Natural law in the spiritual world / by Henry Drummond.

  • Henry Drummond
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1888
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Credit: Natural law in the spiritual world / by Henry Drummond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    world is not- a thing that is; it is not. It is a thing that teaches, yet not even a thing—a show that shows, a teaching shadow, However useless the demonstration otherwise, philosophy does well in proving that matter is a non-entity. We work with it as the mathematician with an x. The reality is alone the Spiritual. “It is very well for physicists to speak of ‘ matter,’ but for men generally to call this ‘a material world’ is an absurdity. Should we call it an .tr-world it would mean as much, viz., that we do not know what it is.”1 When shall we learn the true mysticism of one who was yet far from being a mystic—“ We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal ? ” 2 The visible is the ladder up to the invisible ; the temporal is but the scaffolding of the eternal. And when the last immaterial souls have climbed through this material to God, the scaffolding shall be taken down, and the earth dissolved with fervent heat—not because it was base, but because its work is done. ' Hinton’s “ Philosophy and Religion,” p. 40.
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