The

Three motives and reasons

the

Faith.
From Gustav Theodor Fechner. Leipzig,
Printed and published by Breitkopf and Hartel. , 1863.

Preface. Each person has his faith area, partly to cover the different areas, some of them move apart. True knowledge is but only one, is not the only one true faith? Some say rather that it is right and proper that each had its particular faith. The question is first of all: What is faith against the knowledge? Because a part of the essence of both is still in their relationships with each other. Is it a fraternal, friendly, hostile? Has the knowledge to be the servant of the faith or the faith to hide themselves from the light of knowledge as the owl? They are stapled as the two heads of Janus at each other, so that each looks in a different direction, each only sees what the other does not? Or can only see different than each other did the same to his other nature? These are old questions, is an old dispute, which today is still waiting for the discharge. Rather than take it but here again, this pamphlet goes away from the hassles a way in which there is no occasion for the dispute, because the answer will almost before the question. What is its purpose other? So great is the faith area and the area of the believer, it is so dark and so many ways to run it together sometimes, sometimes apart. Few ever think about it, why they believe what they believe, what little they entitled to believe what they believe, few make it right is right and many lose over the thought even the faith, because they have not taken the rights . This little book has grown out of thinking about what is the right and the guarantee of rights in matters of faith, and his intention again to lead thinking the way that has appeared to us than the right, a path on which to faith rather gained than is lost. I describe briefly the task of this book go to show how faith grows out of his motives, to let the motives of faith to grow reasons, and thus to leave the faith grow

themselves. The main objects of faith are three, and so we are also three main motives and find as a result, three main reasons for the faith, but do not separate the objects, but to the band, what they have in the nature of things, a band add in man. The Common of the motives and reasons I unite under the name of principles of faith, and so I can also say it should be here around the principles of faith. We have many textbooks of faith, they are taught only to the most. We have been in evidence for the existence of God, the Hereafter and angels, but they are only applicable for the scholars there, and faith is all there.Did not even make the reasons of faith accessible to everyone and catchy? But many would like to believe and can not believe only, and she will learn the faith from his textbooks, or books for edification, requiring him ready to build the missing? But in this little book is trying to teach the faith to build the faith without the scholarship of the textbooks or the condition of devotional books need to. It is all so simple, clear, understandable and obvious antecedents to almost selfevident in the fact that I get, however, you find it is rather too much than too little, when one is accustomed to find it otherwise so different in these things. And is also the word believer be satisfied that I take the most important words, he believes, really just the words of reason believers so that I take them all the way to the reason, and the unbelieving so that I his grounds of unbelief raise themselves to religious reasons, since the opposition between the three, in which the life of faith ring moves, almost more than it depends on other things that they will not do justice to the self, in which they seek their justice against each other. Finally the progress of the Faith dares here about his previous position also will be forgiven even after the most faithful expect the fixed retirement of faith to its essence? So Getrste you book a small congregation, and the tree, which sleeps in the acorn. Do you have a small piece of the germs of this tree.

Content I. Faith and knowledge in general. II The area faith in the strict sense. III. motives and reasons (principles) of faith in general. IV Historical, practical and theoretical principle of faith in general. V. The historical principle. VI. The practical principle. VII The theoretical principle. Argument of the spirit. 's argument from the body.

VIII position of an exact science of body and soul (with regard to the question of nerves) to the faith. IX. questions of how faith first came to humanity, and how the motives and reasons of belief in the existence of God rooted in the existence of God. X. The Orthodox and the free position. XI. retrospect, overview, foresight. XII. conclusion. I. Faith and knowledge in general. Like all general concepts can also take faith in different size and style. Rather than argue, however, as he was to take, we simply explain what we here understand and want to look under that name. Enough so that if we remain within the limits of language use, and those stuck fixed only for the purposes of the following analysis, as they are in the fluctuations of use. Perhaps we would do well to proceed as often as it happens commonly. In the broadest sense, and now you understand what I mean by faith an assent to what is not through experience or logical conclusion, what is the mathematical certainty. Should I hereafter also explain what I mean by holding for true experience, logical conclusion mathematics? But you can see well that I will not be ready or would not come to the beginning, what is it supposed to do here.The language used and the context of the consideration must be sufficient to allow the Neuter understand what should be understood below, and only Neuter it should be here. I wanted to write a metaphysics of faith, however, I would have to go deeper into all sides term relationships, go back to the most abstract, emanating from the last, as if it were the first. But what it could lead? Once seemed to me that all metaphysics, dogma, mysticism and mythological figures of faith from the darkness rather than leads into the darkness, I am not permitted to enter into their depth. What we seek is above this depth. In that broad sense in which we first conceived the belief that his term is indifferent to its content. You can believe that there is a God and that there is a hell, war or peace will, of thirteen sitting at the table, this year one will die, so what you can not believe everything. It is incredible what is believed everything in the world, and of all that is believed is believed the opposite. The most blatant superstition is faith even in this broad sense of the faith. But in a narrow sense, when Faith, Love, Hope puts together, for example, on the faith as man's last refuge has, from the Blessed Are by faith, of matters of faith, belief sources, religious people talking, one understands and I understand under believe only faith in the highest and last things, ie God, the afterlife, higher spiritual existence. Hand over most everything that is certainly in those ways, and that's why

we speak of faith, preferably. So faith is in the narrower sense only the highest area of faith in a broader sense. From time immemorial, people have medical conditions linked to it even in the existence of the objects of this faith and the faith and sought the highest and most general band in that faith. In this respect it is also calledreligious faith as distinguished from vulgar faith. To this belief in the strict sense, it is preferably act here, but since he broadly shares the common characteristics and relationships of faith, which are independent of the nature of what is believed, it will apply to take this time being considered. According to some, it would certainly seem that the belief in the highest and last things in general quite different in nature, quite different sources and consequences have, but the belief in some what different things to what here and there, what tomorrow or the next of Use will be or not to be the year that he was something absolutely Furthermore offender or even something specific in every aspect. And should it really can somehow hold with superstition into one? - But first and foremost, faith is the highest and last things a assent to the existence and nature of the things to which it refers, as any other faith, without having to be done by logic and experience certainly can, so something has but conceptually it common, and it is itself part of the role of the following to show that the specific belief in the highest and last things is just only the fact that these things are the highest and last, the highest and last of the are but where we all live and move, and the motives and reasons for any belief that is located on the highest summits in relation to it, is the most complete and finish together. So firm can be no faith when faith in these things, so resounding no motives, no binding reasons so far and no profound consequences. Why? Because the motives, reasons, consequences of the belief in common, highest and last things bear the nature of its objects, the highest and last to be most common of which being but where acts of our lives, and endeavors and moves. Faith is like a high pyramid. The motives and reasons of all faith walk of a broad base of the religious faith as a final ruling upper together, and the same is very much mistaken, he who seeks the top of the pyramid as something Secreted above the pyramid, and who makes no view of the base , half wrong, who only half does it. One can believe that something is, and believe that is something to be trusted, then faith is trust. This sense is often the belief in the Bible. But it is rooted in the one of another faith, how could anyone believe that is something to be trusted, not even from the thought that it is. As the Bible says, "Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to God must believe that he is, and those who seek him, will be a rewarder" While (Ebr. XI 6th) requires the belief in the first sense yet of an increase of determinants to be the last, but they grow out of the right belief in the rights also of yourself. So it is therefore not necessary to separate the consideration regarding it. What knowledge is against the faith now?

Again, it is important again to distinguish a closer and more important. What is known in the narrowest and strictest sense, hereby absolutely and objectively Certain towards us one believes only what is impossible to imagine according to the principle of identity differently or to think about, that's all through direct experience, valid logical inference or the latter on Due to the former Detected. I know in that sense of knowing that a sensation of red, green, yellow in the world is when I have them myself, because nothing can complain about, what is there that is there. I know that every triangle includes two right angles in sum, because I can not think otherwise, without coming into conflict with the preconceived conditions of the triangle, I know on the same grounds in a sphere whose diameter I know from experience that their volume and content. Others, however, whether the orange in front of me, just as yellow as I see, I can not strictly know, I firmly believe it only almost as if I knew it, and as long as I have the cogency of logical inference is not itself seen, recognized the impossibility of dissenters resending after the claims of conceptual match it myself, I can well believe, but do not know that he is so cogent and Urban is correct. Of what we know for certain, however, is in addition to the very extensive rich mathematical truths basically very little, and to draw on the mathematical truths out anyway, partly that they only just a matter of knowing less strict, more or less for others matter of faith are, in part, that they say nothing about the existence itself, but only say that if this is so, then this is so. Mathematics can not prove that there is a space of three dimensions, in the draw to lines that can be put boundaries by the that it circles are triangles, but only that, if there is a space, triangles, circles within the meaning the definition is from the given this and that follows. Everything that happened before us, will be done by us, far done by us and there is the certainty of knowledge for us going into that strictest sense of knowledge, she did not have enough on their established concepts in the areas of Perceptible over the immediately Experienced and analyzable its logical, and combined developable content addition. Meanwhile, there are principles of generalization of experienced, laws that are won only through self-moderating generalization of the experience, and the more so again confirmed in the experience, the longer and the more and the more thoroughly we pursue them. These principles and laws, and what follows from it, you wont be expected in a wider sense to the field of knowledge and we may hereafter expect it. The whole science is to generate such knowledge, although the knowledge thus generated in the last instance always hangs on the belief that the generalization on which we are based and the conclusions drawn will also find their confirmation, as those previously in the circle of experience moderating have been found. For neither by logic nor experience can be proved that such would occur. Who can say that it was proven by experience or mathematics, or both together or be proved that the law of gravity applies through all the rooms, will apply throughout all time. But it has been found valid, as far and as long as we could trace it by the sky and the times. The evidences a faith that does the strictest knowledge of almost equal

strength, that it would also further apply, and therefore we expect it self as a matter of our knowledge, yes as a matter of strict, the exact knowledge. In most of what is called knowledge, but faith is a conditionally, provided that this knowledge is based on the assumption of some Felt. So does everything in our historical knowledge of the faith in the credibility of sources, all of our experience science the belief that seen other right, and only what they have rather seen told our entire psychology, as far as they do not merely that of a single individual is the belief in other people's souls advance. And what would all of our science, when all this faith would fall. So the man of knowledge does not like too much despise the faith. Of all knowledge has its share of some faith; deprive him of the same and forfeit the knowledge itself. Not banish faith, but to replace as much as possible through knowledge, may be his task as a man of knowledge. As far as possible. And not enough knowledge to replace a faith, may be the question of whether faith is ever ersetzlich or not, and thereafter the task set out to topple him from the knowledge side, or, if not to justify, but to based. Is after all the faith nothing more than an imperfect knowledge? But that would be to recognize the essence of bad faith. Rather like what we think of one thing always about what we know of it, extends, and the determinants of beliefs about rich generally speaking, the knowledge and can the inadequacy of the latter, which takes place every faith, by other Determinants are added. So much so that an assent to the thing comes to pass that. Resistance to that which rests on knowledge reasons, often not inferior and one of the objective certainty of knowledge, not identical, but the holding scales subjective certainty can arise That is a certainty that the feeling that it could be otherwise, is just so far as the clear consciousness that it could not be otherwise attending. As for the really religious man, despite that the existence of those objects of faith exceeds in the existence of God, as hard as the naturalist believes Mussulman to the sky with the Houri's to the generality of the laws of nature all experience and all mathematics. But can Determinants of faith with such knowledge outright come into conflict and often they offer. Or why many a word of the Bible is worth more than all the science experiments and all speculative philosophy. Luther himself one has the expression: "the Sorbonne has established the highly reprehensible doctrine that what was established truth in philosophy, must also apply in theology as truth," and the church father Tertullian even said frankly: "credo , quia absurdum est. " He wanted to say: My reasons for belief are not only from the knowledge of reasons, they even contradict them. No less than the reasons rich and the consequences of faith far beyond the knowledge. Faith is not merely produced, he also testifies again, two male children, deeds and conclusions, two female, hope and fear. The power of his producers and his sons are in relationship and in the past to prove his own strength. Let us now see, the whole action, thought, feeling human is much more determined by the faith of these scions

of faith than from knowledge of, since there are so little of what we really know. And we look closer, so just created the belief in the highest and last things that exceed our knowledge the most, the strongest of all effects. And we see very well, so one of the main effects just this, all knowledge about growing, faith itself to promote the knowledge, because what did the Christians wiser than the Turks! It is true, railways and machinery can not build faith, he must leave the knowledge, although the belief in benefits that are not there yet, and often do not come to build it stimulates the knowledge executes only. But there are larger effects of faith, the very knowledge resigns or more enters the easement of faith. The belief is that has led to the Crusades hundred upon hundreds of thousands from west to east and in the trains of the crescent from east to west, which put the Pope on the throne and the prince has placed under his feet was that the cities their Dome, the villages of their churches, the hills, paths and walkways their chapels and crosses were, Greece has peopled with statues and monasteries with monks. Think of the tortures imposed for the sake of faith multitudes endured by countless martyrs of countless penitents themselves are imposed, how much do people have been killed and burnt for the faith, have slaughtered and burned, can be themselves have voluntarily plunged to his death. "And what more shall I say - includes Paul 1) , having been much counted in the same sense - the time would be too short for me, if I tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and Jephthah, and David, and Samuel, and the prophets.
1)

Ebr. XI. 32 ff

Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions; Quenched the power of fire, the sword, entronnnen, are made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, the foreign army have laid prostrate; Many have suffered mocking and scourging, moreover of bonds and imprisonment; They were stoned, hacked, stabbed, killed by the sword: they went about in furs and goat skins, with destitute, afflicted, tormented; And gone in misery in the deserts, in the mountains and in dens and caves of the earth; These all, having had witness through faith. " There is no knowledge in the world that can produce such effects, so to speak, overcome death, that is, the fear of death and the fear of killing the defenseless, because there is no knowledge that overcomes death itself, ie the can punish fear of death lies and ensure the safety of a better life beyond. That must take faith andersher, draw its power from another source. The fear of death is innate, how powerful is all Congenital, the belief has grown, but it can grow over the fear of death.

What can the mighty, away from the underlying knowledge, and often surpassed all of the same determinants, Determinants for his faith, capable of producing the effects of such expansion and power? There are quite mystical, can be nothing of them show? On the contrary, quite obvious to point to's lightest, except that the eight lots of what he sees every day, easy does not see, and thought-provoking rather after what just behind the neighbor, as seen by the neighbor, and the single standing there looks from one side. But before we attempt before the remoter the next, but to show this on all sides, we meet a second error after the first, as momentous as it may be the first, which is of itself a the three sites shows that there below is considered accurate to consider. So erroneous it would be to try to make faith merely of knowledge reasons dependent, and to see in faith nothing but an imperfect knowledge so erroneous it would be to exclude the knowledge reasons of the determinants of the faith whole and even in a merely something extrinsic to the Other to see. In our Meistes knowledge we found something of faith in detail and conversely, what we know of one thing to have a very significant proportion of our faith, has often admittedly only hidden content anywhere and is in conflict with other determinants of the faith itself as a with such a weight which can be weighed by weigh or circumstances. What gives the faith of even the raw savages who knows nothing of astronomy, the sun will rise tomorrow, as it is understood today? Only he knows she is today, yesterday, day before yesterday, worked out every day since time immemorial. Such induction can never be complete, but that in itself incomplete knowledge of what it rests, complemented by itself after a psychological laws so as to insurers and firmer faith, a lower per supplement is needed. What makes us to his own soul, the only one of which we really know, believe in a soul of all the other people? That we see their bodies and bodily expressions of the same our, what we know bound mind and mental activity. This analogy may constitute as little as an inductive inference that knowledge in the strictest sense, but what it lacks, just as supplemented again by itself to faith. The belief in the highest and last things is certainly not of such a nature that it would require only those weak subjective complement the knowledge reasons, we expect that neglecting what is believed to knowledge itself.The reasons range of knowledge here, much less far, the other religious reasons gain the upper hand by far, but it would be without the service of knowledge are not sufficient reasons in turn and they never come without advantage. So the man of faith does not like too much despise the knowledge. His faith would be without an empty phrase or bladder. After all, is not the lack of knowledge of reasons, but the inadequacy of the same perfect a knowledge or an objective certainty in the above sense and complement this defect by psychological or other wide reasons characterizes the faith, and only relative we like from lack of knowledge of reasons for belief speak when, how often, against the other religious reasons can not arise.

By enter the determinants of knowledge in the faith with the faith but still Determinants, has also the whole area of faith is much larger than that of knowledge, presents its influence on life, feeling, thought the knowledge, only faith not enough knowledge at all to the highest and last things one might find reason enough to see an imperfect faith than vice versa rather in knowledge, and rather to have the faith to the knowledge the higher position, if not all, the dispute over the priority of what is only with and through each other, at all pointless and would be a misunderstanding of the right relationship. So much belief overlooks the knowledge, take him all the knowledge, and you have only pure superstition, not even the substance to superstition; take the knowledge of all faith, and you have the mathematical void only the materialistic wealth, so stand alone with your soul in the world without a soul beside, above, before and after you. It's called faith blind to the knowledge, he is really against the knowledge about how the blind man's eyes to, that is, apart from his eyes, the right knowledge but are of the right eyes of faith. So would find faith but only by knowing his way? But can reverse the eyes without all the people find a way? But I do not want to accumulate images for which it can ask whether and to what extent they meet, for what. Himself to clear to anyone who attaches a clear view of the relationship between knowledge and faith Also, you will readily admit everything, and Some only provide the exempt them what it considered the most and here is to be asserted, the belief in the highest and last things. What can because knowledge? Says the same thing: nothing, so we have nothing here expect from him; - the Other: There can be nothing here know, the way it is just superstition. And so can the knowledge of A, the other falling faith in all those same things, in which only the best combination of all forces can lead to both truest, best, highest. II The area faith in the strict sense. If even the belief takes the highest and last things with each other faith under the same general concept, it remains factually Ungemeines something about each other and faith in himself many things in common but with no other. First place, he has this in common, that it is a belief in ghosts, for even in the afterlife, it is after all spirits, and certifies that he, at least on this side, always faith is determined to stay because everyone has the hand always only of his own worldly soul you know, while there are other faith, yet faith is this morning knowledge, or the desire to raise him to knowledge, but promises one term success. Such a success here is the thing to be impossible. Meanwhile, he is not the only belief in spirits and hereby not the only one that this is true. The same is true of faith in other human souls, animal souls, any neighbor souls at all, their existence can be as little as that of God, otherworldly and higher spirits are made through direct experience and logical conclusion certainly, and so could conversely, the existence of this just as surely be , and it will show that we in fact have quite adequate reason to do so.

But remains of a faith other than the always somewhat of a higher level, the reasons for a need to expand, enhance, to be the other reasons, and the interests of one of the project over the other. The belief in other people souls for us the next spezialste on animal souls and any plant souls have also lying to souls on other celestial bodies, the farthest only casual interest, the belief in the last and highest intellectual powers, but about all of these and any belief at all-powerful, comprehensive, meisterndes all hanging thereon interests, most general, highest and ultimate, theoretical and practical interest to the people because the believed objects have such, but the farthest only insofar as it is the farthest to understand in its generality . In God closes after believing the existence of the entire spirit world, indeed the world in general, from, takes her band, their head, their first cause, its principle is, what names you might need for him to look for the one that the highest for around the mean. In Beyond the completion of goals, adjustment of the shortcomings of all this life is expected. For the gap between us and God mediations be sought in higher spirits. The entirety of this faith but has proven to thinking, feeling, acting mankind the most common and most important influence and proved it today. This he has himself reduced to the life of the day, however, thus gaining from also influence our next and spezialsten interests, but only by general, highest and last points of view, as, conversely, the belief in the souls of our neighbors in the state, morality and custom rises to higher and more general interests, so that highest and most general interests opposed grows and grows through with it, but only in the outputs of the spezialsten relationships of the family and the congregation. The difference is only relative, but relatively it is, and where there is no point of absolute divorce, which is not available here, fortunately, also the relative nor his right and his duty. In the common height above all other things, the objects of faith hang in the narrow sense closely together and faith hangs together by itself. According to the Christian faith God with the angels and souls beyond its common residence in heaven, carried the painters paint him even of angels above the clouds and carried up the souls after death to him. The saints who rose from the here and in the hereafter, and the angels who lived with God from the beginning is to convey an on special occasions, the other steadily between us and God, so many fall souls beyond partially together with angels themselves. The resurrected from the dead to heaven but Christ driven, Judge of the living and the dead, is also a mediator between us and God and himself one with God. So firmly adherent in itself is all in the kingdom of heaven who can finally unravel the inextricably Fused yet. And there are some Christians who believe in nothing he can not unravel, he believes but if he still believes something that the actions of the people, which is most in accordance with the will of God, and that is what it the most favorable conditions in the afterlife backs, and expects a perfect knowledge of things divine and greater union with God in the afterlife. The pagans have taken a few one supreme God, angels take lesser gods, instead of

physical countless souls shadows. Down to those Seitab to the islands of the blessed, even some who drive more than shadows to topThe whole world is to them a world of gods, Pluto sits under the earth, then go the saddest shade; Zeus on Olympus, then the happiest of heroes and thus even to the company of gods. So here play world of the gods and other world through each other and fall in part looking at each other. Where Ibis, cow be worshiped as divine, you can also take the souls after death in animals. And many nations mixed linked at all of the dead service confused with the gods service in a way that we of course have long since my addition. In short, the religious beliefs of the highest and last things is a connected world in itself, as the real world of the lower common things, which we know only one higher than this lower world. , Weis, here and there, one or drop the other of the three moments of faith from the band can; - on time and in complete faith of humanity it can not happen - but then only by falling right across from the faith or as a residue the whole faith itself receives only a scanty because each can its power only through the relationship with the other kept as each member expires, which are separated from the whole. And any atrophy or lack of development of one or another moment is always regarded as a defect which expels about yourself, faith can not stop there, must develop soft or another. The Jews have long believed in God before they clearly believed in a life after death, although it was a vestigial idea of Sheol. Today they believe in heaven and hell, and hope to come once in Abraham's bosom. The Jewish faith is so tough, he could not stand on that stunting. The Buddhists believe in an otherworldly life without some believe in a personal God, and yet have their idols, temples and prayers. The deposited Buddha himself as one idol; - where God is absent, idols can not easily be missing, - but that they have no God above their idols, will be one of the reasons that the end of days will have no Buddhism, and all other reasons are more or less dependent on this. Some among us believe in God without believing in an afterlife and personal ghosts between us and God, but as dead, cold, abstract, empty, helpless is this belief, so to say they believe in God, only God's sake, and would lose the poor God not much. Power, life, wealth, beauty, sublimity of religious belief depends on the coherent development of his three-contained living moments. Probably has a religion or denomination already reached the ideal in this regard? Yes, some do not see the ideal rather than in the greatest possible atrophy most possible development of a moment? III. motives and reasons (principles) of faith in general. The Determinants of faith, as we said, hand over the knowledge, and after the great inadequacy of the determinants of knowledge in relation to the last and highest things and yet so widely used and powerful belief we had extremely powerful determinants to faith in these things require. What can they be?

