No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical. It is impossible for two persons to be constituted so much alike, but that one of them should have a more genuine and instantaneous relish for one sort of excellence, and another for another. It contributes greatly towards a person’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike themselves, who care little for one’s pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities one must go out of oneself to appreciate. I went out shopping today. Why did you not tell me about all of the book? While out walking, I turned a corner and was confronted with a street packed full of book shops. You may laugh, but even if I were to have let my imagination run loose, I never would have conjured up an image of an entire stored filled with nothing but books. What power is able to hold in chains a mind ardent and determined? What power can cause that individual to die, whose whole soul commands one to continue to live? I am afraid I looked quite the country yokel, standing in the doorway of the first establishment I entered, staring around me goggle-eye at the shelves upon shelves. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

I was enthralled by all of the knowledge, purported proofs of the existence of God, metaphysical systems interpreting what is accepted on faith, and historical and psychological evidences about the nature of religion and its effects on believers, which offered rational explanations of even justifications of what has already been accepted on faith. It was some time before I remerged from the bookshop, blinking, into the sunlight that seemed to sting my eyes and cause them to become crimsoned. However, it was incomprehensible and contrary to reason for the rest of the day I traipsed from one end of the Castle’s bookshop to the other, ducking into every single room in the place that was filled with books, and not leaving without buying at least one thing. I became quite adept at saying, in an offhand sort of way, “Send the in my hotel” and was flabbergasted at the stack of parcels awaiting me at the hotel that evening. I puzzled over what to get for you, my dear, as I know that you have only limited amount of room in your kit bag. All a person really needs to get them through the vagaries of life are the Bible and William Shakespeare (both of them). Sometimes I forget that it modern times, we also require music to get by. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

Music is a natural magic, as distinct from the demonic magic that all Christians must renounce. Music uses air in its physical medium, and it resembles spirits. Music bridges a gateway with the soul, as the strings of lyre are made to resonate with the cosmic tones of the planets, stars, and the heart and communicate with these higher powers through this magical realm where words are but pictures of our thoughts. You get a lovely sense of the artist’s superstitions and almost primitive lifestyle. In some cases, when magicians cause strange effect by calling on the assistance of non-human person, the magic is demonic; in others, when strange effects come from manipulating physical objects rather than conversing with persons, the magic is natural or spiritual. The musician who plays his or her lyre to a higher Heavenly power without singing could not be accused of invoking a demon. Invocation is inverted prayer; both require the sending of verbal messages between persons. We are regular savages, but do not always eat our own young. I love to listen to music while taking a long, luxurious bath; a bath where I do not have to draw and heat the water myself. Just to sink back in the steamy water and rose oil is Heaven itself. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

When taking a bath, I like to listen to Aaliyah, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Dj Testio, Paul Oakenfold, J.R. Castro, Tory Lanez, Giovannit Pico, Diacetto, and other figures and imagine I am in my dream mansion filled with light. However, some scholars seem to believe that this sort of meditation leaves physical channels open for not only imagination, but spirits and occult qualities that have magical effects and it replaces the stars with the God who created them. The stars project astral instruments in a way that allows their voice and music to grasp the whole World. An instrument of this sort is the spirit, which by the physician is defined as a certain vapour of the blood, pure, subtle, hot and lucid. And, formed from the subtler blood by the heat of the heart, it files to the brain, and there the soul assiduously employs it for the exercise of both the interior and exterior senses. Thus, the blood serves the spirit, the spirit the senses, and finally the senses reason. In this sense a corporeal vapour, centered in the brain also flows through the nervous system, and it is the first instrument of the incorporeal soul, an instrument for sense-perception, imagination and motor-activity—the link between body and soul. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

The Christian Religion not only was the first attended with miracles, but even to this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without them. Mere reason is not sufficient to convince us of its veracity; and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in one’s own person, which subverts all the principals of one’s understanding, and gives one determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. The spirit of the studios is especially likely to need care, because their constant use of it in thinking and imagining consumes it. It has to be replaces from the subtler part of the blood and this renders the remaining blood dense, dry, and dark. In consequences, such person are always of a melancholy temperament. The spirits which derive from a melancholy humour (dark blood) are exceptionally fine, hot, agile, and combustible like the Sun that warms Earth. They are, therefore, liable to ignite and produce a temporary state of mania or exaltation, followed by extreme depression and lethargy, caused by the dark matter left after being invoked. However, if properly tempered with a lot of life-force, then the spirits will glow and not burn, and make it possible continuous study of the highest order. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

