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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART SECOND. 1 THE INFINITE IN THE UNIVERSE. IN THREE CHAPTERS. Chapter I. The Infinite One Creating. n. The Infinite One In The Kingdom Of Matter. III. The Infinite One In The Kingdom Of Spirit. chapter{{Section 4CHAPTER I. THE INFINITE ONE CHEATING. His First Act outwards?Incomprehensible, Not ContradicTory TO REASON?THE UNCONDITIONED?NoN-BEINO, UNCONDITIONED?Heoel's Axiom?The Infinite, The Eternal Positive?Pantheism, Contradictory?Cousin?Pact Op Creation, Alone?Locks?Thoughts our Creations?Mind, Matter, Divine Creations EXISTENCE BEGINNING. The First Act of Being, outwards, plunges us in unfathomable mystery. The idea, of which the generic term, Creation, is the accepted sign, it is for ever impossible for us to grasp; it belongs to Infinity, to a distinctive forthgoing of power properly Infinite. One or two faltering steps, towards the abysmal secret, we venture to take with trembling and awe. Creation is not something rising up out of absolute nonentity. It assumes existence in one form, it supposes Being, Being Infinite and Eternal?but only this. As the act of the Eternal One, Creation is not the bringing of something out o/nothing, as if nothing were either the material or the place, out of which something is brought. It is not the conversion of nothing into something, as if nothing were a kind of substratum on which the Infinite Power acted. But, so far as we are capable of conceiving and embodying it, Creation is causing existence to begin; an instant ago, it is supposed, there was absolutely Cudworth's Intell. Sys. vol. iii. sec. ii. chap. v. London, 1845. CREATION INCOMPREHENSIBLE. 45 nothing save the Infinite Life, but this instant something else has begun to be. The idea which is thus expressed is altogether incomprehen...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217475396 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217475396 |
| Weight | 0.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 150 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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