
And so the supersensuous world grows and grows big with the invisible present, and big also with the past and the future, crowded with the ghosts of the dead and shadowed with oracles and portents.
The supersensuous world as we have got it so far is too theoretic to be complete material of religion.
Originally all numbers dwelt there, and a certain supersensuous sanctity still clings to seven and three.
The soul and the supersensuous world get thinner and thinner, rarer and more rarified, but they always trail behind them clouds of smoke and vapour from the world of sense and space whence they have come.
And, naturally enough, the future joins the past in this supersensuous world.
Her speculations led to the rejection of anything like a positive belief in God, to an entire rejection of faith in a personal immortality, and to a repudiation of all idealistic conceptions of knowledge derived from supersensuous sources.
Man apart from the supersensuous is as little to be understood as man apart from humanity.
Mordecai is carved of the wood from which prophets are made, and so far as the supersensuous can be rendered intelligible, it may even be said that in studying him we are introduced into a studio or workshop of the prophetic mind.
But it will be a mightier revolution still when the last remaining ruins of the supersensuous other-worldly system of thought are swept away in order to clear the site for a new spiritual, purely real and present world.
We are also conscious of another class of feelings which correlate us with a supersensuous world, and these feelings, also, must have their cause in some objective reality.
It dogmatically ignores supersensuous values; hence it has rationalized preaching hence it has made provincial its intellectual approach and treatment, narrowed and made mechanical its content.
They had rejected not only mediaeval ecclesiasticism but also that view of the world founded on supersensuous values, whose persistent intimations had produced the speculative and scholastic theologies.
But if it means an exclusion of the supersensuous sources of knowledge or the denial of the existence of absolute values as the source of our relative and subjective understanding, then it strikes at the heart of religion.
It likewise proposes to rationalize those supersensuous needs and convictions which lie in the imaginative, the intuitive ranges of experience.
By the intuitive he does not mean the uncritical nor by the supersensuous the supernatural in the old and discredited sense of an arbitrary and miraculous revelation.
For a moment Furny's eyes took on a marvelous solemnity, as if they were holding for a moment some sort of holy, supersensuous vision.
The pilgrim on the way unfolds supersensuous powers, and seessupersensuous phenomena--devilish, passional, and divine.
He that is bound by sense-limitations is barred from supersensuous Knowledge.
This note should be studied patiently and intelligently, since it deals with the basis of all developments, activities, and supersensuous phenomena.
When the mirror of the Heart is cleansed of impurities, it becomes capable of reflecting the supersensuous lights.
The discipline of the desire-nature is recommended by all creeds and nations, and is known by Sages as a means of developing the supersensuous faculties.
But thy business lies with the discipline only, it is God's to grant supersensuous faculties.
If, at this stage, he is not aided by a Teacher, helping him on behalf of God, and versed in the interpretation of supersensuous words and symbols, he cannot progress further.
The state of equilibrium thus attained is called the highest state, because all the forces of one's being become united and focused; and this inevitably leads to supersensuous vision.
Therefore it was necessary for the teacher to remind the disciple that knowledge based on sense-perception or intellectual apprehension should not be confounded with supersensuous knowledge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supersensuous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
