A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation; it is a being endowed with the greatest degree of excitement, yet free at the same time from all passion and emotion. It is therefore not only a slave, but a supernatural slave. And why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathers, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns. It moves with more regularity than humans. And has it not a voice? I feel a me which senses something outside of me. Consciousness, in other words, is the awareness that the ego has of itself and of a separate, independently existing reality. There is an internal consciousness in the ego where the Universal ideas are proved by inner experience that the conscious ego can only be the effect of a divine intelligent cause, invariable and absolute, also attests the validity of casual relations. True knowledge, knowledge which is adequate to reality, consists in rearranging, by real synthesis, the objective unities of beings just as they are. The existence of God, proves that the self-evident relationships are valid. We are free and that makes us feel the necessity of moral good and thus the presence of a natural moral law: our duty is affirmed to us by our inner most sense. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

The wayfarer in the toilsome path of human life sees, with each returning Sun, some new obstacle to surmount, some new height to be attained. Distances stretched out before one which, last night, were scarcely taken into account, and the light which glides all nature with its cheerful beams, seems but to shine upon the weary obstacles that yet lie strewn between one and the grave. Things feel different here. The guys have always been friendly to me, but I was not close with anyone aside from Harry. I felt this constant nagging need to compete and best each and every one of them. However, now I realize we are all on the same times. I might even find a friend or two. This is something new for me. I know, I know, hard to believe that with my sparkling personality and unerring sense of humor I would not be the most popular guy on campus, but I have always been one of those who has many acquaintances but few friends. Now I feel the camaraderie I have always read about. Anybody’s life may be just as romantic and strange and interesting if he or she fails as if he or she succeed. All the difference is, that the last chapter is wanting in the story. To one that lives well every form of life is good, nor can there be given any other rule for choice than to remove from all apparent evil. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

It used sometimes to be asked: What has posterity done for me that I should do anything for posterity? The question was wrongly put. Posterity is only another name for humankind, and when we pose the question rightly there can be no dispute about the answer. If we put aside the part that belongs to Nature or to God, we owe everything to Humankind. All that we are, and all that we possess in civilization, we owe to the everlasting aspiration and struggle of our ancestors before us, and to the slow accumulation of knowledge and art on the topmost level of which we now stand. Our immense debt to Humanity in the past can only be repaid to Humankind in the future. It is our privilege, if we do not regard it as our duty, to pass on, in ever finer shapes, the great traditions which have been handed to us. These traditions in the matter of the procreation of the race takes the form generally termed marriage. It is a form which from the first has been constantly varying its shape, but its most frequent shape has throughout been that of father, mother, and child, all three which units, as we all the community to which they belong, have generally found it suits them well to continue through the early life of the child, while even when the offspring is able to take care of itself the two parents have frequently found it to be their own comfort and joy to continue living together. #RandolpHarris 3 of 9

When the heart speaks, the soul listens. Love is an intellectual pleasure, and even the senses will be weakly affected where the heart is silent. Be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised. Prove yourself true ere I cherish you. Every complete man embraces some of the qualities of a woman, for Nature does not mean that gender shall be more than a partial separation of one common humanity; otherwise we should be too much divided to be companionable. Here we have, in a fairly permanent form. Marriage, even if by no means necessarily indissoluble, the family, and the hose, even if by no means hermetically closed. For the evil of the house has been, in part, that it was closed to currents of fresh air, and in part that we had too much of it; of precious things one must not have too much. All these related phenomena—marriage, the family, and the house—have in recent years, as we know, the subject of fierce and brilliant attack. It is almost a commonplace to say that such an institution as the family is not necessarily a permanent part of human social life, and that soon marriage in the present meaning on the word as the foundation of the family life will have ceased to exist. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

We have become a comically rich yet emotionally raw romantic drama like a family of writers who have lost the plot of our own love stories. Even amidst the travails of marriage, divorce, parenting and coming of age, the family ties that trip us up can turn into a lifeline. When we have recovered from our dizziness at its apparent disappearance and our gasps of horror have subsided, and we open our eyes again, the family will be seen to be still there, a little cleaner, a little more truthful, a little happier. Social idealists tend to minimize the sex as an important part of life indeed, but still only part. On account of the housing difficulty, the break-up of the family as a permanent institution is often not ideal. A certain amount of communal family life exists, while there is immense development of the hygienic, educational, and recreational elements. Not only are marriage institutions so deeply rooted in Human’s nature as to be essential, but in spite of their rather archaic character, it is almost certain that they still perform a necessary and beneficial part in the process of psychical development—a part for which no adequate substitute could easily be found. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

