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God's Breath in Man and in Humane Society
God's Breath in Man and in Humane Society Author:Thomas Lake Harris General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: The author Subjects: Cults Christian sects Religion / General Religion / Comparative Religion Religion / Cults Religion / History Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It h... more »as 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 books for free. Excerpt: SECTION I. GOD DISCOVERABLE THROUGH DIVINE- NATURAL RESPIRATION. [from Publication Of 18f)7.] 17. Human life is embosomed in mystery. Man is born in the midst of a veiled labyrinth, intricate, and many chambered, whose long corridors are haunted by formidable shapes, occult specialities besetting him with ghostly arts, alluring him with deceptive voices, and tempting him with fallacious appearances. 18. The innocent are inexperienced, the cultured almost universally sophisticated, the devout enslaved by one or another of the multitudinous priesthoods of Christendom or Heathendom, the irreligious bewildered by the hypotheses which form themselves in lurid points upon the bosom of the darkness of their scepticism. 19. The weak and the passive are drawn in the train of hereditary, national, or ecclesiastical forces, as nebulous particles that float in the extremities ofa comet; while the powerful and rapacious, according to their proclivities, conserve existing disorders, or precipitate destructive revolutions. The world in general possesses, in the full divine-human sense, neither Church, University, nor Society. The institutions which tenant their places serve but to occupy the ground until the real order appears. 20. Without a true priesthood there is no organized religion ; without a true philosophership, no corresponding culture ; without a true heroship or kingship, no harmonious, humane Society. Till...« less