The revelation believer is easily done with the answer. The belief in these things is itself revealed by God to man. Well, in the last analysis all and certainly preferably faith in God from God will even depend. Yes every true belief depends in a sense on the part of a revelation of existence of what is believed. Or could be cogently believe in the existence of even a tree No one ever saw or heard of the noise a leaf. Which indeed the revelation of believers only that it is not the existence of the whole of God can enter contact seen at once in the existence of the small people, not, not cogent but the belief in the existence of God could be, of not having his existence somehow in our visible inside entered says. So is there really the God in whom we believe, we must also believe that he had somehow once as revealed to us, so that we can believe in him, and the belief in one true God is of itself a belief in a true revelation. The only question is in what way geschahe revelation. God spoke to the people as a man? Why not you? Initially, yes, it is as the Bible says he who believes in's word the Bible, and further he did it through his with his only son and also by supernatural inspiration of prophets, evangelists, apostles, popes, saints, councils Reformers. But since all this yourself just only a matter of faith, for others also rather is a matter of unbelief, then the motives and reasons for such a belief, where they exist, are also among the general motives and reasons of faith, which we consider below must find, and we can not start with the premise of it. Let's be open: The Revelation believer who collapsed on the word of the Bible, perhaps even of Luther or of the Pope, as such relies upon a rock, from which no chunks may fall, for fear of the whole faith is, is this have to face the task of entering all position forward. He can not tolerate what he now holds even for the fixed output of all judgment and the highest over all evil, will still undergo an assessment and any question, there is for him no authority to do so. And verily, he is right to demand anything of the sort from religion itself we will eventually make this demand, but if it is already there for him, asks someone else is whether and where it is there; There is much to do made for revelation. Reject the question is no answer, but we can only wish the answer, which asks, want to help the search, which searches. On closer inspection one can determine the reasons for faith motives , which the faith drive , and reasons which to entitle differ. The statement of a reason we call an argument . Motives and reasons together or the Common of the motives and reasons, as I said, principles of faith. Has now probably so you can ask at the very beginning, the faith anything other than motives or reasons more than knowledge of what goes into it, and what but never enough to certainty? In truth, he has no reasons that are not related to the completion of the motifs, and thus none of the evidence, only those which are sufficient for conviction, otherwise he would not knowledge and belief. What so ever the belief may be justified and supported by knowledge side doubts remain possible, however, doubt may be foolish, but he always remains possible, without coming into conflict with logic and experience, which is on the point.From all that for the existence of God, after all, which speaks for the generality of the laws of nature, doubtful but the materialist

naturalist on the existence of God, the Orthodox theologian to the generality of the laws of nature, so he doubts not merely that he denies. The one doubt may be so foolish as the others, but remains equally possible, and the error of a can be proven any more than that of the other. Only the same folly can thereby prove that he belongs in the highest degree, what else allwrts considered folly. A goal of the off-examined by the human society on ways in which he can hope to meet only the same ausnahmsweiser foolishness to Run the gates. A goal of which prefers the useful and the harmful even declared it more useful than the most useful, one regrets the gates. A goal of the foundation of the certainty in the most unlikely looking, one doubts his intellect. Only just lay in matters of faith, of course, some to another, even opposite, scale. Keeps all the people who have believed before him and believe him what he himself does not believe, for fools, of those who do not prefer the harmful disbelief the most useful faith with him, and says: Credo quia absurdum est. For all this there's no argument. For all the arguments for faith is only able to rely on what is in the smallest and meanest things as folly and wisdom than to assert itself in the highest and last things, and in this sense the motives of faith themselves to raise reasons. In fact, however, a primary object of the following will be to show how the reasons which justify the belief that only the highest generalization, summary, culmination, clarification, correction position of the motives that drive them to believe, in short, what I call the completion Designs call them, are, so that man to just whose sake, indeed to believe everything and to whose account the sake of which he really believes, - and how beautiful and good is it that it is so. But also to show that an authoritative restriction, correction, cleaning thereof is herein incorporated by each of themselves at the same time. What half and individually inadequate and even untriftig, and most subjects are there, and can be quite full and combined in the largest public grant full cogency, and take the half of what the people driving here and there for faith to its Untriftigkeit discard sake, you have it to the full cogency rather only to supplement and meet. What a moment aside as part of the stage as a whole or a whole has its truth and justification, can to the whole, where the summit will be wrong and untriftig; take it to discard its Untriftigkelt sake, one has to the grade on which it is cogent, only minimize and limit. This limitation and hereby correction, but the various motifs make itself The Negro believes that a rock, a tree, a snake or something else like a god. Why? The priests and the elders said's so, he needs to believe in something which has powers over the human out to where people forces are no longer sufficient, nor expect help if by magic, sacrifice or prayer from him, and as he did the forces Nature does not know, but so much of it knows that it the hand over his, why should the snake, the rock, the tree is not as good as any other object of them to be the essence to which he needs the faith after any perhaps quite random, association tied the idea of the greatness of it. Depending on the raw man, so easily and so raw he generalized. Since we have motives of faith that change here and there, so and so can

make. But that by all peoples who have risen above the level of animality, the belief in a divine being above the people goes that this faith is everywhere in all the last and highest matters needed and without it expires human society, that the last insight can only find their completion in such a faith in the whole nature of mental and physical things, reasons of faith, not just as changing, not the thing itself are also able to make different, and preferably folgends we mean by reasons such reasons . The rock is no god, the tree is no god, the snake is no God, the sea is no god, the air with thunder and lightning is no God, the earth, the sun and the moon are not God, what the Negro, the Egyptians, the Greeks, who believes heath at all. But is all this a pure faith mistake? Take all together, you have the world. Is it God? But because of the heath says that of all 'that the matter is God? He said only that she was carrying a hidden spiritual power behind it, similar to his, only his reaching out. And is it a mistake that the whole world is the bearer of a divine spiritual power hidden behind it? The mistake that all individual faith is thus only that looked in detail at individual's is laid, which sense only in the whole rests. Add the faith of all the nations by themselves and linking it in that you, knpfest the divine spiritual power, which he linked to the individual to the whole, so you have the right faith. Set the other hand, the power of the individual, it expands to that of the whole,'s right measure to reduce, you have the right faith.Every natural object but has a portion of the force with which Wielding in all things God transcends all that is human, but he has not the whole, last, highest. Also, the dismembering faith of the Gentiles is not the only faith, from the other side there is a belief in God as a unified spirit, which is raised high above the world of matter, they, his waste has on his stool, his offspring. If the heath faith lacks the proper unity of the divine essence, so lacking in this, the living relationship to nature, but one may be supplemented by the other and correct in what is missing everyone and where everyone is missing, and so the belief is to a in the ubiquitous nature and all-ruling God arise as a right faith that all Christians confess the words to without making course right earnest with the words. If we have the last ground of faith formation, provided there is a real, can be attributed to the existence of what is believed, still divides this single reason in its effects immediately in several determinants or motives. You can try to follow the dependence of these motives of faith in the highest and last things of the existence of these things, but then must the existence and mode of existence of these things presuppose already as a given that condition but to be only through the collection of motifs has to justify the true reasons. So instead of starting as a given the existence of the highest and last things, and to derive the motives and reasons of the faith of it, we have rather only to do with the motives of faith as given, thereafter the reasons of faith to give us what we still free is when good reasons for believing in the existence and a certain mode of existence of the highest and last things can be found, to think backwards, as from this could well go the motives and reasons in us. Generally speaking, and as I said, the motives and reasons to believe in these

things, that is, the last and highest spiritual existences, none other, than to any mental existences, so things in general are; increased just about any other, culminated. And why should we eventually higher and a supreme mind for less keep the existence of certain as the existence of our neighboring spirits if we just increased corresponding motives and reasons culminated find it. If they are, they can not be on hand and surface, as for those of course, but it will apply to direct the look up and keep more in height than when it is the belief in the neighboring ghost, without but, somehow to leave the territory of the motives and reasons which have this belief. Also, there are no obstacles that more objects the belief in higher spirits and the highest spirit in the way, as the belief in the neighboring ghost, if it is not just those greater height of the motives and reasons. God sees no one, so why believe in it? But you see the soul of your brother? but you believe it, so can any case the fact that you do not see a God to the world, are no reason, less to believe in him, as in your brother's soul. From this it not even you ask to see them, from God seem to require it some to believe in him, and because he mocks the desire, they mock God. A worm is quite different and moves quite differently than you, but do you believe in a soul to the worm. So can the fact that the world looks very different to you and your little lives do not nachtut the Great, no reason lie less in a God to the world as a soul to the worm to believe. The worm but has a erbrmlicheren body as you move and pathetic than you, so also do you think a worm erbrmlichere soul than you. The world is an unspeakably larger and more powerful than your body. Includes your body, your life, and even the history and destiny of all peoples to self, and you're just a pathetic particles thereof. Could not you then just as well believe in a higher spirit to the world sublime, as a erbrmlichere soul to the worm? Now I would believe neither in the soul nor my fellow-men of the worm, if I had not also positive reasons for that determination. Now we see purely for the experience, what can ever believe in souls us to look further, how far back we find the corresponding higher and higher in the faith. We believe: 1) because our faith is planted it from childhood. Hindus and other raw vegetable people also believe in souls because their faith is planted them from childhood, we do not because we, the opposite is planted. 2) Because we need faith to other human souls find satisfaction in it, so could not get along without virtually the same. In animal and plant souls souls this motif as the other less claims and therefore also the belief is less common. Even animal souls are denied or here and there. 3) Because the analogy conclusions experience ever reason based on the experience corresponding ghost leaves us to take our minds in other bodies. We also require no full similarity of other body with our body to accept soul in it, we require a good feeling on points, of which we assume that they are characteristic of the soul existence, with of course can still ask and argue and really fights what they are. Other motives to faith in the neighboring souls can not be found, just this, and no other determining factors, which soon lead us to believe in our neighboring souls

more of this, now of that side, but it is also that we are entitled to it unless it fairly be taken, only that it can be argued that had completed their version and the wrong decisions taken by the decision taken and can legally come into conflict with each other and really come. The right version will finally be the one that removes the conflict. Purely a priori grounds for that belief, not in the least support were based on the above, and reasons at all, heraustrten from the above, there is not. But what is true in this respect for the faith of our neighbor souls, now we hereafter the matter is quite as for the belief in the last and highest spirits and even the belief in things of any kind Grasp general. IV Historical, practical and theoretical principle of faith in general. What name also like to wear the motives of faith and what it may apply also to believe they carry themselves last on three back, I half distinction of brevity as a historical, practical and theoretical, and being only superficially, in order afterwards to make the detailed, shortly be formulated. Historical motif . One believes what is told us what was believed before us and is believed to us. Practical design . It is believed that pleases us to believe is, avails. Theoretical design . One believes what one finds Determinants in experience and reason. None of these motives is informal reducible to the other. Although the historical appears from some aspects, not an original, because that someone else may impart my faith, he has itself been determining factors have to faith and the message of faith, will be to ask for what, and when they again received in one of andersher can be communication, it only moves the question further back, and then it seems only the theoretical and practical design as the last events of the faith and the message of faith to remain. But in terms of a specific belief in revelation, the first message from God himself happened to mankind directly or by supernatural inspiration, after which the historical subject would be the allerursprnglichste rather, and we let the whole dark question of the first origin of faith in humanity at page and ask how today the belief comes first to every person, it is nevertheless certain and will continue to find its execution, that the child, which the faith of parents and teachers is informed not accept him because of the theoretical and practical motif but simply assumes, because it is given to him, so that in any case in particular, the historical subject is nowadays for every person the most original. Instead of a one-sided dependence of the other motifs is rather up to certain limits change depending recognize all of each other. The whole design of the faith that has, with output possibly developed by a long-lasting effect of the theoretical and practical subject of a direct revelation, wears historically at once to the new entrants into humanity. If the belief in each generated afresh by mere mediation of theoretical

and practical subject, how weak, poor, and he would be ambiguous, even in a few as he would ever come to pass. The whole religious capital of humanity as a whole and to inherit large parts held together in human history continues. From other side, but if not the theoretical and practical design to hold the faith to propagate and develop themselves compelled, as its effect would deny the historical, the capital, where it always initially descended to consume, disappear. It's like with the blood, and the busy life of what is already there, gives strength and life and strength, not the food, but can not draw power and strength of his life and of rotational himself from the blood, and the food it needs. So the historical subject would be able to little without the theoretical and practical how to make and no one has actually reversed the development and design of faith alone undertaken. But this co-and mess-operation of motives does not prevent but to follow the mode of action of each independently and up to certain limits, so in order to know what they work with and through each other, one must know what each looks to his side.Especially since the match, which prove the three motifs generally speaking, cause faith at all and get in detail and with reference to the particular faith does not exist. Rather, we see this in detail here, there, that motif vorwaltend or even exclusively, even hostile to the other, escape, and the conflict of motives as likely as their subsequent handling. When orthodox Catholicism and Protestantism is the historical principle, the vast, the theoretical and the Neukatholizismus the philosophical teachings of religion, the teachings of Confucius and the state religions, such as practical. What the historical subject would have us believe, will often not meet the practical and theoretical, by reason neither conducive to our salvation, nor in the nature of things appears to us. From other side, nothing more common than the covenant of the historical and practical motif against the theoretical subject and therefore nothing more common than the dispute between faith and the knowledge, and then nothing more common than that one of the triangles, the other two will bend under his yoke. Thus, the historical in unilateral arrogance calls the once solid Gone and it would be the Heilloseste as necessary to salvation, and want the whole science lead on the ropes, the practical determined and monitored according to his purposes, the teachers and the teaching, sets the direction of the historical reproduction of faith and the influence of science on it, and suggested the theoretical and historical quibbles sources faith in his sense of the goodness and sacrifice of truth. Not only with each other to fight the three motifs, each also with themselves, and how the dispute is often harder than the sects of the religions to which they subject themselves, it is with the hassles of motives. So argues the historical motif in the belief in the Koran and the Bible, there again the faith of the Shi'ites and Sunnis, here the faith of the pope, to Luther and Calvin, the practical in the design of faith the part of the priests and rulers to own benefit and salvation of all the favor here and there that this side of the benefit, the theoretical in the philosophical doctrines, there is so much of her. The overall result of human faith is the result of the interaction with and against each of the three motifs with each other and in themselves. It remains on the whole a

positive result huge, so the mutually opposing action of the motifs themselves contributes to make it huge. It is the case of the ever changing and fluctuating, to be filled again through evaporation itself, all the more powerful by the fight of his waves, sea. Whatever goes into it in detail and staggers, it stays on the whole an eternal sea, from which all the rivers draw secretly to pour the scooped the goals of the barrel back into it. And even what is running one against another, but hangs together and basically the whole. Here and there occurs a materialist and says: There is no God. That is, it shall be additional to the small bucket of his conclusion to exploit the sea and pour away. It has existed from the beginning and will exist forever, like the small bucket to scoop tired, and what they pay out, running through the air back to sea. Matter of history and ethnography of religious belief, it must be to follow the rule of three motifs that faith through the centuries and nations, and the reasons for its special design in the influence of the historical precedents, reciprocal linkages, relationships with nature, plants and needs consult the people on these motifs and to consider a wider perspective, a matter of great interest, but which is not the task here. Before you can trace the causes which have driven forth faith in humanity, in broad terms, it is important to determine their own nature and their relationship to each other with clarity, and this is the first task. For this purpose, but they are, above all, to take as the eye, where they present the observation immediately clear and beyond doubt, that is how they act in the consciousness of men that do not like it about in a consciousness of God, or general world order or the idea of history and things roots, which we like but last search their roots or the reason of their general train. For it is thus that we are up to the individual effect of the same in the people coming down with the consideration of the motives of faith, not to say that the belief in humanity was created by an atomistic summation of subjects in each man: but only say that the generally higher, reaching up, reasons driven forth the faith in humanity that they may be, have been made in each under the influence of the same people standing as these motifs claims, but only that communicate directly with the experience; only of these, we can even draw conclusions on the nature of the general reasons and that thus characterize as otherwise dark lasting, through their effects. So on this is first addressing the eye, not to start with mystical and idle speculation, which only to inferential presuppose that of the motives and reasons, which it is not only free, but it turns out of course the need of the work of the ascend into the motives for people in general caster of humanity, which we will eventually find only believed in the existence of a supreme and last things themselves. So is not excluded with our experiential observation of nature and work of the motifs in their detail, their combinations and conflicts, a coherent story, and higher conception of their work in humanity, nor replaced, but prepared and underpinned, and the conclusion in a higher believes will be entirely devoted to the progress of the following considerations by themselves. Each of the three motifs can be uplifting to a real, pronounceable in an argument,

collect reason, and thus the fluctuation, the division, the conflict, the straying and confusion, though it remains nothing more than what we said, the highest generalization, summary, top, clarification, correction position, completion of a short side and relevant restriction of the other side of a corresponding motif. Each of the three arguments is sufficient for himself, to justify the faith and keep, but only insofar as each is collected to the main aspects and make the other subservient may, insofar as it but the other needs, and likewise returned to service the other can occur, the faith eventually receives the full support only by the unanimous vote of the three, so one should keep only be fully justified him. It can be shown that one has the right to be based on what breaks down in history, and even hint of what is punctured in the future, to look into the recent swing to, but just by showing that just merely that which corresponds to the reason and nature of things and the needs of the people, may eventually penetrate and gain support, and even there is a continuing tendency. It can be shown that it is right to keep the best for the most true, but to come to the knowledge of what is best for all and for all time, the Fuens is needed on the historically developed knowledge thereof and the departing reasonable insight into the nature of people and things. It can be shown that it is right, not only as good, but above all and above all to demand in consideration of the highest and last things the sensible and Fairest for the experiential nature of things as in the smallest and vulgar, but how limited is the individual reason and experiential knowledge of the nature of things, so it will apply again to rely on the historically Applicable, and on which to base with that, as the most correct knowledge of what is to us the best used in our relations to reverse what serves us best, which is most correct. Any dispute between the historical, practical and theoretical motives and raises and resolves itself finally into the historical, practical and theoretical reason, within each of them, and the battle carries in itself the conditions of the solution. In vain we tried to support the faith to the point of one of the three reasons alone. The revelation believer who wishes to rely solely on direct revelation from God, but must justify the validity of revelation for themselves and others through the practical point of view that such a belief especially the otherwise disclose or properly called, is the best. He who seeks the best religion for all, he says, that he the religion of love, All the best wishes to all, had invented himself, if he had not found them by Christ? So he needs but the historical support. Or he sees around at the thousands of BC and the nations round about, if it was so easy to invent this religion. Rather, only that he himself was brought up in it, was the highest practical point find it and let them make. And who wants to build solely on reason and experience, he looked around at the free communities and materialists who just have this principle, but this principle, how much he still finds faith in God and eternal life there. Rather than discard one of the three building stone, we have to put it to the vault, but we need to lift the stones individually. V. The historical principle.

A man says to the other. This is the short term of the historical principle. Oral, written, it is the same. In this way, the faith of the people propagates to the people. But how he first came to mankind? From the first you can only go anywhere if you know it, but must begin with the later times, when you do not know it, and see if you can find it on the first circuit means. The closing agent to the first emergence of faith but will always remain so uncertain as to the first generation, the first state, the first development of man himself, and the decision between the very opposite hypotheses are the about only thing is always want to be a belief, but we do not believe the reasons in general here, but know. So we move at least that question to come back later with some out, and instead of asking first how faith first came to mankind, we must first ask just how he first comes to every person nowadays. It is with the emergence of faith as with all things. In all things, the first emergence of the way and is a distinction to be significantly different, such as the emergence of the thing repeats itself. The Incurred once saves so to say the means and costs of its first emergence in the new creation, where not all but the largest and most important part, it contains by the repetition of the conditions of existence to say in his life with so canceled. What was not among them, a statue, a painting, a poem to create a erstesmal. If the work once there, it is easy to cast a thousand times, copied, printed, and recite. Only after thousands, probably millions, billions of years that the earth is, could result in a human couple. Was only one there, so it was easy to populate the earth, and soon it will be hard to defend their overpopulation. Like the languages originated, nobody knows, and nobody would be able to invent it's new, and now they are invented every child learns to play. What it costs many times for emergency, to light the fire in the stove. If it burns once you take in care that does not burn the house. To produce a disease, generally exceeds the human art to dampen a disease no less. In the all you can by reason of being the first to ask, and you will not find it often, the reason of existence is easy to find later, he is simply in what is already there. It is so with all things, there is also the belief that. As the faith is first created, nobody knows, can you think about this and that already. One can also ask whether it would be possible to find it's on New or invent. Now he is once formed, true or false, he propagates that man is propagated as the language propagates how the fire propagates, as the infection propagates. And the man asks why he believes it is one that may not be the last, and whole, but the next one and an important part of the whole apt, the answer: Because was believed before me and is believed to me. In fact, you would be mistaken strong when it was thought that the man believed to merely conclusions or need. Rather, each person already starts to believe until only place you can make reason and need contends, and the belief is probably the majority

of people, regardless of continued only through persistence. Again, this is not the belief in the highest and last things peculiar, he is just not the exception from what is generally. No one is born with belief in God, but anyone with such a general and unconditional conditioning to believe everything you tell him, born, it is quite natural that he believes in God, when he says of such and therefore for every people, because more or less unanimous education influences of lying, also has a more or less matching, behaved differently from that of other peoples different beliefs. In fact, you can the child, and that every child, almost do everything Any white. Say to the child: The moon is the same fall from heaven, and it will look to the sky and expect that it falls. Tell him: This dog will begin to speak the same, it will last manned, and only wonder that he does not start. Is not So perhaps humanity in their childhood faith in God knows been made, and shall be continued only because it is made know to Use New every child, and the man not just as has the opportunity from the non-existence of God on the to convince clouds as the moon does not fall and the dog does not talk. Especially if you make him to know the thunder is God's voice from the clouds, and this and to support the faith through faith?The child is thus rather believe, the more one expects of him to believe. To all belief, which is implanted in the child, the child does not require reasons, so it would not understand reasons. Also, it is not the beauty, the grandeur, the wholesomeness, the Trstlichkeit of faith, whereby it is determined to believe. It feels even more firmly in ghosts, the more it makes you afraid. The matter may simply be psychological: it learns the word, understand the speech only by attachment to facts; now it ties conversely, the fact of the word, speech. Or: The child makes all the adults so long after, until it has acquired through imitating the skills and abilities to go beyond that, and does so much to say of myself in him by. So also faith by the adults in the child makes. I like to leave it but that someone summarize the psychological basis of the fact even deeper. Here it is only the fact as a reason which is also the reason of the fact. Instead of having to learn the faith until the child must unlearn the faith, and that happens gradually when the man repeatedly hears the word may lie. Then the selfevidence of the association of the real triggers of the word on, gradually weakens the faith, and can last even into Fold the opposite. But the more a person remains on the child's level, and part of the people remains always close it, the more it continues the uncritical belief. The women especially in matters of faith always remain children, and the faith of the masses can be of any prophet with a sufficiently strong voice, gesture and lead lively power of speech as a water stream through a trough. Especially in the field of things, where no experience, no detection of an error by the facts is possible. Then, save the faith of the people if it is pushed out to all areas of experience. And the less ignorant of the reasons for his faith and has the less he understood the reasons for it, the sooner he can kill it and he beats other for dead, because then you can also make the less counter-arguments against claims.

But he whose mind is matured by experience and thought, who has learned to doubt the influence of the historical subject is not revoked, the opinion to him, and the authority over him involuntary exerts a power over him, and not easily go back to the lost all faith that was implanted in him as a child, but determines itself involuntarily much of the training of his mind and his conclusions. Especially if it is things that exceed the scope of each circuit, with all his experience, and we even see many of the sharpest thinkers after vain struggle to determine the true and the best in the field of the highest and last things by his own reason, and finally it Despairing, submit to Use New with conscious will of the power of the historical principle, which promises to give them back the peace and confidence of the child. So, the end returns to the output. Here we see how the practical design shall be added to revitalize and strengthen the historical. Also look for the self, the plant the faith to someone else to make it plausible by concurrence of the other motives, but if this is supported by the historical motif of the other motifs, the reverse is equally true. The people, the child will be offered reasons of faith, tied his salvation to faith, and the reasons it believes, believes the promise, the threat without their own examination believes all historical. I will bring an example of how I read it: "The Old Man of the Mountain was (in the times of the Crusades), the head of a degenerate sect of Muslims who lived in the mountains between Damascus and Antioch, and whose name Heissassin (Assassin) has become the general term for assassins in many European languages. The followers of the Old Man of the Mountains revered him as a living God or as a God-man, in which the deity was embodied. they fulfilled children of the tenderest age with such a strong and lively faith in the divinity of the Old Man of the Mountains and the merit of blind obedience to his commands, that many would rather die than wanted to live, and no scruple to throw down at his behest of rock or towers or to plunge into another inevitable dangers of life. If you won the Old Man of the Mountains with money, so he sent assassins before their daggers certainly was not a king in the depths of his palace, not a military leader at the center of his warriors. Heissassins murdered the King Conrad of Jerusalem, and many others both Christian and Moslem princes and lords., the fanatical murderer feared the unermeidlichsten and cruel death, not because they had the firm hope that they immediately awaken to the bliss of paradise again, or as a beautiful, strong, happy people would be born again. " (Meinert's History of Relig IS 338,. Arnold III to VII c 149 p 148 p 204 10 Even Marin I. 297 ff.....) Here you can see how the blindest submission could be generated in the will of a superior, the boldest energy and the staunchest toleration by the moored hope for an afterlife, this was but even creates all the way to the historic Prinzipe by the mere early implantation, and how here with the poorest faith it is different with the ward, which we consider to be the best. In such a way we see the faith of the elders pass to the children in the schools, spread from the pulpit, by missionaries, by true and false prophets, and apostles, continue on and on. And the more he has already spread, so he finds it easier to

further spread, like fire, grab the infection easier to get, the further they have to be used. Who can still do last stop? To influence the propagation of the faith enters the equally powerful duration. To what parents, ancestors, the first parents believed, dare not easily doubt. Gradually grow together as the faith with their whole being and life of the people, that it would have to give up themselves to abandon him, and really almost always gives him only with his subjugation and destruction. The best reasons to fail the solidified faith, safer, depending untriftiger the faith, because faith is itself a major source close to the reasons and manner, especially in his own stuff. And so the faith of the individual is held by the connection at the same time with the whole faith to him and before him. "The more we - as I read in a mission reports from Amoy in China 1) - are known to the people, the more apparent to us is the powerful influence that the prevailing superstition and fear to call by opposition to same as a nerd put on them.'s the simple fact that idolatry has been common for centuries among them, a very sufficient proof that they completely over raises the need to test for the vast majority of the lower classes. "
1)

Calw Missionsbl. 1847 1 July. No. 13th

And elsewhere 2) : "I made a Brahmans on the upside of idolatry attention, whereupon he replied. So did our forefathers, and we must do it well, no real Bramahne can leave the religion of his fathers Each tribe has its own religion, Padre (missionaries) theirs and ours that we. "
2)

In a letter Dr. Haug's. from Pune in western East Indies. 7 Sept., 1861. Abroad in 1862. No. 5

