Humans must every be the slave of routine; but in the old days it was a routine of great thoughts, and now it is a routine of little ones, and we must revert to the predecessor. The programming of human concerns as a legitimate scientific endeavor represents the central hope of all scientific-love-seekers. Sensation is the necessary cause of our ideas, feelings, needs, and will. Since sensitivity is the connection between the biological life and mind, the mental is only the physical considered from a certain point of view. The stomach is a machine for digesting food, and the brain is a machine for digesting impressions, by the secretion of thought. There are no causes except those which can act on our senses, no truths except in relation to the general way of feeling of human nature, which varies with such optimistic factors as age, gender, disposition, health, climate, and so one. To act right simply because it is one’s duty is proper; but a good action which is the result of no law of reflection shines more than any! To do right, for the pure love of right, or the love of God, is a very difficult thing. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 13

Thus, the state of abdominal viscera may influence the formation of ideas. People are regularly thrust into situations that put them in danger, and so they gain protection from the anxiety surrounding death by investing in supernatural beliefs that make them feel, in some way, immortal. Generally, religious beliefs involve supernatural thinking: thoughts and attitudes that relate to entities, events, or actions that are at odds with our understanding of the laws of physics. Supernatural thinking is a normal part of human development, which can help people understand what they see around them. The first point is to know one’s own mind. The next is, to act up to the decision. We are not judges of our own ailments: physicians do not often prescribe for themselves.Perhaps, on the whole, more power is lost than gained by habits of secrecy. When each individual has subdued one’s own spirit, then there will be no war and no other enemies to conquer. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 13

 Supernatural thinking helped our ancestors make sense of the World. The organs, like all else in nature, are in constant motion, and are therefore involved in decomposition and recomposition. If we accept God as infinite, all must be contained in Him. Where, then, is there a place for matter outside of God? It is believed that God is a voluntary self-contraction with the concept of emanation. God, prior to creation, was actually infinite. To make room for creation, however, He voluntarily contracted or limited Himself. Some excess of spiritual substance overflowed into the space from which God had removed Himself, and this excess, or emanation, is how the World was created. The completed series of emanation served the additional purpose of providing the conduit by which humans aspiring spirit might reach the heights of divinity; thus, it served both as the mechanism of creation and as the itinerary of the mind to God. Supernatural beliefs are still activity in the twenty-first-century and are derived from faith in God and the power of prayer. And believing in God serves psychological functions. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 13

Believing in God manifests psychological well-being because it increases people’s sense of control when they feel uncertain or stressed out. For instance, Elle Woods had to attend church one morning, and she had some animosity towards Polly. So, in perpetration, she drank some sweet tea before church to calm her nerves. “I had to drink a jar of sweet tea before church because if I seen this harlot at the cathedral, I was finna kick her grits (in reference to ‘Kiss my Grits’ from Mel’s Diner).” Because supernatural beliefs are at odds with a scientific understanding of the World, though, tension may arise between religious individuals who hold such beliefs and nonreligious people who reject such beliefs. Religion is like an ancient weapon, but many people are “frightened with your sorcerer’s ways” because they think it has the power to conjure up the stolen data tapes or gives clairvoyance enough to find the rebel’s hideaways. Therefore, religion can create friction between believers and nonbelievers and can be a source of animosity and derision. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 13

 Though science and religion are often portrayed as being at odds with each other, we have the framework to help organize and make sense of the information.  This allows science and religion to co-exist peacefully. Sensitivity and irritability is a basic biological phenomenon; sense both are dependent on the nerves, they are essentially the same. There are metaphysical forces beyond science at work in the World, which will lead to a coronation a reign of truth, justice, and mercy. The ideal of salvation in thus the establishment of an Earthly paradise of human life, raised to its highest humanity. There is an idea that this regeneration cannot take place until all pre-existing souls have had satisfactorily completed their Earthly existence and that, since some souls are too weak to go unassisted through life to perfection, other superior souls might coexist with them in one body to insure their success. Transmigration means to pass from one condition, place, or body to another. The entrance requirement for God’s kingdom is a new birth. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 13

Transmigration is usually identified with the Greek word metempsychosis (change of the soul), the transmigration of souls draws on the Greek Orphic mysteries, which combined genuine piety with magic. “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, one cannot see the kingdom of God,” reports Christ in John 3:3-8. Nicodemus wondered, how could be born when he is old? Christ replied “Most assuredly, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, one cannot enter the Kingdom of God. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. And all who trust in Him—God’s Son—to save them have eternal life; those who do not believe and obey Him shall never see Heaven, but the wrath of God remains upon them,” reports Christ in John 3.36. German Hasidism promoted a new religious ideal of spiritual equanimity. They believed that God could assume a visible form in the guise of fire and clouds. It is not the mystic who ascends through the palaces, but the relational aspects of God that descends to humans. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 13

The three chief elements in this devoutness were mental serenity, ascetic renunciation, and extreme altruism, leading to heights of devotion in which true fear of God and love of God becomes one. At these heights, the Hasid is thought to achieve a creative power of a magical nature. God can be made manifest in the World through prayer. God is one and unique, yet He can create occasional representations of Himself that can appear in a visible form in the World. Despite the problems inherent in reporting that God has a created representation on Earth, the German Hasidim were able to preserve both the concepts of God’s absolute uniqueness and His accessibility to humanity. The nervous system is affected by internal changes, that is, by memory and imagination; thus, within humans exists another internal human in constant action, the effects of which are noticeable in dreams. The pre-scientific conception of the dream which obtained among the ancients was, of course, in perfect keeping with their general conception of the Universe, which was accustomed to project as an external reality that which possessed reality only in the life of the psyche. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 13