We now live in a society were men and women can face each other in equal economic independence and all motives for marriage have fallen into the background, with the exception of love, which will be more and more the only determining motive that can induce a man and a woman or a same sex couple to deny their freedom and bind themselves permanently to one another. We may not regard love as the self-sufficient motive for marriage in so far as marriage involve procreation. Yet, if the foundation of marriage seems so solid, even to one who regards it as a denial of freedom and bondage, how much more for those who find in it no such denial and no such bondage! It is ultimately a merely verbal concept or device, seeking to bridge the gap between internal or mental processes and physical actions by, as it were, inserting a hyphen between them. However, it will not bear the weight it is meant to carry, and as a result, the system as a whole remains merely suspended between idealism and naturalism. Because the World has been created by a benevolent deity and yet wallows in misery, humans have obviously failed to carry out the divine plan. The plan is for happiness to replace misery, unity to replace division, Harmony should replace Civilization. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

Consciousness is aware not only of its own existence but of the consciousness of others. Altruism is a necessity, since isolation is impossible; moral choice is attractive or repulsive power of idees-forces in the form of ideals; and ethical conduct is defined in terms of social beneficence. The transformation from Civilization to Harmony would occur through the release of Human’s thirteen passions, instilled by God but repressed in Civilization: the five sense; the four group, or social, passions of ambition, friendship, love, and family feeling; the three series, or distributive, passions, that is, the cabalist, or passion for intrigue, the papillone (butterfly), or passion for diversification, and the composite or passion for harmony, which synthesizes all the others. With the passion released, existence would become intense joy, and a lifetime would seem but a moment. The World is created anew for every person who is in love. There is therefore this constant miracle of a new Heaven and a new Earth. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

To accomplish the release of the passions, humanity would have to be organized into phalanxes of about eight hundred men, women, and children. In each phalanx different characters and inclinations would be scientifically combined in a complex and finely graded system of groups and series so that each person could give full expression, in his or her work and in one’s other activities, to all our passions, tastes, and capacities, and avoid everything that does not suit us. The economies accomplished by communal work and living by finding the right place for every talent, and the enormous enthusiasms and energies mobilized by the new order, would make phalanxes extremely successful economically as well as in terms of human happiness. Indeed, a single trial phalanx would prove its absolute superiority within a few weeks or, at the most months and, through imitation, abolish Civilization in a year or two. Moreover, the savages and barbarians who had stubbornly resisted civilization would eagerly join Harmony. The result would be one World of happy phalanxes, linked vaguely be a hierarchy of monarchs and more effectively by temporary industrial armies for special tasks and similar touring bands, poets, actors, and musicians. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

Because the World was one, the coming of Harmony would lead to new, beneficial creations on Earth and would result in the appearance of new satellites, in the regaining of healthy by our planet, and in more distant desirable cosmic repercussions. Moral people believe that Harmony will establish truth as well as happiness among humans, for truth rather than deception and hypocrisy would then become the profitable and accepted way of life. We will retain some private property, and inequality and discord are necessary for the construction of graded series and groups and the exercise of all passions. That is the only way to create a society where every individual whim would be satisfied. Why should people have to put up with people who love crime and conflict? By grouping people together by what they like then we would avoid this. Repression of passions are the source of all evil, as well as the foundation of Civilization, and this World is currently an insane place of repressed passions. God has sent us to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, to comfort all who mourn, and provide those who grieve a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9

Your love is too precious for me to push aside just when you need someone to accept it. As tired as I am, my dreams are always of you. All expressions of truth by the human mind is totally relative, mutable, and conditioned. Human thought is simply the expressions of de facto acceptations, significant according to that natural and subjective orientation of the human mind which is the sens commun (common meaning). The human mind has an extramental orientation toward objectively existent and intelligible reality. Human intelligence has being as its connatural object. In its attainment of being the human mind surpasses sense knowledge, goes beyond mere phenomena. The first principles of human reason—identity, contradiction, causality, and finality—are not mere subjective thought patterns; they are grounded in being. The human evaluation of the data of experience in virtue of such principles, then, has an ontological validity; the human mind is capable of assertions concerning the real that are objectively true and absolute.  Because in its attainment of being the mind goes beyond mere phenomena, the principles of philosophical inquiry have a transcendental validity. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

