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A little earlier, George Herbert had included "Help thyself, and God will help thee" in his proverb collection, Jacula Prudentum (1651). [12] But it was the English political theorist Algernon Sidney who originated the now familiar wording, "God helps those who help themselves", [13] apparently the first exact rendering of the phrase.
God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita is a posthumously published non-fiction book by the Indian yogi and guru Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952). It is a two-volume work containing an English translation and commentary of the Bhagavad Gita. It explicates the Bhagavad Gita's psychological, spiritual, and metaphysical elements.
Other minor sects such as Ganapatya and Saura focus on the deities Ganesha or Surya as the Supreme. Hindus following Advaita Vedānta consider ātman, the individual soul within every living being, to be the same as Vishnu, Shiva, or Devi, [12] [13] [14] or, alternatively, identical to the eternal and formless metaphysical Absolute called ...
Catholic mystic Evelyn Underhill [5] wrote: . It is clear that under ordinary conditions, and save for sudden gusts of "Transcendental Feeling" induced by some saving madness such as Religion, Art, or Love, the superficial self knows nothing of the attitude of this silent watcher—this "Dweller in the Innermost"—towards the incoming messages of the external world: nor of the activities ...
The latter also focus on complexity and interworking parts as the effect needing explanation (e.g., that an eye has a complicated function therefore a design therefore a designer), whereas the Fifth Way takes as its starting point any regularity [26] (e.g., that the pattern that things exist with a purpose itself allows us to recursively arrive ...
Regarding this, Fox wrote, "Now ye that know the power of God and are come to it—which is the Cross of Christ, that crucifies you to the state that Adam and Eve were in the fall, and so to the world—by this power of God ye come to see the state they were in before they fell, which power of God is the Cross, in which stands the everlasting ...
The initial focus of Devotio Moderna was the rediscovery of genuine pious practices and conversion and re-conversion of the lukewarm clergy. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The Imitation was written within the Devotio Moderna community, as it was flourishing in Northern Europe, but grew far beyond that movement which came to an end with the Protestant Reformation .
Jens Zimmermann argues that "God's descent into human nature allows the humans ascent to the divine". [17] "If God speaks to us in the language of humanity, then we must interpret Gods speech as we interpret the language of humanity." [18] Incarnational humanism asserts a unification of the secular and the sacred with the goal of a common humanity.