Christianity makes claims that are worthy of belief, and is only by total commitment, or the leap into faith that it can be accepted. I believe it because I want to believe it and have seen miracles in my life. The refusal to accept that 2+2 = 4 and the ability to believe that 2+2 = 5 are intimately connected with attaining religious truth. If you believe and draw near God, it will also draw near you and you will see that 2.35+ 2.65 makes 2+2 = 5. It all depend on how you look at the equation. This is just an example of the suprarational or extrarational ways, such as mystical or revelatory experiences that provide the knowledge of fundamental truths. One can train oneself to escape the confines of rationality in order to intensify religious experience and belief. This is a form of genuine thought commonly found in late antiquity and during the Renaissance. Back in those time people had time to become contemplative genius, and they saw the importance for scholars of attracting the influence of the planets like the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and others. Saturn’s rings actually give off a sound that has been picked up by NASA and is described as Melancholy. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

To preserve the health of the spirit and to avoid the perils of being sad or depressed, one must nourish and purify the spirit with fresh water, aromatic foods, clean and pure scents, crisp air, light, and music. These are sometimes made to correspond to the division of the spirits into natural, vital, and primitive. If the vapours exhaled by merely vegetable life are greatly beneficial to your life, how beneficial do you think will be aerial songs to the spirit which is indeed entirely aerial, harmonic songs to the harmonic spirit, warm and thus living to the living, endowed with the sense to the sensitive, conceived by reason to the rational.  That is to say, the peculiar power of music is due to a similarity between the material medium in which it is transmitted, air, and the human spirit, to the fact that both are living with kinds of air, moving in an highly organized way, and that both, through the text of the son, can carry an intellectual content. Not surprising; for, since song and sound arise from the cogitation of the mind, the impetuous of the phantasy, and the feeling of the heart, and, together with the air they have broken up and tempered, strikes the aerial spirit of the hearer, which is the junction of the soul and body, they easily move the phantasy, affect the heart and penetrate into deep recesses of the mind. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

It is not in fact surprising that a song, being the product of mind, imagination, and feeling, should, if transmitted, react on these faculties, just as a picture book might. I have been busy, running from one end of Paris to the other, it seems, securing the necessary paperwork, buying my uniform and the last bits of equipment, taking my driving exam. Did I tell you that, when I was on the boat trip across the Atlantic, I had the childish urge to go to Paris first and then to London, so that I could greet you all kitted out in my uniform? I think I look quite well turned out. All dressed up, but nowhere to go! I have been enjoying what bit of time we have. Our uniforms (and some say our hair) gets us all sorts of boons—half-priced theater tickets, discounted meals. It has been fun, but it does not seem like the “Gay Paree” I remember. Many of the theaters and music halls are shut or operate on shorted hours. Cafés are closed early, lights are dimmed on the street at night. Once one has realized the human predicament—human’s fundamental requirement for ultimate truths and one’s inability to find them—then one is ready to hear God and to accept his revealed Word on faith alone. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

 Once one has faith, one can see the force for the truth of the Christian religion. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to God because we have nowhere else to go. Ans then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desire Heaven. Father in Heaven, You see the challenges in my life and where the odds are attacked high against me. There are giants in front of me, but I am not worried about them. I acknowledge that the battle will not be won by my own strength or by my own power. I will accomplish this because You hold my future in Your hands. You will go before me, fighting my battles and making the crooked places straight. I believe that You will have the final say, and You have promised You will cross over ahead of me and defeat my challenges for me. One on God’s side is a majority. Such evidence might then constitute good reasons for believing what one has already accepted fideistically, which means that truth in religion is ultimately based on faith rather than on reasoning and evidence because miracles are supernatural events and sometimes cannot be explained by science. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9

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