To be near unto God - pagina 157

such an extent that the significance of the other activities of the human spirit has suffered The fundamental position of this serious loss. school is that the will alone determines things, accomplishes things, creates reality, and makes itself known as a power and that the more deeply one studies the question the more irresistibly one is forced to acknowledge that the will is the only power that governs and employs all other powers. This was confirmed by history. It is observed in the present. In every department of life the man of will exercises authority and overrides the weak. From man we have learned the wonderful power of will. Similar phenomena have been traced in the animal-world, but too little is known of this to build on. And so it has seemed safest to make the power to will, as it showed itself in man, the to

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starting point. But, of course, it could not stop with this. The phenomenon of the will is too great, and its dominance too prevalent, than that it can exist in man otherwise than derivatively. In the original state of things the will existed outside of man, and man himself was the product of the great supreme Universal-will that brought all things to pass. What until now had been worshipped in the world as God, or had been denounced as Satan, was according to this school nothing but that Universal-will, the gigantic will-power by which is what it is. The world shows anywisdom and less love. It is but the Hence the of monstrous will-power.

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And since in unsatisfying condition of its life. us also, on a small scale, there is a will with power of will, the supreme duty of human life 149

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