 You ask, how can we know the Infinite ? I answer, not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to reason, by...  New York Medical Eclectic - Page 741875Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 526 pages
...and define. The infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can THE IDEA OF GOD. 385 only apprehend the infinite by a faculty superior...the divine essence is communicated to you. This is ecstacy. It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness. Like only can apprehend like... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1866 - 182 pages
...reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite...the Divine Essence is communicated to you. This is ecstacy But this sublime condition is not of permanent duration. It is only now and then that we can... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1883 - 176 pages
...apprehend the Infinite only through the faculty superior to the understanding by entering into a condition in which you are your finite self no longer, in which the Divine Essence is communicated to you." In conclusion, it would seem that the Alexandrian philosophers professed to bring down the Divinity... | |
 | Patañjali - 1885 - 284 pages
...reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can" only apprehend the Infinite...the Divine Essence is communicated to you. This is Ecstacy. It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness. Like only can apprehend like... | |
 | Marvin Richardson Vincent - 1889 - 636 pages
...reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the infinite...longer; in which the divine essence is communicated to yon. This is ecstacy. It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness. . . . But this... | |
 | Marvin Richardson Vincent - 1889 - 624 pages
...reason to distinguish and define. The infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. Yon can only apprehend the infinite by a faculty superior...the divine essence is communicated to you. This is ecstacy. It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness. . . . Bat this sublime condition... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1893 - 656 pages
...reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite...It is the liberation of your mind from its finite anxieties. Like only can apprehend like. When you thus cease to be finite, you become one with the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1895 - 682 pages
...reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite...It is the liberation of your mind from its finite anxieties. Like only can apprehend like. When you thus cease to be finite, you become one with the... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - 1905 - 352 pages
...reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite...divine essence is communicated to you. This is ecstasy [Cosmic Consciousness] . It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness. Like only... | |
 | 1908 - 254 pages
...not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite...essence is communicated to you. This is ecstasy." This ecstasy is very rare, but it is the only state in which the Infinite Being can be realized face... | |
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