...much meaning in the words of the mystic, Jacob Behmen : " When," says he, " I take up a stone or a clod of earth, and look upon it, then I see that which is above and that which is below ; only in each thing one property happeneth to be chiefest and manifest, according to which it is named...

...much meaning in the words of the mystic, Jacob Behmen : ""When," says he, " I take up a stone or a clod of earth, and look upon it, then I see that which is above and that which is below ; only in each thing one property happeneth to be chiefest and manifest, according to which it is named...

...that a handful of earth, did we but comprehend it, would be sufficient to teach us all that is: " When I take up a stone or clod of earth and look upon it,...then I see that which is above; and that which is above is that which is below, yea, the whole world therein." Hegel tells us, in speaking of the idealistic...

...their perceptions have a common basis—the belief in a complex but essentially unified reality: "When I take up a stone or clod of earth and look upon it;...that which is below, yea the whole world therein." The seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit Juan Eusebius Nieremberg recalled the origins of the tradition...

...Structure in Herbert. Vaughan. and Traherne (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981): "When 1 take up a stone or clod of earth and look upon it: then 1 see that which is above, and that which is below, yea the whole world therein" (2). 5. Heather Asals,...

...that call to mind the Emerald Tablet, Böhme writes at one point of the unity of all things: "When I take up a stone or clod of earth and look upon it, I see that which is above and that which is below, indeed [I see] the whole world therein."89 He writes...