The Religious Philosophy of Plotinus And Some Modern Philosophies of Religion
The Religious Philosophy of Plotinus And Some Modern Philosophies of Religion
Inge William Ralph
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But in so saying the mystic means, it is the goal of thought, of will, and of feeling a state in which our faculties, in gaining 42 PLOTINUS AND MODERN all for which they exist, transcend the conditions of their own activities. How- ever, this vision of the One is no neces- sary part of the spiritual life. The Absolute is the necessary background of this philosophy ; but it need not be an object of experience, which indeed, strictly speaking, it hardly can be. The mystical state, which is not c...onfined to this vision, but in a sense awaits us at every step above our empirical selves, does not add anything to our knowledge. It rather enables us to feel and see what we already know ; but knowledge is not true knowledge until it is seen and felt until, that is to say, we have made our- selves one with it and with its object. Now how does this philosophy affect the question of the uniformity of Nature ? All Nature is the work of creative Spirit, PHILOSOPHIES OF RELIGION 43 acting freely. There is no question of external compulsion.
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