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Essay on Religious Philosophy, Tr., With Analysis, Notes [
Essay on Religious Philosophy Tr With Analysis Notes Author:Émile Edmond Saisset General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1863 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: God the Creator. I Thought I saw a ray of light amid the obscurity of the problem of creation. Let me turn towards that light, which is still weak and uncertain; I shall see it perhaps grow larger and become more steady. I know now, without the shadow of a doubt, that God thinks the universe eternally, as a possible manifestation of the communicable powers of His existence; can I suppose that God would remain indifferent, or powerless, in presence of this image of Himself? An indifferent God, a powerless God, would be strange hypotheses; but before discussing them a priori, there is one fact that resolves the question. The universe exists. God has not remained powerless or indifferent before the image of the universe eternally impressed on His intelligence. He resolved to realise it -- He had power to effect it; and He made use of that power, because He was not indifferent, because He saw that the universe was good, because He is good Himself, and because He loves all that is like Him. But let me not go too fast in these uncertain and perilous paths. I represent to myself a GodAm i au- who wills, a God who resolves, a God who loves; thonsed in . . . ., ' - - . . Baking of but is not this to attribute to the perfect Being w!"'. re" the imperfect modes of my own being ? God has solution, ' J O . and love inhrst appeared to me as a rather, who desires to God? produce a living image of Himself, to see a witness of His fecundity grow and increase. But is not this image, which seems to me august and touching, infinitely beneath the ineffable perfection of the absolute Being ? Is it not a pious superst...« less