You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual bei….

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions an….

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction..

Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend….

There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are ….

That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence..

The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme T….

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision..

For it is said, "You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him," that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no….

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: ….

When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by plea….

Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual….

Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as w….

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper ….

The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of expla….

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evil….

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!.

It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagem….

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may….

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible..

Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished,….