Why should I, who have real evils to contend with, regard imaginary ones? Well, as they believe themselves, as I shall so shortly as I can, make you (God willing) as easily to preoccupy with embryogenic theory. The morphogenetic development of the living organism can be explained by assuming that a specifically organized yet invisible structure of great complexity is contained in the nucleus of the germ cell and the gradual unfolding of the structure, through nuclear division, determines the course of every ontogeny. When Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (1867 – 1941) destroyed one of the blastomeres at the two-cell stage, the remaining one would develop into a half embryo—either the left half or the right half, depending on which blastomere had been destroyed. However, upon further experimentation, against all expectations, he found that each blastomere of the two-cell sea urchin egg developed into a whole embryo half the normal size. Knowing all about my knowledge, I know primordial concepts of order the meaning of which I, as the experiencing subject, grasp only intuitively (Bedeutungsschau), and that the experience as a whole presses on toward our seeing everything in order. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8
I am myself a man, and my heart is interested in whatever can befall the rest of humankind. Sin is the only real color-element left in modern life. Adolph Hitler not tolerate a thinker who fervently believed that nationalism was but an obstacle to the realization of one State of God. And this caused many Philosophers to become more interested in psychology and parapsychology. This entelechy, lacking all the characteristics of quantity, is not some special kind of energy, not a constant or force. It is not in space or in time but acts into space and into time. Entelechy, an elementary factor sui generis that acts teleologically. At the psychological and cultural levels, whole-making causality predominates and my soul as the unconscious foundation of my conscious experience is my primordial knowing of the meaning of order and my primordial willing of order indicates a working of my soul [which guides my actions] and certain states [of my soul] are parallel to my conscious having. This sounds very artificial, but logic is a very artificial instrument. Metaphysically, my soul and my entelechy are One in the sphere of the Absolute, and it is at the level of the Absolute only that we can speak of psychophysical interaction. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8
However, the Absolute, so understood, transcends all possibilities of our knowing, and it is an error to take, the sum of its traces for the Whole. All considerations of normal mental life lead us only to the threshold of the unconscious; it is in dreamlike and certain abnormal cases of mental life that we encounter the depths of our soul. Our experience is a mixture of wholeness (the organic and mental realms) and nonwholeness (the material World), Reality itself must be such that I can posit (assume) a dualistic foundation of the totality of my experience. In fact, there is nothing—not even within the ultimately Real—to bridge the gap between wholeness and nonwholeness. And this means that ultimately there is either God and non-God, or a dualism within God himself. To put it different, either the theism of the Judeo-Christian tradition or a pantheism of a God continually making himself and transcending his own earlier stages is ultimately reconcilable with the facts of the experience. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8
Greatness consist in bringing all manner of mischief on humankind , and goodness in removing it from them. This fact opens up an entirely new dimension of experience. However, given this new dimension, I can now establish a remarkable order in my experience if I regard some of the objects of my immediate experience as an indication of the being or the becoming of an X that behaves as if it were independent of my experience it; id est (the is), it behaves as if it were a self-sufficient realm of nature in which the bipolar cause—effect relationship prevails. However, since, on the one hand, the effect cannot be richer in content than is its cause but, on the other hand, the living individual is a whole that is more than the sum of its parts, a close scrutiny of experience leads Philosophers to distinguish between a merely mechanical causality (Einzelheitskausalitat) and a whole-making causality (Ganzheitskaysalitat) that involves more than merely additive changes. In ontogetialities is thus transformed into the wholeness of the mature organism. Restitution and adaptations, experimentally demonstrable, are manifestations of this whole-making causality. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8
The living organism itself, in its indisputable wholeness, is the most obvious result of Ganzheitskausalitat. Thus, vitalism find justification. Do you really love Him? Have you ever been driven to do something for God not because you felt that it was useful or your duty to do so, or that there was anything in it for you, but simply because you love Him? There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him even small gifts of surrender, just to show how genuine our love is for Him. Once we are totally surrendered to God, He will work through us all the time. Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified. Every hope or dream of the human mind will be fulfilled if it is noble and of God. However, one of the greatest stresses in life is the stress of waiting for God. Evil self-causes, and avoidable, admit not of palliation or comfort. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8
“Be still and know that I am God,” only then can He mount on the back of the wind, shoulder the blue sky, and nothing can hinder nor block him. Only then can God set his eyes to the south. If you go off to the green woods nearby, you can take along food for three meals and come back with your stomach as full as ever. However, you must prepare your food in advance. Much like building your faith in God is preparing you to experience an abundance of blessings and wealth of health. However, little understanding cannot come up to great understanding unless you study and learn. The material World, comprising all the things, events, and relations which are publicly perceptible is motivated by our love for God, and no amount of ingratitude from other people will be able to hinder us from serving one another. Once we realize that Jesus Christ has served us even to the depth of our meagerness, selfishness, and sin, nothing we encounter from others will be able to exhaust our determination to serve others for the sake of God and Jesus Christ. The evil risk more to serve evil than the good risk to serve good. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8
The mental World, which is directly observable only through introspection, is not part of nature. Substances are analyzed as systems of properties and their relations. A property is a casual capacity. Thus, to say of carborundum that it is abrasive means that, under certain conditions, friction of it against certain other solids causes them to wear away. We have no right in Christian service to be guided by our own interest and desires. In fact, this is one of the greatest tests of our relationship with Jesus Christ. The delight of sacrifice is that I lay down my life for my Friend, Jesus Christ. I do not throw my life away, but I willingly and deliberately lay it down for Him and His interests in other people. If we are totally surrendered to Him, we have no goals of our own to serve because Jesus Christ said in 2 Corinthians 12.15, “I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls.” If the soul is our ground being, it is also the matrix of transpersonal awareness within which all personal experience occurs. The soul is also the source of all forms, including the body and personal psyche. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8
How would Philosophers have to conceive of time, causality, perception if there were such a thing as precognition? Because we identify exclusively with the transient body, emotions, and mind, we lose sight of our true nature as pure being and awareness, the Knower in all states of consciousness. Our ego-consciousness is a fragment of the God’s consciousness. God is compensatory and we identify with Him, we inevitably inflate and drive out our traumatized and lost parts further into the unconscious. Often, it is only by suffering a profound dark period of the ego that we let go of the transient material World and heal our wounded parts, as we realize our true identity as children of God, through which we radiate the love, wisdom, and power of our true nature into the World, and all the activities of our daily life. It is a logically possibility that a mind survives the death of its body (or, to allow for reincarnation, bodies), even when due account has been take of current science. However, if there any evidence that it does? The balance of the evidence so far obtained is on the side of the reality of survival, but the evidence is not conclusive, but only a good person could have escaped. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8