Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colossal Soul." At Swedenborg's death, in 1772, there were no plans to form an association of his followers. But 16 years later a group of British Sweden-borgians formed the first Church of the New Jerusalem at Great Eastcheap, London, and as early as 1784 a London Scot named James Glen was preaching Swedenborgianism in Philadelphia and Boston...
...inspirations of the great Swede appealed to many an intellectual who did not join the New Church; Emerson saw him as "a colossal soul [who] lies vast abroad on his times, uncomprehended by them, and requires a long focal distance to be seen." Henry James called him "the sanest and most far-reaching intellect." Last week the Church of the New Jerusalem met in Manhattan for its 131st General Convention. On hand were 250 delegates, including the Rev. Yonezo Doi, whose flock in Japan and Korea numbers 3,400 Swedenborgians. Meeting in their trim, light-filled church off Park Avenue...
...psychiatrist will go as far as Author Huxley (who prescribed mescaline for all mankind as a specific against unhappiness). But LSD 25, while it has no direct curative powers, can be of great benefit to mental patients. It encourages them to interpret their own soul-searing fantasies, and the newly revealed memories help the psychiatrist plan further treatment. Of the 23 cases that had completed treatment, LSD 25 coupled with psychotherapy resulted in 14 cases recovered, while one showed great improvement...
...temple: he is the lady's husband, who has just committed suicide. "I hope you've been comfortable," says the Devil, when the anguished lovers scuttle back to the elevator. "Hell is nothing to complain of ... We've had everything modernized . . . It's only the soul that suffers nowadays ..." "He might have told me," says the lady indignantly, as the lovers go up into life again...
...freedom to make love to Edwina of his own choice, to persuade and implore her, to aspire and range." One night the professor releases Percy and, sure enough by dawn, "romantic and full of nostalgia " he is back. Gently, Percy lays his hand upon Edwina. "No questions disturbed her soul ... She welcomed him home." But the professor, unscientifically overcome by the sentiment that he is a friend of the family, modestly averts his eyes...