Greatest Thing Ever Known [Facsimile] [Paperback]

Ralph Waldo Trine (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1996

1898. The Moment We Fully and Vitally Realize Who and What We Are, We Then Begin to Build Our Own World Even As God Builds His. Contents: The Greatest Thing Ever Known; Diving Energies in Every-day Life; The Mater's Great But Lost Gift; The Philosopher's Ripest Life Thought; Sustained in Peace and Safety Forever.

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• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564597180
• ISBN-13: 978-1564597182
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,028,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INSPIRATIONAL CLASSIC, April 21, 2002

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Thing Ever Known (Paperback)

Trine was one of those old metaphysicians, like also Thomas Troward, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Ernest Holmes, whose nobility of thought and elegant way with words are not easily rivaled by modern writers in the field. Like the others, he writes in the Christian Gnostic tradition and illumines the scriptures in a way that has relevance and practical application for seekers after truth. Only as Being projects itself into existence are we able to know it. We may know the fact that Being "is," but only as it manifests itself in form are we able to know it itself. And it is only through thought that we are able to conceive of Divine Being as the infinite spirit and essence of life and then to realise that it is the life of our life - in this way we can allow it to become incarnate in us. Rightly directed thought has redeeming power, so it is through our thought that we can create for ourselves a new heaven and a new earth. Trine explains why it is better to avoid perplexing theological theories and dogmas that merely give a vague promise of some afterlife instead of the means of actualising the divine life here and now. The one great truth of being is that there's no real life except God and to the extent that we realise the indwelling presence, we become awakened beings. But it is not the mere intellectual recognition, but the conscious vital and living realisation of this truth that makes it of value and renders it manifest in our everyday lives. This great classic is of the same quality as Trine's "In Tune with the Infinite" and I highly recommend it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Understated Title, February 20, 2009

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M. D. Baker "apprecianado" (D.C. IA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Greatest Thing Ever Known (Paperback)

This little book(Five chapters)reveals the most important message Jesus tried to get his contemporaries to understand and like Trine's other writings, he practically installs it to your hard drive.