But what has he, now the unbeliever asks for a reason, a faith for value and claims to validity, which takes place in this manner all the way to the same principle as fire and plague its spread through humanity, a belief that its main root in the credulity has adopted the Child and the people without understanding, spread by those who do not have it often himself, and remains so confident as childish and effeminate, the foolish man remains who cherishes him, and capture of the rational only is by sacrificing reason. Do not have thousands and thousands of errors and tales spread in the same way, and yet we see the faith of the peoples, he is not fully manifest error and fairy tales? And a belief does not contradict the other? The poets, priests and rulers have invented it, and now he goes around the world. These objections are on the surface, but let's go a little deeper. It is true that faith is accepted by everyone without first reasons: it does not require the theoretical and practical subject, but will not be detained without reason in general. Of the Child, in lower elementary and peoples layers yes, but that's not what keeps him in the long run. The child is not child forever, the nations grow, and in every nation grow some over the others, and some of the people on the other up, and the adults have dominion over the children and the faith of the children and of the part of the people which remains on the child's level. In adults, but the faith has to

pass his samples. You know he is not often in detail, but it is and it is always a whole. He has survived a French revolution, he has a year were 1848, he survived the attack of the materialists of all time, and he will be all over. And if some sacrifice after a long test of reason even reason to believe, it must still be the reason apart from the most important reasons for faith itself. If above all priests and rulers strive to plant it, if even those striving to plant it, do not do it themselves, so there must be very broad and compelling reasons for binding to plant him. So let's historic reproduction in itself a reason more adequately to hold the fort planted to be true, but it may have returned to the community and the necessity of reproduction in general and compelling reasons. And again, if the historically propagated belief in general is full of errors and fairy tales, and faith against the other runs, the specific provisions and arrangements of the faith of the general and essential points are to be distinguished thereof. The relative agreement about the fact that it is a divine over and otherworldly to give the human this world, and that man's highest and ultimate salvation was put into the relationship to develop, through all the ages and nations is quite wonderful. So also must therefor, not for the Changing and Competing in the belief that a general validity and force of reasons is required. And as much as we like to give special form of the price of faith, we have therefore not abandon all faith. One should not pour baby with the bathwater; God will pour you out with the bathwater? The great achievement of the contradictions that appear in knowledge, is not to lift the knowledge, but to promote it, because every solution of a contradiction knowledge walks up the steps. Should it be different in faith? To say that the story of God and the afterlife has spread like any other mythical and bears the stamp of any other fable, as the very fact of the distribution itself is thus in contradiction and even how much else Where is the fable, the tale otherwise obtained such distribution, such duration so firm belief would have produced. While there are probably some children's fairy tales and fables that one since ages in India told as with us, but these are also very special rarities, their distribution is only very poorly against the Faith of God, and what is the main thing that everyone keeps them. fables in India and here Rather, the historical subject would be able, not to spread the great fable of God and the afterlife so far so long to get into power, if it would really be a fable. For here the following observation occurs, appropriate to finally lead us to the argument from design. Error and truth have in common that they can reproduce historical, and that the spread is all the easier, the farther it has taken root, the belief holds the easier the longer it has been held, but it is the difference that goes with the truth indefinitely, with the error of only up to certain limits, by the true faith, how it spreads, somewhat resistant helpful and conducive to something resistant to going against the wrong thing, and with the proliferation Duration of faith also grows and finally needed outweighs the benefit of the true faith. And it's not hard to find. Why do we call a belief true and good? Because it is the nature of things and the needs of the people. Why wrong and bad? Because he that is in conflict. What

follows already a priori ? The more the faith spread and the longer it lasts, the more opportunity it will offer and find to develop his correspondence or his conflict with the nature of things and of men, and to prove, to the same main effects and consequences arise only develop in accordance with its scope and duration. From the correspondence is an advantage for from the conflict a counteraction against must emerge his distant dissemination and longer preservation, which grows with the spread and duration. In a word, it is the ratio of the theoretical and practical principle, which determines the final success. The historical principle is in itself the good and bad, true and false beliefs equal stead, but it is related to it in an opposite situation to the theoretical and practical Prinzipe. The ultimate goal is to match all in all relationships, and they can be found only in a true and good faith rather than definitive. It is also here with faith as with fire. Caught fire so much easier to get, the more it has already resorted to, but also consumed the easier his substance, and would long be considered on the earth, if not always nachwchse new substance. Thus, a belief that the substance does not always re-grows from the nature of things and a true and general needs of the people who do not persist in the length. The longer it endures, the more he has resorted to himself, the more his conflicts with the nature of people and things develop its adverse effects accumulate and spread, the closer he moves his turning points, and so we see any error, fall fable after another, but the truth is consolidating more and strengthen, gain greater and firmer ground. Each and every evil bad faith in faith once reached to any time those turning point beyond which his distant spread and its duration increases the farther its decline over the conditions of its growth. Then begins when it is the belief of employees by very general terms, to the whole belief au sick. The initially powerless against the power of the historical principle persons struggling theoretical and practical principles are gaining ground, the more, the more they themselves with new weapons of the historical principle of the quantity torrent cutting or compelling power of speech and deeds can waffnen. Unbelief, in those times, where the historic principle loses its old power back time looking here and there, outstrip the faith, while a flock of old creditors opposed to the tighter and tighter together chart him under the flag of the historical principle, until finally the decided defeat of disbelief and the overgrowth of the old faith by the new yourself. And it's no different with the temporary weakening of faith in the periods of transition to such as the streams flow for a time more economical to swell after the stronger. So many foolish and harmful belief would not even last as long and spread so far if it does not collapse executed with mostly good and true, and both could be so easy and simple divorced, has struck again in connection to the people root. Only one in the whole and true faith can improve the existing ones are overthrown, and that is the need to overcome all the power of persistence, which gives the historical principle of the once existing beliefs. Only closer not watched in themselves, but in virtue of his connection with some predominantly truths and goods, and not on, so the paradox that the foolish and harmful in one faith through the theoretical and practical principle, while it is running, but can be kept arises forever, but until the master in the

whole and finds bessseren truer faith. From other side, the historical principle also comes into conflict with itself by is the nature of the wrong and bad faith itself to rest on unilateral determination and reasons therefore generally not be able to. So faith starts against the faith to argue with weapons of words and weapons of offense; yes peoples destroy themselves for the sake of the faith, and that contributes to the good and true faith least to gain the upper hand, because of the good and true Faith itself partly wisdom, strength and power are partly related to the, what is wisdom, power and strength. Or why the Gentiles fall under the sword of the Christians and triumphs of the Occident over the Orient. Specifically, can take place from the victory of truth and good exceptions, retrograde movements, in the whole course of history but suggests by this point. On closer inspection turns thereafter the historical principle of faith as follows: If a belief is in the existence of something that is not directly subject to the experience, so any need the people to be conscious or unconscious, acting by the existence of areas here, reasons to exist, which produce this faith, or needs people to bid up to . Everyone, even the irrigste, faith has reasons of style, just not always zulngliche generally, but often only one-sided, partial, egoistic, generating electricity from undue overweight or untriftige generalization of the false belief or faith in the wrong thing. But it arises as to the sufficiency of the reasons for and hereby cogency and quality of dependent faith to a greater likelihood as: 1) With the more and more diverse people, peoples, times and climes, living conditions, the belief extends away by the belief hereby receives the more broader, more versatile, longer opportunity to its conformity with the whole nature of things and the general and permanent needs of the to prove people or to make his opposition so that law. 2) The coherent, unanimous, continuous, powerful and effective rich to extend through it by this way, the durability, sustainability, unanimity, strength is proven in the underlying nature of things and of human reasoning moments of faith. 3) The uninhibited and unprejudiced the view, the larger the natural talent, the more extensive the knowledge, the more perfect the moral condition, the higher is ever the cultural level of the people and nations through which it extends, by a result on the one hand a more complete view of Reason moments of faith requires, on the other hand is proven the rationality and goodness of faith in its consequences. Individual cases of infidelity or different faith in individuals and even nations and times may sustaining against the odds of a widespread and by the time running and evolving faith does not come into consideration, inasmuch as it carried a one-sided or partial action of reasons, what is the general connexion revoked, can be explained, however, the generally vast and steadily continued sustaining a general belief, coherent, enduring work of requires reasons. Thereafter, one can make a conclusion as to the truth and goodness of faith, without it being necessary that the existence of areas lying to develop in man the effect comers reasons, by whom he depends for clarity by their effect itself proves their

existence. And thus the historical argument of theoretical and practical, which we will continue to speak different. It excludes the effect of the reasons for the presence of reasons but, apart from the dunkelen possibility of a primitive revelation, only recently are the same, which is inferred from the theoretical and practical arguments conscious legally. But it is in difficulty, even impossibility, the totality of the reasons which have produced the faith to pursue and demonstrate in detail, relevant to the arguments, which are based on the knowledge of the same, to have even an argument which is based on the effect thereof. We conclude thereafter the first argument with respect to the topmost object of faith from. Since the belief in the existence of God, the most common dissemination by the peoples of the earth, as he has just as existed from the earliest times, as continued receives in the course of time, since he appears not only as a quasi-natural in all arable peoples, but with few exceptions, even with such peoples whose cultural ability can be doubted, since it rather than decreasing in accordance with the progressive cultural development of mankind itself to development, since he thereby about the dispute sided views, if not its special form, but its basic maintenance of a stock of, if not in detail, but on the whole, remains sublime, since he himself is the most common agreement means all people on earth, and the system shows, on and on more to be there because he his power formidable even by the and lasting effects proves there finally occur, the individual cases of unbelief only exceptionally and only in individuals, peoples, times either of very low investment and education or unilateral direction to all aspects of the historical argument unite in favor of belief in God, yea, the region of existence would contain a contradiction in terms if this belief in such great generality and so forth gear with overwhelming force, and would receive no further-developed general overriding reasons to include it. Has rightly been the historical arguments, as it has been very well sometimes, "because all people believe in God, this faith must be rooted in nature," objected that not all people believe in God. You must provide the argument of faith so little fact that all believe the same thing, as a decision in the State, that all adopt the same. But the vast majority and the vast weight of votes must count for something. Now it can be very difficult to resolve the conflict between what most people want and what the best and wisest want to decide, and even just to decide who are the best and wisest men in a state often. And then divide the States by, these always leave the monarchical more weight to the weight that put Republican more on the number of votes anew decide the number who are as have the best and wisest of a multi-weight, that the weight continues gehends search where it was before. But this conflict is fortunately not the belief in God. Not only the most ever, even the wisest and best, or at least of the wisest and best of the Most believe in God, even if they wanted to give each Gotteslugnern, which in a sense it is a contradiction in adjecto is that they are the wisest and best one. That on the whole the wisdom and goodness rather on the side of God's faithful than the atheists, they are hardly deny himself, and tried to deny it, yet their voices would just because of their small numbers and their average weightlessness in Republican as monarchies nothing to have considered.

Now, it is peculiar that the very same that hold the majority of votes in the state prevail over all, the representatives of the absolute sovereignty of the people, often at the same time are atheists, who do not even worry about it, that they are in such large minority in matters of faith . If the best can be found by a majority of votes in state affairs, why less in matters of faith, which so good a thing of the reason people have to be for them, as the affairs of state. Here is an incomprehensible inconsistency. It can also often be a conflict exist between the views of primitive peoples, which in a sense, have the advantage of a more unbiased view naive, and those of an advanced time. But this conflict is not with regard to the belief in God, but only in relation to the design of this belief. The indigenous peoples like the civilized nations believe, only in a different way, to God. It can also be used the same as the historical argument for the universal faith of God and for the specific provisions and arrangements, except that the General is made safer by the fact than any specialty. And just as it applies as for belief in God for the other main pieces of faith. Next the existence of a divine being can be with regard to the weight, which must have the voices of the peoples and times, view the following particular points through the historical argument to be well founded. 1) The unity and personality of the divine existence, which is consistently recognized by the highest standing in formation on the most advanced, the future of the earth indisputably dominant, nations, and may have partly formed the output for the polytheistic religions themselves by the initial uniform apprehended divine existence only later transformed by splitting up or spawn in a multiplicity, some still find an approximation to the notion of a superior God, all other gods. 2) The belief in a real and moral bond between man and God and between man by God, which is itself in the imperfect religions up to certain limits, applicable to the purest and fullest scope and effect of moral page but the Christian Religion has been. 3) The combination of belief in God with belief in immortality, which is not anywhere from beginning to is still on all the raw stages of culture alive there, but everywhere has taken hold in the progress and development of religious belief, and where it is the case, not again may go under. 4) Belief in such a relationship between the present and future life, that the manner in which the person lives his life on this side, conditions for its existence in the future way of life includes, which also met the faith of the rawest and most educated people. 5) Belief in the existence of personal substance intermediate between us and God, which mediate between is made to us and to him by special relationships by themselves herein, the pagan belief in lesser gods, heroes, demons with Christian in a divine mediator, in angels, of Saints, which are closer to God than we, met. Every religion carries even a moment of unity and a moment of multiplicity in itself, only that prevails in the Christian, Jewish, Moslem, the unity in the fact pagan, the multiplicity, and both hold in the Hindu religion in unclear mixing the scales . In short, this whole main constituent pieces of religious belief is chosen from the most general aspects of the same by the historical argument, if there are already each

of them more and more resolute faith recordings in the subject, as in the subject of the top faith point, which relates to the divine life in general, as because even in those main points, the General is again made stronger than the individual, what even made the point of view of the historical principle, the greatest doubt. Namely prevail over the real relation of God to nature and to the people, the circumstances of our worldly existence and the nature of the intermediate beings as different ideas not only between peoples of different stage of culture, but also among the most educated people and in the bosom of the same self, the views it is so unclear and contradictory in itself, and the Christian religion itself has so little definite and unambiguous set out for that also with regard to the preferably weight, which we have enclosed with Christianity, historically nothing can be considered as a decision on these points. Rather, the theoretical and practical principle here the task of solving the historical conflict, the best possible way to unite the different directions that have asserted, and some historically determine Dielectric end. It may still ask whether positions that we look for overcoming will not finally overcome. The naturally arising is slightly exceeded, to finally return in refined form, and a conflict is important to remember. Up to certain limits, increases with the educational level of the people, the progress of culture and the weight of their religious voices. But a counter-consideration is space. Although the growing scope and wealth of knowledge and the penetrating sharpness of the investigation favored by certain parties, the common view of the existence region; intermediate links between things and in the depth of things and abstractions of large districts of things are obtained, that of the raw knowledge missing, and our time is unspeakably against any previous advance, from the other side but is growing at the same time the danger of getting lost in the Individual and dismember, the more necessary expectant division of labor with a division of the subject matter of the work, the increasingly strident becoming distinctions with distinctions that rising ever higher abstractions with higher beings, which is to be confused for Possible with what already exists for itself, and hereby the risk of losing real unity of existence. This risk also is perhaps more than any inferior earlier our time, and after this hand, a quasi-natural approach which separates anything, they do not even realize differs little divides, abstracted, be beneficial and rights against an advanced state time; during the summit and the goal of progress will be disputed with the greatest increase obtained in the course of progress clear distinction of all parts and sides of existence at the same time gain the most consistent link again, and so according to the law of contact of extremes in a sense, just as the output will stop off again, in a different sense where the maximum deviation is reached it. Body and soul, mind and spirit, Organic and unorganized, man and earth, earth and heaven, man and God, God and the world, and the hereafter, finite, infinite nowadays are not only distinguished, but divorced in a way, some even juxtaposed sharply, from the earliest time knew nothing, and the last undisputed nothing will want to know. Where now a quasi-natural views conflict with those held a more advanced stage time, it is, first and foremost pay attention to the nature of the people. The primitive views of nations, out of which the progress has developed are to be regarded with

very different eyes than those which, like the Fetischanbeter, are simply doomed to succumb to the progress of culture, and their developmental disability itself have historically proved her wrong, however, is the fact that those who founded the progress that makes it seem possible that this setting only time something was lost from the viewpoints that existed in the outputs to law. And now the difference will be visible after second nature. Is it really common aspects that could be lost to the nature of progress, or are there aspects that could be won only by the progress as of today exact science. There are those on which it is the time of progress itself in unity and clarity in conflict and ambiguity or what. In this respect, differ in fact firmly established the views of modern science did much of the discord of a boundless subject, which concern the relationship between God and world, body and soul and all the above mentioned things. It is possible that we will have in some respects to the exit stop off again, it is my belief that it will one day happen, but only as to go from a new starting-point again about it, but without from now on, the one from there or other entity to lose again. After just about all the common foundations of the faith may be regarded as firmly established with respect, progress, further development and new mounting of faith on this basis nor is in any case possible. Whatever kind it may be, it is necessary to counter the steady resistance of the historical principle, before it becomes a historical progress, but she deserves to get through, it will penetrate before long, propagate, spread, take root if it is not the first try is - because all first attempts fail, - and at last prove historically that. A belief or disbelief but that is how the materialist has always been only sporadically, and despite the opportunity to spread never in some generality has spread or maintain been able, nor countenance makes to do it, has hereby been historically its Untriftigkeit proved. But not less than the materialistic disbelief is many special directions or configurations of faith the judgment from the outset by speaking that you have to say, they can not penetrate historically, the pietistic that, everything in the world, followed by refreshing, reviving the soul rejects the orthodox with her stark belief in miracles every Christian dogma in general, which also goes against the Eingnglichkeit among the nations, and among Christians maintains the dispute itself. Against this there is a major consideration and dependent aspects of Christianity, 3) , leaves of which say, they can not only must one day generally penetrate after they have already been reason that Christianity with Judaism and paganism has penetrated this far, and what with all the hassles Konfesssionen and sects among the Christians themselves still continued to receive one unit among them. Only this overall penetration is only to take place when they have given up caring connection in which they are adopted by dogmas that are not capable of universal penetration.
3) Zend-Avesta II, p 38.39. . . Question about the soul p 193

Also in those branches of Christianity but that is not generally penetrate and therefore not as they are able to persist, it will always be something that they are rooted in the nature of things and the needs of the people, otherwise they would be

neither created, yet have been able to last so long, and what is this type, is in a perfect religion by the find its more complete fulfillment in compliance, resulting in seemingly opposite faiths rooted only in a different side of the nature of things and needs of the people, now than in conflict with it. If no directions but this can force the other to match with it, it just proves the fact that it as it is, not yet completed, is rather to defeat even yet in a sense. The materialist unbelief itself would not be able to keep arisen and have so long and so often have to raise all over again, if he had not yet other directions opposite to offer something cogent. Only that its negative side, but a positive side is not, so he holds a one-sided idealism and mystical speculation the adversary. And there is the historical principle of law, is that with which he is in the right, also see the positive design of a perfect faith be even more perfect law in conformity with the opposite Rights, as now in conflict with it. How, one wonders, all this would be possible? What a utopia of faith is portrayed here? But that one can consider it a utopia, proves itself most strikingly, that the completion of faith that is required, is not there. Wonders what the other Prinzipe can afford it some day bring about historically. VI. The practical principle. Man believes what they like to believe it is, avails, was the brief expression of the practical subject. Now we like for a psychological laws most the one to believe as existing or forthcoming, which we believe also that its existence we like to serve, is pious; faith carries it himself directly or through its effect on our satisfaction with, and tendency to this satisfaction are involuntarily from a motive to believe. From the outset, although one would think that such a motive could probably to action, to create the most satisfying or procure people, but not for faith, as it is already done, determine, but experience teaches it differently, even in the things of daily life. Let us recall how the hopes of the people are mostly determined by his wishes as he all like to believe what suits these requirements, reluctantly believe what contradicts them, as he musters his ingenuity to find reasons in that and against this meaning and thereby willingly deceives himself and can deceive. Nowhere but it is difficult for man like to find reasons, if he was looking for, and the darker the area in which he moves it, the less experience allowed a rebuttal, so it has greater scope for these reasons, or the easier he believes without any reasons. You sometimes see large colonies on the pretensions of adventurers pull her back against corruption in foreign countries, it is the practical motive which guides it to the pit. They hope and believe of the future and the distant Requested, which does not provide the present. Therefore, the lottery's the treasure hunter, quacks, alchemists, charlatans of all kinds make as good business, they exploit the practical motive of the

people, the more easily induced him to believe, the more advantageous it seems what it is to believe, and Who is the most promising, offering over the others. But the same thing as proving great power in the realm of superstition, proves the same, still greater, force in the areas of faith in the highest and last things, so that you can ask in from the front, however, if it is not even greater superstition . The conditions for the validity of the subject here are the best, and so do the benefits are the same here, the greatest. Not only are these objects of faith the darkest, abundant and exceed the most experience, not only is the conclusion here most uncertain, the scope of views on the largest, but the faith and the design of faith it also has the largest and deepest influence on the current satisfaction of the people, just as the most important practical consequences. In short, here it is for the practical subject in all respects the most effective attack and fertile soil.Where no human help more ranges, one longs for a divine, and because one craves, one believes it, and still believes it, if it does not come in spite of all prayer, it only takes faith to help the others what God is not this life, he will give in a future life, and so you also believe in another life. Who can refute our faith? Where there is no proof, there's no refutation. Thus faith can endure calmly and faith to increase and support by the other. What man wants to see the most and the least seen, he believes the most, and in religious faith consists herein, no barriers. So Paul says (XI Ebr. first): "But it is the belief of a certain confidence that things hoped for, and does not doubt what we do not see." - And about Pascal (p penses 243rd): reason can not determine whether there is a God or not. From this page you can bet if there is a God or not. But you have to bet it was God, and live in the faith, because you win hereby Everything, if God is real, but loses nothing if God is not real, while, nothing wins the bet, God is not, if you're right, and loses everything when one is not right. - And Cato in Cicero (. Senectut de cap 23rd), "quodsi in hoc erro, quod hominum animos immortales eat credam, lubenter erro, nec mihi hunc errorem quo delector, dum vivo extorqueri volo." They all characterize the faith through his practical design, and how to pronounce it here, consciously, unconsciously allwrts it works. In fact, without the practical design all theoretical motives do not want to catch a lot, however they have the easiest game in the wake of the services and practical subject, and often naive enough to confess their demonstration, they do not really need, and they are not to be need. It's enough out that you need faith, and this is enough to believe in something useful. If we do not somehow served the belief in God, as should occur to us as an invisible god on us to seek us and in us as possible to find him. Now we need God, we seek him and find him and find reasons, bad, good, or just ask for no other reason than that we need him, but without need him, we would not find him because we do not look for him , and how many a one who has lost it, found it again, just because he needed him. But if we have found God, we formulate our conceptions of him in the sense that it satisfies us the most without regard to other reasons wide.

Strangely, what power in this respect, the practical design shows. Let us look at the world, we see the evil in thousandfold design, widest dissemination and often prevail with overwhelming force, physical, moral, plague, famine, war, water and Feuersnot, see the mischief on the just and on the unjust imposed see the most pious prayers without being heard, seen innocent children the punishment for blaming the parents carry. See the glutton, the violent, possession of wealth and power, see the truth pursued; yes what all we do not see what beating speaks palpably in the eye against the existence of a yet-powerful, all-wise, all-good God. And yet we see the doctrine of the almighty and all-wise and all-good God allwrts in schools and preach from the pulpit, and thousands and thousands of people in support of its last, best and best comfort on the belief in such a God. Why?Because this man's comfort needs. Otherwise with the belief in an afterlife. Everything we see is contrary to this faith's most rugged, because everything falls to death, followed the life of the soul clearly tied. The consciousness disappears already when only the blood increased in the brain, and remains disappeared, so long as it falters. And both, blood and brain rot completely in death. The eye with which we see, the ear, what we hear, what will become of them? But man wants to live on, continuing feel, think away, progress, and he needs the belief in an afterlife to comfort from the sufferings of this world and as goal-putting for the course in this world, as enticement for good, to deter evil in this world. And so it drives the desire to live, the desire to live in and hope to get a good direction in life, in faith beyond death. But anyone who believes in the immortality, then also provides certain conditions that are not borrowed by him from the nature of things of which he knows nothing, but from the nature of his desires. No one wants to miss it, the one he has loved here, retrieve, nobody give up the memory of the now entirely see Nobody's undeserved sufferings of reward. One wishes to the sun, the other on Venus, a third would take a walk through all the sky; whereas the desire tends, tends to the belief, most but nothing is visible in the sky or on earth good enough for the good and terrible enough for the wicked, so they believe in heaven and hell, and hopes every people in paradise on that and makes them afraid of what seems to him the best and the worst. So Falconer has made the peculiar remark that. In hot countries where one has to suffer much from the heat, hell will always be presented as hot, cold in hand, where the cold is more than evil claimed as cold place And if not everywhere, but on average applies to the remark. The ancient Scandinavians, which pugnacity and glory over all went who knew but also appreciate the pleasures of the meal and beautiful women, then painted also their Walhalla from where there will still fought, ate and drank, and the Valkyries, maidens fair, submit the filled horn. When the missionaries the Greenlanders instead of their sky marked the Christian heaven, they said to them: "your sky, your spiritual delights like to be good enough for you, but for us would be boring We need to have seals, fish and birds, for. our soul can be as little exist without them, as our bodies we would not find these things in

your skies, so we want to leave euern sky you and the worthless parts of the Greenlanders,., but we want to go down to Torngarsuk, where we are at an abundance Find all without the slightest effort. " (From Prichard's Naturgesch.) Here Against Plato believed that an examination of the eternal truths and the free unobstructed view of the immense heavenly bodies and all of us either unknown or yet enigmatic wonders of nature will beseligen debound the pure souls. Plato also believed, like the others, what he wanted, and the only difference was that he wanted something higher, nobler and better than the Greenlanders. But who says not to need God and the afterlife, who does not believe most of it also, and in general we see, both of which deny, even essaying to show that we do not need both, though this still only be exceptions, for on the whole the effect of the practical motive outweighs disproportionately in favor of religious belief. Not less than the production, preservation and presentation of the faith with every man for himself is the reproduction of it to others under the influence of practical subject and in this connection thereof with the historical Prinzipe attach the greatest achievements of both. It is believed not only themselves, what we like is, avails, but also makes others believe that what we like is, avails to make you believe it, either by selfish motive, provided their faith promises benefits ourselves, or frommend and keep them at the same time keep it to ourselves frommend to act according to a nobler motive, if we the same for their own good. And while both motifs in detail is often contradict hard, they agree generally speaking, all together, provided that the advantage of their own faith goes with the general. Find the priests in their advantage that the people believe in God, because their reputation, their power, their income depends on it. The regents will find it in their advantage that the people believe in God because the fear and awe of a higher can not exist if it disappears before the Most High, because faith in God gives them the means of their dignity as a God used the laws they pass, as sanctioned by God to represent, because they probably feel that the maintenance of social order, which have to represent them and what their own maintenance depends, is linked to the preservation of religious belief. Priests and rulers also find it in their advantage that the people believe in an afterlife, to entice with future wage and deter from future punishment, where the prospect of this side is not enough, as it then mainly that heaven and hell of a hand with so charming, so discouraging the other hand, color painted, as were at his command, somehow reasonable for no reason than just to lure and deter, and you know what a tremendous effects have been obtained with it. Priests and rulers are at the top of the people who run the same education, organize the teaching of, and thus we see even those who believe themselves nothing, make arrangements that religious faith is preserved and propagated among the people. It is only a political Thank institution, they will receive unconcerned about the truth of what is believed, for no other reason in force as such because they find useful. How many popes there may have been those who believed nothing, and yet sought to

extirpate heresy heretics. Napoleon felt sure of nothing but his star and not let fall the religion. And when they had fallen during the Revolution, was only the cult of reason and human rights, the supreme representative of this cult himself did the same finally to chat with restoration of the religion. Let us hear what Robespierre in the convents the worst time of terror (7 May 1794), as it were turning to the shadow of the atheist Hebert and Eloots said 1) : "What could induce you to preach to the people that there is no God? Why is it useful in your eyes to persuade the people that a blind force holds sway over his fate, and the vices of arbitrariness soon, soon punish the virtue? that his soul was a slight breeze that lose themselves at the door of the tomb? Infuses him about the thought of his death a purer and nobler feelings than the thought of his immortality? giving him more respect for his peers and for themselves ? to defy more homage to the motherland? more audacity of tyranny? several contempt of death and lust? your who laments her a virtuous friend, you do not believe that the best part of his character is escaped death? your, the their cries over the coffin of a son or wife, let her persuade you of any talkers that left nothing of them remains Unfortunately as dust?, which you fall under the blows of a murderer, your last breath is not a call to the eternal justice Top innocence on the scaffold makes the tyrant on the chariot pale. Would she this, if the same grave umschlsse the oppressor and the oppressed? Unfortunately Sophist, by what right do you want innocence wrest the scepter of reason, into which hands to lay the truck, take a mourning veil over nature, bring the evil to despair, to cheer the vice that afflict virtue, demean humanity?, the more feeling and genius of the man united, the stronger it depends on ideas which increase its essence and his heart rise. And why should not such ideas contain truth? least I do not understand how nature can inspire the people would fictions, which are more useful than all the truths., in the eyes of the legislature Everything is truth, what the world useful . and the exercise is good The idea of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul is an eternal invitation to righteousness., he is not only socially, but also republican What do the conspirators, we have punished the place of the God put, they threw out the temples What else, when chaos, nothingness, death! "
1)

Beckers Weltgesch. XII. P.321

The speaker concluded his presentation with the DRAFTS to a decree of the content: "The French people recognize the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul, it may know that the most dignified worship of the Supreme Being is the exercise of the duties of man ... . Thirty-six festivals should be organized to remind the people in the divinity and dignity of his nature, "etc. So faith au God and immortality was decreed in from above after the purely utilitarian Prinzipe as other generally useful facilities. And today nothing is more common and often nothing more just than the accusation against the governments that they favor this or that religious direction for no other reason than because it appeals to the government interests more, the people thus most easily stick together like a flock and be guided.

