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To use his own words: "It is for this we are created; that we may give a new and individual expression of the absolute in our own peculiar character. As soon as the new is but the re-expression of the old, God ceases to live. Ever the mystery is revealed in each new birth. So must it be to eternity. The Eternal-Absolute is ever creating new forms of expressing itself."
"The Eternal-Absolute is ever creating new forms of expressing itself." If, indeed, men's aspirations for liberty and intelligence be all from the powers of darkness, then let every longing for freedom be repressed and condemned, crushed by authority in the state, anathematized by the Church.
Ever the mystery is revealed in each new birth; so must it be to eternity. The Eternal-Absolute is ever creating new forms of expressing itself." What the new order of things was to be in the spiritual life could be learned, Father Hecker held, by observing men's strivings after natural good.
"The fourth should give the absolute union of the ideal and the eternal-absolute in their unconditioned existence. "The fifth should give the eventual one-ness of the ideal-absolute with humanity and nature. "Under these five heads I have in mind materials sufficient to make a volume, but lack the close application necessary to connect them. I do not say it would be readable when done.
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