Humans are able, consequently, to achieve true judgments, not only about the entitative structure of experienced reality, but also about the non-experienced but necessarily affirmed primary cause of the beings experience. The connaturally realistic orientation of human intelligence, therefore, provides the capacity for objectively valid metaphysical evaluations of reality and even for a true natural theology. The basic critical problem of the validity of human intelligence, is central issue in all Neo-Scholastic philosophers. One has to learn to manifest the human mind as a faculty of truth, not an amasser or coordinator of data. New technologies create new freedoms and new dependencies. The freedoms are more evident at first. The dependencies may never become evident, which makes them all the worse, because then it takes a crisis to discover them. If the system has not had time to mature a lot of checks and balances, crises of large complex systems can be nasty. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

I have a more enthusiastic and mercurial mind and my love of the new and the strange is always being expressed. It seems logical to consider that the spirit is not extended or in space. Impenetrability and divisibility, not extension, constitute the essence of matter. For spirit, which is to say God’s activity, is present everywhere. Even space is more or less spiritual in nature, as, indeed, an attribute of God. Space is God’s sensorium. The strong propensity to find the workings of spirit throughout the natural World has induced me to take a rather credulous interest in such occult topics as ghostly apparitions and witchcraft and astrology. I have even been a docent at the history cemetery, which was rather peaceful, but the strangest things I noticed was some clear jelly like substance growing out of the grave, which my partner said was mold. And once while we were giving a tour and rang the bell, a drop of a dark substance fell on my face, probably berry juice. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

Looking everywhere some something supernatural, but I have seen nothing out of the ordinary…well, nothing I can actually prove anyway. A few times I have noticed a few people who seem to travel far distances, in very short times, but then the same can be said about me, some say. However, there must be an eternal and self-existent being on the ground. Among the provable attributes of the self-existent being are unity, infinity, intelligence, freedom, and goodness. Human’s freedom is safeguarded from obliteration because space and time are properties of God and therefore real. We must rely on a great accumulation of probabilities to understand God’s purposes and activities in the World. There is injustice on Earth, but, broadly speaking, the natural outcome of virtue is happiness and of vice suffering. No natural fact can exclude the immortality of the soul and a just rectification of the balance in an afterlife. We all see things in God because the idea in our minds are the direct result of divine activity. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Most people have a moral sense, which is more a matter of taste and feeling than of intellectual insight, by means of which they respond to the beauties and deformities of human character. Individual happiness and fulfillment are best achieved by the establishment of proper balance between private and social impulses. If you are to become all God created you to be, you cannot let a hurt, a loss, a bad break, or disappointment cause you to not actively get involved in something. We must learn to live with our problems until such time as God delivers us from them. We must pray for grace to endure will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly. God will not permit any trouble to come upon us, unless he has a specific plan by which great blessings can come out of the difficulty. The decision has always been yours, and it still it. You decide whether you want to continue this relation. You decide where you want to go from here. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

When we are all lying about without much to do, we always get into conversations. Sometimes we talk about a feast you would find at Harris’ Restaurant in San Francisco, California USA. You know, bread with real butter, rich chowders, acclaimed dry aged steaks as thick as a man’s arm served in a posh, wood-paneled dining room, with live jazz in the bar, cakes and pie and doughnuts, coffee with fresh cream, good bourbon. Please excuse the droplets on this paper; I seem to be drooling. As much as I would love to gorge on this much-anticipated feast (and perhaps work off the meal in a bit of exercise with aforementioned best friends), and I am on diet and stuck being a vegetarian right now. I also have to choose a career path of life, and I would love to return to England and perhaps become a professor. I have seen enough maiming and injury here to turn me off from wanting to practice medicine. Really, thought, it is all balloon juice. None of it means anything. It is fine and good to talk up what you will do when you get out of this, but the talk is just hot air until you do get out of this. We could talk about our future today and then lose those futures tomorrow. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

