Twenty-First Century Stoic -- From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic - Boing Boing

Twenty-First Century Stoic -- From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic - Boing Boing

a faculty to receive knowledges, not from himself but from others, that is, by others:

134. (C.L.)

"A man is not born knowledge, as a beast is; but he is born faculty and inclination; faculty to know, and inclination to love; and he is born faculty not only to know but also to understand and be wise; he is likewise born the most perfect inclination to love not only the things relating to self and the world, but also those relating to God and heaven; consequently a man, by birth from his parents, is an organ which lives merely by the external senses, and at first by no internal senses, to the end that he may successively become a man, first natural, afterwards rational, and lastly spiritual; which could not be the case if he was born into knowledges and loves, as the beasts are: for connate knowledges and affections set bounds to that progression; whereas connate faculty and inclination set no such bounds; therefore a man is capable of being perfected, in knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom to eternity." 

Those on the SOUTH next took up the debate, and expressed their sentiments as follows: "It is impossible for a man to take any knowledge from himself, since he has no connate knowledge; but he may take it from others; and as he cannot take any knowledge from himself, so neither can he take any love; for where there is no knowledge there is no love; knowledge and love being undivided companions, and no more capable of separation than will and understanding, or affection and thought; yea, no more than essence and form: therefore in proportion as a man takes knowledge from others, so love joins itself thereto as its companion. The universal love which joins itself is the love of knowing, of understanding, and of growing wise; this love is peculiar to man alone, and not to any beast, and flows in from God. We agree with our companions from the west, that a man is not born into any love, and consequently not into any knowledge; but that he is only born into an inclination to love, and thence into a faculty to receive knowledges, not from himself but from others, that is, by others: we say, by others, because neither have these received any thing of knowledge from themselves, but from God.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

verses that were not In New Testamnet

10 out of many verses that were not In New Testamnet when initially compiled

1-John 5.7
2-John 8.7
3-John 8.11
4-Luke-22.44
5-Luke 22.20
6Mark 16.17
7-Mark.16.18
8John5.4
9 Luke.24 .12
10luke 24.51

Some of these insertions are very central to current Christian faith including beliefs on relation among Holy Spirit ,Father,Word in relation to oneness, raising the cup and pouring it as covenant ,visual description of Peter's activities at tomb,Jesus ascent to haeven after blessing disciples,playing with sankes,and condemnition of Pharisesin realtion to sentencing of the prostitute.

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Not me, but You or the simplicity of truth

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