Except a Man be converted and become as a little - of water and of the Spirit, he cannot see kingdom of Heaven.

VOLUME II.

BOSTON:

Child- be born again nor enter into-the

JESUS OF NAZARETH.

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

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 Massachusetta.

CAMBRIDGE PRESS:

METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU.

CONTENTS.

CONVERSATION XXIII.

INSPIRATION OF THE AFFECTIONS.

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.

-Spiritual Phenomena. - -Intuition of Spirit,

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CONVERSATION XXIV.

SPIRITUAL REFINEMENT.

CONVERSATION XXV.

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CHASTITY.

Marriage Festival at Cana, from the Sacred Text. 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, . 10

INSTINCTIVE INSPIRATION.

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ENTHUSIASM.

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

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

matic Emblem.- Religious Enthusiasm. - Self-Purification. Wor-

ship,

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

Sense. 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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CONVERSATION XXVI.

IMMORTALITY OF SPIRIT.

RESURRECTION.

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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 Ilumanity.. Inability

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

of Spiritual Growth. - Instinct. - - Faith. - Imagination. - Reason.

Fruits of Spiritual Growth. Truth.Good. · 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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CONVERSATION XXVII.

ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.

HUMAN NATURE.

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CONVERSATION XXVIII.

RENOVATION OF SPIRIT.

REGENERATION.

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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,

Infancy an

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