... Emerson's main ideas: the limitless power of the individual, the importance of nature to the world, and that nature is the image of God, and the idea that God is amongst us all and describes people as a particle of God. His Transcendental beliefs were rejected by many who viewed Emerson's work as sacrilege and disrespectful to the Christian faith but his views also stimulated ... sort of originality. An example would be his poem "The Rhodora" to his book entitled Nature where in "The Rhodora" he re-emphasizes that nature is "the mystical unity of God's love throughout nature" ("The Rhod...

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... their desire for material pursuits, when happiness could be achieved by living a simple life. Emerson writes of his religious revelations in nature to the greatest extent. In these "plantations of God,"" he finds himself enlightened as to the presence and nature of a higher being, and his own place within the universe that has been created for him. Emerson's "occult relationship between ... him converts Emerson into a "transparent eyeball."" "The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me,"" he says. "I am part or particle of God."" In this way, nature essentially acts as a me...

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... sensical, became the means for a conscious union of the individual psyche (known in Sanskrit as Atman) with the world psyche also known as the Oversoul, like force, prime mover and God (known in Sanskrit as Brahma). Other basic premises were: - an individual is the spiritual center of the universe, and in an individual can be found the clue to nature, history ... and ultimately, the cosmos itself. It is not a rejection of the existance of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual; - the structure of the universe literally duplicates the struc...

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