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Brahmas...allowed formalism to become an empty shell in which there existed little of the true spirit of the ancient Vedas.
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Transcendentalism began as a protest against the general state of culture and society at the time, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church which was taught at Harvard Divinity School. Among Transcendentalists' core beliefs was an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions.
-Wikipedia
Brahma, Brahman sacred knowledge, sacred utterance
The Lord by Wisdom founded the earth;
by understanding he established the heavens;
by his knowledge the deeps broke forth,
and the clouds drop down the dew.
-Prov 3:19
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"I am...source, radiance, word of power, sound, virility, fragrance, brilliance of fire."
-Bagavad Gita, Lord's Song c250 B.C.
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"He..cannot be reached by speech, by mind, or by the eye. ..except by him who says "He is". When he has been apprehended by the words "He is," then his reality reveals itself." -Upanishads 800-600 B.C.
Bible of the World, Rbt. Ballou ed, 1939, 1967. Also Penguin 1944, 1972
God said to Moses, "I am who I am"... I AM has sent me to you. " -Exodus 3:14
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Yeats?: but no Scheherazade
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