FIRST ARTICLE
SOLUTION OF THE FIRST PROBLEM
THE TRUE GOD
Gop can only be defined by faith; science can neither deny
nor affirm that He exists.
God is the absolute object of human faith. In the infinite,
He is the supreme and creative intelligence of order. In the
world, He is the spirit of charity.
Is the Universal Being a fatal machine which eternally
grinds down intelligences by chance, or a _providential
intelligence which directs forces in order to ameliorate minds?
The first hypothesis is repugnant to reason; it is pessimistic
and immoral.
Science and reason ought then to accept the second.
Yes, Proudhon, God is an hypothesis, but an hypothesis so
necessary, that without it, all theorems become absurd or
doubtful.
For initiates of the Qabalah, God is the absolute unity
which creates and animates numbers.
The unity of the human intelligence demonstrates the
unity of God.
The key of numbers is that of creeds, because signs are
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