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Plato's idea of the Deity was far more metaphysical than religious: his God was an Eternal Essence. He believed the first attribute of the soul to be that by which men and beings are endowed with life. But he also considered that the soul had a purely irrational part which cannot think...
...sould. He urged simplicity of thought and singleness of desire. Choose your part, he says; let the heart be fixed once and forever upon its true aim. Thus fixed, men will find in their aims their sufficient treasure and come to the real liberty of the children of God...
Professor Lyon gave the fourth of his series of Assyrian Readings, in the Fogg Museum yesterday afternoon. The subject of the reading was a mythological poem from the library of Saradanapalus of Assyria, describing a combat between the god Marduk and Tiamat, a dragon. The poem is written on six tablets, parts of which were brought to light in the British Museum in 1875 by George Smith...
Tiamat, mother of all gods, represented as a dragon, is the primaeval chaos. She plans to overthrow the gods, her children, gathers an army of monsters, and puts Kingu, her son and only faithful child, in command. Both Anu, the god of the heavens, and Ea, the god of the waters under the earth, are turned back in fright before this army. These events occupy the first two tablets. The third tablet tells how Marduk, son of Ea, offers to oppose Tiamat, if the gods in reward will make him ruler over them. In the fourth tablet Marduk defeats Kingu...
...order to understand our Bibles we study Greek, yet this preparation by means of study is not to be compared with the possession of the faculty of seeing and understanding God's revelations when they are shown to us in simple things. Possessing this faculty our present life is not an isolated one, short and uncertain, but merely a part or beginning of the eternal life. But without the consciousness of God's presence in all nature, life loses its purpose and degenerates into a cold, hopeless existence...