Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 534

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§ 83.

THE FACTORS OF INSPIRATION

[Div. Ill

He, however, who infers from this, that for this reason tliere no consciousness in God, contradicts the apostle's assertion that even to us a still higher form of consciousness is comIf consciousness could assume one form only, even the ing. of our consciousness by day, the conclusion would form finite is

certainly be correct.

ness has

many

But

this is not true, since conscious-

forms, one by day and one by night, one

without and one in ecstasy, one now and one in the realm of glory, which proves it to be entirely natural that consciousness in God has its own Divine form. Neither does That Divine consciousness has affinthis end the question. " We shall know, even as ity to our human consciousness.

we are

known.''^

sciousness

If it is self-evident, that

must stand

our future con-

in the genetic connection of identity

with our present consciousness, this of itself provides the bridge which connects the divine consciousness with ours.

Even among men,

the consciousness of a child differs from

the consciousness of a man, and yet the greater can enter the consciousness of the child.

each and place

;

all,

but true love

is

Consciousness differs with

able to place itself in another's

yea, in another's consciousness.

With

reference to

formal side, susceptibility for learning foreign languages sufficiently shows that consciousness is possessed of very

its

great pliability, and

form.

is

by no means frozen

If these are features in us

we may

of

solidly in its

the image

of

safely conclude, that in the consciousness of

God,

God

our consciousness and (2) the possibility is found of entering into the form of the consciousness of another. This becomes a certainty, when you remember, that God Himself has fixed the form of our (1)

there

is

affinity to

;

and has first thought it in this way before Our form of consciousness, therefore, is not a strange something to God, for He knew it before He enriched us with it. And though we grant unconditionally that the thoughts of God may not be assumed as clothed in our forms, we maintain that God is able to cast them into our consciousness-form, and hence is also able to think them consciousness,

He

created

it.

in our form.

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