Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 210

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210. Because it has been possible for people to think of will and intellect, affection and thought, and charity and faith abstractly from the substances which are the subjects of which they are predicated, and that is how they have thought of them, it has come about that a right idea of them has perished-the right idea being that they are states of substances or forms, entirely as in the case of sensations and actions, which are likewise not things existing apart from their sensory and motor organs. Abstracted or divorced from these, they are only figments of the imagination, being like sight independent of an eye, hearing independent of an ear, taste independent of a tongue, and so on.


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