This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...lets his mind become the pure medium of the universal life of truth and reason--so it is the essential characteristic of the spiritual life that the individual lives no longer to himself. The initial act by which he enters on that life implies the renouncing of every wish and desire, every movement of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...lets his mind become the pure medium of the universal life of truth and reason--so it is the essential characteristic of the spiritual life that the individual lives no longer to himself. The initial act by which he enters on that life implies the renouncing of every wish and desire, every movement of inclination and will, that belong to his own private, exclusive self, or that point merely to his own interests and pleasures; and its whole subsequent course may be described as the more and more complete extinction of the narrow, isolated life that centres in self, the nearer and nearer approach to that state in which every movement of our mind and every pulsation of our spiritual being shall be in absolute harmony with the infinite mind and will, and apart from the life of God we shall have no life we can call our own. The error, therefore, of Buddhism is, not that in it religion contained a negative element, but that it stopped short there. In the Christian conception of self-renunciation, to live no longer to ourselves is, at the same time, to enter into an infinite life that is dearer to u; than our own; it is a death to self which rises to live again in the universal life of love to God and charity to all mankind. Yet even in that strange, morbid suppression of all human desire and passion, that impossible extinction of every natural impulse, which Buddhism inculeated, we may discern the unconscious groping of the spirit of man after something higher. To be in love with annihilation, to kindle.human hearts by the fascination of nothingness, is indeed an impossible aim, And if we are confronted by, Jral paradox of a religion of.ion which drew to itself the.1 and devotion of countless mul.ides, we may be sure that the at-. traction was.
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Add this copy of Oriental Religions to cart. $31.25, very good condition, Sold by Eureka Books of CA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eureka, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1882 by Humboldt Library: Popular Science Literature.
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1882, Humboldt Library: Popular Science Literature
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Humboldt Library: Popular Science Literature
Published:
1882
Language:
English
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From Humboldt Library, No. 35, Volume II, August 1882, 57 pages, (pp. 549-605). John Cairn (1820-1898) was a theologian and preacher and principal of the University of Glascow 1873-1898. First edition thus. Very good in sewn wrappers (paperback). Pages are browned. Edge chips not affecting text. Page 43-44 small chip reattached with archival tape.
