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  WOULD THAT THE REST OF THE PHENOMENA OF NATURE COULD BE DEDUCED BY A LIKE KIND OF REASONING FROM MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES


id: 989
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  "And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh, for the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord


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  The Anæsthetic Revelation is the Initiation of Man into the Immemorial Mystery of the Open Secret of Being


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  As for their intrinsic merits, habituate yourselves to this principle: they have existed; therefore they had their reason to exist; therefore they are true at least in part.


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id: 14328
title: The Consolation of Philosophy
author: Boethius
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  thee nature''s hid secrets, and thou didst trace for me with thy wand things laid to thy charge whereof thou hast spoken, whether such as Thou hast ceased to know thy own nature. bewildered thy mind that thou hast bewailed thee as an exile, as one happy and powerful; while, because thou hast forgotten by what means the hath come to pass that thou also for awhile hast been parted from thy the boundaries of Fortune''s demesne, when thou hast placed thy head But if thou art content to supply thy wants so far as suffices nature, moreover, lack many good things, is not the happiness men seek in them ''Happy art thou, my scholar, in this thy conviction; only one thing ''Dost thou also call to mind how happiness is absolute good, and add any necessity to the things which thou seest before thy eyes?''


id: 15780
title: An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
author: Moore, Edward Caldwell
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  the thoughts which the men of the age would naturally have concerning nature, the new feeling concerning man, the vast complex of facts and religion whose God is not the principle of all life and nature and for some sense, all men are sons of God and Jesus was the son of man. Christ is for living religion now a man, now God, revelation now nature the Son of God, and mankind and Jesus are thought of as parts of all men is the basis of morality, just as the oneness of man with God is of a man''s nature and life by the action of the spirit of God, great revelation and source of inference concerning the nature of God. Instead of saying in the famous phrase, that the Christians think of views of the relation of God to man and the world held the field,


id: 26321
title: Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel''s "Riddle of the Universe"
author: Lodge, Oliver, Sir
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  fundamental existence, of "life" or of "mind," it ought to reply that The possibility that "life" may be a real and basal form of existence, The fact concerning life which lies at the root of Professor Haeckel''s that without matter the things we call mind, intelligence, consciousness, Matter possesses energy, in the form of persistent motion, and it is propelled by force; but neither matter nor energy possesses the power world for a time, but that it can also exist in some sense that life has an existence apart from its material manifestations as we the self-determined action of mind or living things upon matter, control or direct material forces--timing them and determining other words, life can generate no trace of energy, it can only guide generate energy nor directly exert force, yet it can cause matter to material, and timing the liberation of existing energy, as to produce


id: 21995
title: Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge
author: Rashdall, Hastings
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  of God to human knowledge will then be looked at through mind as a religious and moral life; what may I believe about God and Duty, about existence of the Universe is the mind that we call God. existence of a Mind possessing universal knowledge is necessary as the be thought of the existence of matter apart from mind, every one will dead, inert matter to exist without any mind to think it or know it, but upon the necessity of God as a universal, knowing Mind to explain both thought of as ultimately an experience in the mind of God, parts of which the existence of God. And even among the religious minds without of Nature as existing in the Mind of God, or as simply created or brought the Logos or Reason of God. The thought of great religious thinkers is none the less Revelation


id: 990
title: Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 2
author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
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  plain that the universal laws of nature are decrees of God following from mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to miracles, in the sense of events contrary to the laws of nature, so far from order of nature or her laws, it not only can give us no knowledge of God, naturally, and are referred directly to God because Scripture, as we have Scripture does not widely differ from the method of interpreting nature in book, when the historian, after relating the words of Moses, begins again to book of the law of God," he changes into "and Joshua wrote these words that Moses wrote the book of the law, the historian adds that he handed it reasonable to suppose that Moses wrote down the laws at the time when he law of God, written, set forth, and explained by Ezra, which is referred to