Now, however, uses the social order that requires religious faith, the fear of a Supreme over the higher priests and not merely the regent, it is useful to the people themselves, or perhaps we should say, they served the people for salvation, if we cure benefit from the highest point of understanding that you do not wont to give more benefits. This, the insight and the idea that establish ever higher as temporal and earthly goods to the faith of the people can then also determine priests and rulers of more noble motive, and it is at least as often the case than from the less noble, faith to get the people and to make all possible preparations to do. The selfish and nobler motive in fact meet the goals here so that they are often hard to distinguish in the outputs. To the practical motives then pass the practical means of spreading the faith. Probably more people have been converted by fire and sword than by conviction, and could also fire and sword the peoples of the conviction not plant them, yet secure historical reproduction. The story speaks of pagan kings who were converted to Christianity in order to gain a Christian prince's daughter, the people had to it or not convert to, and still today, Prince daughters convert from one religion to another, to become Empress of Princesses. Priests tie in with the incredulity of the threat of eternal punishment, to the faith the promise of future wages, and thereby compel not only the faint of heart, but also make strong spirits in disbelief concern. Heretics to be burned, and the Orthodox clergy get the best spots. And if all this directly affects only slightly, to produce faith, it does extraordinarily much to get him historically. To all these practical designs, of which faith expects its origin and distribution, nor shall a lighter and the severity of the other motifs themselves Lightening, the pleasure with which the creative imagination of poets and artists in the design and decoration of religious ideas acts, and the light Eingnglichkeit which they gain thereby. Assets it but after such a design, it is to be produced by beauty or by excitation and employment of the imagination, which is a benefit to their operation even in horror adhesion, the desire, from which they designed themselves, in the minds again, while they at the same time by their vivid expression facilitate the view large communities communicable at once and fortpflanzbar through the generations. So that also the historical and practical motif interacts herein. But what is, one of the whole faith of mankind asks again, thereafter the value and meaning? The belief that the main thing in the priests and rulers have made and decorated to their own and the people's advantage sake, as it seemed to them now just to be to the advantage, then further embellished the poets and artists at their pleasure, and to the people's favor have, as just now most well-liked them, and in which people satisfy themselves to the benefit and pleasure's sake. Is one thing about true because we or others the belief uses it or likes us to believe it was true. What benefit has to provide convenience with truth? Is not this the worst, most undesirable often the truest? If parents keep a child in the distance gestorbenes still alive, they used this belief to satisfy, it is therefore true? How well you can keep a child by the fear of God from evil, it can be due to the fear of a bogeyman, then, is the one true faith than the other? Is not the faith of mankind really much just a political institution and poetic

machinery, resting in a fiction, which, like the imaginary in mathematics, useful inferences convinced about but nonetheless remains something imaginary. Yes, one may ask, is not the benefit itself, for which power can spread the faith, but rather an imaginary than real, and so the fiction on which it is based on its distribution, a double, or are not at least its benefits from its disadvantages outweighed? In fact, we already recalled how the unbelievers deny the necessity and salutary nature of religious faith for humanity itself. The pursuit of the things of sense leads to them by the right attention to the earthly and Obtain the ground from in which it has to move our lives and the faith ideas seduce the mind to sink by reasonable and demonstrable considerations in hollow dreams; the sense of human dignity and for the purposes thereof educated conscience can replace the drives that you are looking at religious faith action in consideration of future reward and future punishment goes against a pure morality Prinzipe and the atrocities that have been committed in the name of religion and today are committed, are a poor indication of the healthiness of religious belief. At the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in the name of Christ. The Thirty Years' War is horrible memories held in the name of religion. The prisons of the Inquisition, the stake of heretics, the persecutions of the Huguenots, the monasteries crammed with idle monks and nuns, the self-torture of the fakir, everything depends on faith, the blessing praises you. The benefit for the priests and rulers is not disputed, but the people are there for their own sake? In all the lies all over again in a lot of light. In order to show that there can still rely on the practical design an argument that we have to show Zweies: First, that the benefits of faith is not merely imagined or outweighed by greater disadvantages, and secondly, that, if not the benefits but the blessing of faith really speaks for its truth, by just only the largest, highest and Sicherstellendste of what benefit is individually under blessing, understand. What is now the first arrives, it can be generally say, firstly , that all the bad that is assumed to religious faith in humanity, on which hangs what is still wrong in faith or in the wrong way dependent on him, and that the disadvantages can not themselves be reason to reject the faith, but only to improve how they have really expressed this effect has always been on the whole,; secondly , that so much foolish, wrong, reprehensible the faith of a people also may contain, it is still far better than if it could not last, and the disadvantages would thus not lose weight, but grow; thirdly , that the substitute that is being proposed for the faith part of it, even just under the general influence could arise, in part, the effectiveness of the same reach and not replace remotely. All this is certainly so in the day of showing that it hardly needs, and all show nothing which can help, do not want to see with open eyes. Undisputed countless atrocities have been committed in the name of Christ, but they are also committed in Christ's way? Christ would have justified the slaughter in Jerusalem, the pyre and tortures of the Inquisition and witch trials, the horrors of the Thirty Years War and represented? It is undisputed that human sacrifice and

Selbstpeinigungen are so many religions, something very bad and foolish, but for that very reason, these religions do not hold, but are displaced by a religion of love and reason, and are forced to part of it. For the purposes of such I see probably charitable institutions, charitable tuned hearts, the self-sacrificing work for others, the highest achievements of art, a screen of the laws on the human, but none of those disadvantages that you submit to the religious faith to the load, and the fall but merely its temporal and spatial defects to the load, of which there is just only religion nor to relieve a relief that the longer must carry out the practical effectiveness of the subject itself ever more. And you think, then, that the horrors of the Thirty Years' War had been without a Christian religion, a religion without ever spared? They would have been perpetuated and increased because it would not have come to a durable state of society, it would be resistant against each other, and really is in every nation any more so against the other, the less religious people in it are, for all the general principles of morality are related to the religion directly or indirectly. Or do you, the disadvantages of a disordered state would make it so claims that the people in each case the same would also be driven without religion to raise. But that's just as if you wanted to say, the disadvantages which depend on the lack of blood in the body would make so claims that the body would also raise without blood. If it was without faith, Robespierre and Napoleon would certainly have tried every other means rather than believing it. But the most glaring Absolutist and Republicans have found it equally necessary to maintain order in the state. Add salt Bacher's trip to North America (in the year 1842) the following is reported: "The atheists were and are still partly inhabitants of the town of New Harmony in the State of Indiana on the banks of the Wabash, which empties into the Ohio, which territory Robert Dale Owen sale brought in to cause a company of Free Democrats, which followed him from there a way to improve the world, and his antireligious principles that were not included in the UK to provide on American soil Appendix, duration and distribution . He taught that all religions are based on nothing but conjecture, as well as Christianity but deceit, whose origin is a fable and pure morality and development of the human mind ready only obstacles. since he no local for the worship of a god or meetings religious purposes was needed, he was also so equal that still vorfindliche in places church set up a workshop, and so transform the thrusting it building to a dance and concert hall as an apartment for philosophical lectures. were found soon mehrerlei persons of both sexes who shared these beliefs with him, especially since he thus joined a not very rigorse morality and perfect equality and community of goods proclaimed. enthusiasts, Tramp, crooks and lazy good-for-nothings signed up as members of society and were tasty is it a time to community costs . Besser minded people who had consumed a few brought the money, but found themselves deceived in their hopes, were sullen, dissatisfied with their lot and left the company. " And so every atheist community will end, and if they do free communities, miserably enough, however, within the womb of a larger community of faith exist

here and there - and how long they will continue to exist? - It's just, how can small cavities consist of powder in a fixed environment. Even in a time among a people where no individuals believed something, but the detention of the forms of faith would still be able to serve in the state to grant a course weak support for it; feel this weakness, however, would again strengthen the faith and thus lead to a stronger internal support and often has resulted in times that seemed to go against that extreme. Of course, as the blessing of a true and good religious faith exceeds every other blessing, so also are the disadvantages of a wrong greater, more cross and more profound than that of any other faith, and this is what makes that one religious belief as much can put a burden. But even the poorest religious faith, yet worthy of the name is, I say, the advantage on the whole greater than the disadvantage in detail, it is better for people to believe anything, what a stop, a hope, a Help, a book about the earthly and temporal features, to believe nothing than what can not have and can prove it. The British government on the Gold Coast once took occasion, in a large meeting of the Negro lies and deceit of their system by fetish priests auszudecken jumping evidence in the eye. "The impression thus closing an account of which it made upon the minds, was a mighty. It was impossible for the sole support, look so broken the staff of these people without having pity on them. Many left the palace sad and depressed and you heard them say to each other:? now what can we do to illness and distress to whom we can turn for help our gods are not gods, and the priests have betrayed us ... " (From Cruikshank's Gold Coast, abroad in 1854. No.. 9). So the Negroes themselves were still quite raw in her faith and stop, they certainly mix up with a better unspeakable and yet they could not miss, without feeling completely broken. What is in the same sense a better faith can afford! Let's look closer, so are the benefits of the blessings of salvation that come from a good faith - but only to protect and support such a task may be the last - ever double of double points. Once that is found, the whole in such a faith an agreement point, secondly everyone a break point and destination point, once located in the Trinity, the halt, the goals of an advantage before the rift, the sway, the views and paths without a goal, a second but the fact that agreement, stop, target now take place also in good sense and good direction. All of these different advantages, or rather pages blessing of faith but are related by changing conditionality and from the common aspects that they all apply to the highest and last relations to man and mankind. Quite easily but they are mistaken, because you see it or look where they are not there. The individual pays little on the whole continuous benefits to which he does himself every day when he thinks no tag it, share in, because the share does not turn out individually for him, and Many see the big advantage to the belief it could also provide in detail, not because he does not even provide it with the smallest, since only he can make the biggest, if he omitted to make even the smallest. For as faith in the highest and last things he just granted only advantages to the highest and last relations, in Low, Narrow, Short, little one must not look for them. Instead of

advantages you can always put salvation and blessing. The faith does not fill the spoon, not the plate, but the bowl. He builds, he is different to the right, a bond between all people through all of human kindness, consider a law upright on all human laws, justifies the maintenance of human laws themselves, granted oaths rights on its last refuge, the marriage alliances are the first , the parents blessing the last, the monarchy, the highest consecration, he provides the science and art the highest objects, features and ideas, brings peace, security, hope, confidence in the whole life of the individual; comforts the people, where no earthly consolation more enough to save him from suicide and despair, but he is no bread to the hungry, he does not fill the coffers, he makes no pleasure. On the contrary, the religious faith calls thousands of victims, victims of time, sacrifice of thoughts, victim of funds, we need to escape the earthly shops, the earthly acquisitions. The aim is to get schools and churches to remunerates pastors to go to church to pray and sing; nothing at all to come out, on how much could be more useful contact time, resources and ideas. Of a church could be built much houses, the preacher could, instead of working to live off of others, help others to work or teach them to work. Yes, and how much more useful the stones were used, which is placed in the foundation of the house, where they benefit no one, you could build the house for a whole floor up and it would just come up, and so does the building would human society come when he would remove the religious reason, the course takes so deep that most people who live in the building, did not see him. I once read a story, I just do not know it, nor is anything on it. King Alexander was of a barbarian kings three hounds of the finest breed gift. He was the one animal in his kennel and had a deer to: the dog lay quietly, and Alexander in anger over the lazy dog animal ordered the killing. Just so it went with the second, the third division he still. When they heard the barbarian king, he said to Alexander: "you let a deer in the kennel; let a lion or a tiger into it, and you'll see what you have to the dogs." Thus, religious faith remains idle with little things of life, and awakens to all the greater vigor, the larger it is. He who believes that there is a God who, but not in the course of time, all steers at the moment the best that the opposing forces finally forces and dispelling the evil itself did last makes the resources of the better, to a God who so big like the evil be to reconcile the greater, over-reaching from this life into the beyond, means to apply it, wipe, and a will and wisdom that go hand in hand, has, of shrouded in storm and hailstorm, which ravage the fields of his fortune in trust in God as a cloak, and white, the sun in the sky, which is therefore not extinguished, will appear the brighter again, who does not believe in God, is vulnerable because , retires into himself, and looks desperate or resigned on his broken thermometer and barometer, whose leadership should replace him the leadership of the sky. And safe for the day, the hour, the perimeter, the earthly eye substantiate, also relying on the earthly and temporal resource is the best, and just as wrong, who wanted to replace it with trust in God. But above all, it is predictable in detail the whole unpredictable forth in the world where life remains an invoice sheet, provides security and comfort of a

conscious supreme sway, which steer the bill as a whole and in course of time all the best willing and able. It is true the principles of humanity, the sense of human dignity assets up to certain limits, a good practical substitute for individuals who have no faith grant. There are morally irreproachable, working for the welfare of their fellow human beings, people who believe neither in God nor immortality. But once these are exceptions rather than a rule, the majority of atheists and people warped depravity and lack of faith are usually so hang together, promote and enhance mutually so that depravity and wickedness is considered synonymous. Secondly, would those principles of humanity, that sense of human dignity, which should replace religion, may not develop as by growth and education in a nation where they have been familiar with the religion side. May they who believe in such cruelty, or want to believe, but look in psychology or history, whether the substitute was without what should replace it occur, could hold or have held where. Rather, we see allwrts the whole humanity in connection with the religious stand, rise, fall, fall. The air will not thank that it is common to breathe allwrts, the sun is not that it makes light, religion is not that it keeps the human society. The social order is so because, as you hold it for granted that it is there. Why the air when you breath, what religion, if you have the humanity! It is certain that some feelings without faith in God in man could not arise, and just as certain that these same feelings are there, in which man feels lifted him the most and the biggest, best, most beautiful deeds have enthusiastically. Well it's own, to lead the people to a sense of human dignity, and cut that in which the human emotion can even obtain the greatest dignity. So beautiful, so wonderful are the feelings of love, trust that we place in parents, siblings, friends, contribute to a loved before all beings, about the feelings that we bear to God, we believe in God quite differently, protrude as the umbrella palm over flowers and grass, and with nothing of all to compare the to procure and replace, and the most beloved creature itself can not let you in times of dire need of faith in yourself and you, but only to One who, referring to both masters every need. Believing in such a Master, we see some gottvertrauende people through thick and thin to go, certainly a good target when they go in good sense, and every evening with consciousness and feelings to stand in God's hands, lay down, and in that faith finally die. A sublime sight! Against this stands the one who lies down in the feelings of his human dignity without faith in higher protection and future existence and dies. A sad sight! The representatives of the humanity principle are not art despisers: The art belongs to the best educational resources of the people, to the most important moments of humanity itself Well then, they put their principle of humanity in the place of religious faith, and see what the art and the enthusiasm of the artist still remains. All domes are falling or have never been made, and the Greek gods, pattern of all time, could never exist, for the size of Raphael and Michelangelo, no more material was grown, a cold history painting is the ultimate expression of art, for all the heat even the profane presentation of history but has its hidden source in faith in a more than

merely human additions, and we see closer to, then indeed the whole art of religious beginnings, has evolved. Now, one might at least concede neither the Greek gods, yet the Christian Madonna have ever existed in the archetype, but the belief in a higher spiritual existence of man must exist, to hervorzutreiben these blossoms of art, even the art itself. Although, as the art comes from faith, faith hinwiederum grows through art, we have already conceded, but they can only have him grow up, not create, and they require the existing tribe. And all the sprouts, which driven forth the mere imagination of the artist, their driving force to keep a maximum of one faith summer long, then they wither or remain only as the ancient tribal jewelry stand, and new sprouts will require new branches of the tribe. More than the mere principle of humanity like the belief in a good on the whole world order without a conscious personal representatives of this order make to represent the benefits of religious belief to such a representative, not only the most valuable and best. By searching with terms to replace the irreplaceable feelings, he can not raise the spirit in the same way, fill, drive for victims of love, to inspire works of art. For it is in the nature of things that the highest increase of consciousness can take place only in the direction of a supreme consciousness of all consciousness, and all that you want to use for this is cold water into the fire. It is in this respect with the belief in a conscious mind about me not do anything else than to conscious spirits next to me, but the same thing only in a higher sense. From the consciousness of other people I see as little as the consciousness of God. So little but the belief that parents, siblings, friends, a consciousness, like me, have, could be represented practically by the belief that they are merely in the sense of a functional world order act like themselves and to me, as they do, the most precious feelings and drives would be lost so, so little can the belief that there is a God with a sense of everything and above all, be represented by a belief in any ever so convenient unconscious world order, and the summit of all those feelings would be lost. And as little as a conscious God having relationships with our consciousness is to be found for the belief in a conscious future life with relationships of our present life, a surrogate, what could the same from a practical point of replace, so what even remotely the same thing to would be able afford. On examples of the Assassins we saw what can the poorest faith in an afterlife to make for effects poorest of course, but most, so even the best belief in an afterlife at the same time to produce the best and strongest effects, and it has generated. The thought of fame can afford something, I do not deny it, but how weak is the thought that others with love, respect, reverence our who will think forever dead against the idea that we think even with those which we now live, live again and the consequences of our actions are themselves partakers. All conceded but what has the faith and good works, then finally ask again: What's for proving its truth? As for the quality of a belief in its truth is? Are not these two very incongruente things? One has the truth, looking at ease and without regard to the consequences of what you will find only in this way can we hope to find them. Where

interest comes into play, the man is blind. So I hear many say, and often the research is in this sense to the interest of truth's sake as if both could ever contradict away from everything that the people want real interest. And at other times was made to be yet again to talk about the high conformity of goodness, beauty, truth in its ultimate causes, remain speeches, because you do not have to point and core of the match and looks. Of course, where the interest of the people comes into play, he is blind to the highest truths, but it is not his blindness that he follows his own interest as opposed to the truth, but that he does not follow his interest enough by short tight low following interests at the expense of the larger higher further take thereof, in which last the maintenance, ensuring the base of those myself resting, or that he follows his individual interest as opposed to the general, be what and All interest related inbegreift, just as he is in contrast with the truth. Everywhere we find it otherwise, that the most correct knowledge of what is the best man is also practical, leads him best. How should we not conclude conversely, that what best serves the people, leads him best, also is most true. We find this principle all the more confirmed in each further expansion we are looking for his confirmation, so the more we go from individual to whole hog, and can therefore expect its secure confirmation when we go on with it's full whole. A single mistake can one man time looking satisfy, the further a misconception spread, the more people feel in his sense, think, act, farther and deeper grasp its practical consequences, the permanent it develops in such, the larger, stronger be for all its drawbacks. The desert is not metaphysics, empty phrase match, crude dogmatism, but simply a clear statement of a universal fact. The opposite is to testify of the truth. And hereafter will be most surely the truth of what is accepted as true by all, the will, thought, feeling Aller determined to emerge from the most wholesome, most beneficial consequences for all, for all of humanity.We call such a belief the best, and that is the best faith must be the truest. But provided the best faith is an ideal for humanity, a belief will approach the ideal of truth, the more so the more he approaches the ideal of goodness. Common ground is the belief may harbor the parents, a child gestorbenes in the distance was still alive, do not become more true that he comforts the parents. But it also contributes to the performance of these individual character of truth, whom the practical principle demands, which is not enough on individual performance? Rather, if all people think indefinitely in faith, should act the deaths was still alive, so it overwhelming disadvantages would grow so large, the longer and the more they practice would give the faith follow, and that comfort the parents themselves would on the length not stand up. That depends on its falsehood. And more so would vast disadvantages arise when all people think indefinitely in faith, should act, there live a God who does not really alive, and they themselves will continue to live, instead of that they really will be dead, and the consolation the humanity for a time drew from it, not even stand would hold. So very much bigger the mistake would be to believe in a living God and the everlasting life of all, as it spread to a single living man and

his temporal life, so enormous would be much greater for all the disadvantages, and the more and the fixed it rooted, the more they would grow. But, on the contrary, the most widely used, longest duration, most practical effectiveness of faith in God and the afterlife brings the greatest, ersetzlichen by anything else, blessing, and the longer it has existed, the more he wins inventory. The previous Prinzipe contradict, is, with the common experience that we can do both at any reasonable interpretation that we can give her, disagree. What power may have always made man, the fact is it, she has so created him, that he made and can develop prosperously, but only if he behaves according to the context, in which it is created and if not, he will Disadvantages driven by this, and his mind itself must help him to behave so by providing his account of what is in this context and will be. It seems as if that power was once so created him, that he can only exist legally and evolve quite yet, if he exception in respect of themselves, the creative power and his, human, last goals his account over to something not will be, and could it ever be in the sense of a mindless power to create creatures with such facility that they can not exist without the right faith in a creative spirit? It would be absurd, but this absurdity to hold some wisdom. I read once, as the larva of the stag beetle male to build a larger case in their pupation, as they need to fill with their zusammengekmmten body, so that one day developing horns still have space. What does the larva of their future life, their future horns, so little when we think of our future life and future of our way of being in it, but they directed their house already on it, and would be able to without also not quite up to that to develop. Is thought, the same power that created the stag beetle and the people who have put the beetle truth in the instinct and the people lie in the faith that lets him build his present life already in the direction of the future and create more than otherwise would be the case, a faith that is precisely designed so necessary in humanity itself and to the development of humanity needs developed than that instinct in the larva and is required for their development. Of course, every single person is not so necessary developed the belief in immortality, as in each of the stag beetle instinct. But in humanity he develops but so necessary and it just he is above the instinct that he did regarding the all common end and aim point that life developed from the context of conscious life out, which has the same last reason, when life the beetle and his instinct. After all 'I resumiere this place only as a practical motive, then the practical argument 2) .
2)

Here follow much the same phrases I already given in Zend-Avesta II, p 251 only without the preliminary

discussions.

The man believes in the existence of God and everything connected with it, because this faith the people so in detail how the human society on the whole beneficial, healing, blessings bringing, practically necessary, is because neither the

man in much detail humanity as a whole without him prosperously exist and can be developed prosperously, a man in detail to the extreme cases reaching Anhalt, human society is the most common and bindendsten stop everything earthly, human interest will ever top and finish in him. When man this partly unconsciously feels, partly realizes aware the individual is partly driven it with the faith of the advantages to make themselves partakers, partly arises because of the protrude which larger and smaller circles of human society, such as parents, teachers, regent a drive, the same in these circles to reproduce, maintain and disseminate itself also, but for those whose mental power, intelligence and goodness of the other runs ahead to form the faith in this sense on to say that he also easier catchy as a blessing richer will, the ways in which this motif interacts with the historical works in the same hands. In short, the man believes in God and Its Environs in religion, because he needs the belief and the belief serves the people. But that this belief is a true, justified as follows with the following consequences: 1) Any erroneous or defective condition would thus be revealed as such, that they, as true assumed by the influence which they won on our thinking, feeling and acting, Disadvantages pulls or human happiness detracts by us involved in vile moods and perverse acts that some immediate pain, dissatisfaction, partly indirectly and tighten with displeasure consequences, however, the truth of a condition by itself proves the opposite of all 'such as this. This set proved to be the more, the greater influence error or truth wins on our feelings, thoughts, actions, depending on a larger area of people and the longer the time it extends, while a mistake without significant interference with the rest of our feelings, thoughts , acting, for a single person or a small radius of people and for a short time can also probably appear satisfactory and even useful. But now it is just that religious faith, apart from the theoretical satisfaction that he can grant, otherwise carries the greater, more important and more far-reaching benefits of disbelief but disadvantages for humanity and the individual, the more or deeper this belief or unbelief determining engages the mind and the actions of the people, and the longer the duration it extending away from where it stirred up, that unbelief can not receive significantly raised in large perimeters in the long run.So the criterion of truth carries the belief that the objects of religious faith exist in itself. 2) The specific layout of this belief occurs under the same principle. If we find that an organization of religious faith so as to contribute more to the happiness of mankind, the more, the longer and each additional perimeters she gains influence on the feeling, thinking, acting, this is the design or page layout of faith to be regarded as true or false in the opposite case as deficient, so that, after all, only faith can be seen as the truest, which is humanity as a whole as their relations to the salutary. 3) In process of development of the faith it can be done, however, and is often done, that the faith partly to the temporal advantages of individuals, partly from untriftiger view of what avails the whole, partly by virtue of apparent conflict with theoretical reasons, erroneous and hereby the humanity unhealthful, accepting designs. Man ever begins with having particulate interests and to declare by faith designed for the best to keep it and even implanting and force upon others. But

according as the advantages and disadvantages of truth of falsity continue to grip in time and space, they meet, as already shown in the historical principle, becoming more and more difficult all the individuals who have true or false beliefs, and fix those in the right knowledge, they bring back from the wrong and help the fight or distant spread, so that last only faith can remain, which links all individual interests are best and most perfect of a general interest. 4) If has to be considered as the best for the people what the people satisfaction, happiness, well not just by individual relationships, for a short time, for individual groups, but on all sides of human nature, for the whole of humanity, to unlimited duration, is suitable with regard to all the episodes, most secure and promote, is the established in previous manner truest faith can be called at the same time best, and can even make out of the goodness of faith the conclusion to his truth. 5) This takes the design and development of religious ideas in the most harmonious and practical at the same time related to the design of morality and of all life, because the tendencies of morality and life go there, which assert and maintain what the humanity and the salutary gedeihlichsten 3) . The religious ideas occur after the design which they assume under the influence of practical principle, even as the most important conditions for a flourishing design of morals and of life, because the point of view of its design just it is that to regard them as valid what supreme aspects of the most common and must have durchgreifendsten salutary influence on the entire humanity.
3)

See "On the highest good."

