{"product_id":"how-like-an-angel-came-i-down-9780940262386","title":"How Like an Angel Came I Down","description":"\"We have yet to learn that Wisdom and Holiness are of no Age; that they preexist, separate from time, and are the possession of Childhood, not less than of later years.\" --\u003cb\u003eA. Bronson Alcott\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The unconscious psyche of the child is truly limitless in extent and of incalculable age.\" --\u003cb\u003eCarl Gustav Jung\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery now and then the past yields up one of its lost treasures. This book is just such a gem. Bronson Alcott, friend and sometimes mentor to Emerson and Thoreau in Concord, was also a visionary educator who believed that the psyche of a child already carries within it the imprint of spirit and wisdom. At his school in Boston in the 1830s, he held this extraordinary series of conversations on such themes as spirit, consciousness, conscience, love, humility, the Holy Ghost, and the knower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lindisfarne Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780940262386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.02w x 1.01d","brand":"A. Bronson Alcott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51495007322293,"sku":"9780940262386","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_165e136d-ecd9-4620-82a4-b08163ac0643.jpg?v=1754973576","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/how-like-an-angel-came-i-down-9780940262386","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}