id: 989
title: Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1
author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
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  Reason does not present God as a law-giver for men. Law revealed by God to Moses was merely the law of the individual Hebrew Universal Religion, the Divine Law revealed through the Prophets and revealed law of God, I pass on to another part of my subject, and prove that (1) Prophecy, or revelation is sure knowledge revealed by God to man. natural faculties depends on knowledge of God and His eternal laws; but (20) With a real voice God revealed to Moses the laws which He wished to be in Scripture indicating the means by which God has revealed His laws to man. (111) Lastly, the prophets were said to possess the Spirit of God because man; therefore to him also was God revealed according to his understanding Divine law is to love God as the highest good, namely, as we have said, not


id: 992
title: A Theological-Political Treatise [Part IV]
author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
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  which has sovereign right over all things; and, inasmuch as the power of nature the laws of its nature it has a sovereign right to do, inasmuch as it sovereign a right as he who orders his life entirely by the laws of reason. (16:96) If men were naturally bound by the Divine law and right, or if the Divine law and right were a natural necessity, there would have been no need everyone is bound, in the state of nature, to live according to Divine law, power, which alone is bound both by Divine and natural right to preserve and transferred to Moses their right to consult God and interpret His commands: of government, possessing the sole right of consulting God, and consequently state of nature reason has no more rights than desire, but that men living to the rights and authority of the sovereign power, and that every man


id: 991
title: A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III]
author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
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  CHAPTER XIII It is shown, that Scripture teaches only very Simple Doctrines, commandment of God revealed to himself, but only the words uttered by Christ are told that God revealed the same thing to Moses in different words, and WHEREFORE SCRIPTURE IS CALLED SACRED, AND THE WORD OF GOD. expressed opinions of prophets and apostles openly proclaim that God''s I have written repugnant either to the Word of God or to true religion and the Bible is none the less the Word of God, and it is no more lawful to say of Scripture than of God''s Word that it is mutilated and corrupted. of God in so far as it affects religion, or the Divine law; we must now obedient, his creed is pious; for the true knowledge of God comes not by (24) Faith consists in a knowledge of God, without which obedience to Him


id: 3743
title: The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason
author: Paine, Thomas
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  thing at that time to believe a man to have been celestially begotten; shame at calling such paltry stories the word of God. As to the account of the creation, with which the book of Genesis opens, Did the book called the Bible excel in purity of ideas and expression person is; for the Creator is the Father of All. The first four books, called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, do not give the Bible; and I begin with what are called the five books of Moses, years after the death of Moses; as men now write histories of things point that the book proves is that the author lived long after the time Jerusalem at this day; meaning the time when the book of Joshua was confusion, contradiction, and cruelty in this pretended word of God. The first book of Kings begins with the reign of Solomon, which,


id: 1016
title: On the Improvement of the Understanding
author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
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  the said knowledge concerning the things needful to be known. adequate idea, or the subjective essence of a thing: the subjective essence of things, or, in other words, the ideas itself, [o] or the subjective essences of things, or ideas, connected with others--as all things that exist in nature--will mind according to the standard of the given true idea, we should perceiving unknown things according to the standard of the true idea; existence; but if the nature of the thing be not an eternal are clear and distinct can never be false: for ideas of things idea being false is evident to everyone who understands the nature standard of a true idea, and that method is reflective knowledge), fact, that true knowledge consists in knowing things through their (108:3) That it perceives certain things, or forms some ideas (108:13) The mind can determine in many ways the ideas of things,


id: 621
title: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
author: James, William
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  religion for human life, I think we ought to look for the answer among "God is more real to me than any thought or thing or person. conscious of hating God, or man, or right, or love, and I know the mere natural animal man without a sense of sin; sometimes it means a religious experience, the fact that man has a dual nature, and is "The great central fact in human life is the coming into a immanence of God and the Divinity of man''s true, inner self." power had come into my life; that, indeed, old things had passed sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life certain kind of thing for the first time in his life. things: "I simply mean the _Science of God_, or the truths we know God, meaning only what enters into the religious man''s


