A Wise Man Is A Greater Asset

It Is Thus Necessary To Examine All Things According To Their Essence, To Infer From Every Species Such True And Well Established Propositions As May Assist Us In The Solution Of Metaphysical Problems.

The Error Of The Ignorant Goes So Far As To Say That God's Power Is Insufficient, Because He Has Given To This Universe The Properties Which They Imagine Cause These Great Evils, And Which Do Not Help All Evil-disposed Persons To Obtain The Evil Which They Seek, And To Bring Their Evil Souls To The Aim Of Their Desires, Though These, As We Have Shown, Are Really Without Limit.

Eliphas Never Abandoned His Belief That The Fate Of Man Is The Result Of Justice, That We Do Not Know All Our Shortcomings For Which We Are Punished, Nor The Way How We Incur The Punishment Through Them.

Just As A Person Is Commanded To Honor And Revere His Father, So He Is Under An Obligation To Honor And Revere His Teacher, Even To A Greater Extent Than His Father; For His Father Gave Him Life In This World, While His Teacher Instructs Him In Wisdom, Secures For Him Life In The World To Come.

Divine Providence Is Connected With Divine Intellectual Influence, And The Same Beings Which Are Benefited By The Latter So As To Become Intellectual, And To Comprehend Things Comprehensible To Rational Beings, Are Also Under The Control Of Divine Providence, Which Examines All Their Deeds With A View Of Rewarding Or Punishing Them. ...the Method Of Which Our Mind Is Incapable Of Understanding.