Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... boehme and rama prasad As there is a nature and substance in the outward world; so also in the inward spiritual world there is a nature and substance which is spiritual, from which the outward world is breathed forth and produced out of light and darkness, and created to have a beginning and time.-- Regeneration, chap. 2, par. 31. There is only one life, and this is not capable of being created, but is eminently capable of flowing into forms organically adapted to its reception--all things in the created Universe, in general and in particular, are such forms.-- Swedenborg's Intercourse of the Soul and Body, No. 11. No habitual student of Boehme's works could study Rama Prasad's work on Nature's Finer Forces without noticing the agreement of account given by both these writers of many recondite facts. With point of view quite different, and diction most unlike, each confirms the evidence of the other: but they give two sides of the same phenomena, Boehme the spiritual, Rama Prasad the supersensuous material. Take, for example, the often recurring mention of "the powers, virtues, and colours of the wisdom" (efflux of Deity), by the old seer, and what we find about the varying colours of vibrations of ether (tatwic phases) in pp. 42 and 57 of the modern book. Calling to mind Boehme's frequent assurance that everything in temporal nature has its analogue in eternal nature, close attention to such an admirable teacher as Rama Prasad should help to a clearer conception of the mysteries Teutonicus laboured so earnestly to expound. I think "desirous seekers" after truth must always be pleased when one mystic or seer endorses the report of another. For instance, Boehme teaches that a figure--a passive model--has invariably preceded the...
