enfoldment

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Incessantly this unsubstantial enfoldment took place in her inner sense, like some wild drama among ocean-bed things, far below an unrippled surface.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon

Its beauty will shine upon all, for its beauty is of the soul, whose power of enfoldment is unbounded.

From Woman and the New Race by Sanger, Margaret

Nowadays it is not so much pure reason as a wider empirical knowledge of nature, with its consequent transformation of ideas, that makes the doctrine of enfoldment difficult.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

When man's spiritual progress has attained a degree of enfoldment entitling him to come into possession of his Divine Heritage then will the sublime vibrations of the spheres be a reality to him.

From The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation by Kennon, J. L.

People wonder why sensitive, self-respecting women are not driven away from the stage by the offences that hedge it; they are driven deeper and farther into its enfoldment.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter