vesture

• This entity ought not, strictly speaking, to be classified under the head "human" at all, since it is only its outer vesture, the passive, senseless shell, that was once an appanage of humanity; such life, intelligence, desire and will as it may possess are those of the artificial elemental animating it, and that, though in terrible truth a creation of man's evil thought, is not itself human. —  The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
• The material universe itself is only the vesture or symbol of God; man is a spirit, though he wears the wrappings of the flesh; and in everything that man creates for himself he merely attempts to give body or expression to thought. —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
• It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
• But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish Again, could anything be more miraculous than an actual authentic Ghost? —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
• This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed? —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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