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Jesus saw children who were being suckled. He said to his disciples: These children who are being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom. They said to Him: Shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female (not) be female, when you make eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in the place of a hand, and a foot in the place of a foot, (and) an image in the place of an image, then shall you enter the Kingdom.
Two months after the birth of William James in 1842, the famed lecturer, essayist, and one-time Unitarian minister, Ralph Waldo Emerson, stopped in at New York City's Astor Hotel, where the James family lived, to inspect the cradled new son of his fast friend and literary colleague, Henry James the elder. Emerson had journeyed to New York ostensibly for reasons related to his pocketbook. The market for his lectures in Boston and Providence had waned, affording him only forty dollars per lecture, rather than his usual fifty-seven. Perhaps of much more personal significance, lecturing in the north afforded him only what he referred to as “small company” besides.1 If the economics of his lecture tour to New York City is pushed to the background of consideration, then it is possible to look deeper into the life of this American seer—a seer who, for reasons soon to be suggested, owed his national reputation to his decision to reject an