Word: soule
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Maupassant shows some signs of occupying himself with the soul and this brings us to Bourget, who is ever preoccupied with the soul...
...asserting a revelation, though Christians go so far as to maintain that the revelation made to them was the only true one. There are many other points of similarity in the three religions. Floods, fires, and cataclysms appear in them all; all insist on the immortality of the soul and the immutability of the supreme Being; and all have a heaven and a hell. Of course the details vary, but the general underlying basis remains, and it is this with which theosophy concerns itself...
...scheme of life which Christ brought to the world was a system of prayer. Prayer is instinctive in man in times of peril and emergency. At such times it is universal; as natural to the poor heathen as to the Christian. It is the unrestrained outpouring of the soul towards the Father of all. The highest civilization which the world knows is one which depends on prayer and which builds edifices for purposes of prayer. In such a civilization there is the most prayer, for the men of genius, unsatisfied by communion with human beings, reach out toward God, that...
Prayer is not the mere repetition of words, it must come from the heart; it should be the expression of the predominating desire of the soul. The whole current of a true man's life is prayer, but the man who prays amiss prays in vain...
...number of sects, each one of which offered its own way to heaven. There is no doubt that there was much that was holy and noble about many of these teachings. The outgrowth of this period was the idea of the Supreme Being. The Indian pantheism made each soul not a part of, but identical with, this being. The tendency of this belief is to drown all personality. That is why so few names of great men have come to us from India...