Outside the sphere of deductive reasoning, we can speak of fallacies only in an extended sense. For example, we can contrast a genuine confirmation of hypotheses with something that is mistaken for it, probable arguments that give some support to their conclusions with one that do not, and in general, techniques and procedures that tend to give correct results with ones that tend to produce error. However, it would be pointless and misleading to call it a piece of inductive reasoning, say, fallacious merely because its conclusion turned out to be false. Conditional expressions are often similarly indeterminate. “You will succeed if you make an effort is not necessarily true. Some people have spent years trying to succeed and have put in more effort than most have in a lifetime and get nowhere in life, and it is sometimes because there are groups of people oppressing them on purpose and taking credit for their work. Life for these people becomes so hard that it increases their faith in God because they realize no matter how much effort I put in, I will never be recognized, so I just have to turn to a supernatural power and have faith that something will work out for me. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Even when you help other people sometimes, they will do nothing but take advantage of you and never do anything to give back. You can fool a lot of people some of the time, means that there are times at which the whole populace can be deceived. The neglect of the requirements of significance is another fallacy. Even when there is good statistical evidence for a causal connection between two features A and B, it is a mistake to conclude immediately that one, say A, is the cause of the other without having considered and excluded the possibilities that B may tend to produce A, that A and B may be joint effects of some other cause, and that there may be causation in more than one direction. For example, a positive correlation between poverty and ill health might be due to the fact that ill health diminishes earning capacity and wastes resources, to the fact that stupidity, idleness, or drunkenness tends to produce both poverty and ill health, or to combination of more than one of these casual tendencies. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

More generally still, we can recognize a fallacy of prejudice, which consists in believing without evidence, in adopting or adhering to views on any subject without any relevant reasoning. There was recently a study on the news that said to earn more money, you may want to get more sleep, instead of a second job because the researcher found a group of people who slept eight hours a night and got paid well. Chances are these people were all well-off and highly educated, which allowed them to get the proper amount of sleep they needed. However, as you and I both know, by sleeping more that is not going to help you when you cannot afford to pay the rent nor put food on the table. Regularly judging the rightness of actions by their utility is tantamount to adopting the principle that whatever maximizes utility is right; and, again, regularly to argue that because a statement cannot be verified, it is meaningless or true, is tantamount to adopting a verifiability theory of meaning. This is a particularly easy way of committing the fallacy of prejudice. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

Ignoratio elenchid is the fallacy of missing the point, in arguing for something other than what is to be proved. Cases in which the authority appealed to can be independently shown to be an authority in the sense of being likely to be well-informed about the point at issues are exceptions. Irrelevancy shades into prejudice; we may readily accept the doctrines of our party and reject those of the enemy. In this, there may also be present a fallacy of confusion, in that we treat factual beliefs as if they were items of another category—principles to which we can adhere or subscribe, or which we can reject, by choice. Another form of irrelevance is the tu quoque, or two wrongs technique. If some action or view of one’s own is criticized, one may replay by attacking some action or view of one’s critic that is equally hard to defend. The argument ad hominem is similar—we reject what someone says on the irrelevant ground that he or she is in no position to say it. However, an argumentum ad hominem may quite properly point to inconsistency, and may validly establish the limited conclusion that may be of special interest in a moral discussion, where the problem may well be that of finding a policy which is both coherent and acceptable. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

The truth is that very few people care. The reason is that the confusing of real life and role of life is now a fixture of business and politics as much as entertainment. However, we all face challenges, but it is not the size of the problem that is important, it is our perception of that problem; it is how big or small we make it in our minds. All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestation of God’s grace, power, and love. Adversity cases some people to break; others to break records. A cause necessarily produces an effect, but only in the sense that it would not be called a cause if it did not. Father, thank you that I am a child of the Most High God, anointed, equipped, and well able to overcome. I am not weak, defeated, or powerless. I will not be intimidated, shrink back and think my problems are too big. The same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of me. You are greater than anything that is against me, and you control my destiny. No weapon formed against me will prosper. I believe that it is just a matter of time before I break through to a new level. You will turn whatever calamity that has happened to me into a blessing for God. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6

