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ARTICLE II SOLUTION OF THE SECOND PROBLEM TRUE RELIGION RELIGION exists in humanity, like love. Like it, it is unique. Like it, it either exists, or does not exist, in such and such a soul; but, whether one accepts it or denies it, it is in humanity; it is, then, in life, it is in nature itself; it is an incontestable fact of science, and even of reason. The true religion is that which has always existed, which exists to-day, and will exist for ever. Some one may say that religion is this or that; religion is what it is. This is the true religi…
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… absolute manner the existence of God, and to give an idea of Him which will satisfy all minds. II.—To establish the existence of a true religion in such a way as to render it incontestable. III.—To indicate the bearing and the vazson a@étre of all the mysteries of the one true and universal religion. IV.—To turn the objections of philosophy into arguments favourable to true religion. V.—To draw the boundary between religion and super- stition, and to give the reason of miracles and prodigies. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS WHEN Count Joseph de Mai…
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…tervention with all the warmth of its heart, with all the docility of its intelligence. If separated from this act of faith, the need of religion finds no satisfaction, and turns to scepticism and to despair. But in order that the act of faith should not be an act of folly, reason wishes it to be directed and ruled. By what? By science? We have seen that science can do nothing here. By the civil authority? It is absurd. Are our prayers to be superintended by policemen? There remains, then, moral authority, which alone is able to constitute dogm…
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ARTICLE IV SOLUTION OF THE FOURTH PROBLEM RELIGION PROVED BY THE OBJECTIONS WHICH PEOPLE OPPOSE TO IT. Tue objections which one may make against religion may be made either in the name of science, or in the name of reason, or in the name of faith. Science cannot deny the facts of the existence of religion, of its establishment and its influence upon the events of history. It is forbidden to it to touch dogma; dogma belongs wholly to faith. Science ordinarily arms itself against religion with a series of facts which it is her duty to appreciate,…
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ARTICLE V SOLUTION OF THE LAST PROBLEM TO SEPARATE RELIGION FROM SUPERSTITION AND FANATICISM SUPERSTITION, from the Latin word suerstes, surviving, is the sign which survives the idea which it represents; it is the form preferred to the thing, the rite without reason, faith become insensate through isolating itself. It is in consequence the corpse of religion, the death of life, stupefaction substituted for inspiration. Fanaticism is superstition become passionate, its name comes from the word fanum, which signifies “temple,” it is the temple p…
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…ommunicate in the same hope, the same faith, and the same charity. “The sign by itself is nothing; it is the faith which sanctifies it. “Religion is the most sacred and the strongest bond of human association, and to perform an act of religion is to perform an act of humanity.” When men understand at last that one must not dispute about things about which one is ignorant, When they feel that a little charity is worth more than much influence and domination, When the whole world respects what even God respects in the least of His creatures, the …
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…t all that world of infinity which pertains to His great name. Philosophers have not sufficiently considered the physio- logical fact of religion in humanity, for in truth religion exists apart from all dogmatic discussion. It is a faculty of the human soul just as much as intelligence and love. While man exists, so will religion. Considered in this light, it is nothing but the need of an infinite idealism, a need which justifies every aspiration for progress, which inspires every devotion, which alone prevents virtue and honour from being mere…
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…not itself the first to carry. Aziluth Jezirah \Ve BRI 4a so SEZIRAH xe ? nn w»—_ Ot' cs esiv GREAT PENTACLE FROM THE VISION OF ST. JOHN Religion is patient—the religion of great thinkers and of martyrs. It is benevolent like Christ and the apostles, like Vincent de Paul, and like Fénelon. It envies not either the dignities or the goods of the earth. 74
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THE EQUINOX fact; man is a religious animal. The word “religion” has then a necessary and absolute sense. Nature herself sanctifies the idea which this word represents, and exalts it to the height of a principle. The need of believing is closely linked with the need of loving; for that reason our souls need communion in the same hopes and in the same love. Isolated beliefs are only doubts: it is the bond of mutual confidence which, by creating faith, composes religion. Faith does not invent itself, does not impose itself, does not establish its…
