Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836,

By A. BRONSON ALCOTT,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE PRESS:

METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU.

sette.

FAITH.

Practical Value of the Conversations. - First Disciples of Jesus, from

the Sacred Text. Faith in Spirit. Example. - Affability. - Idea

of Conversations. Idea of Sermons and Ministers. - Fraternal Af-

fection. Names of Jesus. - Emblem of Intrepidity. - Guilelessness.

- Intuition of Spirit,

-Spiritual Phenomena. -

CHASTITY.

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Marriage Festival at Cana, from the Sacred Text.-.

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- Affability.- Human

Supremacy. Views of Phenomena. - Idea and Emblem of Purity.-

Views of Phenomena. - Intermission. - Origin and Cause of Miracles

in Spirit. Types of Miraculous Agency. - Apprehension of Pheno-

mena.-Type of Marriage and Chastity. Recorder's Remark,

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tion.

ENTHUSIASM.

Purification of the Temple, from the Sacred Text.-Idea of Indigna-

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Emblem of Indignation.- Moral Intimidation. - Awe. - Dra-

matic Emblem. - Religious Enthusiasm. Self-Purification.

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Review.

Sense.

CONVERSATION XXVI.

IMMORTALITY OF SPIRIT.

RESURRECTION.

Jesus in the Temple, from the Sacred Text. - Dominion of

Immortality of Spirit. - Theories of Corporeal Reappearance.

- Revival of Reminiscence and Faith. - Spiritual and Material Re-

ality. Transfiguration of Matter. - Subordination of Body in Death.

- Idea of Immortality,

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ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.

HUMAN NATURE.

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Inability

Mission of Jesus, from the Sacred Text. Significance of the Passover.

- Conditions of Self-Insight - Intuition of Duty. - Aspiration after

Holiness. Christ in the Soul. - Faith in Humanity.

of Unbelief. Spiritual Blindness. Subsistence of the Human

Spirit on Holiness. Absolute Good. Phenomenal Existence of

Evil. Good and Evil. - Eternity of Holiness. Immortality of

Holiness. Religion. Trinity of Powers in Conscience. - Order

Instinct.

of Spiritual Growth. -

Faith. Imagination. Reason.

Fruits of Spiritual Growth. Truth.Good.

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Beauty. Ele-

ments of Absolute Being. - God. - Elements and Products of Hu-

man Nature. - Destiny of Humanity. - Irregular Growth of Powers.

- Allegory of the Human Faculties. - Synthesis of Being,

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Review. Immortality. -Interview between Jesus and Nicodemus,

from the Sacred Text. -Idea of Nicodemus.- Faith and its Em-

blem. Renewal by Faith.-Spiritual Birth. - Renovation. -End

of Human Life. Renovation of Life. Holiness of Infancy.

Prayer. Fallen Spirits. - Perversion of Childhood.

Emblem of Holiness,

FAITH AND LOVE.

John's Testimony to Jesus, from the Sacred Text.-Efficacy of Faith.

-Supremacy of Spirit. Paternal and Filial Union. - Perpetuity of

- Type of Spiritual Union. -

Retribution.

Idea of Death and Heaven.

Spirit.

Faith in the Supernatural. - Supremacy of Faith. -

Spiritual Union,

SPIRITUAL INTREPIDITY.

COURAGE AND PUSILLANIMITY.

- Connexion be-

Imprisonment of John the Baptist, from the Sacred Text. - Spiritual

Restraint.- - Moral Courage. - Power of Reproof.

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tween Self-Indulgence and Cowardice.

Self-Indulgence. - Spiritual Illumination,.

Repentance. Emblem of

CONVERSATION XXXII.

SPIRITUAL PURITY.

HOLINESS.

Interview between Jesus and the Woman of Samaria, from the Sacred

Text. Emblem of Holiness.

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- Blindness of Sensualism. - Materi-

alism of the Outward Senses. - Sensuality. -

Emblem of Spiritual

Emblem of Sensuality. Fruits of Purity. Fruits of

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