I worry so much about our tomorrow, about each and every goodbye, that I do not enjoy right now. There is enough to worry about in the future. I have no idea what tomorrow will tell about life. I have no idea what tomorrow will tell about anything. You are my right now. At a time when I feel so uncertain, I was reassured by your confidence. I think seeing you, though, was the only tonic I needed. It cleared away any doubts and worries. I should get back to Canada in a few days. I will go straight through Little Gold Creek. Forgive me I adore you, and it was nice to get the added bonus of seeing your beautiful face once more. It left my mind in an oh-so-blissful state. I am thinking about when we ate at the Carlton. Braised duck, oysters, your first taste of champagne. I can still picture your eyes lighting up at the desserts. I cannot believe you ordered one of each! That seems ages ago, although it was not more than half a year ago. Half a year, half a lifetime. Does not seem to be much of a difference between the two when you and I are apart. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 6

There is something extraordinary about you. There is something I just cannot describe. The bottom line is you have what it takes. Now do your part and activate this favor. When the dream looks too big, do not give up. You will become everything God has created you to be, and you will have everything God intended for you to have. Do you remember what you said to me when we first met at Chateau Frontenac? The very first works you spoke? You glided over to me and, as I was struggling to think of something intelligent to say, you said, “There you are.” I often think of that Here I am. No matter where I am in the World, “Here I am.” God has promised to give us the desires of our hearts. I have dreams in my heart that seem impossible. The day that you said you loved me too, you turned my World upside down. Life has never looked the same to me since I heard those words. However, since our last dinner, it turned around again, and I am dizzier than before. I have not slept since. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 6

I could beg you not to leave me. That is exactly what the selfish boy in me wants to do. And, deep down, I think that is what you want me to do, too. However, all of this I am doing here, it is an effort to prove myself worthy of you, worthy of whatever it is that we have. That man would not pull you away from those you love. He would not send cracks running through your life. All I will beg, though, is that you consider for a while longer. Do not shut me out just yet. This has all come so suddenly. I would not hold you in something you do not want, but give me more time. Let me hold you a little while longer. Until your true love returns, please stay with me. You promised it, and now I am bold enough to ask you for it. I cannot do this on my own, but I know God is all-powerful. God has no limitation. There is nothing too difficult for God. So, God, I am asking you to make a way, even though I do not see a way. God, I am asking you to create new opportunities in our lives. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 6

When we face situation that seem impossible in our everyday lives, God dares us to pray. When we ask, God will release favor. When one ask, angels go to work, and strongholds are broke. When we pray Godly prayers, we will see the greatness of God’s power. The primacy of mind is such that all reality is seen as strung out in a hierarchy from spiritual perfection in God down to inanimate matter. Humans are endowed with pure spontaneity and freedom, but these can degenerate into habit, or the mere repetition of behavior patterns. God created humans to be free, to work out the content of our freedom in a World order that at once limits and gives us opportunity of fulfillment. Human freedom could effect nothing in a World without order, for persons do not create rational or moral principles by which their thought and action in the ultimate order. The natural World as known by persons is the objectification of the orderly interaction between finite wills and cosmic Will. The ethical World is the objectification of the orderly, chosen, interaction among the free, finite person in the natural World God makes possible. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 6

The Universe is a realm of persons united both by God’s purposive action in nature and by the further moral unity created as persons freely respond to the reason, will, and love of the cosmic Person. God is so actively involved in his creatures, as the senior partner in all that we do, the creation of humans and their actions is virtually an extension of God’s will. Reality is a society of persons: the ultimate (uncreated) Person and finite (created) persons. Reality is thus not nature, but history. The natural order does not have ontological identity outside the ultimate Person; rather, this order is his behavior. The laws of logic do not have privileged priority; they are constitutive of the supreme mind. God is a conscious Person who creates finite persons and cooperates with them in the cosmic endeavor. A human person is a context of experience capable of self-consciousness, reason, and ideal values. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 6

 Natural knowledge is in the first instance an intuitive awareness through the senses of singular individuals. God in his absolute power, produce an experience of such an intuition in our minds even if there are no corresponding existent outside us but do not oneself draw skeptical implications about our knowledge of the external World from this variant of the argument from illusion. Be a believer. God as unknowable is the wholly indeterminate; his absolute power and freedom leave the field of action open to natural humans. Our revealed knowledge of God is just one aspect of the workings of all-inclusive grace. Father God, when you put a promise in my heart that seems impossible, I see the incredible greatness of your power activated. I believe with your favor, grace, love and blessings, I will go from barely making it to have more than enough. Faith is a fine invention for people who see. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 6

