Heaven will be the perfection we have always longed for. All the things that make Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in Heaven. Act only on that maxim through which you would like to see established as a universal law. We do not find object and their features divided by nature or God into real and objectively delimited classes; we observe objects and their features, but the distinction between one class and another is something we ourselves make by criteria of convenience and utility. Goodness or badness of a state of consciousness can depend on things other than its pleasantness. The goodness or badness of a state of consciousness can depend, for example, on various intellectual and aesthetic qualities. We will be concerned not only with pleasantness and unpleasantness, but also with such things as knowledge and the contemplation of beautiful objects. However, some pleasant states mind can be intrinsically bad, and some unpleasant ones intrinsically good. Although pleasantness was a necessary condition for goodness, the intrinsic goodness of a state of mind could depend on things other than pleasantness, there are higher and lower pleasures. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

The Holy Spirit is a powerful energy which sustains the remainder of destined life. You must receive something of Heaven into the soul, before the soul can be received into Heaven. It should be noted that we have assumed that the only things that can be intrinsically good or bad are states of consciousness. Other things can of course be extrinsically good or bad. For example, an Earthquake is normally extrinsically bad, that is, it causes a state of affairs that is on the whole intrinsically bad. Moreover, something which is intrinsically bad, such as the annoyance of remembering that we have forgotten to do something, is extrinsically good, for it is a means to a set of consequences that are on balance intrinsically good. Thinking about Heaven can inspire and encourage us to be more Heavenly-minded and realize that Heaven is a real place where we are really going to live. It is though one had forgotten and now awakened from a dream. All fears are revealed to be groundless; all worries are foolish imaginings. There is no future to fear nor past to regret. Heaven is full of joy and realization of timelessness. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

On Earth, the moral consciousness in some cases lead us to advocate courses of action which the plain individual would regard as wrong. Consider, for example, the cause of a secret promise to a dying man. To ease his dying moments, I promise him that I will deliver a hoard of money, which he entrusts to me, to a rich and profligate relative of his. No one else knows either about the promise or the hoard. To some utilitarian principles, it would appear that I should not carry out my promise. I can surely put the money to much better use by giving it, say, to a needy hospital. In this way, I would do a lot of good and no harm. I do not disappoint the man to whom I made the promise, because he is dead. Nor, by breaking the promise, do I do indirect harm by weakening human’s faith in the socially useful institution of promise-making and promise-keeping, for on this occasion no knows about the promise. Normally, of course, an act utilitarian will keep a promise even when the direct results are not beneficial, because the indirect effects of sowing mistrust are so harmful. The promise to the dying man should be kept. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

 Final touches of a fading day. You asked me once if I will remember, when I hear you when I dream. And through the echoes and through the shadows and when everything is lost and gone, still there is you. We appeal to feelings, namely, those of generalized benevolence. Since people possess other attitudes too, such as loyalty to a code of morals in which they have brought up, the possession of feelings of generalized benevolence are a rule to prevent unhappiness. These rules conduce to human happiness. Consider a case in which an action, normally of trivial import, happens to have very unfortunate consequences. A man with a head cold goes to the office, instead of nursing his illness at the house. He is visited by an eminent statesman, who catches the cold and, in consequence, is not quite at his best in carrying out some delicate negotiations. These negations just fail by a hairsbreadth, whereas if the statesman had been fully fit they would have succeeded. In consequences, thousands of people die from starvation, a misfortune which would have been avoided if the negations had succeeded. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

There are limitations to all thought, we cannot leap out of our skins and somehow attain what we cannot attain. These limitations apply not only to humans, but also to the highest Mind of all, and they come about because thought originated as a means to an end. The end is to serve the will to live. These deaths from starvation would therefore not have occurred if the man with a head cold had not gone to his office in an infections state. Someone may be tempted to argue as follows: “Surely it is not a very wrong action to go to the office suffering from a head cold. In some cases, where important work has to be done, it may even be praiseworthy. This action was very wrong, but it was not very bad: that is, it ought not to be blamed very much, if at all. If we blame it, we are concerned with the utility of discouraging similar actions on the part of other people, and since going to the office with a head cold is not normally productive of very bad consequences, this action, although in fact very wrong, was not a very bad or blameworthy one. Philosophy is no superscience that can teach scientists what they should do. It can only prepare the intellectual climate and furnish some of the necessary tools. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

Philosophy is a neutral enterprise that can receive contributions from people holding different personal beliefs and conceptions. It should avoid the struggles between systems which, let us hope, will some day end like the reported fight between the two lions who ate one another up leaving only their tails on the ground. The striving toward the Kingdom of God is what matters, not the achieving of it. The glorious Majesty of Heaven hath regarded to us, how must it astonish and delight us, how much it overcome our spirits, and melt our hearts, and put our whole soul into flame! The word of god is full of the expressions of his love toward humans, so all his works do loudly proclaim it. God gave us our being, and, by preserving us in it, does renew the donation every moment. He hath provided for all our necessities. God rains down blessings from Heaven upon us, and causes the Earth to bring forth our provision. He gives us our food and raiment, and while we are spending the productions of one year, he is preparing for us against another. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

God sweetens our lives with innumerable comforts, and gratifies every faculty with suitable objects. The eyes of his providence is always upon us, and he watches for our safety when we are fast asleep, neither minding him nor ourselves. However, lest we should think these testimonies of his kindness less considerable, because they are easy issues of his omnipotent power, and do not put him to any trouble or pain, he hath taken a more wonderful method to endure himself to us; God hath testified his affection to us by suffering as well as by doing; and because he could not suffer in his own nature he assumed ours. The eternal Son of God did clothe himself with infirmities of our flesh, and left the company of those innocent and blessed spirits who knew well how to love and adore him, that he might dwell among humans, and wrestle with the obstinacy of that rebellious race, to reduce them to their allegiance and felicity, and then to offer himself up as a sacrifice and propitiation for them. God had long contended with a stubborn World, and thrown down many blessings upon them; and when all his other gifts cold not prevail, he at last made a gift of himself, to testify his affection and engage theirs. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

The account which we have of our Saviour’s life in the gospel, does all along present us with the story of his love: all the pains that he took, and the troubles that he endured, were the wonderful effects and uncontrollable evidence of it. However, that last, that dismal scene! Is it possible to remember it, and question God’s kindness, or deny him ours. Here, here it is, my dream friend, that we should fix our most serious and solemn thoughts, that Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith; that we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints with the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that we may be filled with the fulness of God. We ought also frequently to reflect on those particular tokens of favour and love, which God hath bestowed on ourselves; how long he hath borne with our follies and sins, and waited to be gracious unto us—wrestling, as it were, with the stubbornness of our hearts, and essaying every method to reclaim us. I ever enjoy your protection by faithfully witnessing to Christ. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

We should keep a register in our minds of all the eminent blessings and deliverances we have met with, some whereof have been so conferred, that we might clearly perceive they were not the issue of but the gracious chance, but the gracious effects of the divine favour, and the signal returns of our prayers. Nor ought we to embitter the thoughts of these things with any harsh or unworthy suspicious, as if they were designed on purpose to enhance our guilt, and heighten our eternal damnation. No, no, my friend, God is love, and he hath no pleasure in the ruin of his creatures. If they abuse his goodness, and turn his grace into wantonness, and thereby plunge themselves into the greater depth of guilt and misery, this is the effect of their obstinate wickedness, and not the design of those benefits which God bestows. If these considerations had once begotten in our hearts a real love and affection towards Almighty God, that would easily lead us unto the other branches Heaven. Christ, I hope for the restored health of body and soul, hasten to lead me to the true Good, God alone. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9

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