Theory of Pneumatology

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: 39 CHAP. II. REMARKS UPON THE NATURE OK MAN. I now descend again from that height, where it is impossible for the human soul to continue long, without becoming giddy. But I was obliged to venture this lofty flight, in order to precipitate that monstrous idol, Materialism, from the throne, and place upon it...
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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: 39 CHAP. II. REMARKS UPON THE NATURE OK MAN. I now descend again from that height, where it is impossible for the human soul to continue long, without becoming giddy. But I was obliged to venture this lofty flight, in order to precipitate that monstrous idol, Materialism, from the throne, and place upon it theo- cratical liberty. From all that I have hitherto maintained, proved, and demonstrated, the reader must not infer more than is necessary to establish true ana genuine faith, and to overthrow superstition. Such as the world appears to our senses, such is it also to us in reality; and as long as we continue within the bounds of the material world, the system of mechanical philosophy is a law to us, but beyond these bounds, it must, by no means, be considered as such. The Bible affirms, that good and evil angels or spirits act powerfully upon us, and upon the visible world, and neither reason nor nature have any thingagainst it; on the contrary, the attentive observer occasionally finds undeniable traces of such influence, as will be seen in the sequel. But here I must, immediately on the outset, premise an important warning. In our present state, our corporeal and physical nature is ordered and organized solely with reference to the visible world. In our natural state, with the exception of our own souls, we perceive nothing of the world of spirits; and as our reason likewise can on'.)' found its conclusions on the evidence of tjie senses, it knows equally as little out of itself, and from its own sources, of an invisible world and its operations. It is only divine revelation, and individual experience for a length of time, which teach us, that beings from the invisible world, and God himself also, have manifested themselves to the senses, and act upon our v...