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God
(part II)
- Text below is an excerpt from The Spirits'
Book -
(Book First - Causes. Chapter I)
What is to be thought of the opinion that attributes the first formation of things to a fortuitous combination of matter, in other words, to chance?
"Another absurdity! Who, that is possessed of good sense, can regard chance as an intelligent agent? And, besides, what is chance? Nothing."
The harmony which
regulates the mechanism of the universe can only result from
combinations adopted in view of predetermined ends and thus, by its
very nature, reveals the existence of an intelligent power. To
attribute the first formation of things to chance is nonsense, for
chance cannot produce the results of intelligence. If chance could be
intelligent it would cease to be chance.
What proof have we that the first cause of all things is a supreme intelligence, superior to all other intelligences?
"You have a proverb which says, 'The workman is known by his work.' Look around you and from the quality of the work infer that of the workman."
We judge of the power of an intelligence by its works, as no human being could create that which is produced by nature. It is evident that the first cause must be an intelligence superior to man.
Whatever may be the prodigies accomplished by human intelligence, this intelligence itself must have a cause, and the greater the results achieved by it, the greater must be the cause of which it is the effect. It is this supreme intelligence that is the first cause of all things, whatever the name by which mankind may designate It.
What is God?
"God is the Supreme Intelligence - first cause of all things."
What is to be understood by infinity?
"That which has neither beginning nor end; the unknown: all that is unknown is infinite.''
Can it be said that God is infinity?
"An incomplete definition. Poverty of human speech, incompetent to define what transcends human intelligence."
God is infinite in his perfections but "infinity" is an abstraction. To say that God is infinity is to substitute the attribute of a thing for the thing itself, and to define something unknown by a reference to some other thing equally unknown.
Unshakable faith is only that which can meet reason face to face in every human epoch. (Allan Kardec)
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