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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES It is the religion of the fathers of the desert, of St. Francis, and of St. Bruno, of the Sisters of Charity, and of the Brothers of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu. It is neither quarrelsome nor intriguing. It prays, does good, and waits. It is humble, it is sweet-tempered, it inspires only devotion and sacrifice. It has, in short, all the characteristics of Charity because it is Charity itself. Men, on the contrary, are impatient, persecutors, jealous, cruel, ambitious, unjust, and they show themselves as such, even in the name of…
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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES takable characters the one true religion, that is to say, that which alone merits the name of religion in that it unites all the characters which agree with that great and universal aspiration of the human soul. One only thing, which is to all most evidently divine, is manifested in the world. It is charity. The work of true religion should be to produce, to preserve, and to spread abroad the spirit of charity. To arrive at this end she must herself possess all the characteristics of charity, in such a manner that one c…
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THE EQUINOX screncE. Admit that if religion has produced much good, she has also done much evil. FAITH. When one kills in the name of the God who said, “Thou shalt not kill,’ when one persecutes in the name of Him who commands us to forgive our enemies, when one propagates darkness in the name of Him who tells us not to hide the light under a bushel, is it just to attribute the crime to the very law which condemns it? Say, if you wish to be just, that in spite of religion, much evil has been done upon earth. But also, to how many virtues has it…
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…enderness, and he bitterly criticized the hearth of which he did not feel the warmth, and the lamp of which he did not see the light. If religion were such as he saw it, he would have been a thousand times right to attack it, and one would be obliged to fall on one’s knees before the heroism of his courage. Voltaire would be the Messiah of good sense, the Hercules destructor of fanati- cism. . . . But he laughed too much to understand Him who said: “ Happy are they who weep,” and the philosophy of laughter will never have anything in common wit…
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…ED BY SOROR VIRAKAM SUB-EDITOR: FRA. LAMPADA TRADAM An. IX Vout. I. No. X © in « SEPTEMBER MCMXIII OS. “THE METHOD OF SCIENCE—THE AiM OF RELIGION” WIELAND & CO. 33 AVENUE STUDIOS, SOUTH KENSINGTON LONDON, S.W. x A
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…h. And if there existed a faith which trampled science underfoot, we should not say that to laugh at such a faith would be a true act of religion, for religion, which is all charity, does not tolerate mockery; but one would be right in blaming this love for ignorance, and in saying to this rash faith, ‘Since you slight your sister, you are not the daughter of God!” Truth, reality, reason, justice, Providence, these are the five rays of the flamboyant star in the centre of which science will write the word “being,”’—to which faith will add the i…
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…nd would borrow perhaps in the same way from fanaticism its injustices and angers. Inquisitors or Septembrisors,’ what matter names? The religion of Jesus Christ condemns, and has always condemned, assassins. 1 Those who took part in the massacres of the Revolution of the 4th Septem- ber, 1792.—TRANS, go
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… VII THE SEPTENARY Tue Septenary is the great biblical number. It is the key of the Creation in the books of Moses and the symbol of all religion. Moses left five books, and the Law is complete in two testaments. The Bible is not a history, it is a collection of poems, a book of allegories and images. Adam and Eve are only the primitive types of humanity; the tempter serpent is time which tests; the Tree of Know- ledge is ‘right’; the expiation by toil is duty. Cain and Abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence a…
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…C. FULLER FOURTH LARGE EDITION NOW READY THROUGH THE EQUINOX AND ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelli- gence. In these fields Captain Fuller is a master dramatist.
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PREFACE We shall exhibit true religion with such characters, that no one, believer or unbeliever, can fail to recognize it; that will be the absolute in religion. We shall establish in philosophy the immutable characters of that Truth, which is in science, reality; in judgment, reason; and in ethics, justice. Finally, we shall acquaint you with the laws of Nature, whose equilibrium is stability, and we shall show how vain are the phantasies of our imagination before the fertile realities of movement and of life. We shall also invite the great p…
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…nderstood, read no more, seek no more, doubt no more—love ! Be no more wise, be no more learned—love! That is the whole doctrine of true religion; religion means charity, and God Himself is only love. I have already said to you, to love is to give. The impious man is he who absorbs others. The pious man is he who loses himself in humanity If the heart of man concentrate in himself the fire with which God animates it, it is a hell which devours all, and fills itself only with ashes ; if he radiates it without, it becomes a tender sun of love. Ma…