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God
(part III)
- Text below is an excerpt from The Spirits'
Book -
(Book First - Causes. Chapter I)
"No. He lacks a sense required for comprehending it."
Will man ever become able to comprehend the mystery of the Divinity?
"When his mind shall no longer be obscured by matter and when, by his perfection, he shall have brought himself nearer to God, he will see and comprehend Him."
The inferiority of the human faculties renders it impossible for man to comprehend the essential nature of God. As he is in the infancy of the race, man often confounds the Creator with the creature and attributes to the former the imperfections of the latter. But, in proportion his moral sense becomes developed, man's thought penetrates more deeply into the nature of things and he is able to form to himself a juster and more rational idea of the Divine Being, although his idea of that Being must always be imperfect and incomplete.
If we cannot comprehend the essential nature of God, can we have an idea of some of his perfections?
"Yes, of some of them. Man comprehends them better in proportion as he raises himself above matter. He obtains glimpses of them through the exercise of his intelligence."
- When we say that God is eternal, infinite, unchangeable, immaterial, unique, all-powerful, sovereignly just and good, have we not a complete idea of his attributes?
"Yes, judging from your point of view, because you think that you sum up everything in those terms. But you must understand that there are things which transcend the intelligence of the most intelligent man and for which your language, limited to your ideas and sensations, has no expression. Reason tells you that God must possess those perfections in the supreme degree, because if one of them were lacking, or were not possessed by him in an infinite degree he would not be superior to all and, consequently, would not be God. In order to be above all things God must undergo no vicissitude; he must have none of the imperfections of which the imagination can conceive."
Unshakable faith is only that which can meet reason face to face in every human epoch. (Allan Kardec)
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