 | Richard Maurice Bucke - 2006 - 406 pages
...the plays and sonnets. Note again these words of Bacon's, taken from Ms essay "Of Truth" [35 ; 82] : "The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of Ms spirit." In other words : In the evolution of the human mind simple consciousness was first produced... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - 2006 - 337 pages
...consciousness ; and lastly, there is being produced to-day Cosmic Consciousness. Bacon proceeds : " First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos [and produced life, simple consciousness] ; then he breathed light into the face of man [and produced... | |
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The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. 
