ISBN: 9781236564757

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 172 pages. Dimensions: 9.6in. x 7.3in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Altro …

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 172 pages. Dimensions: 9.6in. x 7.3in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: . . . the earth, and what is more remarkable the same primal doctrines of a triune and yet one God surviving everywhere under the most multifarious disguises. Probably these truths were PLATO S IDEA OF A TRIUNE GOD. 239 the more strongly imprinted on the ancient mind, Noah, whom they deified having three sons, whom they had come to regard as a reappearance of Adam and his three sons, Cain, Abel, and Seth. Dr. Cudworth, in his Intellectual System of the Universe, has expended an enormous amount of learning to show that the Greeks held an idea of three superior gods, and yet that this was but one supreme God. All the philosophers, he says, believed in one supreme God above the other gods whom they worshipped, except the Stoics, Democritans, and Epicureans. Except these, all believed in the immortality of the soul; in three hypostases or essences, literally understandings, in the Supreme Being, and in the fall of angels, and their existence as unhappy spirits. Through their multitude of gods and goddesses, nymphs and nereids, representing merely the forms of nature, we trace distinctly these original truths. Empedocles, the great disciple of Pythagoras, held the notions of fallen spirits, as we see in Plutarch De Exilio, tom ii. 607. Those Empedoclean demons lapsed from heaven, and were pursued by divine vengeance, whose restless condition is there described in several verses of his. But it is Plato who has developed the threefold nature of God amongst the Greeks most clearly. The enunciation of this doctrine will be found in his second epistle to Dionysius. He there tells us that there are three essences, or hypostases, in the Supreme Being. The Touts fyepovos ical alriov irdinaiv n-aTijp. The Father of the Prince and cause of all things. . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<