id: 8910
title: The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2
author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d''
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  If a faithful account was rendered of man''s ideas upon the Divinity, he ideas on the powers of nature, which gave birth to the gods they for want of contemplating nature under her true point of view, that man weak imagination of man is able to form; that when this nature appears reconcile man to the idea that the puny offspring of natural causes is knowledge--HIS REASON, it would naturally occur to the mind of man, that although in man, as well as the other beings of nature, it is evidence spring out of natural causes; that man as well as all the other beings Thus every thing proves that nature, or matter, exists necessarily; that of nature, applied to the conduct of man in society; that this reason thing proves to us, that it is not out of nature man ought to seek the


id: 8909
title: The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1
author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d''
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  PART I--Laws of Nature.--Of man.--The faculties of the soul. LAWS OF NATURE--OF MAN--THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL--DOCTRINE OF Man, in fact, finds himself in Nature, and makes a part of it: he acts universe, generated in the mind of man the idea of ORDER; this term, Nature_: man finds order in every thing that is conformable to his the manner of man''s considering the natural and necessary effects, which the natural means to render the beings with whom he lives happy; to _Happiness_ is a mode of existence of which man naturally wishes the The ideas which man forms to himself of happiness depend not only on his Whatever may be the cause that obliges man to act, society possesses manner which is but little accordant with the nature of things: each man The passion for existence is in man only a natural consequence man has designated the concealed causes acting in nature, and their


id: 13316
title: The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
author: Boethius
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  Forma uero quae est sine materia non poterit esse subiectum nec quae sit ultra substantiam; cum uero "iustus," qualitatem quidem sed non hoc nec substantia; quod enim est, aliis debet quae non sunt homo. sit loco (omnino enim in loco esse non potest) sed quod omnis ei locus non est subiectionis ratione quod dicitur, sed ultra omnem quae Sed si esse bonum est, ea quae sunt in eo quod sunt bona sunt idemque illis est esse quod boni esse; substantialia igitur bona sunt, quoniam non Non est igitur nobis idem bonis esse quod iustis, sed aliquid sed potius non esse significat; omnis uero natura est. Quod enim non est unum, nec esse things, thou thinkest that lewd and wicked men be powerful and happy; summum non esse manifestum est; nullo modo igitur quae summa sunt bona ea goodness, because it is desired by the nature of all things; thou didst


id: 36800
title: Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester
author: Holyoake, Austin
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  heavens opened to Jesus, and the Spirit of God descended like a dove and give his angels charge concerning thee." Jesus said unto him, "It is of another, Jesus said, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. We are told that when "Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave But Jesus said unto him, When Jesus entered the ruler''s house, he said, "Give place, enthusiastic Peter said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on Jesus said, Come; to which Peter responded by stepping out of Jesus blessed Peter, and promised him the keys of the kingdom of heaven; Peter rebuked him, and said it should not be; but Jesus Christ, the Son of God." Jesus at last replied--"Thou hast said," which And as they went, whom should they meet but Jesus himself, who said


id: 60488
title: Meditations on the Essence of Christianity, and on the Religious Questions of the Day.
author: Guizot, François
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  2. That the will of God is the moral law of man, and obedience to facts and instincts which constitute man''s moral nature, this God, which will is the moral law of man. divine nature of Jesus Christ and his relation to God: "In the alike regard Jesus Christ as at once God and man, the alone, Jesus Christ raises His thoughts to God and says, "Father, Jesus Christ is not only God made man to spread the divine human soul which are the object of the Divine action, and God as to the essential laws regulating the relation of man with God. Historical tradition fully confirms the moral fact here God and man." [Footnote 87] revelation of the nature of Jesus him-self, of the God-man. Christian faith, the divine and the human nature united in Jesus, human origin that becomes man, but the God self-existent,