Father, thank you that your gracious hands are upon me. I know I have an advantage. I have an edge. Other people may not see it. They may try to push me down and disqualify me. However, that is okay. I know the truth. I have your love I am well able to fulfill my destiny. You looked quite pathetic, dear, stretched out in the hospital cot, that you had me in a grip of worry when I first spotted you! So thin and pale under that sheet, your curls limp on the pillow—I about burst into tears. However, then you opened those eyes, the color of the hills, and said, “There you are,” as if you had been expecting me, and I knew you were fine. I am surprised they discharged you so quickly, but perhaps they wanted to get rid of you after so long. Though after the comments you kept whispering in my blushing ear, I am not surprised. The nurses are nuns. You are lucky they did not speak a word of English. How excellent the Heaven, when Earth cannot be had; how hospitable, then, the face of our antiquated neighbor, God! #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

The daisy follows soft the Sun, and when his golden walk is done, sits shyly at his feet. The Sun enables both terrestrial and celestial bodies to subsist and is the root source of whatever internal dynamism they possess. Lumen is the invisible radiation which has its origin especially in celestial bodies like the Sun but exits in the intervening transparent medium. It is described as being an active power (virtus active) and something substantial in itself but only accidentally related to the transmitting medium through which it flows continually and instantaneously by a self-generative process called multiplication. Being neither accidental nor a substantial form properly speaking, it is not educed from the potentialities of matter as are other corporeal forms, with the exception of lux (light).  Yet it requires some material medium or body and coexists with such without changing it substantially. Not only does it penetrate the bowels of the Earth, where it governs the formation of minerals, but in virtue of its purity and similarity to the spiritual, this substantial radiation disposes bodies to receive the life form and acts as a sort of intermediary between soul and body. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

Light is an active in the reproduction of animals, functioning as one of the external agents that educes the higher form from the matter where they exist as seminal reasons. Seminal reasons are invisible principles inserted by God in the World during creation, which develop in time into all the plants, trees, birds, fishes, animals, and human bodies that will every exist. External agents only cooperate with these powers, in much the way that a gardener cultivates a rosebush or a seedbed so that it bears flowers or germinates. All forms, except the primary light form and the human soul, which are directly created by God, arise through the cooperation of seminal powers and external agents, under the influence of light. The immortal soul (the ethereal machine) is a subtle matter in the pineal gland. The ethereal machine is the germ of the resurrected body. All possible beings, all individuals, were created at once, according to the principle of plenitude. They exist in germ until released by death of other individual organisms. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

The lower souls of animals are perfectible, and the Universe is one in which all things tend to perfection. The principal changes occur as the result of catastrophes. The Earth has passed through a series of epochs, each terminated by a cataclysm that destroyed all organic life except the immortal germs, allowing the germs to take on different forms, all foreseen in the original creation and all ascending to higher levels. Ontogenesis (the development or developmental history of an individual) is proof of this Thus, every germ will reappear in a succession of a higher embodiments, the soul of each waiting until the proper state of the Earth evokes its next and higher incarnation. The entire creation is moving upward; humans will become angels, and apes and elephants will take human’s place. There is also life on other Worlds, more or less advanced in perfection than on Earth.  #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

There is greater good than evil in the Universe, and created things necessarily have a lesser degree of perfection than their creator. Humans are superior to animals in their sensual apparatus, brain, and speech organs; but humans are part of the general, unfolding order of nature. Humans know a Natural Law that is virtual in them, but develops by experience; however, humans are moved by self-love and by passions, which may be beneficent or may be destructive and cruel. In considering the inherited organization more determining then education (experience), God guides the creative process of evolution within the cosmos and the presence that urges each part to respond by further creation. So, God supplies perfectly measured grace to meet the needs of the Godly. For daily needs, there is daily grace; for sudden needs, sudden grace; for overwhelming need, overwhelming grace. God’s grace is given wonderfully, but not wastefully; freely but not foolishly; bountifully but not blindly. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

Yes, I believe in God. I have always. When I was younger, I had a book of Bible stories, a lovely illustrated volume we would pore over on lazy Saturday afternoons. I remember one picture of God from that book. He was shown as a serene personage with a snowy white beard and rosy cheeks—looking not too unlike Santa Claus, now that I think of it—gazing down on the newly created World with pride. It reminded me of the way a father might look on a newborn child. I have always had that picture in my mind, and I think that is why I could never believe in a vengeful God. That kindly, fatherly figure could never blame me for being led astray. He could never turn from me because of my minor transgression. Do you think with all the fighting and killing going on in the World, God is looking down and directing his anger at an individual whose only sin is having too much love to give? God is angry with those who act in an unjust manner and he responds instantaneously to the prayer of someone wronged or deceived. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