6) You can use the previous argument with the following in relationship or implement in the following. We would religious faith does not need , when the objects of the same non would . For if man has made the belief because he needs him, he has not even made the fact that he needs it for his faith prosperous maintenance of a stock and is therefore compelled to make it through the need. The generation of this belief by the people must therefore be due to the same real nature of things, which has produced the people and their needs themselves. But it would be partly the nature of things attach an absurdity, sometimes it goes against the experience so far can make those that nature had set the people to be able to thrive only with the belief in something, what would not. In general, if something is not proven by experience, it is the practical argument of faith. And so we are sure the law of gravity then that it is so far proven as sufficient experience, keep as still valid, whereas it is not enough, we must also hold that argument in this sense without barriers valid. And just so it is us of such great importance that it us after his probation by general experience, as far as it goes, the probation of all that follows from it, represents through experience in areas where the experience is not enough, and with this what the theoretical conclusion for the exact missing, replaced by a practical accuracy. How much may come of theoretical motives for believing the following Prinzipe

the language, and how cogent may be the point of his, who sums up the argument and raises it's enough is not enough to justify the faith sure it could still all be different or not be, and the possibilities of logic and experience many remain. Now, however, may last only made that the same theory reproduces what is practically required. Take part in this and it is only one of all the possibilities. The uncertain theoretical conclusion with respect to the historical revelation claimed to be infallible, but in every other religion asserts itself other than infallible. Which is it? The time has come, the practice is not cheating us. After all the former things, it would have to be at all possible to make the belief in the highest and last things without considering all what has been previously believed, regardless of all the theoretical reasons and conclusions from the outset only to the point of properly that it best served the entire humanity to the highest and last relationship if only the knowledge of what it is like without that consideration would be even possible. But that it is not. Rather, the exchange requirement is not to forget, after which the practical principle is just as relying on the other Prinzipe with, as these against partly on that, if what the best is to think of humanity as through the history of such first show and prove, must make it cogent to identify, transfer to and posterity, and even have to contribute to the earlier stages of development of a good faith, to make mature as the intelligence to make it even better, but only with respect on a more correct knowledge of the nature of people and things is possible. From merely abstract practical aspects of the faith many opportunities would remain no less than from merely theoretical or historical. Now, however, may last only bestehn which is both a theoretical and historical possibility. Take added that, and it remains again from all the only one. Remove from the circumference of a sphere of radius three. You can apply it to infinitely different points and on each there's an infinite number of points, but the point where they meet, is always just one. Meanwhile, as we were able to maintain alone already decided the historic Prinzipe many things and just the most general and most important of faith from the point of view of this principle, the memory only that the historic decision was nevertheless brought about only because of the other Prinzipe, so we can also keep some most general and most important from the point of view of the practical principle alone decided, with the opposite reminder that our practical reason only able to mature so far on historical development and increasing knowledge of the nature of men and things, to make such a decision. But we will see how natural that what so decides by practical side, just just is the same again, we could keep already historischerseits decided and what we are theoretischerseits must find, to the right meeting at the point of full certainty occur. We can only provide the practical Prinzipe now find the practical of the same to the historical and theoretical reasons of faith, may find it easier one to head with many a with in others, with the other Prinzipe, and where the guarantee by the other Prinzipe missing they complement by the practical. Now want to without offering even go into further notice, as has already been discussed, I conclude with some reflections on the position of principle to practical

Christianity and philosophy with respect to the three main pieces of faith. As far as we remain in Christ's own teaching that Christianity meets the highest demands in practical as full degree that nothing can be thought beyond, so that Christ is the Savior of mankind justly be called, if he heilbringendste religion has in fact brought into the world, and the practical argument rooted in God can not come through so abstract itself, but just by incarnation into the consciousness of humanity. But Christianity has absorbed much of its historical development, from which one can not say the same thing and the other historical progress stands in the way, if it stands in the way of practical feasibility. In fact, if you watch what the causes are, the much more difficult for the receipt of Christianity among the Gentiles, that it spreads rather than conversion by the extermination of peoples, one will find that there are those very dogmas which among the Christians themselves always rather just Hader have sown a blessing that one holds of historical motive, but the fact that they prove the historic unification of all, yes the Christian denominations themselves, stand in the way that they are not in front of the historical arguments exist, but they can not stand before the historical, because they did not exist before the practical. Apart from this, as tall but the general Christian belief in a prevailing in the world personal conscious God with relations of will, knowledge, feeling for his creatures in every respect to what today's philosophy in its most accepted systems, because I do not claim in all, has tried to substitute for God under various expressions, or what is left when you look under the name of God held by the matter. There's an absolute, one only in the individual conscious of coming absolute idea of an infinite substance, there remains stored as the content of the name of God, an ontological or moral or causal notion, an unconscious world order, a general legality of things, a mystical ground of a teleological principle. One does not have to be done, does not tire to invent new expressions and words to replace the Christian God or to translate it into a practically useless beings or wrap in mystical darkness. Historically, it has not succeeded and has no chance to succeed, even where not to go this route, because no one is able to convert the other to his other names and stuff, while the Christian God's name and thing by all the heathen rage, di all disagreements and changes in philosophy, as a whole continues unmoved. And why can not it be done? Because the Christian faith is practically replaced by nothing, after our Prinzipe a proof that what he is right and wrong running away or against it. And so is every philosophy that runs contrary to the Christian faith to those basic points on which rests its practical value, already passed sentence, however, that which the confidence of the same by the addition of knowledge for reasons yet to increase, and thus the effectiveness of the same too able increase in the future, because the truth, the truth, because the future has in itself. And, like any philosophy will be discarded, which provides a foundation for the bread of faith, each one will be discarded, which has an empty hand. And there are not entire systems which testify of God know nothing more than that from him nothing was to testify, areas for practical reasons, namely to believe in Him, but by

depriving the belief Anything that makes him practically, or even from a practical Prinzipe require the content of faith, they would have to give the practical, which can only make meaningless claims for itself. Such systems, however (Kant, Herbart) are the beginning and end of the current philosophy. Of course, where will take the content of faith, with which it has to meet the practical requirement that philosophy. I think where the faith has taken him from time immemorial and somewhere he must have it yet. We want to look him in the following Prinzipe. Against the belief in a personal conscious continuation of materialism has reasons that are obvious and surface. They are excellent except for a bitter point, I would even believe in these reasons - and faith it still remains that we will not be like that we will be - if it does not violate the ran practical, and therefore also historical, argument, the materialistic radius so would not run into the blue. Now they do it, so it must be asked whether it is not also deeper reasons in a deeper view of the connection of things for the afterlife is to be equal to the possible than the materialistic mind but are still admirable about that they also are historically and practically possible to give a radius coincides with the other two radii at the same point. And where could they look different than the idealism in its profundity, its opposition to materialism? Free, either one finds in other words, just as many good reasons against the personal continuance as the materialism, or confusion and dreams do not meet any of the three arguments right and so far behind the clarity and consistency of materialistic reasons remain, almost entirely to a comply by not satisfy the other, absent only in that they keep within limits at all, in which such a sufficiency of one without the other is possible. Where, however, asks again, nor theoretical reasons can to be expected when you will neither on materialism or idealism is adequately? And can it really exist, why can not find any reasons? In fact, you almost the only choice if the old belief or current philosophy, which knows how to find zulnglichen no reasons to exist. Belief in mediating higher personalities between us and God is generally become very weak among us. Especially the Protestants remained almost only Christ as mediator and left this almost only the Orthodox. The Catholics have yet to Mary and the saints, but almost only the common Catholics and the painter, and this almost exclusively on the big screen. The Angels are everywhere just as decoration, you do not know them even where, as again on the canvas. But by all the disadvantages of a crude and reprehensible design of that faith have been killed or weakened themselves with the belief are also the benefits that it can have, and how he may be, here and there has not, like, what to us so much purer and higher benefits can think that he might have in a purer and better design. Want the Catholics take the help that he finds in the faith of Mary and the saints to convey his lower being the highest, what do you give him for it, and what you give and the cult of art for it? You take him something, give him something better, not for nothing. Or, if you can give him anything better, which requires nothing better, something better give it at all. How is it possible, when all faith is bad and wrong? But even among Protestants demonstrates the frequent

turn to Christ instead of the still remaining in God, the name of intermediary itself, they give him their very stunted certainly need a mediator, and the art of Protestants must borrow faith or even lie, the it has not, and is therefore rather just Catholic. So impractical faith can not be, and if he does not, if not practically be replaced by a more practical in the same sense, not at all objectionable. Rather, development rights would apply it, as damping, but this requires a new foundation. Where is he? you ask again, and I say again: Hardly there where today's philosophy, yet where today's theology. But I did not ask if I would not have a different answer to all those questions. The Christian religion in its purest clarification of everything you would like to find even in their heathen, pagan considered themselves against is, at all at the same time and desolation of a wonderful grandeur. Can it only by means of Lame claim this grandeur? But the sublime sight of the sea is not if you can not see anything on it, but when ships near, far, farther and farther a measure of its expansion, provide, but for God has not left us to measure. The Christian religion has its grandeur achieved by being the infinite for the Small, Limited, finite, what counted here and there for this set, and she's right. But after it set for the Christians in zeal that which they put it, cleared out of it, instead it up is to complete it, and that is now the great desolation; modern philosophy but has increased this Lame by God has built with cleared or as a solitary term from the desert of metaphysics out. What has to be here to offer the following principle? VII The theoretical principle 1) . The short term of the theoretical principle was: One believes what one finds Determinants in experience and reason.
1)

I have so far dealt with this principle in the paper "On the soul question" (Chapter VII), and the entire "ZendAvesta" was carried out, that the referral could meet it when it does not would apply here, the same with the represent two different principles in connexion and mutual supplement, which this scripture itself becomes a complement of those. But you can only expressions and in other versions expect the same here's what you can find there, and what with its solid professional just allow nothing else than other expressions and statements.

Now you can even look reasonably demonstrate that historical and practical reasons entitle us to religious belief, as explained previously done only in a different way than in hergebrachten historical and practical argument.But after all, what could be done with historical and practical reasons, the need remains, and has spoken in the past issues, including reasons to find, so the theoretical principle can be used to support and complement the other, without the service of the other to require, and to such it will act now. Reason and experience, we have referred to as the lever principle. sense , - because if the highest and ultimate realities are in their capacity as the highest, last, no objects

of direct experience, and besides the historical and practical Prinzipe another source is still being sought their knowledge , it requires some conclusion to come to them. experience , - but because if they are the highest and last of the reality, it requires the experience as a basis of the conclusion. By logic and mathematics alone can not come to faith in God and immortality, yet another term as evidence playful and empty terms thereof. One can, if one rises to the level of our spirit as spirit over all the spirits of our life as a stage to a second life. It is also only just come up and not in what has the experience directly related to stay, if it is what exceeds its nature, all experience is. Between these two errors but still varies today the design of the faith in the theoretical reason that one starts too little of tangible reality, the fault current philosophy and theology, or that you stop too reduce errors of the pagans and materialists. Either way, you lose either the whole or the entire contents of God or scope of God, and finally throws away rather do the whole principle of what brought the loss approaches, but only his reprehensible application is rejected. What is usually religious experience called, is essentially only the inner experience of the practical effects of drives and faith. As it is now a foundation of faith to support, was shown in the previous Prinzipe itself from experiential aspects. But here experience in a broad sense and on the other direction is made. Not an experience of the proofs of the existence of the highest and last things that lie in our needs of faith in it and the consequences of the finished faith, it is here, but which, lying in the most general facts of existence, regardless of whether we want to believe that they already believe or not, lead to belief and thus can come to only one side of the often invoked religious experience to help. But before we show how this is done in the theoretical arguments, it is the motives, it is the complete and accomplish have to consider. Let's see how they really are, so they are all metaphysics, what the philosopher wishes to support the belief that he wants to support him other, so far as possible. No output from the abstract concepts of Being, the Absolute, the ego, the thing in itself, the most perfect and hereby most real being, the simple things, the absolute causality, which actualizing impossibility which has led people to believe in God. Like everything is fulfilled only by faith, without faith in its consequences ever again be able to catch up, unless it was to follow him, and in many cases it has completely drained away. Rather, what should be converted to historical and practical motives in addition to produce the faith and shape is a conclusion that a human life needs daily conscious as unconscious and pulls the say so at every opportunity all by itself in him draws, and generally speaking the words is: Because that's, that was, so that was that, this will be, because this is so, as was, is, or is this, that to be so. Each observed event gives people involuntarily cause and evidence to put his expectation of other cases followed by equal or unequal conditions expected to equal or unequal consequences and after the equals and unequals in the same conditions and in the unequal consequences, in the same sense going backwards from the effects to the causes. The man closes as in the field of the meanest things he includes in the field as the highest

and last things, or rather of that field into this and it finally all his conclusions from. My house is built by someone, and the world will be built by someone. The world is bigger than my house, so there will be a greater person who has built the world. My body moves under the influence of my feeling and will, also the sun, moon, the sea, the wind will move under such influence, but under the influence of a powerful feeling and will, because they are even more powerful. I now live and I only change from one day to another, I will live in the future and I only change even more. My life depends on my breath and the warmth of my body, where they go in death, the soul will go. Each king has his servants, God will have His servants. Not only the belief in the existence of God, the afterlife, higher beings, all notions of their mode of existence is based, consciously or unconsciously on analogies and inductions this Article Some experience Excessive below everywhere, a generalization leads everywhere also, unless it be a Larger and Higher applies a generalization to an extension and enhancement. And if no practical motive occasion was hardly to make such over the Experiential out at all, so the practical principle would be able, in turn, not without such to make the faith and designed to provide the historical principle, would create rather without completely vacuous notions as it has indeed always be shown where it is presumed to want to create faith alone. However, is not without interest, and we have already pointed out how change in any other people of faith ideas of its other circles of life and of his other life. Depending on raw a people, as well as his raw generalizations, the more limited and lower, and lower its limited extensions and improvements because of the belief region inside. But even the belief of the most civilized nations owes its contents quite the generalization, extension and improvement of their lives and their circles of life, and would be quite empty without the. Easily occur in this way the conflicts with the practical and theoretical subject with itself, from which even those with the historical grow and emerge manifold attempts of their solution. Can not calculate it, but always interpret. Who wants to say, the belief in a personal evil principle, a devil or Ahriman, was the practical interest. But could the view of the power of evil in the world and the destruction that threatens all creation, easily lead to generalize the evil inclination in man to a highest tension in a personal God and nature to increase. Then close the practical and theoretical interest in their peace on the fact that in the course of history as a whole is good but finally breaks through, honesty is the best. The good divine principle that finally wins, hell itself is overcome or even converted. Peoples there, according to their beliefs just the making of a happy state in the afterlife be blessed, fortunate beyond the range rather than the virtue depends on this side. Who may fail to recognize that this practice unacceptable notion rests on a simple analogy with the here and now. In the earlier so widely held view of a Hades, Sheol, a shadowy existence after death, like the motives to think a life beyond the grave, nor ever and want to, with the views of the tangible destruction of all hand gripping lichen in death the have worked together and dig night rest to make the afterlife so dark and sad. These conflicts are pushing to test the solution, and if they do not stand out in the nations, so they finally stand with the people.

But like the practical motive in conflict or agreement with the theoretical confused, but always it can act only determining direction, the execution in a given direction is a matter of theoretical subject. Let's Sheol, paradise or hell, so it goes in analogy to the mutual relations forth, and whoever tries to come out of it with his faith, comes only from the other side in or out at all from all over the idea. How unbridled imagination always act like they can do it but only with fabrics and shapes that you offered the theoretical design. If you look around now, however, what has ever been achieved in this way, we would first of all, despair faith. The foolish contradictory views of God, the afterlife, angels, devils are thereby come to pass, and yet have found even more widespread than what the reason for that will put the most reasonable, because it hardly satisfies an individual to others. Do not say the right who say that the source of faith in the highest and last things is not at all doing here, but rather to avoid. Yes have not completely legal considerations such as the following: Even in ordinary life we are wrong every day, by by analogies and inductions from the here and now, from The The and, by so and so from the distance, what is coming, want to open up the other, how can we order the supreme and final dare things where the task increases the immeasurable and the help that is to try it bids to confirm the circuit and the circuit means through experience or correct, going on, we rather always fortzuschlieen in's Unsafe at Unsafe still forced to build less secure are. All those conclusions have ever the nature of things, only one's finite in scope and objects of religious faith rather bear the character of infinity. And yet it is a strange thing that a man instinctively keeps coming back to this source, and even those who reject it in principle, can not fail to draw from him when they want to say from the highest and last things even slightly more than that it is unspeakable things, and they want it and make even the salvation of what they say about it. Should be a necessary source reprehensible. In truth, you can say we like it or not, we must hold ourselves to the theoretical principle, but in fact because we can not discard, we must take it in the best way and let interact with the other principles. But in fact it's just not in him differently than the other principles. Not that we need it, but that we do not have enough or that we do it wrong, it's reprehensible. Even in the things of daily life, it's not the use of the means of the inference that offer experience and reason, what makes us wrong, we wanted to drop it, we would be wrong completely, but that we do not have enough or that we they use wrong; ever better but, as more and better we achieve. Now it is different only in the highest and last things, than the meanest, once that we do not yet rich with the things with which we pass on these and the lighter and heavier wrong with it, the more we seem to reach it; So we need to broaden the means to increase, rather than throw them away. And further, that a probation of experiential been deduced by its nature here not to ask because of the spiritual over me as little as for the spiritual next to me is to have at all. So we have to - it is not enough to repeat - replace by matching the mood has been deduced with the requirements and implications of the other Prinzipe. Another way of probation, there are of course not, but to them it is.

But now the whole theoretical rationale and design of the faith fails almost always in one of two cliffs, including the mistakes we showed input lead that one away stands the highest and last things on the low and vulgar concept or fact or both, as if they had nothing in common with it, and that they confused with common or even lower than they were even just a little, among other things, rather than remove the lower to the higher, thereby complete. And of course, if God really with everything in his world torn off from the world above her, the world rebelled against God hovered incomparable under him, as it Many think that the world in which we move our experience, it would no conclusions from it possible for him, no conclusion possible from the financial statements of our little spiritual world in a I to the conclusion of the whole spiritual world in a I, of the reign unseers mind over a small part of the physical world to the rule of spirit over entire physical world. But we theoretically have no reason to accept the highest existence apart from conceptual and factual connection with all existence, a God is practically useless, has no assignable and traceable relationship to his world and his creatures, and he is historically always been in such relationships been presented, and whoever did not want to do, but it did. And of course, if the transition's afterlife was beyond comparison with all transitions in the here and now, in the afterlife itself all the conditions and laws stopped that apply in this world, so no one would be the conclusions possible that we will draw from one to the other. But from time immemorial has been sought analogies for the transition to Use hereafter in the shaping the ideas of the future life due to the present, we are practically a faith that continued receives the relationships from this world to the Hereafter, and everywhere else we find by experience included in the present conditions of the future and include as much as possible from it for the future.Now it is true enough our ability not even have to tap out like the orange from the leaves, the butterfly from the caterpillar, life after the birth of the life before birth, a memory from the intuition follows; like, you say, should we can conclude, as a life beyond this world from the next? But we can easily see that the Orange follows from the leaves, the butterfly from the caterpillar, life after the birth of the life before birth, a reminder of the opinion, despite that we do not know how it follows; so it will only apply to close from the actual relationships between causes and consequences in this life generalized, expanding and enhancing appropriate to between now and a consequent life, and the same inexplicable these relationships here and there is only one moment longer be in the compliance. The error and the cliffs at the same time finally we will avoid, and move from the theoretical motives for theoretical arguments on the following principle 2) .
2)

In writing about the soul question p. 116 installed.

"It is important to start from the widest possible circle of experience moderating in the realm of existence, through generalization, extension and improvement of the factors which arise here, go to the view of what is beyond in the other, further and higher regions of existence applies to the account of their distance our experience is not enough, or the width and height presents our experience and beyond, made only

in the sense and direction of caution, generalization, extension and increase of the area of the Perceptible addition, the already is stamped inside the Perceptible itself, so only the taking for the other, further and higher areas in the claim as valid to consider, which generalizes the more extended, increases the farther and higher we look toward's experiential field , and the points of difference which arises due to the larger distance, width, height of the area to take full account. Same as now, in the form of an argument, the actual documents, which are in the public and wholesomeness of faith, must be either assumed known or particularly pointed to assert the historical and practical principle, as well as to assert the theoretical principle the documents located in areas of expertise the conclusion to the last and highest things. But where to find them, if not reasons, as I already indicated, those reasons which between historically have become practically required, belief in a personal God-consciousness relations with his creatures, to a future perpetuation of personal funds being us support of God and the knowledge side, consolidate or even increase it and can develop? I'm looking round, I look for it in the dogmatic textbooks of theologians, I listen to the preachers in the pulpits, the schoolmasters in schools, the professors of the catheters, I turn back from the rationalists to the Orthodox and Pietist and again, I scour the dusty evidence for the existence of God, I am studying the philosophical systems of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Herbart, Schopenhauer. It's free. I find nothing that even some maintenance granted or not rather than resist fought with for the faith. But I am also looking for nothing at the same time, where I could find a clear knowledge, let cogent application of the previous principle, I find only a wavering between two or a combination of both main error of his application, a failure soon at one another soon on the cliff. But how come through misconduct or violation of its principle into being a sound argument. On the existence of a God , as the historical and practical argument asks him how in connexion the other main objects of faith take care of itself, we can conclude by the theoretical Prinzipe in two ways and only two ways, although each of the two modes in their general public including a majority of special ways. Once, by the world of our own mind, the only one of which we know directly, through the world of spirits, which we believe so firmly to the total of the three reasons, as we know it, to the world of a rising spirit secondly, by the fact that our own body also reflects a spirit and bears, again, soar knowledge the only case of this kind mean that the whole world levels and support a spirit in a higher sense. Because they are the only points of departure that we have of the knowledge side to close not emptying into the void, but from the solid into the Fuller and thereby open up the faith of its contents, the only ones on which the argument itself as completion of the theoretical motives can make according to the above principle. According as we now vorschreiten from the first starting points here only in the spiritual realm, or proceeding taken by the second body as a mirror and support the soul in the eye, there are two main parts, pages, forms, or expressions of the theoretical argument can be distinguished, I will briefly call the argument from the

spirit and the body. Basically, and the inferences's remains a single argument. Prior to their installation, a few words. It has often been the occasion to point out that every only of a single soul of its own, just know through experience. The result is that for the conclusion to other souls, spirits, whether neighborly or higher, or no induction, which takes the majority of the same cases as the base, but only analogy is to bids. But the analogy can not be missed in this area. For as even an idea of a spirit or next to take over our minds without attachment to the experience of one's own mind. Now every single analogy is taken to be deceptive, but the conclusion to our neighbor souls binding. And so it is binding? We still see the little ones to ask anything else, but only the larger of the conclusions to be larger.The fact that it just takes the little soul together for what you want to throw away the largest, and together would increase only in the largest scale. The fact that there is no single analogy nor sum of isolated analogies, on which it is based - the circle would have to conclude that statue the outer form that once reared clock the internal circuit in common with me, all this is still single pure soul , - rather that it is a coherent and concordant into itself system of analogy to all the points you the same, with respect to the own nature of the soul, of mirroring and transmitting through the body reasonably consider; 3) - and finally the fact that this whole system of analogy is also a system with the system of our practical and historical claims.
3)

The general aspect and the most essential of these points I think in the paper "On the soul question" pp. 49 and clearly enough to have known such that the reasonableness might just be clear. Here it is only subject to the application.

This and only this way of conclusion on the existence of the small neighboring human souls is perfectly binding and a conclusion as to their mode of existence at all possible. Metaphysics has not resulted and can not lead.But nothing else, but just the bigger, not Fewer of them, we have to ask in conclusion, to the larger realm of the spirits in order to gain a larger order. Metaphysics has not resulted and can not lead. Analogy here can be just as little miss is individually just as deceptive, it is just as a system of analogy and with the conclusions and claims of the other principles. At the conclusion of the other souls draw analogies, makes the system itself, so to speak by itself A little man is so small is so used to us so clearly opposite; Everything about it is familiar to us at first glance. By God, higher and otherworldly spirits Everything is big and wide and initially unfamiliar to, and applies it to the context, what to look for to show just to make everything clear and commonly only. But it can not all be shown at once as it is finally to take on once in one, so is not to demand so at once. The argument of the spirit as the body can only develop in a series of moments; nothing individual in it is binding and the binding is in the band not only the details of each of the two arguments, and both arguments, which are but two sides of one argument, not only in this volume, this argument also ties in with the other

two, and finally the fact that the three main arguments give all three pieces of the faith in one and the same gang. Thus, the binding force grows with every step, but is in no steps, just across the way. Who this connection will nachgehn, will it have at the end and finally the outputs all the way have the entrance to a world view in which faith and knowledge to protest tolerated and found one in the other promotion and support whoever the result of the conclusion in its details the house looking into a stone, it will never have. Also, we may recall that the same analogy that will lead us from the Small and Low, for which we know to believe in larger and higher, while the Small and Low in the Larger and higher picks, the knowledge is so only in so far exceeded that than it is at the same time as the content excavated in the faith. In itself, it remains a bold and daring climbing, which leads us from below upwards, and who would say that it was safe. But we only remember the ladder to climb is not in mere air, it is held from above as from below.On top of the fact that it leads to the same territory of faith, which we have historical and practical need, while the bottom of the fact that they then introduce the tangible reality of. Whereas the unbelieving materialism on a ladder held only rises from below, the glaubensde idealism descends on a ladder held from above. But requires the theoretical argument of this support through the practical and historical, it also makes him his good service by preventing the excesses of the practical and theoretical subject, which no argument can be made. What man would not require all of God that he does not require, how much he might wish in the world itself, which ruled from God differently, so what he does not want, and what should prevent to a god and a world he finally believe as he wishes, if it is not the need to comply with the demands of practical and historical at the same time those of the theoretical argument. But inasmuch as the theory only allows such a view of God and the world, which may be made prior to the views of the reality with all its defects and evils, it occurs inside of itself practical and historical in's argument, according to which both this is not true, what man here and there, to and at the time, wishes or believes or has desired and thereafter believed than what assumed to be true of the whole of humanity and for ever, able to guide their thinking, feeling, acting, therefore, that the most desirable state of humanity as a whole and no longer follows reason is, to go beyond it. But for the real truth must be accepted as true, because the only way a person can make the best hand and can have the permanent position. The argument of the spirit. Our spirit presents itself as a realm of diverse and changing sensations, memories, ideas, concepts, thoughts, impulses, tendencies, desires, over and subject themselves to each other, linking and divorce, harmony and quarrel. It's a small world in reality. This little world of details, in turn, is only a detail in the great world of spirits, which is repeated on a larger scale and in a greater sense of what is going on in the small. For if areas also rank in the great world of spirits each other above and below, connect and divorce, harmony and quarrel with each other, and what falls into each

small world of a mind which, on the one hand only the last branch, on the other hand, the root of which, which falls into a large and passes broadly. Thus, the larger kingdom is just only the bigger, higher, more general what we find in the small. Now takes over all the details in the small world of feeling a lot I, a single consciousness, a single will. The two circles of visual and auditory sensations seem to have nothing in common with each other, but they have this in common with each other that that I am equally aware of both, but more than both white, and above all dispute the details reaches an aspiration to settle this dispute and reconcile, to bring everything from individual feelings and thoughts in such agreement that I had met there. So we can not know what is never a matter of knowledge, but must believe what we have already ohnedem to believe occasion that also has all the details in the great world of spirits in an appropriate sense, a lot sense of self, a unified consciousness, A uniform will'll grab, and only in appropriate correspondingly higher sense than the great spirit world is somewhat small. The consciousness circles of different people seem to have nothing in common with each other, but are they the have with each other that that I know of everyone as if they were his own, only more than all white, and, above all strife of the peoples and kindreds of the knowledge and belief, which takes in the great empires so much larger dimensions and higher extends, as in the small, but extends into the same thing and comes up out of him will also engage a larger and higher costumes him by the rule in the history of reconciliation to lead. The task is larger, the time of fulfillment longer than in the small kingdom, if you will infinitely long, but also the means in God is greater, you may feel infinitely large, and the fulfillment in eternity therefore perfect and certain. But all this could be a novel, and that All is well mate it would not stop, that it was a novel, because this privilege has any good novel, if the analogy that has brought us upward, and the only thing would be, to the we would have to leave us, not the ladder on which we climbed, the bottom really would have the upper base. Now, however, leads us to our climbing of the single firm and clear starting points of all human knowledge about spiritual things, that is, the consideration of the human mind itself, in follow the right path of expansion and growth, the commands, the principle, some to believe in the same, infinite, eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, all-merciful God, in whom we have historically resounding through Christianity and practical coercion, a fountainhead, Hort, a bond of love of all spirits, who knows the thoughts of all his creatures like themselves, on which all emerged, and in which they still live, and move, are, as in them, who loves all how someone can love his very own property, of all ages through the adds in the course of time to the common good of all and guides on which the finite Ghosts can put a boundless confidence in this regard, if what ever aspiring to finite mind and reaches the safer and more complete the circumferential his knowledge, the higher his affections, the more powerful his will, is of God, the All-Knowing, All Good , Almighty is to be expected in the fullest degree, that not only the demands of the moment and was expected, where his eternal costumes and wish fulfilled. There is only our continued rise further in the same direction, which has historically been taken, and he has proven to be the best-hitting practice and faith are the new development moments.

