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ABSOLUTE, THE: THE FATHERThe potential and unmanifest Source of existence , about which nothing can be predicated. “Prior to truly existing beings and total principles there is one God, immovable, and abiding in the solitude of his own Unity. He is the fountain of all things , and the root of the first intelligible forms . But from this one Deity , the God who is sufficient to himself , unfolds himself into light. For this Divinity also is the principle of the God of Gods,-a monad from The One , prior to essence , and the principle of essence . For from him entity and essence are derived ; and hence , also, he is denominated the principle of intelligibles ."- IAMBLICHUS , The Mysteries , etc., ed . Taylor , p. 301. "In Geberol's philosophy , the Highest above all things is an Absolute Unknown Unity ; the Emanator of the created is a different Creator , getting all potentiality from the former." - I. MYER , Qabbalah , p. 152. "The Absolute is called in Eckhart's terminology the Godhead , being distinguished from God . God is subject to generation and corruption; not so the Godhead; God works, the Godhead does not work. . The Godhead as such cannot be revealed. It becomes manifest first in its persons. The Absolute is at once absolute process. The Godhead is the beginning and final goal of the whole series of essences which exist. The Father uttered himself and all creatures, in the Word,-his Son, and the return of the Father into himself includes the like return of all creatures into the same Eternal Source. The logical genesis of the Son furnishes a type of all evolution or creation; the Son is the unity of all the works of God . God is in all things , and God is all things ." - UEBERWEG , Hist. of Philos . , Vol. I. pp . 473 , 475. "The spiritual man knows already something of what life is, and whence it came ; it is the forth-putting of the eternal divine substance under tempora conditions and limitations that it may declare its inmost quality . Things are ever in flux , the universe is ever in the making , but nothing is being produced nothing great, or beautiful , or good which is not already present in the being of God waiting to be lived." - R. J CAMPBELL , Serm. , The Bundle of Life. |
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