...manifestations of the same substance. He wrote in Nature in 1836 that "the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old."35 Transcendentalism did not provoke mob violence, but it elicited much criticism in the press...

...is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves." -— " As a plant upon the earth, BO a man rests upon the bosom of God ; he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at Ms need; inexhaustible power." Man may have access to the entire mind of the Creator, himself become...

...comfortable confidence in the beneficent "Supreme Being" that acts through ourselves, that "does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...unfailing fountains, and draws at his need inexhaustible powers" (50). 30 Melville's quarrel with these views was most profoundly figured in Ahab, who subscribes...

...spiritually, or through ourselves; therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...branches and leaves through the pores of the old. (E&L 41) the Supreme Being; and that Being's putting nature forth "through us" is further complicated...

...leaves God out of me. It leaves me in a splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds....

...ourselves." "Therefore," declared Emerson, "that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...branches and leaves through the pores of the old." He seemed to be tarrying in a garden of the spirit, where contemplation and mystical unitive consciousness...