Author: Henry JamesPublisher:
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Category : New Jerusalem Church
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Secret of Swedenborg
Author: Henry JamesPublisher:
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Category : New Jerusalem Church
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Secret of Swedenborg
Author: Henry JamesSECRET OF SWEDENBORG
Author: Henry 1811-1882 JamesPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781371214722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Secret of Swedenborg; Being an Elucidation of His Doctrine of the Divine Natural Humanity
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230245867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... tact with our intelligence only at the cost of transmuting the absolutely creative relation he bears to the mind, into a phenomenally constitutive relation; that is, at the cost of degrading him from the throne of his infinitude into an abject article, neither more nor less, of the race's mental furniture. XII. I will assume, accordingly, without further parley, that a tracer living knowledge of God is inevitably conditioned upon an authentic revelation of his name. The next question in order is, what is the method of this revelation? How does it actually come about? It must obviously do so in the most gradual manner, since its full accomplishment is contingent upon the advent of a truo society or brotherhood among men upon the earth: the evolution of such society or brotherhood, again, being itself contingent upon a previous experience and exhaustion of the patriarchal, the municipal, and the national or political administration of human affairs. The truth of an absolute society, fellowship, equality among men, as the consummation of our earthly destiny, is indeed the hidden divine leaven which has been fermenting in all history, and even from its rudest beginnings moulding the mind of man into inevitable conformity with itself. But from the nature of the case its operation, during all these initiatory stages of progress, must be purely negative. For until society puts on positive form -- that is, until the truth of man's rightful fellowship or equality with man becomes scientifically demonstrated -- the two elements which go to constitute the social conception of human life are arrayed in inveterate hostility to each other. In all the rudimentary social forms, the family, the city, the nation, an utter enmity exists between the generic...
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Author: Henry James (Senior.)The Secret of Swedenborg
Author: Henry James (sr.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404100872
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Selected Works of Henry James
Author: Henry JamesThe Secret of Swedenborg, Being an Elucidation of His Doctrine of the Divine Natural Humanity, by Henry James
Author: Henry JamesThe Secret of Swedenborg
Author: Henry JamesPublisher:
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Way, the Nature and Means of Revelation
Author: John Ferguson WeirPublisher:
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Category : Revelation
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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