Let it now be that today's Christian conception little gets down with the words, that all the ghosts, as they are derived from God, still live in God, and move, and have, but in contradictory variety of ways the same admits texts after the thing to deny, and the finite minds to the divine facing outward, as they are themselves among themselves, thus pulling him down even in the finiteness of outer counterpart, so now we will leave our argument even get serious with the words. Has the same but with the clear saying of proven in the sources of Christian doctrine the need to respond to an idea, which also strengthens our conclusion by contradiction and clarifies. Go but even from our spirit ideas, ideas forth, without thereby departing from the spirit and only insofar as can God to our minds know how we ourselves, and when spirits fight in God, it is just also just be the same in a higher sense, what we find already in our mind when arguing particulars, feelings, thoughts in the lower areas of the mind and even fight against the spirit and the mind on the entire mind, only that in him just can argue all spirits in us merely intellectual moments, it is God through us and we are to God, the floor below the tower. The right mind but he only keeps his life will finally bring everything to match with each other and with his supreme will, and even find his highest duty is to do it, the Spirit of God, the ever-living, is in the highest and ultimately apply, and the finite spirit will achieve meaning itself only by entering into God. By doing so enough with our argument in the conception of the Divine Being the most general aspects of Christianity, is also the most diverse directions in which the same is parted, sufficient, if a joint sufficiency of which is at all possible. It is sufficient that the mystic who wants to immerse themselves completely in God, and in the most complete oblivion examines the most perfect satisfaction in God. He is sunk already in God, only he will also have to realize that being is not sufficient in God to satisfy God and to find the most perfect sufficiency, since rather Myriad is already discarded from our little spirit, which enters as an idea in him is sought to eliminate and what to him in the contrary sense, more so in God's great spirit, that it rather is to understand the meaning of God's highest and last relationships clearly and to meet him. Thus only will he be partaker of full salvation, which he would like to make easy purchase to the feeling of being only in God at all. It is sufficient that the rationalists, which requires a reasonable way to reach God and a clear vision of him. An easier way to God as our argument can not find the reason, and clearer ideas than granted by him, not winning. Only reason will have to be humble, not wanting to descend from abstract emptiness to God, but up climb of solid ground to him, and not to leave this climb on their own, but the only way to get that even on its liabilities the historical and practical demand is met. It is thus the revelation faithful enough, you will thank yourself through an inspiration of his preferred spirits the release of the highest truths of God. Because, though the little man's spirit not in every thought, feeling his whole character sets, not every moment of his life is pointing the way for all or just for a great result, not everyone is the highest and last relationships, but there are those already in small human spirit and life, so there is the infinite spirit rather small moments of the little

spirit all the spirits who again are only moments of the great spirit but in which the motivation, knowledge, essence of the divine spirit to the highest and last relations in a influence on the whole or a large sequence before other operated and which become the teachers and leaders for the other ghosts. Such exceptions to the usual course of history may be fitly described as manifestations of God in vorzugsweisem sense, except that one of them has to be seen in no exceptions to the nature of things spiritual and intellectual event, but only the highest most conscious operations. In this all the earnestness of faith asserts that we are not in God but God. There is even a belief that hang on the large estates that remain, however stunted and lost, as long as the seriousness of the faith atrophied and lost the faith itself remains only a mere play on words, in our view, but that is impossible, because it is itself only in solidarity with this belief comes about. One has him not only themselves wither by errors, such that we are deprived of God in the independence and freedom of our being. After all, why should not our will claim his own power under God's higher will, even to resist him, but that he is of the same mind, because so much even powerful indeed result in lower areas of our own mind against our will and goes, enough only that the higher and highest right after all, will keep the upper hand. Or that the sin of our will to God's will in the reluctance by God's will to sin, that we are in God. Because sin refers merely to the will of the whole spirit that can not be directed against itself. We win with faith in God to be at the same time the feeling of a more intimate relationship with God and through God to each other, the trust of the finite deliverance from all evil, and ensuring our dereinstigen lift to a higher existence. The first, of course, if we feel that as a direct and joint partakers of a spirit;'s Second, if it is in the nature of mind, no evil unbalanced, ungehoben, unreconciled to be able to tolerate in himself, the infinite spirit but also a infinite time and infinite resources to stand commandments the Third finally we will see when viewing the following main piece of faith. Now, one can only ask: Why highlights God Almighty, All-Bountiful, the All-Wise evil but not all of a sudden? And continue to ask, why is evil at all with one, in such a God, there? Since we have to believe, because we can believe nothing better and more reasonable that the existence of evil and the impossibility themselves are just as grown his sudden elevation to the ultimate conditions of existence, as the pursuit and the progressive fulfillment of the aspirations of its elevation with the inner nature of the mind, which governs the existence. But who shy away from the concept of evil transport them in God, do not forget that what we finite partakers of his nature appears in a lower areas as evil, for it just so has the same meaning not that it is only the driving of below subject to its higher will and reign is come even without this, and before that to reach withstand. But does anyone set up a better and more rational belief in this regard, it is written in the place of this sheet 4) .
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In the 8th Chapter of the treatise on the soul question, I think the objections which you may object to the immanence of finite spirits in the divine spirit ever considered thoroughly enough. have to content myself here with the above suggestions.

We spoke only of God, but, as it is with the afterlife? Where can we find it in our arguments the reason? And God and the hereafter are related but, not so their reasons? And where the reason for those higher spirits, and engage us mediator between God from beyond the grave in this world? We did not ask himself of all the related justification? - But I mean, just as nowhere in our argument it can be found. By itself it is the one with the other, so can not give one without the other, so firmly adherent is also the kingdom of heaven. As man is born, his mind simultaneously raises from the top to the bottom of and from the top with the whole unity of consciousness, from below with the details of sensuous perceptions, sensations, feelings, impulses, nothing more. Between push yourself in a life progress mediations. The spirit level, what we call so grows the higher ascend the mediations between above and below, the width of mind grows, the more the base grows, to ascend from it. And so he wins the mediations between the bottom and top? What is entered into the sensuality, it goes out to make something new in place, but what goes out, wakes up to a new level, in a new intellectual capable and that extinction itself is basic, so that it can wake up, lives henceforth continue in memories that carries through into fantasies, is the spiritual echo of the echoes earlier extinct beliefs, feelings, emotions, instincts, to higher concepts and ideas connections, purpose ideas, volitions, aspirations decisive and determined one, and linked to by ascending mediations sensual base in different directions at the same time and with the spiritual tip.Pain clings to the memory every evil desire, and indeed, as the joy of the good. Because unlike expects the spirit of the top than from the bottom, and the memory meets the upper courts. So we have a second upper world, of which the second from the first out grows, so to speak, with the souls that peopled from the bodies of the first climb up already in our own minds about a lower world. Hot first briefly the world view, the second is the world of memory, even though the names are too narrow for the cause. And so we are to believe what again its nature can never be matter of knowledge to because we believe so just back only what we have on the other side of reason to believe that it is appropriate only in a higher divine spirit in the sense will be memorial world via the intuitive world, so that all our this-worldly human demonstration and reminder of life itself belongs only to the lower world to God must believe that in the world of the Great Spirit every spirit after termination of umschrnkten earthly, sensual conditions of his existence in a higher areas, continue to live in a higher Zustndlichkeit still continue to operate, contact the spirits of departed earlier at a higher than this side community and will contribute according to his worldly bliss or torment Trachtens and doing it. All 'could again be a novel and can not be there again for similar reasons, from which it can not be justified according to the belief in God, he gives us again, which gave us the history and what we must demand. Because we do not have otherwise thought to respond with death into a higher realm to meet us there with our loved ones, to find there retaliation, and we do not require this faith? Where else of course

we took the guarantee that independent spirit in God just as able to ascend in an afterlife, as dependent moments in our mind that we do not increase with increase in's such emptiness inside. Once again, however, we can thus find everything and find it in any other way, what we had before, and needed, what hinders, the only way that makes it possible and even longer possible to trust? Of course, since we do not have all the spirits with a higher realm it in us, those can not ascend to us. However, God's height above the finite spirits themselves with the fact that he also has such a kingdom in itself, why they should be able to ascend to him less as a dependent mind moments in us after the independence of spirit in God is only a relative how the lack of independence of mind moments in us. Or should wither even the belief in the afterlife us that he demands faith in God and our being in God. Rather, that we a have reason to all this faith, one must consolidate and strengthen the other. If there were indeed no God, in which our spirits live, and move, are, so they could not ascend to God, and zerflsse our consciousness with the death in the void, there would be no afterlife, God would be even a higher content of consciousness cash. Is it at all every detail that occurred once in our consciousness, able to recur as a reminder it, how should the same thing is true of all individual provisions of our consciousness, are not considered by our entire consciousness, if only just a greater spirit is there, in the It, in turn, re-enters as a detail. As is clear both how much we need for our future life of being in God, but also how to ensure the future is the fact that the present is already done in God. And us is now in God, the sense of individuality and independence to - that God is about destroying not ours - so it will not get less also our memory rebirth in him, because every memory takes the peculiarity of his, from which they grew with itself. Returns but not really every detail in ourselves as conscious memory again, why should we the divine spirit in this regard do not trust a mightier power than us, as we everywhere not the us the same, but higher and several of the likes of God have expected. The plant soul has no memory, the animal, the new-born child is a weak, the memory increases generally speaking with the spirit level of creatures, so we may continue to increase until the spiritual creator. But seems theoretically uncertain about what we climb so, it's really, so we save it again by his encounter with the practical demands, which in turn calls the theoretical concessions. We desire at last, after expiry of the earthly, sensual and conditions of our worldly view life new for our higher memory lives in God, and ask where they are, so we wonder but only if we know already for this world's memories of life in ourselves, and demand not that we should resolve the larger question before the smaller ones. We do not know the physical conditions of the memory lives within us, so little that some doubt was needed at all of these, but a reminder of life in us is there, so is the more such there can be God without us, the physical conditions and to know regardless of whether it still requires such. Some very general but we know really the physical Bedingtsein our memories, they do not float but in the void, and they live in the brain they attach themselves as to the consequences of what is stapled intuition, be it what it is, and will undoubtedly can not link in concepts and ideas without the

circles of their underlying effects combine to krperlicherseits. So we must also thereof the corresponding, just like everything in this territory Larger expect for our future memory lives in God, and it will find the arguments from the body. But now we have the argument of the spirit yet to do his last step in order to get to the third main pieces of the faith and to close it with the other two in the same band. The kingdom of our views can not just always new stuff in our memory lives ascend and engages with new provisions into the same one, but receives reversed provisions, management, importance of senior management since, even as association is very interwoven with it. In Everything we see is the memory of everything so Contiguous and relatives we've ever seen, silently, and thus makes the green patch to the forest, the white to the house; otherwise have the eye nothing but meaningless empty color stains. The whole former conception of life seems so continued in its echoes in the later, the same memory associated countless beliefs through what she has so common, and countless memories combine with each other to give new views meaning and classify the spiritual context. Yes all of today's philosophical life can just yesterday the only way to continue steadily, that the whole context of the past and reminisce about it and adult concepts and ideas continues to act in the present. But by such former life continues through the mediation of the memory in the present life and further developed in the earlier sense, the memory receives life at the same time new provisions of the present. Thus, the memory lives drives its roots to the bottom of the philosophical life into it, from which it draws its juice, but also grows up to the top and beyond, like the crown of the tree through the roots, his own kingdom.Instead of going up in those interventions in the life of the senses, it rises in the Abgezogenheit of the greatest brightness, coherent consciousness in itself. Since it is considered and associated higher and elaborated what came into view only from the world, but how it all remembrance of life itself towards ever greater height increases, it also takes back from a great height into the philosophical life back. And so we may again believe what we can not know that it will be in a higher sense in the kingdom of God. The whole intellectual culture of the past bears on the present over and affects people of every new beginning, and continues gehends determining a just and everyone always acts anew with or against or to add what he received in the past in itself. But God knows everything, and the spirits of the departed who ascended to him, are carriers of consciousness of these effects in it, so be hereafter engages in his this world, every one just from what expected of him, and develop what they have started here together, even more than with God's help and God's help in the this world, but not bound to the old barriers. Everything that appears separate from ideas and other effects of a mind that once lived in this world of consciousness thousand now living, linked to in the spiritual consciousness of the same spirit from which it emanated, and this linked so that the this-worldly spirits. Only this world's consciousness of the output must first be extinguished before the beyond the consequences can awaken, by which a newly wakened only how the other converts into it, and may the this-worldly spirits of linking them consciousness of the otherworldly spirits as little perceive, the same as the opposing spirits, however, but

each of his consciousness content shares something with him and therefore welcomes suggestions. So each departed spirit linked a whole flock survivors and helps them perform and meet harmoniously in it or arguing with other departed spirits, however, no one can completely restore an entire people, each and every only in that which he can carry himself. And while he takes him in his direction, as far as he can, he receives even terms through his life, through his eye looks with, listens with his ear through which concern him with the same, and takes the idea, he said to intended him, retuned back. For the worldly man is not merely a passive hotbed of otherworldly spirits, however, it's actually that he is determined to countless things through further effects of past spirits; yes who can purely to distinguish what he has of himself and therefore, it is for that reason impossible, to distinguish it purely because it is not purely divorced. Not so that's a matter of faith, - and probably applies's to distinguish it - that countless former spirits work their way into every human being through their continuing effects, but the fact on which the belief must be based, only this is a matter of faith, what it the ascent of the facts of this world consciousness requires the passing analogy with these facts, that there was also an otherworldly consciousness of Fort ministry. Rooted now but thereafter the afterlife just as in this world, how our memory lives in our perception of life, we may well believe, which of course can not be a fact of worldly consciousness itself again, that it would take an appropriate crown beyond, and the life of the spirits will rise in the Hereafter not quite Into work in this world. Rather, as the thoughts come to ourselves most alive and highest in Abgezogenheit the meaning of life, may also be the highest and purest development of life beyond the spirits held in God in the greatest Abgezogenheit from the other earthly, and night and sleep of this world, even the meaning, it awaken to allow, how already the popular belief says that the spirits go out at night. How, then, God lives in the highest and most general sense in us and moves and has, and we in him, so, after the whole of the preceding, the spirits of the dead in us and we in them according to the special relationships they have with us and God , and in so doing to be intermediaries between him and us. The biggest and best spirits but it will also be the largest and best sense, to the highest religious relationships for Christians all over Christ, absolutely rightly called about the mediator. And again we say with all the basically same thing that the Bible says, Christ expressly says, but he should be an example for all Christians, and once with him. It has in fact been in the Bible all the faith we have, it is important to get serious with words that take the Wortglubigsten often only for words but just again, but we take with our faith in the words of the Bible itself.
John XIV 20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me., and I in

you John XVII. 21-23. That they may all be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I sent in thee, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that thou hast me.

And I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one. John XIII. 20th Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that receiveth, I will send someone who welcomes me, and whoever receives me, receives him who sent me. John XV. 4 5 Abide in me and I in you. Just as the branch can not bear fruit, and of himself, he abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me ye knnet do nothing. Gal. II 20 Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. Life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God. l Cor. VI. 17th But those who cleave to the Lord is one spirit with him. Matt. VIII 20 And behold I am with you always, to the very end. Matt. XVIII. 20th For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I with them. But the same what the Bible says and what we believe is allwrts said, just not believed. For how often you hear it say, the spirit of the and those who live on in the and those of his children, his students, and almost involuntarily forfeited philosophers, theologians, mystics, at the hereafter something profound things and edifying to say in expressions that one needs only to take literally, to our view to have literally 5) ; whole belief systems fall almost entirely so that together 6) ; unbelievers even deny the faith with improper version of the same words, with the actual version we claim him 7) , and needs , for whose sake we have devised views impossible to find in it the only possible fulfillment 8) .
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S. Zend-Avesta III. Page 78 345 ff

6) Ebensdas. S 59 79 ff ff ff 8 7) Ebendas. 334 pp. 8) Ebendas. P 344

In fact, however, what a beautiful and salutary development of this belief is also capable in practical direction. The more we our senses, thinking, striving for a, we had loved or held up, align, enter into his mind to continue his work, the more we must believe we will win it part of him and to us, the intimate and integral fused with him and us to the consciousness community, we thereby gain in the afterlife with him forward in this world. The faith which is by all nations, and is quite stunted only by Protestants that the survivors can still do something for the dead, now has his reason and his support. For all we pretend like it, because they have lived apart from us, like them, would have come to Equip them, since they dwell in us, live, more so please, join stead, and contribute to take their place in the afterlife livable. But as the immediate Everything we in their favor to do , can the love, respect, admiration, the

gratitude with which we their thinking , the honors which we still witness them to act by also enjoyed immediately felt by them and are. And it will be from one side of a reason to act even in this life so that we survivors may be inclined fortzuhandeln in our sense, nor to think our with love, respect, reverence, thanks, us after death honor, from the other side are a part of the wages beyond those who have acted, and a part of the punishment of those who have not acted at last the best comfort those who mourn a loved one dead. You know, he is still for them, they are still there for him, and it only depends on them, to give him and to receive from him, even more so than in this world. Much like from this traffic remain in the unconscious, by but consciously raise ourselves with the thought of the otherworldly spirits, they may by higher laws of association as we be aware of us with them, or with the things with which they enter into us, consciously us as we in them. because we cut so our consciousness circles This has also been the Christian faith is that the conscious turning to Christ also carries a conscious expression of the same to us, and Christ will be only be considered as a role model for all. And with ever brighter consciousness we think of the dead, is alive and conscious as the traffic between them and us. But the fact that we know will help themselves to make him conscious and alive, however, otherwise this world and the Hereafter are like two BWA who do not talk with each other, because each thinks the others that he did not hear it or do not understand. The monuments, the celebrations commemorating the great and the good are larger and deeper meaning, and the art of living attract new drives it. Each still image is erected a great and good man, by preserving the memory alive and planting in countless people receive something of his conscious life into the posterity awake. That is, I mean, what is better at the same time and several, you can give for those rude faith in the traffic between this world and the hereafter, the for itself in not absolutely reprehensible, only to luterndem, meaning the dead service of the saints worship, the prayers the deceased, has argued in the necromancy in a bad sense, and several things but nothing better, but only the confirmation and explanation of the same faith, we should have according to the Bible itself of the relationship of Christ to our existence beyond this world. The argument from the body. Our this-worldly spirit is bound to a limited part of the physical world, and which may arise and go in our mind, it arises and is something in this little part of the world in exchange with conditionality. The existence of other finite minds we recognize the fact that they are linked to similar limited parts of the world with similar operations. But it is the part of the world is bound to our own mind, on the one hand in such relationships of similarity, on the other hand, the effect, thirdly, the development, Fourth of partially liable Inbegriffenseins, fifthly, the appropriate inclusion, any subordination to the, organic and unorganized in a higher organic link inbegreifenden world that we can not help but to keep it just for the bigger, higher, more, more general that, in which our own spirit is linked, including a bigger, higher, wider, more general spirit as our own so to think in relationship, as we both think this

included myself in some way and in subordination therein. To take the argument from the body together with the argument of the spirit entirely. I will not repeat the wide version, which I elsewhere given this argument in all its aspects and components, which can make particular arguments just as much as I ascended from the major part of the whole world with the whole 9) . Suffice it to some general considerations on its ground.
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Zend-Avesta Th I and II and Chapter IX soul question.

The previous argument gave Christianity its right, this is paganism his right, and this has to be right, not indeed to that in which it contradicts the basic ideas of Christianity, but according to what can be canceled them in these ideas, to but have these ideas about the barriers that they pulled them, expand, and this expansion is that calls the current argument. How has replaced God in the dominant Christian view of the spirits, he is detached from nature, in which paganism not only quite sunk him, but it cleaves him and dismembered. This mixing of God with nature, this splitting up and dismemberment in nature is the injustice of paganism, that severing the presumption about the nature of Christianity. Even in the Christian view is talk of an omnipresent and all-ruling God, without which no hair falls from our head, not a leaf from a tree, but is it any more than the words that we live in God, weave, are Serious made, but rather fallen out of the nature of God, yes fallen from him, and her, if already established by him in it, but now thought to leave even their own forces, and even there was times when it belonged to the Christian style, God through quite deep degradation the natural increase. But again our argument seriously will make us do with those words, at least pronounce the Christian can not help by both clarifies and resolves the contradictions that do not let him become serious. Our body only holds together and everything just goes in it, except as a ghost here, and the materialist himself can not deny it, and it does not change that his spirit rather a result called, as a verknpfendes principle, as we call him dear; but it can only hold together with this result and all go in the body. So the whole world will only hold together and all go in it, unless a spirit there, and it would not change anything again, wanted the materialist also this spirit name a result, the one the other is called the first cause and we are the top linking principle of the whole significant. The thing remains the same. This is the most common point of omnipresence and omnipotence of God in nature, which does not exclude that he acted in it even after special relationship. Now occurs against this, that the whole world rather holds together and everything is going according to the laws of nature. But our body holds together and everything is going according to physiological laws, which are among the laws of nature. But there is a spirit, and it remains true that he only holds as long as there is a spirit. So one can not argue against the other. Rather, the existence of that legality is itself, in virtue of which the body holds together, and after the fact it is alive, but with the

existence of spirit in man and shrinks the body of man as the spirit wanes him. And so is the general legality of the corporeal world, who subordinates itself to the existence of a general mind, which subordinates the human, related, that depends, of course together. But also has the spirit of legalism his side - would not it be the case, as there was logic and psychology - and in turn, of course, that, as mind and body are compatible together made up their act this way. They do it effectively, otherwise body and mind could not even exist together and go, and clearly is both the teleological principle in common. Tell you now materialistic, the mind is bound by these laws or idealistic, the spirit they had and nature, since he was given, and the fact the there is to do here again remains the same: The context in us is there, and He is in us because, as he can and must finally be in the beyond us because, from which our body and mind itself originated and where it is still advantageous rate. Even though the clock goes according to natural laws, without a spirit is there. But she belongs with its statutory swing to the whole of nature in which is a spirit, and could go without as little as a leaf of the tree according to the laws of nature, a hair falls from your head. Try to think of it differently, and you'll have to disagree with the omnipotence of God, or the laws of nature, so they vote together. But now, they say, with all the spirit of legalism but is also a free being, and we need a free God. The character of human freedom we see in the free actions of people who are not adequately explained by the laws of mind and nature, where are the signs of a corresponding freedom of God? The characters at the same time a corresponding and equal nowhere, just as in humans, unless the person is eingetan with his freedom even in God, but about the whole corresponding higher. For as little as we can explain the free actions of people from known laws of mind and nature adequately, so little, still less, the creation of man himself, the unpredictable course of history in humanity, even if we have just as in Much of the history of the individual mind can foresee for a general legality, but not all, not only the truly new thing itself must not put the reason for new foresight. But has Such attention to freedom in the individual, why not, what applies to the whole of humanity, indeed for the whole world of creatures, a freedom about the human and all creaturely freedom, because it is not the course of world history from can add the attitudes and actions of individual people. And must somehow tolerated the legalism to freedom in man, it does in fact, it is not just so you can also do with it? She does it just as effectively as long as one does not want to talk about freedom. Who of course denies freedom in man which in some sense, it is equally undeniable need in God. But just as he can deny the mind, the will, the option of choosing the actions that call other free, nor its context and its consequences with that denial, because they are in fact, he will be able to God, and only the conception of the ultimate ground of all the have to make different with God and with men. The question of existence of God, its essential characteristics and the importance they have for us, always remains independent of the metaphysical question of freedom,

however much you love to spoil the clarity of a question by the ambiguity of the other. And as we exalt the right use of our principle to always close the factual only on the factual and in the larger and higher, after which we ask to see the larger and higher of small and lowly, what we have, all of responding on the conflict between idealism and materialism, freedom and necessity, in the philosophical systems fruitless toil; makes this argument while free, we do not want to blame him, but always keeps his hand on the fact takes home the bride, while the others to beat it. Next: If our whole body just holds together, and alive only as long as it goes, so long is a spirit here, in this sense, our spirit is omnipresent and allwirksam in our body, it is not yet consciously, in particular, at each inner impulse of our body, the breath goes, the blood runs, the substance changes unconsciously, about only in the head is much follow the thoughts, and require the idea as a basis of this passage, the vivid consciousness is the most vital for each new spiritual creation and stirred live on in the head. And so, like the winds go, run the rivers, the material between organic and inorganic world transfer without the divine consciousness with the specifics is just so special goes along, however, it always goes with the whole and supported by the whole. But was sure God with the highest consciousness in the first creation of its animated creatures and is the most vibrant life in nature has been stirred up here, and he managed today with consciousness in the history of this and his thoughts require as a basis of the passage of this story. But finally: Many people in the kingdom itself will run in half-or full unconsciousness of what was learned only with exertion of consciousness. In such a way the spinner spins, the writer writes, plays the musician. Under the influence of attention and will be functional facilities have formed in us, who later saves the participation of consciousness, and that mind and body had to be set up in connexion to the brain and hand of the spinner and the player at the same time with their spirit. Yes, our whole education has been to create under the influence of consciousness in us and facilities to train more and more, on the basis of which had become unconscious then ascends the consciousness to new and higher activity. And so like the whole present arrangement of the world we have come as a complete with her divorce of the elements of organic and inorganic kingdom, the structure of the one and the other, the formation of the embryo and its brain itself, in short, the whole order of what any conscious activity more now needs to occur expedient to pass and go, but have the part of such a God owes its first origin to now serve as a basis for further development and level of conscious activity in the world. Also occurs only into that general principle that the first origin of things is of a different nature everywhere, as the repetition. This, however, the conscious activity of God leads up to the first establishment of things back, if one can speak of something's First it at all and has not sent me to so speak, Wilt In which time you look at the order of the world, a conscious activity is backwards under whose influence it has emerged.

