Dear SH:

Exactly.

But take care. Those who make a "spititualist" of
Spinoza err just as surely as those who make of him a
materialist.

Frank

P.S. I can be reached more assuredly at

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FD
--- SunHunter9@... wrote:
>
> "...it is well that we should briefly enumerate the
> means necessary for
> attaining our end.
>
>
> I. To have an exact knowledge of our nature which
> we desire to
> perfect, and to know as much as is needful of
> nature in general.
>
> II. To collect in this way the differences, the
> agreements, and the
> oppositions of things.
>
> III. To learn thus exactly how far they can or
> cannot be modified.
>
> IV. To compare this result with the nature and power
> of man.
> We shall thus discern the highest degree of
> perfection
> to which man is capable of attaining."
>
>
> -Spinoza
>
> "Man cannot come to it through any organization,
> through any creed, through
> any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any
> philosophic knowledge or
> psychological technique. He has to find it through
> the understanding of the
> contents of his own mind, through observation and
> not through intellectual
> analysis or introspective dissection."
>
> -Jiddhu Krishnamurti
>
> "If you bring forth what is within you, what you
> have will save you. If you
> do not have that within you, what you do not have
> will kill you."
>
>
> Jesus
>
>
>
>
>


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