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... teach the true names of the unseen powers and the proper formulæ by which their help could be commanded . And some forms of this philosophy promised to release the initiated from the trammels of the ordinary laws of morality , by ...
... teach the true names of the unseen powers and the proper formulæ by which their help could be commanded . And some forms of this philosophy promised to release the initiated from the trammels of the ordinary laws of morality , by ...
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... teach him to make himself happy without what he could have no certainty of attaining . That , however , was after all but a philosophy of despair ; and if it had been found possible to take away from human life the stimulus of hope and ...
... teach him to make himself happy without what he could have no certainty of attaining . That , however , was after all but a philosophy of despair ; and if it had been found possible to take away from human life the stimulus of hope and ...
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... things well . And the Jewish religion did more than teach such resignation as the Stoics inculcated , to the sovereign will of the irresistible Supreme Ruler : it taught that that Ruler loves 14 I GNOSTICISM AND AGNOSTICISM.
... things well . And the Jewish religion did more than teach such resignation as the Stoics inculcated , to the sovereign will of the irresistible Supreme Ruler : it taught that that Ruler loves 14 I GNOSTICISM AND AGNOSTICISM.
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... teaching , which gave new assurance of the love of Him who spared not His own Son , but freely gave Him up for us all . And so the humblest Christian has felt himself entitled to a privilege which it seems marvellous that we creatures ...
... teaching , which gave new assurance of the love of Him who spared not His own Son , but freely gave Him up for us all . And so the humblest Christian has felt himself entitled to a privilege which it seems marvellous that we creatures ...
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... shall appear , we shall be like Him . " The sense of the necessary dimness and incom- pleteness of our knowledge of the future life ought to teach us the wisdom of modesty and caution in 20 I GNOSTICISM AND AGNOSTICISM.
... shall appear , we shall be like Him . " The sense of the necessary dimness and incom- pleteness of our knowledge of the future life ought to teach us the wisdom of modesty and caution in 20 I GNOSTICISM AND AGNOSTICISM.
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