With all the questions still remain unanswered, how far this activity has always been the law, how far free, as is ever the law and freedom tolerate conceptually and practically in the world, and finally, as it was ordered with the first creation of matter. Now, what the latter is concerned, certainly becoming a bigger, because more fertile and easier to by a satisfactory answer, interest remain resting on the question of which principles the world was ordered and has always ruled today than how it was first incurred , even if she's ever even created. Could we know it, however, it would be good, so why not ask for it. Only this can not be cogent, in which some seek the summit of cogency, but occurs under one of those two fundamental errors that violate the principle to start from dogmas or speculations about the creation of the world, the ratio of the created world of God and the nature of things deduce, that is, to want to go by what our knowledge, lies farthest to that which lies closest to him, for what will always be first been found only recently. So here's a way of knowledge, he is committing in the opposite direction, but if there is one? And as for the question of freedom is concerned, it will never let you decide on the basis of facts, but also the practical point of view raises doubts whether the impossibility in which we find ourselves, a fixed legality evidence in all events, it is based, that the principle of legality by lifting to a higher principle itself can be canceled or be with him everywhere just exceeds the amount of our mental capacity. Could we know it, however, it would be good again, so why not speculate? 10) . Only that in this case either seeking the bird in the hand with the falcon to hunt on the roof, and do not forget that speculation can build true that anything definite but not to build it.
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Our own speculation can be found in the record of the soul question S. 217th

Support we are now so pervasive belief in one in the world-ruling the world in the sense of purpose with conscious ordering and ruling God but just in what we of the facts of the material and spiritual world in us and through us from the beginning also really know what finally remains, in which the so-assisted and required faith would occur in conflict with the interests of no less on facts only in direction of other supporting science, and in which the science itself contrary to this belief. That they founded it, one must certainly not demand for it is not their thing, just enough that the reasons do not run against their cause. But now we are looking for nothing in God, of which we are not the small sample in us and the signs of exceeding this sample may have beyond us, facts and laws of nature can be just as they are, and let each have to come up with the idea of freedom and to hear any metaphysics or resign, with the sole proviso that it is not in contradiction with those same facts and claims that do not tolerate contradiction, and therefore, based on which our faith. And after all 'which would, you ask God one body as the little man? - Not like the little man, the comparison is true in many respects, not only in the highest, last, something which is everywhere, which is not the comparison between man and God, is to be sought rather the fundamental difference between the two.

With closer investigation, you want to not be afraid to go into the last to be it is this: What the spirit of the whole of nature, has of his own body and know is Everything finally just something in itself, something seen, feelings, etc. The fact that there were still a nature beyond him, but proves himself if doing nothing else, that other spirits The same law or something so Contiguous have it. This legal context, overlapping each spirit out, but do not have the Spirit of God, he finally bears the whole context of what is seen, heard, where the rest of what the creatures of nature, of their own bodies, have, know, completed by the unity of his consciousness into itself, and the laws of this relationship with this top end are eternally festivals in the whole self-contained building, which could be represented by any rigid dark things behind it, where some are looking for the last of the solid core of existence, except that to the upper end continues gehends including new deals come to divide the spiritual edifice. So, instead of the whole nature would have fallen out of God, God bears the full nature of which can know just as repealed in it than any finite spirit carries something of this nature in itself, but has just therefore not in the nature just as an external body, as the finite mind in the parts of nature, if what appears from the nature of God as in space, time, matter, not just as ghosts can appear out of him, because there are no ghosts except him. But as much as this metaphysical depression may be the ultimate truth of the relationship between God and nature, it is yet only the last, and so little, it would be useful in our considerations about the relationship of the human spirit to nature always factual truth to those return, that all that we have by nature and know something is in our own minds, it would be practical, always make sure to return to our reflections on the relationship between God and nature, that all nature there is something in God, only last one may here and there remember it by also reflects on the difference that in the last instance, the ratio of the physical existence to us and God. Apart from this, it compares the natural or physical world with a sense that, as a man with his seeing eye can also provide other parts of his own body, God with his people seeing other parts of nature, and we like even from a residential God in the world, speak a worn a God of the world, provided its higher sphere of consciousness, just as based as on a lower condition on the lower, in which the nature or world appears as our higher consciousness sphere on the sensual, in the us physical at all appears, however, both in the whole god just as well, only in a higher sense, are due and canceled. And not so much a metaphysical depression, but the most common mode of conception of the relationship between God and the world, which is capable of depression, it is to do here.

So how many do, because they know not to bring the ideas of the rule of God and the reign of nature in conformity, with continuous raise God for thinking about the nature and let these go their way under him, and for the same reason many assets to gain an idea of our future spiritual existence only because of complete detachment from the physical base. Be but now is the higher spiritual life in us, the spirit in the strict sense, not just as the lower sensuous soul in the strict sense, much more tied to a physical work, due to the fact it floating freely about, and death only have the consequence that it is complete with the sense Dahinterlassung base finally deliver all of them, raise it, so be it, too, that the mind is a new search again or even create yourself or by the faith of the church did finally find the old. With such faith Everything is simple, then the argument satisfies the spirit, an argument from the body is then idle and to whom this faith is established, which can save yourself the following. Also, one may ask whether it is not at all best to stick to that argument, which is already sufficient for the question of the afterlife alone. Our being able but even the existence of our worldly spirit of our worldly body is unable to recognize when we are not the worldly experience had by the combination of hearing the same, so it would also be at all impossible to see the otherworldly spirit in his vehicle in front of otherworldly experience when not our principle, from Hither to the beyond

generalized, expanding and enhancing close, this would offer us a clue. But how inadequate it is this evidence, after still the most important relationships from which to conclude, arguing that all teaching is of the relationship between body and soul is still in disarray. And all detailed what we want to open up due to self zulnglicherer documents, as there are, would still only have the character of Anatomy and Physiology, which is probably not used by science, but by life, it would maybe not the life of faith be used and be useful for the same. So the argument can make the body for the afterlife at all not even on the same right to security Eingnglichkeit than the foot on simple and easily demonstrable facts of consciousness argument from the spirit and not easily go to the people. But if it can but to support the general aspects of the belief in an afterlife in the same general fact of the connexion between mind and body, to the materialist supports the disbelief, and in complete cooperation mood with the argument of the spirit, it can not why but the materialists use against as reinforcing support of faith, what else as a strong weapon against turns. For how much can but the materialist, and not the materialist alone, argue against those perceived independence of the higher spiritual life of the brain life, which can be probably ignore what is not refuted, no quibble, can, how much the psychologist against another as conceptual separability of a spirit and a soul narrower sense, and that difficulty can be defeated with the utter dropping the physical document, which is not a new stronger recurred on re-searching, creating, finding, after everywhere else, a new body only by means of an old creates . Common ground that the meaning of a book does not depend on the individual letters, but so free flying across the individual letters so high spiritual he meant every other sense demands a different composition and sequence of letters and words. Indisputably not depend the melody and harmony of the individual strings Game strings and string movements from, but calls for the highest melodic and harmonic interplay another and another episode playing strings. Will it be different with the spiritual in us and the strings UPHOLSTERY and games of our brain? Is it not the most probable, because the facts and sensible Entsprechendste that it was in accordance with it? But then the mind can never break away from a material surface, they exchange only, go with their games, as he is already in progress from youth to age, and in the transitions from one activity to another does. Let's look closer, so the view is itself based, which in another sense loshebt the spirit of the matter, as it is in the sense of the previous examples, but rather on the demand that he be saved in's afterlife - you think it'll go not help - as would that she found a support in an actual foundations and hereby offer of such a claim. How bad but it is the fulfillment of the claim, if the foundation required but this is actually not as bad with the safety and strength only of faith in this performance if physiology and pathology of the brain or fall so that instead of facts on receivables must build. Is belief because otherwise unable to save? So let's at least the argument from the body at the bottom of the facts themselves, before which it was so very afraid, hiding nothing, nothing euphemistic, denying nothing, but with the most views of the entire context, the same as a leader, his steps

in the Hereafter do so for sure it the same is at even more uncertain theory possible, like all award giving what might appear rather than attenuation because amplification of the argument by the Spirit, the call itself centering, aligned it only reproduces us, which gave us that, just too demanding , so that together permit the mood. But first, like the main opponents of the belief in immortality, who shares with us the output from the bottom of the facts, the materialist, only myself speak. He does not know more than we do from the facts of that relationship, from which it is based, ie the most general and the most special Few things somewhat. But it's always something, and we know how he. If it does, he says, in fact, as far as experience goes, in a spirit of all related to lower and higher activities without a body and physical activities can exist and act, this fact is also the question of whether and how a future spiritual life is possible, and must remain authoritative base of each circuit. So what is in our mind, when this body breaks down? Man needs now a brain in order to gain thoughts feelings, and in fact he needs it, how can he leave it with death fall at once and yet still win sensations, thoughts, yes even keep on hand, after he with all his sensations , thought itself is only a product of the brain. - It bears fruit again nothing to argue against the expression of the materialists is the brain rather the product of a creative mind, so could the human mind only with production of that product can arise and persist with new convictions is down here, and the facts on which it arrives, also remains the same. Well but that is possible, which keeps the materialist impossible because, as we have already seen in examples above examples, and what to remember, we are only just now found the reason, it is not everywhere deserve the same conditions and resources fortzuerhalten something and further develop, as to produce first. The brain is to respond to the language of the materialists, a tool to produce effects that could arise without ever he has so completely right, but once no longer incurred by the continuance of the instrument to its continuance, nay require further development, thereby he is wrong, and new examples above examples can lead us in growing closer to the event itself, which it applies. Look at the violin, the sound the same could not exist without them;, once created it, you can smash the instrument, the sound continues abounds's length, the circle more and more expanding, taking his whole peculiarity with in's length, through thick and thin and while fades finally for all external ears, because no one to follow him, is able to grasp its spread, but do not cease to resound, nor is it the same sound, the smooth air is sufficient to get him, which required the most elaborate instrument to arise, and where he meets a string of related mood, it still sounds to him. But is the man for a violin? - Much more than that, and he is more than the violin and the world around him more than the air is also more not less also be impaired. Next: An image in the eye can not occur without an eye, but, once created, can you the eye tear and the memory continues resounds in the brain, whereas the physical effects from the eye ranged and takes the whole peculiarity of the picture with, through

reverberates with this effect the brain, because as they might otherwise, interweave with what all other senses bring to terms, and remains, in itself, but can awaken only for when the view goes out; has lost with her spread the sensual strength but for greater flexibility, greater freedom and a more vivid life redeemable 11) .
11)

You will probably can hold, because more than likely you did not here that a conception clings to the whole tract of neural oscillations (general psycho-physical movements), which extends from the eye's brain and extends through the brain, so long but the perception is in the eye and the stimulus to the eye works, the eye is most alive, so that one can speak of a relative concentration of activity in the eye during sensory perception without them but persist without the context of the brain in general, and can intervene in the consciousness. Invalidate the intuition, nor a direct echo of the after-image remains, the permanent possibility of re-emergence passage into conscious memories and their resistant unconscious Fort game and play along in our conceptual and philosophical life but based indisputably not just on a simple progression halls of the original vibrations, but it that the initial oscillations have so encroached organizing, umstimmend, new institutions conditioning one in the stringing and the inner strings match of the brain that re-emergence of that step and that further play is possible. What is the detailed of course, entirely unknown, and therefore preferred the superficial, inadequate basically, but short and easy eingngliche designation as Fort halls above. One can explain the fact that a speech outside are thus propagated to posterity, that they simply continued echoes, like the sound of the violin in the first used only half true image, but that it is in the minds of people by means of facilities that they met in their brain receives and continues through writings.

But man is more than his eye, and the world attach to it with a thousand brains more than his brain, and the more will a several things. And so you may finally also the brain tear without the could neither memories nor thoughts arise, your whole this-worldly view of life could not arise, even this whole philosophical life continues buildings in the whole, whereas the effects lasted the same, and the same the whole peculiarity take, only also only be able to wake up as a reminder life of its own when it goes out as a philosophical life, and for the loss of sensory intensity just those extended travel, trade that more developed spiritual life, which we have identified as being the responsibility of Beyond the argument of the spirit. Thus, the requirement of a liberation of the mind is done by physical barriers sufficiently, but without separating the mind from the bodily self. And if the brain is not a smooth more air in which the sound is smooth floats away, can develop a higher life in the highly organized construction rather the memory circuits in the encounter with each other and with new views, the world around you with meadows, forests higher and the afterlife counties this;, fields, church, state, science, commerce, trade, art, the entire concatenation and intersection of all human life circles, worein those of the individual brains respond only as moments and intervene, much less a smooth air Build organized, not our present towards, rather with inclusions of the present, really can not find a suitable basis to that higher spiritual life, what they're up to encounter each other and with the life of this community. To take the argument away from the body with the spirit of the whole together. Really extends it from your whole perception of life, what you are leading now, a circle of effects and works in the human world and beyond for you as well as to extend from each of your beliefs effects in your brain and beyond, a circle its context, its relationship to the origin and character of this origin can be as little ever lose when

the wave circle around the thrown into the pond stone, as the sound wave to the violin, as the circle of effects from the image in the eye to your brain stretch. You can just follow the link and not the continuing relationship of the same to its origin just as easily as with the small circles. And you think that the soul vibrations of invisible subtle body or etheric vibrations in your present visible body worn, his doings even related to it depends? Where they exist, they shall also be invisible as they are, into halls in connection with your doings in the world, which represents the air around the violin with greater benefits for your body, or where should they finally halls, and will continue to constitute a narrower soul in your body further, the organization of this invisible body but their support and their outer expression can just be found only in the visible circle of effects and works in connexion with the formation of which he himself forms. How can faith follow each hypothesis and requires no hypothesis yet. Because of that invisible core should not now exist in our visible body, still be necessary for our life now, as well as its continuation would not exist to the outside still be needed for the future. Now if the world dead to you, as indeed would the whole district into which converts your this-worldly life circle, also dead, and it would hereby made with your life or would find your otherworldly life has its material basis more, herewith the argument from the body no more persistent. But alive to God in the world you are living now in God, and he recalls, did you live, even your life - but that's us firmly by the argument of the spirit - he is also the memory of your life, your future makes life in him, naturally build on the totality of what the world remembers you, that's just the circle of bereaved of thee effects and values. You just do not mean to be able to have a future life without God, but God, but also not that our present consciousness is the only thing there is in God, and the means of this consciousness the only God. There have been other, then where is its place? What doth hinder the circle of your future existence is an extended? Even your present body and your brain it is extended, and still includes a uniform consciousness in subordination to the divine in himself and from. But it needs to continue to have the old skin? And you're asking but a relative conclusion, as the body now granted him also of the future - is basically already the present with the whole world grown around - then the boundary of the earthly kingdom within which your doings, hereby the circle of your effects and works here on earth concludes, only provides a new degree in another larger perimeters. The current scope of your outer life is thereby lifted into an interior. You can even, in a sense the whole earth count as your future body, only the relationship but after you it through acts have impressed her the character of your being, and consider your current body as the seed from which you grow through it . The grain disappears finally zerberstend and rotting, while the plant is growing in higher light. Now you have a new outside world once in the whole life of the circles that your are with the interweaving and crossing the same space from other outputs by its take hold and grow in a different sense, in other broader sense the whole sky to the earth. It explain clearly, so many take for a stone in the pond, and each wave circle by crossing with any other, in the totality of the other his outer world in a sense and in the world around the pond in the other wider have. That's to

be understood. Also the repulse of the effects on yourself, what would anyone like make his mind vague idea of course, but also the lack of clarity can satisfy himself - will go in just a larger scale in the large circle, which you will fill out once from Accessorize, as now in small, one can show how the effects to their causes in the great cycles of things do not fall back beyond us less than our's so small. But a radiating from a single point and flash back to a single point, not even now find in our body instead of 12) , how should we demand it of the future. It is not at all the central nature of the soul, that they materially from any points of acts in all directions, but that it ties a loop of material effects in unified consciousness provisions. Now the transition from this life to the hereafter consists only in the fact that they swapped a small circle with another, but to stay the same soul, it may just be the one to show only those driven off.
12)

The proof of s in the (elements of psychophysics. Chap II 37

Now certainly seems to be lost on you, what is beyond you, but it is not lost, God has abolished it in, and you bring it up with a consciousness, which shrinks your present life. Henceforth there is all ready there to only is it not for you in it consciously because, to raise it to need's nothing, but that he turn the attention then he she turns but only then, by deducting them from your present life that goes with it, awakened by the otherworldly. Even our present body was finished before he was born into the life of this world, and was born to consciousness only after the bodies with which he was rooted in the mother's womb, that drove him out dead. So our future body; already he's there, but not too conscious life there; to have only the current die. 13) Now, like the other seem that at the birth of consciousness re-ignites in the child, while the death only a change his seat shall mean the dying. But we see otherwise general consciousness arise only as it shrinks elsewhere, or after it had previously disappeared (in sleep), and disappear as it occurs elsewhere or in the future to re-emerge, that we may well see a general law is to under the the awakening of consciousness in the afterlife when going out in this world subordinates, and even those first origin of consciousness at birth as an easy to interpret apparent. For it suffices to think that something worn implements from the general consciousness of the divine world at every new birth of people in the specialty of human consciousness. 14) This is not just the first creation of man, but every birth of a new people's present and future life in the Inspire Tung's a part of matter, waited only stumbling to Awakening, by God.
13)

A f pursuance of this analogy in book of life after death (von Mises).

14)

This view is touched with the Platonic, which holds the continuance of the soul after death with a preexistence before birth correlative same, except that we assume the same no individual existence before birth. Rather, as a branch of the general tribal arises in there without getting lost again, but the same as an individual branch persists and evolves, it behaves according to our faith with the soul.

The whole half of the earth awakens as the other falls asleep, to be quite awake,

you must first sleep very deeply, and should be monitored for the items to us in the eye, we must let the ear and all the other senses sleep , to the whole memory lives are awakened in us, the whole philosophical life sleeping in us, and so it is just a case of the same general principle or a generalization of all previous cases, that even our otherworldly memory lives only awakened in God when our this-worldly view of life in him asleep, our body just wakes up in the otherworldly world as the worldly asleep, so that he could wake up but he must be there.
Easily lends itself to reason, the previous facts represents a thought that may find a brief passing reference here, of that one, the so-called laws of conservation of energy 15) exists in areas analogous law in the spiritual body areas, and even one with the other hang together, if the spiritual is carried by the physical. After that law indeed is not continuously the same amount of kinetic energy (measure of physical activity in the exact sense, not to be confused with the life force of the philosophers) in the world, they may rise and fall, but rather by virtue of the always same possibility of its recovery constant persisting real conditions thereto so that the kinetic energy can disappear at any place, without either re-emerge in another place or at another time, in short, the sum of the real and according to the existing conditions still possible quantum kinetic energy always remains the same. No doubt that this law, as generally valid for all physical activity, including the psycho-physical, ie the physical, which we supported mental, is there even enough direct evidence reasons 16) , except that it is not yet proven, that it also applies to the mental activity itself, including the degree of actual and possible in the re-emergence occurs intellectual activity after the existing real conditions to always remain the same, because the mental activity of the underlying physical does not simply walk proportionally as I have shown in my psychophysics. Rather, assuming continued preserved total size of the psycho-physical activity is a maximum of worn intellectual with a certain degree of distribution of psychophysical instead, which, in so far as it merely acted to simple sensual sensations that would be uniform with respect but at higher phenomena of a non-uniform but unknown is 17) . If now the world continues gehends tend to such a distribution, which can be for now neither assert nor deny that the measure of intellectual activity in the world would grow gradually without the physical changed in whole or unlike periodically, only the distribution would have to change. On this point, and to the principle that the content of consciousness of the later spirits to much of the the covers earlier, the possibility of the creation of ever new spirits could rest psychophysical without continued going growth of kinetic energy in the physical world and without extinction of the previous ghosts. Only by a progress of psychophysics but is more certainty and light on this important, in its consequences here with engaging, expected question.
15)

A simple illustration of this Act with regard to its importance for the spiritual in my area see elements of psychophysics. I. Section 5

16) S. Psychophysics. IS 37 ff 17) S. Psychophysics. Chapter 21 and 29

However much could be told of facts 18) , which seem to prove that in ausnahmsweisen cases could take place a partial awakening of consciousness for its future more sphere with partial sleep for his current closer now, if only we were sure that it facts are. Nothing better could our faith come equipped, as these wonderful cases in which we have been inclined always been a prelude to the future way of being seen, with diligence but here I leave everything aside, what only itself requires faith to faith to serve. The previous belief is so much andersher grounds that he could serve the other way around, to support the belief in these wonderful cases.

18)

A small compilation of s in Zend-Avesta III. P 87 95, 206 215th

Much remains with all the an inexplicable mystery, who may deny it, but who also denied that all 'the unexplainable, what we believe about our future in God, really just a smaller scale, to a more limited sense, even in the presence within us exists, and we therefore ensure that only the greater of a fact in the greater god to whom we must believe believe. Who may explain that so countless circles of consciousness, just as countless linked to each other by cross-physical spheres of influence, are undeterred by can coexist. But now grab all the same sphere of action, of which you worry that they might bother you beyond where you on this side, but are wrong you wear rather himself to content, to develop your conscious life with, what can change and that they wear a self-consciousness, of which you know nothing just because you know nothing of foreign consciousness. And when can the full concerts a trained ear from all outside of intersecting sound waves to hear the individual sound already, how should not differ much better that its own distinguishing their nature are capable of. And if the memory in distinguishable by and is able to wake up with others, but that the physical records of all intersect in your brain itself, be like should not be much larger and higher built world and this is likely the Greater and Higher . Who may explain only as a possibility, which will require each of the afterlife as a reality that there is still the same could come over to the outstretched and crossed physical existence in the afterlife to a limited-designed appearance today. I do not again. But as little as I can tell the way I think but again the reality of the inexplicable beyond me, because I really find it in myself. Do you think, then, that the effect of waves that carry over into your brain the memory of the image of a rose in the eye, also have the limited form of the rose? But the memory still retains mentally the shape of the rose; enough that they existed at exits, and do you think that, especially Coming of lily and rose, yet are just as isolated in you, as a rose and lily outdoors - even impossible, when you combined one after the other with the same eyes points, which sends its effect waves in the same parts of the brain, - but there is still a separate publication thereof in the memory, if it existed in intuition. How can you have a whole garden with trees, flowers, animals, people in the memory, so many to each other, and all well separately, but that the physical records of the memory of all the past intersect in your brain, is God a paradise garden with countless changes of this garden only on a much larger scale can contribute in his memory realm where your going with ghost and other externally as encountered when the physical documents to cross in the world 19) . We know this not to interpret secret that any and all mental phenomenon is the short result of an extensive physical support, or otherwise, that the spirit summarizes in a uniform appearance, which he is subject to a physical connection 20) , and the physically different origin points Crossed ago is still mentally separable. Enough of that, what is to us, even beyond us still must be able to exist. And we thought it not been otherwise, we would get a spiritualized, glorified body in the afterlife for the previous gross palpable. By previous we receive it.

19)

Further versions with reference to relevant performance practices of others see in Zend-Avesta III. 155 ff

20) Comp. a discussion of facts in this regard with general inferences therefrom in m. Elem. d Psychophysics
II 526 ff

In another sense, but again, as we showed before, an even larger, more powerful, stronger, unzerstrbareren, greiflicheren, not only umgreiflichen with our small human hands, heavenly body, the great body of the earth with its fields, forests, fields, cities, states, & c . w., one for all common body we will penetrate the future, and yet each is his own only after the relationship, after he has interwoven here and it is also due to appear. Strange doctrine! Will you call out, unheard of in every way! What Everything is assembled in it! And all this strange and complicated doctrine rests strange looking but only in the two simple sentences: Socialize on the continuation of what your consciousness is now tied, the future continuation of your consciousness, and I think the addition of a larger scale than you what you in the small really find in yourself. And all this outrageous theory is but again only the same doctrine that you find in the Bible when it says that our current body is itself only a grain, setting out the future body is not more but be alive when that died is (1 Cor XV 37.35..), - that is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body (1 Cor. XV 44th), - that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building be built by God (2 Cor V. l.), - that our works will follow us, and we will reap what we have sown. You try to think that everything else or otherwise connected, as it is thought here, and it is nothing or can only think of contradictions. Not only the Christian faith but the faith of all peoples is so well linked by these ideas when he is at all linkable: The belief that the forms of the spirits in the afterlife light floating images, which can not be access are, and they are really images, memory images in God. - That the spirits to other people, animals, dwelling plants, into the air, Up, Down, go across the sea to wander the tombs, not a place where you would not have sought the spirits; nothing individual, but all together is true. - That they go to heaven, they are really penetrate a celestial body completely. - That they wander through planets. By penetrate a whole, they may in the general circulation of the same with other celestial bodies share gain more conscious than now. - That they drift away, the old shops etc in hunting, fishing, war, and they are all just drift away in a different way now, what they started here. What vision would be able to meet the demand in the same way the historical principle. At the same time it satisfies the practical way in itself, as that which flows from the argument of the spirit, is underpinned by the same. And anyway, the spiritual existence beyond even a physical support so they can not be conceived otherwise, to satisfy both arguments in context. By itself finally enters also the third principal part of faith in this context. Like any

otherworldly spirit linked spiritually many other survivors, and this feeds into it, he does it physically by is all that of his spirit goes into it, and walks in them, brought in from physical effects and is still carried away. The idea has come from Plato up to me, up to me, come into it by a beam physical activity, which passed from him to me, up to me, or how it came without the propagation through speech and writing and Into their works and work in me through eyes and ears. And all these rays assumed by Plato in the world, still hanging just as if the outputs together, like the wave, coherent remains to the thrown into the pond stone in its broadest reproduction despite all refractions and Zurckwerfungen that they may learn. And in which people like to extend some of such beams, he becomes a member of Plato's otherworldly body, including in the broadest sense of contributing Everything gone out of him on this side, and which has no limit, but only that of consciousnessbearing movements in understood him, will be able to continue his conscious life, and give its physical base in the strict sense. And again the teachings seems strange, and yet again nothing but the Bible literally veriest teaching. Because of the back gets most utterances of the Bible, Christ, for the transition to Use Beyond our model, Christ, in which the Christians are supposed to be after death, the body in its congregation, that there are many members, the body is one, 21) , and the bodies the community members themselves are the members of this body 22) ; beyond bread and wine consecrated by him, enjoyed in memory of him, forming in his mind community itself almost called by Christ to be the body and blood, which Luther and other body Christ attributed to its increasing ubiquity 23) Meanwhile, on this side but Christ in his congregation as living in one body, but he is also an otherworldly congregation that came out of this world, to live in a higher realm than this.
21)

l (Cor. XII 12-17 20 27 -.. Romans XII 4.5 -..... Ephes I. 22 4 23 IV 11-16 V. 29-32 -. Col. I. 21 II 19 -. Gal II 20 III 27 28 22) 1 Cor. VI. 15, 23) Cf Zend-Avesta III. 376th

All true, clear, simple and understandable if the previous theory is true, she says yes nothing more than just quite the same; hollow words, incomprehensible contradictions, if it is not true. By way of this side of the argument here in the Christian view of personal mediations which overlap from beyond the grave in this world, into contact, develops from another side of the argument here is a view from higher switching existences between us and God, whereby the pagan belief in the divinity of the stars with the Christian belief in angels, who is with him one historical origin, and even in the Bible, or mixed with it and is confused 24), also founded together, mediated and is canceled in the belief in one God. The world is then no longer a scrollwork dead balls, but all this side and the spiritual life of each orb linked to just as in a unity of consciousness of the same under the divine, as the entire demonstration and memory life of every creature in a unit under his orb 25) , and what is believed or is told,

though it will not again believed is true that an angel will lead us on this side on all our ways and we finally bears in the hereafter, except that we have to think inside in it, what we thought externally, so as the same is also true of our relationships with God and the Hereafter, and not for any other people Another angel is there, but for every other community spirits in heaven. But the angels that lead each person in particular, or rather the human society to particular directions, he can in the share in this spirit, the spirits of the dead, search, of which it can lead to.
24)

Cf Zend-Avesta, I. 244 f

25) A more detailed justification and execution thereof in s 1 Part of the Zend-Avesta and the 9th Chapter of
the treatise on the soul question.