It would be amazing if the soul leaves the body and walk about in the Heavens to look at the Sun and the Stars. In order to represent or form an idea of an object, the mind must know what it is to represent. It cannot, so to speak, work in the dark, and there must be a model on which to base its representation. The law of God as a whole aims at two things: the welfare of the soul and the welfare of the body. The superior God is to love God, and, as far as possible, to resemble him. The love of God can be achieved only through knowledge of divine activity in the World, the only knowledge of God possible. This supreme goal can be reached through a study of natural science and of metaphysis, which appears to signify that the highest perfection can be attained only by an individual who leads the theoretical life. Theoretical life can be combined with a life of action, as proved by the examples of the patriarchs and Moses. What is more, a life of action can constitute an imitation of God. The activity of nature (or God) tends to preserve the cosmic order, which includes the perpetuity of the species of living beings. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Evil exists in the World not to create despair, but activity. It is perfectly impossible to conceive that any creatures of God’s hands can be condemned to eternal suffering. Could we once admit such an idea, all our natural conceptions of goodness and justice would be completely overthrown, and we could no longer look on God as merciful and righteous Being. Eternal death means eternal death and not eternal life in torment. The doctrine of life and immortality which was brought to light by the gospel is the doctrine that the end of righteousness is everlasting life, but the wages of sin are death. As long as we put God in remembrance of his promises and to not put him in remembrance of our problems, then he will be faithful to his word. What God promises, he will do. By getting in agreement with God and believing what he says about us, then miracles can and will supersede any natural law. One of the greatest abilities God has given each of us is our ability to believe. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

At one and the same time, humans live toward God in the Heavenly Kingdom and toward his natural and social environments in the Earthly Kingdom. The law of attraction is real. What an individual focuses on will be called into reality. Human reason is an adequate instrument for dealing with Earthly affairs. In the spiritual affairs, the situation is quite different. Reason has no understanding of what it is that commends a person to God. Therefore, God has given his word (in the Scriptures). If you believe, you can be successful. If you have faith in your abilities, one can overcome mistakes of the past. By believing, a person can fulfill one’s God given destiny. There is incredible power in what we believe. Let this take root in your spirit, because you are a believer, all will be well with you. All will be well with your family. All will be well with your finances. All will be well in your health. All will be well with your career. You need to get ready, because God’s promises are about to come to pass in your life. It may not happen on your timetable. However, keep believing. It will extraordinary and greater than you ever imagined. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

The way of salvation could never have been thought out by rational inquiry, for all God’s works and works transcend reason. The Word of God is apprehended, not by reason, but by faith. I am constantly astonished by the miracle of divine forgiveness and the colorful heart of God and the unconditioned character of his grace. Certain reasonableness about the assumption a just God must require good works as the precondition of communion with him. We have to take us out of ourselves and we must learn to rise above reason. Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite. Faith is not a shelter against difficulties, but belief in the face of all contradictions. The steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath. Be a believer. Take the limits off God. There is so much more to our God. Do not keep him in a little box. Discover what else he is. Keep your faith stirred up. I believe and declare you are going to see God’s goodness in amazing ways! The way of God unites people. God loves is creatures as they love him. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

God, you have promised to give us the desires of our hearts. I have dreams in my heart that seem impossible. However, you promised that you would make extraordinary things happen in my life, and now I am bold enough to ask you for these blessings. I cannot do this on my own, but I know that you are all-powerful. You have no limitations. There is nothing too difficult for you, so God, I am asking for your favor and grace to shine down on me. I am asking you to make a way, even though I do not see a way. God, I am asking you to open doors for me that no man nor woman can shut. I know that you and your angels will go to work and that stronghold are broken. Most High God, please breath in my direction. You are always in my thoughts, but to see you gain in person, drink you up like the sweetest medicine in the whole hospital—I feel like a new man. The doctors and nurses might as well have been peddling barley water for all it compared to you. My own personal tonic. When I get home, I just want God to be waiting there for me. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6