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A history of the doctrine of the soul; among all races and peoples, ancient and modern carefully brought down to the present time - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... and decisive. The consequences to Christian doctrine and practice we shall soon see. The same author, in another critical history, says, "Those who originated this species of philosophy took their leading principles from the system of Plato; considering almost everything which he advanced respecting the Deity, the soul, the world, and the demons as indisputable axioms." 14 "Every one who laid claim to the character of a wise man, was strictly enjoined by him Ammonias Saccas to assert the liberty of his divine and immortal part, by extricating it, as it were, from all connection with the body In fine, to shrink from no exertion that might tend to free the immortal spirit from all corporeal influence." 15 Again: "And that he might the more readily procure for this part of his system an acceptance with the world, he endeavored, as far as possible, by means of strained interpretations, or rather perversions, to enlist on his side the tenets of the Christians respecting the Deity, the human soul, the world," etc." "The restoration or resurrection of the dead was so interpreted as to accommodate it to the tenets of the Grecian sages."" Ammonius probably died about A. L. 243. "The school of Ammonius was continued, and the Eclectic system completed by the most celebrated of his disciples, Plotinus, the chief of the Alexandrian Platonists, from whom the school afterward took its name." 18 He was born A. D. 204. On account of his great abilities, the school became very famous, and was successful in the accomplishment of its object, as we shall see. Plotinus implicitly received Plato's doctrine of the immortality of the soul. The following, from Enfield, will illustrate this: "It was an Other proof of t...
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