Philosophy as Absolute Science; Founded in the Universal Laws of Being, and Including Ontology, Theology, and Psychology Made One, as Spirit, Soul, and Body - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1864. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... supernatural revelation a sealed book. These parables will be found to represent this development in the same dualistic form, and in the same order, as stated by us, including an individualization of the vital and destructive sides of this region of the consciousness, each of which is divided and antagonized as external and internal, and realized consecutively in forms which are known to us as Catholicism, Protestantism, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism. In illustrating our subject from the Scriptures, which we do with the double purpose of illustrating our Science, and of showing its application in the interpretation of religious symbolism, we will take that series of the parables of our Lord which are found in the i5th chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke, including " the Lost Sheep" and " the Prodigal Son." These were addressed by him to the Jews as an answer to the complaints made by them that he held communion with " the sinners of the Gentiles," who were the disciples of John, and correspond in a more external sphere with the Transcendentalists of the present day. We there read: " Then drew near to him all the Publicans and Sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth Sinners, and eateth with them." And, before we proceed any further, this question is to be answered: Who were these Pharisees, Scribes, Publicans, and Sinners? And although it may readily be answered that the first two were Jews, and the last Gentiles, the question still arises, What is to be understood by the terms Jew and Gentile, as these are used in the Scriptures ? Jew and Gentile there represent those classes which correspond with a vital and with a destructive development of the Sentimental Nature, which we have shown to be divided and ant...

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