The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 68
... existence would solve . In order to come closer to this mystery , man has then conceived God in more human shapes that are themselves equally contradictory and self - negating : as Yin and Yang , as Hora and Osiris , as Eternal Male and ...
... existence would solve . In order to come closer to this mystery , man has then conceived God in more human shapes that are themselves equally contradictory and self - negating : as Yin and Yang , as Hora and Osiris , as Eternal Male and ...
Page 88
... existence of mystery itself . Whether we consider God in the orthodox form as the boundless Being that encompasses all existence , or as the emergent divinity that realizes the purposes and potencies that otherwise remain only latent in ...
... existence of mystery itself . Whether we consider God in the orthodox form as the boundless Being that encompasses all existence , or as the emergent divinity that realizes the purposes and potencies that otherwise remain only latent in ...
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... existence the more frequent the occurrence of singular points . There can be little doubt that mankind reached such a singular point at the end of the Second World War . At that moment an awak- ened personality in the presidency of the ...
... existence the more frequent the occurrence of singular points . There can be little doubt that mankind reached such a singular point at the end of the Second World War . At that moment an awak- ened personality in the presidency of the ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
Canvass of Possibilities | 5 |
Diagnosis of Our Times | 11 |
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