Ashley-Cooper, A. (1738). Section I. Meditation. Unity. Personality. Self. Identity. Matter. Form. A genius. The supreme one. Substance, material, immaterial. Metaphysicks. A mind. Particular minds. Mind of the whole. Nature. Nature subject to a mind. Contrary belief. Two sorts. Faith of atheism. Faith of theism. Energy of nature. Distempers. general good. Resignation. Principle of order, why universal. Phænomena of ill. Whence. Demonstration. Manichæism. conclusion. Meditation. In A. Ashley-Cooper, Characteristicks, Vol. 2. An inquiry concerning virtue and merit; The moralists: A philosophical rhapsody (pp. 340-391). : Unknown Publisher.
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In this continued epistle from Philocles to Palemon, Theocles argues that in the mind we shall find our sovereign genius and feel the presence of divinity. Divinity can be felt through meditation, which also leads to the unity of personality and self-identity. Other topics discussed include matter and form; material and immaterial substance; metaphysics and the mind; nature, its energy, and as subject of the mind; contrary belief; the faiths of atheism and theism; distemper and the phenomena of ill; the general good and the universal principle of order; and manichæism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)