Hippolytus and His Age; Or
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ISBN13: 9780217001601
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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: III. MAN AND HUMANITY. In the intellectual world the finite expression of the Thought is the conscious individual, Man. The privilege of man is his free will, his power of free moral action. He is not bound to act by a cogent impulse from within or without, either of instinct or of the outer world, but is capable and called upon to act on the decision of his own reason and conscience, or, to express it more precisely, on an ethical resolution based upon conscience negatively, and upon reason positively. This free will gives man the awful power of appropriating to Self what is God's, of substituting his self-interest and pride for the ideas of what is good, and just, and true. By being allowed to realize this power, which realization is the evil and the sin, his conscience tells him that he is self-responsible. Free will imposes self- responsibility. Thus free will includes necessarily the power of not following the will of God and the dictates of conscience and enlightened reason, but of acting according to that negation of the divine will potentially contained in Self. By divine necessity, what is the origin of evil becomes the impellingpower of development in universal history. Evil exists only through man, but it exists as condition of his free agency, and of the realization of the divine mind in finite nature. The consciousness of the human mind in reality is, and always must have been, that suspension between the attraction to a centre and the falling away from it by its own momentum, which in nature produces the planetary rotation. There is in man the consciousness of the option left to him between the free life in God and the enslaving act which, instead of God, constitutes Self the centre of existence, and thia double consciousness is the subjective element of ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217001601 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217001602 |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 186 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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