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The Kabbala: or, The true science of light
The Kabbala or The true science of light Author:Seth Pancoast Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE TRUE SCIENCE OF LIGHT — TRUTHS AND THEORIES—WHAT WE KNOW, AND WHAT WE BELIEVE. There are those who question the Divine Source and Authority... more » of the Bible because they find within its pages statements that appear to be contradicted by known facts of Science. The cavillers, when sincere, lose sight of the real design and purpose of the Scriptures; and so those who dispute or deny the Divine origin of the Kabbala, fail to appreciate its true purpose and scope. The Kabbala was not designed to teach Natural Philosophy; Physical Science is only recognized therein in so far as it is directly related to or bears directly upon the higher. Philosophy of Spirit and Soul Life. It is worthy of remark and of thoughtful consideration, that, while scientific research has, in a sense, added to what may be learned from the Kabbala, it has, in no one instance, established a fact antagonistic to a single tenet of that grand old system. There is but one God, revealed in Nature and in the Holy Bible, and it is human blindness that fails to realize that oneness—the Kabbala is no more than an authorized interpreter, an expounder of the two harmonious Revelations, and the most enthusiastic Kab- balist claims no more for it. God manifested Himself in Light, and it became His direct Agent in creation M and providence; He shed beams of that sublime Light into " holy men of old," illuminating them to see and know the mysteries of Creation, Providence and Redemption, and thus inspired them to pen the Sacred Scriptures; but the " natural man " could not receive " the things of the Spirit of God " " because they are spiritually discerned," and men were disposed to "" wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction." And now God further testified the infinitude of His love, in that He ill...« less