Many people take for granted that dreams are related to the World of Supernatural beings in whom believe, and that they brought inspirations from the gods and demons. Moreover, it appears to some philosophers that dreams must serve a special purpose in respect of the dreamer; that, as a rule, they predicted the future. Further, it accounted for the main impression made upon the waking life by the morning memory of the dream; for in this memory the dream, as compared with the rest of the psychic content, seems to be something alien, coming, as it were, from another World. It would be an error to suppose that the theory of the supernatural origin of dreams lacks followers even in our own times; for quite apart from pietistic and mystical writers—who cling, as they are perfectly justified in doing, to the remnants have been swept away by scientific explanations—we not infrequently find that quite intelligent person, who in other respects are averse to anything of the romantic nature, go as far as to base their religious belief in the existence and co-operation of superhuman spiritual powers on the inexplicable nature of the phenomena of dreams. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 13

The validity ascribed to the dream-life by certain schools of philosophy—for example, by the school of Schelling—is a distinct reminiscence of the undisputed belief in the divinity of dreams which prevailed in antiquity; and for some thinkers, the mantic or prophetic power of dreams is still a subject of debate. This is due to the fact that the explanations attempted by psychology are too inadequate to cope with the accumulated material, however strongly the scientific thinker may feel that such superstitious doctrines should be repudiated. However, the hereditary disposition, the state of the organs, dreams, and automatic or unconscious impulses are factors that are more significant than experience (sensations) in determining the individual’s behavior; for the tabula rasa concept ignores what the child or adult brings to experience. The influence of temperament is the determining effects of the inherited physical constitution. Because of heredity, the human race can be improved by hygienic methods. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 13

The inheritance of acquired characteristics and can be used to advance the species through crossbreeding, programs of eugenics will do for the human species what human beings have done for dogs and horses. Psychology tends to impoverish human experience by reducing it to the physical and mechanical level, and by denying the possibility of transcending internal and external sensations. Humans are ultimately considered to be their own justification and the master of their own destiny. They have faith in their capacity to progress indefinitely by means of their own resources. God is too close to humans and the World to be the Supreme Mystery that the mystical temper insists He must be. God Himself, the Boundless, the Infinite, the Transcendent, did not perform the material act of creating the World. This was the work of lesser spirit, or demiurge, who was brought into existence by God in order to do this specific job. As the conception of God’s transcendence developed, one demiurge seemed insufficient to express the sense of awesome distance between the divinity and the material World. #RyanPhillippe 10 of 13

The remoteness of God from the World was heightened, therefore, by adding other intermediaries and thus forming a chain from God to matter whose links were increasing materiality. Intellectual abstraction is an act of objective illumination. The first principles of reasoning are known by virtue of the sense experience; not only them meaning of the terms of such principles but also the nexus of the judgment enunciating them originates in sense perception. Thus, our knowledge comes from the sense. Concerning the human soul, it is immortal. However, immortality of the soul is not rationally demonstrable, the mysteries are put in faith. Nonetheless, there are reasons not everyone can invent flying machines, even now that the blueprints exist. Nearly all wisdom we possess consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and ourselves. Knowledge of God is so interrelated with knowledge of ourselves that the one cannot be had without the other. When we accurately reflect on ourselves, we realize that our exercise of these gifts that our being is subsistence with the one God. Without this realization of our misery and dependence—especially of our misery—none of us comes, or even tries to come, to a knowledge of God. #RyanPhillippe 11 of 13

On the other hand, there is also no knowledge of self without a knowledge of God. Without a standard by which to measure ourselves, we invariably yield to pride, overestimating the worth of our natural gifts and overlooking the corruption that has resulted from the exercise of those gifts. The philosopher, without knowing God, can give us so much accurate and worthwhile information concerning human’s faculties and constitution. However, philosophy cannot yield a true estimate of our worth and condition. It is very important to understand what it means to know God. To know God, we must know the truth about God and an essential aspect of our knowledge of God is our acknowledgment of his attitude toward us, especially his attitude of benevolence and love. God’s benevolence toward presupposes worshiping and obeying him. The concept of knowing God, there is no knowledge of God apart from worship of, and obedience to, him. What can be known about God is never his nature (quid est), but only what he is like (quails est); and more specially, what he is like toward us. #RyanPhillippe 12 of 13

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How is knowledge of God to be achieved? Knowledge of God can, in principle, be achieved by nourishing one’s subjective awareness of deity and its will, with reflection on the structure of the World. There is, within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, as awareness of divinity [sensus divinitatis]. The Universally innate sense of divinity in humankind, accounts for the Universality of religion in human society. It is a seed of life; it was not invented by the subtlety and craft of a few to hold the simple folk in thrall. Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not keeping with a holy God. Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind—placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life. All of us possess every good and bad instinct in the whole book of human nature, but few of us have imagination enough to find it out. No one knows till the time comes, what depths are within one. #RyanPhillippe 13 of 13