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The Areopagitica bites into modern interests and the constitution of the modern intellect; the Tetrachordon, though it must have occupied the author longer, has, I should say, quite lost its bite, except for students of Milton, and for reasoners who would debate his Divorce Doctrine over again by the same method of the interpretation of Biblical texts.
And as you hold the view of the non-difference of the world from Brahman, you yourself set aside all those texts which declare Brahman to be different from the soul; for were there such difference, the doctrine of general non-difference could not be established.
It looks to me like the firmament at night, with all the stars a-shining. There's no end of texts about stars. 'Like as one star differeth from another " He began to cough. "There seems to be smoke. I guess you'll have to drag me out, brother." At the end of the village a stone fence ran between two houses, on the other side of a little garden slope planted with potatoes.
The Vedanta texts, the Vedas and the Upanishads, teach that Brahman is the one only source of whatever exists outside himself; that his nature is not only mighty, but also intelligent. Atomists hold that there is apparent difference and separateness in things. "Where, then," they ask, "is the oneness, the monism, for which the Vedantists argue?"
'I have fed you, saith Paul, 'with the milk of the Word'; saith Peter, 'even as you have been able to bear it. Compare these two or three texts 1 Peter 2:1-3; 1 Corinthians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:7. And this is the way to strengthen the weak hands, and to confirm the feeble knees. This is the way to make them grow to be men who now are but as infants of days.
Then, too, for science there was established an insurmountable barrier, in that the most careful inductions of science from ascertained facts must conform to the view of nature given in the myth and legends of the Bible. For 1500 years science was forced to confine itself to a system of deducing scientific truth from scriptural texts.
You're in her class, while I " He groaned, and burst out morosely: "You know I'm not, both of you. What's the use of lying?" The two friends glanced across at each other and were silent. Blake went on again, in his hopeless, dreary monotone. "Down and out down and out. Only son of his mother, and she a drunkard. Nothing like Scripture, Jimmy, for consoling texts."
He finds in the origin of Mind clear indications of "an unseen universe a world of spirit, to which the world of matter is altogether subordinate." The doctrine is even found in public school texts.
All the elements which go to make up the interest of theology were involved: love of free inquiry, desire of precision in philosophical statements, research into Christian antiquity, comparison of the texts of Scripture one with another. Traditional and episcopal authority was regarded as insufficient for the establishment of the faith.
Though different views were current in Egypt as to the exact location of the heaven of the beatified dead, yet all schools of thought in all periods assigned it to some region in the sky, and the abundant allusions in the texts to the heavenly bodies that is, the sun, moon, and stars which the deceased dwells with, prove that the final abode of the souls of the righteous was not upon earth.
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