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Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson.

  • Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich, 1740-1817.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘Hable to errors and mistakes, and thus they may be neither perfectly good, nor perfectly evil. There are consequently no beings that are thoroughly good or thoroughly evil. But man himself is the greatest enigma;—the think- ing being within him, with all its concreated and inhe- rent faculties, cannot be defined as proceeding from the powers of matter. Consciousness, judgement, under- standing, reason, memory, imagination, &c. can never be produced by any possible combination of these powers. Here our materialists find it difficult to bring this unknown “ something” into unison with matter and power. Leibnita’s “ principles of indivisibility,” and his *‘ predetermined harmony’ were completely rejected as untenable. Theres was therefore no other expedient left, than to take up the opinion, either that the soul of man was formed from the powers of nature, by the incom- prehensibly wonderful structure of the brain, and was therefore still a result of material naturé and its powers, and also that at death it ceased to be; or else it was maintained, that the soul is an immaterial self-existent being that can only act or have any infiuence on 2xter- nal objects, through the medium of the body, with which it is united.