RATIONAL PSYCHOLOGT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1029, 21 July 1930, Page 14

RATIONAL PSYCHOLOGT

«. 'T ' SWEDENBORG'S INFUSKE : SEARCH FOR HUMAN SOU At the Higher Thought Temple ** evening, Mr. M. Walker lectorei t» * ’ large audience on the eulk)«j * , “Rational Psychology as Presented r-> Aristotle and Swedenborg." After describing Swedenborg**** of the profoundest thinkers «ni voluminous writers the world seen, the lecturer said that his “Rational Psychology" carried »* to the period when the authors was actively engaged in a the human soul, which was tn«®£ object of his tireless delving , rich and varied fields of scientific philosophical research. Although Swedenborg conte®*®* stoutly and l ravelv for the and individual immortality of he wisely undertook to meet ism on its own ground, and gay*jJ> world a compact body of as well as scientific. teaching. .■ completely refuted in the analytical manner, the fallacies of the 19th and 2Dth cenw equally with the ISth century. The speaker explained teaching on the “simple fibre, v** . crete degrees." the • correspow----and the “spiritual influx. ■ a®* pared them with the totle. Descartes and Leibnitxon to show that the theory did not lend itself wit# .. j ' gree of ease or reason to the memory. . Mr. Walker went on to ashnot a true bond where Pl*t® which is intuitivism, and which is rationalism, blend one in a larger philosophy of either alone, in the same w blends with altruism in a pure i» ism which is superior e Vr-T ooC' 0 oC' combines the good of each. inta sr acknowledge the function 01 -ajiit and be natural, and it was to suppose that we must io $ light of intuition in order u^ y r tensely rational. The gnostw * all knew the ultimate , agnostic said we could p ° _ be true that the one point of view might d« able from another? Tnorp**> Herbert Spencer and other grwj # , ers of the 19th century positea * knowablc. but we must rem a jT J their agnosticism had t ono I almost defunc t materia.ism $ fessed to be thoroughly gn u* sense, for it boldly declared tn~ ter was all- ** From atheism to IS great scientific step. and * reason whatever why P re -.. rf nosticism (which Felix A* * declared to be “no finallt > LSc**> be succeeded by a new The grand old beatitude* p. | the pure in heart, for see God." might mean for tft scientific explorer of the urn even than it meant £o^. lb * t ' theologian who h«r*£ dogma of a beaut it ul n. ut^ To see God might roper i^ uk j . stood to mean that wo * prebend the great reality derlay i«henonem;i even in the light of too htfß *** as by the torch of tered the secret place of huffl*" . 4