Ralph Waldo Emerson · Philosophy
Emerson’s vision of the one universal soul - the Over-Soul - present and whole within every person. Beneath our separate, divided lives runs a single divine consciousness, so that to look deeply into any individual soul is to touch the infinite.
You learned that the Over-Soul is the one universal soul within which every particular being is contained and made one with all others, that we live ‘in parts, in particles’ while the whole soul dwells within us, and that this makes the individual, at the deepest level, divine. Explain these ideas in your…
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