A doctrine that humans are capable of becoming perfect.
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The Illuminati was founded in 1776 Bavaria (coincidentally the same year as the American Declaration of Independence) by Adam Weishaupt a university professor. The Order had branches in a number of European countries with a membership that included intellectuals, enlightened politicians, European nobility, Freemasons and former Freemasons (Weishaupt himself joined the Freemasons in 1777).
a belief in two gods, especially as independent and opposed principles of good and evil.
Thebelief in twoantagonisticdeities,one a forceforgood,oneforevil.
Ditheism and evil
By contrast, ditheism or bitheism implies (at least) two gods. While bitheism implies harmony, ditheism implies rivalry and opposition, such as between good and evil, or bright and dark, or summer and winter. For example, a ditheistic system would be one in which one god is creative, the other destructive. (Source- Wikipedia)
EACH MAN,” writes Spinoza, “must love himself and seek what is useful to him.
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This sounds like the height of egoism. But Spinoza goes on to prove that it is the height of altruism. For, as Spinoza points out, in order to love yourself you must love others. Love, pleasure, happiness-these treasures of the soul are best enjoyed when most generally shared. The wise man declares Spinoza, knows that he can help himself only by helping others. He realises that individual happiness is mutual happiness. He avoids envy because envy produces not happiness but pain. He avoids hatred because hatred begets hatred. He avoids hurting others because he knows that injury is repaid with injury, that he who takes up the sword is destined to perish by the sword. He avoids conquest because he realizes that every military victory sows the seeds for a future war of revenge. “Our greatest victories”, writes Spinoza, “are won not by arms but by the greatness of soul.”
The truly good man, therefore, the truly happy man, will be the truly wise man. He will be generous to others because he knows that in his way he will be most generous to himself. And so our ultimate object in life is to seek happiness through knowledge, through the acquisition of wisdom, through the enlightened understanding of the vital interrelationship that exists between man and man. He who understands will hate nothing, despise nothing, injure nothing and fear nothing. He will live a life not of individual ambition but of mutual co-operation. He will adhere to the teaching of the ancient prophets and to the principle of the Golden Rule. He will “desire nothing for himself which he will not also desire for the rest of mankind.”
For all men are equally important parts of God. And so, asserts Spinoza, in order to be happy you must love yourself. But to love yourself is to love mankind, and to love mankind is to love God.
And this is the reason for which we have come into this world.
The above is an extract from “The Great Philosophers” by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas.
This post has been inspired by “Weekly Photo Challenge” –Quest.
I started two watches at the same time. It turned out that one of them went two minutes per hour too slow, and the other went one minute per hour too fast. When I looked at them again, the faster one was exactly one hour ahead of the other. How long had the watches been running?
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Answer: The faster watch gains on the slower one at the rate of three minutes every hour. Thus, after 20 hours, the faster on will be ahead by one hour.
Try to watch your thoughts during the day, as if they are not yours, without being sucked into them. Become conscious of the fact that you are watching your thoughts. Then its awareness of watching will increase.
You will have to remind yourself incessantly to practice watching your thoughts, as your mind will probably make you forget. Do not give up and you will succeed. If you practise as often as you can, you will be on the way to success. It may take some time, but the effort is more than worthwhile.
You can also increase your peace of mind by developing the power of concentration, by meditation, by physical exercise, and by correct breathing.
Remember!
You are not your mind!
You are not your thoughts!
You are not your ideas!
You are not your beliefs!
They may be yours, but they are not you.
They are instruments after that you use. Do not let them control you.
What remains after they are rejected, is you, the real “I”.
You are the quiet impersonal feeling of being that remains after your dis-identify yourself from everything else. It is hard to explain this in words, but through appropriate training, you will come to realise what true peace of mind is.
When thoughts cease, you still exist. There is no vacuum. When the emptiness of no thoughts is reached, you begin to feel your existence, your being. This emptiness is filled with something great, wonderful, powerful and sweet. You start living in Peace. You sail on the water of the calm mind.
This is Pure Existence.
When you realise this state, you are free from thoughts.
Then you are really free.
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In this state, nothing can influence you. You stop acting instinctively on each passing thought. You become completely conscious being, alive, strong, beyond everything.
You stay in this world. Your life continues, but you are beyond.
True peace of mind is the gate to Establishment.
Think of serenity of mind as a feasible possibility. Calm your mind with concentration, meditation,and affirmations, and start enjoying peace of mind.
~ Remez Sasson
Remez Sasson standing by the river
He has been writing for many years about self-improvement, positive thinking and motivation, and about spiritual growth, meditation, and inner peace. Some of his books are – Will Power & Self-Discipline, Peace of Mind in daily life, Positive Thinking- The key to success and Visualise and Achieve. You can read more about him here
The Illuminati was founded in 1776 Bavaria (coincidentally the same year as the American Declaration of Independence) by Adam Weishaupt a university professor. The Order had branches in a number of European countries with a membership that included intellectuals, enlightened politicians, European nobility, Freemasons and former Freemasons (Weishaupt himself joined the Freemasons in 1777).