So everything is possible, we do not know what else to think, so does everything together, what we do not bring together otherwise, all words are true, with the sound we know otherwise just play. It was enough, I wanted to here do not both faith as develop the motives and arguments of faith, only that the development of each faith argument deflects from itself in a development of faith. And that is the Incomparable, irreplaceable these arguments that they give the reasons for the thing at the same time the reasons for the evolution of the matter. Easy Only the received arguments are counted on the fingers, but how they are counted, you're done with them. In other respects, of all the arguments and the connexion of all things spoken by the historical: The General remains secure thereby submitted when the individual can make it. But the General hangs so hard in itself, something that is break of this connection, the basic belief of the whole break. But is this reason once established as inviolate may by him, the dispute over particulars probably go from Accessorize and always start over; yes it must be so, because otherwise it is with faith as the first tower, and only the strife and Miverstande the builders he gets finally fixed on a monument of reconciliation. Then no further word needs to be held still with fear, so that the faith stand, except that each one will be discarded, not on the basis of three arguments, because it is of course the foundation of faith and eternal progress be established. This whole book is only in the assertion of faith and nothing more celebrations may be held by him. VIII position of an exact science of body and soul (with regard to the question of nerves) to the faith. What I said together but just from all the arguments, also applies in particular that with which we have recently employed the argument from the body, the General is thereby made more secure than the individual can make it, and not even many questions left is the same from the point of posing without letting itself from the point

of view of the same answer except by vague analogies or opportunities that are too few to provide security.An exact science of the relationships between body and soul, I have Psychohysik called, will provide only a fixed and must be reached to greater development through more careful and more accurate determination of the facts and laws of this relationship in our little life and limb, as the case now to provide definite clues and Entwickelungsmomente the argument from the body of this connection in a greater and otherworldly life and limb to.But surely the time will one day come where you know subordinating the small and great, is in the form of Various, in this area just as common viewpoints and laws, as in the pure body areas the fall of the apple and the movement of the earth around the sun, beam, and the beam of light, the echoes, just as in the other one will know later on. Now, however, is peculiar that those who had not heard of this general requirement of even the first principles of such a teaching idea you prescribe the limits, and where the little people nervous, this very limited form in which vibrations of the Propping a spirit body can no longer behold, my, there could be no question even of God, the afterlife, and other souls. How palpable is the fallacy, which infers from the absence of the nerve absence of the soul, I have on more than one type shown 1) . How do you say but by nature, furca expellas, usque recurret, so you can say it of this conclusion. I will rest the fork. He will return as long as unbelief, which he proves in a vicious circle, it maintains and limited world view still finds a welcome support in it, except that it will be used to wonder how to keep such a view on such support so long could. In former times it was considered an axiom that celestial body can only move in circles, the same role as now this axiom is once the axiom that movements of the soul can only go on the basis of nervous movements of Equip play.
1)

Nanna pp. 37 ff - On the Soul question p. 27 ff

And nerves were necessary, as they do not lack the common substructure of the divine and the world beyond. Rather, instead of a single system is a system of nervous systems, through vibrations that look and word from one to the other to carry over, and even through more than they bound to the inner system, integrated with ones that run between all the suns in's largest. But why oscillations of this type between these systems will be less likely to convey inner spiritual references, as vibrations that run between ganglia balls, and the most common system of vibrations of the imponderable less suitable than to carry it comprehended special a spirit which seeks is even a trace of an exact proof for materialists and idealists in vain, despite all the conflict in words so much to meet in the geistbeschrnkendsten world view and therefore also in their support.
But such comparisons would allow the natural view, which puts into the mouth of the Socrates Plato in his dialogues (Philebus) 2) .
2)

According to a translation of the German Museum in 1862. No. 41st

Socrates: "What is the nature of the bodies of all living things, earth, fire, water and

air, we find also in the composition of the whole, of each of these can be found in us just do Few things and bad, and nowhere is something pure and the eg fire is its own

natural forces in us and in accordance with all the whole, but in us is only little, weak and poor fire:.. however, in which the whole is admirable, and much more beautiful and in full force is in the fire. The fire in us but nourishes itself, is dominated and created from the fire of the whole. precisely what must be said of the earth and the living creatures of the earth present in the whole, as the water and the air All when we see it connected in human one. give Mention, we call body. Quite the same way we can see the world, which is composed of the same ingredients, called a body. Will now probably from the body our body or our body that feed on? " - Protarch: "this is not worth the question." - Socrates: "But does not our body a soul Whence he should have received it, if not of the whole body were animated, the same as having it, and yet trefflicher?" You only milder explained previously the expression bad: it may mean to us: What has no power and no value. An astronomer has said that he had searched through the whole heaven and that God can not be found, of course, as you can not find the spirit in our brain with all microscopic Through research, but the question is whether you can find something about it. And I say that I have searched the whole psychophysics, and I had not because it was necessary to build it, and have found nothing that goes against God and the Hereafter, but only because I have them all through research, so far as it goes until now, and I have explored a little deeper than the scalpel of the anatomist and the view of the materialistic physiologists enough. But as a star at the same time can not stand here and there, the Ptolemaic and Copernican system, the emission and Undulationssystem both can not simultaneously be true, and in this sense the truth of science only everone is, the psychophysics, which the principles has all the material common half with her, just one , and if the psychophysics can only afford little to guide us in the ways of the highest and last things with, on their own they will's never able, as it excludes it from the outset paths that have lead wrong because of the contradiction with established truths in it, and only leaves the one we have entered, open to rediscover the historic faith and practice required. All those analogies with which we investigated from man to God, from this world to the Hereafter, on the thread of the same, and unequal, expanding and enhancing reach, are for the psychophysics not exist, and on such means they can not build, it are very remote possibilities for them, but there are still ways that even aspects of the same can be subordinate, the more than possibilities 3) , and are the only ways to bring the religious faith with the psychophysical knowledge in matching; has otherwise of materialism, which rejects the faith, right. Against this, there are other views, the search of the body side to support the faith, who are also psycho-physically impossible and make it impossible to satisfy the historical and practical faith demands.
3)

Psychophysics II chapter 45

So that much represented, according to which every soul has its seat here below in a point of the body, it was as a metaphysically simple thing, be it as an outward physical, psychological inward atom, what a simple thing or atom with the death

liberate from his vast physical shell. The exact opposite of our faith, even after the current residence of the soul is an extensive physical construction, which it is not linked externally, they linked internally, the otherworldly future, yet another construction, the abode of God and finally the weitste construction, which includes all of these burrows. But it is impossible to hold that view from the simple soul seats without contacting with the firmest facts of psychophysics in contradiction 4) , the existence of otherworldly will ensure that all means of worldly taken without them by others or even by a principle of compensation replace, and should it be the talk of God - but like avoids you like to talk about God - he is like the other spirits to a point residents or points, or the consequence of falling into a gang of points, no unity of consciousness has provided the simplicity of the point is to establish the same. This, too, the very opposite of our faith, after only by means of the afterlife rather than to win at the expense of God.
4)

Psychophysics II 381 ff

So that view is no less often advocated that an etheric body of imponderable substances in our present coarser than is embedded in a housing and free with the death of his organization are essential continuance. But it contradicts the psychophysics because of physics, an organic body of imponderable substances to think for themselves composed a stronger desire than to liquid water by breaking the glass still retains its old form, and more than that, him without the help of the old ponderable Body of a new building permit, depending on where you saw something when dreaming what justified such possibilities. Also takes this idea to the mind only means to contact the outside world in relationship, rather than those to expand. Again, the opposite of our faith, to which our future body will be out grown out of the whole present only larger system of ponderable and imponderable, and nothing prevents another just like now but preferably subject to the oscillations of the imponderable to think the soul vibrations; except that an organization is the imponderable and not to raise here and there without the ponderable unthinkable. Generally speaking, still lies hidden an enormous treasure that the future has to lift our thorough ignorance of the fundamental relationships of body and soul. Materialism is like a Cerberus about this treasure, watching, that he that he would not bogged idealistic, but not the religion lifted to win because he himself will be lifted so ignorant about the size and importance of this treasure. Bad it stands for faith, if it existed it would take to his life and to the raising of this treasure only, but is the need to grow as the demands of the faith grow, it will even get suggestions for its improvement, in accordance with but the belief that an increase of only about one step higher, and when they succeed, will always be overturned by faith into knowledge. IX. questions of how faith first came to humanity, and how the motives and reasons for belief in the existence of God rooted in the existence of God.

Thereafter, a few words about these questions that we put aside the past, although they forced themselves from entering beginning. We do not put back with the profit that we can meet them with greater clarity than the beginning now, with greater, though far from full. Because opinion, belief, knowledge, while still often run into each other, especially in the first, we only care that they do not run from each other. The first anlangend, it is indisputably the next to think that belief in God is produced from the beginning to only by the action of the theoretical and practical subject and then propagated historically have generated. Thus, the historical motif originally had only the second place. From other side, if the historical subject is now the first thing every person can believe in God, it should not come in from the front also have been the first? Not, as now, the parents faith in God plant the children, before even find the theoretical and practical design point of attack in them, have them first communicated the faith of him as the father of the people in a direct way, God?Thus, the historical principle would have taken his output of himself, but the other Prinzipe only continued his performance by training and worked for the preservation of the people directly implanted by God faith. But I mean so little now must fight the three Prinzipe for precedence, they can only afford to pay and what they do, through their connection and their reliance on each other, it will have been from the beginning on, but rather the beginning itself the first and the closest node of the entanglement in which we now behold them, have been. And may we see God as father of the people - we may, however, only with this difference, that God, instead of out testifies to his children and gives birth - so we can see the way in which faith in God first in humanity came, compare also with the way in which faith comes to the parents of the first parents to the children, not like the belief in God comes first from the parents to the children, and the generation of belief in God by God is also rather be an inward than outward. I think it but this: Common ground was the nature of the surrounding people from beginning to calculated to make him acknowledge a power over him, and as long as he does not yet own the spirit from the body in the abstract thought, as he both did not differ Initially, no reason to mind to abstract from nature, the sun, the sky is to keep alive for less, when walking on the earth, only more powerful, sublime, he had to keep them shiny. He could not as they brighten the day to open the flowers to ripen the fruit. Should he keep the thunder and Toteres for something weaker than his voice, the storm for a little weaker and Unlebendigeres as his breath of the sea ebb and flow of something Mechanischeres as his pulse? What us after the abstraction of the mind from nature, the powers of the mind, once done by the forces of nature, is quite common, was, before it come to this, quite impossible, and equally impossible that a man with such Abstraction began. But the need had naturally drive the people to themselves, with the power or powers, under whose influence he thought and felt, to put in a zusagendes reportedly, and the analogy, as it has in this case to act against the people guide him there. This character has indeed all natural religion. And here we see the first effects of the theoretical and practical subject.

But if God really dwells in nature and lives and works, people live in God, weave, are, as was this immediate way as the existence of God and his supreme beings is the feeling or consciousness of the same aufdrang first, just too the first natural language of God to the people whose understanding us just now is not more common, so that the historical motif by searching its beginning in a primitive revelation of God, from the theoretical and practical to start can not divorce. Has not God's existence, even its theoretical and practical aspects, and in the Urwirkung to both sides of the scooped in his nature was just the original revelation of God went out all historical propagation of the faith of the, and all our theoretical and practical motives went ahead as seed . Thus the child first recognizes the parents in direct looking at the behavior towards themselves and of itself to itself felt-making practical relationships than what they are to him. Before it is understood a word, it already understands the sound, the look, the look, the gesture, the smile and the threat Everything goes right by the right parents, and this initially speak with him no other language and only later enters the word in its place. God, no less audible and visible standing with which he goes beyond his creatures before man, and his power and practical relations with them have not been them less noticeable. There's still been no doctrine that God put on the sky, the world was falling out of God, the man could still believe in the living, he to looked on, and looked at him, and without even the name of God to know he could act against him, consciousness, relationships, emotions contribute to it, as it is in the nature of the newborn child against his parents, and all this only develop further in deriving humanity. For as the feeling of the newborn child to the parents of the commencement inside intimate, einigste and einstimmigste for all children, but at the same time is unentwickeltste, liked the feel of the relations of man to enter God, of being and life in and with God, from the beginning have the same character, - who of course wants it now quite empathize nachbeschreiben as it was, - with the onset of development but also the decomposition, aberration and confusion start of the mankind has only gradually to recover. This is likely to remain essentially correct, as we like to think the emergence and the first state of man, and the uncertainty only, at all important but relatively affect subordinate constant questions about whether the feeling of relationship with God as early as the first people to conscious idea of an objective divine life flourished, even in them, the first, perhaps even most, stadiums went through, which already could enter the first aberrations, or only very gradually through humanity came to it; whether the first development from the beginning to some god or led to polytheism, whether they went from a couple people or any other people on or developed independently here and there. But most of these questions, if not all, can be as little depending sure to decide the question as to the first condition, the original unity or multiplicity, the origin of races and languages of the people, which they are related. Thoughts you can do about it, but keep it mind. Is Darwin's view true to the profess or tend that all the more perfect creatures have evolved over millions of years from less perfect, man is a son had the pig and the

monkey so many naturalists, it is obvious that religion not already in the first man, that is, the just exceeded the level of the monkeys, but very slowly came to the conscious evolution of humanity, nor even in the Negro it is still low. Contrary to the view that it is not the body of the pig and monkey, but of the earthly kingdom that but once the first ancestors of the monkeys had to have drawn into themselves, have raised through a series of stages always new creations so far in his creative activity to it finally., in a last effort, we call them the last earthly evolution, to bring to the creation of man, from the same only higher general swelling Borne, from the first creation geschahe And how man is clearly the world in purpose relation, the forces of the whole earthly kingdom had newly joined to his creation, not merely collected the monkey to man through gradual improvement. Under this assumption, the first man from his other source, the fresh origin from the great general creation Borne could forth also some more exquisite physical and mental characteristics, as the posthumous people closer and more intimate knowledge and feeling relationships especially to nature and God, as Getting everything to where it came from, has more direct relationships than anything Imitation, the son of the father has more knowledge than the grandchildren. From a precise point of view but is unlikely one could almost say as impossible as the other. And yet one must believe in one of two impossibilities, an example of how faith can compel the knowledge. In Darwin's view of the slow umbildenden forces and the slow Umbildungsfhigkeit organizing an all level of experience must have increasing significance have expected, included a general unknown force in opposing the revolutions of the earth and incomparable revolutions of the earth ever be adopted with the current changes. That view can build on all sides those of the present, to the familiar, with the fantasies inductive threads fill volumes, except that no threads ranging as far as they are to extend the time spun runs into itself, and the immense crowd of evidence not justified the flimsiest evidence. The other view can be connected to those of the present nothing, build nothing familiar, only first be based on the no less valuable assurance that the unknown forces, it needs also to that view, which denies their repeated interaction, a erstesmal must have worked. Second, on the likelihood that shocks revolutions of itself is not quite recognized nature must have all the earthly kingdom really hit repeatedly in connexion or greater extent, repeated but such revolutions still now in the science of it, the geology, with split times and places however, where only a slow rise and fall claim the space. Third on the observation that the teleological context, the architectural structure and the periodicity so characteristic of organisms of the kingdom on earth really makes it an organism comparable. Also, any new conception and birth of a human being but, even every eruption of a new tooth is, by forces that, in the ordinary course of things asleep from time awake to time, and stir the whole organism new, not by repairing an old child or old tooth. By unexplained forces, one must not believe in it, but forces the fact to believe, but returns only after longer periods of time again, and so they may in the earth return for even longer periods of time than in her limbs, but we live in the between times. Except that the pile of analogies can mean an exact science any more than Darwin, however, let's pile of inductions, which can give birth to the

mountain the mouse in a certain sense our analogies in another sense the mountain bear the mouse. The easiest and the principles that tend to be followed in such cases the exact rate, the most appropriate would be below, the origin of man, as for the exact research inexplicable to deny all and to explain the human race for not existing. We even give us further delve into a question that we can not austiefen. The second question is how the three motives and reasons for the existence of God in God's existence rooted is if us is certain that we do not except God have in God existence, a question that subordinates itself general, as our whole mental life rooted in the divine, herewith a question of divine psychology. Above all, ask yourself: How can it require any special mediations for the faith of God within God himself, and how is a doubt about the existence of God in God himself possible that it often exists in man, and hereby God if he people to including, also doubts anyone at its own existence? Yes, can not even have a doubt even that God has in itself justify? Common ground that no one does not doubt his own existence, so also God, but we are not God, because we are in God, and not just as close as God includes us, again all beings with an I, the idea of a higher and I, hereby also none that are capable of doubt it, but are themselves the first stage of such beings, and all it has to be a first step. So it may well require special mediations for us to come to faith in the higher self, which is not required for us to come to believe in our own self, and its not there is a need for God in order to believe in I come to his own, but only in the highest sphere of his consciousness not. My eyes and ears with their senses circles on my part I can teach nothing that my ego is about them, for they are ever unresponsive, they have nothing but sense. However, God can give us, and which we stand by our senses circles, lead to believe in yourself, and part of his job is to lead the lower ego to believe in his supreme self. But how he can lead us that we did not open up until after analogies, but the fact is it before us. We see the motives and reasons, such as they are, we have done it, and have done so even an insight into the relationship between the divine and human psychology. This, of course not everything is dismissed. So little human psychology can stop there, each asset and regulations of the soul externally adjacent to sites, but rather it is also the inner coherence and common conditions to show it;, the divine can remain standing there, man wants to ever dare to such. So also the internal connections of the three motives and reasons of faith in God in the one-and subordination of human psychology will pursue even deeper under the divine, and his purpose auszuholen with deeper entering into human psychology itself. But it can not all happen at once and in the same place. Here it was not for the risk of a divine self psychology, in which the motives and reasons of faith have to act as internal moments, but the reasoning of the general idea and possibility of it through these moments. Because there is the God that we have found it, and we found each other so that even in God, we have also found that the approach to such a theory.

X. The Orthodox and free view. I want to do an open confession. As free as the point is that I represent in this document and have argued in previous writings, I have but the Orthodox, where I have elsewhere met him, if not everywhere, at least, more like the larger average, than the free , and the solidarity firm belief grip on the word of the Bible, even if Noah's Ark with all the modern wildlife and stop the sun on the day of the fall of Jericho came in, more than the reasonable destructive criticism neukatholischen and free communities but always as herds seemed to be glad of herding dog, or even to be rid of the shepherd, and thus fall prey to the wolf, at least as long remain a flock, as the same meadow grass is enough to hold them together. But I do not speak so involuntarily's own views the verdict? It may seem so, but I wonder how it comes, is the thing. Religion at the end of the day, I think it me, is the firmest belief that there can ever produce by the most perfect satisfaction of the three principles. The universality and unanimity, in which it is considered as the best and truest, because they really will leave no doubt in the detail of historical and practical side, however. Because it also satisfies the reason in all, what reason requires and it surpasses any single reason that they could be produced by any of this all-round Meeting the three principles, it is also of even the subordination of this one before of reason among the historically solidified faith and the authority of its sources carry. At this strength of faith on this everything sway in the highest and last things about lifting the subordination of the individual reason to the last result of Waltens the divine reason in history but a wonderful blessing will hang. If I see that some these blessings already enjoy so far, and operate in attitude and behavior than is possible in the period of non-completion by itself as well partly on the need of that blessing themselves, and partly to the truth and goodness support the fundamental points of the Christian religion, which fills me with quiet respect and with joy. I see it from one side of the expression, from the other side an anticipation of the mind and the thing a perfect religion, an anticipation, but just can take place only in so far as the religion already does all of what they have their idea after all and to the historical sources are the same for inviolable. And yet there are really only points of relatively minor importance in which they are not. Is it now though, so you can certainly ask, do not preferable to just take it as it really is, at the same time recognize the quality of the subsoil and the imperfections in the development of religion to believe in their sources Everything is good and credible and to emancipate themselves from faith in the rest, so none of the errors of natural science, which occur in the Bible, to accept and palpable errors of the kind there are in it; everywhere asking, what about the statutes for the actions the Einkleidungsweisen of ideas through time and place could be caused, and it had yet characterized by its due, not to come out of place and time, instead of hiding the

contradictions in the Bible, to disguise, openly and clearly to express in the eye and explain , and there are contradictions in it, just everywhere right from incorrect, the wholesome from the indifferent and lack of adherence to divorce with best efforts of reason. I can not, I'm even quite this standpoint, not overcome, simply to say, it is preferable if I look around me, what comes out of such treatment, the belief sources commonly, the utter destruction of that faith blessing, and in the community strength of faith is, and is the first condition of all his blessings, to see how little the people have become better, happier, happier, wiser fact that it started to soak into these things with the mother's milk of reason. Religion should even have the good sense of detail, the highest, safest and strongest aspects, and now the single reason is the task to discipline them to improve, to judge and sift, which is placed the matter on the head, and for the final agreement that we have to demand from religion, now comes to the other grounds of disagreement that we have, the confusion and strife around the religion itself and is easily lost the whole religion. And hence why I do not put myself in the position of having unconditional faith in the historical Gone? But I can not, and hundreds and thousands can not, the theoretical principle is asserting itself, and should they submit.And if the unconditional faith in the once Applicable its being replaced by anything advantages to having that have made him so joins the impossibility that have it all, the reason shall be sacrificed to faith everywhere, but also another task in the History: The task that the advantages which those once the commons are almost only in exceptional circumstances and yet may not have the most perfect grades because they see the unfinished religion have to complete, by the actual continuation of the religion to the completion of all and their full could reach height. There must at last come once that the reason to demand rather prohibitive sacrifice for the faith of her, finally obtain full satisfaction and contributes to sustain the faith to which she shakes now. And this of course requires the occurrence of free positions in the history of the efforts of a bound by any fixed dogmas reason and its jarring to what it must finally fall off, it requires the greatest versatility of mutual struggle and of failure of most of these aiming, after exhaustion and putting away all the wrong ways right finally stay firmly and safely left.What All but should not find place in schools and churches, for the people - you probably adopt my explanation of what I mean - is not there, to the improvement trials of faith to participate, but to enjoy its advantages, as far as they there are, and the progress of the faith must proceed not from schools and churches, but only hineinzudringen finally here, and it is never without a revolution that is still more than the belief in question and meets.And how little it will be, what will remain after finally left all of the existing beliefs contradict each other and against current efforts of reason on free positions, how little of what will be like last of this belief. Rather, most of it is fixed only as of the stand, what the reason of the amount of irrationality shaken, and this shaking itself have contributed to finally establish it. Thus, a constant conflict between the requirements and the advantages of both viewpoints is available. As it stand at this time? He is not to lift, so long until the completion of religion historically lifted him from himself, and that he is not yet

lifted, proves itself that religion is not yet completed. Until then, it will be good that the Orthodox and that there is the free position and you will have to give, the same advantages without the disadvantages of the same have to be able at last to the historical and practical principle to the completion of the must keep faith. XI. retrospect, overview, foresight. Looking back, it will be found that in the preparation, discussion and pursuit of the historical and practical principles of faith, not much, as far as can speak of a general belief standpoint same about the present position of Christianity, is gone. Because you may also find many things differently than would otherwise stated, rightly placed, recast the arguments of faith have to find, so shall feel much see the thing nothing more than what everyone who is on the point of view of today's faith, whether Orthodox or rationalist, Catholic or Protestant, he just wants a religious belief at all, would not want so many times as possible, rightly defined as adequately as possible, justified by so many as possible to see. I take out some things which may not appeal to individuals or individual groups in the present position. Unlike most of the third, the theoretical principle of faith, has gone into its preparation, discussion and Chase so far above the previous position that the old on the old standpoint what has become not easily be able to follow or like, aligning and after the Masters the schools. It is in the same sense here gone out about it than in previous my writings and only in went beyond even that given in hints about the status of this principle to the other two by actual compilation order and mutual support of all get on each other to perform are. Appears the theoretical preferably? I have often said: There is no emphasis on it, the emphasis is on hold, the belief is common to all three. But the theory has since been the most misunderstood, rejected and zerworfen; took from this side and the belief still requires the most help. After all, it was what I wanted to show here. 1) Faith is able to arise solely on the ground of historical and practical principle and to insist, but needs the help of theoretical principle. But this is sufficient as little of itself in matters of faith, but rather only in cooperation and complementarity with those two. 2) From time immemorial it has wrought in this connection as a motive, to act as a reason to avoid the two opposing errors of its effect as a motive of which I acted is to provide such was shown, that it is of the totality of what we know of the existence of spending, but not what we know of finite limited existence circuits to transmit directly to 's infinite and eternal, to which we have to believe, but in the same direction in which we are already knowing to farther from the narrower and lower states of being circles and reach higher, expanding and enhancing go beyond that so that we get it to notions of the most common, highest and ultimate existence circles and ways of being, which face the implications and demands of the other two Prinzipe in an extremely convenient way. This is to compensate for the uncertainty on the one hand the crossing of the circle experience, which still remains on the

knowledge side, and put the other hand, the historical and practical support among the faith-based, which he still requires knowledge of the side. 3) In this way, the fundamental points of faith arise to the last and highest things that are represented by this document, including those that exceed the current position as necessary. For there is no other way to satisfy the conclusions and claims of all three Prinzipe related and compliance, as by means of these points. 4) The current position of faith but only in so far exceeded that as it simultaneously so that is fixed after its most essential aspects, and the contradictory views that have historically made claims that are so well integrated by than the opposition admits the same. The most significant and most mysterious words of the Bible is so clear and thus find a more literal interpretation than the part of the faithful word itself But is this so, so also, according to the general principles of Scripture to finally beat those points, which are the condition of compatibility of all three faith principles, in the context, in which they are, history, and thus the previous position not both overthrow the increase. You will, I am the quiet and safe. And what does it mean to say that they do not do it all at once and suddenly! Also, the one-sidedness and contradictions of the existing views are historically rooted, and aspirations of a Menschleins, which breeds on the studying, are too weak a lever to uproot a world view at once, which continues almost driven a few thousands of years have their roots in these biases and contradictions, the firmest has driven into the poetry and thought of poets and thinkers themselves and rooted with the foothills of the whole people. However, they are the recognition of a lever, and the silent brooding is the flight and song of a new bird ahead, the same must not want him. X I I . c o n c l u s i o n .

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